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[ { "id": "6992779", "title": "Anders K. Orvin", "text": " He was born at Hattfjelldal in Nordland, Norway. He was a son of Ole Tobias Olsen (1830–1924) and Christine Bernhardine Dahl (1855–1910). His father was a parish pastor in Nordland. Orvin finished his secondary education in 1909 and graduated cand.min. from the Royal Frederick University (now University of Oslo) in mineralogy in 1912. He mostly explored and worked at Spitsbergen, but had tenures in Siberia in 1914. As well as Spitsbergen his expeditions went to East Greenland and Bear Island. He served as operating manager of the molybdenite mines Ornehommen Molybdengruber 1915 to 1916 and at Dalen Gruber in Telemark from 1918 to 1921. He was hired in the Norwegian Polar Institute in 1928. He was acting managing director from 1945 to 1948. He served as sub-director until ", "score": "1.9438579" }, { "id": "6992778", "title": "Anders K. Orvin", "text": " Anders Kristian Orvin (24 October 1889 – 2 October 1980) was a Norwegian geologist and explorer.", "score": "1.7525104" }, { "id": "32343334", "title": "Glenn Anders", "text": " Glenn Anders was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of a Swedish immigrant father. He attended the Wallace dramatic school in California, and began his career performing in vaudeville on the Orpheum circuit. He arrived in New York City in 1919 and attended Columbia University from 1919 until 1921.", "score": "1.631062" }, { "id": "9139634", "title": "Edvin Öhrström", "text": " Karl Edvin Öhrström (August 22, 1906 in Burlöv – December 2, 1994) was a Swedish sculptor and glass artist. Öhrström grew up in Halmstad, where his father worked at the railroad. He started to work as a railroad worker, he trained to become an art teacher at Tekniska skolan (current Konstfack) in Stockholm 1925–1928, and at the sculptural department at the Royal University College of Fine Arts 1928–1931, with Carl Milles and Nils Sjögren as teachers. In 1932, in Paris, France. From 1932 to 1957, he worked two months per year at Orrefors Glasbruk in Småland. He often used the ariel technique, which he had invented together ", "score": "1.6267654" }, { "id": "6992780", "title": "Anders K. Orvin", "text": " managing director from 1958 to 1961. He took his dr.philos. degree in 1934 on the thesis Geology of the Kings Bay Region, Spitsbergen. Among his other writings are Geology of Bear Island (1928, with Gunnar Horn) and Outline of the Geological History of Spitsbergen (1940). After the war he wrote The place-names of Jan Mayen (1960). He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1952, was made a Knight, First Class of Order of St. Olav in 1960 and a Knight of the Order of the Polar Star. He died during 1980 and was buried in the cemetery at Vestre Aker Church in Oslo. The Orvin Mountains in Queen Maud Land in Antarctica and Orvin Land in Svalbard are named after him.", "score": "1.6181982" }, { "id": "10176079", "title": "Anders Odden", "text": " Anders was born in Stavanger. He moved to Fredrikstad and then to Råde sometime during his childhood, where he grew up without any TV and listened to his father's collection of classical music. He was unaware of rock music until the age of 7 when he discovered Kiss and devoted his life to music.", "score": "1.6144292" }, { "id": "6995395", "title": "Fredrik Ording", "text": " He enrolled as a student in 1888, and worked as a teacher at various schools in Kristiania between 1893 and 1901. From 1899 to 1900 he lived in Stockholm, working as the private teacher for Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden and Norway. He later tutored Gustaf Adolf in Kristiania, in the springs of 1903 and 1904. He studied in Germany in 1895 and in England in 1901, 1905 and 1906. Between 1902 and 1904 he worked at Bjølsen School, Nissen's School and Kristiania Teacher's College. He was the manager of the two latter institutions from 1904 to 1912, and in August 1912 he was hired as acting rector of Holmestrand Teacher's College. Ording was a member of Holmestrand city council from 1916 to 1924, serving as mayor from 1919. ", "score": "1.5941572" }, { "id": "28279412", "title": "Anders Buen", "text": " Buen was born in Gransherad as the son of farmer Jon Olsen Buen (1823–1906) and his wife Aslaug Olsdatter (1826–1906). He finished primary school, and attended a secondary school in Vang, Hedmark for two years, before entering apprenticeship as a book printer at W.C. Fabritius in Kristiania in 1879. He then educated himself, and worked, as a typographer.", "score": "1.579699" }, { "id": "32900531", "title": "Ernst Orvil", "text": " Ernst Richard Orvil was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. His parents Johan Nilsen (Rev. Nilsson) (1859-1957) and Sara-Lisa Pettersson (1864-1940), were both from Värmland, Sweden. He graduated artium at the Kristiania cathedral school in 1917. Later he was an engineering student at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim. He made his literary debut with the novel Birger in 1932, followed by six annual releases in this same genre. His first poetry collection was Bølgeslag (1940). His more notable works include Menneskebråk (1936), Hvit ur (1937) and Synøve selv (1946). Orvil was awarded Gyldendal's Endowment in 1946. He received the Aschehoug Prize in 1979. He was awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize in 1984.", "score": "1.5795307" }, { "id": "29315836", "title": "Anders Buraas", "text": " He was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was a son of editor and attorney Carl Ludvig Buraas (1870–1933) and Dagny von Tangen (1874–1936). He finished his secondary education at Oslo Commerce School (Oslo handelsgymnasium) in 1933, and was hired as an office clerk in the newspaper Aftenposten. He remained here until 1941, when he had to flee to Sweden because he was involved in Norwegian resistance movement to the German occupation of Norway which had started in 1940. He worked in the press office of the Norwegian legation in Stockholm before being transferred to London, where the Norwegian government-in-exile sat. In 1945, after the liberation ", "score": "1.5712655" }, { "id": "5535812", "title": "Merry Anders", "text": " Anders was born in Chicago in 1934, the only child of Charles, a contractor, and Helen Anderson. Anders was of German, Irish and Swedish descent. In 1949, Anders and her mother visited Los Angeles for two weeks. They decided to remain in Los Angeles permanently while Charles Anderson remained in Chicago. While she was a student at John Burroughs Middle School, Anders met former actress Rita Leroy who encouraged her to begin a modeling career. While working as a junior model, Anders began studying acting at the Ben Bard Playhouse. It was there that a talent scout from 20th Century Fox spotted her and signed her to a film contract in 1951.", "score": "1.570575" }, { "id": "315807", "title": "Arne Ording", "text": " Ording was born in Kristiania as a son of theology professor Johannes Ording (1869–1929) and Fredrikke Ording (1874–1966). He was a maternal great-grandson of Andreas Hauge, a nephew of educator and politician Fredrik Ording and theologian Hans Nielsen Hauge Ording, a first cousin of actor Jørn Ording and a second cousin of Aake Anker Ording. He took his examen artium in 1916, and subsequently enrolled at the Royal Frederick University. In 1921 he joined the group around the periodical Mot Dag, and when Mot Dag was formalized as an organization, Ording became one of the prominent members. Mot Dag was a revolutionary socialist group, and had a goal of attracting an elite of intellectuals. Ording was ", "score": "1.5609176" }, { "id": "3638981", "title": "Anders Parker", "text": " Anders Parker is a first-generation Swedish American. He was born circa 1970 and grew up in Upstate New York, in the Hudson Valley, in a musical family. His father lived in Vermont. In the 1990s Anders moved briefly to Portland, Oregon. He spent some time in North Carolina where he lived with Matt Brown, founder of Bladen County Records, and worked in a bar. He then moved back up north with his one-eyed dog Oly. In 1996 he performed at the NXNE Festival in Toronto, and later he performed and recorded with the band Varnaline. Parker lived for some time in New York City. In 2008 he moved to Burlington, Vermont, where he lived with his wife as of 2014. In 2016 he had been living in the town of Alert, Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic – the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world, located 508 miles from the North Pole. <!-- Temporarily commenting out... needs to be reworked...", "score": "1.5580971" }, { "id": "26887814", "title": "Evin Ahmad", "text": " Elvin Ahmad was born on 8 June 1990 in Stockholm, Sweden. Her parents are Kurds. Her father is an actor from Sulaymaniyah in Iraq and her mother is from Afrin in Syria. She grew up in Akalla, Stockholm where she lived for 22 years.", "score": "1.5568812" }, { "id": "255410", "title": "Anders Linder", "text": " Anders Hjalmar Linder (born 27 August 1941 in Solna, Sweden) is a Swedish actor and jazz musician. His father is Erik Hjalmar Linder and his son is Olle Linder. He is mainly known from the children's programs Ville, Valle och Viktor, Vintergatan, Björnes magasin and Kapten Zoom. Linder is a trained architect from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, but only worked half-time as an architect for two years before his stage career took over entirely.", "score": "1.550242" }, { "id": "15019465", "title": "Olav Gurvin", "text": " Gurvin was born in Tysnes as the son of teacher Elling Olson Gurvin and Kristina Olsdatter Flugem. He married Dagny Siqveland in 1947.", "score": "1.5455506" }, { "id": "26215691", "title": "Reidar Kjellberg", "text": " Anders Reidar Kjellberg was born in Fredrikstad in Østfold county, Norway. Kjellberg took his final exams in 1924 and began studying theology. However, he soon found out that he was more interested in the history of science, art history and literary history. In 1934 he took a master's degree in art history at the University of Oslo. In 1934, he was hired as an assistant keeper at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History (Norsk Folkemuseum), a large open-air museum located on Bygdøy in the Frogner borough of Oslo. He was promoted to deputy director in 1940. He became Director of the museum in 1947 as a replacement for the founding director, Hans Aall ", "score": "1.5413082" }, { "id": "3562813", "title": "Anders Nelsson", "text": " Nelsson was born in California, USA, to Swedish missionaries. His family moved to Hong Kong in 1950 when he was 4 years old. He studied at King George V School between 1958 and 1965. Older kids in KGV allowed him to play in their bands in school hall. They played on Friday afternoons", "score": "1.5360419" }, { "id": "14451521", "title": "Anders Holm", "text": " Holm was born the youngest of three boys on May 29, 1981, in Evanston, Illinois, His brothers are Olen (born 1975) and Erik (born 1976). He graduated from Evanston Township High School. In 2003, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a bachelor's degree in history. He was a member of the university's swim team. Holm studied at the Second City Conservatory in Los Angeles.", "score": "1.5308151" }, { "id": "26706414", "title": "Erik Ortvad", "text": " Erik Ortvad (born in Copenhagen, 18 June 1917; died in Kvänjarp, 28 February 2008) was a painter and a creator of many drawings. He debuted as a painter in 1935. He is mostly known for colorful surrealistic paintings. . He also created several hundred satiric drawings about the modern way of life under the pseudonym Enrico. In 1948 he was a founding member of the COBRA avant-garde art movement. He is represented in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. During the second world war he lived as a refugee in Sweden due to communist sympathies and a Jewish wife, and in 1962 he returned and settled in a croft in Kvänjarp, Ljungby Municipality, Småland, Sweden where he lived for the rest of his life.", "score": "1.5305417" } ]

[ "New Plymouth" ]

[ { "id": "6353789", "title": "Florence Harsant", "text": " Florence Marie Harsant (née Woodhead, 19 September 1891 &ndash; 19 June 1994) was a New Zealand temperance worker, nurse, community leader and writer. She was born in New Plymouth, New Zealand, on 19 September 1891. In the 1981 Queen's Birthday Honours, Harsant was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for community service.", "score": "1.9957552" }, { "id": "9648669", "title": "Florence LeSueur", "text": " She was born as Florence Ruth Barrett on March 17, 1898 to Frank C. and Maude (née Lawson) Barrett in Pennsylvania. She attended Wilberforce University and later moved to Boston in 1935. LeSueur had been a long-time resident of the South End, a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts.", "score": "1.6148044" }, { "id": "27865447", "title": "Philip Sargant Florence", "text": " Born in Nutley, New Jersey in the United States, he was the son of Henry Smyth Florence, an American musician, and Mary Sargant Florence, a British painter. His sister was Alix Strachey. He was educated at Windlesham House School, Rugby School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before studying for his PhD at Columbia University in New York City. In 1917 he married the writer and birth control advocate Lella Faye Secor. In 1921 he was appointed as a lecturer in economics at the University of Cambridge, and in 1929 he was made Professor of Commerce at the University of Birmingham, where he remained until his retirement in 1955. He was a friend of Robert Dudley Best, and a mentor of Hilde Behrend.", "score": "1.6010469" }, { "id": "5976438", "title": "Florence Knoll", "text": " Florence Marguerite Schust was born in Saginaw, Michigan, to Frederick Emanuel (1881–1923) and Mina Matilda (Haist) Schust (1884–1931), and was known in familiar circles as \"Shu\". Frederick Schust was born about 1882 in either Switzerland or Germany and was a native German speaker. The 1920 United States Federal Census describes him as the superintendent of a commercial bakery. Mina was born about 1887 in Michigan, and her parents had been born in Canada. Knoll was orphaned at a young age, her father died when she was 5, her mother died when she was 12. She was placed under the care of Emile Tessin, who had been designated by Mina Schust as ", "score": "1.5708005" }, { "id": "5380183", "title": "Florence Rose", "text": " Florence Rose, born in New York City on June 20, 1903, was the youngest of three children and the only daughter of Jewish Hungarian immigrants, Charles and Katie Rosebaum. Rose was raised along with her brothers Felix and Leon in Brooklyn. In addition to secretarial training, her education included study at both Hunter College and Columbia University, but it is not clear whether she ever completed a degree.", "score": "1.5615683" }, { "id": "32681814", "title": "Florence Fernet-Martel", "text": " Florence Fernet-Martel (July 25, 1892 &ndash; February 5, 1986) was an American-born Canadian educator and feminist living in Quebec. She was born Florence Fernet in Woonsocket, Rhode Island and was educated at the Jésus-Marie convent there, in Berthierville and at the Académie Saint-Denis in Montreal. She went on to earn a diploma in French literature and a Bachelor of Arts from the Université Laval. She taught English for the Montreal Catholic School Commission and then worked as a secretary and translator for an insurance company. With Thérèse Casgrain, she fought for women's rights, including the right to vote. She was one of the first people to receive a diploma in the social sciences from the Université de Montréal. She provided shelter for students attending the ", "score": "1.5595179" }, { "id": "26385428", "title": "Marie Goodman Hunter", "text": " Marie Goodman Hunter (born October 16, 1929; adopted and named Florence Marie Goodman) is an American actor, singer, and educator. She was adopted when young and grew up in Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia. She taught Music and Speech for 30 years at John Marshall High School. A mezzo soprano, she also performed as a soloist in Richmond churches. Beginning in the late 1950s, she began to act in the Virginia Museum Theater, a community theater. When it became an Equity/LORT in 1969, she was among those invited to join as an Equity actor and become a professional in the company. From 1976 to 2001 she won six Phoebe awards from Richmond newspapers for her acting, a record in the city. She also had the opportunity to act with other companies, including at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey; the Alabama Shakespeare Festival; and in Caux, Switzerland. While retired from full seasons, Goodman Hunter continues to perform in special concerts or events. ", "score": "1.5515251" }, { "id": "4102547", "title": "Marie Haps", "text": " Marie Haps (1879&ndash;1939) was a Luxembourg-born Belgian educationalist, the founder of what subsequently became the Institut Libre Marie Haps (now part of the Haute École Léonard de Vinci) and the Marie Haps Faculty of Translation and Interpreting (Saint-Louis University, Brussels).", "score": "1.5490334" }, { "id": "13647282", "title": "Florence Golson Bateman", "text": " Florence Golson Bateman (December 4, 1891 &ndash; January 20, 1987) was an American soprano, composer and educator. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 2000. The daughter of Howell Rose Golson, a lawyer, and Alabama \"Bama\" Goldsmith, she was born Florence Golson in Lowndes County, Alabama. She moved to Wetumpka with her family in 1895. At the age of nine, she had an accident that resulted in her becoming completely blind by the time that she was fifteen. She was educated at the Tennessee School for the Blind and at the Women's College of Alabama in Montgomery. She continued with studies in voice and composition at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, graduating in 1920. She moved to New York City, where she studied voice with Walter Golde and orchestration with Frederick Jacobi, also touring over the next three years as a soprano. ", "score": "1.5468888" }, { "id": "32552808", "title": "Richard and Florence Atwater", "text": " Florence Hasseltine Atwater (née Carroll; September 13, 1896 – August 23, 1979) was born in Chicago, the last child of Mary Josephine (\"Minnie\") Delany, a former concert pianist with the Philadelphia Conservatory, and James Carroll, a Philadelphia publisher. As Florence Carroll, she obtained her AB and MA in French literature at the University of Chicago (1920) where she was co-editor of The Chicago Literary Monthly, and student of Richard Atwater. They married in 1921 and had two children, Doris (1922&ndash;2000) and Carroll (1925&ndash;2013). After her husband's stroke in 1934, Florence Atwater started teaching high school French, English and Latin, and ", "score": "1.5440422" }, { "id": "26998057", "title": "Florence Fowle Adams", "text": " She was born Florence Adelaide Fowle in Chelsea, Massachusetts, the only child of the artist Edward Augustus Fowle. She attended the Chelsea public school, the Girls' Latin School in Boston, and the Boston School of Oratory, from which she graduated in 1884. Fowle joined the faculty of the Boston School of Oratory, where she taught the Delsarte method of dramatic expression developed by the teacher François Delsarte. Feeling the lack of a textbook for beginning students that clearly set forth the principles of the Delsarte method, she published her own book on the Delsarte method, Gestures and Pantomimic Action (1891), using herself as the model for the volume's many illustrations. She occasionally appeared on stage in dramatic roles; for example, as Julie de Mortemar in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's play Richelieu. She also organized her own company of young women for staging tableaux vivants, the Boston Ideal Tableaux Company.", "score": "1.535299" }, { "id": "1661088", "title": "Florence Lina Mouissou", "text": " Mouissou was born in 1972. After completing her primary and secondary schooling at Pointe-Noire, she travelled to Paris to study literature. She also received a screenwriting diploma from Cinécours in Quebec.", "score": "1.5346439" }, { "id": "4729471", "title": "Mary Sargant Florence", "text": " She was born in London, née Sargant. Her father, Henry Sargant, was a barrister and her mother, Catherine Emma Beale. Her siblings included: judge Charles Henry Sargant, botanist Ethel Sargant, headmaster Walter Lee Sargant and the sculptor Francis William Sargant. She studied in Paris under Luc-Olivier Merson, and, at the Slade School under Alphonse Legros. She was a member of the New English Art Club and the Society of Painters in Tempera. In 1888 she married Henry Smyth Florence, an American musician. They had two children: Philip Sargant Florence, the economist, and Alix Strachey, the psychoanalyst and translator of Freud. She lived in Nutley, New Jersey in a carriage house that became a studio used by other local artists. After ", "score": "1.5326251" }, { "id": "16511784", "title": "Mary Florence Curran", "text": " Mary Florence Curran was born in 1885, to Dr. Charles J. Curran and Katherine Lally of North Adams, Massachusetts. She attended the College of New Rochelle, where she received an A.B. in English Literature with a minor in history in 1908. She went on to study at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and Boston College. She took classes in creative writing and psychology, contemporary painting and sculpture, and the history of art.", "score": "1.5308197" }, { "id": "7778991", "title": "Florence McClung", "text": " Florence McClung (July 12, 1894 – 1992) was an American painter, printmaker, and art teacher. She was the daughter of Charles W. and Minerva (McCoy) White and was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She moved to Dallas, Texas, as a child with her family in 1899 and lived there until her death. She later was associated with the Dallas Nine, an influential group of Dallas-based artists.", "score": "1.5267541" }, { "id": "1168541", "title": "Florence Hein", "text": " Florence was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, to Gustav Hein and Laura Hyde. Her father taught German at a girls' high school in Aberdeen. and was a member of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society. The Hein family immigrated to the United States when Florence was a girl.", "score": "1.518024" }, { "id": "4102548", "title": "Marie Haps", "text": " Born at Diekirch, Luxembourg on 29 April 1879, Marie Julie Frauenberg married the Belgian financier Joseph Haps and moved to Brussels. In 1914, she set up a soup kitchen, and in 1920 was one of the founders of a seaside resort for working-class women in De Panne. The achievement for which she is best remembered is the establishment in 1919 of a school of higher education for young women. In 1930 this school took her name as its own, and in 1932 it was accredited by the University of Louvain. Marie Haps died 14 March 1939.", "score": "1.5157796" }, { "id": "15322427", "title": "Marie-Madeleine Hachard", "text": " Marie-Madeleine Hachard née Hennebont (17 February 1704, Rouen - 9 August 1760, New Orleans) was a French letter writer and abbess of the Ursuline order. She was one of the first members of the first Ursuline Convent in New Orleans in French Louisiana in 1727. Her letters home to her father in France have been preserved, published, and are valued as a source of historical documentation.", "score": "1.5135475" }, { "id": "8669762", "title": "Milicent Patrick", "text": " Mildred Elizabeth Fulvia di Rossi was born on November 11, 1915, in El Paso, Texas, the second of three children. Her father, Camille Charles Rossi, was superintendent of construction at Hearst Castle, working under Julia Morgan, the first licensed female architect in the state of California. The family moved from San Francisco to San Simeon, California when Patrick was six. During her childhood Patrick grew close with William Hearst's wife, Millicent Hearst, who would become the model for Patrick's later name change. In 1932 Julia Morgan and Camille Rossi's contentious working relationship caused Morgan to appeal to Hearst that Rossi be removed from the project, uprooting the Rossi family from the grounds at Hearst Castle. The Rossi family then moved to Glendale, California and in 1933 Mildred started attending Glendale Junior College, but left in 1935 without graduating. She went on to study at Chouniard Art Institute for three years, where she focused on illustration and drawing, receiving three scholarships based on her talent.", "score": "1.5118344" }, { "id": "2054243", "title": "Marie Layet", "text": " Marie was born in Mobile, Alabama, to George Layet and his wife Josephine Garner. Her parents were reportedly respected and well-known, but she was orphaned at a young age, and was raised primarily by her grandmother. After her grandmother died, she studied art in New Jersey and Ohio. At the age of 24, she returned to Mobile and opened her own art studio, and she wrote silent films in order to pay her bills after answering an advertisement. Her earliest known effort was on 1913's The Clown's Daughter. She'd go on to write at least a half-dozen more films before marrying prominent lumberman Stanley Sheip in 1917. After her marriage, she turned her attention to the local theater scene, co-founding the Mobile Little Theatre and working on stage plays. Her novel Gulf Stream was published to a mix of acclaim and controversy in 1930. In 1937, reeling from her publisher rejecting her second novel (Penhazard) and dealing with the effects of long-term alcoholism, she died at her home in Florida. She was survived by her husband; the pair had no children.", "score": "1.5114692" } ]

[ "Mexico City", "Mexico D.F.", "Ciudad de México", "City of Mexico", "Mexico City, Mexico", "CDMX", "Mexico" ]

[ { "id": "13926719", "title": "Diana Estrada", "text": " Diana Karina Estrada Santana is a female beach volleyball player from Mexico, who won the gold medal in the women's beach team competition at the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit 2008 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, partnering Martha Revuelta. Later, in September 2008, she competed with her sister Paola Estrada, at the Internacional de Puerto Vallarta Beach Volleyball Tournament in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, winning the Bronze medal. Diana started playing internacional beach volleyball at the age of 17 at the 2003 Swatch-FIVB U-19 World Championships in Pattaya Thailand, partnering with Martha Revuelta and losing the bronze medal match 21-19, 17-21, 15-7 from Frederike Fischer-Sandra Piasecki, from Germany. After that she played at the FIVB Women's International Acapulco Tournament, with her sister Paola in 2005 finishing 33rd. In 2006, she played in the SWATCH-FIVB U-21 Women's World Championship in Mysłowice, Poland Finishing in 9th place. She also played with Martha Revuelta in 2005, and with Vanessa Virgen finishing 25th at the 2006 FIVB Women's International Acapulco Tournament. She also played for the U-20 Mexico indoor women's national volleyball team in the 2006 NORCECA Women´s Junior Continental Championship U-20 as setter. Her team finished in 6th. place.", "score": "1.6483135" }, { "id": "26067497", "title": "Diana Bracho", "text": " Diana Bracho (born Diana Guadalupe Bracho y Bordes Mangel, in Mexico City, Mexico, 12 December 1944) is a Mexican actress.", "score": "1.60918" }, { "id": "30444083", "title": "Diana Ayala", "text": " Born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, she and her family moved to New York City when she was a child. They lived in public housing after living in shelters. She received an associate degree in Human Services from Bronx Community College.", "score": "1.5938687" }, { "id": "26067499", "title": "Diana Bracho", "text": " She made her film debut as a child actress in two of her father's films: San Felipe (1949) and Immaculate Conception (1950). She studied Philosophy and Letters in New York. She debuted professionally on stage in the play Israfel by Abelardo Rodríguez alongside Sergio Bustamante. Her television debut was in 1973. Diana Bracho won the Silver Ariel award twice, the first time in 1973. She won her second Silver Ariel for El infierno, de todos tan temído and was nominated for Best Actress for Letters from Marusia (1976) and Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda (1996). On August 6, 2002 she was appointed president of the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas. ", "score": "1.586412" }, { "id": "13751055", "title": "Diana Reyes", "text": " Diana Reyes (born November 18, 1979) is a regional Mexican musical artist. Reyes was born in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. She has released three gold records since 2004: La Reina del Pasito Duranguense, Las No. 1 de la Reina, and Te Voy a Mostrar. Reyes holds strong ties to her father's native state of Sinaloa and her mother's native Sonora.", "score": "1.5841178" }, { "id": "7944366", "title": "Carla Estrada", "text": " Carla Estrada (born Carla Patricia Estrada Guitrón on March 11, 1956 in Mexico City, D.F., Mexico) is a Mexican producer, one of the foremost telenovela producers of Latin America.", "score": "1.571382" }, { "id": "14913561", "title": "Diana Salazar Méndez", "text": " Méndez spent her childhood in her native Ibarra, moving to Quito at age 16 with family. She was raised solely by her mother Olivia Méndez, an educational psychologist, along with 3 siblings. She is of Afro-Ecuadorian descent. Méndez has a degree in Political and Social Sciences from the Central University of Ecuador. She also has a master's degree in Procedural Law with a Criminal mention, from the Indoamérica Technological University.", "score": "1.5702115" }, { "id": "26618098", "title": "Diana Salazar", "text": " Diana Salazar was born in Mexico City in 1972. She began her art studies at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (today the Facultad de Artes y Diseño) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM, earning her Bachelor's in 1994 and her master's degree in Art History at UNAM in 1999. As an undergraduate, she specialised in painting, photography and gravure printing. Her Masters thesis was “De la foto a la pintura, Influencias de la visión fotográfica en la mirada pictórica.” These studies were supported by the Jóvenes Creadores scholarships she received in 1995-1996 and 2000-2001, along with one from the UNAM Foundation. ", "score": "1.5685346" }, { "id": "16055793", "title": "Diana Saldaña", "text": " Saldaña was born in Carrizo Springs, Texas to Blanca Hernandez Rodriguez, a single mother. Beginning at the age of 10 and continuing through law school, Saldaña spent summers with her family as a seasonal farmworker in Minnesota and North Dakota. Saldaña received two Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, the first in history in 1993 and the second in government in 1994. She then attended the University of Texas School of Law, where she was president of the Chicano/Hispanic Law Students Association. Saldaña earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law in 1997. After graduating law school, Saldaña served as law clerk for Judge George P. Kazen of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.", "score": "1.5672765" }, { "id": "25127664", "title": "Diana Richardson", "text": " Richardson was born in Brooklyn, to Caribbean immigrant parents from Aruba, and raised in Crown Heights. Richardson has an undergraduate degree in public administration from Medgar Evers College, and a Master of Public Administration from Baruch College, both campuses of the City University of New York.", "score": "1.5620724" }, { "id": "28656003", "title": "Eva Estrada Kalaw", "text": " Kalaw was born in Murcia, Tarlac (present-day Concepcion, Tarlac), on June 16, 1920, to Dr. Salvador Estrada and Demetria Reynada. She took up Bachelor of Science in Education, with a major in home economics from the University of the Philippines in Manila. She was a member of the university's Sigma Delta Phi sorority. An expert pistol shooter, Kalaw was once hailed the national ladies' champion in rapid-fire pistol shooting. She trained under the auspices of Filipino Olympian in shooting Martin Gison. After graduating from UP in 1940, Kalaw taught in several universities such as the Far Eastern University, National Teachers ", "score": "1.5550413" }, { "id": "5238067", "title": "Adelaide Estrada", "text": " Adelaide Augusta Fernandes Estrada was born on 29 September 1898, in the Porto parish of Vitória. She went to school at the Liceu Alexandre Herculano in Porto. Following her father's death in 1913 she worked at a hospital part time, in order to be able to complete her school studies. In October 1921, she started a medical course at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP), where she would later be a lecturer. Estrada completed her first degree in 1927. As a student, she was invited to work at the Institute of Histology and Embryology of FMUP in 1922. There she met Abel Salazar, with whom she would subsequently collaborate on various research activities and become close friends. Salazar was also an artist and did several paintings of Estrada, including a nude, which she used for her Ex Libris.", "score": "1.5550194" }, { "id": "2160165", "title": "Francesca Guillén", "text": " Guillén was born in Mexico City on June 14, 1977, the daughter of actor Alejandro Camacho and actress Bárbara Guillén. Her acting career began in 1982, at age 5, on the television program Juguemos a cantar. In 2000, she appeared in the feature film Such Is Life, directed by Arturo Ripstein and based on Seneca's Medea. This was shown at international festivals such as San Sebastian, Cannes, and Havana. In 2007, she traveled with Ofelia Medina's troupe, taking Cada quien su Frida to stages in Spain, the United States, Cuba, and Denmark. She remained in the latter for a time, studying at the Odin Teatret under the direction of Eugenio Barba, with whom she collaborated during 2008 and 2009 on the productions The ", "score": "1.5504067" }, { "id": "7455885", "title": "Diana Guerrero-Maciá", "text": " Guerrero-Maciá was born in 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio to Cuban immigrant parents. Her mother was a Spanish literature professor and quilter and her father an industrial design engineer and inventor. She earned a BFA from Villanova University in 1988, then spent a year working on social justice issues in the San Francisco area with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. In 1990, she enrolled in graduate studies at Cranbrook Academy of Art, where her work shifted from largely narrative, figural painting to non-traditional work involving textiles, craft-based processes, collage and appropriation, and the influence of lyrical poetry. After receiving an MFA from Cranbrook in 1992, she ", "score": "1.5474844" }, { "id": "6740826", "title": "Diana Maza", "text": " Diana Maza was born in the Ecuadorian canton Cañar in 1984.", "score": "1.5431448" }, { "id": "26618101", "title": "Diana Salazar", "text": " career as an artist also began in 1995 with her first individual exhibition at the Alianza Francesa in the San Ángel neighborhood of Mexico City. Since then, she has had over fifty individual and collective exhibitions in Mexico, North America, Europe and South America. Her individual exhibitions include those at the Museo de Arte Popular in Mexico City (2014), the Fugaces Galería Arte Actual Mexicano in Monterrey (2008), Casa de Francia in Mexico City (2004), the Galería de Arte Contemporáneo y Diseño in Puebla (2004), The Other Gallery in Alberta, Canada, Galería Calakmul in Mexico City (2002), Galería de Ciencias y Artes in Hermosillo, Sonora ", "score": "1.541103" }, { "id": "6444724", "title": "Mercedes Prendes", "text": " Mercedes Prendes Estrada was born in Gijón, the first-born of three siblings who grew up to become notable as stage and screen actors. The other two professional thespians in the family were Mari Carmen Prendes (1906-2002) and Luis Prendes (1913-1998). There are some sources for Mercedes Prendes having been born in 1908, but elsewhere those who have looked into the matter insist that her birth year should correctly be given as 1903. Alfonso Prendes Fernández (1875-1917), her father, was a career soldier. Her parents had married in 1902: her mother, born Mercedes Estrada Arnaiz (1881-1950), was originally from El Ferrol in the north-western province of Coruña. Her father's career choice meant that, at least by the standards ", "score": "1.5377254" }, { "id": "13888404", "title": "Priscilla Lopez", "text": " Priscilla Lopez (born February 26, 1948) is an American singer, dancer, and actress. She is perhaps best known for creating the role of Diana Morales in A Chorus Line. She has had the distinction of appearing in two Broadway landmarks: one of its greatest hits, the highly acclaimed, long-running A Chorus Line, and, as a teenager, in one of its biggest flops, the infamous musical version of Breakfast at Tiffany's, which closed before opening night.", "score": "1.5374557" }, { "id": "26657898", "title": "Diana Gómez", "text": " Born on 7 March 1989 in Igualada, Catalonia. Fond of dance, tap dance and jazz music and with a background in theatre, her film debut took place in 2006, as background actress in Manuel Huerga's Salvador, whereas her debut in television took place a year later, playing Júlia in the historical drama series La Via Augusta, broadcast on TV3. She then played minor roles in other TV shows. She also starred in more prominent roles in the telenovela El secreto de Puente Viejo, broadcast on Antena 3, and in Joel Joan's El crac, broadcast on TV3.", "score": "1.5374235" }, { "id": "1075692", "title": "Diana López (artist)", "text": " Diana López (born August 24, 1968) is a Venezuelan visual artist, cultural manager and activist. She developed her artistic style in the nineties, focusing on participation and exchange with other people in the production of her pieces. In 1994, she became the first woman to receive the Eugenio Mendoza Prize. Her work ranges from photography and video to performance and installations. López was director of culture for the Chacao municipality for seven years. While there, she promoted the creation of the Chacao Theater and the library of Los Palos Grandes in Caracas. She is the director of the Urban Photography Archive in Caracas.", "score": "1.5363714" } ]

[ "Saint Philip" ]

[ { "id": "1661512", "title": "Angela Hunte", "text": " Hunte was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Barataria, Trinidad and Tobago where her family originated. She was the only child of her parents to be born in the United States. Shortly after her birth, the family returned to Trinidad and Tobago where she was raised. In the early 90s, Hunte was part of the short-lived Motown Records quartet 7669. They released one studio album - 1993's 7669 East from a Bad Block. She is married to Sound Engineer/Mix Engineer and Grammy Award winner James Wisner and has two children, King Zion Wisner, and Brooklyn Rose Wisner.", "score": "1.6749506" }, { "id": "33108642", "title": "Terry Lee Dill", "text": " Terry was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, received a BFA from Drake University, an MA and MFA in sculpture from the University of Iowa. He later worked in New York City and then Detroit. While in Detroit, Terry earned an MA in Architecture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Terry has also exhibited with Marina DeBris.", "score": "1.6241126" }, { "id": "29793815", "title": "Alan Hunte", "text": " Alan Hunte was born in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England.", "score": "1.6231437" }, { "id": "26249144", "title": "Terry Goode", "text": " Terence Joseph Goode (born 29 October 1961) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League for Birmingham City and for Kettering Town in the Alliance Premier League. Goode was born in Islington, London. When he left school in 1977, he joined Birmingham City as an apprentice, and turned professional two years later. A pacy winger, Goode made his debut in the First Division in the penultimate game of the 1980–81 season, on 25 April 1981 away at Leicester City, when he came on as substitute to replace Pat Van Den Hauwe. The arrival of wingers Bud Brocken and Toine van Mierlo restricted his chances of first-team football, and in August 1982 he joined Kettering Town of the Alliance Premier League. Goode is a nephew of England international Charlie George.", "score": "1.614832" }, { "id": "11065027", "title": "Torino Hunte", "text": " Born in the Netherlands, Hunte is of Surinamese descent.", "score": "1.5937321" }, { "id": "11339304", "title": "Terry Locke", "text": " Terry Locke was born in Auckland and grew up in the suburb of Sandringam, the youngest of three children. He attended St Peter's College where he was in the same class as Sam Hunt and was taught \"for two important senior years\" by K O Arvidson. He was dux of the college in 1964 and in 1965 was awarded a Junior National University Scholarship. In 1965 Locke attended Holy Name Seminary in Christchurch and then commenced a degree in English and Mathematics at Auckland University, eventually completing a PhD in English. His doctoral thesis was on the subject, The Antagonistic City: A Design for Urban Imagery in Seven American Poets. During that time he was also a social activist and was involved in the foundation of Youthline with Father Felix Donnelly. He was the Director of Youthline and was involved in other social and Catholic initiatives. He later wrote a history of Youthline.", "score": "1.5848145" }, { "id": "8964397", "title": "Terry Breverton", "text": " Terry Breverton was born in Birmingham in 1946. His parents were Welsh, and he was brought up in Wales. He studied in England at the universities of Manchester and Lancaster. He worked for many years in international business and consultancy. He was a management consultant in the production industry, and a marketing director. Breverton then became an academic, and lectured in Milan, Bologna and Wales. He has been a senior lecturer at the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff and a Fellow of the Institute of Consulting and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He was awarded the Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship award of the University of Indiana in 2003, has twice been a guest speaker at ", "score": "1.5809429" }, { "id": "25815328", "title": "Terry McManus", "text": " Terry McManus was born in Abingdon, England to Canadian parents. His father was the medical scientist J. F. A. McManus of Blackville, New Brunswick and his mother, Norma Shumway of Winnipeg, Manitoba. McManus spent most of his childhood in the United States, mainly in Birmingham, Alabama and then Bloomington, Indiana. He attended Hiram Scott College in Nebraska for a brief time, but by 1967 he was working for a computer company in Washington, D.C. He recorded a number of demos at Bias Recording Studios.", "score": "1.5783322" }, { "id": "25186279", "title": "Terry Teene", "text": " Born Terence Blaine Knutson to Kermit and June Knutson, in Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States, Terry Teene began taking piano lessons at four years of age and later sang in the high school choir. A local DJ, hearing him sing in church, suggested that he audition to perform on a local television program. He performed on TV for eight weeks in a row and put together the band \"Terry and the Pirates\".", "score": "1.571778" }, { "id": "7680827", "title": "Conrad Hunte", "text": " Hunte was born in rural St Andrew Parish in the north of Barbados, the son of a sugar plantation worker. Hunte's family was poor; one of nine children, Hunte grew up in a one-room house. By the time Hunte was six-years-old he was playing cricket with the village boys, using an improvised bat made from palm fronds. Hunte's father was determined that Hunte would receive a good education and so Hunte was required to walk—barefoot—each day the three miles to Belleplaine Boys School. Hunte showed the first glimpses of his talent, making the school First XI aged 10 where he played ", "score": "1.569828" }, { "id": "31223582", "title": "Terry Patchett", "text": " Patchett was born in Darfield, South Yorkshire on 11 July 1940. He studied politics and economics at the University of Sheffield.", "score": "1.5684667" }, { "id": "11555678", "title": "Stephen Hunt (footballer, born 1984)", "text": " He was born in Southampton. Hunt started his career as a trainee at his hometown club.", "score": "1.5649464" }, { "id": "25581742", "title": "Terry Gathercole", "text": " Born in Tallimba, New South Wales. He grew up in West Wyalong, New South Wales where he lived throughout his school years. In 1957, he married Carol Fraser and they had three children – Gai, Ben and Tim. He died in 2001 because of heart problems, an illness which he had carried for 15 years after requiring open-heart surgery. A public memorial service at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, where he coached, was attended by Prime Minister John Howard and several federal cabinet ministers.", "score": "1.5588018" }, { "id": "4338771", "title": "Joseph Terry", "text": " Terry was born in York, to Joseph Terry, the confectioner and co-founder of Terry's of York, and his wife Harriet Atkinson, the daughter of a successful farmer from Leppington, North Yorkshire and sister-in-law to the elder Terry's initial business partner, Robert Berry. His family's wealth enabled him to attend the independent St Peter's School, York. Such wealth had arisen after Terry's of York had advantageously relocated to St Helen's Square, in the centre of York, with business benefiting from the City's intake of 30,000 shoppers and tourists daily as a result of significant developments in rail travel. The young Joseph Terry had a comfortable upbringing, with his ", "score": "1.5568572" }, { "id": "31175997", "title": "Terry Smith (footballer, born 1951)", "text": " Smith was born in Cheltenham and joined Stoke City's youth team as an apprentice. He played three matches during the 1970–71 season scoring once away at Chelsea. He played once the following season and had a short spell on loan at Shrewsbury Town in 1972. At the end of the season he was released and he emigrated to Australia and played for Western Suburbs, St George Budapest and Hakoah Eastern Suburbs.", "score": "1.5517634" }, { "id": "31990439", "title": "Internal Quest", "text": " Terry Booker (born July 4, 1985), professionally known as Internal Quest, is an American rapper from Newark, New Jersey. He began rapping in the early 2000s. He has worked with notable hip-hop artists such as El Da Sensei, Sadat X, Craig G and Trick-Trick", "score": "1.545222" }, { "id": "32587119", "title": "Greg Hunt", "text": " Hunt was born on 18 November 1965 in Frankston, Victoria. He was one of five sons born to Kathinka (née Grant, known as Tinka) and Alan Hunt. His father was a solicitor by profession who had been elected to the Victorian Legislative Council in 1962, and served as a Liberal state government minister in the 1970s and 1980s. Hunt's maternal grandmother Phyllis Forster was one of the first women to graduate from the Victorian College of Pharmacy. His mother worked as a nurse, but suffered from a form of bipolar disorder and was later institutionalised. She died of a heart attack at the age of 58, while her son was studying abroad. Hunt grew up in Mornington, Victoria, attending ", "score": "1.5424469" }, { "id": "26247008", "title": "Terry Downes", "text": " Terry Downes was born in Paddington, London. His father Richard worked as a mechanic, and his mother Hilda in a department store. Downes boxed as a junior for the Fisher ABC. He moved with his parents to the United States in 1952, while still a teenager, to live with his trapeze artist sister Sylvia, who had lost an arm in a traffic accident, going on to serve in the US Marine Corps from 1954–56, being recruited after boxing against them for the YMCA. In the marines he won several amateur trophies, including the all-services championship and the Amateur Golden Gloves. He missed out on selection for the US Olympic team, being ruled ineligible on residence grounds, and after his term of service, he returned to London and turned professional.", "score": "1.5400196" }, { "id": "31990440", "title": "Internal Quest", "text": " Terry Booker (born July 4, 1985 in Newark, New Jersey), professionally known as Internal Quest is an audio engineer, music producer, and youth mentor. He began his career in the Barringer High School marching band, producing for local artists and competing in area beat battles and talent shows. Internal Quest attended the Institute of Audio Research in New York City graduating with high honors. In 2010, he became the lead engineer and general manager of Jersey Sound Lab Recordings based in Newark, NJ. Internal Quest calls his sound, style and delivery of his music as, “Hip-Hop: With a little innovation.” Internal Quest gained notoriety when he collaborated with Sydney, Australia based DJ “Nino Brown” in 2010 where they released “Flight 973 ", "score": "1.5399141" }, { "id": "31481404", "title": "List of people from New York City", "text": "Kirke La Shelle – playwright and theatrical producer, born in Wyoming, Illinois ; Lachi – singer-songwriter, born in Towson, Maryland ; John Layfield – professional wrestler, born in Sweetwater, Texas ; Heath Ledger – actor, born in Perth, Western Australia ; Amy Lee – singer, born in Riverside, California ; Spike Lee – film director and actor, born in Atlanta, Georgia ; John Lennon – singer and songwriter, born in Liverpool, England ; Pierre Lorillard IV – tobacco mogul, born in Westchester, New York ; Sidney Lumet – film director, born in Philadelphia ; Mike Lupica – journalist, author, born in Oneida, New York ; Stan Lee – creator of Marvel Comics, born in Manhattan, New York ; Fran Lebowitz – author and public speaker, born in Morristown, New Jersey ", "score": "1.5379446" } ]

[ "Birmingham", "Birmingham, England", "Birmingham, West Midlands" ]

[ { "id": "12920500", "title": "James Grover McDonald", "text": " McDonald was born in Coldwater, Ohio, on November 29, 1886. His parents operated a hotel, and later relocated to Albany, Indiana, to operate a second one. McDonald received his bachelor's degree from Indiana University Bloomington (IU) in 1909, and completed a master's degree in History, Political Science and International Relations at IU in 1910. He was selected for a teaching fellowship in history at Harvard University, and remained there until his returning to Indiana University as an assistant professor in 1914. While living in Albany McDonald met Ruth Stafford, and they married in 1915. They had two children, daughters Barbara Ann and Janet. McDonald's nephew was University of Connecticut library director John P. McDonald. McDonald taught at IU until 1918, including a break in 1915 and 1916 to study in Spain as a Harvard University traveling fellow. He also taught summer sessions at the University of Georgia in 1916 and 1917. In 1919 McDonald moved to New York City to work for the Civil Service Reform Association.", "score": "1.7024004" }, { "id": "32165233", "title": "George T. McDonald", "text": " McDonald was born in Spring Lake, New Jersey, on April 28, 1944, to Helen (née Storminger) and John McDonald. His mother was a homemaker and his father was an insurance executive. He grew up in a single parent household with his father leaving before he was born. He spent much of his early years visiting his mother who was in a hospital with tuberculosis. He attended a Catholic elementary and middle school. He would attribute his upbringing to the learnings from priests in the school. He was known to have had ambitions to becoming the President and had subscribed to The Congressional Record as early as 8.", "score": "1.6895223" }, { "id": "31075191", "title": "Country Joe McDonald", "text": " McDonald was born in Washington, D.C., United States, and grew up in El Monte, California, where he was student conductor and president of his high school marching band. At the age of 17, he enlisted in the United States Navy for three years and was stationed in Japan. After his enlistment, he attended Los Angeles City College for a year. In the early 1960s, he began busking on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California. His father, Worden McDonald, from Oklahoma, was of Scottish Presbyterian heritage (the son of a minister) and worked for a telephone company. His mother, Florence Plotnick, was the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants and served for many years on the Berkeley City Council. In their youth, both were Communist Party members before renouncing the cause, and named their son after Joseph Stalin.", "score": "1.673073" }, { "id": "6446870", "title": "John T. McDonald III", "text": " McDonald was born and raised in Cohoes, New York where he would later serve as Mayor from 1999 to 2012. In 1985, he graduated from the Albany College of Pharmacy and went on to open Marra's Pharmacy which is located in Cohoes, where he and his family still reside today. Formerly, McDonald served as the President of the New York Conference of Mayors.", "score": "1.6725919" }, { "id": "30840385", "title": "Ian McDonald (footballer, born 1953)", "text": " Born in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, McDonald began his career with his hometown club Barrow before joining Workington. A move to Liverpool followed but he did not break into the first team, and was loaned to Colchester United before joining Mansfield Town in July 1975, with whom he won the Third Division title in 1976–77. He moved to York City where he became a regular in midfield before joining Aldershot in November 1981, in exchange for Malcolm Crosby. At Aldershot he gained renown as a skilful midfielder and captained the side to promotion to the Third Division under Len Walker in 1987. After leaving League football in 1989 to join Farnborough Town, he returned to Aldershot as caretaker manager following the resignation of Brian Talbot in November 1991. However, the Hampshire club was now deep in debt and struggling back in the Fourth Division, having narrowly avoided going out of ", "score": "1.6418786" }, { "id": "6439630", "title": "Allan J. McDonald", "text": " McDonald was born in Cody, Wyoming, on July 9, 1937, to Eva Marie ( Gingras) and John MacDonald. His father was a grocer and deputy county tax assessor. He grew up in Billings, Montana, and graduated from Montana State University with a degree in chemical engineering. After beginning work, he obtained an M.S. in engineering administration from the University of Utah in 1967. In 1986, Montana State awarded him an honorary doctorate. McDonald married Linda Rae Zuchetto in 1963; they had three daughters and a son. He died in Ogden, Utah, at the age of 83 on March 6, 2021, following a fall in which he sustained brain damage.", "score": "1.6398677" }, { "id": "8324660", "title": "Joseph A. McDonald", "text": " McDonald was born in Braddock, Pennsylvania, to Patrick and Christiana McDonald. He became involved in the steel industry at an early age and rose quickly to positions of responsibility. After completing an apprenticeship in the Pittsburgh area, McDonald went on to gain further experience in Bellaire, Ohio.", "score": "1.6336825" }, { "id": "344475", "title": "Henry McDonald (engineer)", "text": " McDonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 24 January 1937. He held a BSc. and a DSc. from the University of Glasgow. He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 25 May 2021.", "score": "1.6289852" }, { "id": "6978419", "title": "Larry McDonald", "text": " Larry McDonald was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, in the eastern part of the city that is in DeKalb County. General George S. Patton was a distant relation. As a child, he attended several private and parochial schools before attending a non-denominational high school. He spent two years at high school before graduating in 1951. He studied at Davidson College from 1951-53, studying history. He entered the Emory University School of Medicine at the age of 17, graduating in 1957. He interned at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. He trained as a urologist at the University of Michigan Hospital under Reed M. Nesbit. Following completion in 1966 he returned to Atlanta and entered practice with his father. From 1959 to 1961, he served as a flight surgeon in the United States Navy stationed at the Keflavík naval base in Iceland. McDonald married an Icelandic national, Anna Tryggvadottir, with ", "score": "1.6260583" }, { "id": "2932866", "title": "Steve McDonald (footballer)", "text": " Steve McDonald (born 13 December 1979) is an Australian former professional footballer who last played for Singapore team Sengwang Punggol. He also played for Sorrento in the land of his upbringing and Motherwell in Scotland (his birthplace), where he made just one appearance in the Scottish Premier League.", "score": "1.622169" }, { "id": "178214", "title": "Rod McDonald (footballer, born 1992)", "text": " McDonald joined Stoke City's academy from Manchester City's academy in 2005. He became a regular in the club's youth and reserves side but was released in the summer of 2010. In October 2009 he joined Nantwich Town on loan to gain some first team experience. However Stoke recalled McDonald after just one substitute appearance after academy manager Adrian Pennock wanted him to start on his debut.", "score": "1.6110187" }, { "id": "29572296", "title": "Christopher McDonald (jurist)", "text": " McDonald was born in Bangkok, Thailand. McDonald started college at the University of Iowa, but left after a year to teach policy debate at Abraham Lincoln High School in Des Moines. He later received an undergraduate degree from Grand View University and a law degree from the University of Iowa College of Law. At Iowa Law, he was an editor of the Iowa Law Review, graduated with highest distinction as valedictorian, and was elected to the Order of the Coif.", "score": "1.6086427" }, { "id": "27797368", "title": "David J. McDonald", "text": " McDonald was born in 1902 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to David and Mary (Kelly) McDonald, Welsh immigrants. David McDonald, Sr. was a long-time union activist who had been run out of Springfield, Illinois, because of his union activity. After failing as a saloonkeeper, McDonald, Sr. got a job as a guide setter at a Jones and Laughlin Steel Company rolling mill and joined the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. Mary McDonald's father had been an officer in the Sons of Vulcan, an early ironworkers' union, and both uncles on his mother's side were unionists. The night that he was born, his father was walking a picket line. He was educated in Catholic parochial schools. In 1915, his father was severely injured when a piece of hot steel impaled his left leg, causing him to be bedridden ", "score": "1.60413" }, { "id": "6686669", "title": "Christopher McDonald", "text": " McDonald was born in New York City, to Patricia, a nursing professor and real estate agent, and James R. McDonald, an educator and high school principal. Of Irish descent and a practicing Catholic, he and his siblings were raised in Romulus, New York. He graduated from Hobart College in Geneva, New York where he played football and soccer. He was also a member of the Kappa Alpha Society. His younger brother, actor and singer Daniel McDonald, died of brain cancer in February 2007. He is a prominent fan of the Buffalo Bills and a friend of former Bills quarterback Jim Kelly.", "score": "1.6037033" }, { "id": "29872484", "title": "Howard S. McDonald", "text": " McDonald was born in Holladay, Utah on July 18, 1894, to Francis McDonald and Rozella Stevenson. He attended the first LDS Seminary, the Granite High School Seminary. He served as a missionary in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in the Eastern States Mission, which was headquartered in New York City. He spent part of his mission as president of the Western Pennsylvania Conference headquartered in Pittsburgh. While serving in this area he met Ella Gibbs, a woman serving as a missionary who was the first Relief Society president in Pittsburgh. Ella was later transferred to Baltimore. After both returned from their missions, McDonald courted Ella Gibbs. They married in the Salt Lake Temple on September 26, 1917. They had two daughters. In 1918, McDonald served in the 163rd Artillery Brigade in France. Following his military service, he graduated from Utah State Agricultural College in 1924 in architectural engineering. He taught advanced mathematics at Utah State Agricultural College during the chairman's sabbatical.", "score": "1.6025659" }, { "id": "10320044", "title": "Meme McDonald", "text": " McDonald was born on 19 July 1954 in St George, Queensland. Living on the land, she was taught by her mother until age eight, when she was sent away to boarding school. She later attended the Victorian College of Arts, where she studied dramatic art. She also held a BA from the University of Queensland and an MA from the University of Melbourne.", "score": "1.6017891" }, { "id": "13779568", "title": "Brian McDonald (screenwriter)", "text": " Brian McDonald was born in St. Joseph, Missouri on February 18, 1965. He was named after his mother's favorite actor, Brian Keith. He has two younger brothers and a younger sister. McDonald lived in Denver, Colorado until the age of seven. After his parents divorced, he moved to Seattle, Washington with his mother. One of his teachers suggested that he had a learning disability; McDonald learned that he was dyslexic when he was around twenty years old. As a child, he used a cassette recorder to tape television shows, then watched them repeatedly \"to see what made them tick.\" McDonald made his first film, The War, which featured green plastic Army men in battle, when he was 10 years old.", "score": "1.6015699" }, { "id": "25431907", "title": "Tim McDonald", "text": " McDonald was born in Fresno, California. He played high school football at Edison High School in Fresno. At Edison, McDonald was named a prep All-American, All-California, All-Northern California, all-metro and league MVP at both safety and quarterback. He completed 56.9 percent of his passes for 2,739 yards and 30 touchdowns, and also rushed for 400 yards and six touchdowns. McDonald was also credited with five INTs and 123 tackles on defense.", "score": "1.6003871" }, { "id": "32692562", "title": "Tara McDonald", "text": " McDonald was born in Dartford, to parents of Irish descent. She won the Danny Kaye Award for the song \"Make Your Own Rainbow\". Hosted by Audrey Hepburn and attended by the Queen of Holland. McDonald became a child ambassador for UNICEF for a year when she was 12, promoting and campaigning for the \"rights of the child\" throughout Europe and Africa. She also performed in the National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT) production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Jude Law for the Edinburgh festival, and later won the juvenile lead part in a musical called St. Bernadette at the Dominion Theatre in London. McDonald was schooled at the Italia Conti stage school then later moved to the BRIT ", "score": "1.5982187" }, { "id": "178221", "title": "Rod McDonald (footballer, born 1992)", "text": " On 19 May 2017, McDonald was signed by Coventry City on a two-year contract for an undisclosed fee. McDonald made his debut for the Sky Blues in a 3–0 victory over Notts County on the opening day of the 2017–18 League Two season.", "score": "1.597751" } ]

[ "Oiartzun" ]

[ { "id": "12315135", "title": "Izaskun Zubizarreta Gerendiain", "text": " Izaskun Zubizarreta Gerendiain (born September 30, 1970) is a Spanish ski mountaineer. Zubizarreta was born in Oiartzun. She started ski mountaineering in 1997 and competed first in the Cronoescalada race in Cerler in 2006. In the same year, she became a member of the national team.", "score": "2.2955852" }, { "id": "14374455", "title": "Patxi Zubizarreta", "text": " Zubizarreta was born in Ordizia, Gipuzkoa. He published his first book in 1991, Ametsetako mutila, and has since published a long series of books of many different genres, especially stories inspired by the traditional world. Regarding the issues, he has prioritized the issue of immigration, especially between North Africa and Europe that explains in such a way that it can be understood by the children, as in the book Usoa. His work has been translated into many languages, such as Castilian, Catalan, Galician, Asturian, Aragonese, English, Slovenian and Korean. Zubizarreta has also dedicated himself to translating Basque authors such as Abdela Taia, Najib Mahfuz, and Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt into Euskera. In his role as a creator of poetic musical shows Flying over paper / Paperean Hegan, he presented at the International IBBY Congress held in London in collaboration with Galtzagorri Elkartea and the Etxepare Institute, as well as the show Ants, horses, Elephants / Inurriak, zaldiak, elefanteak, presented at the International Children's Book Fair in Bologna.", "score": "1.9407464" }, { "id": "12315136", "title": "Izaskun Zubizarreta Gerendiain", "text": "2006: ; 1st, Spanish Championship team (together with María Luisa Romerales) ; 1st, Spanish Cup ; 2nd, Spanish Championship single ; 3rd, Spanish Championship vertical race ; 5th, World Championship relay race (together with Gemma Arró Ribot, Naila Jornet Burgada and Cristina Bes Ginesta) ; 9th, World Championship team race (together with Cristina Bes Ginesta) ; 2007: ; 1st, Spanish Championship vertical race ; 6th, European Championship relay race (together with Gemma Arró Ribot and Maribel Martín de la Iglesia) ; 8th, European Championship team race (together with Gemma Arró Ribot) ; 2008: ; 4th, World Championship combination ranking ; 5th, World Championship relay race (together with Cristina Bes ", "score": "1.8150532" }, { "id": "13785484", "title": "Sabiha Bengütaş", "text": " Sabiha Ziya was born in İstanbul in 1904. She had a sister and an elder brother. She was schooled at Eyubsultan Numune School, now known as Eyüp Anatolian High School. She lived four years in Damaskus, Syria (then a part of Ottoman Empire), where her father was assigned to due to his occupation. She continued her education there, attending a French Catholic school for one year. The family returned home and settled in Büyükada, where she completed her secondary education at Köprülü Fuat Pasha School. In 1920, he began studying fine arts in the Painting Department and the Sculpture Department of Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts (, current ", "score": "1.761014" }, { "id": "14374454", "title": "Patxi Zubizarreta", "text": " Patxi Zubizarreta (born 25 January 1964) is a Spanish writer who writes in the Basque language (Euskara). He studied Basque philology in Vitoria, where he currently resides. He is an author of children's and youth literature, a specialty in which he has won several prizes, has also been dedicated to translation and literature for adults and has a facet as creator of shows that combine music, image and literature. He was included in the White Ravens catalog and the IBBY Honor Roll.", "score": "1.7567441" }, { "id": "26879398", "title": "Nuran Tanrıverdi", "text": " Nuran Tanrıverdi (born in İzmir) is a Turkish architect and painter. Nuran Tanrıverdi was born in İzmir, Turkey. She graduated from the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture of the Ege University in 1978. As a registered architect, she went to Stuttgart, Germany, and worked there as an architect for three years. Afterwards, she worked back in her hometown, İzmir. In both locations, she continued to develop her painting and art experience in various studios of different well known Turkish and German artists. Currently, she continues her work in her own studio in Izmir. She has had 20 personal exhibitions. Tanrıverdi has had exhibitions for her paintings in Izmir, Istanbul, and Ankara. Some of her paintings have also been displayed in different exhibitions in Stockholm, Moldova and Nahcivan. Different art collections, both in Turkey and abroad, contain works made by Tanrıverdi. An exhibition of Tanrıverdis works were displayed at the grand opening of the Consulate General of Nakhchivan Exhibition Hall on Nov 26, 2010.", "score": "1.7423694" }, { "id": "971060", "title": "Baha Gelenbevi", "text": " He was born in Istanbul in 1907 in an established old Ottoman family. He was educated in Istanbul and in France. Baha Gelenbevi's wife, the classical music and opera singer Ren Gelenbevi was originally from France becoming an influential member of the Istanbul musical scene; she taught several prominent Turkish singers and leading figures of Opera in Turkey, during her many years as a Professor at the Istanbul City Conservatory, including Leyla Gencer at her beginnings.", "score": "1.7210841" }, { "id": "26680952", "title": "Beki Luiza Bahar", "text": " Bahar was born in Istanbul on December 16, 1926, to Sara Benbiçaçi and Jak Morhayim. She attended the Beyoğlu Jewish School in Istanbul. When her family moved to Ankara in 1937 due to her father's job, she completed his education at the TED Ankara Koleji. She studied law at the University of Istanbul, but did not complete her studies. She got married in 1948 to the businessman Jojo Yusuf Bahar and had two daughters, Sara and Roza, and a son, İzzet.", "score": "1.7091761" }, { "id": "28723106", "title": "Müzeyyen Senar", "text": " Müzeyyen Dombayoğlu was born in 1918 in the village of Gököz, in Keles district of Bursa Province, in the then Ottoman Empire. She had two elder brothers İsmet and Hilmi. Her mother Zehra used to sing Senar to sleep. At the age of five, she developed a stutter after returning from a wedding ceremony, which she thought was the result of fear, as she recalled. Her speech disorder lasted until adulthood, though, as is usually the case with performers, it did not affect her singing voice. At six years old, knowing most of the popular folk songs by heart, she sang at family gatherings and wedding ceremonies, to which her mother took her. In her early childhood, she ran away from her father's home in Bursa to Istanbul, where her mother lived. Her father had left his wife after a marriage of 25 years. According to several claims by Turkish media, she was adopted by the Dombayoğlu family. She was born in a Georgian village called Hilmiye in İnegöl to ethnic Georgian parents. Her birth name was Zeliha Eren and her parents were Fatma and Reşit, who migrated from Batumi to İnegöl.", "score": "1.707397" }, { "id": "4085817", "title": "Silva Hakobyan", "text": " Hakobyan was born on October 23, 1988, in the city of Vayk, Vayots Dzor. She performed since the age of four.", "score": "1.7016997" }, { "id": "2898788", "title": "Gülistan Yüksel", "text": " Yüksel was born in Adana, Turkey. At the age of eight years, she moved to Mönchengladbach, Germany, and grew up in Rheydt. After vocational training as a pharmacy assistant (Pharmazeutisch-kaufmännische Angestellte), she worked in a pharmacy in Rheydt. Later, she became head of a taxi company. Yüksel is married and has two children. She was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2007 for her engagement for migrants.", "score": "1.6905355" }, { "id": "1647522", "title": "Nuri Gezerdaa", "text": " Gezerdaa was born on 19 June 1959 in Gudauta and graduated from school no. 1 there. In 1980, he graduated from the biological and geographical faculty of the Abkhazian State University. He went to the higher party school in Baku in 1985 and upon his graduation two years later became a senior lecturer at the Department of Philosophy. In 1988 he entered the graduate school of the Academy of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, where he defended his PhD thesis in 1991.", "score": "1.6901393" }, { "id": "25974167", "title": "Senedu Gebru", "text": " Senedu Gebru was born on 13 January 1916 in Addis Alem, Menagesha, 30km west of Addis Ababa. Her father, Gebru Desta, was a European-educated writer and former mayor of Addis Ababa and briefly president of the senate. Her mother, Kasaye Yelamtu, was an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian and raised her in the faith. She was educated at the Swedish Mission School in Addis Ababa before being sent to Switzerland at the age 12, along with her sister, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou. She did not like the school, so she was sent to a school in France, where she learned French and English. She also discovered a love for literature, and earned a degree in the subject at Lausanne University in Switzerland.", "score": "1.6864655" }, { "id": "16379034", "title": "Leyla İmret", "text": " Leyla İmret was born in June 1987 in Cizre in Turkey's southeastern province of Şırnak. Her father was killed in the conflict between security forces and the PKK when she was four and her family fled to Mersin in 1992. She moved to Bremen in Germany in 1996 and lived with relatives. She studied teaching in Germany, and worked as a nanny and a hairdresser.", "score": "1.6807873" }, { "id": "13785485", "title": "Sabiha Bengütaş", "text": " Sinan University). She was the first female student in the class. Feyhaman Duran was one of her teachers in the academy. In 1924, she won a state scholarship to study in the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Italy, where she was in the workshop of Ermenegildo Luppi (1877–1937). Later, she married to Şakir Emin Bengütaş, a diplomat and the grandson of poet Abdülhak Hamit Tarhan. She often traveled abroad accompanying her husband. The couple settled at Maltepe neighborhood of Çankaya in Ankara after her spouse retired. She adopted a daughter named Nurol, who became company in her loneliness. She died in Ankara on 2 October 1992.", "score": "1.6793773" }, { "id": "33162140", "title": "Zeynep Gedizlioğlu", "text": " Zeynep Gedizlioğlu was born 4 December 1977 in İzmir and grew up in Istanbul. She has spent most of her life in Istanbul and Berlin. Her mother is the actress Şahika Tekand and her father, Levent Gedizlioğlu, is an architect. Gedizlioğlu attended the Istanbul Conservatory. She went on to study in Saarbrücken, Strasbourg and Karlsruhe. Over the years she has learned composition from such people as Cengiz Tanç, İlhan Usmanbaş, Theo Brandmüller and Wolfgang Rihm. Gedizlioğlu has had her music appear and be performed by philharmonic orchestra all over Europe. She has a number of CDs released with her music. Gedizlioğlu has worked for IRCAM in Paris. She has won the Heidelberg Artist Prize as well as receiving several scholarships including one from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation in 2010.", "score": "1.6746074" }, { "id": "7533763", "title": "Bahar Şahin", "text": " Bahar Şahin was born in Ankara in 1997. Her family is originally from Artvin. When she was 12 years old, she settled with her family in Istanbul and pursued her education and training life there. She joined the theatre classes during her school years. Şahin made her television debut in 2015 with the series O Hayat Benim. Later, she took part in films such as Yol Arkadaşım, Yol Arkadaşım 2, and İyi Oyun and was cast in a number of series such as Lise Devriyesi and Servet. Between 2019 and 2020, she rose to prominence by playing the character of Ceren in the series Zalim İstanbul, for which she received a Golden Butterfly Award nomination for Best Actress. In 2020, she made her debut in the series İyi Aile Babası and depicted the character of Yağmur.", "score": "1.6702635" }, { "id": "940092", "title": "Zenobia Camprubí", "text": " Zenobia Camprubí Aymar (31 August 1887 &ndash; 25 October 1956) was a Spanish-born writer and poet; she was also a noted translator of the works of Rabindranath Tagore. She was born in Malgrat de Mar (province of Barcelona, Catalonia) to a Puerto Rican mother and a Spanish father. She later lived in the United States, studied at Columbia University, and spent the duration of the Spanish Civil War (18 July 1936 &ndash; 1 April 1939) writing her Diario (\"Diary\") in Cuba. Her brother, José Camprubí, was owner and publisher of La Prensa, New York's most important Spanish-language daily newspaper, from 1918 to 1942. She eventually became a professor at the University of Maryland before her death from ovarian cancer, aged 69, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, two days after her husband Juan Ramón Jiménez received the Nobel Prize in Literature.", "score": "1.6686666" }, { "id": "163456", "title": "Rezan Zuğurlu", "text": " At the age of 25, she became the youngest mayor in Turkey, winning nearly 90% of the votes in the local elections in March 2014 and assumed office in April 2014, Zuğurlu was among several female mayor candidates fielded by the party at that time, which also included 27-year-old Leyla İmret, who was elected as in Cizre, in Şırnak province. In February 2017 she was dismissed as mayor and a trustee was appointed instead. On 17 August 2017, she was arrested due to the anterior sentence that came into effect. In September she was transferred from Diyarbakır E Type Prison to the Van T Type Prison.", "score": "1.6678936" }, { "id": "12850048", "title": "Tomris Uyar", "text": " Tomris Uyar (nee \"Gedik\") was born in Istanbul, the daughter of two lawyers and granddaughter of Republican People's Party politician Süleyman Sırrı Gedik. She graduated in journalism in 1963 and lived in Istanbul, working as a freelance writer and translator. From the mid-1960s she published stories, diaries, translations and literary criticism. Uyar was a prolific writer of short stories, of which eleven volumes were published. She translated into Turkish works by authors including Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, Lewis Carroll, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Gabriel García Márquez. In 1975 she and her husband Turgut Uyar won a Turkish Language Society (Türk Dil Kurumu) prize for their translation of Lucretius' natural encyclopedia De rerum natura (Evrenin yapısı, Istanbul 1974). In 1980 and 1987 she was one of two Turkish authors who were awarded the Sait Faik Short Story Award. In 1987 she received the Theater Art Development Foundation's annual award in memory of actor Avni Dilligil, and in 2002 the Dünya award for the best narrative volume of the year. In the same year she was awarded the Sedat Simavi Literature Award. Tomris Uyar died of esophageal cancer in 2003.", "score": "1.6629173" } ]

[ "Gisborne", "Gisborne, New Zealand" ]

[ { "id": "11492096", "title": "Grant Bramwell", "text": " Grant Bramwell (born 28 January 1961 in Gisborne, New Zealand) is a sprint canoeist who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m at Los Angeles in 1984 with Alan Thompson, Ian Ferguson and Paul MacDonald. Bramwell also won a K-1 10000 m bronze at the 1985 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mechelen. After retiring from top-level canoeing Bramwell was a selector for New Zealand canoeing in the 1990s.", "score": "1.8125352" }, { "id": "12466372", "title": "Michael Bramwell", "text": " Michael Bramwell is an American visual artist based in North Carolina. He graduated from Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama and received a Master of Arts from Columbia University, an M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a PhD candidate in the Department of American Studies. He is an Andrew W. Mellon Humanities for the Public Good Fellow and an alumnus of the MoMA/P.S.1 National Studio Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. He has exhibited work at: Neuberger Museum of Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Portland Museum of Art, MoMA/P.S.1, International Print Center, Sotheby's, Jack Tilton Gallery, Gagosian Gallery, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art and Florida Center for Contemporary Art. His work is included in Public Collections of: Jersey City Museum, New School University, New York City, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.", "score": "1.7300155" }, { "id": "13950570", "title": "Bramwell Tillsley", "text": " The son of Salvationists, he was born in Kitchener, Ontario. His parents had emigrated in 1928 from the United Kingdom. As he grew up, he became a Junior Soldier and a Corps Cadet. He joined a Young People's (YP) Band and then a Senior Band. When he won the honour student award at a music camp for his cornet playing, Maude Pitcher was the runner up. They married each other in 1953. Their first child, Barbara Tillsley, was born the following year. Bramwell and Maude Tillsley entered the training college as cadets in the 'Sword Bearers' session. In 1956, they became officers of ", "score": "1.6761312" }, { "id": "26488316", "title": "Byrom Bramwell", "text": " Bramwell was born on 18 December 1847 in North Shields in northern England, the son of Mary Young and Dr John Byrom Bramwell. He was educated at Cheltenham College and then in 1865 travelled to Scotland to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh. There he studied under the eminent anatomist, John Goodsir, John Hughes Bennett, James Syme, and James Young Simpson, a truly luminary group of teachers, evidencing Edinburgh’s position in the forefront of medical education. A keen sportsman, Bramwell also captained the University cricket team.", "score": "1.662487" }, { "id": "7925905", "title": "John Milne Bramwell", "text": " Educated at Perth Grammar School and Edinburgh University, he graduated M.B. C.M. (Medicinae Baccalaureus, Chirurgiae Magister) at Edinburgh University in 1873, in the same cohort as Charles Braid (1850–1897), the grandson of James Braid.", "score": "1.651114" }, { "id": "3877147", "title": "Mudcat Grant", "text": " Grant was born in Lacoochee, Florida, on August 13, 1935. He was one of seven children of James Sr. and Viola Grant. His father died when Grant was two years old. He attended Moore Academy in nearby Dade City, where he played football, basketball, and baseball. Grant was awarded a scholarship to play football and baseball at Florida A&M University. However, he dropped out during his sophomore year in order to support his family through financial difficulty. He was signed as an amateur free agent by the Cleveland Indians before the 1954 season.", "score": "1.64609" }, { "id": "1855274", "title": "Lachie Grant", "text": " Lachlan Ashwell Grant (4 October 1923 – 27 April 2002) was a New Zealand rugby union player. Born in Temuka, Grant is regarded as that town's finest rugby product. A flanker and lock, Booth represented at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1947 to 1951. He played 23 matches for the All Blacks including four internationals, and captained the team in two matches during the 1951 tour of Australia.", "score": "1.641693" }, { "id": "13799375", "title": "Grant Haskin", "text": " Grant was born in Camps Bay, a suburb on Cape Towns Atlantic coast, to parents Ron and Felicity. The family later moved to Wynberg in Cape Town's Southern suburbs where he was enrolled at Wynberg Boys Junior and High School, matriculating in 1986. He has completed his B.A. Honours degree majoring in International Relations (Political Science) at the University of the Western Cape in 2010. In 2010 and 2011 he tutored and lectured at UWC.", "score": "1.6364702" }, { "id": "10365078", "title": "Vernon Simeon Plemion Grant", "text": " Grant was born on April 26, 1902, in Coleridge, Nebraska, to Oliver Simeon Grant and Chloe Barkley Grant. When Grant was six years old, his family moved to South Dakota where they homesteaded. His experiences living on the prairies served as the inspiration for many of the artworks he would create throughout his career. While there he also learned illustration techniques from his beloved school teacher cousin Nellie Grant. As a teen, Grant moved with his family to California. He studied business law and public speaking at the University of Southern California and, at age 21, enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago. To help pay for his education, Grant developed his chalk talks, which became a popular act on the vaudeville circuit.", "score": "1.6363302" }, { "id": "33142330", "title": "Henry Bramwell", "text": " Bramwell was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was in the United States Army from 1941 to 1945. In 1944, he was a sergeant. After his military service, he received a Bachelor of Laws from Brooklyn Law School in 1948. He was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 1953 to 1961. He was then an associate counsel to the New York State Rent Commission from 1961 to 1963. He was a special hearing officer for conscientious objectors from 1965 to 1966. He was a judge of the Civil Court of the City of New York in 1966 and again from 1969 to 1975. He was an assistant administrative judge for Kings County, New York from 1974 to 1975.", "score": "1.6361773" }, { "id": "14589925", "title": "Bramwell (name)", "text": "Aaron Bramwell (born 1986), Welsh rugby union player ; Sir Byrom Bramwell (1847–1931), British brain surgeon ; Christopher Bramwell (fl. 1977–1996), British television actor ; David Bramwell, British writer, musician, performer and broadcaster ; David Bramwell (born 1942), British botanist. ; Edwin Bramwell (1873–1952), Scottish neurologist ; Sir Frederick Bramwell (1818–1903), British civil and mechanical engineer ; George Bramwell, 1st Baron Bramwell (1808–1892), English judge ; Grant Bramwell (born 1961), New Zealand sprint canoeist ; Henry Bramwell (1919–2010), United States federal judge ; John Bramwell (born 1964), English singer and songwriter ; John Crighton Bramwell (1889–1976), British cardiologist ; John Milne Bramwell (1852–1925), Scottish physician and surgeon ; John Bramwell (footballer) (born 1937), English football left back ; Steven T. Bramwell (born 1961), British physicist and chemist ", "score": "1.6357987" }, { "id": "32775545", "title": "Bramwell Fletcher", "text": " Bramwell Fletcher (20 February 1904 &ndash; 22 June 1988) was an English stage, film, and television actor.", "score": "1.623554" }, { "id": "3557979", "title": "Downer T. Bramble", "text": " Downer Tenney Bramble (born Hartland, Vermont, February 28, 1832; died October 9, 1887, Watertown, South Dakota) was an American pioneer businessman and politician in Dakota Territory. Bramble was born into a Vermont farming family in Hartland on February 28, 1832. At the age of 17 he moved to Nashville, Tennessee to work in a drug store owned by his older brothers Gilman and George; later he and Gilman opened a branch store in Memphis. In 1857 he moved to Ponca, Nebraska, where he briefly operated a grocery, and served in the 5th Nebraska Territorial Legislature. He married a woman named Lucinda Brown, but she died 6 ", "score": "1.6233058" }, { "id": "16580701", "title": "Lee Child", "text": " Grant was born in Coventry. His Irish father, who was born in Belfast, was a civil servant who lived in the house where the singer Van Morrison was later born. He is the second of four sons; his younger brother, Andrew Grant, is also a thriller novelist. Grant's family relocated to Handsworth Wood in Birmingham when he was four years old so that the boys could receive a better education. Grant attended Cherry Orchard Primary School in Handsworth Wood until the age of 11. He attended King Edward's School, Birmingham. In 1974, at the age of 20, Grant studied law at University of Sheffield, though he had no intention of entering the legal profession and, during his student days, worked backstage in a theatre. After graduating, he worked in commercial television. He received a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) Degree from the University of Sheffield in 1977 and returned to the University to receive an Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) in 2009.", "score": "1.6037148" }, { "id": "10105758", "title": "John Bramwell", "text": " Bramwell was born on 27 November 1964 in Hyde, Cheshire (now part of Tameside, Greater Manchester). He grew up in Gee Cross, Hyde. In the early years, John was the front man of a four-piece band called \"The Ignition\" that toured in the early to late 1980s. Following that he became a solo performer and Granada Television presenter Johnny Dangerously, introducing a local Saturday morning magazine programme Xpress that included one of the first TV appearances for KFM Radio personality Caroline Aherne in her Mrs. Merton role. In this guise he also released You, Me and the Alarm Clock, named in The Guardian newspaper as one of \"greatest albums you've never heard\". He ", "score": "1.6022365" }, { "id": "28606251", "title": "Craig Grant", "text": " Grant was born in New York City and raised in the Bronx. His father, Samuel, was a locksmith and carpenter at Montefiore Hospital, and his mother, Theresa (née Maxwell), was a teacher. He first gained widespread attention as a poet and performer when he was featured in the documentary SlamNation, which followed him and the other poets of 1996 Nuyorican Poetry Slam Team (Saul Williams, Beau Sia and Jessica Care Moore) as they competed at the 1996 National Poetry Slam. Grant took the name \"muMs\" when he was 20 and performing in a rap group. Due to retaining traces of a childhood lisp, a friend suggested he call himself “Mumbles”, which Grant shortened to \"muMs\", as ", "score": "1.5992033" }, { "id": "5944312", "title": "Bramwell Cook (Salvation Army officer)", "text": " Alfred Bramwell Cook (7 March 1903 &ndash; 1 June 1994) was a New Zealand Salvation Army leader and doctor. He was born in Gisborne, New Zealand, on 7 March 1903. In the 1982 New Year Honours, Cook was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the Salvation Army and the community.", "score": "1.598824" }, { "id": "15357958", "title": "Grant (given name)", "text": " comic book artist ; Grant Bovey (born 1961), British businessman ; Grant Bowler (born 1968), New Zealand-Australian actor ; Grant Bowler (baseball) (1907–1968), American baseball player ; Grant Boxall (born 1976), Australian Paralympic rugby footballer ; Grant Boyce (born 1956), Australian field hockey player ; Grant Bradburn (born 1966), New Zealand cricketer ; Grant Bramwell (born 1961), New Zealand canoeist ; Grant Brebner (born 1977), Scottish-Australian footballer ; Grant Brisbee (born 1977), American writer ; Grant Bristow (born 1958), Canadian intelligence officer ; Grant Brits (born 1987), South African-Australian swimmer ; Grant Brown (born 1969), English footballer ; Grant Buchanan, New Zealand Paralympic athlete ; Grant Buist (born 1973), New Zealand cartoonist ; Grant Burgess (born 1960), English lawn bowler ; Grant Burgoyne (born 1953), American politician ", "score": "1.5936484" }, { "id": "7925904", "title": "John Milne Bramwell", "text": " The fourth child and youngest son of James Paton Bramwell (1824–1890), chief consulting surgeon at the Perth Royal Infirmary and Eleanor Bramwell, née Oliver (1821–1901), John Milne Bramwell was born in Perth, Scotland on 11 May 1852. One of his sisters, Elizabeth Ida Bramwell (1858–1940), become famous in Canada as the suffragette Ida Douglas-Fearn. A second sister, Eleanor Oliver Bramwell (1861–1923), married Frank Podmore (1855–1910), psychical researcher, member of the Society for Psychical Research and founding member of the Fabian Society. He married Mary Harriet Reynolds (c. 1851 – 27 May 1913) — the eldest surviving daughter of Captain Charles Sheppard Reynolds (1818–1853), formerly of the 49th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry, and Assistant-Commissioner of the Assam Provinces, and Jessie Bramwell, née Blanch (1825–?), who had been born in Assam, India — at St. John the Evangelist Church, at East Dulwich, on 6 July 1875. They had two children: Mary Eleanor Oliver Bramwell (c.1876-?) and Elsie Dorothy Constant, née Bramwell (1880–1968). He died on 16 January 1925 at the Miramare Palace Grand Hotel in Ospedaletti, Italy.", "score": "1.5934632" }, { "id": "14589926", "title": "Bramwell (name)", "text": "Bramwell Booth (1856–1929), English General of The Salvation Army ; Bramwell Fletcher (1904–1988), English stage, film and television actor ; Bramwell Tillsley (born 1931), Canadian General of The Salvation Army ; Bramwell Tovey (born 1953), British conductor and composer ", "score": "1.5904319" } ]

[ "Tambov" ]

[ { "id": "25563646", "title": "Valentin Avrorin", "text": " Valentin Aleksandrovich Avrorin (December 23 1907, Tambov - February 26 1977, Leningrad) was a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and an expert in languages. He was born in Tambov, Russia to a family of teachers. He was outstanding in the sphere of Tungusic languages, and was one of the active creators of the Nanai written language. In 1925 Avrorin graduated from one of the Tambov schools.", "score": "1.9717546" }, { "id": "25563647", "title": "Valentin Avrorin", "text": " In 1930, graduated from the Faculty of History and Ethnology of the Saint Petersburg State University. In 1956, defended PhD in Philology. Professor, Department of General Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State University, the first dean of the faculty. June 26, 1964 elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.", "score": "1.8063717" }, { "id": "25563648", "title": "Valentin Avrorin", "text": " Avrorin Valentin Alexandrovich (Bibliography)", "score": "1.7625163" }, { "id": "1625800", "title": "Valentin Duc", "text": " Born in Béziers, Joseph Valentin Duc was a French singer, operatic forte ténor. He is known for his repertoire at the Opéra de Paris, the Théâtre des Arènes in Béziers and world tours that took him from Monte Carlo to St. Petersburg, from Baltimore to Seville... Son of Valentin Duc (or Duch) and Marie Fabre, originating from Tignes (kingdom of Savoy), he was the third in a line of eight children. These parents moved to Béziers in 1850, joining a previously established Duc branch (Jean Duc, trader, spouse Anne-Marie Gayraud, and Laurent Duc, everyday worker), spouse Marie Peronne). In the Census Table of Class 1878, he is noted as postilion of occupation on that date. He left Béziers in 1879 for his military service at Rochefort. His fencing practice must have encouraged his stage ", "score": "1.7218378" }, { "id": "2191237", "title": "Valentin Yanin", "text": " Yanin was born in Vyatka. His maternal grandparents were arrested in 1937 and died in a prison camp in 1938. His father was apparently on a list to be executed but escaped this fate and moved with his family to Moscow. Yanin finished his secondary education in 1946, graduating with a Gold Medal; he matriculated at Moscow State University in 1951.", "score": "1.655724" }, { "id": "29222923", "title": "Justin Valentin", "text": " Valentin received his diploma in education from Seychelles Polytechnic. He continued his studies in Australia, and graduated with a Bachelor of Education from the Edith Cowan University, followed by a master's degree from Universiti Sains Malaysia, and a doctorate from King's College London. He specialised in science and mathematics. He first worked as a teacher and continued his career as a researcher at the Ministry of Education. In 1993, Valentin published Testanman Rezete, a novel written in Seychellois Creole, the French-based creole language spoken in the Seychelles. In 2013, Valentin became the Dean for Business and Law of the University of Seychelles. On 2 February 2018, he was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the university. On 30 October 2020, he was elected Minister of Education and Human Resources Development.", "score": "1.6500745" }, { "id": "28749491", "title": "Rodolfo Valentin", "text": " Valentin was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The son of Spanish and Italian parents, from an early age he had dreams of becoming a plastic surgeon when he grew up. However Valentin became more interested in his future profession after years of playing the hairdresser to his mother and sister. His aunt, who had studied at a local beauty school in Buenos Aires, would later teach Valentin some of the techniques she had learned. He initially worked as a fashion model. Moving to Europe, Valentin assisted hair stylist Alexandre de Paris in Spain and Italy. It was around this time that Valentin found a liking for the Five Towns area of Long Island, ", "score": "1.6335751" }, { "id": "14278550", "title": "Aurore Kichenin", "text": " She has Indian origins and has a sister Anaïs Kichenin who is also a French model and independent comedian. Aurore Kichenin was born on January 28, 1995 in Clamart in the Hauts-de-Seine department then resides in Jacou, near Montpellier. She has Malbaraise = Indian origins through her father, and Polish by her mother. In 2016, she obtained a BTS Tourisme at the Lycée hôtelier Georges-Frêche in Montpellier. During her preparation for the Miss France 2017 election, she continued her training with a 3rd year of studies in Applied Foreign Languages, where she specialized in Portuguese. Then resides in Castelnau-le-Lez, between Jacou and Montpellier.", "score": "1.6015506" }, { "id": "8935675", "title": "Valentin le désossé", "text": " Not much is known about the life of Jacques Renaudin. He may have been the son of a notary from Sceaux, a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, and it is thought that, as an adult, he worked as a wine merchant by day. It is certain, however, that at night he danced at the Moulin Rouge, the famed cabaret in the Pigalle district of Paris, near Montmartre. There he formed a partnership with La Goulue, dancing the chahut, a form of the can-can. As a team, they were the toast of tout le monde in fin de siècle Paris. Renaudin was tall and slender, with an aquiline nose and a prominent chin, which gave him a distinctive profile, ", "score": "1.5979819" }, { "id": "32106170", "title": "Valentin", "text": "Valentin Abel (born 1991), German politician ; Valentin Alexandru (born 1991), Romanian footballer ; Valentin Blass (born 1995), German basketball player ; Valentin \"Val\" Brunn (born 1994), German electronic music producer and DJ known as Virtual Riot ; Valentin Bondarenko (1937–1961), Soviet fighter pilot ; Valentin de Boulogne (before 1591 – 1632), French painter ; Valentin Brunel (born 1996), French DJ known as Kungs ; Valentín Castellanos (born 1998), Argentine footballer ; Valentin Ceaușescu (born 1948), Romanian physicist ; Valentin Chmerkovskiy (born 1986), Ukrainian–American ballroom dancer ; Valentin Coșereanu (born 1991), Romanian footballer ; Valentin Crețu (disambiguation), several people ; Valentín Díaz (1845–1916), Filipino patriot ; Valentin Dikul (born 1948), Russian circus artist ; Valentin Dzhavelkov (born 1968), Bulgarian Olympic pentathlete ", "score": "1.5973108" }, { "id": "1625802", "title": "Valentin Duc", "text": " Before his Conseil de révision in 1878 (sortition in 1879), his musical studies probably took place at Béziers in the Orphéon and possibly in the choirs or small roles of the Grand Théâtre de Béziers. In 1882, he was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris, in Bussine's singing class and Obin's opera class. (1st runner-up at the end of the first year). He was a resident of the town of Béziers as soon as 1882. After leaving the Paris Conservatoire on 25 July 1885, Valentin Duc obtained the first prize for singing in front of a jury presided by Ambroise Thomas and including Massenet, Delibes, Guiraud, etc. generally acclaimed by the press (despite a very negative article in Le Figaro). In the same promotion, he obtained first prize for opera in front of the same jury, supplemented by a few performers (Auguste Vitu in Le Figaro dated 31 July 1885 took the opposite opinion of his previous article).", "score": "1.5964508" }, { "id": "4774323", "title": "Valentin Gallery", "text": " Born in France in 1949, he is a master in International Trade after studies in a Paris commerce school. He was a Paris-based art dealer who travelled the world selling works of art. In 1977, he occupied a position on the Board of Trustees of the Professional Art Dealers Association of Canada. In 1981, he became the youngest president and was re-elected in 1983. He has given conferences on how to build an art collection and on how to invest in art, on the importance of a good appraisal and on the works of Marc-Aurèle Fortin. He is working on a catalogue raisonné of this artist.", "score": "1.5947134" }, { "id": "5666678", "title": "Valentin Valentinsen", "text": " Valentin Valentinsen (21 December 1861 - ??) was a Norwegian engineer and politician for the Liberal Party. Born in Haugesund as the son of ship-owner Johannes Valentinsen, he took a technical education and started his career at a shipyard in Laksevaag. In 1887 he was hired as head of the machine department in a shipyard in Mykolaiv, nicknamed the City of shipbuilders. In 1889 he went on to Jarrow, England, working as a machine constructor at the Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Limited. He then traveled to Chicago in 1890 and to San Francisco and the Union Iron Works in 1890. He returned to Norway in 1893. He was a member of Haugesund city council from 1904, serving as deputy mayor in 1907 and 1908 and as mayor from 1909. He was then elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1910 and 1913, representing the constituency of Haugesund.", "score": "1.5806987" }, { "id": "30692081", "title": "François Valentiny", "text": " Valentiny was born in 1953 in the village of Remerschen-Schengen, Luxembourg, one of two sons of a carpenter. His parents sent him to boarding school in Belgium at the age of 12, and on his return, he followed the family tradition and became a carpenter. He studied architecture between 1975 and 1980 at the Ecole d'Architecture de Nancy and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. In 1980 he completed his studies in Vienna with the title \"Magister architecturae\" in the master class of Wilhelm Holzbauer, and was awarded a scholarship by the Federal Ministry for Science and Research in Vienna. He also became an assistant at the International Summer Academy in Salzburg. ", "score": "1.5791876" }, { "id": "13082517", "title": "Marcelin Albert", "text": " Marcelin Albert was born on 29 March 1851 in Argeliers, Aude. The village is a few miles north of Narbonne. He seems to have been a simple man but a powerful orator. Albert owned a café and was a small-scale winegrower. Albert was a moderate republican, as were his fellow villagers, none of whom joined the strikes of 1904. One historian described Albert as follows: \"A small peasant from Argeliers, who looked like a Spanish Christ, Marcelin Albert was a jack of all trades: director of a theatrical troupe, a café owner and a winemaker. In his village he was called \"lo Cigal\" (the Cicada), because of his whimsical and carefree spirit. In 1900 Albert began fighting for the defense of natural wine against fake wine.\"In 1902, 1903 and 1905 Albert travelled around the villages of region talking to small groups of vinegrowers and workers and trying, without much ", "score": "1.5767627" }, { "id": "15522559", "title": "Valentin Ovechkin", "text": " Valentin was born in Taganrog, the son of an office employee. He studied at the Taganrog Technical School from 1913 to 1919. He began writing early, while he was still a member of the Komsomol. His first story Saveliev was published in the newspaper Bednota (The Poor) in 1927. Other early works appeared in provincial papers. He stopped writing for several years and worked as a chairman of an agricultural commune on the Don River, and later in Kuban. In 1934 he became a traveling correspondent for the newspapers Molot (Hammer) and Kolkhoznaya Pravda, both published in Rostov-on-Don, and for newspapers in Armavir and Krasnodar.", "score": "1.5746713" }, { "id": "1625801", "title": "Valentin Duc", "text": " in performances of historical opera. He was spotted by Cazeaux. He was in Paris in 1883, staying at 56 bd Richard Lenoir (27 October 1883) and received at the Conservatoire de Paris (Cf. § 2.1. Formation). On leaving the conservatory on 3 June 1885, he resided at 16 bd Montmartre. On April 30, 1891, he married Marie Catherine Plomteux, annuitant (born 29 December 1850 in Hannut, Belgium). They resided at 29 place du Marché-Saint-Honoré. He then legitimized Robert, born 29 November 1890, by this act. Leaving the Opera in 1893, he then resided in Béziers \"villa Frescaty\" at 29 rue des Saint-Simoniens. He remained there until his death on 23 February 1915. Although he resided in town, he only sang at the Grand-Théâtre during exceptional events. He never belonged to the permanent troupe.", "score": "1.5723448" }, { "id": "1515944", "title": "Emmanuel Perrotin", "text": " Emmanuel Perrotin is the son of Michel Perrotin, a bank employee, and Odile Pradinas, a stay-at-home mother. He grew up in L'Étang-la-Ville and attended the Lycée autogéré de Paris. While there, he found a part-time job making interactive slideshows for the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie and the Musée d'Orsay. He made his first art connections as a middle-school dropout at age 16, when he met the daughter of Gilbert Brownstone, a gallery owner, at Les Bains-Douches nightclub.", "score": "1.5643351" }, { "id": "7498838", "title": "Valentino Fiévet", "text": " Valentino Moisés Fiévet Mennesson (born 14 February 1991), known simply as Valentino, is a French former footballer who played as a forward. Although he was born and lived most of his life in Spain, he did not hold that country's citizenship.", "score": "1.5610609" }, { "id": "9162549", "title": "Henri Valentino", "text": " He was born Henri-Justin-Armand-Joseph Valentino in Lille. His father was an Italian army pharmacist, who wanted his son to become a soldier, but Henri exhibited such a great talent for music, he was allowed to pursue that instead. At twelve he was playing violin in the local theatre (probably in Lille), and at fourteen was asked to substitute for a conductor on short notice, thereafter mainly dedicating himself to conducting. Later he conducted in Rouen.", "score": "1.5592252" } ]

[ "Zrenjanin", "Bečkerek" ]

[ { "id": "30268404", "title": "Venko Markovski", "text": " Born on March 5, 1915 in Skoplje (now Skopje), Kingdom of Serbia, (present-day North Macedonia), Markovski completed his secondary education in Skoplje, later studying Slavic philology in Sofia. Markovski was a member of the Macedonian Literary Group founded in Skoplje in 1931, the Macedonian Literary Circle in Sofia, Bulgaria (1938–1941). He is an important figure in contemporary Macedonian literature after has published in 1938, what was to be the first contemporary book written in non-dialectal Macedonian language, \"Narodni bigori\". As the most of the left-wing politicians from Macedonia he has changed his ethnic affiliations from Bulgarian to Macedonian during the 1930s, after the recognition of the Macedonian ethnicity from the ", "score": "1.7503037" }, { "id": "15386705", "title": "Mile Markovski", "text": " Markovski is born on April 14, 1939 in Sofia, Kingdom of Bulgaria in the family of prominent Macedonian and Bulgarian writer and poet, anti-Nazi partisan and politician Venko Markovski. During the Second World War, Markovski was taken by his parents to the Yugoslav partisans at the age of 5. After the end of the war, he remained in Skopje, the capital of the newly founded People's Republic of Macedonia, where he graduated Slavic philology at the University of Skopje. Until 1968 he lived and worked in Skopje, as an editor-in-chief of the \"Nas svet\" newspaper, published by Detska Radost publishing house. He was also an active chess player, competing in Yugoslavia. Forced by the Yugoslav secret police UDBA, in 1968 he moved with his family to Bulgaria, where his father, Venko ", "score": "1.7426634" }, { "id": "27587134", "title": "Aleksandar Marković", "text": " Aleksandar Marković (born in Belgrade, August 7, 1975) is a Serbian conductor. Marković studied conducting at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst (Vienna), in the class of Leopold Hager. He earned a Diploma d'onore at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, where he attended a master class in conducting. He was a holder of the Herbert von Karajan Foundation's scholarship. In 2003, he won the First Prize at The Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors (7th) in Katowice, Poland. Marković was a chief conductor of Tyrolean Opera House from Innsbruck, Austria (Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck), from 2005 to 2008. He was a Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra from 2009 to 2015. Markovic was the Music Director of Opera North for the 2016/2017 season.", "score": "1.7189167" }, { "id": "7154561", "title": "Georgi Danevski", "text": " Danveski was born in Saramzalino, then in SFR Yugoslavia on 25 July 1947. He grew up in SR Macedonia, where he was adopted at the age of 4 by his uncle. His adopted father played an early role in shaping Danevski into a young artist. He regularly attended a Macedonian Orthodox Church in Berovo with his grandmother, where he became fascinated by its décor. The church, situated in an archaeological town, features some of the earliest Byzantine icons and frescoes that date back centuries. He pursued his passion for art throughout his education. He married at a young age and settled in Vinica. He specialized in art in High School in Skopje, SR Macedonia and later completed his education in 1972 after graduating with a master's degree from the University of Ljubljana where he was mentored by Gabriel Stupica and Zoran Didek. Following his graduation, he spent a number of years travelling between various countries and cities, including Spain, Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, Russia and Italy, before emigrating to Toronto, Canada in 1995.", "score": "1.7162001" }, { "id": "277493", "title": "Gorjan Markovski", "text": " Gorjan Markovski started his senior career at KK Rabotnicki Skopje (2009/10) at the age of 17. However, at his early rise he didn't get a greater chance in the club among Darko Sokolov, Enes Hadzibulic and Dimitar Mirakovski. The same year after leaving the U-16 national team he started training with the U-18 national team as a top prospect jet to set his \"shine\" in basketball.", "score": "1.7150638" }, { "id": "9496067", "title": "Duško Marković", "text": " Marković was born on 6 July 1959 in Mojkovac, Yugoslavia. He finished elementary and middle school in Mojkovac, and graduated in law at the University of Kragujevac. After he graduated from Kragujevac, he began working in legal consulting for the Brskovo mine in Mojkovac. He is married and has three children.", "score": "1.7020993" }, { "id": "277492", "title": "Gorjan Markovski", "text": " Gorjan Markovski (Горјан Марковски; born June 19, 1992) is a Macedonian professional basketball player born in Skopje. He is under contract with Rabotnički. He is 1.96 m in height and plays at the shooting guard position. He was a member of U-20 Macedonian national team. His older brother Jovan Markovski is also a basketball player.", "score": "1.6961896" }, { "id": "13349255", "title": "Stefan Markovski", "text": " Markovski was born in Gevgelija on 1 December 1990, where he finished his primary and secondary education. In 2009 he moved to Skopje, graduating on the Department of Comparative Literature and afterwards on the Institute of Philosophy at the State University in Skopje. In 2018 he obtained a MA in Screenwriting at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts with the feature film script “My Name Is Freedom”. He is an editor-in-chief of the oldest Macedonian literary magazine, Sovremenost, and is also an editor of the poetry collections Metric caravan. Markovski is a member of the Macedonian Writers’ Association, the European poetry platform “Versopolis”, the Macedonian center of the International Theatre Institute and other international associations. Parts of Markovski's works have been published foreign languages. His novels \"Letters of Heresy: Uncovering the Skies Shining in Red\", \"The Bumblebee Anatomy\", the short story collection \"Faustus Runs the Plebeian Circle\", and the poetry collection \"Promised Land\" were published into English and made available on major bookselling platforms. His novel \"The Bumblebee Anatomy\" published under the pen name Stemarcus has peaked at #1 position in 2021 in the Eastern European Literature category. He lives and works in Skopje.", "score": "1.6913726" }, { "id": "4705894", "title": "Marko Markovski", "text": " Markovski began his career in his neighbourhood as a youth for FK Zemun. He also signed his first professional contract and started his senior career in 2004 playing in Serbia with FK Zemun. Marko made his First League of Serbia and Montenegro debut on 15 May 2004, in away match against Fk Sutjeska Niksic, where he managed to score in the 90th minute, sealing a 1–0 victory. In 2006, he signed a four-year contract with Serbian giant FK Partizan, but played only a half season with them. He was mostly loaned to other teams, Serbian Superliga clubs FK Borac Čačak and FK Banat Zrenjanin.", "score": "1.6747689" }, { "id": "8273050", "title": "Aleksandar Markovski", "text": " Aleksandar Markoski (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Маркоски; born 17 September 1975) is a Serbian former football player.", "score": "1.6522148" }, { "id": "11053935", "title": "Marko Marković", "text": " Marković was born in 1935 in Leskovac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1957, he started working as a journalist. Most of his journalism career was spent at Radio Television Belgrade (RTB) where he worked from 1961 until 1995. During his time with RTB, he did football play-by-play announcing on radio, covering 40 World and European Championships, as well as The Olympic Games. He furthermore created and hosted Sportski pregled (The Sports Overview) and Sportska subota (Sport Saturday) weekly sports highlights and recap shows that gained enormous popularity and viewership throughout SFR Yugoslavia. creator of many more radio and TV sport programmes, he made countless ", "score": "1.6396772" }, { "id": "31259622", "title": "Marjan Marković", "text": " Born in Požarevac, Marković took his first football steps with his hometown club Mladi Radnik. He was later promoted to the first team and played regularly for the side in the Second League of FR Yugoslavia, attracting the attention of top First League clubs. Although a childhood Partizan supporter, Marković decided to accept the offer from Red Star Belgrade in January 2000, signing a five-year contract. He spent the next six seasons with the Crveno-beli and won six trophies (three league titles and three national cups). In August 2005, Marković signed with Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv. He helped them win the double in the 2006–07 season. In June 2008, Marković terminated his contract with the club in order for him ", "score": "1.6358063" }, { "id": "26565522", "title": "Svetozar Marković", "text": " Marković was born in the town of Zaječar on 9 September 1846, the son of a police clerk. Marković's childhood was spent in the village of Rekovac and then the town of Jagodina. The family moved to Kragujevac in 1856. He reached adolescence at about the time Mihailo Obrenović became the Prince of Serbia. In 1860 he began to study at the gymnasium in Belgrade and in 1863 at the Velika škola of Belgrade, the highest educational body in Serbia at that time, founded in 1808. While at the Velika škola he became interested in literature and politics, falling under the influences of Vuk Karadžić and Vladimir Jovanović, a leading Serbian Liberal. Because of his outstanding record as a student at the Belgrade college, his professors unanimously nominated him for a post-graduate scholarship to study abroad. He chose to study in Russia, in St. Petersburg in particular, at the Alexander I Institute of Communication Engineers.", "score": "1.6349318" }, { "id": "4705893", "title": "Marko Markovski", "text": " Marko Markovski (Serbian Cyrillic: Марко Марковски; born 26 May 1986) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Greek Super League 2 club Kalamata.", "score": "1.6277252" }, { "id": "30268403", "title": "Venko Markovski", "text": " Venko Markovski (Bulgarian and Macedonian: Венко Марковски), born Veniamin Milanov Toshev (March 5, 1915 in Skopje – January 7, 1988 in Sofia) was a Bulgarian and Macedonian writer, poet, partisan and Communist politician.", "score": "1.6270139" }, { "id": "11514684", "title": "Milovan Destil Marković", "text": " In 1986, Marković moved to West Berlin. During his early years in West Berlin he worked closely with the DAAD. Together with the Norwegian artist Sissel Tolaas he started a series of laboratory projects in 1987 in West Berlin, Bergen, Poznań and Brühl. He travelled to Brazil, Peru and Bolivia, published the book The Key of Creation and produced numerous videos and performances. He organized the Sava Projekt, the Shipyard Sava in Mačvanska Mitrovica, and the Park of the International Center Sava, Belgrade. On his 32nd birthday on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. At the beginning of the nineties Marković moved to the eastern part of the city and collaborated with Kunst-Werke where, until 1995, he had a studio. In 1992, he participated in the exhibition Berlin 37 Räume. For the opening he organised ", "score": "1.6265274" }, { "id": "5542420", "title": "Ljupčo Markovski", "text": " Ljupčo Markovski (Љупчо Марковски; born 24 February 1967) is a former Yugoslav and Macedonian football central defender, and a current coach. His nickname is Kaltz, according to successful same position HSV player Manfred Kaltz, who was also his idol.", "score": "1.6140401" }, { "id": "14082320", "title": "Marko Martinić", "text": " He was born in Zagreb and grew up in Srednjaci, a neighborhood in Zagreb close to HAVK Mladost. When he was 5 years old he started training swimming, but at the age of 10 he switched to water polo. Very early he joined the national team and became the captain of the Croatian junior national team.", "score": "1.6068473" }, { "id": "13595266", "title": "Chris Markoff", "text": " Markoff was born in Yugoslavia and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States.", "score": "1.6055844" }, { "id": "7154560", "title": "Georgi Danevski", "text": " Georgi Danevski (born 25 July 1947) is a Canadian Macedonian painter, iconographer and muralist. He was born in Yugoslav Macedonia, before spending a number of years traveling and becoming known throughout Europe and North America for his murals and canvas art. He designed and painted a large mural at St. Dimitrija Solunski Macedonian Orthodox Church, Markham, Ontario and other churches. He was also commissioned to paint a portrait of Frank Stronach, the founder of Magna International, Moses Znaimer and also a painting of the Canadian Triple Crown racehorse Wando.", "score": "1.6019657" } ]

[ "Saitama Prefecture", "Saitama-ken" ]

[ { "id": "9376994", "title": "Tsugumi Higasayama", "text": " Tsugumi Higasayama (日笠山亜美) is a Japanese voice actress from Saitama, Japan. Her name is sometimes misread as Ami Higasayama.", "score": "1.7089577" }, { "id": "27218914", "title": "Hyōgo Prefecture", "text": " born in Konohana-ku, Osaka grew up in Kawanishi ; Minako Nishiyama, contemporary artist ; Masamune Shirow, manga artist was born in Kobe ; So Taguchi, outfielder for the Chicago Cubs ; Masahiro Tanaka, pitcher for the New York Yankees ; Nagaru Tanigawa, creator of the Haruhi Suzumiya series was born in Kinki ; Tsuneko Taniuchi, contemporary performance artist ; Fumito Ueda, video game creator of Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Last Guardian ; Juri Ueno, Japanese Academy Award-winning actress best known for her performances in Swing Girls and the live-action adaptation of Nodame Cantabile, is from Kakogawa ; Shota Yasuda, guitarist of Kanjani Eight is from Amagasaki ; Piko, musician, Vocaloid singer born in Kobe, Hyōgo ", "score": "1.6365578" }, { "id": "29159521", "title": "Kokugakuin University", "text": "Masumi Asano (born 1977), Japanese seiyu ; Momoko Tsugunaga (born 1992), Japanese singer ", "score": "1.6165122" }, { "id": "30895041", "title": "Tsugumi", "text": " Tsugumi (つぐみ), born Otake Tsuzumi (大竹 都々美) on 21 February 1976, is a Japanese award-winning actress, model and adult video performer.", "score": "1.5874896" }, { "id": "26670656", "title": "Takeshi Hirayama", "text": " Hirayama was born on January 1, 1923, in Kyoto, Japan. When he was three, his father, Tohshi Hirayama, became professor of surgery at Manchuria Medical College, which led to him and his family moving to the city of Harbin in China. Hirayama graduated from Manchuria Medical College in 1945, and received a degree in medical science from Kyoto University in 1951 and a Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1952.", "score": "1.584034" }, { "id": "28503749", "title": "Kaii Higashiyama", "text": " Born in Yokohama to parents Kosuke and Higashiyama Kaii, he was given the first name Shinkichi but later changed this to Kaii. From age three to 18 he lived in Kobe where he attended Kobe Junior High School (presently Hyogo Prefectural High School). In 1921 he entered the Nihonga department of Tokyo School of Fine Arts (currently Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music). Higashiyama graduated with commendation in 1931 and entered the school's research department, where he spent two years training under Somei Yuki. In 1933, he boarded a cargo ship bound for Europe and began his studies in Western art history at Berlin University, where he studied from 1933 to 1935. At this time his work entered an art competition during ", "score": "1.5823014" }, { "id": "29632921", "title": "Masafumi Ōura", "text": " Born in Kamiagatagun (present-day Tsushima), Nagasaki Prefecture, he graduated from Nagasaki Prefectural Shimabara Commercial High School, where he became a coach after his retirement from active play. He died on December 20, 2013 in Tokyo from stomach cancer.", "score": "1.5729203" }, { "id": "5788105", "title": "Shigeru Tsuyuguchi", "text": " Tsuyuguchi was born in Tokyo and raised in Ehime. He attended Ehime University, but withdrew before completing his degree and joined the Haiyuza Theatre Company in 1955. His career as a screen actor started in 1959. He came to prominence playing the thief in Shohei Imamura's Unholy Desire. He became one of Imamura's favorite actors, appearing in four of Imamura's other films (he also appeared in the stage play \"Paragy Kamigami to Butabuta\" directed by Imamura in 1962), including Eijanaika in 1981. But he declined Imamura's offer for him to play the role of Taro in Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001). He won ", "score": "1.5631049" }, { "id": "12999178", "title": "Jun Azumi", "text": " Born on 17 January 1962 in Miyagi Prefecture, Azumi is a native of Oshika District in Miyagi Prefecture and graduate of Waseda University social science department.", "score": "1.5618045" }, { "id": "10949565", "title": "Hinako Takanaga", "text": " Hinako Takanaga was born on September 16 in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. Her first manga story, Goukaku kigan (合格祈願), was published by Hanamaru Comics in 1995. As the story continued it was later retitled Challengers, and it spawned a spinoff series titled The Tyrant Falls in Love. She currently lives in Osaka. She was a guest at Yaoi-Con in 2007 and 2010, invited by Digital Manga Publishing, the US publishers of her popular series Little Butterfly and The Tyrant Falls in Love.", "score": "1.5441852" }, { "id": "28314730", "title": "Akifumi Shimoda", "text": " Akifumi Shimoda was born in Kure city of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan on September 11, 1984.", "score": "1.5411233" }, { "id": "15120849", "title": "Shigeaki Hinohara", "text": " Hinohara was born in Yoshiki District, Yamaguchi Prefecture and graduated from the school of medicine at Kyoto Imperial University in 1937. During his career Hinohara was known for working during many medical emergencies such as the firebombing of Tokyo during World War II and the Tokyo subway sarin attack. He was also on Japan Airlines Flight 351 when it was hijacked by the Japanese Red Army Faction. Hinohara became an honorary member of the Japanese Cardiovascular Society and received the Second Prize and the Order of Culture. He was honored by Kyoto Imperial University, Thomas Jefferson University and by McMaster University by receiving an honorary doctorate. Hinohara died on 18 July 2017 in Tokyo at the age of 105.", "score": "1.5393376" }, { "id": "32537797", "title": "Harima, Hyōgo", "text": " Japanese people were not happy with the new outside foreign influences of the world coming into Japan. He was buried in Aoyama, Tokyo in the foreign section of the cemetery, as he was an American citizen. However, he has become quite a celebrated figure in Harima in recent years. ; Masaki Sumitani (H.G.) — Japanese Comedian, Actor, and Talent ; Masaki Sumitani was born December 18, 1975, in Harima. He was a student at Harima Junior High School, and later attended Kakogawa Higashi Senior High school. His stage name is Razor Ramon HG, but is more commonly known as H.G. (Hard Gay). He appears on a variety of Japanese television shows. ", "score": "1.5391378" }, { "id": "27652267", "title": "Koichi Tsukamoto", "text": " Koichi Tsukamoto (塚本 幸一) was a Japanese businessman, the founder of Wacoal, and the first President of Nippon Kaigi (1997–1998). He was from the former town of Gokashō, now part of Higashiōmi, in Shiga Prefecture. He enlisted in the Imperial Japanese Army in 1940 and fought in Battle of Imphal during the Burma Campaign of the Pacific War, aged only 19. He was demobilized 3 years later at age 21. In 1968, at an event held by the Japanese industrialist Kōnosuke Matsushita to celebrate the hundred years anniversary of the Meiji Restoration, he met the composer Toshiro Mayuzumi. He had a three decade friendship with him and attended his memorial on May 29, 1997.", "score": "1.5362945" }, { "id": "9867887", "title": "Kazuko Saegusa", "text": " Saegusa was born Yotsumoto Kazuko on March 31, 1929 in Kobe. She was the oldest of four children. Her father's job made him transfer locations throughout Hyogo prefecture regularly, so Saegusa moved often. Her mother was a Protestant, and took her children to church with her. Saegusa was an avid reader as a child, and began writing in middle school. In 1944, Saegusa worked at a factory in Nagasaki because of the National Mobilization Law. She returned to Hyogo in April 1945 to attend school. Saegusa studied philosophy at the Kwansei Gakuin University, graduating in 1950. She was a member of a Dostoyevsky study group. She went to graduate school at the same university, focusing her studies on Hegel. She met Koichi Saegusa (his penname was ) while studying at the university. They married in 1951 and moved to Kyoto.", "score": "1.5241606" }, { "id": "12622102", "title": "Daisuke Higuchi", "text": " Born in Gunma prefecture, she was recognized in the world of manga by being honored at the 43rd Osamu Tezuka awards in 1992 with third prize. In the same year, she became the author of a romance/action story called Itaru. In 1998, she became known in Japan for her soccer manga Whistle! and was said to be influenced after she went to France to attend the 1998 World Cup tournament. With the success of Whistle!, she went to personally direct the creation of the animated series. She currently lives in Tokyo.", "score": "1.5192854" }, { "id": "14022004", "title": "Koichi Higashi", "text": " Higashi was born in Nara on August 23, 1978. After graduating from Tenri University, he joined J2 League club Sagan Tosu in 2001. He played many matches as midfielder in first season. However he could not play at all in the match in 2002 season and resigned with the club in July 2002. In 2008, he joined his local club Nara Club in Prefectural Leagues. He played many matches and the club was promoted to Regional Leagues from 2009. He retired end of 2010 season.", "score": "1.5191092" }, { "id": "3907504", "title": "Kyoshi Takahama", "text": " Kyoshi was born in what is now the city of Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture; his father, Ikenouchi Masatada, was a former samurai and fencing master and was also a fan of the traditional noh drama. However, with the Meiji Restoration, he lost his official posts and retired as a farmer. Kyoshi grew up in this rural environment, which influenced his affinity with nature. At age nine he inherited from his grandmother's family, and took her surname of Takahama. He became acquainted with Masaoka Shiki via a classmate, Kawahigashi Hekigoto. Ignoring Shiki's advice, Kyoshi quit school in 1894, and went to Tokyo to study Edo period Japanese literature. In 1895, he enrolled in the Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō (present-day Waseda University), but soon left the university for a job as an editor and literary criticism for the literary magazine Nihonjin. While working, he also submitted variants on haiku poetry, experimenting with irregular numbers of syllables. He married in 1897. His descendants include his son, the composer, Tomojiro Ikenouchi and great-granddaughter and cellist, Kristina Reiko Cooper.", "score": "1.5139508" }, { "id": "15946952", "title": "Naosaku Takahashi", "text": " Naosaku Takahashi was born on July 25, 1886 at 1071 Sugeya in Tsuchiura City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. (Tsuchiura is now an eastern suburban city in the Greater Tokyo Area.) His father was Bunzayemon Yamanaka and mother, Kon. He completed an eight-year elementary school program and an informal 3-year preparatory study in classical Chinese for secondary school. When he was 16 years old, Takahashi journeyed to Tokyo on April 1, 1903 to continue his education. He was accepted as a “schoolboy” of the Shuyojuku, a private boarding home for self-help working students established by Professor Kazumasa Yoshimaru (吉丸一昌). Yoshimaru was a poet and instructor of Japanese literature at the Tokyo Music School (now Department of Music, Tokyo University ", "score": "1.5121357" }, { "id": "33068459", "title": "Kiyoshi Ogawa", "text": " Ogawa was born on October 23, 1922 in Usui District (modern-day Takasaki City), Gunma Prefecture, as the youngest child of the Oshia family. Kiyoshi did well in school, and entered Waseda University (Shinjuku Ward), near Kagurazaka.", "score": "1.5089809" } ]

[ "Vienna", "Wien", "Vienna, Austria", "W" ]

[ { "id": "5352469", "title": "Niese", "text": "Benedikt Niese (1849–1910), German classical scholar ; Charlotte Niese (1854–1935), German writer, poet and teacher ; Danielle de Niese (born 1979), Australian-born soprano ; Hansi Niese (Johanna Niese, 1875–1934), Austrian actress ; Jon Niese (born 1986), American baseball player Niese is a surname, and may refer to: ", "score": "1.6305668" }, { "id": "11414754", "title": "Charlotte Niese", "text": " Niese was born in Burg on the island of Fehmarn, then under the direct rule of King Frederick VII of Denmark. Her father was the local pastor who later became director of a seminary in Eckernförde. Her mother was Benedicte Marie Niese (born Matthiesen). Charlotte Niese passed her exams as a teacher in Eckernförde, and she became a tutor in what was, since 1866, the Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein, in the Rhine Province, and as a boarding school teacher in Montreux. Niese went with her mother, then a widow, to Plön and began publishing her writings, at first under the masculine pseudonym \"Lucian Bürger\". In 1884, Niese settled in the city of Altona, where her mother used to live, and in 1888 she moved to Ottensen, which in 1889 became a part of Altona. She no longer needed to work as a teacher, as she ", "score": "1.6218514" }, { "id": "32701633", "title": "Ralph Niese", "text": " Ralph Niese (* March 14 1983 in Leipzig; † November 23 2020) was a German comic artist, graphic artist and illustrator.", "score": "1.6210136" }, { "id": "9923909", "title": "Klaus Biesenbach", "text": " Biesenbach was born in Bergisch Gladbach, West Germany. From 1987, he began studying medicine in Munich before moving to Berlin, where he shared an apartment with artist Andrea Zittel at one point.", "score": "1.6135812" }, { "id": "7984447", "title": "Dortmund", "text": "Klaus Niedzwiedz (born 1951), racing driver and television presenter ; Ulla Burchardt (born 1954), politician (SPD) ; Klaus Segbers (born 1954), political scientist and professor ; Antony Theodore (born 1954), poet, educator and social worker ; Susanne Kippenberger (born 1957), journalist and writer ; Achim Peters (born 1957), obesity specialist ; Barbara Havliza (born 1958), politician (CDU) and judge ; Dietmar Bär (born 1961), actor ; Stefan Heinig (born 1962), director and shareholder ; Martin Zawieja (born 1963), weightlifter ; Ralf Husmann (born 1964), writer, producer and author ; Vincent Mennie (born 1964), Scottish footballer ; Matthias Kohring (born 1965), media and communications scientist ; André Erkau (born 1968), director and screenwriter ; Florian Schwarthoff (born 1968), hurdler, bronze medallist in 110m hurdles at the 1996 Olympic Games ; Yasemin Şamdereli (born 1973), film director and screenwriter ; Kevin Grosskreutz (born 1988), football player ; Marco Reus (born 1989), football player ", "score": "1.6121647" }, { "id": "9016809", "title": "Niddy Impekoven", "text": " Impekoven was born in 1904 in Berlin to Toni and Frieda Impekoven. The family later moved to Frankfurt and then Munich. In 1919 she experienced a personal crisis, suffering from depression and anorexia nervosa; her parents brought her to Bad Ragaz, Switzerland, where she recovered under the care of Reinhard Goering. She married Hans Killian in 1923 but they divorced in 1929. She died in 2002 in Bad Ragaz.", "score": "1.5881224" }, { "id": "9322217", "title": "Claudia Nolte", "text": " Claudia Wiesemüller was born in 1966 in Rostock, a city that was in East Germany. In her teenage years she was refused admission to a college preparatory school due to her participation in Catholic church youth activities. East German school officials required her to learn a trade before she could enroll in college, so whilst attending a technical secondary school in Rostock, she took vocational training in marine electronics from 1982 to 1984.", "score": "1.5808411" }, { "id": "6169081", "title": "Willi Dreesen", "text": " Dreesen was born on February 16, 1928 in Essen-Werden, Germany. In 1944, at the age of 16, Dreesen was drafted into the German airplane defense. He escaped from his assignment and fled into the Zillertal in the Austrian Alps. There he was arrested by German state security, transferred to a war tribunal in Holzkirchen, and sent to the concentration camp in Dachau for 3 months until the end of World War II. In 1952, Dreesen crossed through Germany on a bicycle into southern Switzerland. From 1957-1967 Dreesen resided in the Swiss mountain towns of Riederalp and Goppisberg. From there, he traveled throughout Switzerland, Hamburg, Barcelona, the Canary islands (Tenerife), and Senegal. In 1967, Dreesen moved to Brig-Glis, Switzerland, where he took residency in the art studio previously occupied by Alfred Gruenwald. In 1971, he married Vreny Kuhnis, with whom he had 2 sons, Stephan and Oliver. Dreesen lived and worked in Brig-Glis until his death on January 5, 2013.", "score": "1.5777303" }, { "id": "32061688", "title": "Nino Haratischwili", "text": " Nino Haratischwili (ნინო ხარატიშვილი; (born 8 June 1983) is a Georgia born German novelist, playwright, and theater director. She has received numerous awards, including the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis, and the Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft. Haratischwili was born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, where she attended a German-language school. To escape the political and social chaos that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, she moved to Germany for two years in the early 1990s with her mother, where she attended seventh and eighth grades of school. Her family returned to Georgia afterwards. Haratischwili later moved to Germany again to attend drama school in Hamburg. After working as a theater director in Hamburg for several years, she published her first book, Juja, in 2010. She became a German citizen in 2012. Haratischwili currently lives in Hamburg.", "score": "1.5744896" }, { "id": "31257039", "title": "Kurt Wiese", "text": " Wiese was born in Minden, Germany. He aspired to be an artist but was discouraged by his community.", "score": "1.5705829" }, { "id": "15925528", "title": "List of people from the former eastern territories of Germany", "text": "Robert Wiene (1873 in Breslau – 1938 in Paris) a film director of the German silent cinema of expressionist films ; Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (1898 in Stettin – 1958 in New York) was a German film actor ; Armin Mueller-Stahl (born 1930 in Tilsit) is a German film actor, painter and author, lives in Los Angeles ; Marianne Hold (1933 in Johannisburg – 1994 in Lugano) was a German movie actress, popular in the 1950s and 1960s ; Veruschka von Lehndorff (born 1939 in Königsberg) a German model, actress, and artist, popular in the 1960s ; Matthias Habich (born 1940 in Danzig) is a German actor, lives in Paris ; Volker Lechtenbrink (born 1944 in Cranz) is a German television actor and singer ; Ulli Lommel (born 1944 in Zielenzig - 2017) a German actor and director, collaborated with Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; Agnes Sorma (born 1862 in Breslau - 1927 in Arizona), stage actress ", "score": "1.5555823" }, { "id": "858511", "title": "Anja Niedringhaus", "text": " Niedringhaus was born in Höxter, North Rhine-Westphalia, and began working as a freelance photographer at age 17 while still in high school. In 1989, she covered the collapse of the Berlin Wall for the German newspaper Göttinger Tageblatt.", "score": "1.5553038" }, { "id": "28395944", "title": "Hans Niemann", "text": " Niemann was born in San Francisco, California and is of mixed Hawaiian and Danish ancestry. Before moving to the Netherlands at the age of 7, he attended Top of World Elementary School in Laguna Beach, California. While attending Leonardoschool gifted school in the Utrecht, Netherlands, Niemann began playing chess at 8 years old. After moving back to California at 10 years old, he finished his elementary school education at Del Rey Elementary School in Orinda. He graduated from Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, which is known for its chess culture, in New York City after moving there in 2019. He previously lived in Weston, Connecticut, where he attended Weston High School.", "score": "1.5528939" }, { "id": "11414755", "title": "Charlotte Niese", "text": " become one of the best known Holstein regional writers. In her work, Niese campaigned not only for the improvement of educational and employment opportunities for women, but also managed the local section of the North German Women's Organisation in Altona. As a child she had seen that her six brothers, one of whom was the Classical scholar Benedikt Niese, were all allowed higher education and professional careers, while her father refused these to herself or her sister. She herself wrote only within the socially accepted boundaries of women's writing of her day, her socially conservative views preventing her from more radical action. The closest she got to political activity was signing a letter of protest against the construction of a tramway line, along the street where she lived, in 1904. Niese died in her home in 1935 and was buried in the nearby Altona-Ottensen cemetery.", "score": "1.5513825" }, { "id": "13416537", "title": "Beatrice Riese", "text": " Riese was born in The Netherlands and lived with her family in Germany. She studied art in Paris form 1936 to 1940, earning a Baccalaureate. There, she developed a lifelong appreciation for African art, which she first saw at the Musée de l'Homme after it opened in 1937. In 1940, in advance of the German invasion, she and her parents fled to Africa. They went to Casablanca and then boarded a freighter to the African Gold Coast (now the Republic of Ghana). They soon resettled in Richmond, Virginia. After relocating to the United States in 1940, Riese studied with Clyfford Still at Virginia Commonwealth University (from 1943-1945) and with Will Barnet in New York (from 1955-1965). She moved to New York in 1949. She joined American Abstract Artists, where she served as president (from 1990) for more than a decade. She was a member of A.I.R. Gallery, the first all female artists cooperative gallery in the United States.", "score": "1.5438962" }, { "id": "26944278", "title": "Tatzu Nishi", "text": " Nishi was born Tazro Niscino in 1960 in Nagoya, Japan. He studied at Musashino Art University, Tokyo from 1981 until 1984. Later he moved to Germany and enrolled at Kunstakadamie, Münster. The artist divides his time between Berlin and Tokyo.", "score": "1.5415559" }, { "id": "27645890", "title": "Oldenburg (city)", "text": " Planck Institute ; Stefan Czapsky (born 1950), American cinematographer ; Klaus Modick (born 1951), author and literary translator ; Rena Niehaus (born 1954), film actress ; Thomas Schütte (born 1954), sculptor and draftsman ; Heiko Daxl (1957–2012), media artist and curator ; Andrea Clausen (born 1959), stage actress, member of the Burgtheater ensemble ; Bernd Althusmann (born 1966), politician (CDU) ; Thyra von Westernhagen (born 1973), Hanoverian princess by marriage ; Hasnain Kazim (born 1974), journalist ; Sarah Nemtsov (née Reuter, born 1980), composer ; Klaas Heufer-Umlauf, host and actor (1983) ; Nico Hauschild, popular speedrunner and internet personality (1998) ", "score": "1.5411191" }, { "id": "5183583", "title": "Cologne", "text": " Julia Leischik (born 1970), editor-in-chief, television presenter and television producer ; Herbert Leuninger (1932–2020), Catholic priest and theologian, co-founder of Pro Asyl ; Ottmar Liebert (born 1961), musician ; Henry van Lyck (born 1941), actor ; Georg Meistermann (born 1911), painter, stained glass artist ; Peter Millowitsch (born 1949), actor, playwright and theatre director ; Willy Millowitsch (1909–1999), actor, playwright and theatre director ; Paul Moldenhauer (1876–1947), politician (DVP), lawyer and economist ; Wolfgang Niedecken (born 1951), singer, musician, artist and bandleader of BAP ; Marianne Nölle, former nurse and serial killer ; Theodore of Corsica (1694–1756), briefly King Theodore of Corsica ; Jacques Offenbach (1819–80), German-born French composer ; Willi Ostermann (1876–1936), ", "score": "1.5409003" }, { "id": "8392112", "title": "Hans Ehrich", "text": " Hans Ehrich’s mother was the Swedish woman Liten-Karin Sundberg, and his father the German artist Otto Ehrich, who in 1936 emigrated to Finland, where the son Hans was born in Kulosaari in 1942. During the Finnish Continuation War the family fled to Sweden in 1944. Hans Ehrich is grown up and educated in Finland, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Italy. His German higher school examination (Abitur) he passed in Italy, at the Scuola Germanica di Roma. In early sketches from his teens Ehrich showed that he already was a skilful drawer. He created a design sketch for the interior of an open car with ergonomically shaped seats, neck rests and separated back seats already at an age of 16 years. From 1962 to 1967 ", "score": "1.5348971" }, { "id": "12113243", "title": "Jean-Jacques Waltz", "text": " Jean-Jacques Waltz (23 February 1873, Colmar – 10 June 1951), also known as \"Oncle Hansi\", or simply \"Hansi\" (\"little John\") was a French artist of Alsatian origin. He was a staunch pro-French activist, and is famous for his quaint drawings, some of which contain harsh critiques of the Germans of the time. He was also a French hero of both the First and the Second World Wars.", "score": "1.534892" } ]

[ "Riga", "Rīga", "Ryga", "Rige", "Riia", "Rija", "Rīgõ" ]

[ { "id": "15710538", "title": "Raimonds Vilde", "text": " Raimonds Vilde (born August 19, 1962) is a former Latvian volleyball player who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics. He was born in Riga. In 1988 he was part of the Soviet team which won the silver medal in the Olympic tournament. He played six matches. Currently coaching Latvian Men's National Volleyball Team. Received a prize \"Example in Sport\" during Latvian Yearly Sports Awards ceremony in December, 2012.", "score": "2.0463161" }, { "id": "16506952", "title": "Raimonds", "text": "Raimonds Bergmanis (born 1966), Latvian weightlifting champion, strongman and Olympic competitor ; Raimonds Dambis (born 1924), Latvian footballer and football manager ; Raimonds Karnītis (1929–1999), Latvian basketball player and coach ; Raimonds Laizāns (born 1964), Latvian football goalkeeper ; Raimonds Miglinieks (born 1970), Latvian professional basketball player ; Raimonds Pauls (born 1936), Latvian composer and pianist ; Raimonds Staprans (born 1926), Latvian playwright ; Raimonds Vaikulis (born 1980), Latvian professional basketball guard ; Raimonds Vējonis (born 1966), Latvian politician ; Raimonds Vilde (born 1962), Latvian volleyball player and Olympic competitor ; Raimonds Vilkoits (born 1990), Latvian professional ice hockey player Raimonds is a Latvian masculine given name and may refer to:", "score": "1.9273252" }, { "id": "4315650", "title": "Ričmonds Vilde", "text": " Ričmonds Vilde (born July 5, 1990) is a Latvian retired professional basketball player, who played the center/power forward position. Currently, he owns multiple successful businesses in the United States. He has previously represented Latvia in the U16, U18 and U20 European Championships. After high school Ricmonds Vilde moved to United States and joined SMU to play at NCAA level. During his red shirt year, Vilde started to practice American football and was offered a place in an American football team. Vilde decided to stay with basketball. In the summer of 2015 for the first time in his career Vilde was included in the Latvian National team's candidate list. However, he was one of the last players who did not make the team for EuroBasket 2015. Later he signed his first pro contract with Latvian champions VEF Rīga. Ricmonds Vilde's father is a famous Latvian volleyball player Raimonds Vilde who now is the head coach of Latvian Men's Volleyball National Team.", "score": "1.9220989" }, { "id": "14814193", "title": "Raimonds Pauls", "text": " Ojārs Raimonds Pauls (born 12 January 1936 in Iļģuciems, Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian composer and piano player who is well known in Latvia, Russia, post-Soviet countries and worldwide. He was the Minister of Culture of Latvia from 1988 to 1993.", "score": "1.7255869" }, { "id": "28161864", "title": "Raimond Kolk", "text": " Raimond Kolk (8 February 1924 Saru Parish, Võru County – 3 November 1992 Stockholm) was an Estonian writer and critic. From 1942 to 1943 he studied at the Teachers' Seminary of the University of Tartu. In 1944, he fled to Finland because of German mobilization. In 1944, he moved to Sweden. From 1958 to 1963 he studied at Stockholm University, taking courses in political science, national economy and statistics. In 1963 he graduated from the university as a candidate in philosophy. From 1972 to 1989 he worked as the economic director of the Swedish Food Administration in Uppsala. He did collaboration with several Estonian publications in exile, e.g. political journal Radikaaldemokraat, cultural journal Sõna, journal Tulimuld, newspaper Teataja. He died in 1992. He is buried in Lidingö Cemetery.", "score": "1.7148836" }, { "id": "27638828", "title": "Vilde", "text": "Ain Vilde (born 1942), Estonian ice yachter and sailor ; Boris Vildé (1908–1942), French linguist ; Eduard Vilde (1865–1933), Estonian writer and diplomat ; Iryna Vilde (1907–1982), Ukrainian writer ; Raimonds Vilde (born 1962), Latvian volleyball player and coach ; Ričmonds Vilde (born 1990), Latvian basketball player ", "score": "1.6897099" }, { "id": "9247388", "title": "Raimond", "text": "Raimond Aumann (born 1963), German footballer ; Raimond Beccarie de Pavie, Seigneur de Fourquevaux (1508–1574), French soldier, politician and diplomat ; Raimond Gaita (born 1946), Australian philosopher ; Raimond van der Gouw (born 1963), former Dutch footballer ; Raimond Kaugver (1926–1992), Estonian writer ; Raimond Kolk (1924–1992), Estonian writer and critic ; Raimond Lis (1888–1916), French gymnast ; Raimond Valgre (1913–1949), Estonian composer and musician ", "score": "1.6886127" }, { "id": "27715751", "title": "Raimonds Vējonis", "text": " Vējonis was born on 15 June 1966 in Pskov Oblast to a Latvian father and a Russian mother, while his father was serving in the Soviet army there. He grew up in Sarkaņi and attended school in the nearby town of Madona. Vējonis became interested in environmental protection because his grandfather had been blinded by chemicals used on a Soviet collective farm. He graduated from Faculty of Biology of the University of Latvia in 1989 and obtained a master's degree from it in 1995. During his studies he worked as a biology teacher in Madona. From 1989 to 1996 he was deputy director of Madona Regional Environmental board. He was a member of Madona city council from 1990 to 1993. From 1996 to 2002 he was director of Greater Riga Regional Environmental board, during this period he also was a board member in Skulte port and served as state representative at Getliņi Eko waste management company.", "score": "1.6860163" }, { "id": "1964735", "title": "Albert Raisner", "text": " Born in the Thuringian town Apolda of a French father and a German mother, Albert Raisner arrived in Paris at age 7. His socially modest family lived in Montmartre in the 18th arrondissement of the capital in a 400 square feet apartment. He had two brothers, one older, one younger. His father was a sales representative and music enthusiast, who taught him violin, piano, trumpet, guitar and clarinet early on. He received classical musical training; nevertheless, harmonica was his favorite instrument. He was a member of the boy scouts, whom he considered his first audience when he played during vigils around camp fire. He refined his talent with musician Charles Rodriguez, a gypsy guitarist, violinist, man band and French ", "score": "1.6529114" }, { "id": "31938617", "title": "Raimonds Vilkoits", "text": " Raimonds Vilkoits (born 10 April 1990) is Latvian professional ice-hockey player, who currently plays for HK Metalurgs Liepaja of the Belarusian Extraleague. During 2010–11 Vilkoits also played three games for Dinamo Riga of the Kontinental Hockey League.", "score": "1.6377418" }, { "id": "12040309", "title": "Raimonds Miglinieks", "text": " Raimonds Miglinieks (born July 16, 1970 in Riga, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR) is a retired Latvian professional basketball player and basketball coach. Standing at a height of 1.90 m (6'2 3⁄4\") tall, he was a point guard with excellent court vision.", "score": "1.6311662" }, { "id": "30807252", "title": "Jean Jacques Raimond Jr.", "text": " Jean Jacques Raimond Jr. (13 April 1903, in The Hague – 3 December 1961) was a Dutch astronomer. Raimond was the son of Jean Jacques Raimond Sr., furniture maker in The Hague, and Tetje van der Werf. He studied astronomy at the universities of Leiden and Groningen. He obtained his PhD at the latter as a student of Jacobus Kapteyn, defending the dissertation The Coefficient of Differential Galactic Absorption. He became the director of the Zeiss Planetarium in The Hague at its opening in 1934. This was the first planetarium installed outside Germany. Here he had a strong influence on the ", "score": "1.6269386" }, { "id": "3636331", "title": "Ain Vilde", "text": " Ain Vilde (born on 11 September 1942 in Sadala Parish, Tartu County) is an Estonian ice yachter and sailor. In 1973 he won World Ice Yachting Championships (DN-class). 1962-1990 he won many medals at Estonian Ice Yachting and Estonian Sailing Championships. In 1973 he was named to Estonian Athlete of the Year.", "score": "1.6264589" }, { "id": "4070889", "title": "Eduard Vilde", "text": " Eduard Vilde (4 March 1865 – 26 December 1933) was an Estonian writer, a pioneer of critical realism in Estonian literature, and a diplomat. Author of classics such as The War in Mahtra and The Milkman from Mäeküla. He was one of the most revered figures in Estonian literature and is generally credited as being the country's first professional writer.", "score": "1.6183016" }, { "id": "10793135", "title": "Hamar", "text": "Hulda Garborg (1862–1934) novelist, playwright, poet and folk dancer ; Ulrikke Greve (1868–1951) a leading textile artist, excelling in tapestry work ; Kirsten Flagstad (1895–1962) opera singer and highly regarded Wagnerian soprano ; Rolf Jacobsen (1907–1994) author, poet and modernist writer ; Øivind Bergh (1909-1987) Norwegian violinist and orchestral leader ; Jens Book-Jenssen (1910–1999) a singer, songwriter, revue artist and theatre director ; Sigurd Evensmo (1912–1978) a Norwegian author and journalist ; Kjell Heggelund (1932–2017) a literary researcher, lecturer, editor, poet and literary critic ; Knut Faldbakken (born 1941) a Norwegian novelist and writer ; Torill Kove (born 1958) a Canadian film director and award-winning animator ; Ole Edvard Antonsen (born 1962) a Norwegian trumpeter, musician and conductor ; Merete Morken Andersen (born 1965) a novelist, children's writer and magazine editor ; Ole Børud (born 1976) singer, song-writer, and instrumentalist ; Anders Baasmo Christiansen (born 1976) actor ; Ryan Wiik (born 1981) a litigious actor and entrepreneur, resides in Los Angeles ; Mari Chauhan (born 1988) a beauty pageant titleholder, Miss Norway 2013 ; Elise Dalby (born 1995) a model and beauty pageant titleholder, Miss Norway 2014 ", "score": "1.600456" }, { "id": "27341500", "title": "Raimond Kaugver", "text": " Raimond Kaugver (25 February 1926 Rakvere – 24 January 1992 Tallinn) was an Estonian writer. In 1943, he escaped to Finland and joined there with Finnish Infantry Regiment 200. In 1944, he returned to Estonia. From 1945 to 1950, he spent in a prison camp at Vorkuta in Siberia; accused as a political prisoner. From 1961, he was a professional writer. He lived in Tallinn. From 1964, he was a member of Estonian Writers' Union. He died in 1992 and is buried in Metsakalmistu Cemetery.", "score": "1.5870502" }, { "id": "509101", "title": "Mino Raiola", "text": " Raiola was born in 1967 in Nocera Inferiore, Salerno, in southern Italy. He moved to the Dutch city of Haarlem a year later with his parents. Growing up in the Netherlands, his father opened a successful restaurant business where Raiola spent his younger years working as a waiter. At the same time, he obtained his high school diploma and attended university for two years, enrolling in the Faculty of Law. He speaks seven languages: Italian, English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Dutch. He started playing football for the youth team of HFC Haarlem, but stopped at age 18 in 1987 to become head of the youth team. After a ", "score": "1.5820525" }, { "id": "5974194", "title": "Raimond van der Gouw", "text": " Raimundus Johannes Hendrikus van der Gouw (, born 24 March 1963) is a Dutch former footballer, who played as a goalkeeper. After a successful career with Vitesse Arnhem in his native Netherlands, and well into his 30s, he moved to Manchester United, also experiencing relative recognition despite playing sparingly and being used mostly as a backup; he made 61 appearances in six seasons for the Red Devils, of which 37 were in the Premier League. He scored his only goal in the last game of his career for AGOVV Apeldoorn, before retiring at the age of 44, and becoming a coach.", "score": "1.580085" }, { "id": "31804497", "title": "Raimondas Vilčinskas", "text": " Raimondas Vilčinskas (born 5 July 1977 in Panevėžys) is a retired Lithuanian professional road and track cyclist. He represented his nation Lithuania as part of the men's cycling squad in two editions of the Olympic Games (1996 and 2004), and later competed as a member of and a pro cycling rider for Palmans-Ideal,, and , before his official retirement in late 2005. Vilcinskas made his official debut as an amateur rider at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he competed along with his fellow cyclists Linas Balčiūnas, Raimondas Rumšas, Remigijus Lupeikis, and Ivanas Romanovas in the men's road race, but did not finish the course. During his amateur career, Vilcinskas had ", "score": "1.576507" }, { "id": "5566233", "title": "Raimondas", "text": "Raimondas Rumšas (born 1972), Lithuanian cyclist ; Raimondas Vainoras (born 1965), Lithuanian footballer ; Raimondas Vilčinskas (born 1977), Lithuanian cyclist ; Raimondas Vilėniškis (born 1976), Lithuanian footballer ; Raimondas Šiugždinis (born 1967), Lithuanian sailor ; Raimondas Šukys (born 1966), Lithuanian lawyer and politician ; Raimondas Žutautas (born 1972), Lithuanian footballer and manager Raimondas is a masculine Lithuanian given name. Notable people with the name include: ", "score": "1.5712286" } ]

[ "Pakokku" ]

[ { "id": "11223209", "title": "Nay Win", "text": " Nay Win was born on 25 April 1987 in Kyauk Myaung, Yangon, Myanmar. His father is a painter. He is the second son of four siblings, having an elder brother, a younger sister and a younger brother. He graduated high school from Basic Education High School No. 1 Dagon.", "score": "1.8415322" }, { "id": "12277305", "title": "Nay Myo Thant", "text": " Nay Myo Thant (နေမျိုးသန့်; จำรัส ทัศนละวาด) is a Burmese writer. His books include two volumes of short stories published in 1993 and 1997. Nay Myo Thant won first prize in the collected short stories genre in the Sarpay Beikman Manuscript Awards for 2000. He won third prize for 2006 Collected short stories in the Pakokku U Ohn Pe literary award. He won first prize in the novel genre of the Sarpay Beikman awards for 2008. He also won third prize for short stories in the Pakokku U Ohn Pe literary award for 2008. He won first prize in the youth literature genre of the Sarpay Beikman awards for 2009.", "score": "1.8327525" }, { "id": "604354", "title": "Htun Naung Sint", "text": " Htun Naung Sint was born on 14 June 1997 in Mohnyin, Kachin State, Myanmar to ethnic Shan parents. He studied at the Mandalay University of Foreign Languages, majoring in French in his third year.", "score": "1.8288391" }, { "id": "26926778", "title": "Myo Min", "text": " Myo Min was born on 7 April 1910 in Rangoon (Yangon) to Saw Nu and her husband Po Min, a senior civil servant in the British colonial administration. He was the youngest of four children. In his youth, his family constantly moved around the Irrawaddy delta, following the postings of the father, who would later retire as a Deputy Commissioner. Myo Min attended primary school in Hlegu, Rangoon, Kyaiklat, Myaungmya and Ma-ubin. From 5th Standard onward, he attended Rangoon's elite St. John's High School, and passed the university entrance examination with honors in five subjects in 1926. He enrolled in Rangoon University, where he was a classmate of U Thant, and graduated in 1931 with a BA in English with ", "score": "1.8264604" }, { "id": "4731871", "title": "Nay Min", "text": " Nay Min was born on 6 August 1983 in Thet Ka La Village, Bago, Bago Region, Myanmar. He attended at Thet Ka La high school.", "score": "1.8213434" }, { "id": "9409725", "title": "Nay Chi Shoon Lak", "text": " Nay Chi Shoon Lak was born on 13 November 1999, in Yangon, Myanmar. She graduated with BA in Cinematography & Drama from National University of Arts and Culture, Yangon.", "score": "1.8151021" }, { "id": "27393375", "title": "Nay Lin Aung", "text": " Nay was born on 27 November 1976 in Mindat, Myanmar. He graduated B.A(History) from Monywa University.", "score": "1.7974241" }, { "id": "14532618", "title": "Nay Chi Oo", "text": " Nay Chi Oo was born on 25 January 1992 in Yangon, Myanmar into a military family. She is the eldest daughter of Myo Myint Sein, a businessman and former military official, and his wife Than Than Swe, a botanist and businesswomen. Nay Chi Oo has a younger sister Sein Lae Yadanar and a younger brother. She attended high school at Practising School Yangon Institute of Education and graduated with GCE Advanced Level from Cambridge Tutors College in 2013, and MSc Forensic Medical Sciences from University of Bradford. While still in university, she has served as Student president of Cambridge Tutors College. She is currently studying MBA at Global MBA University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce.", "score": "1.7878907" }, { "id": "7514757", "title": "Hla Myint Than", "text": " Hla Myint Than was born on 26 December 1964 in Kyaikto, Mon State, Myanmar. He graduated with B.Sc., H.G.P, R.L from Mawlamyaing University and Yangon University. He served as the chairman of NLD Bago. He is a member of central campaign Department of Bago Township and also a member of the center Peasant Affairs Committee.", "score": "1.783457" }, { "id": "28117762", "title": "Myo Kyawt Myaing", "text": " Myo Kyawt Myaing was born on 29 April 1971 in Yangon to May May Tin, a teacher, and Kyawt Myaing, a pilot with the Union of Burma Airways. The youngest of four siblings, he has two elder sisters and an elder brother. From his father's side, Myaing has Mon ancestry, and hails from a long line of British colonial era senior civil servants and Konbaung period nobility. He grew up in the affluent Seven-Mile Junction neighborhood, and attended the elite TTC School. He enrolled at the University of Yangon, majoring in geology in 1987 but was left stranded a year later when the military government shut down all the schools in the country, following the 8888 Uprising.", "score": "1.7786309" }, { "id": "30619784", "title": "Nay Shwe Thway Aung", "text": " Nay Shwe Thway Aung was born in Yangon, Myanmar, as the sole son of Nay Soe Maung, an army doctor, and his wife Kyi Kyi Shwe, a daughter of Than Shwe. He attended high school at Practising School Yangon Institute of Education and enrolled in West Yangon Technological University.", "score": "1.7711586" }, { "id": "13536198", "title": "Mya Than Tint", "text": " Born Mya Than on 23 May 1929 in Myaing, Pakokku Township, Magway Division, Myanmar, he was the eldest of seven children to Paw Tint and his wife Hlaing. Mya Than Tint entered Rangoon University in 1948, the year Burma gained independence from Great Britain, and received a degree in philosophy, political science and English literature in 1954. His writing career began in 1949 when his first short novel “Refugee” was published in Tara Magazine (No. 21, Vol. 3, 1949). His first translated work was Malva and other short stories by Gorky.He published many short and full-length novels, documentaries and translated works in his ", "score": "1.7470973" }, { "id": "25620576", "title": "Myoma Nyein", "text": " Nyein was born on 25 January 1909 in Mandalay, British Burma, son of U Nyi, a goldsmith, and mother Daw Chit Oo, a lacquerware merchant. He was educated at Central National School, Mandalay. At the age of ten, he learnt a Burmese classic titled \"Jambu Kyun Lone\" (Universal) from Deva Einda Maung Maung Gyi in a single day much to the surprise of the famous harpist. In 1925, he co-founded the Myoma (meaning 'City Proper') music band or Myoma Amateur Music Association with his teacher artist and musician U Ba Thet and a city burgher Dahdan U Thant.", "score": "1.7462951" }, { "id": "3666595", "title": "Sai Thant Zin", "text": " An ethnic Shan, Thant Zin was born on 13 Aungust 1965 in Taikkyi Township, Myanmar. He graduated with a B.Sc. (Maths) from Yangon University.", "score": "1.7452028" }, { "id": "15011170", "title": "Thant Myint-U", "text": " Thant Myint-U was born in New York City to Burmese parents. He grew up in Riverdale, Bronx at the home of his maternal grandfather, the then-Secretary-General of the United Nations U Thant. From 1971 to 1980, he studied at Riverdale Country School, a private college-preparatory day school in Bronx. He graduated from International School Bangkok in 1983. He has three sisters. A former US citizen, he gained Burmese citizenship in 2011 and is now a Myanmar national. Thant earned a BSc in government and economics from Harvard University, an MA in international relations and international economics from Johns Hopkins University, and his PhD in history from Cambridge University in 1996. From 1996 to 1999, he was a junior research fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he taught history. Thant is married to Sofia Busch. He has a son, Thurayn-Harri, born in 1999 to Hanna Guðrún, a granddaughter of Iceland's first woman mayor Hulda Jakobsdóttir.", "score": "1.7398481" }, { "id": "12988335", "title": "Myo Gyi", "text": " Myo Gyi was born on 22 March 1976 in Yangon to parents Tin Maung Htay and his wife Tin Tin Htwe. He was named as Myo Min Htay in his birth certificate. He has a younger brother named Sithu Htay, an engineer. He graduated from Basic Education High School No. 2 Hlaing. He studied zoology at the University of Distance Education, Yangon for three years before attending the final year at Dagon University, where he graduated with a BA in zoology.", "score": "1.739794" }, { "id": "10919639", "title": "Nay Soe Maung", "text": " Nay Soe was born on 17 November 1956 in Yangon, Myanmar. He is the son of Major general Tin Sein, a former Deputy Defense Minister of Burma. He graduated with MBBS and Diploma from University of Medicine 1, Yangon, MPH and ICHD from Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium, and Master of Development Study from University of Economics, Yangon.", "score": "1.7367692" }, { "id": "28443269", "title": "Nyo Mya", "text": " Nyo Mya was born Maung Thein Tin on 10 April 1914, to parents Tha Zan (a T.P.S. lawyer), and Daw Shwe Ent in Thawtapan village, a member of Amyint village group, Chaung-U Township. In later years, he was more well known by pen name Nyo Mya.", "score": "1.7303009" }, { "id": "30082234", "title": "Sin Yaw Mg Mg", "text": " His real name is U Lyn Aung. He is son of U Kan Htoo and Daw Khin Ti. He lived at No. 6-A, Myaynigone Plaza, Bargayar Street, Sanchaung Township, Yangon, Myanmar, near the Dagon Center. He was awarded a M.Sc degree in mathematics in 1983, from the University of Yangon. He entered into the film business as a production manager in 1983, with the film The Second Heartbreak of the Third Age. He became famous with the video Maung (Darling). Between 1989 and 1995, he acted as treasurer, joint secretary and as general secretary for the Myanmar Motion Picture Organization (MMPO). He married to Daw Than Than Sint (aka) May Than Nu, a Myanmar film actress. They have a son together named Min Thant Mg Mg, born on July 3, 1997.", "score": "1.7249148" }, { "id": "27877179", "title": "Mar Mar Aye", "text": " She was born Aye Myint in Myaungmya, a town in the Irrawaddy delta to musician parents. Her father, U Aye, was a hne (flute) musician while her mother Than Hnit was a singer with the stage name Myaungmya Than. She began singing at an early age. By the 1980s, 80% of film soundtracks were sung by Mar Mar Aye. She emigrated to Fort Wayne, Indiana in the United States in 1998. She has been politically active. During the Saffron Revolution, she released a song entitled \"Heartache Till the End of the World\". In 2012, she returned from exile to Myanmar, at the authorization of President Thein Sein. On 25 July 2012, she released a Burmese language memoir, Dear Friend, Look Deeply Into My Heart, which recounts the aftermath of her divorce in 1970.", "score": "1.7185237" } ]

[ "Oulu", "Uleåborg", "Uleaborg" ]

[ { "id": "4071337", "title": "Aarno Maliniemi", "text": " Aarno Henrik Maliniemi (surname until 1930 Malin; 9 May 1892 &ndash; 8 October 1972) was a Finnish historian, professor in church history at Helsinki University 1945–1960. Maliniemi was an expert on the medieval church. He studied early Finnish literature, and was editor of a number of publications and bibliographies. Maliniemi was born in Oulu. He was awarded a doctor honoris causa by University of Uppsala in 1952 and by University of St Andrews in 1960. He died in Helsinki, aged 80.", "score": "2.0405016" }, { "id": "30770140", "title": "Juha Malinen", "text": " Malinen was born in Oulu. He was coming to the end of his short career as a football player in 1978 when he decided to enroll as a student at the University of Oulu Department of Education. He started his career as a teacher just before he would have graduated, and thus didn't complete his studies. While working as a teacher he found himself yearning for a job where he could see more concretely the impact of his work. He soon became interested in football coaching. In 1986 Malinen found a job at Kastelli Sports Gymnasium (secondary education) as the school's football coach. Among his students at Kastelli were Antti Niemi and Mika Nurmela who went on to become Finnish internationals. Ville Nylund and Aarno Turpeinen, who later became core players of top team in Finland, HJK Helsinki, were ", "score": "1.8979952" }, { "id": "26932771", "title": "Niilo Koponen", "text": " Born in New York City to Finnish parents, he lived with them in a housing cooperative in a Jewish neighborhood in the Bronx. Koponen attended the High School of Music & Art in New York City.", "score": "1.7329655" }, { "id": "30567113", "title": "Ismo Leikola", "text": " Leikola was born in Jyväskylä in 1979 and lived his childhood in Kuohu, a small town near Jyväskylä. Prior to a career in stand-up comedy, Leikola studied at the University of Jyväskylä with physics as main as subject and philosophy as secondary.", "score": "1.7304169" }, { "id": "11057037", "title": "Maria Kalaniemi", "text": " Maria Kalaniemi (born May 27, 1964 in Espoo, Finland) is a Finnish accordionist. She was classically trained, gaining her MMus from the Sibelius Academy in 1992, but has become mostly known as a folk musician having played this music from childhood, besides her classical music studies, and also at the folk music department of the Sibelius Academy.", "score": "1.713838" }, { "id": "5302778", "title": "Tom of Finland", "text": " Laaksonen was born on 8 May 1920 and raised by a middle-class family in Kaarina, a town in southwestern Finland, near the city of Turku. Both of his parents Suoma and Edwin Laaksonen were schoolteachers at the grammar school that served Kaarina. The family lived in the school building's attached living quarters. He went to school in Turku and in 1939, at the age of 19, he moved to Helsinki to study advertising. In his spare time he also started drawing erotic images for his own pleasure, based on images of male laborers he had seen from an early age. At first he kept these ", "score": "1.6881578" }, { "id": "6585060", "title": "Reino Aarnio", "text": " Born in December 8, 1912 in Turku, Finland, Aarnio earned his Bachelor of Architecture from New York University in 1938, graduating cum laude. He won the F.B. Morse Prize in 1935 and the Sherrill Prize in 1936.", "score": "1.6849084" }, { "id": "27944412", "title": "Joonas Suotamo", "text": " Suotamo was born in Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland. In his youth he performed roles as a stage actor. Suotamo attended Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and played the power forward and centre positions for the Penn State Nittany Lions. With childhood interests in music, arts, and movies he studied film and video at PSU. He was a strong academic performer at Penn State, where he was twice named to the Academic All-Big Ten team, and graduated in 3 1⁄2 years with a Bachelor of Arts degree in December 2008 in order to fulfill his Finnish conscription service and to pursue a career in film. He left the army at the rank of second lieutenant (res).", "score": "1.6772702" }, { "id": "3749216", "title": "Simo Frangén", "text": " Frangén matriculated in 1982 and graduated as a Master of Social Sciences at the University of Tampere in 1990. His jobs include Nakkila city dump watchman in 1982, University of Tampere students' union journalist (on the magazine Aviisi) in 1987, journalist on the Tampere City magazine in 1988, assistant journalist on the humour magazine Pahkasika from 1983 to 1990 and assistant journalist on the magazine Rumba in 1985.", "score": "1.6695745" }, { "id": "29845366", "title": "Sauli Niinistö", "text": " Niinistö was born in Salo in 1948. His parents were the circulation manager of Salon Seudun Sanomat Väinö Niinistö (1911–1991) and nurse Hilkka Niinistö, née Heimo (1916–2014). Niinistö's godfather was Fjalar Nordell, founder of Salora. Niinistö graduated from the Salon normaalilyseo high school in 1967, after which he went to study at the University of Turku. From there he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1974.", "score": "1.6569144" }, { "id": "7098737", "title": "Ilmari Aalto", "text": " Aalto was born in Kuopio. He studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1907 to 1908 and the Finnish Art Society drawing school from 1908 to 1910.", "score": "1.6564867" }, { "id": "6376938", "title": "August Ahlqvist", "text": " He was born in Kuopio, Finland. He was the illegitimate child of Baron Johan Mauritz Nordenstam (1802-1882); his mother Maria Augusta Ahlqvist (1806-1886) was a servant. He became a student at the Imperial Alexander University (now University of Helsinki) in 1844. He was a Philosophy candidate 1853, Licentiate of Law 1854 and took a Doctor of Philosophy in 1859. In 1863, he became a professor of Finnish language and literature at the University of Helsinki. He became Dean of the History-Linguistic Section 1882–1884. He served as the university's Rector from 1884 to 1887. He resigned as emeritus in 1888. He died in 1889 at Helsinki, Finland. In 1846 and 1847, he traveled through the eastern part of Ostrobothnia, as well as Finnish and Russian Karelia, partly gathering local folk tales and partly to investigate minorities languages. In 1854–55, he spent on research trips among the Finnish ", "score": "1.6558261" }, { "id": "28180565", "title": "Aino Lehtokoski", "text": " Lehtokoski's parents were carpenter Frans Fredrik Malm and Eeva Stiina Tienhaara and she was born in 1886 in Maaria, which is now part of the city of Turku, Finland. She had only an elementary school education and in 1897 she found work as a servant. In 1910, she married Aksel Valdemar Lehtokoski. Aino Lehtokoski died in the autumn of 1949 in Helsinki during her term in Parliament and was succeeded there by Yrjö Helenius.", "score": "1.6545393" }, { "id": "28062831", "title": "Artturi Järviluoma", "text": " Järviluoma was born in Alavus and attended the Lyceum at Vaasa but dropped out of school. He passed his matriculation examination as a private student of the Helsinki Real Lyceum in 1901. He then attended the University of Helsinki, studying mathematics from 1902 to 1903 and then law from 1904 to 1909, but he did not complete a degree. He was a founding member of the Finnish Dramatists' Union in the 1920s and served as both secretary and chairman during the 1930s. He was also a founding member of the Finnish Journalists' Association and the South Ostrobothnians Association (1941). In 1910, Järviluoma married Lyyli Ahde. They had two children: Maire and Juha. The Finnish Literature Society has maintained an archive of Järviluoma's work since 1998. It contains his original manuscripts, photos, scrapbooks and other material. Streets have been named after him in Helsinki, Alavus, Nurmo, Teuva and Lapua. His birthplace is now a memorial.", "score": "1.6535268" }, { "id": "10765477", "title": "Helsinki", "text": " 1996), cellist and conductor ; Susanna Mälkki (born 1969), conductor ; Georg Malmstén (1902–1981), singer, musician, composer, orchestra director and actor ; Tauno Marttinen (1912–2008), composer ; Vesa-Matti Loiri (born 1945), actor, comedian, singer ; Abdirahim Hussein Mohamed (born 1978), Finnish-Somalian media personality and politician ; Hanno Möttölä Finnish basketball player ; Peter Nygård (born 1941), businessman, arrested in December 2020 for sex crimes ; Markku Peltola (1956–2007), actor and musician ; Elisabeth Rehn (born 1935), politician ; Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928–2016), composer ; Miron Ruina (born 1998), Finnish-Israeli basketball player ; Kaija Saariaho (born 1952), composer ; Riitta Salin (born 1950), athlete ; Sasu Salin, Finnish basketball player ; Esa-Pekka Salonen (born 1958), composer and conductor ; ", "score": "1.6491187" }, { "id": "31444436", "title": "Pori", "text": " • Arvo Aaltonen (1892–1949), breaststroke swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist • Lorenz Nikolai Achté (1835–1900), opera singer, composer, conductor and music teacher • Nikita Bergenström (born 1965), criminal and triple murderer • Tuure Boelius (born 2001), YouTuber, singer and actor • Danny (born 1942), singer and guitarist • Samuli Edelmann (born 1968), actor and singer • Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865–1931), painter • Eino Grön (born 1939), singer • Richard Hall (1860–1942), painter • Jenni Haukio (born 1977), poetess and First Lady of Finland • Lotta Henttala (born 1989), racing cyclist • Kari Hotakainen (born 1957), author • Laura Huhtasaari (born 1979), politician • Fritz Arthur Jusélius (1855–1930), industrialist and politician • Krista Kiuru (born 1974), politician • Timo Koivusalo (born 1963), film director, screen writer, actor, columnist and musician • Aleksandr Kokko (born 1987), football player • Anna Kontula ", "score": "1.6477361" }, { "id": "30940865", "title": "Osmo Antero Wiio", "text": " Wiio was born in Porvoo, Finland. His parents were actor Ivar Fredrik Wiio and seamstress Jaana Erika Sanelma Aariainen. He married home economics teacher Leena Marjatta Waronen (1928–2012) in 1954. They had two children, Antti Juhani (1955), and Juha James (1957). Wiio graduated from the University of Helsinki in 1954 with a masters in political science. He received his doctorate from the University of Tampere in 1968.", "score": "1.6448543" }, { "id": "29144137", "title": "Antti Koivumäki", "text": " Koivumäki was born in Espoo, Finland but spent most of the youth in Siilinjärvi. It was here he co-founded Finnish band Aavikko in 1995, appearing on the band's first full album Derek! in 1997. He left Aavikko in 1999 and was replaced by the band's current keyboardist Paul Staufenbiel. Koivumäki's poems were first published when he was 16 years old. In 2000, he won the hill town of Kaarina's Culture Poetry Prize and he published his first work 'In the Afternoon, Rotting Parks Come To Mind'.", "score": "1.6446388" }, { "id": "10962421", "title": "Tampere", "text": "Jonne Aaron (born 1983), singer ; Sinikka Antila (born 1960), lawyer and diplomat ; Aleksander Barkov (born 1995), Finnish-Russian professional ice hockey player ; Anu Bradford (born 1975), Finnish-American author and law professor ; Johanna Debreczeni (born 1980), singer ; Henrik Otto Donner (1939–2013), composer and music personality ; Anna Falchi (born 1972), Finnish-Italian model and film actress ; Mauri Favén (1920–2006), painter ; Jussi Halla-aho (born 1971), politician and current leader of the Finns Party ; Seppo Jokinen (born 1949), author ; Viljo Kajava (1909–1998), author and poet ; Tapani Kalliomäki (born 1970), stage and film actor ; Glen Kamara (born 1995), ", "score": "1.6439388" }, { "id": "6052583", "title": "Eemil Halonen", "text": " He was born in, Lapinlahti, and first studied woodworking at the Lappeenranta and Lapvesi Crafting School. Later he studied sculpture with Emil Wikström at the Finnish Art School. He travelled to study in Russia, France and Italy. Eemil Halonen’s artwork was multifaceted. While living in Lapinlahti he sculpted images of the common people as well as public works, which he often made from Finnish wood and stone. After moving to Helsinki in 1919 Eemil Halonen concentrated on commissioned works, for example gravestones. His sculpture of Minna Canth, unveiled in Kuopio in 1937, is one of Halonen’s best known public pieces. Eemil Halonen is one of the most notable interpreters of Finland’s national epic, the Kalevala. During his artistic career, which lasted more than 50 years, he repeatedly depicted subjects from the Kalevala. A central theme of his sculpture was women characters from the Kalevala, from Louhe to Sotkottaret. For Eemil Halonen the Kalevala was a sacred book that broadly affected his view of life. He would often say: ”The Kalevala has wisdom behind it”.", "score": "1.6420512" } ]

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[ { "id": "2389150", "title": "Charles Plumer", "text": " Charles George Plumer (1837 &ndash; 18 March 1914) was an English cricketer. Plumer's batting style is unknown. He was born at Canons Park, Middlesex, and was educated at both Harrow and Haileybury. Plumer made his first-class debut for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Sussex in 1860 at The Dripping Pan, Lewes. He was dismissed for a duck twice in this match, firstly by Henry Stubberfield and secondly by George Wells. He later made a second first-class appearance for Sussex against the Marylebone Cricket Club at the Royal Brunswick Ground, Hove in 1863. He again failed with the bat in this match, with Plumer twice being dismissed for a duck, both times by James Grundy. On the 1911 census Charles George Plumer is living in Cheltenham with his wife Kate Elizabeth née Marshall whom he married in 1875 at Fort St. George, Madras, India. He describes his occupation as a retired civil servant (chief magistrate) at Mysore, Madras, India. His son Charles George Marshall Plumer (born in 1878, India) was an officer in the British Army and also a cricketer. Charles George Plumer died at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire on 18 March 1914.", "score": "1.70732" }, { "id": "913317", "title": "B. G. Plumer", "text": " Bradbury Greenleaf \"B. G\" Plumer (May 22, 1830 &ndash; July 22, 1886) was an American businessman, farmer, and politician. Born in Epping, New Hampshire, Plumer took part in the California Gold Rush. He then moved to Saint Louis, Missouri. In 1854, Plumer moved to Wausau, Wisconsin and was involved in the lumber business. Plumer also farmed and raised cattle. In 1866, Plumer served in the Wisconsin State Assembly. His brother was Daniel L. Plumer, who also served in the Wisconsin State Assembly. He committed suicide with a firearm in Wausau, Wisconsin.", "score": "1.587374" }, { "id": "11666907", "title": "Charles Plumet", "text": " Charles Plumet (17 May 1861 – 15 April 1928) was a French architect, decorator and ceramist.", "score": "1.5739253" }, { "id": "13388495", "title": "William Plumer", "text": " Plumer was born in Newburyport, Province of Massachusetts Bay on June 25, 1759, the son of farmer and merchant Samuel Plumer and Mary (Dole) Plumer. His family moved to Epping, New Hampshire in 1768, and he was raised at his father's farm on Epping's Red Oak Hill. Plumer attended the Red Oak Hill School until he was 17. Frequent ill health left him unsuited for military service during the American Revolution or life as a farmer, and after a religious conversion experience in his late teens, Plumer was trained as a Baptist exhorter (a lay preacher). For several years he traveled throughout the state to deliver sermons to Baptist churches and revival meetings. He briefly considered a career as a doctor, and began to study medicine. Later deciding on a legal career, he studied law with attorneys Joshua Atherton of Amherst and John Prentice of Londonderry. While studying under Atherton, his fellow law clerks included William Coleman, who remained a lifelong friend. Plumer attained admission to the bar in 1787, and began to practice in Epping.", "score": "1.5476685" }, { "id": "10740237", "title": "William Swan Plumer", "text": " William S. Plumer was born to William and Catharine Plumer (née McAlester) in Greersburg, present day Darlington, Pennsylvania, on July 26, 1802. He graduated from Washington College (now Washington and Lee University in Virginia) in 1825, received his religious education at Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey, and was ordained in the Presbyterian Church. He was licensed in the Presbytery of New Brunswick, a Presbytery in New Jersey, as a clergyman in 1826, and the state's Orange Presbytery ordained him as an evangelist in 1827.", "score": "1.5343908" }, { "id": "11666908", "title": "Charles Plumet", "text": " Charles Plumet was born in 1861. He became an architect and designed buildings in medieval and early French Renaissance styles. He collaborated with Tony Selmersheim (1871–1971) on interiors and furniture design in Art Nouveau forms. Charles Plumet became a member of l’Art dans Tout (Art in Everything), an association of architects, painters and sculptors that was actively trying to renew decorative art between 1896 and 1901, following styles from adapted medieval to Art Nouveau. Other members were Tony Selmersheim, Henri Sauvage, Henri Nocq, Alexandre Charpentier, Félix Aubert, Jean Dampt and then Étienne Moreau-Nélaton. Plumet was committed to functionalism and against the academic approach of the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1902 he expressed the principle that \"forms derive from needs\". In 1907 he published two articles on ", "score": "1.5071421" }, { "id": "11481240", "title": "Daniel L. Plumer", "text": " He was born in Epping, New Hampshire, on July 3, 1837, son of Abraham and Sarah Longfellow (Cilley) Plumer. He was educated in Epping and Nottingham, New Hampshire and at the New London Academy, a coeducational secondary school. After leaving the Academy, Plumer studied civil engineering. He came to Wisconsin in 1857 and settled in Wausau and did work as a surveyor in that part of Wisconsin, becoming familiar with the natural resources of the region. He went into business in lumber and real estate, and served as an agent for Marshall & Ilsley of Milwaukee. He, Willis Silverthorn and Willis' brother George went into banking themselves as Silverthorn & Plumer in 1869. On September 13, 1869 he married Mary Jane Draper of Otsego County, New York at Schenevus, New York. They would have only one child, a son who died in infancy.", "score": "1.4856249" }, { "id": "10427514", "title": "Charles D. Barger", "text": " Barger was born in Mount Vernon, Missouri to George and Cora (Lake) Staffelbach. In 1897, his father, a member of the notorious Staffelbach gang from Galena, Kansas, was sentenced to life in prison and his mother gave him up for adoption. He did not see her again until after World War I. He was taken in by Sidney and Phoebe (Owens) Barger, who eventually adopted him, and he grew up in Stotts City, working as a farmhand.", "score": "1.485279" }, { "id": "16055758", "title": "Joe J. Plumeri", "text": " Plumeri is the son of Samuel J. Plumeri, Sr. (a Trenton city commissioner and local businessman, who died in 1998) and Josephine Plumeri (who died in 2012). His grandparents immigrated to the United States from Villalba, Sicily. He was raised in North Trenton, New Jersey, in a working-class family. Speaking of his father, he said: \"He never quit, and he always saw the good in everything. He was a dreamer, and because of my father ... I have an affection for people who are passionate.\" Plumeri attended Trenton Catholic High School and Bordentown Military Institute (1962). He then studied at The College of William & Mary, graduating in 1966 with a B.A. in History and Education. ", "score": "1.4758466" }, { "id": "11652293", "title": "Charles Conder", "text": " Conder was born in Tottenham, Middlesex, the second son, of six children, of James Conder, civil engineer and Mary Ann Ayres. He spent several years as a young child in India until the death of his mother (aged 31 years) on 14 May 1873 in Bombay, when Charles was four; he was then sent back to England and attended a number of schools including a boarding school at Eastbourne, which he attended from 1877. He left school at 15, and his very religious, non-artistic father, against Charles's natural artistic inclinations, decided that he should follow in his footsteps as a ", "score": "1.4703703" }, { "id": "29698948", "title": "Charles Mayrs", "text": " Charles Mayrs (born Charles Alexander Mayrs, April 18, 1940 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian artist andwriter whose career has spanned more than 50 years in advertising, the arts and limited edition book design, writing and publishing based in Vancouver, British Columbia.", "score": "1.4648364" }, { "id": "1764797", "title": "Charles Blackader", "text": " Charles Guinand Blackader was born in Richmond, Surrey on 20 September 1869. His father, Charles George Blackader, was a teacher to a small number of boarding pupils; he had come from an Army family, and taught at Cheltenham College and Clifton College, Bristol, before moving to private tuition. His mother, Charlotte Guinand, was born in Germany; her family may have come from Alsace-Lorraine, as Blackader would later describe himself as half-French. During his childhood, the Blackaders moved from Richmond to Southampton, where his father headed the education department at the Hartley Institute, and then to Boulogne in France, where he taught at Beaurepaire School. Returning from France in 1887, Blackader studied at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he was regarded as ", "score": "1.4572841" }, { "id": "861170", "title": "Lincoln Plumer", "text": " Lincoln Plumer (28 September 1875, in Maryland – 14 February 1928, in Hollywood, California) was an American silent film actor. He married fellow actor Rose Plumer. Lincoln Plumer died of heart disease in 1928.", "score": "1.4520557" }, { "id": "10700244", "title": "Henry Plummer", "text": " Plummer was born William Henry Handy Plumer in 1832 in Addison, Maine, the last of six children in a family whose ancestors had first settled in Maine in 1634, when it was still a part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. His father died while Henry was in his teens. In 1852, at age 19, Plummer headed west to the gold fields of California. He changed the spelling of his surname to Plummer after moving west. His mining venture went well: within two years he owned a mine, a ranch, and a bakery in Nevada City. In 1856, Plummer was elected sheriff and city manager. Supporters suggested that he should run for state representative as a Democrat. However, the party was divided, and without its full support, he lost.", "score": "1.4490299" }, { "id": "32130171", "title": "Charles Stafford Duncan", "text": " Duncan was born in Hutchinson, Kansas on December 12, 1892. At age four he moved with his family to San Francisco. He studied at the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA) under Maynard Dixon and Ralph Stackpole. Early in his career, Charles Stafford Duncan worked at the advertising firm Foster and Kleiser under another Charles Duncan. This has caused some researchers to confuse them with one another. His painting style was modernist, and was affiliated with other left-leaning, bohemian San Francisco artists who gathered around Diego Rivera, including Otis Oldfield and Ralph Stackpole. In 1931 Charles Stafford Duncan worked with architecture firm Miller and Pflueger (under the supervision of architect Timothy L. Pflueger and artistic director Theodore C. Bernardi) on the art deco Paramount Theatre (Oakland, California). He created the murals for the basement women's smoking lounge. He was a resident of San Francisco until 1945, when he moved to Sausalito, California. He died in New York City on June 7, 1952 at age 59 after returning from a trip to Paris. He was survived by his wife, artist Dorothy Johnson Duncan and his daughter Jane.", "score": "1.4487369" }, { "id": "371385", "title": "Charles Lamb", "text": " have brought a great deal of comfort to him. Some of Lamb's fondest childhood memories were of time spent with Mrs Field, his maternal grandmother, who was for many years a servant to the Plumer family, who owned a large country house called Blakesware, near Widford, Hertfordshire. After the death of Mrs Plumer, Lamb's grandmother was in sole charge of the large home and, as William Plumer was often absent, Charles had free rein of the place during his visits. A picture of these visits can be glimpsed in the Elia essay Blakesmoor in H—shire. \"Why, every plank and panel of that ", "score": "1.4461167" }, { "id": "10635543", "title": "Charles Howard Candler Sr.", "text": " Candler was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the first born of Asa and Lucy Elizabeth Candler (née Howard). He was given the middle name Howard to honor his maternal grandfather, merchant George C. Howard. As a youngster, he attended the Georgia Military Institute and then the Emory College at Oxford. Candler studied two years of medicine at the Emory School of Medicine and was a student at Bellevue Hospital Medical College for another year before deciding to join his father at Coca-Cola. According to Emory College's list of famous alumni, Candler graduated in 1898. During 1900, Charles Howard Candler visited Canada ", "score": "1.4445403" }, { "id": "10230298", "title": "Plumer", "text": "Arnold Plumer (1801–1869), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania ; B. G. Plumer (1830–1886), American politician and businessman ; Daniel L. Plumer (1837–1920), American politician and businessman ; George Plumer (1762–1843), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania ; Henry Plumer McIlhenny (1910–1986), American connoisseur of art and antiques, world traveller and socialite ; Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (1857–1932), British colonial official and soldier ; Lincoln Plumer (1875–1928), American silent film actor ; Marie-France Plumer (born 1943), French actress ; PattiSue Plumer (born 1962), American retired long-distance runner ; Polly Plumer, American track and field athlete ; Robert Plumer Ward (1765–1846), British novelist and politician ; Rose Plumer (1876–1955), American actress ; Thomas Plumer (1753–1824), British judge and politician ; Thomas Plumer Halsey (1815–1854), Member of Parliament for Hertfordshire ; William Plumer (disambiguation) Plumer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: ", "score": "1.439654" }, { "id": "2875132", "title": "Charles B. Stover", "text": " Charles Bunstein Stover (July 14, 1861 – April 25, 1929) was a social activist and the Parks Commissioner for New York City from 1910 to 1913.", "score": "1.438947" }, { "id": "30008794", "title": "Charles Brode", "text": " Brode was born in Boreck, Posen, Prussia, on February 6, 1836, and at the age of nineteen he emigrated to Australia, where he was a miner for seven years. He then came to the United States, where he engaged in \"various kinds of business\" in the territories of Montana, Idaho and Utah.", "score": "1.4341931" } ]

[ "South Korea", "Republic of Korea", "ROK", "kr", "Rep. Korea", "S. Korea", "Korea Republic", "🇰🇷", "KOR" ]

[ { "id": "29697924", "title": "Joo Won", "text": " Moon Jun-won was born in Seoul, South Korea. He studied at Kaywon High School of Arts and continued his education on Theatre and Arts in Sungkyunkwan University. In 2013, Joo Won announced that he would be furthering his studies at Konkuk University.", "score": "2.0635352" }, { "id": "29697923", "title": "Joo Won", "text": " Joo Won (born Moon Jun-won on September 30, 1987) is a South Korean actor best known for his roles in King of Baking, Kim Takgu (2010), Ojakgyo Family (2011), Bridal Mask (2012), Good Doctor (2013), Fatal Intuition (2015), Yong-pal (2015), My Sassy Girl (2017) and Alice (2020).", "score": "1.881942" }, { "id": "25788696", "title": "Moon Deoksu", "text": " Moon Deoksu was born December 8, 1928 in Haman South Gyeongsang Province, Korea. Moon graduated from Hongik University, attended Tsukuba University, and graduate school at Korea University, resulting in a Ph.D. in Literature. He worked for the Magazine, Shidan and served in many organizations including as President of the Poetry Second of the Korean LIterature Association; President of the Modern Poet's Association; Vice Director of the Korean Literature Association; Director, Vice President, and President of the Korean branch of P.E.N.; Representative of the Korean Committee for the International Poets' Union, and as President of the Korean Culture and Arts Foundation. Moon also taught at Jeju and Hongik University, and served as a Dean of the College of Education at the latter.", "score": "1.8172984" }, { "id": "31538558", "title": "Nansook Hong", "text": " Hyo Jin Moon (December 3, 1962 – March 17, 2008) was a musician, performer, and recording facility executive and the eldest son of Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon and his wife Hak Ja Han Moon. He was born in South Korea and grew up in the United States in New York State. He served as first president of the World Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles. For ten years Moon was head of the Unification Church-owned Manhattan Center Studios recording facility in New York City. He served as worldwide president of the student branch of Unificationism, World CARP (Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles). On March 17, 2008, Moon died of a heart attack at the Moon family home in Hannam-dong in Seoul, South Korea. FFWPU North American Headquarters announced that his Seung-hwa (ascension) ceremony was held on March 19, 2008 at Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center, and The Wonjeon (burial) ceremony was held at Paju Wonjeon later that day.", "score": "1.7869556" }, { "id": "28740091", "title": "Moon In-soo", "text": " Moon In-soo was born in June 1945 in Seongju County, North Gyeongsang Province. He studied Korean literature at Dongguk University but dropped out. Moon began his literary career in 1985 when he published Neungsubeodeul (능수버들 A Weeping Willow) in Shimsang. He has published several poetry collections. Moon won the 14th Daegu Literary Award in 1996, the 11th Kim Daljin Literary Prize in 2000, the 3rd Nojak Literature Prize in 2003, the 11th Poetry and Poetics Award in 2006, the 17th Pyeon-un Literature Award in 2007, and the 10th Korea Catholic Literature Award for Poetry in 2007, as well as the Midang Literary Award in the same year. Ra Heeduk has said that Moon In-soo's poetry is \"an earnest prayer from the bottom, and a beautiful dedication to the air above.\"", "score": "1.7838423" }, { "id": "12612344", "title": "Moon Tae-il", "text": " Moon Tae-il was born on June 14, 1994 in Seoul, South Korea. He studied at Seo Seoul Life Science High School. He was accepted to the Applied Music program of Hanyang University ERICA Campus in Ansan-si, Gyeonggi. In 2013, Hanyang University's Applied Music program is considered the most competitive early-admissions program, topping law and medicine at other prestigious schools.", "score": "1.7784684" }, { "id": "14268884", "title": "Moon Kook-hyun", "text": " Moon Kook-hyun (Korean: 문국현, Hanja: 文國現, born 12 January 1949) is the leader of the Creative Korea Party, who served as a well-known business manager and civil environmental campaigner in South Korea before entering his political career. Born in Seoul, Moon studied English language at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, graduating with a BA in 1972, then took a postgraduate course in Business Administration at the Seoul National University.", "score": "1.7697911" }, { "id": "7592270", "title": "Moon Won-joo", "text": " Moon Won-joo is a South Korean actor. He is best known for his roles in dramas such as Hot Stove League, Nokdu Flower and Golden Apple. He also appeared in movies, My Girl and I, The Cut and Attack the Gas Station 2.", "score": "1.7686603" }, { "id": "32436368", "title": "Moon Shin", "text": " Born in Takeo, Japan, his family moved to father's hometown, Masan in current Gyeongsangnam-do. Since mother's family never accepted the existence of his father, he had to set apart from her at 5. In need, he worked as a laborer in Tokyo, studying Occidental painting in Nihon art college since he was 16. After independence of Korea, he refused to participate in Korean national art exhibition given that the foundation was conservative in his viewpoint. Later, he joined the \"Modern art association\" of major artists notably such as Yoo Youngguk, Park go seok and Han muk in 1957 before he decided to leave for Paris. He died of gastric cancer in 1995.", "score": "1.7679658" }, { "id": "30684490", "title": "Moon Joo-won", "text": " Moon made his professional debut for Daegu FC, having joined the club for the 2007 season. Moon would stay for three seasons, before transferring to newly formed K-League club Gangwon FC in January 2010. In January 2011, Moon moved to Japanese club Sagan Tosu, who play in the J2 League. On June 30, 2012, he was released from Sagan Tosu and is now a free agent.", "score": "1.7623173" }, { "id": "13340888", "title": "Moon Chung-hee", "text": " Moon was born in Boseong, Jeollanam-do, Korea on May 25, 1947. She attended Jinmyeong Girls' High School, majored in Korean Literature at Dongguk University, and completed her graduate studies from the same university, where she has also taught. While still in high school, she published her first collection of poems, Kkotsum (1965). In 1969, Moon made her debut in literature when her poems Bulmyeon (insomnia) and Haneul (Sky) were accepted in Wolgan munhak's feature on new poets. In 2014, she served as the chairman of the Society of Korean Poets.", "score": "1.7594883" }, { "id": "12043066", "title": "Moon Ik-hwan", "text": " He was born in Longjing, Jilin as the first son of the Reverend, Moon Jae-rin and mother, Shin Sin-muk. He had two brothers and two sisters. He and his brother became pastors. He was raised in Bukgando where Korean independence movement was centered. After finishing up education at Myeongdong Elementary school and Eunjin Middle school that ethnic Koreans established, Moon went to Sungsil Middle School in Pyongyang, and then Yongjeong Gwangmyeong School in Bukgando. Although Moon Ik-hwan entered Tokyo Union Theological Seminary in Japan, he was dismissed from the school because of his refusal to enlist himself to Japanese army. He then transferred to Bongcheon Seminary (봉천신학교) in Manchuria and served as a preacher at a Korean church. In 1947, he graduated Hansin University and received the imposition of hands. After he earned his master's degree from Princeton Theological Seminary in the United States, he returned to South Korea and began to lecture the Old Testament at Yonsei University and Hanshin University. Later, he worked on translating the Old Testament until he devoted himself on unification of two Koreas and democracy of South Korea.", "score": "1.7576046" }, { "id": "11297002", "title": "Moon Chae-won", "text": " Moon Chae-won was born in Daegu, South Korea. When she was in sixth grade, her family moved to Seoul. She studied Western Painting at the Chugye University for the Arts, but dropped out in 2006 to pursue acting.", "score": "1.7566655" }, { "id": "30225341", "title": "Park Moon-young", "text": " Park Moon-young was born in 1952 in Busan, Gyeongsangnam-do. Park's father is a carpenter from Wonju, Gangwon Province, and his mother is from Pyeongchang County, Gangwon Province. Park Moon-young's parents gave birth to Park Moon-young in 1952 when the Korean War was under way in Busan, a refuge. Park Moon-young moved to Seoul with her family as a child and learned to play the violin since she was in elementary school. He graduated from Daegwang Middle School, Daegwang High School and Seoul National University of Technology, and worked with Kim Eun-kwang as a member of the male duo-member guitar music group \"Nondureong Batdureong\" (논두렁 밭두렁) from 1973 to 1978. Park Moon-young was in charge of plant design at Daewoo Engineering for ", "score": "1.729472" }, { "id": "30684489", "title": "Moon Joo-won", "text": " Moon Joo-Won (born May 8, 1983) is a South Korean football player. He currently plays for Gyeongnam FC", "score": "1.7141892" }, { "id": "29377947", "title": "Dai-won Moon", "text": " Moon was born in the small village of Duk Hap, 200 km south of Seoul. His father, Chang Wook Moon worked in the administration of President Syngman Rhee. He became a black belt at the age of 16. Moon graduated from Texas Tech University with a degree in architecture and originally had plans to settle in the United States. He competed in various American martial arts tournaments between 1963 and 1968. He is also an alumnus of Kyung Hee University. He first arrived in Mexico in 1968 on an invitation from a friend. According to Moon during his first visit, \"I'd teach, it was very tough and [the Mexican students] endured, that I liked, a lot of spirit, courage, attitude and devotion.\" ", "score": "1.7114902" }, { "id": "4522026", "title": "Jae-hyun", "text": "Moon Jae-hyeon (born 1936), dharma name Daewon, South Korean Buddhist master ; Hyun Jae-hyun (born 1949), South Korean businessman, former chairman of the conglomerate Tongyang Group ; Jang Jae-hyun (born 1981), South Korean film director and screenwriter ; Choi Jae-hyun (born 1995), known as HuHi, South Korean League of Legends player ", "score": "1.6928518" }, { "id": "8327039", "title": "Lee Moon-jae", "text": " Lee Moon-jae (born 1959) is a South Korean poet and professor. He is described as a poet who expresses \"environmental imagination\" in his literature. He also critiques contemporary literature, and currently writes a column in the Kyunghyang Shinmun. He was born in Gimpo, Gyeonggi-do (currently Seo-gu, Incheon), and graduated from Kyung Hee University in Korean Literature. He began his literary career in 1982 while still a university student by publishing Uri saldeon yetjib jibung (우리 살던 옛집 지붕 Our Old Home's Roof) on the 4th issue of Siundong. He has published poetry collections, Ne jeojeun gudu beoseo hae-ege boyeojul ttae(내 젖은 구두 벗어 해에게 보여줄 때 When I ", "score": "1.6883368" }, { "id": "27877926", "title": "Moon Jeong-joo", "text": " Moon Jeong-Joo (born 22 March 1990) is a South Korean footballer who plays as midfielder for Chungju Hummel in K League Challenge.", "score": "1.6822789" }, { "id": "14054453", "title": "Ban Ki-moon", "text": " Ban was born on 13 June 1944 in the small farming village of Haengchi, Wonnam Township (-myeon), in Eumseong County (Insei), North Chungcheong Province in what was then Japanese Korea. His family then moved to the nearby town of Chungju, where he grew up. During Ban's childhood, his father had a warehouse business, but the warehouse went bankrupt and the family lost its middle-class standard of living. When Ban was six, his family fled to a remote mountainside for much of the Korean War. After the war ended, his family returned to Chungju. Ban has said that, during this time, he met American soldiers. In secondary school ", "score": "1.6778505" } ]

[ "Puebla", "Free and Sovereign State of Puebla", "Estado de Puebla" ]

[ { "id": "7065606", "title": "Leobardo Soto", "text": " Leobardo Soto Martínez (born 18 January 1971) is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Puebla.", "score": "1.8170489" }, { "id": "30836139", "title": "Leobardo Pérez Jiménez", "text": " Leobardo Perez Jimenez (born September 22, 1945) is a Colombian abstract and figurative artist. He is a painter and sculptor.", "score": "1.7295921" }, { "id": "3619354", "title": "Antonio Soto (syndicalist)", "text": " Antonio Soto was born on 8 October 1897 in the Galician village of Ferrol (A Coruña) to Antonio Soto and Concepción Canalejo. He arrived in Buenos Aires when he was 13 years old. Fatherless, he began a life of misery and privation in Argentina. Soto was unable to complete much of primary school. He worked in a diverse variety of jobs, suffering exploitation and punishments. Ever since he was a boy, he was attracted to anarchist ideas, particularly those of the syndicalists. In 1914, when Soto was 17 years old, Soto refused to join the Spanish militia to go and fight Morocco. In 1919 he embarked with the theater company Serrano-Mendoza, which visited the different Patagonic ports in Argentina and Chile. In January 1920, a popular rebellion broke out in Trelew, Chubut. It began with a strike by commercial employees which grew in support by most of the population against the governor, the police, and the large traders. Soto arrived and began to agitate and support the striking workers, which lead to his arrest and expulsion from Chubut. Soon after he arrived in Río Gallegos, where the militant labor climate that reigned in the city attracted him.", "score": "1.6869783" }, { "id": "32848525", "title": "Onell Soto", "text": " Soto was born in 1932 in Omaja, a small town founded by American immigrants in the province of Oriente, Cuba. The son of Juan Aurelio Soto Vega and María de Los Angeles Almaguer Mayo, Soto spent his childhood in his hometown until 1938 when he moved with his family to a small town named San Agustín, where his father was head of the Army post. He received his primary education in San Agustín's public school. In 1945 he won a scholarship to study in a rural training school in Victoria de las Tunas, a city 30 miles from home. After a year ", "score": "1.6716894" }, { "id": "7152418", "title": "Sebastian Soto", "text": " Soto was born in Carlsbad, California, and is of Chilean and Mexican descent.", "score": "1.6449473" }, { "id": "15383444", "title": "Hugo Soto (actor)", "text": " Soto was born in Corrientes. Developing an early interest in both painting and the stage, Soto relocated to Buenos Aires in the early 1970s, where he was mentored by expressionist painter Carlos Gorriarena. He became active in Buenos Aires' active theatre life and in 1975, director José María Paolantonio gave Soto his first cinematic role in the comic La película (The Movie). This foray into film was unsuccessful, though Soto became increasingly prominent as a stage actor and was soon invited to become a part of the prestigious San Martín Municipal Theatre's retinue. A then little-known local documentarian, Eliseo Subiela, cast Soto in the lead role for his 1986 adaptation of an Adolfo Bioy Casares novella, Morel's Invention. Portraying the enigmatic Rantés, Soto's role in Man Facing Southeast earned ", "score": "1.6420554" }, { "id": "33012444", "title": "José Tous Soto", "text": " José Tous Soto was born in San Lorenzo on October 2, 1874. He graduated with a law degree from the University of Oviedo in Spain.", "score": "1.6338136" }, { "id": "6106486", "title": "Elías M. Soto", "text": " Elias Mauricio Soto (born September 22, 1858 in Cúcuta, Colombia; died October 11, 1944 in the same city) played siren, bugle, trombone and tuba, piano, guitar and organ in several bands. He was also the director of the Departmental Band of Norte de Santander in Cúcuta. One of his notable works is the bambuco \"Brisas del Pamplonita\" (in English \"Breezes of the Pamplonita\") composed for Elisa Ramirez, who he would eventually marry. Oriol Rangel included it for its degree of pianist in the National Conservatory.", "score": "1.6307083" }, { "id": "3338080", "title": "Pedro Juan Soto", "text": " Pedro Juan Soto was born in Cataño, Puerto Rico, and went to primary and secondary school in Bayamón. At the age of eighteen, he moved to New York City and attended Long Island University. He initially studied to become a doctor, but after being influenced by the works of Ernest Hemingway, he decided to dedicate his life to the study of literature. After graduating from Long Island with a Bachelor of Arts degree, he served in the United States Army for a year, and then went to Columbia University to obtain a Master of Arts degree. It is around this time that Soto began to publish his first works, Garabatos and Los inocentes, for which he won awards. He also published stories in Revista Asomante, a Hispanic magazine.", "score": "1.6182437" }, { "id": "290078", "title": "Sotero Lemus", "text": " The main reason for the separation was the decision by Sotero's father, Leobardo Lemus Flores, to move the family from Celaya to the Mexico City area. Leobardo had a long history of working in cartonería, learning at age thirteen in 1949 from Bernardino and even making some improvements on techniques, keeping the traditional style. Leobardo entered the trade when it was experiencing something of a boom, just before the introduction of mass-produced plastic items, especially toys, would decimate it. It was this reason that Leobardo went to Mexico City in the 1970s, first in the city proper. He worked in bricklaying and other construction, but this ", "score": "1.6154916" }, { "id": "12322927", "title": "Darren Soto", "text": " Soto was born in the neighborhood of Ringwood, New Jersey, to a Puerto Rican father, O. Lou Soto, and an Italian-American mother, Jean Soto. From 1998 to 2001, he worked for Prudential Insurance in finance while he attended college. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University in 2000, a Juris Doctor from George Washington University in 2004, and opened his law practice the following year. Soto has a bachelor's degree in economics, and attended law school at George Washington University. In 2006, he was named class counsel in the federal class action brought on behalf of Hispanic voters against the City of Kissimmee in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Soto is a former member of the Civil Service Board for the City of Orlando. He served as the Treasurer of the Orange County Democrats and the Vice President of Communications for the Orange County Young Democrats (YD's). He was also the YD Co-Host for their Speak Easy events that provide a monthly forum for local and state leaders to speak to young voters.", "score": "1.6131847" }, { "id": "2761199", "title": "Jesús Rafael Soto", "text": " Jesús Rafael Soto was born in Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela. The eldest of four children born to Emma Soto and Luis Garcia Parra, a violin player. From a very young age, Soto wanted to help support his family anyway he could, but art was the most interesting to him. He picked up the guitar and also began recreating famous pieces of art that he found in various books, magazines and almanacs. At 16, Soto started his serious artistic career when he began to create and paint posters for the cinemas in Ciudad Bolivar. <<At that age -says the artist-, the only artists that I knew were the lettering painters. My family was very happy. I could earn some money, make lettering till the end of my days. Nobody looked further than that...>> In 1938, Soto participates in a student group affiliated to surrealism ideas and publish in the local journal some poems that scandalize the society. In the group, Soto learns about automatic writing and charcoal drawing. <", "score": "1.6022977" }, { "id": "13798399", "title": "Angel Manuel Soto", "text": " Angel Manuel Soto was born in Santurce, a neighborhood in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His parents were a car salesman and a flight attendant. During his youth, Soto was involved in soccer and boxing, which inspired some of his later projects. As he grew up, he studied architecture and documentary filmmaking and writing. Soto began his career as a TV producer and later worked on Art Direction at a local advertising agency.", "score": "1.5980339" }, { "id": "2011", "title": "Leandro Soto", "text": " Soto was born and grew up in the city of Cienfuegos, Cuba. Soto was one of the leading figures of the influential “Volumen Uno”, an artistic movement that changed the course of Cuban Art in the decade of the 1980s, in which he was the first artist in his generation to work with the Afro-Cuban heritage. He is also credited for being the first performance and installation artist on the island. In his performances and the visual/installation art which emerge from his performances, Soto responds to the postmodern coordinates of implosion and satire, often subverting the inceptions of culturally accepted notions of high/kitsch, traditional/pop, global/local, and profane/sacred art forms. Throughout his artistic career, he has demonstrated an interest in religion, ritual, and the mythology of indigenous people.", "score": "1.5934865" }, { "id": "29221643", "title": "Antonio Sotomayor", "text": " Antonio Sotomayor was born on May 13, 1902 in Chulumani, Bolivia to parents Celia Meza and Juan Sotomayor. He studied at Escuela de Bellas Artes in La Paz, with Belgian metal artist.", "score": "1.5888815" }, { "id": "11767275", "title": "James Soto Roberts", "text": " Born in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County, Soto started his playing career at Black Star where he won the Liberian Premier League and the Liberian Cup in 2008, he was also the league Top Scorer and MVP that same year, but later moved to LPRC Oilers. In July 2014, he moved from LPRC Oilers to The Lions in the Seychelles League on a one year loan, Soto scored 6 goals in 12 appearances for The Lions FC during the 2014–15 Season.", "score": "1.5879252" }, { "id": "13943897", "title": "Raimundo Soto", "text": " Edmundo Rey Kelly (known as Raimundo Soto; 1915 in Montevideo, Uruguay – July 7, 1983 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Uruguayan film, stage and television actor during the country's Golden Age of film. He also starred several television comedy shows in Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and other Latin American countries, together with a famous group of Uruguayans: Ricardo Espalter, Enrique Almada, Eduardo D'Angelo, Julio Frade. Soto worked as an announcer and disc jockey on Uruguayan radio.", "score": "1.5779223" }, { "id": "30865884", "title": "Gary Soto", "text": " Soto was born to Mexican-American parents Manuel (1910–1957) and Angie Soto (1924-). In his youth, he worked in the fields of the San Joaquin Valley. Soto's father died in 1957, when he was five years old. As his family had to struggle to find work, he had little time or encouragement in his studies. Soto notes that in spite of his early academic record, while at high school he found an interest in poetry through writers such as Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Jules Verne, Robert Frost and Thornton Wilder. Soto attended Fresno City College and California State University, Fresno, where he earned his B.A. degree in English in 1974, studying with poet Philip Levine. He did graduate work in poetry writing at the University of California, Irvine, ", "score": "1.5740006" }, { "id": "3619355", "title": "Antonio Soto (syndicalist)", "text": " Before and after the theatrical performances, Soto attended meetings of la Sociedad Obrera de Río Gallegos (Workers Society of Río Gallegos). There he would listen to Doctor José María Borrero who was a captivating orator, who suggested Soto stay and join the union. Borrero had realized that Soto was a militant who had a good ideological foundation and who knew how to express himself in the union's assemblies. Soto abandoned the theater company and settled in Patagonia, where he enrolled as a longshoreman to work in the port. On 24 May 1920 he was chosen as Secretary General of the Workers Society of Río Gallegos. In July of that year the Workers Society, in agreement with all of the unions in the rest of the province of Santa Cruz, declared a strike of all hotel personnel and dockworkers, demanding improved wages. While the dockworkers lost the strike, but the union of waiters, peasants and cooks of the hotels continued.", "score": "1.573823" }, { "id": "31362316", "title": "Chris Soto", "text": " Soto was born in Manhattan, New York City and raised in West New York, New Jersey. After graduating from High School, he received an appointment to attend the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. He graduated and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Research. Soto also earned his Master's in Public Affairs (MPA) from Brown University.", "score": "1.5720577" } ]

[ "Sapporo" ]

[ { "id": "6562729", "title": "Masazumi Inada", "text": " Inada was born in Tottori Prefecture in August 1896. He graduated from the 29th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1917, where he specialized in artillery. He went on to graduate from the 37th class of the Army Staff College with honors in 1925.", "score": "1.8028997" }, { "id": "12738807", "title": "Ryukichi Inada", "text": " Inada was born in Nagoya and he graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in medicine before travelling abroad for medical studies in Germany.", "score": "1.7654217" }, { "id": "5085109", "title": "Masaru Inada", "text": " Masaru Inada (稲田 勝) is a Japanese skeleton racer who has competed since 1997. He finished 18th in the men's skeleton event at both the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics. Inada's best finish at the FIBT World Championships was 11th in Nagano in 2003. He is a graduate of Sendai University.", "score": "1.7640803" }, { "id": "11925436", "title": "Yutaka Inagawa", "text": " Born in Tokyo, Japan, he grew up in the Ikebukuro district. In 1997, he graduated first in his class at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, then went on to gain a master's degree in fine arts in 2004 from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, England. Since then he has lived and worked in London. His art blends the delicate and the grotesque, juxtaposing photographic fragments, line art and painting to produce complex abstract works. His work is inspired by the uneasy lack of harmony between tradition and modernity in the fast-paced, constantly changing urban ", "score": "1.6791" }, { "id": "13792538", "title": "Inada Syūichi", "text": " Inada Syūichi (稲田 周一) (February 26, 1902 – February 5, 1973) was a Japanese Home Ministry government official and politician. He was born in Niigata Prefecture. He was a graduate of the University of Tokyo. He was governor of Shiga Prefecture (1945–1946). He was Grand Chamberlain of Japan (1965–1969).", "score": "1.6713507" }, { "id": "15117834", "title": "Masasue Suho", "text": " He was born in Shiga Prefecture on October 8, 1885. After attending the Aichi Prefectural Medical College (Now Nagoya University) and becoming a physician, he worked at various institutions. He studied the art of architecture at a night school.", "score": "1.6586192" }, { "id": "29806259", "title": "Masaru Ibuka", "text": " Masaru Ibuka was born on April 11, 1908 as the first son of Tasuku Ibuka, an architectural technologist and a student of Inazo Nitobe. His ancestral family were chief retainers of the Aizu Domain, and his relatives include Yae Ibuka and Ibuka Kajinosuke. Masaru lost his father at the age of two and was taken over by his grandfather. He later moved to Kobe after his mother remarried. He passed the entrance exam to Hyogo Prefectural 1st Kobe Boys’ School (now, Hyogo Prefectural Kobe High School) and was very happy about this success.", "score": "1.653142" }, { "id": "27485134", "title": "Saho Sasazawa", "text": " Saho Sasazwa was born Masaru Sasazawa (笹沢勝), the third son of poet. Born in Yokohama according to many sources, but it has also been said he was actually born in Yodobashi, Tokyo and later moved to Yokohama. There he attended what is now Kanto Gakuin University's high school division, but failed to graduate, frequently running away from home during this period. By 1952 he was in Tokyo, working at the Bureau run by the Postal Ministry. Around this time he dabbled in writing plays. In 1958, he was struck by a DUI car, suffering injuries expecting to take 8 months to fully heal. But his short stories ", "score": "1.6173388" }, { "id": "6562728", "title": "Masazumi Inada", "text": " Masazumi Inada (稲田 正純) was a lieutenant general in the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.", "score": "1.6048762" }, { "id": "6593503", "title": "Masaru Hayami", "text": " Hayami was born in Hyōgo Prefecture. He graduated from The Tokyo College of Commerce (now Hitotsubashi University) in 1947.", "score": "1.5922344" }, { "id": "32722986", "title": "Junichi Inagaki", "text": " Inagaki was born and raised in Sendai, the capital of Miyagi Prefecture, and graduated from Miyagi Prefectural Technical High School. One of his earliest musical influences was Stevie Wonder. While a student in middle school, he joined a local band called Faces as a vocalist and drummer. Later, he also performed in bands that entertained United States military personnel stationed in Yokosuka and Tachikawa. Beginning with his commercial debut single \"Rainy Regret\" (雨のリグレット Ame no riguretto) in 1982, Inagaki released a series of popular hits. Inagaki's music became especially well known throughout the 1980s and 1990s. His songs have appeared on several drama programs and numerous commercial advertisements on Japanese television. His 1992 ballad \"When ", "score": "1.5887043" }, { "id": "29174087", "title": "Vola and the Oriental Machine", "text": "Ahito Inazawa (アヒト・イナザワ) Born on June 6, 1973 in Fukuoka, Japan. ; Arie Yoshinori (有江嘉典) Born on December 25, 1969 in Fukuoka, Japan. ; Daiki Nakahata (中畑大樹) Born on July 25, 1974 in Aomori, Japan. ; Eisuke Narahara (楢原英介) Born on August 6, 1981 Chiba, Japan. Previously performing as a support member after Aoki Yutaka's departure, Narahara, joined the band as a full-time member on December 1, 2008. ", "score": "1.5810816" }, { "id": "27218914", "title": "Hyōgo Prefecture", "text": " born in Konohana-ku, Osaka grew up in Kawanishi ; Minako Nishiyama, contemporary artist ; Masamune Shirow, manga artist was born in Kobe ; So Taguchi, outfielder for the Chicago Cubs ; Masahiro Tanaka, pitcher for the New York Yankees ; Nagaru Tanigawa, creator of the Haruhi Suzumiya series was born in Kinki ; Tsuneko Taniuchi, contemporary performance artist ; Fumito Ueda, video game creator of Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Last Guardian ; Juri Ueno, Japanese Academy Award-winning actress best known for her performances in Swing Girls and the live-action adaptation of Nodame Cantabile, is from Kakogawa ; Shota Yasuda, guitarist of Kanjani Eight is from Amagasaki ; Piko, musician, Vocaloid singer born in Kobe, Hyōgo ", "score": "1.5762873" }, { "id": "8207133", "title": "Masao Akashi", "text": "Re:Born ", "score": "1.5754867" }, { "id": "8831009", "title": "Masashi Yamamoto", "text": " Born in Ōita Prefecture, Yamamoto attended Meiji University but left early to concentrate on making independent 8mm films. His Carnival in the Night screened at the 1983 Berlin Film Festival and Robinson's Garden was given the Zitty Award at 1987 edition of the Berlinale. The latter film also earned him the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. In 1998 he was given a research fellowship from Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs to study in New York, during which time he set up screenings of his film Junk Food in America. Often filming those living on the margins of Japanese society, his film Limousine Drive was actually filmed in the United States. He has also acted in some films.", "score": "1.5629257" }, { "id": "32537753", "title": "Inagawa, Hyōgo", "text": "Tatsuya Ikeda (池田達也), professional football player ; Maiko Nakaoka (中岡麻衣子), professional football player ; Eriko Hirose (廣瀬栄理子) ; Nobuyuki Mori (森信行), musician ; Ayumu Yamamoto (山本歩), professional football player ", "score": "1.5628399" }, { "id": "27424670", "title": "1986 in Japan", "text": "January 24: Masazumi Inada, lieutenant general in the Japanese Imperial Army (b. 1896) ; February 21: Shigechiyo Izumi, supercentenarian (b. 1865? or 1880?) ; February 24: Iwaichi Fujiwara, officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy (b. 1908) ; April 8: Yukiko Okada, idol singer (b. 1967) ; April 21: Matsunobori Shigeo, sumo wrestler (b. 1924) ; May 13: Katsuji Matsumoto, illustrator and shōjo manga artist (b. 1904) ; May 17: Masaji Kitano, medical doctor, microbiologist lieutenant general (b. 1894) ; June 26: Kunio Maekawa, architect (b. 1905) ; June 30: Soichi Ichida, philatelist (b. 1910) ; July 31: Chiune Sugihara, diplomat and 'Japanese Schindler' (b. 1900) ; September 10: Koji Shima, film director and screenwriter (b. 1901) ; September 26: Noboru Terada, freestyle swimmer (b. 1917) ; October 14: Takahiko Yamanouchi, theoretical physicist (b. 1902) ; October 25: Tadao Tannaka, mathematician (b. 1908) ; November 12: Fumiko Enchi, author (b. 1905) ; November 26: Kaku Takagawa, Go player (b. 1915) ; December 25: Hamao Umezawa, scientist (b. 1914) ", "score": "1.5540559" }, { "id": "30514950", "title": "Inagaki Toshijiro", "text": " Inagaki was born in Kyoto to Takejiro Inagaki, a painter. He was the second child, and his older brother was Chusei Inagaki. He studied at the Kyoto City University of Arts, and graduated in 1922.", "score": "1.5500007" }, { "id": "15752322", "title": "Granada War Relocation Center", "text": "Kaneji Domoto (1913&ndash;2002), an architect and landscape architect ; (1902&ndash;2001), nurseryman, noted horticulturist (camellias) ; Robert S. Hamada (born 1937), the Edward Eagle Brown Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and former Dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business ; Mike Honda (born 1941), an American politician ; Lawson Fusao Inada (born 1938), an American poet. Also interned at Jerome ; (1919–2017), an art museum director at Michigan State University, and community activist ; Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921&ndash;2012), an influential photographer ; Kiyoshi K. Muranaga (1922&ndash;1944), a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the Medal of Honor ; Yuriko Nakai (born 1932), watercolor artist and author ; Emiko Nakano (1925–1990), abstract expressionist painter, printmaker ; Walter Oi (1929&ndash;2013), the Elmer ", "score": "1.5447749" }, { "id": "26342433", "title": "1920 in Japan", "text": "January 23 &ndash; Nejiko Suwa, violinist (d. 2012) ; January 30 &ndash; Machiko Hasegawa, Illustrator (d. 1992) ; March 17 &ndash; Takeo Doi, academic, psychoanalyst and author (d. 2009) ; March 22 &ndash; Katsuko Saruhashi, geochemist (d. 2007) ; April 1 &ndash; Toshiro Mifune, actor (d. 1997) ; May 9 &ndash; Mitsuko Mori, actress (d. 2012) ; May 30 &ndash; Shōtarō Yasuoka, writer (d. 2013) ; June 17 &ndash; Setsuko Hara, actress (d. 2015) ; July 15 &ndash; Yoshio Inaba, actor (d. 1998) ; October 20 &ndash; Masao Sugiuchi, go player (d. 2017) ; December 24 &ndash; Hiroyuki Agawa, writer (d. 2015) ", "score": "1.543462" } ]

[ "Paris", "City of Light", "Paris, France" ]

[ { "id": "28012098", "title": "Philippe Petit", "text": " Philippe Petit (born 13 August 1949) is a French high-wire artist who gained fame for his unauthorized high-wire walks between the towers of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in 1971 and of Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1973, as well as between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City on the morning of 7 August 1974. For his unauthorized feat 400 m above the ground – which he referred to as \"le coup\" – he rigged a 200 kg cable and used a custom-made 8 m long, 25 kg balancing pole. He performed for 45 minutes, making eight passes along the wire. Since then, Petit has lived in New York, where he has been artist-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, also a location of other aerial performances. He has done wire ", "score": "1.7824634" }, { "id": "12442505", "title": "Pierre Petit (scholar)", "text": " Pierre Petit (1617–1687) was a French scholar, physician, poet and Latin writer. Born at Paris, Petit studied medicine at Montpellier, where he took the degree of MD, though he did not practice medicine afterwards. Returning to Paris, he resided for some time with the president Lamoignon, as tutor to his sons, and afterwards as a literary companion with Aymar de Nicolai, first president of the chamber of accounts. He died shortly after taking a wife.", "score": "1.7459863" }, { "id": "9412806", "title": "Pierre Petit (engineer)", "text": " Pierre Petit (8 December 1594 – 20 August 1677) was a French astronomer, physicist, mathematician and instrument maker. Petit was born in Montluçon. He succeeded his father in his municipal office (Contrôleur de l'élection), but went to Paris in 1633 to dedicate himself to the sciences. He was a member of the circle around Marin Mersenne, and knew Etienne Pascal, Blaise Pascal, and René Descartes. Later he was a member of the Academy of Montmor. On 4 April 1667 he became a fellow of The Royal Society. He also served as a military engineer and geographer to Louis XIII and Louis XIV, in roles such as Superintendent of Fortifications. He died in Lagny-sur-Marne in 1677.", "score": "1.734105" }, { "id": "8568769", "title": "Pierre Petit (photographer)", "text": "in Chalon-sur-Saône ; Musée d'Orsay in Paris ; National Library of France in Paris ; National Portrait Gallery, London Museums that hold large collections of his photographs:", "score": "1.7243623" }, { "id": "32652656", "title": "Emmanuel Petit", "text": " Petit was born in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime.", "score": "1.7230973" }, { "id": "8568768", "title": "Pierre Petit (photographer)", "text": "Galerie des hommes de jour, a series of photographs of famous French people of the day, published in 1861 ; l’Episcopat français, clergé de Paris, a series of photographs of the clergy of Paris ", "score": "1.7195854" }, { "id": "9412968", "title": "Pierre Petit (composer)", "text": " Petit was born in Poitiers, the son of a professor of the khâgne. He studied literature and music in Paris (Hattemer Course, Lycée Louis-le-Grand) and literature at the Sorbonne. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire from 1942, his teachers included Georges Dandelot for music analysis, Nadia Boulanger for harmony, Noël Gallon for counterpoint and fugue, and Henri Busser for composition. In 1946, he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the lyrical scene Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard, which was performed in the same year by the orchestra of the Cadets du Conservatoire under the direction of Claude Delvincourt. From 1951 Petit taught the history of civilization at the ", "score": "1.6913278" }, { "id": "25584038", "title": "Pierre Petit (racing driver)", "text": " Pierre Petit (born 27 September 1957 in Guéret) is a French racing driver. In 1982 he won the French Formula Three Championship. In 1995 he finished third at 24 Hours of Le Mans in the LMP2 class.", "score": "1.689004" }, { "id": "9412967", "title": "Pierre Petit (composer)", "text": " Pierre Petit (21 April 1922 – 1 July 2000) was a French composer.", "score": "1.6888629" }, { "id": "28012100", "title": "Philippe Petit", "text": " Petit was born in Nemours, Seine-et-Marne, France; his father Edmond Petit was an author and an Army Pilot. At an early age, Petit discovered magic and juggling. He loved to climb, and at 16, he took his first steps on a tightrope wire. He told a reporter, \"Within one year, I taught myself to do all the things you could do on a wire. I learned the backward somersault, the front somersault, the unicycle, the bicycle, the chair on the wire, jumping through hoops. But I thought, 'What is the big deal here? It looks almost ugly.' So I started to discard those tricks and to reinvent my art.\" In June 1971, Petit secretly installed a cable between the two towers of Notre Dame de Paris. On the morning of 26 June 1971, he \"juggled balls\" and \"pranced back and forth\" as he crossed the wire on foot to the applause of the crowd below.", "score": "1.6737237" }, { "id": "9413091", "title": "Pierre Petit (cinematographer)", "text": " Petit was born in Fontenay-Trésigny. He began his career at the age of 16½ years as a camera assistant. During the Second World War, he was also active as a cameraman. Among his teachers were Léonce-Henri Burel, Eugen Schüfftan, Jean Bachelet, Joseph-Louis Mundwiller and André Dantan. Shortly after the war ended, Petit debuted as a director of photography; over the course of in the next two and a half decades he became one of the most representative cinematographers working in French cinema (he also worked on a few foreign films). The films Petit photographed were almost continuously purely commercial productions to entertain the ", "score": "1.6690255" }, { "id": "27304004", "title": "Frédéric Petit (19th-century politician)", "text": " Frédéric Petit (June 3, 1836 &ndash; April 20, 1895) was a French politician. He was born in the Somme commune of Bussy-lès-Daours. He served as the mayor of the city of Amiens from 1880 to 1881 and again from 1884 to 1885. On January 31, 1886, during the French Third Republic, he was elected the Senator of Somme. He was reelected on January 4, 1891, but did not complete his full term due to his death in 1895.", "score": "1.6673715" }, { "id": "8568766", "title": "Pierre Petit (photographer)", "text": "Pierre Petit is not to be confused with (Jean) Pierre Yves-Petit (1886&ndash;1969), another French photographer who usually operated under the name Yvon. Pierre Lanith Petit (15 August 1832 – 16 February 1909) was a French photographer. He is sometimes credited as Pierre Lamy Petit.", "score": "1.6636587" }, { "id": "11933047", "title": "Jean Petit (footballer, born 1949)", "text": "1958-1967 : Toulouse FC ; 1967-1969 : Luchon ; 1969-1982 : AS Monaco ", "score": "1.6626184" }, { "id": "9413090", "title": "Pierre Petit (cinematographer)", "text": " Pierre Camille Petit (3 January 1920 – 22 September 1997) was a French cinematographer.", "score": "1.6596713" }, { "id": "28012101", "title": "Philippe Petit", "text": " Petit became known to New Yorkers in the early 1970s for his frequent tightrope-walking performances and magic shows in the city parks, especially Washington Square Park. Petit's most famous performance was in August 1974, conducted on a wire between the roofs of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA, 400 m above the ground. The towers were still under construction and had not yet been fully occupied. He performed for 45 minutes, making eight passes along the wire, during which he walked, danced, lay down on the wire, and saluted watchers from a kneeling position. Office workers, construction crews and policemen cheered him on.", "score": "1.6553274" }, { "id": "3999102", "title": "Stephen Dale Petit", "text": " Stephen Dale Petit was born in the California desert, near Joshua Tree National Park and grew up in Huntington Beach, California which was then a small surf town south of Los Angeles. At the age of seven he received his first guitar, an acoustic. Petit could often be seen at the Huntington Beach landmark venue, The Golden Bear, which hosted such acts as Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan, as well as Blues legends Albert King, B.B. King and John Mayall. Petit's exposure, from a young age, to some of these artists and guitar talents would have a major impact on his personal creative development and future musical career.", "score": "1.6516521" }, { "id": "1528579", "title": "Jean-Pierre Petit", "text": " Jean-Pierre Petit is a French engineer retired from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). In the early 1980s, Petit authored the science comic book series The Adventures of Archibald Higgins. He explored ufology, 9/11 conspiracy theories, and hypersonic military weapons like Aurora, Ayaks, Avangard.", "score": "1.624762" }, { "id": "25540724", "title": "1411 in France", "text": "July 15 - Jean Petit, theologian (born 1360) ", "score": "1.6155715" }, { "id": "30939131", "title": "Jean Petit (footballer, born 1914)", "text": " Jean Petit (25 February 1914 – 5 June 1944) was a Belgian footballer. He was born in Liège, Belgium. He played as a defender for Standard de Liège. He played four times for Belgium in 1938.", "score": "1.6064966" } ]

[ "San Diego", "San Diego, California", "SD", "America's Finest City", "Sandi", "the birthplace of California" ]

[ { "id": "15754916", "title": "William H. Carlson", "text": " William \"Billy\" Carlson was born 1864 in Sweden. He immigrated to the U.S. by 1870 and grew up in San Francisco. Carlson, a fast-talker, would later often deny he was an immigrant. By 1885 he had moved to San Diego. On October 3, 1887 Carlson married Carmen Ferrer, of the wealthy Estudillo family.", "score": "1.892051" }, { "id": "428796", "title": "Billy Carlson", "text": " Billy Carlson (17 October 1889 San Diego, California &ndash; 4 July 1915 Tacoma, Washington) was an American racecar driver. He was killed in an AAA National Championship race at Tacoma Speedway.", "score": "1.7560956" }, { "id": "15754915", "title": "William H. Carlson", "text": " William H. \"Billy\" Carlson (April 11, 1864&ndash;July 7, 1937) was an American land developer and Independent politician from California. He served in the state legislature and served two terms as Mayor of San Diego. He was the first developer of the San Diego neighborhood of Ocean Beach.", "score": "1.7002727" }, { "id": "31965578", "title": "Leslie Carlson", "text": " Born in the small South Dakota city of Mitchell, Carlson earned both a BFA and an MA from the University of South Dakota, which he attended in the 1950s and began his acting career performing in several stage plays in both the U.S and England.", "score": "1.6828504" }, { "id": "2127986", "title": "Edward William Carlson", "text": " Edward William Carlson (May 4, 1883 – July 26, 1932) was an American miniature portraitist. His parents were Swedish immigrants Minnie and John. Carlson spent most of his childhood in Chicago, Illinois where his parents owned and operated the Englewood Home Laundry. At four years of age circa 1887 Carlson fell ill with scarlet fever, and as a result, lost both his hearing and eventually his speech. Carlson was one of eight siblings though two died young. His remaining brothers and sisters, of whom he was the oldest, were Enoch, Amanda, Esther, Arvid and John. Circa 1900 the Carlson family moved near Grovertown, Indiana where they bought or leased a farm near those of his mother's brothers. At this time Edward Carlson's occupation is a farmhand. He was seventeen years old.", "score": "1.6542711" }, { "id": "25887274", "title": "Curt Carlson", "text": " Carlson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Charles and Leatha Carlson. Charles Carlson was a Swedish-American immigrant who arrived as a child in Minnesota; Leatha Carlson was born in Downing, Wisconsin of a Danish father and Swedish mother. Curt began a career with Procter and Gamble after earning a BA in Economics in 1937 from the University of Minnesota where he served as President, and Recruitment Chair for Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity- MN Alpha chapter.", "score": "1.6047134" }, { "id": "32994932", "title": "Frank Carlson", "text": " Carlson was born in 1893 near Concordia, Kansas, the son of Anna (Johannesson) and Charles Eric Carlson, both Swedish immigrants. He attended public schools and Kansas State University before serving in World War I as a Private.", "score": "1.5817568" }, { "id": "5623499", "title": "William E. Carlson", "text": " William E. \"Bill\" Carlson (August 30, 1912 &ndash; March 13, 1999) was an American politician, educator, and businessman.", "score": "1.5776272" }, { "id": "9645674", "title": "Evans Carlson", "text": " Evans Carlson was born on February 26, 1896, in Sidney, New York, the son of a Congregationalist minister. He ran away from his home in Vermont in 1910 and two years later disguised his age to enter the United States Army.", "score": "1.5647837" }, { "id": "428797", "title": "Billy Carlson", "text": " Billy Carlson began his career competing in races on the Pacific coast and was a comparative unknown before he started in the 500-mile classic at Indianapolis in 1914. He took ninth in the event and \"immediately attained prominence on the gasoline circuit.\" He was a member of the Maxwell team for two years in 1914 and 1915 after he was \"discovered\" by Ray Harroun, a Maxwell engineer. His most notable achievement after joining Maxwell was his world's non-stop record of 305 miles made at San Diego, California, in January 1915. He came in second to Barney Oldfield at Venice, California. Carlson sustained fatal injuries in the Montamarathon race at Tacoma Speedway on July 4, 1915. Maxwell suspended their racing game for the remainder of the season and the team was disbanded and the automobiles were shipped back to the factory in Detroit.", "score": "1.5589641" }, { "id": "1813092", "title": "Arne Carlson", "text": " Born in New York City, Carlson is the son of Swedish immigrants from Gothenburg and Visby. Carlson attended New York City public schools P.S. 36 and DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx before gaining a scholarship to attend The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Williams College in 1957 before taking graduate courses at the University of Minnesota.", "score": "1.5553598" }, { "id": "11280221", "title": "Dylan Carlson (musician)", "text": " Carlson was born in Seattle, Washington, United States. His father worked for the Department of Defense, and, as a result, as a child he moved quite frequently, living in Philadelphia, Texas, New Mexico, and New Jersey, before coming back to live in Washington state.", "score": "1.5548211" }, { "id": "10025023", "title": "Richard Carlson (actor)", "text": " The son of a Danish-born lawyer, Carlson was born in Albert Lea, Minnesota. Carlson majored in drama at the University of Minnesota, where he wrote and directed plays and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated cum laude with a Master of Arts degree. Carlson then opened his own repertory theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota. When the theater failed, Carlson moved to New York City.", "score": "1.5452673" }, { "id": "7015480", "title": "Edward Carlson", "text": " Edward \"Eddie\" Carlson (June 4, 1911 – April 3, 1990), was an American hotel and airline executive, and Seattle, Washington civic leader. Carlson was born in Tacoma, Washington. As a youth, he helped his single mother make ends meet by working as a gas station attendant, as well as other odd jobs. Carlson entered the University of Washington in 1928 and, while a student, began his hotel career as a pageboy, then elevator operator, then bellhop. He dropped out of college in 1930, lacking funds. He worked half a year as a seaman, then worked a summer job at Mount ", "score": "1.5366014" }, { "id": "13150232", "title": "Reinhold O. Carlson", "text": " Carlson was born to Swedish immigrants in Des Moines, Iowa and attended public schools in Des Moines. He then attended Drake University, Augustana College, and the University of Nebraska. He was a savings and loan executive. Carlson served as Mayor of Des Moines from 1960 to 1962, and on the Des Moines City Council since 1958. He was later elected to the Iowa State Senate, serving the 29th district from 1971 to 1973 as a Republican. He died in Polk County, Iowa at the age of 100.", "score": "1.5185208" }, { "id": "5976070", "title": "Linda Carlson", "text": " Carlson was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on May 12, 1945, and raised in Minnesota; she was of Swedish descent. She attended the University of Iowa, where she received a bachelor's degree in speech and dramatic arts. She went on to teach for several months at a high school in Flint, Michigan, before moving to New York City, where she attended the NYU School of the Arts and received a master's degree. She later taught acting at NYU.", "score": "1.5177546" }, { "id": "5977881", "title": "Carolyn Carlson (artist)", "text": " Carolyn Carlson (born 1943) is an American born French nationalized contemporary dance choreographer, performer, and poet. She is of Finnish descent. She is the director of the Centre Chorégraphique National in Roubaix and of the Atelier de Paris at La Cartoucherie de Vincennes in Paris. She was awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic.", "score": "1.5034482" }, { "id": "13351488", "title": "Jesse Carlson", "text": " Carlson was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in 2002. He remained in the minor leagues for seven seasons with four different organizations before making his major league debut with the Toronto Blue Jays on April 10, 2008. He entered the game against the Oakland Athletics in the top of the twelfth inning with the bases loaded after Brandon League allowed two runs to Oakland, breaking the game's tie. Carlson struck out Daric Barton to end the inning. A few days later, against the Texas Rangers at the Rogers Centre on April 16, Carlson came on in the 11th inning with the bases loaded and no one out. In an amazing and very rare feat, he struck out the side on ", "score": "1.50172" }, { "id": "5623500", "title": "William E. Carlson", "text": " Carlson was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He served in the United States Navy during World War II. He graduated from University of St. Thomas and was in the insurance business. He went to Harvard University for two months in 1942 and took a communications course. Carlson taught English literature at the University of St. Thomas. Carlson served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1947 to 1952 and was a Democrat. In 1952, Carlson ran for the United States Senate seat from Minnesota and lost the election to Edward Thye, the Republican candidate. Carlson served on the Ramsey County, Minnesota Commission 1957 to 1962. He then served on the Saint Paul City Council from 1966 to 1971 and as Ramsey County Assessor from 1971 to 1977. He died of a heart attack at his home in Saint Paul, Minnesota.", "score": "1.498914" }, { "id": "32969686", "title": "Tucker Carlson", "text": " Carlson was born Tucker McNear Carlson in the Mission District of San Francisco, California, on May 16, 1969. He is the elder son of artist and San Francisco native Lisa McNear (19452011) and Dick Carlson (1941), a former \"gonzo reporter\" who became the director of Voice of America, president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles. Carlson's brother, Buckley Peck Carlson, later Buckley Swanson Peck Carlson, is nearly two years younger and has worked as a communications manager and Republican political operative. Carlson's paternal grandparents were Richard Boynton and Dorothy Anderson, teenagers who placed his father at The Home for Little ", "score": "1.4982609" } ]

[ "London", "London, UK", "London, United Kingdom", "London, England", "Modern Babylon" ]

[ { "id": "29350842", "title": "Abraham Raimbach", "text": " Abraham Raimbach (16 February 1776 in London – 17 January 1843), was an English engraver of Swiss descent. He was born in Cecil Court in the West End of London. Educated at Archbishop Tenison's Library School, he was apprenticed to the engraver J. Hall from 1789 to 1796. For nine years, part of his working-time was devoted to the study of drawing in the Royal Academy and to carrying out occasional engravings for the booksellers, whilst his leisure hours were employed in painting portraits in miniature. Having formed an intimacy with Sir David Wilkie, Raimbach in 1812 began to engrave some of Wilkie's best pictures. At his death, he held a gold medal awarded for his Village Politicians at the Paris Exhibition of 1814. He was elected corresponding member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1835. He is buried in St Mary's Churchyard, Hendon.", "score": "1.9451083" }, { "id": "11330502", "title": "Abraham Samuel Bacharach", "text": " Abraham Samuel Bacharach was a Rabbi, born about 1575; died in Gernsheim, Grand Duchy of Hesse, May 26, 1615. He seems to have come from the city of Worms, but is first met with at Prague, where, in 1600, he married Eva, the granddaughter of the chief rabbi of Prague, Judah Loew ben Bezalel. He was rabbi in Turbin, Kolín (Bohemia), and in Pohrlitz (Moravia); and was subsequently called to the ministry of the very important congregation of Worms. One of the frequent riots against the Jews, instigated by the guilds, caused him to flee from the city. He died during exile, and was buried in Alsbach. Bacharach was respected for his learning and piety. He took a firm stand against the rabbis of Frankfurt, who arrogated to themselves preeminence over all the other rabbis of Germany. A few of his responsa were published by his grandson, Jair Ḥayyim, in the collected \"Ḥut ha-Shani\" (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1679). Bacharach was the author of an essay on the Jewish calendar, a number of apologetic works against Christianity, liturgical poems, and casuistic treatises. Some of his works are still extant in manuscript.", "score": "1.6665959" }, { "id": "12807657", "title": "Menachem Shmuel David Raichik", "text": " He was born in the Polish town of Mlava. In 1936, upon the advice of the famous Amshinover Rebbe, the young Raichik enrolled in the Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim in Otwock, Poland, where he learned the Chabad doctrines of synthesis, scholarship, and personal refinement. Fellow students recall his meticulous observance of the mitzvot and his passionate way of prayer. His Shabbat morning prayer ritual would last as long as six hours, and included lengthy meditations in the Chabad tradition. At night, when reciting the bedtime prayers, Raichik would often become engrossed in introspection into the wee hours, when the time came for morning prayers. During the day he employed his sharp mind in deep Talmudic study. It was in the Lubavitch yeshiva that the young Raichik became attached to the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn. In a short time he became one of the select group who memorized and reviewed the Rebbe's discourses, known as choizrim.", "score": "1.6474073" }, { "id": "11216471", "title": "Kolno", "text": "Maria Lani born in Kolno in 1895; in the late 1920s while in Paris portrayed in paintings and sculpture by over fifty notable artists. ; Albert Lewis was a Broadway and film producer who was born to a Jewish family in Kolno and emigrated to the US as a child. ; Pessah Bar-Adon (born Pessah Panitsch) was an archaeologist, who was involved in many excavations in Israel. ; Gertrude Blanch (born Gittel Kaimowitz) was an accomplished Mathematician, who emigrated to the US as a child. ; Nehemiah Samuel Libowitz was a Jewish scholar. ; Joseph Gabowicz was an acclaimed Sculptor. ; Avraham Akavia was a soldier, author and personal aide to Orde Wingate. ; Ze'ev Yavetz was a historian, author, teacher and one of the founders of the Mizrachi movement. ; Isaac Remba was an author, columnist and personal aide to Ze'ev Jabotinsky ; Chaim Brisman was a theatre actor, director and writer, sculptor and painter who was born in Kolno and emigrated to America in 1921. ", "score": "1.6286943" }, { "id": "7956608", "title": "Raimund Abraham", "text": " Raimund Johann Abraham was born in 1933 in Lienz, East Tyrol, Austria. Throughout a 40-year career, Abraham created visionary projects and built works of architecture in Europe and in the United States. From 1952-1958, Abraham studied at the Graz University of Technology. In 1959, he established a studio in Vienna, where he explored the depths and boundaries of architecture through building, drawing, and montage. Abraham's first book, the 1965 publication \"Elementare Architektur\" was made at a time of transition between architecture studies and practice. In this early volume on elemental structures, Abraham explores the built environment, absent aesthetic speculation, and determinations about design instead coming from the relative level of knowledge and also the desires of the builder. In 1964, Abraham emigrated to the United States.", "score": "1.6286671" }, { "id": "24927415", "title": "Orosháza", "text": "The cantor Marcel Lorand was born in the city in 1912. He learned music with Béla Bartók and became the cantor of the Synagogue de la Paix in Strasbourg, France, in 1964. He died in 1988. ; Júlia Goldman (b. 1974), was born in Oroshaza and is noted as an \"outstanding writer\" of fantasy and adventure. ; Gyula Gömbös, prime minister of Hungary was made an honorary citizen of the city in 1932. ", "score": "1.595397" }, { "id": "3056946", "title": "Abraham Kohen Kaplan", "text": " Abraham Kaplan was born into a Jewish family in the town of Wilke, Kovno Governorate. Having acquired a reputation as a good Hebrew writer at home, he moved to Vienna, where he followed the profession of a publicist until his death. Kaplan was the author of the following works: Mistere ha-Yehudim (Warsaw, 1865), a Hebrew translation of the first volume of the historical novel Die Geheimnisse der Juden of Hermann Reckendorf; Ḥayye Abraham Mapu (Vienna, 1870), a biography of the Hebrew writer Abraham Mapu, with two appendices containing Moshe 'immanu, a poem in praise of Moses Montefiore, and Se'u zimrah, a hymn in honour of the choral society Kol Zimrah of Krakow; Tzarah ve-neḥamah ", "score": "1.589886" }, { "id": "3769769", "title": "Abraham Rice", "text": " Abraham Joseph Rice (born Abraham Reiss) (c. 1800 – 1862) was the first ordained rabbi to serve in a rabbinical position in the United States. Rice was born in 1800 or 1802 at Gochsheim, near Schweinfurt, Lower Franconia. An injury in infancy left him with a limp. He studied at the Würzburg yeshivah, and was ordained by Rabbi Abraham Bing. He later continued his studies at the yeshivah of Rabbi Wolf Hamburger in Fürth, and then headed a small yeshivah in the village of Zell, near Würzburg. In the 1830s he married Rosalie Leucht, and in 1840 they immigrated to the United ", "score": "1.5896606" }, { "id": "7956607", "title": "Raimund Abraham", "text": " Raimund Johann Abraham (July 23, 1933 &ndash; March 4, 2010 ) was an Austrian architect. ", "score": "1.5766926" }, { "id": "9565796", "title": "Abraham Beame", "text": " Beame was born Abraham David Birnbaum in London. His parents were Esther (née Goldfarb) and Philip Birnbaum, Jewish immigrants from Poland who fled Warsaw. Beame and his family left England when he was three months old. He was raised on New York City's Lower East Side. He graduated from P.S. 160 and the High School of Commerce before enrolling at the City College of New York's School of Business and Civic Administration (later spun off as Baruch College), where he received his undergraduate degree in business with honors in 1928.", "score": "1.5739845" }, { "id": "5295562", "title": "Yair Bacharach", "text": " He was born in Lipnik in 1638; according to another claim, he was born in Mahersbrod in 1628. His birth name was Hayim; the name Yair was added after an illness. At age 12 he moved to Worms along with his father, who was appointed rabbi of the city. At 23 he was ordained as a rabbi, and served for some time as rabbi of Mainz. In 1666 he was chosen as rabbi of nearby Koblenz, but in 1669 he returned to Worms. In 1689 the Worms community was decimated by the French during the Nine Years' War, and Bacharach was forced to leave the city for a period of 10 years. Gradually, it was rebuilt. In 1699 he was appointed rabbi of Worms, where his father and grandfather had served before him. He served for only three years until his death in 1702. The inscription on his tombstone begins with the words, “A great and dark horror befalls us from the hiding of the light of Rabbeinu...”", "score": "1.5739615" }, { "id": "14997037", "title": "Moses Samson Bacharach", "text": " Moses Samson Bacharach (1607 – April 19, 1670) was a rabbi and the son of Samuel and Eva Bacharach. He was born in South Moravia, Czech Republic. After the death of his father his mother took him to Prague, where he was educated by his maternal uncle, Ḥayyim ha-Kohen. In 1627 he married Dobrusch, a daughter of Isaac ben Phœbus, of Ungarisch-Brod, Moravia, where he lived supported by his wealthy father-in-law. The Thirty Years' War brought about the ruin of his father-in-law's business, and Samson was compelled to accept a rabbinical position in Göding, Moravia, in 1629. In 1635 he became rabbi of Leipnik, Moravia, and remained there until the capture of the city by the Swedish army in 1643 scattered the congregation and ", "score": "1.5699332" }, { "id": "13107907", "title": "Abraham Aiyash", "text": " Aiyash was born and raised in Hamtramck, Michigan, the seventh of eight children. His parents immigrated to Michigan from Yemen. Aiyash was educated in the Hamtramck Public Schools and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Michigan State University, where he studied pre-medicine, political science, and Muslim studies.", "score": "1.5638206" }, { "id": "12962385", "title": "Abraham Esau", "text": " Esau was born in Tiegenhagen (Tujec) in Landkreis Marienburg, West Prussia. He was the son of Prussian Mennonites, Osar Abraham Esau (1861-1945) and Maria Agnes (Regier) Esau (1861-1892). From 1902 to 1907, Esau studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (today, the Humboldt University of Berlin) and the Königliche Technische Hochschule zu Danzig (today, Gdańsk University of Technology). From 1906 to 1909, he was a teaching assistant to Max Wien at Danzig. He received his doctorate at the University of Berlin in 1908.", "score": "1.558459" }, { "id": "16201596", "title": "Abraham Klausner", "text": " Abraham Judah Klausner was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 27, 1915, one of five children of Joseph Klausner, a Hungarian immigrant who owned a dry goods store, and Tillie Binstalk Klausner, an Austrian immigrant. He was raised in Denver, Colorado. He graduated from the University of Denver in 1938 and was ordained at Hebrew Union College in 1941.", "score": "1.55713" }, { "id": "14780562", "title": "Abraham Goldfaden", "text": " Goldfaden was born in Starokonstantinov (Russia; present day Ukraine). His birthdate is sometimes given as July 12, following the \"Old Style\" calendar in use at that time in the Russian Empire. He attended a Jewish religious school (a cheder), but his middle-class family was strongly associated with the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment, and his father, a watchmaker, arranged that he receive private lessons in German and Russian. As a child, he is said to have appreciated and imitated the performances of wedding jesters and Brody singers to the degree that he acquired the nickname Avromele Badkhen, \"Abie the Jester.\" In 1857 he ", "score": "1.5456195" }, { "id": "1964735", "title": "Albert Raisner", "text": " Born in the Thuringian town Apolda of a French father and a German mother, Albert Raisner arrived in Paris at age 7. His socially modest family lived in Montmartre in the 18th arrondissement of the capital in a 400 square feet apartment. He had two brothers, one older, one younger. His father was a sales representative and music enthusiast, who taught him violin, piano, trumpet, guitar and clarinet early on. He received classical musical training; nevertheless, harmonica was his favorite instrument. He was a member of the boy scouts, whom he considered his first audience when he played during vigils around camp fire. He refined his talent with musician Charles Rodriguez, a gypsy guitarist, violinist, man band and French ", "score": "1.5454586" }, { "id": "5225809", "title": "Abraham of Montpellier", "text": " Abraham ben Yitzchak of Montpellier, also known as Avraham min haHar (lit. \"Abraham from the mountain\") (d. 1315) is known as a commentator on the greater part of the Talmud. He lived in mountain city of Montpellier, in the Provence section of France. Towards the end of his life he moved to Carpentras and became a member of the Beth Din of Rabbi Mordechai ben Josepha, (author of Shaarei Nedarim). He was a contemporary and friend of Menachem Meiri. Both are known to have been followers to the Maimonidean approach to halacha, often explaining Talmudic passages according to the halachic conclusions codified by Maimonides.", "score": "1.5390909" }, { "id": "29552519", "title": "Sholom Secunda", "text": " He was born in 1894 as Shloyme Abramovich Sekunda (Шлойме Абрамович Секунда) in Aleksandria city, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine) to the family of Abram Secunda and Anna Nedobeika. In 1897 the family moved to the Black Sea port city of Mykolaiv, where they opened an iron bed factory. At age 12 Shloyme played Abraham/Avrom in Abraham Goldfaden's Akeydes Yitskhok (The Sacrifice of Isaac) and Markus in The Kishef-Makherin (The Sorceress). In 1907, like many other Jews of the Russian Empire (see History of the Jews in Russia), he and his family emigrated to the United States after a ", "score": "1.5387115" }, { "id": "25677218", "title": "Abraham a Sancta Clara", "text": " Abraham a Sancta Clara (July 2, 1644 – December 1, 1709), German divine, was born at Kreenheinstetten, near Meßkirch. His lay name was Johann Ulrich Megerle. He has been described as \"a very eccentric but popular Augustinian monk\".", "score": "1.535881" } ]

[ "Cleethorpes" ]

[ { "id": "5655786", "title": "H. Hugh Bancroft", "text": " Henry Hugh Bancroft (29 February 1904 – 11 September 1988) was a British organist, choirmaster, and composer who was organist of five cathedrals. He was born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, and studied music with E. P. Guthrie and J. S. Robinson in nearby Grimsby. He attained the FRCO diploma in 1925. He was then organist of Old Clee parish church, and was supplementing his modest income by playing in the local theatre and by working as a compass adjuster. Seeking better prospects, he left for Canada in 1929 to become organist of St. Matthew's Anglican Church in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In 1936 while at St. Matthew's, he earned an external BMus from Durham University. After nine years, he left for the Church of the Ascension in Hamilton, Ontario, but stayed there only ", "score": "1.8076591" }, { "id": "29607270", "title": "Dave Bancroft", "text": " Bancroft was born on April 20, 1891, in Sioux City, Iowa, the youngest of three children of Ella (née Gearhart) and Frank Bancroft. Frank worked as a news vendor on the Milwaukee Railroad. Bancroft attended Hopkins Grade School and Sioux City High School.", "score": "1.7142532" }, { "id": "30037259", "title": "Cecil Bancroft", "text": " Bancroft was born on November 25, 1839 in New Ipswich, New Hampshire to James Bancroft and Sarah Kimball. At an early age he was cared for by Mr. and Mrs. Patch of Ashby, Massachusetts, the neighboring town. While not legally adopted, they named him Cecil Franklin Patch Bancroft, adding Franklin Patch after the son Mr. and Mrs. Patch had who recently died. He attended public schools in Ashby as well as the Appleton Academy in New Ipswich. He entered Dartmouth College in 1856 at the age of sixteen and graduated in 1860 near the top of his class. Bancroft continued his education as he began his career in teaching. He took classes at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City during the 1864-65 academic year. While there he was a member of the United States Christian Commission, traveling to support soldiers during the Civil War. He then transferred to the Andover Theological Seminary where he would graduate in 1867.", "score": "1.6632301" }, { "id": "11691605", "title": "Levi H. Bancroft", "text": " Levi H. Bancroft was born on December 26, 1861 to George I. and Helen M. Bancroft; reports have differed on the location. He attended high school in Lone Rock, Wisconsin and later became a teacher. In 1884, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School. On June 11, 1890, Bancroft married Myrtle DeLap. From 1907 to 1913, he was a judge advocate of what is now the Wisconsin Army National Guard. He died at his farm near Richland Center on September 5, 1948.", "score": "1.6620606" }, { "id": "2109137", "title": "Darius L. Bancroft", "text": " Bancroft was born on February 15, 1819 in New Berlin, New York. On September 3, 1843, he married Sarah Merriam. They would have nine children. Bancroft settled in Chester, Wisconsin in 1845.", "score": "1.6344306" }, { "id": "4714650", "title": "G. Michael Bancroft", "text": " Bancroft was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, the son of an accountant, but grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba where he attended Kelvin High School. He graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1963, subsequently earning an MSc in chemistry (1964) from the same institution. Later that year he went to the University of Cambridge, England to study for a PhD at Corpus Christi College. He worked under the supervision of A.G. Maddock on the development of Mössbauer spectroscopy, obtaining his PhD in 1967. Over a 20-year period Bancroft would become one of the world's leading experts in Mössbauer spectroscopy, publishing more than 80 papers, a major review and an authoritative textbook in the field.", "score": "1.6027502" }, { "id": "31421795", "title": "Samuel Bancroft", "text": " Samuel Bancroft (January 21, 1840 – April 22, 1915) was an American industrialist as well as a major collector of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood artwork. His appreciation for art and his desire to give back to the community led to his becoming a prominent philanthropist in the early 20th century, particularly of the Brandywine School.", "score": "1.6014268" }, { "id": "7984811", "title": "Hubert Howe Bancroft", "text": " He was born on May 5, 1832, in Granville, Ohio, to Azariah Ashley Bancroft and Lucy Howe Bancroft. The Howe and Bancroft families originally hailed from the New England states of Vermont and Massachusetts, respectively. Bancroft's parents were staunch abolitionists and the family home was a station on the Underground Railroad. Bancroft attended the Doane Academy in Granville for a year, and he then became a clerk in his brother-in-law's bookstore in Buffalo, New York.", "score": "1.6006278" }, { "id": "30167587", "title": "Hugh Curwen", "text": " Born in Bampton, Cumbria, he is thought to have been educated at Brasenose College, Oxford. He had at least two brothers, Christopher and James, who was grandfather of Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury and 'overseer' of the King James Bible.", "score": "1.5946949" }, { "id": "5655787", "title": "H. Hugh Bancroft", "text": " months. In 1937, he was back in Winnipeg, at the downtown parish of All Saints, where he developed a men and boys choir of national renown, and initiated choral evensongs on the model of the Church of England cathedrals. Also in Winnipeg, he met and married his wife Eldred Curle. From 1946 to 1948 he was organist of Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver, British Columbia, director of the Vancouver Bach Choir, and an instructor at the British Columbia Institute of Music and Drama. He left Vancouver to become master of music at St. Andrew's Cathedral in Sydney, Australia, but in 1953 returned to All Saints in Winnipeg. On a visit to Cambridge University on his way back from Australia, he experienced the annual Advent Carol service of King's College, and ", "score": "1.5860736" }, { "id": "7984878", "title": "Squire Bancroft", "text": " Bancroft was born in Rotherhithe, London. His first appearance on the stage was in 1861 at Birmingham, and he played in the provinces with success for several years. His first London appearance was in 1865 as Jack Crawley in J. P. Wooler's A Winning Hazard at the Prince of Wales's Theatre off Tottenham Court Road. He was then using the stage name Sydney Bancroft; also in the cast was his future wife, Effie Wilton. This theatre was managed by Henry Byron and Wilton, whom Bancroft married in December 1867. After their marriage the Bancrofts became joint managers of the theatre. Mr and Mrs Bancroft produced and starred in all the Thomas William Robertson comedies beginning in 1865: Society (1865), Ours (1866), Caste (1867), Play (1868), School (1869) and M.P. (1870), ", "score": "1.564626" }, { "id": "27330131", "title": "Bancroft family", "text": " Hugh Bancroft's only daughter by his first marriage to Mary Agnes Cogan (1879-1903). She worked for U.S. intelligence in Switzerland during World War II. She wrote novels and a memoir, Autobiography of a Spy, before dying in 1997 at age ninety-three. She was survived by six grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren. Jane Bancroft's daughter Jessie Bancroft Cox was another prominent member of the second generation. Her husband, son, and grandson &mdash; William C. Cox, Bill Cox Jr., and Billy Cox III, respectively &mdash; were \"the only Bancrofts to have actually worked at Dow Jones since Hugh Bancroft's suicide.\" The family members' private pastimes consist mainly of show-horse breeding, sailing, and farming. However, the family has also produced a speedboat champion and an airline pilot.", "score": "1.5602596" }, { "id": "5655788", "title": "H. Hugh Bancroft", "text": " next year introduced the tradition to Canada at All Saints' Church. He was briefly at Christ Church Cathedral in Nassau, Bahamas, before moving to All Saints' Cathedral in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1958, where he remained until his retirement in 1980. From 1968 to 1977 he also taught for the Department of Music of the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Bancroft was also known as a teacher, and instructed many students who went on to have careers as composers and organists, including Hugh McLean (organist), Barry Anderson, Barbara Pentland, Douglas Bodle, Elwyn Davies and Herbert Sadler. An active composer and arranger, Bancroft was an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre and published numerous pieces, including anthems, motets, chorale and organ works. Several works were premiered by major symphony orchestras.", "score": "1.5547668" }, { "id": "6195835", "title": "George Bancroft (actor)", "text": " Bancroft was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1882. He attended Tomes Institute in Port Deposit, Maryland.", "score": "1.541476" }, { "id": "5686702", "title": "George Bancroft", "text": " Bancroft was born on October 3, 1800 in Worcester, Massachusetts. His family had been in Massachusetts Bay since 1632. George's father, Aaron Bancroft, was distinguished as a revolutionary soldier, a leading Unitarian clergyman, and author of a popular biography of George Washington.", "score": "1.5409541" }, { "id": "26970162", "title": "Edgar Bancroft", "text": " Bancroft was born in Galesburg, Illinois. He was educated at Knox College and the Columbia University Law School. His brother, Frederic, was a noted historian. He was also related to Aaron Bancroft, a biographer of George Washington, and to George Bancroft, a diplomat and historian.", "score": "1.5334256" }, { "id": "28089851", "title": "Bancroft Gherardi Jr.", "text": " Gherardi was born in San Francisco on April 6, 1873, son of Bancroft and Anna Talbot (Rockwell) Gherardi. Gherardi received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1891, and his M.E. and M.M.E degrees from Cornell University in 1893 and 1894, respectively. He received an honorary D. Eng. degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1933.", "score": "1.524734" }, { "id": "6677975", "title": "Neil Bancroft", "text": " Neil Bancroft was born in Oswego, New York in 1846. At age 18, he enlisted in the U.S. Army in Chicago on September 20, 1873. Sent to the frontier, he was assigned to Troop A of the 7th U.S. Cavalry then under the command of George Armstrong Custer. He saw action during the Black Hills War and, during the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876, he was among the many soldiers who carried water \"under a most galling fire\" from the Little Bighorn River to the wounded soldiers at the Reno-Benteen site for much of the engagement. All of the Little Bighorn water carriers received the Medal of Honor for their \"extraordinary bravery\" on October 5, 1878. Bancroft, however, had left the service two months earlier and his medal was simply returned to the War Department. Throughout his life, Bancroft was unaware that he had received the nation's highest honor. By the time the government tracked down Bancroft to officially issue his medal, it was discovered he had died. His medal was eventually put on display in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. where it remains to the present day.", "score": "1.523077" }, { "id": "11191629", "title": "Joseph Bancroft", "text": " Bancroft was born in Stretford, near Manchester, Lancashire, the only son of Joseph Bancroft, a farmer, and his wife Mary, née Lane. He took a five-year apprenticeship with Dr Jeremiah Renshaw at Sale in Cheshire. He later studied at the Manchester Royal School of Medicine and Surgery (M.R.C.S., L.S.A., 1859), where he won several prizes. He took his medical degree at the University of St Andrews in 1859 and later became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. He practised at Nottingham until 1864, then emigrated to Queensland after being advised a warmer climate would improve his health.", "score": "1.5217626" }, { "id": "15698213", "title": "Frederic Bancroft", "text": " Bancroft was born in Galesburg, Illinois, and graduated with an A.B. from Amherst College and a PhD from Columbia University. He was a lecturer for one year at Columbia, and served as Librarian of the State Department from 1888 to 1892. Bancroft was an active member of the American Historical Association, and was the unofficial leader of a group from 1913–1915 that called for the reform of the organization's election procedures, ultimately securing such reforms at the 1915 meeting although failing to topple what he viewed as the oligarchy led by J. Franklin Jameson. Bancroft was the author of two well-regarded books on the South, \"Slave-Trading in the Old South,\" and \"A Sketch of the Negro in Politics, Especially in South Carolina and Mississippi\" He also wrote a biography of William H. Seward. Through his bequest, in 1948 the Bancroft Prize was established at Columbia University in his memory and that of his brother, diplomat and attorney Edgar Addison Bancroft. It is considered one of the most distinguished academic awards in the field of history.", "score": "1.5190346" } ]

[ "Vienna", "Wien", "Vienna, Austria", "W" ]

[ { "id": "2024487", "title": "Nina Dittrich", "text": " Nina Dittrich (born November 20, 1990 in Vienna) is an Austrian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. She is a multiple-time Austrian champion, a five-time national record holder, and also, a current member of Simmering Swimming Club (Schwimmverein Schwechat Simmering) in Schwechat. Dittrich is also the daughter of Ulrike Bauer, an Austrian record holder in both 100 and 200 m breaststroke, and Kurt Dittrich, a sprint butterfly swimmer who competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.", "score": "1.7848717" }, { "id": "10824639", "title": "Nina Lisandrello", "text": " Lisandrello was born in Encino, a district of Los Angeles, California. During her childhood days she constantly traveled around Europe due to her mother's singing career. At the age of 10 years she did a TV commercial for Levi's directed by David Fincher. This commercial is what later helped her to become a SAG Foundation member. As a teenager she settled in New York City where she remained for many years.", "score": "1.5791105" }, { "id": "27152170", "title": "Nina Albright", "text": " Arthur Gustave Abrecht (Father), Mary Stuart (mother) and Nina moved to Brooklyn in 1902 from Manhattan while Arthur worked as a reporter for a German newspaper New Yorker Staats-Zeitung. She decided to become an artist after receiving awards for her submissions to drawing contests in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1922 and 1923. She enrolled in the School of Art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn after graduating from high school in 1924.", "score": "1.5772797" }, { "id": "16513314", "title": "Stacy Dittrich", "text": " Stacy Dittrich (born 2 March 1973), a former police detective from Ohio, is an American mystery novelist and true crime author.", "score": "1.5730381" }, { "id": "7553416", "title": "Rudolf Dittrich", "text": " Dittrich was born in Biala, Galicia (modern Bielsko-Biała, Poland). He attended the Vienna Conservatory, where he specialized in violin, piano, organ, and music composition. His teachers included Anton Bruckner, who later became one of his sponsors. In November 1886, Dittrich married a singer named Petronella Josefine Leopoldine Lammer (15 September 1860 - 4 January 1891). Dittrich was hired by the Meiji government of Japan as a foreign advisor on a three-year contract and arrived in Tokyo in 1888 as the first Art Director of the Tokyo School of Music (now the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music). Dittrich and his wife both worked at the ", "score": "1.5686734" }, { "id": "11633263", "title": "Nina Salaman", "text": " Pauline Ruth Davis was born on 15 July 1877 at Friarfield House, Derby, the second of two children of Louisa and Arthur David (Hebraist). Her father's family were secular Jewish precision instrument makers, who had immigrated to England from Bavaria in the early nineteenth century. A civil engineer by trade, Arthur Davis became religiously observant and mastered the Hebrew language, becoming an accomplished Hebraist noted for his study of cantillation marks in the Tanakh. The family moved to Kilburn, London when Nina was six weeks old, later settling in Bayswater. Davis gave his daughters an intensive scholarly education in Hebrew and Jewish studies, and took them regularly to the synagogue. The Davises moved in learned Jewish circles, and friends of Nina's parents included the families of Nathan Adler, Simeon Singer, Claude Montefiore, Solomon Schechter, Herbert Bentwich, and Elkan Adler. Arthur Davis was one of the \"Kilburn Wanderers\"—a group of Anglo-Jewish intellectuals that formed around Solomon Schechter in the 1880s—members of which took an interest in Nina's work and helped her find publication for her writings.", "score": "1.5662389" }, { "id": "70162", "title": "Doris von Schönthan", "text": " Schönthanwas born in Worms. As an early orphan, she was adopted by the Berlin comedy writer Franz von Schönthan, who together with his brother Paul became known for the comedy Der Raub der Sabinerinnen and worked behind the scenes, for example, on operettas to the music of Eduard Künneke. Professionally, she was partly employed, partly freelance, such as for a Berlin \"advertising service of American style\" (advertising agency), for Berlin daily newspapers, magazines and illustrated papers. She was portrayed in drawings by Paul Citroen, 1927 but also by the contemporary cultural magazine Der Querschnitt. Schönthan belonged to the circle of friends around the closely connected siblings Erika and Klaus Mann, into which she brought Grete Dispeker (later married Weil), their friend ", "score": "1.5596471" }, { "id": "32184264", "title": "Paul Leo", "text": " On January 9, 1939 the SS Magazine, Das Schwarze Korps, printed an article vilifying Paul Leo. He immediately sent his daughter to the Netherlands on a special train for refugee children and shortly after relocated to the Netherlands himself. On August 30, 1939, metal sculptor Eva Dittrich, whom he had met in the summer of 1937, arrived to join him in emigrating to the United States. He and his daughter were granted visas and left for the States. Dittrich, as an unendangered German citizen, was denied a visa and traveled instead to Venezuela with Leo's brother, Ulrich Leo, his wife Helene, and their sons.", "score": "1.5528383" }, { "id": "10186595", "title": "Rochelle Majer Krich", "text": " Krich was born in Bayreuth, Germany but emigrated to the United States in 1951, moving to Los Angeles in 1960. Her parents were survivors of the Holocaust who met after the war, her father's first wife and daughters having been lost in the camps. She graduated in English from Stern College for Women and met her husband while studying for a master's at UCLA. She is married with six children and taught in an orthodox Jewish high school in Los Angeles for many years. Her first published novel Where's Mommy Now? won the Anthony Award for best paperback original and was adapted into film in 1995 as Perfect Alibi, starring Teri Garr, Hector Elizondo, and Kathleen Quinlan. Her first series is set in Los Angeles and concerns Jessie Drake, a divorced homicide detective who has a difficult relationship with her mother and sisters. In the second novel, Angel of Death, Jessie unexpectedly discovers that her mother is Jewish and that family members were lost in the Holocaust. Her second series features Molly Blume, from an orthodox Jewish family.", "score": "1.550405" }, { "id": "2024488", "title": "Nina Dittrich", "text": " At age sixteen, Dittrich made her international debut at the 2006 European Junior Swimming Championships in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, where she captured two medals, silver and bronze, in the women's butterfly and individual medley (both 200 m), posting her time of 2:12.84 and 2:17.86, respectively. In the same year, she won another bronze medal in the same discipline at the FINA Youth World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a time of 2:13.92, four tenths of a second (0.40) behind runner-up Jemma Lowe of Great Britain. Dittrich qualified for the women's 200 m butterfly at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing ", "score": "1.5496521" }, { "id": "5927863", "title": "Nina Stibbe", "text": " Born in 1962, Nina grew up in rural Leicestershire, England, in a single-parent family. In 1982, she left Leicestershire to work as the nanny in the household of Mary-Kay Wilmers for two years, at 55 Gloucester Crescent, London, looking after Mary-Kay's two children with Stephen Frears, Sam and Will. At the time Gloucester Crescent was the home of a number of notable artistic and literary figures, including Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, Claire Tomalin, Karel Reisz and Michael Frayn. This literary environment was completely new to her. During this time, Nina wrote letters to her sister Victoria, back in Leicestershire, detailing her experiences as a nanny amongst the literary elite. These letters became the ", "score": "1.5478251" }, { "id": "10913631", "title": "Nina Zilli", "text": " Nina Zilli was born on 2 February 1980 in Piacenza, Italy, to a father from Emilia-Romagna and a mother from Apulia, and grew up in Gossolengo, nine kilometers southwest of Piacenza, After moving to Ireland, she started performing live and, at the age of thirteen, she started studying opera singing at the conservatory. In 1997 she founded her first band, The Jerks. After completing high school at the Liceo Scientifico Respighi in Piacenza, she spent two years in the United States, living in Chicago and New York.", "score": "1.54422" }, { "id": "15493629", "title": "Nina Franoszek", "text": " Franoszek was born in Berlin, West Germany to the fine artists Sabine Franek and Eduard Franoszek, who was also a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. She graduated from high school (Abitur) in 1981. Franoszek began working as a dancer, and also posed as a life model for German neo-expressionist painters Rainer Fetting, G.L. Gabriel and Salomé. In 1982 she played roles in two films, Domino (1982) by Thomas Brasch and Sei zärtlich, Pinguin (English title: Be Gentle Penguin) (1982) by. Franoszek studied mime and dance in summer seminars at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and enrolled at the Free University of Berlin for Japanese Studies and Ethnology. In 1984 she was an exchange student with the Moscow Art Theater School and the Theater Academy Wachtangow in Leningrad, now: Saint Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy. Franoszek earned a master's degree in Performing Arts (BFA & MFA) from the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover (HMTMH) in 1986, and began to work in regional and national theatre. She was a working finalist of the Actors Studio West in Los Angeles.", "score": "1.5361338" }, { "id": "27770712", "title": "Donna Meistrich", "text": " Meistrich was born in Brooklyn, New York to Syd and Pearl Meistrich and was the oldest of three children. Growing up on Long Island with her two younger brothers, she graduated Northport High School in 1972. She also attended the Academy of Art University from 1974 to 1978 in San Francisco, where she majored in illustration and graphic design.", "score": "1.5324515" }, { "id": "3556446", "title": "Nina Davuluri", "text": " Davuluri was born on April 20, 1989, in Syracuse, New York, into a Telugu-speaking Telugu Hindu family from India. Her mother is an Information technology specialist, her father was a gynecologist, and her sister is a doctor. When she was six weeks old, Davuluri was brought to live with her grandmother and aunt in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. She stayed there until she was two-and-a-half years old, when her parents brought her back to the United States, returning to India each summer in order to study Indian dance. She is also fluent in Telugu. Davuluri moved to Oklahoma when she was four years ", "score": "1.5285392" }, { "id": "30667587", "title": "Nina Munk", "text": " Munk was born in Canada to the entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Munk and University of Toronto professor Linda Munk. She spent her childhood in Switzerland's Berner Oberland before moving to Toronto for high school. She received a B.A. in comparative literature from Smith College in 1988, an M.A. in French literature and language from Middlebury College in 1989, and, in 1992, an M.S. with honors from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was awarded the Philip Greer Memorial Scholarship for outstanding business and financial journalism. Munk is married to the artist Peter Soriano, with whom she owns a townhouse in New York City.", "score": "1.5239056" }, { "id": "27157476", "title": "Violetta (performer)", "text": " Aloisia Wagner (born 1906/1907, date of death unknown), better known by her stage name Violetta, was born without legs or arms with a condition known as tetra-amelia syndrome. She was born in Hemelingen, Germany, and had a lengthy career in sideshow performance. On March 23, 1924, she left her birth city of Bremen-Hemelingen, Germany, with her stepbrother and manager, Karl Grobecker, aboard the SS George Washington which arrived in New York on April 3, 1924. According to the ship manifest, Aloisia had blonde hair and green eyes, was 3 feet tall, and was allowed into the U.S. for 25 weeks to work for Samuel W. Gompertz in his Dreamland Circus Side Show. She was the daughter of Elise ", "score": "1.5217167" }, { "id": "30182551", "title": "Lilya Zilberstein", "text": " Born in Moscow and educated at the Gnessin State Musical College (1971–88), she rose to prominence after winning the 1987 Concorso Busoni. This success opened up the Italian halls to her, and as soon as she graduated she embarked on a tour, debuting in the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. She finished with her German debut in Munich and she was immediately contracted by Deutsche Grammophon. She settled in Hamburg two years later, where she still lives with her husband and her two sons, Daniel and Anton. She has since had a successful concert career. She has been teaching at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena since 2011.", "score": "1.5176469" }, { "id": "14215847", "title": "Astoria, Queens", "text": " team ; Ethel Merman (1908–1984), Broadway actress and singer ; Eric Metaxas (born 1963), author, founder of \"Socrates in the City\" ; Marilyn Milian (born 1961), judge on television series The People's Court ; Dito Montiel (born 1965), author, screenwriter, director and musician ; Nicole and Natalie Albino, of the musical duo Nina Sky ; Al Oerter (1936–2007), Olympic discus throw four-time gold medalist ; Melanie Safka (born 1947), singer-songwriter ; Joe Santagato (born 1992), Youtuber and entertainer ; Franz Schurmann (1926–2010), Cold War-era expert on the People's Republic of China ; Dee Snider (born 1955) singer of rock band Twisted Sister ; Christopher Walken (born 1943), actor ; Gordon Willis (1931–2014), Academy Award-winning-cinematographer ", "score": "1.5164467" }, { "id": "25348011", "title": "Annika Bruhns", "text": " Daughter to Wibke Bruhns, a journalist, and Werner Bruhns, an actor. She was born in Hamburg, Germany and moved with her family to Jerusalem, Israel in 1980. After she graduated from high school her family moved to Washington DC, US, where she majored in German literature and history at Connecticut College, New England, CT. She then continued her studies at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in New York City, NY, where she graduated with honours. She started her performance career in NYC. Bruhns debuted as Nina in NYC in a small Off-Broadway production of Anton Czechov's play The Seagull. ", "score": "1.5137582" } ]

[ "King's Lynn", "Lynn", "Bishop's Lynn" ]

[ { "id": "29080394", "title": "Gary Freear", "text": " Gary David Freear (born 4 May 1982) is an English cricketer. Freear is a right-handed batsman. He was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk. Freear made his debut for Cambridgeshire County Cricket Club in the 2000 Minor Counties Championship against Suffolk. In 2001, he made his List A cricket debut against Somerset in the 2001 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy. He played three further List A matches for Cambridgeshire, the last coming against Northamptonshire in the 2004 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy. He played for Cambridgeshire until the end of the 2014 season. In his spare time Gary works as a carpenter for his family business. More recently he has founded GDF Bats and makes and sells cricket bats and other equipment to the buyers specifications. Gary for many years has been a groundsman at Wisbech Cricket Club, where he resided on the grounds in the ‘chod shack’. This was until he found his girlfriend Heidi Allen.", "score": "1.9681871" }, { "id": "32094083", "title": "Louie Freear", "text": " Louisa Freear (26 November 1871&ndash;23 March 1939) was an English actress and comedienne. She was born in Lambeth, London, and was part of the Freear theatrical family; her parents were actor Henry Butler Freear and Mary Jane Freear ( Burke), a vocalist. Her brother Walter Freear was an actor, dancer and comedian, and brother Alfred worked as a musician. Described as \"vital and diminutive\", she performed the role Flo Honeydew in The Lady Slavey (1894) and Puck in Herbert Beerbohm Tree's lavish 1900 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. She was also a success in George Dance's comic opera, A Chinese Honeymoon, in 1901. In 1912, she married Charles Shepherd. She died in London in 1939.", "score": "1.6850321" }, { "id": "25941850", "title": "Gary Dee", "text": " Dee was born in Hope, Arkansas. His father was a sharecropper who moved the family to Exeter, California when Dee was 11. There his father became a fire chief. He went on to spend three semesters at the University of California, Berkeley, studying accounting. He dropped out and went on to enter the College of the Sequoias. He then finished his degree in radio and speech at Fresno State College while living in a funeral home rent-free in exchange for answering the phones at night; or at least that was the deal. Gary sublet two of his three rooms and had the other college students do the work. While in Fresno, he was on-air at KYNO, the Gene Chenault-owned Top-40 station that was an ", "score": "1.6725392" }, { "id": "7142482", "title": "Jim Gary", "text": " While still at grammar school, at the age of eleven, he moved out of his parents' Colts Neck home and began making his own living. He supported himself by doing odd jobs and selling his handmade seasonal decorations. For almost a year he secretly slept in the garage of the Sterner family, a prominent Monmouth County couple in the same community, who employed him regularly. Once the family discovered this, they provided space in their home for him. He remained close to them until they died. Gary attended Freehold High School, where he developed an interest in sculpting with wood; he was inducted into the school's hall ", "score": "1.6545267" }, { "id": "1925965", "title": "Gary Frisch", "text": " Frisch was born in Johannesburg South Africa. His father, Eric, was an entrepreneur, and his mother, Rhona, was a bookkeeper. He was educated at Boksburg High School and studied computer science at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg while working for De Beers' industrial diamond division.", "score": "1.6432881" }, { "id": "13042207", "title": "Freehold High School", "text": "Daniel Boyarin (born 1946, class of 1964), historian of religion who is Professor of Talmudic Culture at University of California, Berkeley. ; Charles H. Brower (1901-1984, class of 1920), advertising executive, copywriter and author. ; Scott Conover (born 1968), former Detroit Lions offensive tackle (1991–96) ; Michele Fitzgerald (born 1990), winner of Survivor: Kaôh Rōng in 2016, the 32nd season of the reality series. ; David Garrison (born 1952, class of 1970), actor best known as the character Steve Rhoades in the television series, Married... with Children. ; Jim Gary (1939-2006), sculptor known for his large, colorful creations of dinosaurs made from discarded automobile parts. ; Jason Kutney (born 1981), soccer midfielder who played for the Pittsburgh ", "score": "1.6228099" }, { "id": "13477596", "title": "Gary Blair", "text": " Gary Blair is the son of Lee, a plaster foreman, and Jean, a housewife. He was raised in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Dallas. He grew up playing baseball, and as a 128-pound center fielder at Bryan Adams High School, he received all-city honors in 1963. Following his high school graduation in 1963, he enrolled at Texas Tech University, where he failed out of architecture, and moved to California to become a restaurant manager. He got a U.S. Army draft notice in 1969, and decided to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps, completing a two-year tour of duty. He was stationed in Okinawa during his duty. After his tour, he lived in ", "score": "1.6175668" }, { "id": "4262597", "title": "Mike Freer", "text": " Mike Freer was born in Manchester on 29 May 1960. Part of his childhood was spent in council accommodation, which was then bought by his parents following the Conservative government's Right to Buy policy. He was state educated at the Chadderton Grammar School for Boys and subsequently at St Aidan's County High School (now Richard Rose Central Academy) in Carlisle. He read accountancy and business law at the University of Stirling but did not graduate with a degree. Freer worked for a number of fast-food chains, including Pizzaland, Pizza Hut and KFC, prior to a management career in the financial sector. Freer worked for Barclays Bank as an \"Area Performance Manager\".", "score": "1.6148133" }, { "id": "3804450", "title": "Gary Fildes", "text": " Fildes was born in Sunderland in 1965. Growing up in Grindon, a council estate on the outskirts of Sunderland, he left school at the age of sixteen to work as a bricklayer. Not formally trained in astronomy or academia, in 2012 Fildes was given an honorary master's degree from Durham University.", "score": "1.6123859" }, { "id": "9481473", "title": "Doug Free", "text": " Douglas Free (born January 16, 1984) is a former American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys. He was drafted by the Cowboys in the fourth round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played college football at Northern Illinois University.", "score": "1.6004128" }, { "id": "10707679", "title": "Gary Thain", "text": "Bright City (1971) ", "score": "1.5947735" }, { "id": "12939107", "title": "Dave Freer", "text": " Freer was born and educated in South Africa. He grew up on the edge of a city next to a ~500-acre nature preserve of coastal bush. His father crewed on a commercial fishing boat on weekends. After a stint in boarding school, where he learned \"Smoking, strong drink and pursuit of wild women\", he was conscripted at the age of 17 into the South African Defence Force and sent to the Angolan border as a medic (his last choice). \"My choices were five years in jail, leave the country, or go in for a year. I'm a strong swimmer, but the Atlantic seemed too ", "score": "1.592911" }, { "id": "6886166", "title": "Gary Berkovich", "text": " Gary Berkovich, AIA, NCARB (born May 26, 1935, in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is an American and Soviet architect, and the first Soviet architect of 1960s – 1980s immigration wave, who had opened his office (Gary A. Berkovich Associates, 1987) in the United States. Author of about 200 projects of residential and public buildings in the USSR and in the USA. He is a winner of the architectural competitions in the Soviet Union and in the United States. He is also an author of books and professional articles.", "score": "1.5901806" }, { "id": "32105326", "title": "Gary Kurfirst", "text": " Kurfirst was born in Forest Hills, Queens. He started promoting dances while he was still a student at Forest Hills High School in Queens. He rapidly moved on to organizing and promoting shows at the tennis stadium at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills and moving across the East River to promoting gigs in Manhattan. Kurfirst helped arrange the first East Coast performances of acts including Jimi Hendrix and The Who.", "score": "1.5883135" }, { "id": "10423408", "title": "Gary Gannon", "text": " Gannon was born in Dublin's North Inner City and now lives in Glasnevin. The son of a street trader, he left school to train as a plumber. He later studied History and Politics at Trinity College Dublin.", "score": "1.5872116" }, { "id": "2933640", "title": "Gary Spatz", "text": " Gary Spatz was born in New York on April 1, 1951, and raised in New York and Miami, Florida. He then moved to Washington D.C. where he attended the American University and studied history. After attending a summer acting program at the Arena Stage Theater in D.C. he decided to move to Los Angeles in 1977. In Los Angeles, Gary Spatz continued to study acting with Paul Sills and American Theater Arts from 1978 through 1985.", "score": "1.5836501" }, { "id": "7196458", "title": "Gary McSpadden", "text": " Gary McSpadden was born to Boyd and Helen McSpadden. The family later moved to Lubbock, Texas where Gary's father was pastor of Faith Temple. McSpadden grew up in a musical family. His mother and father were songwriters, and at least one of their songs, \"Heaven\", became popular after it was recorded by George Beverly Shea and others. As a young boy, McSpadden sang in the church and was singing solos by the age of ten.", "score": "1.5816348" }, { "id": "27282026", "title": "Gary Pomerantz", "text": " Pomerantz was born in North Tarrytown, New York, the youngest of three boys. His family moved to Orlando, Florida when he was a boy, and then to Los Angeles, California in 1971. He studied history at the University of California, Berkeley, served for a time as sports editor of the student newspaper, The Daily Californian, and graduated in 1982.", "score": "1.5808334" }, { "id": "29511989", "title": "Micki Free", "text": " Micki Free, a \"mixed-blood\" Native American, was born in West Texas and moved to Germany soon afterward. He claims Irish, Comanche, and Cherokee descent. His stepfather, a U.S. Army sergeant, was stationed in Germany, and Free was introduced to rock 'n' roll there as a child, when one of his five sisters received tickets to a Jimi Hendrix concert and took him along to the show. \"It just blew my mind\", Free remembered. His family later moved to Illinois, where Free joined the rock band Smokehouse. When he was 17, he was discovered by Gene Simmons of KISS, during a concert at which Smokehouse was the opening act for KISS, Ted Nugent, and REO Speedwagon. After Simmons' encouragement, Free joined Shalamar in 1984, ", "score": "1.5804956" }, { "id": "30285746", "title": "Gary Tharaldson", "text": " Gary Tharaldson (born 1945) is an American entrepreneur and founder of the Tharaldson Companies. As of 2019, Tharaldson is the wealthiest individual in North Dakota, and the state's only billionaire. Gary Tharaldson was born in and grew up in Dazey, North Dakota. He graduated from Valley City State University with degrees in Business Administration and Physical Education. He did graduate work at North Dakota State University in Fargo and taught school in Leonard, North Dakota for two years. He has been extensively involved at the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota, lending his name and acumen to the University's \"Gary Tharaldson School of Business\", serving for a time on the University's Board of Trustees, and receiving an honorary doctorate from the University in 2018. Tharaldson Hospitality builds and operates hotels across the United States. Tharaldson Companies was established in 1982 ", "score": "1.580099" } ]

[ "Olkusz" ]

[ { "id": "33036353", "title": "Paweł Blehm", "text": " Paweł Blehm (born 17 April 1980 in Olkusz) is a Polish chess grandmaster (2001). He took part in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2000, but was knocked out in the first round by Smbat Lputian. He played for Poland in the Chess Olympiad of 2000. In 2002 he won the Bermuda Open tournament. His handle on the Internet Chess Club is \"Pawelek\".", "score": "1.8370855" }, { "id": "1102737", "title": "Olkusz", "text": "Paweł Blehm, a Polish chess grandmaster ; Marcin Bylica a.k.a. Martin Bylica and Marcin z Olkusza, a Polish astrologer, astronomer ; Paweł Czarnota, a Polish chess Grandmaster ; Antoni Kocjan, a Polish war hero and famous glider engineer ; Henryk Mandelbaum, a Polish survivor of the Holocaust ; Tadeusz Rydzyk, a Roman Catholic priest and Redemptorist ; Dov Berish Einhorn, a Rabbi ", "score": "1.6104312" }, { "id": "25065294", "title": "Paweł Althamer", "text": " Paweł Althamer (born 12 May 1967, Warsaw) is a contemporary Polish sculptor, performer, collaborative artist and creator of installations, and video art.", "score": "1.5247569" }, { "id": "32373415", "title": "Stefan Pawlicki", "text": " Stefan Pawlicki came from a merchant family. He began his education in Danzig (Gdańsk); after his family moved to Greater Poland, he continued it in Pleschen (Pleszew). At age thirteen, he lost his parents during an epidemic. He completed progimnazjum thanks to help from a local parish priest, Father Basiński. He continued his education in 1853–58 at a liceum in Ostrów Wielkopolski, where he was one of the best pupils, thanks to a scholarship from Jan Kanty Działyński of Kórnik. In 1858–62 he studied classical philology at Breslau University. At Breslau (Wrocław) he was secretary and president of the Slavic-Literary Society. In 1862 he ", "score": "1.517924" }, { "id": "5259359", "title": "Michail Paweletz", "text": " Michail Paweletz was born and grew up in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany on March 26, 1965. After graduating from the Bunsen-Gymnasium Heidelberg, he began studying the violin at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, which he completed at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In addition to studying music, he completed acting and speaking training. After studying music, he began in 1995 as a presenter at the ARD-Nachtkonzert and as a speaker for Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). His studies were the prerequisite for his journalistic work at NDR Kultur, where from 1996 he moderated numerous programs, conducted interviews and worked as a reporter. He has been on the ", "score": "1.5171022" }, { "id": "13426506", "title": "Kielce", "text": " Buergenthal (born 1934), American judge, lived in Kielce Ghetto, an author of A Lucky Child ; Rafał Olbiński (born 1943), Polish graphic artist, stage designer and surrealist painter ; Włodzimierz Pawlik (born 1958), Polish Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist and composer ; Krzysztof Klicki (born 1962), president of Kolporter Holding, former owner of Korona Kielce ; Michał Sołowow (born 1962), Polish businessman, billionaire and rally driver, shareholder of Cersanit S.A., Echo Investment, Barlinek, Życie Warszawy, one of the richest Poles ; Piotr Marzec better known as Liroy (born 1971), Polish rapper ; Andrzej Piaseczny (born 1971), popular Polish vocalist ; Dagmara Domińczyk (born 1976), Polish-American actress and author ; Marika Domińczyk (born 1980), Polish-American actress ", "score": "1.5147641" }, { "id": "15507930", "title": "Zgorzelec", "text": "Jakob Böhme (1575–1624), German theologian ; Ryszard Sobczak (born 1967), Polish fencer and Olympic medallist ; Grzegorz Żmija (born 1971), goalkeeper ; Agata Korc (born 1986), Polish swimmer ; Honorata Skarbek (born 1992), Polish singer ", "score": "1.5121301" }, { "id": "32701235", "title": "Chopina Street, Bydgoszcz", "text": " 1920 Late Art Nouveau Michał Łempicki was born on September 14, 1856, near Sztum, Russian Empire (in today's Poland). His father, Michał senior, an opposent to the Alexander II of Russia was sentenced two times by the tsarist regime: the first time he was exiled to Iszy in Siberia, staying, among others, with Polish poets Karol Baliński and Gustaw Zieliński, the second period was spent in Samara, Russian Empire, on the Volga river. There, the young Michał grew up and graduated from junior high school, before going to Saint Petersburg. He gained his diploma of mining engineering at the Institute of Technology. In 1896, he founded the company M. Łempicki ", "score": "1.5115936" }, { "id": "1568620", "title": "1937 in Poland", "text": "January 1. Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, a science fiction writer is born in Płock, ; January 3. Composer Zygmunt Konieczny is born in Kraków, ; January 12. Composer Marian Sawa is born in Krasnystaw, ; February 6. Opera singer Wiesław Ochman is born in Warsaw, ; February 11. Singer and composer Maciej Kossowski is born in Grudziądz, ; February 13. Opera singer Anna Malewicz-Madey is born in Pinsk, ; May 16. Jan Drzezdzon, a Kashubian writer is born in Domatowo, ; July 19. Rock singer Boguslaw Wyrobek is born in Gdynia, ; August 18. Edward Stachura, a poet and writer, is born in Charvieu-Chavagneux, ; September 17. Musician Urszula Mazurek is born in Toruń, ; November 22. Musician Edward Hulewicz is born in Berezne, ; November 27. Birth of hurdler Cezary Kuleszyński ; December 26. Opera singer Teresa Kubiak is born in Ldzanie near Pabianice. ", "score": "1.5015771" }, { "id": "2225673", "title": "Wilhelm Mach", "text": " He was born in Kamionka near Ropczyce in a peasant family to Wincenty Mach and Apolonia née Białek. He attended a school in Kamionka, and then continued education in Ropczyce, from 1928 in a private school - Miejskie Staroklasyczne Koedukacyjne Gimnazjum in Ropczyce. He debuted with a poem Jesień (Autumn) printed in a school press Przyszłość (Future, issue from 1 September 1928) and a novella Dawne zapusty published in a timely Rola. He continued his education from 1932 at the Władysław Jagiełło Gimnazjum in Dębica, where he edited the school magazine U nas. He graduated from secondary school diploma in 1936. In 1938 he graduated from ", "score": "1.4841398" }, { "id": "31805874", "title": "Bartłomiej", "text": "Bartłomiej Pawełczak (born 1982), Polish rower ; Bartłomiej Pawłowski (born 1992), Polish footballer ; Bartłomiej Pękiel (fl. from 1633–d. ca. 1670), Polish classical music composer ", "score": "1.4815189" }, { "id": "32453775", "title": "Michał Boym", "text": " Michał Boym was born in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine), around 1614, to a well-off family of Hungarian ancestry. His grandfather Jerzy Boim came to Poland from Hungary with the king Stefan Batory, and married Jadwiga Niżniowska. Michał's father, Paweł Jerzy Boim (1581–1641), was a physician to King Sigismund III of Poland. Out of Pawel Jerzy's six sons, the eldest, the ne'er-do-well Jerzy was disinherited; Mikołaj and Jan became merchants; Paweł, a doctor; while Michał and Benedykt Paweł joined the Society of Jesus. The family had their own family chapel in Lviv's central square, which was constructed around the time of Michał's birth. In 1631, Boym ", "score": "1.4777937" }, { "id": "25864396", "title": "Janusz Pawliszyn", "text": " Pawliszyn was born on May 16, 1954, in Gdańsk, Poland. Pawliszyn began his education in Poland by attending the Gdańsk University of Technology for his Bachelor of Science degree in engineering and Master's degree in bioorganic chemistry. Following this, he moved to the United States for his PhD in analytical chemistry at Southern Illinois University.", "score": "1.4722035" }, { "id": "30759524", "title": "Głuchołazy", "text": "Roland Gumpert (born 1944), engineer and founder of the Gumpert sports car company ; Mieczysław Walkiewicz (born 1949), politician, member of the Polish Sejm ; Andrzej Sośnierz (born 1951), politician and physician ; Michał Bajor (born 1957), actor and musician ; (born 1958), activist, author of the logo of the Order of the Smile ; Roman Dąbrowski (born 1972), footballer ; Jakub Ćwiek (born 1982), fantasy writer ; Kamil Bortniczuk (born 1983), politician, member of the Polish Sejm ; (born 1991), female basketball player ", "score": "1.4708624" }, { "id": "2677769", "title": "Wacław Zalewski", "text": " Zalewski was born on 25 August 1917 to a Polish family settled in Samgorodek, Ukraine since the seventeenth century. He took part in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 in Czerniaków. Went to Tadeusz Czacki High School in Warsaw, where he was in the same graduating class as the poet priest Jan Twardowski. In 1947 he graduated from Warsaw University of Technology, which he began before the war, eventually graduating from the Gdańsk University of Technology.", "score": "1.4643753" }, { "id": "8015537", "title": "Jan Böhmermann", "text": " Böhmermann was born and raised in Bremen. His mother had immigrated to Germany in the early 1970s, and was part of the German minority in Poland. His father died from leukemia when Böhmermann was 17 years old. Even though he remains silent about his private life, it is known that he has multiple children. He served as a lay judge at the local court of Cologne.", "score": "1.4636326" }, { "id": "3241771", "title": "Paweł Olszewski", "text": " Paweł Bartosz Olszewski (born December 11, 1979 in Bydgoszcz, Poland) is a Polish economist and politician, Bydgoszcz City Councillor (2002–05), and member of the Sejm (since 2005).", "score": "1.4625593" }, { "id": "13812390", "title": "Andrzej Wróblewski", "text": " Wróblewski was born in Wilno (modern Vilnius) on 15 June 1927, the son of law professor Bronisław Wróblewski from the Stefan Batory University and the painter Krystyna Wróblewska. He showed artistic talent at a very young age. His education was interrupted by the German invasion of Poland, although he was able to attend some underground courses; his mother introduced him to the art of woodcut which he practiced from 1944 to 1946. Immediately after the end of World War II, following the shifting of Poland's national borders, his family moved from Wilno to Kraków, where he passed the matura exams and became a student in the Painting and Sculpture Department of Poland's oldest art school, the Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied between 1945 and 1952 under Zygmunt Radnicki, Zbigniew Pronaszko (pl), Hanna Rudzka-Cybisowa and Jerzy Fedkowicz. Also between 1945 and 1948 he simultaneously studied art history at the Jagiellonian University, Poland's oldest university (and one of the oldest in the world).", "score": "1.4585698" }, { "id": "25065295", "title": "Paweł Althamer", "text": " In the years 1988-1993, he studied sculpture at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Since the mid-1990s, he has been collaborating with the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw. In 2000, he participated in Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2004, he won the Vincent Award from the Broere Charitable Foundation in the Netherlands. In 2007, he presented the exhibition One of many with the Nicola Trussardi Foundation. His longest-running collaboration is with the Nowolipie Group, an organisation in Warsaw for adults with mental or physical disabilities, to whom he has been teaching a Friday night ceramics class since the early 1990s. In 2008 Althamer arranged for the ", "score": "1.4584322" }, { "id": "30125981", "title": "Paweł Wawrzecki", "text": " Paweł Wawrzecki (born February 12, 1950, in Warsaw) is a Polish actor and the son of Stanisław Wawrzecki. He left The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw in 1975. He appeared in the television series Aby do świtu... in 1992. He has been the host of Koło Fortuny, the Polish version of Wheel of Fortune, since 1995.", "score": "1.4578645" } ]

[ "Stone", "Stone, Staffordshire" ]

[ { "id": "25544513", "title": "Keri Lees", "text": " Keri Lees (née Maddox; born 4 July 1972 in Stone, Staffordshire is a female retired English athlete.", "score": "1.8446754" }, { "id": "9547326", "title": "Keri Russell", "text": " Keri Lynn Russell was born on March 23, 1976, in Fountain Valley, California, the daughter of Stephanie Stephens, a homemaker, and David Russell, a Nissan Motors executive. She has an older brother, Todd, and a younger sister, Julie. The family lived in Coppell, Texas; Mesa, Arizona; and Highlands Ranch, Colorado, moving frequently due to her father's work. Russell's dancing earned her a spot on The Mickey Mouse Club.", "score": "1.6478043" }, { "id": "30597239", "title": "Keri Latimer", "text": " Latimer was born Keri McTighe in Lethbridge, Alberta, the daughter of Arlene and Bernard McTighe.", "score": "1.6194372" }, { "id": "10073123", "title": "Abbey Lee", "text": " Abbey Lee Kershaw was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the daughter of Kerry, a psychologist, and Kim Kershaw, who played in the Victorian Football League for Richmond and Hawthorn. Lee is the middle child. She has said that as a child, she was \"always in the hospital.\" At age four, she suffered from meningitis and had to have two spinal taps. She also had a tumour on the knee, and several broken bones from climbing trees. She grew up in Kensington, Victoria and attended St Michael's Catholic Primary School in North Melbourne. She has stated that she \"grew up with 42 nationalities\", explaining that her primary school of 150 children was very multicultural. She then attended the Academy of Mary Immaculate in Fitzroy. Lee ", "score": "1.6174053" }, { "id": "2189718", "title": "Dorothy Ker", "text": " Ker was born in Carterton, in the North Island of New Zealand in 1965.", "score": "1.602755" }, { "id": "9161060", "title": "Keri Ataumbi", "text": " Keri Sue Greeves was born in 1971 on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Lander, Wyoming to Jeri Ah-be-hill and Richard V. Greeves. Her father was an artist and sculptor of Italian-American heritage. Her mother, a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma with Comanche heritage, ran the trading post at Fort Washakie for nearly thirty years. She and her older sister, Teri grew up on the Eastern Shoshone, rather than the Northern Arapaho part of Wind River Reservation and were strongly influenced by their parents. As a child, Keri watched her father pour metal in his forge for his sculpture and was fascinated by his foundry. She learned both rebellion and an ", "score": "1.5938221" }, { "id": "26937607", "title": "Kelli Berglund", "text": " Berglund was born and raised in Moorpark, California, where she continues to live with her parents, Mark and Michelle Berglund, and younger sister, Kirra. She is a graduate of Moorpark High School's independent study program. In her spare time, she enjoys swimming and photography.", "score": "1.5793499" }, { "id": "102181", "title": "Kelli Scarr", "text": " Scarr was born in Monterey, California, in the Salinas Valley. At the age of twelve, she relocated with her mother and brother to Folsom, California. Scarr cites music on the radio during drives between her parents' homes in these locations as her early inspiration.", "score": "1.5620701" }, { "id": "29415040", "title": "Keri Sanchez", "text": " Keri Sanchez (born December 25, 1972, in Englewood, Colorado), also known as Keri Raygor, is an American former soccer defender who last played for Los Angeles Sol of Women's Professional Soccer and is a former member of the United States women's national soccer team. She was a dual sport athlete at Santa Teresa High School in San Jose, California, where she also excelled in track and field. At the CIF California State Meet, between 1988 and 1990, she achieved three second place and three third-place finishes spread between hurdles, long jump and triple jump. She currently coaches women's soccer for CMS athletics at the 5C colleges in Claremont, California.", "score": "1.5619829" }, { "id": "32821827", "title": "Keri Rosebraugh", "text": " Keri Rosebraugh is an American artist who lives and works in Marnay Sur Seine, France and Los Angeles, California. Her artworks often deal with ecological themes and focus on human being’s relationship with nature. Rosebraugh was born to Fred and Marilyn Rosebraugh in Portland, Oregon. She grew up in Tigard, Oregon where she attended Tigard High School. In 2018 she was inducted into Tigard High School’s Distinguished Alumni, an award bestowed to a former student who has made significant contributions to the greater good of the community, country, or state. In 1986 she began studying at Art Center College of Design, ", "score": "1.5616391" }, { "id": "8200202", "title": "Keri Noble", "text": " Keri Noble (born 1975) is an American singer-songwriter born in Fort Worth, Texas and raised in Detroit. Her father was a Baptist minister, and Noble sang in church as a child. She attended a local Assembly of God school for Junior High and high school in Michigan. She began playing her own music in the Detroit area. After meeting Billy McLaughlin, she moved to Minneapolis, and in 2003 she signed with major label EMI. She has been compared to Norah Jones. She left EMI in 2005 and signed with JVC in Japan where she achieved great success, enabling her to continue to write and perform in the US without the support of a label. In 2008 Noble signed with Telarc Records in the United States ", "score": "1.5519774" }, { "id": "25544514", "title": "Keri Lees", "text": " She competed in the 100 metres hurdles and 400 metres hurdles. and represented her country at the 2000 Summer Olympics, as well as three World Championships (1993, 1999, 2001). She represented England in both the 100 metres hurdles and 400 metres hurdles events, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.", "score": "1.5368807" }, { "id": "1110150", "title": "Marjory Lees", "text": " Marjory Lees was born in Oldham, Greater Manchester in 1878, her mother was politician and activist Dame Sarah Lees. Marjory, like her mother, became active in local politics and the wider women's suffrage movement. She made charitable to donations to the local community, began a career as a poor law guardian and became president of the Oldham Women's Suffrage Society. Lees also took part in the Suffrage Pilgrimage in 1913. In 1919, she was elected to Oldham council following her mother's resignation from the same seat, serving on the council until she stepped down in 1934. Lees donated Werneth Park, her family home, to the people of Oldham in 1936 after the death of her mother.", "score": "1.5342022" }, { "id": "10256656", "title": "Daryanne Lees", "text": " Lees was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in December 1986 to a Puerto Rican mother and Cuban father. She later relocated to Miami, Florida.", "score": "1.5212452" }, { "id": "9533050", "title": "Keri Pickett", "text": " Keri Pickett (born in 1959, Charleston, S.C.) is an American photographer, author and filmmaker. Pickett's work \"pulls subjects from the edges of public awareness to the center of the frame\". Pickett was first exposed to photography as a child through her figure-skater/photographer uncle Roy Blakey and years later, as an adult, she made a film about his life.", "score": "1.5197248" }, { "id": "11653252", "title": "Keri Hulme", "text": " Hulme was born in Christchurch, in New Zealand's South Island. The daughter of John W., a carpenter, and Mere, a credit manager, she was the eldest of six children. Her parents were of English, Scottish, and Māori (Kai Tahu) descent. \"Our family comes from diverse people: Kai Tahu, Kāti Māmoe (South Island Maori iwi); Orkney islanders; Lancashire folk; Faroese and/or Norwegian migrants,\" Hulme told Contemporary Women Poets. Her early education was at North New Brighton Primary School and Aranui High School. Her father died when she was 11 years old. Hulme worked as a tobacco picker in Motueka after high school. She began studying for an honours law degree at the University of Canterbury in 1967, but left after four terms and returned to tobacco picking, continuing to write throughout this period.", "score": "1.5173836" }, { "id": "14954111", "title": "Keri Kelli", "text": " Kelli was born in Huntington Beach, California on September 7, 1971. He has founded several bands, including Saints of the Underground, Adler's Appetite (formerly Suki Jones), New World Idols, Rubber (formerly Blow), Big Bang Babies, and Empire (1987). He has played with other bands including Slash's Snakepit, Skid Row, Vince Neil Band, Ratt, Warrant, L.A. Guns, Pretty Boy Floyd, Dad's Porno Mag, The Newlydeads, Bulletboys, Love/Hate, Tuff, Tal Bachman, Angel City Outlaws (formerly Phucket), Alice Cooper, Liberty N' Justice and Night Ranger. In July 2009, Keri opened Aces & Ales, an American craft beer bar and restaurant in Las Vegas, Nevada. In June 2013, he opened a second restaurant.", "score": "1.5170791" }, { "id": "27624050", "title": "Scherri-Lee Biggs", "text": " Biggs was born in South Africa and emigrated with her family to Perth, Australia when she was 8, where she attended St Mary's Anglican Girls' School. From a young age, she was schooled in dance and ballet, but she pursued a career in modelling at age 16, after being scouted by Vivien's modelling agency.", "score": "1.50426" }, { "id": "9161062", "title": "Keri Ataumbi", "text": " Fe, New Mexico, where her mother had relocated. That year, she legally changed her name to Keri Sue Ataumbi, appending the surname of her grandmother Carrie Susie Ataumbi, after whom she had been named. She briefly worked in retail and then opened a landscaping business with a friend. Simultaneously, she began showing and selling paintings in several art galleries. When her business partner decided to go to medical school, they dissolved the partnership and Ataumbi returned to school as well. She enrolled at the Institute of American Indian Arts to improve her painting skill and after earning an associate degree in 1996, went on to further her education at the College of ", "score": "1.5034747" }, { "id": "15464582", "title": "Greta Lee", "text": " Lee was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Her parents are Korean immigrants. While attending Harvard-Westlake School she became interested in the performing arts. After high school she studied communication and theater at Northwestern University, and continued to pursue acting by moving to New York City.", "score": "1.5023419" } ]

[ "Marousi" ]

[ { "id": "5349936", "title": "Christos Mitsis", "text": " Christos Mitsis (born 10 July 1980, in Maroussi) is a Greek professional football defender currently playing for AEL 1964 in Gamma Ethniki.", "score": "1.8236165" }, { "id": "29591047", "title": "Christodoulos Aronis", "text": " Christodoulos Aronis was born in 1884 in the village of Dendiatika, on the island of Paxos, Greece (see Paxi). He graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts in 1912, receiving its second highest prize, and then went on to become a painter, professor and a priest. He lived and worked for many years as a minister at St Luke's Orthodox Cathedral, Glasgow and The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Sophia (London). He died in Corfu in 1973 and is buried in the cemetery of Taxiarhon Church in Longos, Paxos.", "score": "1.7398188" }, { "id": "31939837", "title": "Jani Christou", "text": " Jani Christou (Γιάννης Χρήστου, Giánnīs Chrī́stou; 8 or 9 January 1926 – 8 January 1970) was a Greek composer. There is some disagreement about Christou's birth, the date of which is given by some authorities as 8 January; while others state 9 January. Most sources agree that he was born in Heliopolis, Egypt, though one states he was born in Alexandria, and it has recently been reported that a birth certificate has been found stating that the composer was born in Nicosia, Cyprus, though this certificate is suspected of being a forgery. His parents were Eleutherios Christou, a Greek industrialist and chocolate manufacturer, and Lilika Tavernari, of Cypriot origin. He was ", "score": "1.7171757" }, { "id": "25030823", "title": "Christodoulos Moisa", "text": " Moisa was educated at Patriki and Angastina Primary Schools in Cyprus, Mount Cook Primary School, Wellington (1960–1962), Wellington College (1963–1967), and Victoria University of Wellington and University of Auckland in New Zealand. He attended the Sir John School of Art London in 1973 and The Quay School of the Arts at UCOL, Whanganui, New Zealand in 2002. At The Quay School of the Arts, he completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts which he started at Auckland University in 1972, in print-making. From 1954 to 1959 he lived in Varosia/Famagusta a provincial capital in eastern Cyprus and the villages of Patriki and Angastina. He also lived in Angastina 18 months before 1974 coup and Turkish invasion.", "score": "1.7107542" }, { "id": "25030822", "title": "Christodoulos Moisa", "text": " Moisa was born in 1948 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. His parents were immigrants from Cyprus. His father was Evangelos Georgiou Moisa from Marathovounos and his mother was Athena Kleanthi from Angastina two villages in central Cyprus.", "score": "1.7016945" }, { "id": "8949083", "title": "Christodoulos of Athens", "text": " Christodoulos was born in Xanthi, Thrace, Northern Greece in 1939. His civil name was Christos Paraskevaidis. When he was two years old, his family moved to Athens to escape German and Bulgarian occupation of the area during World War II. His father subsequently returned to Xanthi following the war and ran a successful bid for mayor. Christodoulos attended high school at the Roman Catholic Marist Leonteion Lyceum of Athens. He then studied law at the University of Athens, graduating in 1962, after having been ordained a deacon in the Orthodox Church in 1961. He also attended a graduate school at the University of Athens for a degree in theology. Christodoulos was ordained a priest in 1965 and graduated from the School of Theology in 1967. ", "score": "1.6967173" }, { "id": "7388115", "title": "Christos Kapralos", "text": " Christos Kapralos (Greek: Χρήστος Καπράλος, 1909 - 1993) was a Greek artist of the 20th century. He was born in Panaitolio (or Moustafouli) in the former municipality of Thesties, near Agrinio. He studied drawing at a school with the help of the Agrinian Papastratou Bros. and continued studied drawing in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and at Académie Colarossi, he had a student named Oumbertos Argyros, his professor was Marcel Gimond. He returned to Greece and Panaitolio in 1945 and in 1946, he moved to Athens and later to Aigina. Christos Kapralos in that connection with the bas-relief for the memory of the Battle of Pindus during World War II, on which he worked between 1940 and 1945 stuck in his ", "score": "1.682227" }, { "id": "12525005", "title": "Giorgos Mitsakis", "text": " Mitsakis was born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, where he spent his early years. Despite that the Greeks of Constantinople were exempted from the population exchange of 1923, the hostile attitude by Turkish people towards them forced his family to immigrate to Greece. Thus, in 1935 they moved to Kavala and later to Αfissos, a fishing village near Volos. In Greece, Mitsakis was introduced to popular music and started to take music lessons. Against the will of his father who wanted him to become a fisherman, Mitsakis in 1937 fled to Thessaloniki where he met Vassilis Tsitsanis, Apostolos Hatzichristos and attended performances by Markos Vamvakaris. Mitsakis moved once again in 1939, ending up in the port city of Piraeus. There, he started to perform professionally and met many of the prominent rebetiko singers and musicians of the time. Mitsakis composed his first songs in ", "score": "1.674936" }, { "id": "10987126", "title": "Giorgos Mitsikostas", "text": " Giorgos Mitsikostas (Γιώργος Μητσικώστας) (born 12 October 1968) is a famous Greek comedic impressionist in Greece.", "score": "1.6700385" }, { "id": "16079307", "title": "Nikos Christodoulides", "text": " Christodoulides was born in Geroskipou, Paphos, on 6 December 1973. His father was from the village of Houlou, in mountainous Pafos, whereas his mother was from Geroskipou. He graduated from Archbishop Makarios Lyceum in Paphos in 1991 and pursued a career in Political Science.", "score": "1.6591145" }, { "id": "32496980", "title": "Cornelius Castoriadis", "text": " Cornelius Castoriadis (named after Saint Cornelius the Centurion) was born on 11 March 1922 in Constantinople, the son of Kaisar (\"Caesar\") and Sophia Kastoriadis. His family had to move in July 1922 to Athens due to the Greek–Turkish population exchange. He developed an interest in politics after he came into contact with Marxist thought and philosophy at the age of 13. At the same time he began studying traditional philosophy after purchasing a copy of the book History of Philosophy (Ιστορία της Φιλοσοφίας, 1933, 2 vols.) by the historian of ideas Nikolaos Louvaris. Sometime between 1932 and 1935, Maximiani Portas (later known as \"Savitri Devi\") was the French tutor of Castoriadis. During the same period, he attended the 8th Gymnasium of Athens in Kato Patisia, from which he ", "score": "1.6573212" }, { "id": "33084659", "title": "Anastasios Christodoulou", "text": " Christodoulou was born in Cyprus in 1932, the oldest of three sons of Yianni Christodoulos, a cobbler, and his wife, Maria, née Haji. He came to London when he was three to join his father who was working as a kitchen porter in Soho. He hardly knew his mother, who died giving birth to twin sons, who lived. These twin brothers later went to live in Barbados with foster parents. Christodoulou had been born on Easter Day and was named 'Anastasios' by his parents, meaning 'Resurrection'. He lived with his father above a Soho restaurant and early on displayed a precocious intelligence. He went to a local primary school aged five, not knowing a word of English, but by half-term was interpreting for much of the local Greek Cypriot community. Aged 11 he won a place at St Marylebone Grammar School.", "score": "1.6545336" }, { "id": "27575499", "title": "Christos Patsatzoglou", "text": " Born and raised in Athens to a Hellenized-Gypsy family and of the Greek Orthodox faith, Christos started playing football for his hometown's local youth team Aghia Eleousa and managed a place in Greece U-17 national team. His talent was spotted by Skoda Xanthi's scouts and he was transferred there in 1996. He played for their first team for 4 years, from 1996–1997 to 1999–2000 where he won the Best Young Player award in his final season in Xanthi in 1999–2000.", "score": "1.6522865" }, { "id": "4324890", "title": "Christos Papakyriakopoulos", "text": " Papakyriakopoulos was born in Chalandri, then in the Municipality of Athens, now in North Athens.", "score": "1.6486874" }, { "id": "13128015", "title": "Alexandros Christofis", "text": " Alexandros Christofis or Alexandros Hristofis (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Χριστόφης, 1882-1953) was a Greek painter. He was born in Piraeus in 1882. He attended the School of Great Arts where he excelled with the studend Nikiforos Lytras. He later went to Naples, where he attended the Institute of Great Arts. From his journey until his death, he presented paintings with popular and teamwork positions. From 1925, he was a professor of the technical school. In his work, it depicts mainly its scenes of everyday life of its people either in outdoors or in the city and from the life of the Greek sailors at its ports in Piraeus. Pictures are founded also in Germany. His technique in which austerely judges academically with intense personal tone.", "score": "1.6435773" }, { "id": "10935335", "title": "Christos Batzios", "text": " Batzios was born in Kavala, a city in northern Greece. When he was fifteen, he moved to Thessaloniki, Greece, where he attended Mandoulides Highschool and has played in many reputable basketball clubs since then. He is also an athlete of martial arts, such as MMA and Wing Chun, and track & field. He graduated from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with a B.A in Physical Education. Christos Batzios started taking theater and film acting lessons along with studying in the university. He later moved to Athens, Greece where he continued to take acting and voice lessons, until 2010 where he made his professional debut in theater. ", "score": "1.6395599" }, { "id": "31466559", "title": "Christos Daralexis", "text": " Daralexis was born in Pyrgos, Elis, and was a relative of the Avgerinos family. He was a well minded Athenian and one of the courteous changes in Athens' aristocracy. He was elected a politician in 1900. He tried vainly and repeatedly elected in the next elections from 1904 until 1910. It was a union member of the Journalists' Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers (ESIEA) and ran president. One of the theatrical works that he complete was Faia kai Nymfaia (Φαιά και Νυμφαία)", "score": "1.6331992" }, { "id": "29591046", "title": "Christodoulos Aronis", "text": " Christodoulos Aronis was a Greek fine artist, professor and priest who lived and worked in Greece, England and Scotland and was born in Paxi.", "score": "1.6326674" }, { "id": "30987745", "title": "Christos Tsigiridis", "text": " Christos Tsigiridis was born in 1877 in Filibe in the Ottoman Empire (today Plovdiv, Bulgaria) by Greek parents. The once wealthy and aristocratic family of Georgios Tsigiridis had a hard time, which worsened after his death. In the beginning of the 20th century they are forced to leave and move to Stuttgart in Germany. There, they founded a small cigarette production unit which brought enough money to allow Christos to study. Finally, he was able to study in the electrical mechanisms faculty of Stuttgart. A few years later, he was married to Maria Louise Vogel and they moved to Greece together in 1918. They would remain together until her death in 1933. After moving to Greece, he settled in Larissa, in the house of his brother, Nikos. There, he was appointed director of the city's Electric Lighting and Water Supply Company. However, he was more interested in pursuing the experiments with wireless communication he had first seen in the university. Therefore, he decided to move to Thessaloniki, aiming to fulfill his vision: to found a radio station.", "score": "1.6264561" }, { "id": "30969707", "title": "Christos Sartzetakis", "text": " He was born in Neapoli, Thessaloniki in 1929. His father, who was serving as a Gendarmerie officer in Thessaloniki - where he met his mother - was a Cretan, having been born in Kandanos, Chania, while his mother, who was born in Sklithro, Florina, was a Greek Macedonian. He entered the Law Faculty of the University of Thessaloniki in 1946, and received his degree in 1950, after which he practised law in Thessaloniki. In 1954 he received his license to practice law after successfully completing the bar examination. In November 1955, he was named Justice of the Peace. A year later, he became a magistrate of the Court of First Instance. He was the unyielding prosecutor in the ", "score": "1.6259325" } ]

[ "Christchurch", "Christchurch, New Zealand" ]

[ { "id": "33075105", "title": "Neil Williams (artist)", "text": " Williams was born in Bluff, Utah. He was in the process of moving to Brazil when he died in New York City at the age of 53. Williams graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1959; showed his work in 1959 at the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco and moved to New York City that same year. He began exhibiting his paintings in New York in 1960. He was a regular patron of Max's Kansas City throughout the period of the mid-1960s and early 1970s when it belonged to his friend Mickey Ruskin. His paintings were exhibited at important art galleries in New York including solo exhibitions at the Green Gallery (1964), and the André Emmerich Gallery (1966 and 1968) both on 57th Street in Manhattan and at the Dwan Gallery in Los Angeles (1966). His work was included in several important group ", "score": "1.6255951" }, { "id": "2078878", "title": "Robin Williams (rowing coach)", "text": " Born in Anglesey, Wales he learned to row on the River Wye whilst at Monmouth School (Monmouth Rowing Club), and then attended University College London where he joined the University of London Boat Club.", "score": "1.5748883" }, { "id": "25579723", "title": "Alfred Williams (poet)", "text": " Alfred Owen Williams (February 7, 1877 &ndash; April 10, 1930) was a poet, author and a collector of folk song lyrics who was born and lived most of his life at South Marston, near Swindon, UK. He was almost entirely self-taught, producing his most famous work, Life in a Railway Factory (1915), in his spare time after completing a gruelling day's work in the Great Western Railway works in Swindon. He was nicknamed “The Hammerman Poet”. Williams was born in Cambria Cottage in the village of South Marston, the son of a carpenter, and grew up in poverty after his father abandoned his wife and eight children. He became a farm labourer ", "score": "1.5645111" }, { "id": "6872963", "title": "Culture of San Francisco", "text": " Comedian and actor, Robin Williams helped San Francisco become recognized as a good town for comedy clubs. He rose to fame, having gotten his early start in San Francisco clubs such as the Holy City Zoo, the Punchline and the Other Cafe in the '70's. He also shot seven films on location in San Francisco.", "score": "1.561444" }, { "id": "2230042", "title": "Robin Williams", "text": " Robin McLaurin Williams was born at St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, on July 21, 1951. His father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a senior executive in Ford's Lincoln-Mercury Division. His mother, Laurie McLaurin, was a former model from Jackson, Mississippi, whose great-grandfather was Mississippi senator and governor Anselm J. McLaurin, a Democrat. Williams had two elder half-brothers: paternal half-brother Robert (also known as Todd) and maternal half-brother McLaurin. While his mother was a practitioner of Christian Science, Williams was raised in his father's Episcopal faith. During a television interview on Inside the Actors Studio in 2001, Williams credited his mother as an important early influence on his humor, and ", "score": "1.5607138" }, { "id": "2960654", "title": "Robin Murphy Williams", "text": " Williams was born on October 11, 1914, in the city of Hillsborough, North Carolina. He graduated from North Carolina State College in 1933 at the age of 19 before going on earn an M.A. at Harvard University in 1939 and his PhD from the same establishment in 1943. Following the work and studies he did on soldiers during the Second World War, Williams went on to take up a role as a professor at Cornell University, where he taught from 1946 to 1985. In 1990 he joined the University of California at Irvine, where he would continue to publish books until the very end of his life. His sister Helen Coble reveals that his final publication was made when he reached the age of 89. Williams died at the age of 91.", "score": "1.5588105" }, { "id": "2230043", "title": "Robin Williams", "text": " tried to make her laugh to gain attention. Williams attended public elementary school in Lake Forest at Gorton Elementary School and middle school at Deer Path Junior High School. He described himself as a quiet child who did not overcome his shyness until he became involved with his high school drama department. His friends recall him as very funny. In late 1963, when Williams was 12, his father was transferred to Detroit. The family lived in a 40-room farmhouse on 20 acres in suburban Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he was a student at the private Detroit Country Day School. He excelled in school, where he was on the ", "score": "1.5418252" }, { "id": "3531871", "title": "C. K. Williams", "text": " The American poet C.K. Williams was born in Newark, New Jersey, on November 4, 1936. His parents were Paul B. Williams and Dossie Kasdin. His grandparents came to the USA from Kiev, then a Russian city, and Lvov, Ukraine. He went to Columbia High School in Maplewood, attended Bucknell University for one year, then moved on to and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He started writing poetry during his second year at Penn, and half-way through junior year he left for Paris. At that time, he wrote \"I fell into a period of lacerating loneliness. I'd always been a little shy but now something, ", "score": "1.5320108" }, { "id": "2230049", "title": "Robin Williams", "text": " Williams began performing stand-up comedy in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1976. He gave his first performance at the Holy City Zoo, a comedy club in San Francisco, where he worked his way up from tending bar. In the 1960s, San Francisco was a center for a rock music renaissance, hippies, drugs, and a sexual revolution, and in the late 1970s, Williams helped lead its \"comedy renaissance\", writes critic Gerald Nachman. Williams says he found out about \"drugs and happiness\" during that period, adding that he saw \"the best brains of my time turned to mud\". Williams moved to ", "score": "1.5311412" }, { "id": "13249372", "title": "Richard Bryn Williams", "text": " Williams was born in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. When he was seven years old, his family moved to Trelew, Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina. He returned to Wales in 1923 and studied at the University College of North Wales (now Bangor University). He became an expert on Patagonian history and was a major contributor to the province's literature. He was a supporter of the National Eisteddfod, as well as competing in the cultural festival itself, and won the chair both in 1964 and 1968, and from 1975 to 1978 he was archdruid, using the bardic name Bryn. Almost all of his numerous works reflect the life of Patagonia and its history.", "score": "1.5298579" }, { "id": "5509228", "title": "Julius Penson Williams", "text": " Born in New York, on June 22, 1954 in the Bronx, he began playing drums at age eight, then picked up other instruments such as the piano. Williams was educated in the New York public school system and graduated in 1972 from Andrew Jackson High School, a performing arts school in Queens, New York. Williams attended Herbert Lehman College and Hartt School of Music where he received his, B.S. and M.M.E. respectively. He has an honorary doctorate from Keene State College in New Hampshire. While in Colorado, Williams studied orchestral conducting and composition at the Aspen Music School in 1984. Williams is a frequent guest conductor, and has had several artist-in-residencies and teaching positions. He has received a number of awards for his music. He has studied, performed and taught abroad in countries such as Russia and China. Williams has written articles, edited an anthology, and submitted writings ", "score": "1.5285555" }, { "id": "10072899", "title": "J. R. Williams", "text": " Williams was born in Nova Scotia, Canada. When he was young, his family moved to Detroit, and he was 15 when he dropped out of school to work as an apprentice machinist in Ohio, soon relocating to Arkansas and Oklahoma, where he drifted about, sometimes working on ranches during a six-year period. He spent three years in the U.S. Cavalry. Returning to Ohio, he married Lida Keith and settled into a steady job with a crane manufacturing firm, where he drew covers for the company's catalog. During his spare time, he created cartoons depicting ranch life and machine shop workers. He started submitting his work to newspaper syndicates, eventually receiving an offer from Newspaper Enterprise Association.", "score": "1.5167534" }, { "id": "9269801", "title": "The Child of Lov", "text": " Martijn William Zimri Teerlinck (31 March 1987 – 10 December 2013), known as Cole Williams, or The Child of Lov, was a Dutch poet and musician born in Lendelede Belgium, but raised in Amsterdam and Alkmaar, The Netherlands.", "score": "1.5163094" }, { "id": "24887644", "title": "Richard Williams (animator)", "text": " Williams was born in Toronto, Ontario, the only son of the commercial illustrator Kathleen \"Kay\" Bell (1909–1998) and Leslie Lane (1905–1993), a London-born painter and photographic re-toucher. Lane left when Williams was a baby and he was adopted by his stepfather, Kenneth D C Williams (1910–2003), an advertising executive who worked for Brigdens, a printing and design company in Toronto. Williams grew up on Golfdale Road, a suburban street in Toronto, where he and his childhood friend Martin Hunter put on magic shows and comedy acts for the local neighbourhood: \"we collected \"$16.25, wealth beyond the dreams of avarice\". Williams' mother Kay was an accomplished illustrator whose work was inspired by Arthur Rackham ", "score": "1.5116317" }, { "id": "13926062", "title": "Richard Llewellyn Williams", "text": " Richard L. Williams was born in Chicago, IL in 1929. As a child on the radio program Quiz Kids, he was \"regarded by many as the best all around kid the Quiz Kids ever turned up,\" with particular emphasis on math and geography questions. From 1940 to 1945 in 38 cities across the United States, he and three others performed at bond rallies raising $120 million in support of the war effort; the group was featured on prominent radio shows of the day such as Jack Benny and Fred Allen, and was received by luminaries from Eleanor Roosevelt in the White ", "score": "1.5059159" }, { "id": "26145228", "title": "Robin L. Williams", "text": " Born December 8, 1961, he is the youngest child of Joseph and Joyce Williams. After attending Harlem High School (Harlem, Georgia), Williams graduated from Georgia Military College and also served in the United States Air Force from 1979 to 1983 as a Nuclear Security Supervisor.", "score": "1.5037166" }, { "id": "25277283", "title": "Merrell Williams, Jr.", "text": " Merrill Williams, Jr., was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana January 26, 1941, to a family of heavy cigarette smokers. The family later moved to West Texas for most of his childhood, then briefly to Mississippi. He attended Baylor University, obtained a master's degree from University of Mississippi, and, in 1971, a Ph.D. in theatre arts at University of Denver. After obtaining his Ph.D., he taught at junior colleges. By 1981, he was a heavy Kool menthol cigarette smoker, an alcoholic, and couldn't find work as a teacher. He began training as a paralegal at Sullivan Junior College of Business. Then his wife of 10 years moved to divorce him. Mr. Williams was left with little other than a bicycle. He took odd jobs to make do.", "score": "1.4997731" }, { "id": "1922432", "title": "Robin F. Williams", "text": " Robin F. Williams (born 1984, Columbus, Ohio) is a contemporary painter based in Brooklyn, New York.", "score": "1.4977145" }, { "id": "369398", "title": "Zephaniah Williams", "text": " Williams was born near Argoed, Sirhowy Valley, Monmouthshire, Wales, with much of his childhood spent near the then village of Blackwood, also living for some periods in Caerphilly and Nantyglo. He was fortunate enough not only to have a fair amount of schooling, and becoming literate in both English and Welsh, but also having the character to be self-educated, particularly studying geology. At the age of 25 he married Joan, then living for some time in Machen and had a son Llewellyn. Daughters Jane and Rhoda were born in 1825 and 1827 respectively. At the age of 33 he came to Sirhowy, as a free thinking rationalist, with strong radical views, rather than ", "score": "1.4910026" }, { "id": "3402038", "title": "Robin Williams (academic)", "text": " Robin Williams (born 13 November 1952 in London) is a Professor of Social Research on Technology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and director of the Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation. He is an interdisciplinary researcher in the field of Science and Technology Studies and contributed much to the social shaping of technology by studying the interplay between 'social' and 'technical' factors in the design and implementation of a range of technologies.", "score": "1.4875385" } ]

[ "Hobart", "Hobart Town", "Hobarton", "Hobart, Tasmania", "Hobart, Tas." ]

[ { "id": "28253277", "title": "John Keating (land developer)", "text": " John Keating was born in Ireland in 1760, and raised in France. He joined the French Army, resigning in face of the Haitian and French revolutions to settle in Philadelphia. He spent the rest of his long life as a land agent and manager for the settlement of inland Pennsylvania, known for competence, honesty, and care for the settlers.", "score": "1.6906167" }, { "id": "28253278", "title": "John Keating (land developer)", "text": " John Keating was born in 1760 to Valentine Keating, a Catholic Irish gentleman educated in France. In 1766, having overcome trumped-up charges of treason, and still facing the severe disadvantages of the penal laws against Catholics, the family moved to France and settled in Poitiers. In recognition of his noble ancestry, Valentine was granted letters patent of nobility by Louis XV. John, with his twin brother William, was educated at the English College, Douai. After graduating, he and William were both granted a commission in Walsh's regiment, in which their elder brother Thomas was already serving.", "score": "1.6756625" }, { "id": "14180287", "title": "John Richard Keating", "text": " John Keating was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Robert and Gertrude Keating. He was educated at Queen of All Saints School, Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago, and St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois. Keating continued his studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, from where he obtained a Licentiate of Sacred Theology in 1959.", "score": "1.6622791" }, { "id": "12425428", "title": "Frank Keating", "text": " Keating was born on February 10, 1944, in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Mary Ann (Martin) and Anthony Francis Keating. He was born David Rowland Keating, but his name was changed to Francis Anthony Keating II when he was two. Before he was six months old, his family moved to Oklahoma and settled in Tulsa. A practicing Catholic, Keating attended Cascia Hall Preparatory School in Tulsa, graduating in 1962. Keating attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. where he was president of the college student body and an editor of The Hoya, receiving his Bachelor of Arts in history, in 1966. He obtained a J.D. from the University of Oklahoma College of Law, in 1969, where he also ", "score": "1.6576633" }, { "id": "5006873", "title": "John Keating (Australian politician)", "text": " Keating was born in Hobart and educated at Officer College, Hobart, Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview, Sydney and the University of Tasmania where he received a Bachelor of Laws in 1896. He established a legal practice in Launceston and became a campaigner for federation and secretary of the Northern Tasmanian Federation League. He married Sarah Alice \"Lallie\" Monks in January 1906.", "score": "1.6400356" }, { "id": "7408025", "title": "Kenneth Keating", "text": " Keating was born in Lima, New York on May 18, 1900, the son of Louise (Barnard) Keating, a schoolteacher, and Thomas Mosgrove Keating, a grocer. He was tutored by his mother until age seven, when he began attending the Lima public schools as a sixth grader. He graduated from high school at age 13 and attended Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, from which he graduated in 1915 as the class valedictorian. He graduated from the University of Rochester in 1919, and was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa. He taught Latin and Greek for a year at Rochester's East High School, then began attendance at Harvard Law School. He graduated in 1923, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Rochester. Keating's early forays into politics and government included service as town attorney for the town of Brighton, where he resided while practicing law in Rochester.", "score": "1.63305" }, { "id": "6259505", "title": "Larry Keating", "text": " Keating was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.", "score": "1.6218467" }, { "id": "28711339", "title": "Charles Keating", "text": " Keating was born on December 4, 1923, in Cincinnati, Ohio, into a devout Roman Catholic family. He was the son of Adele (née Kipp) and Charles Humphrey Keating. He grew up in the Avondale and Clifton neighborhoods of that city. His younger brother William was born in 1927. Their father came from Kentucky and managed a dairy. Charles Keating Sr. lost a leg in a hunting accident, and then fell into a long decline from Parkinson's disease around 1931, and was nursed by his wife until his death in 1964. Keating began swimming at a Catholic summer camp and became passionately involved in the sport. He ", "score": "1.6102216" }, { "id": "30836317", "title": "Frank Keating (journalist)", "text": " Frank Keating was born to a farming family in Herefordshire, and raised in Gloucestershire. He attended Roman Catholic boarding schools at Belmont Abbey and at Douai School, before joining the Stroud News as a local reporter in 1956. He later worked on various local newspapers in Hereford, Guildford, Bristol, Southern Rhodesia, Gloucester and Slough, before working briefly as a sub-editor for The Guardian in 1963. In 1964, he joined Rediffusion TV as outside broadcasts editor, and in 1968 moved to Thames Television, as special features editor. In 1970 Keating returned to The Guardian as a sub-editor. By the late 1970s he had gained his own regular column of commentary, interviews and reminiscences, particularly covering cricket, football, rugby union and horse racing. His columns were admired for their \"fresh, inventive phraseology\", and his \"remarkable gift for phrase ", "score": "1.6038043" }, { "id": "13982058", "title": "Damon Keating", "text": " Keating was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.", "score": "1.5955213" }, { "id": "10475697", "title": "John Keating (Irish politician)", "text": " John Keating (2 August 1869 – 8 July 1956) was an Irish politician and farmer. Keating was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a National League Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wexford constituency at the June 1927 general election. He lost his seat at the September 1927 general election but was elected as a Cumann na nGaedheal TD at the 1932 general election and was re-elected at the 1933 general election. He was elected as a Fine Gael TD at the 1937 and 1938 general elections. He lost his seat at the 1943 general election but was re-elected at the 1944 general election. He stood as an Independent candidate at the 1948 general election but did not retain his seat. He was born at Sarshill, Kilmore in County Wexford, Ireland on 2 August 1869, the second son of Nicholas Keating and Maria Codd Keating. He died on 8 July 1956 and is buried in Grahormick Cemetery, County Wexford.", "score": "1.5783908" }, { "id": "5824462", "title": "Geoffrey Keating", "text": " It was generally believed until recently that Keating had been born in Burgess, County Tipperary; indeed, a monument to Keating was raised beside the bridge at Burgess, in 1990; but Diarmuid Ó Murchadha writes, \"The presumption that Geoffrey Keating attended a bardic school at Burgess, Co. Tipperary, is attributable to Thomas O'Sullevane, a shadowy character from the fringes of literary circles in London. The same unreliable source names Burgess as Keating's place of birth, whereas recent work (Cunningham 2002) indicates that Moorstown Castle in the parish of Inishlounaght [in Tipperary] was his probable birthplace.\"\" In November 1603, he was one of forty students who sailed ", "score": "1.5752556" }, { "id": "11273281", "title": "Johnny Keating", "text": " John Keating (10 September 1927 – 28 May 2015) was a Scottish musician, songwriter, arranger and trombonist.", "score": "1.5712473" }, { "id": "31869156", "title": "Justin Keating", "text": " He was born in Dublin in 1930, a son of the noted painter Seán Keating and campaigner May Keating. Keating was educated at Sandford Park School, and then at University College Dublin (UCD) and the University of London. He became a lecturer in anatomy at the UCD veterinary college from 1955 until 1960 and was senior lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin from 1960 until 1965. He was RTÉ's head of agricultural programmes for two years before returning to Trinity College in 1967. While at RTÉ, he scripted and presented Telefís Feirme, a series for the agricultural community, for which he won a Jacob's Award in 1966.", "score": "1.568282" }, { "id": "28103766", "title": "Reg Keating", "text": " Keating was born in Halton, Leeds. He began his playing career in local football in the Newcastle upon Tyne area before joining Newcastle United, his first professional club, in October 1926. He was released in 1927 without playing for the first team, and embarked on a tour of league and non-league clubs: Lincoln City, where he made his debut in the Football League, Gainsborough Trinity, Scarborough, Stockport County, Birmingham, where he scored his first Football League goal, Norwich City, where he was one of five new forwards signed in the 1932 close season to add to the six already on the club's books, North Shields, and Bath City, eventually, at the ", "score": "1.5669017" }, { "id": "12551344", "title": "Joseph C. Keating Jr.", "text": " Keating was born and raised in the Hudson River Valley, in the northeast U.S.A. He was the oldest of five children born to Joseph C. Keating Sr. and Mary A. Welsh Keating. The family resided on Enloe Street in the Lake Peekskill area near the Putnam / Westchester County, New York border.", "score": "1.5662689" }, { "id": "25693237", "title": "Roger Keating", "text": " Keating was born in New Zealand. He moved to Australia in 1978 and worked as a mathematics and physics teacher.", "score": "1.5623456" }, { "id": "4024127", "title": "Fred Keating (magician)", "text": " Keating was born in New York City, the son of Frederick Keating (Senior), a lawyer, and Camille Serrano, a singer. He was of Irish-Spanish heritage. His parents divorced when he was young. He became interested in magic from an early age. He became well known for performing a disappearing canary cage trick. Keating also performed a trick where he swallowed needles and pulled them threaded, out of his mouth.", "score": "1.5581888" }, { "id": "27044440", "title": "Jack Keating", "text": " John Thomas \"Jack, Red\" Keating (October 9, 1916 &ndash; December 19, 1951) was a professional ice hockey player who played eleven games in the National Hockey League playing left wing. Born in Kitchener, Ontario, he played with the Detroit Red Wings. He also played with the Richmond Hawks (UK), Harringay Racers (UK), Pittsburgh Hornets, Indianapolis Capitals, Hollywood Wolves and Los Angeles Monarchs. He played professional hockey from 1936-1943 and 1945-1948. From 1943-45 he served in the military during World War II. While playing for the Harringay Racers 1937-38, he was the top goal scorer in the UK with 29 goals. In 1946, he married Blanche Kernel in Indianapolis and had 3 children. He graduated from Optometry school in 1951. He died in 1951 in Indianapolis of cancer.", "score": "1.5554869" }, { "id": "25929567", "title": "Jackie Keating", "text": " John Richard \"Jackie\" Keating (February 12, 1908 &ndash; November 14, 1984) was a professional ice hockey player who played 35 games in the National Hockey League. Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, he played with the New York Americans.", "score": "1.5513825" } ]

[ "Vilnius", "Vilna", "Wilno", "Vilne", "Wilna", "Viļņa", "Vilnia", "Vilno", "Vilnyus" ]

[ { "id": "11204512", "title": "Jurgis Karnavičius (composer)", "text": " Karnavičius was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, which at the time was a part of the Russian Empire. After completing his basic education in his homeland, he began the study of Law in St. Petersburg, Russia. Karnavičius' son, also named Jurgis Karnavičius (1912–2001), was a pianist and the long-time rector of the Lithuanian Academy of Music. His grandson, Jurgis Karnavičius (born 1957), is a concert pianist. Music had always been his main interest, and he began to simultaneously study music theory and composition. This soon superseded his pursuit of a career in the legal profession. His primary instrument was the viola. Eventually he became a professor at the Conservatory of Music in the now renamed city of Leningrad. During this period he began experimenting with his own theories of musical composition and began writing his ", "score": "2.0967858" }, { "id": "8969167", "title": "Jurgis Karnavičius", "text": " Jurgis Karnavičius (born 1957, in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian pianist. Karnavičius comes from a renowned family of musicians: his grandfather, Jurgis Karnavičius (1884–1941), was a composer, and his father, also named Jurgis (1912–2001), was a pianist and the long-time rector of the Lithuanian Academy of Music. Karnavičius graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music in 1980, specializing in the piano. He then continued his studies at the Moscow Conservatory for several more years. Jurgis Karnavičius is a piano soloist who has played with different orchestras, and he often accompanies his wife, the opera singer Sigutė Stonytė. In recent years he has been actively collaborating with several chamber ensembles, preparing concert programmes with the M. K. Čiurlionis String Quartet, Lithuanian Art Museum Quartet, Sostinės String Trio, and others. He has played well over one hundred solo concerts. In 2004, Jurgis Karnavičius earned a professorship with the Lithuanian Academy of Music.", "score": "2.0739245" }, { "id": "11204511", "title": "Jurgis Karnavičius (composer)", "text": " Jurgis Karnavičius (23 April 1884 – 22 December 1941) was a Lithuanian composer of classical music and a forerunner of the development of Lithuanian operatic works.", "score": "1.9982518" }, { "id": "11204513", "title": "Jurgis Karnavičius (composer)", "text": " works. In 1927, Karnavičius returned to Lithuania, which had only regained its independence as a sovereign nation less than ten years earlier. In addition to teaching at the Conservatory of Music in Kaunas, he opted to play the viola with the orchestra of the State Opera for a number of years. Having a personal desire write a new opera himself, and under the influence of the renewed national pride released by Lithuania's regaining its independence, Karnavičius began to write his first opera, Gražina, which premiered on February 16, 1933. It had incorporated more than forty melodies borrowed from Lithuanian folk songs, and was a popular success. It is considered among the first of the \"Lithuanian National Operas\". This was followed in 1937 by the opera Radvila Perkūnas about the Lithuanian nobleman Krzysztof Mikołaj Radziwiłł.", "score": "1.8192391" }, { "id": "7953204", "title": "Jurgis Usinavičius", "text": " Jurgis Usinavičius (real name Napalys Augulis; born 27 March 1932 in Pimpičkų rural area, Skapiškis district) – Lithuanian journalist, editor, publicist and writer.", "score": "1.8002064" }, { "id": "12156237", "title": "Jurgis Savickis", "text": " Savickis was born on 4 May 1890 in the Pagausantys village near Ariogala to a family of well-off Lithuanian farmers who owned about 80 ha of land. His paternal grandmother was of Lithuanian nobility stock and the family took pride in this heritage, on occasion referring to their farm as a manor. Savickis was the oldest of twelve children, but only five of them reached adulthood. There is no information available on his childhood, but researchers believe that he received education in Ariogala and Kaunas. In 1902, his uncle took him to Moscow where he attended the 6th Gymnasium. He was not a great student and received \"satisfactory\" grades in ", "score": "1.7878993" }, { "id": "24997550", "title": "Karolis Skinkys", "text": " Karolis was born in 16 November 1989 in the Lithuvanian city Marijampolė. He completed his bachelor's as well as masters degree from the Vytautas Magnus University of Lithuania.", "score": "1.7520039" }, { "id": "6968569", "title": "Juozas Baltušis", "text": " He was born into a peasant family in 1909, the son of Karolis Juozėnas (1871–1934) from Bitėnai and Marijona Baltušytė-Juozėnienė (1883–1964) from Puponiai in Kupiškis District. His sister, Marijona Juozėnaitė (1906–1997), became a nun and his brother, Leonardas Juozėnas (born 1914) was a military pilot and author. On 19 April 1909 Juozas was baptized in the Riga Catholic Church of St. Albert. During World I, the family moved east and lived in the Russian cities of Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, and Tsaritsky (Volgograd). In 1918, the family settled in Puponiai, Kupiškis District. Baltušis grew up in Puponiai until leaving the family home in 1929 and moving to live in Kaunas, where he found work in various printing houses as a messenger and letter collector. Baltušis began to have works published in 1932, seeking inspiration from the writer Kazys Boruta. His first work was entitled Darbas (Work), a collection of short stories. He began to write humorous plays during the 1930s, and he published short story collections such as The Week Begins Well (1940) and White Clover (1943).", "score": "1.7358124" }, { "id": "12156249", "title": "Jurgis Savickis", "text": " Savickis was a cosmopolitan person with an aristocratic disposition. He enjoyed moving around and a luxurious lifestyle, but would not become attached to property. He was known for some large impulsive and impractical purchases, including plots of land and houses in Kulautuva and Palanga. He was a poor orator and disliked ceremonies and public events, but could start a warm and sincere conversation with a poor farmer or a foreign dignitary equally well. In general, Savickis avoided joining organizations or societies and never belonged to any political party. He was not governed by stereotypes and exhibited inner freedom and intelligence. He developed his artistic taste in Western Europe among wealthy bourgeois. Such traits were also reflected in his works which made ", "score": "1.7320067" }, { "id": "9960057", "title": "Jurgis Kairys", "text": " Jurgis Kairys was born in Krasnoyarsk, on May 6, 1952, where his parents were deported by Soviet authorities. However, the family was able to return to Lithuania when Kairys was still a small boy. His interest in flying started at an early age when watching planes landing and taking off at an airstrip near his home in Lithuania. He became an airframe engineer and was able to start flying aerobatics at the Kaunas Flying Club. His talents and determination were obvious and he soon became a member of the elite national team. The style of acrobatics we see today was developed over ", "score": "1.7220099" }, { "id": "12156234", "title": "Jurgis Savickis", "text": " Jurgis Savickis (4 May 1890 – 22 December 1952) was a Lithuanian short story writer and diplomat representing interwar Lithuania mostly in the Scandinavian countries. Born to a family of well-off Lithuanian farmers, Savickis attended a gymnasium in Moscow and studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków. During World War I, he was sent as a delegate of the Lithuanian Society for the Relief of War Sufferers to Denmark to care for Lithuanian POWs in Germany. After the war, he was recognized as the official Lithuanian representative in Denmark and later in Norway and Sweden. In 1923–1927, he was posted in Finland. In 1927–1929, he worked in ", "score": "1.7153637" }, { "id": "31984617", "title": "Jurgis Razma", "text": " In 1965 he started attending primary school in Plungė district. In 1976, graduated from Plungė 4th Secondary School. In 1981 graduated from Vilnius State University Faculty of Physics and majored in physics. From 1981 to 1991 he was a senior engineer at the Faculty of Physics of Vilnius University.", "score": "1.7148752" }, { "id": "11590189", "title": "Jurgis Baltrušaitis (art historian)", "text": " Jurgis Baltrušaitis (May 7, 1903 – January 25, 1988) was a Lithuanian art historian, art critic and a founder of comparative art research. He was the son of the poet and diplomat Jurgis Baltrušaitis. Most of his works were written in French, although he always stressed his Lithuanian origin. After Lithuania was occupied by the USSR in 1945, he served as a diplomat in exile.", "score": "1.707684" }, { "id": "11590190", "title": "Jurgis Baltrušaitis (art historian)", "text": " Baltrušaitis was born in Moscow. During his childhood he was immersed in the intense cultural life of his parents. One of his first teachers was the Russian poet and writer Boris Pasternak. In 1924 he moved to Paris and began theater studies at the Sorbonne under the guidance of Professor Henri Focillon. Under his influence Baltrušaitis chose to study the history of art. He went on to do research in Armenia, Georgia, Spain, Italy, and Germany, receiving a doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1931. Later that year he became the cultural attache at the Lithuanian Legation in Paris. Between 1933 and 1939 Baltrušaitis taught art history at the University of Kaunas, as well as lecturing at the Sorbonne and at the Warburg Institute in London. After World War II he delivered lectures at New York University, Yale University, Harvard University, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His diplomatic efforts included writing for the French press on Lithuanian issues, and representing Lithuania in international organizations such as the Académie Internationale des Sciences et des Lettres and the Lithuanian Legation in Paris. Baltrušaitis died in Paris.", "score": "1.703224" }, { "id": "25814039", "title": "Jānis Akuraters", "text": " Akuraters was born on 13 January 1876 in Dignāja parish Jaunzemji homestead (Modern Jēkabpils municipality). His father was a forester. Akuraters studied in a Birži primary school and later in the Jēkabpils city school. After graduation he passed teachers exam and started work in schools. 1898 in Elkšņi, 1899–1901 in Jumurda and 1902 in Riga. In 1903 Akuraters went to Moscow to study medicine however he started to attend law lectures instead. In this period he also started Russian literature studies. In 1904 he returned to Latvia and turned to poetry. Akuraters participated in the Revolution of 1905 one of his most famous poems Ar kaujas saucieniem uz lūpām (With battle cry on our lips) is dedicated to revolution. After the suppression of the revolution he was arrested briefly and after release he published art magazine Pret Sauli. In 1907 Akuraters was again arrested ", "score": "1.7008393" }, { "id": "7953205", "title": "Jurgis Usinavičius", "text": " 1959 Finished secondary agricultural school in Siauliai, Lithuania. In 1973 – studied in Lithuanian Academy of Agriculture. In1945, his parents (Alfonsas Augulis and Kazimera) with all children had been deported to Komi. In 1947 he fled back to Lithuania under other person's name – Jurgis Usinavičius. Unlike his brother, Alfonsas Vytautas Augulis, Napalys stayed under different name during Soviet Union and stays nowadays. in 1991. In Siauliai Napalys finished secondary agricultural school in 1959 and Lithuanian Academy of Agriculture in 1973. 1959–1967 Worked in Siauliai district newspaper \"Leninietis\" (i.e., Leninist) as censorship clerk and head of agricultural department. 1967–1999 Worked in magazine Our Gardens (\"Mūsų sodai\"). Been head of editorial department, ", "score": "1.698235" }, { "id": "2965250", "title": "Gintaras Januševičius", "text": " taught by Valė Kulikauskienė (1993–1998) and Jurgis Bialobžeskis (1998–2003) at the National M.K. Ciurlionis School or Arts in Vilnius. After graduating in 2003, Januševičius entered the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Drama to study with Bialobžeskis. In 2004 he moved to Hanover, Germany where his professor was Vladimir Krainev. After his death in 2011 Januševičius joined the piano class of professor Bernd Goetzke at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. Since 2001 he also had lessons with numerous famous pianists, most notably with Lazar Berman and his wife Valentina, Naum Shtarkman, Malcolm Bilson, Jurgis Karnavičius, among others.", "score": "1.6924306" }, { "id": "5716552", "title": "Antanas Juozapavičius", "text": " Antanas Juozapavičius was born to Juozapas Juozapavičius and his wife Marijona Juozapavičienė. He was born in the small Švakštonys manor, which the parents were renting. As farming was financially unsuccessful, the family emigrated to Riga, where Juozapas Juozapavičius worked as a wagoner. In 1902, Antanas Juozapavičius started going to school in Riga, and from 1905 to, although he was thrown out of school in sixth grade for the spreading of Lithuanian ideas. In Tartu, he educated to become a pharmacist, and from 1914 onwards worked as such in the pharmacies of Riga and Tartu.", "score": "1.6784172" }, { "id": "3434492", "title": "Kipras Bielinis", "text": " Bielinis was born in Purviškiai I in Biržai District, then part of the Russian Empire, to a family of Jurgis Bielinis, one of the best known Lithuanian book smugglers during the Lithuanian press ban. From about 1890, his father was searched by the police and did not live at home. In 1892, his father took him to Garšviai where the Garšviai Book Smuggling Society was based in hopes of teaching him same basic reading and writing. He had some other private tutors in Panevėžys and Sidabravas before enrolling into a realschule in Mitau (Jelgava) in fall 1894. After taking entrance exams, he was admitted to the Gymnasium of Nicholas I in Riga in fall 1895. Bielinis helped his father ", "score": "1.674669" }, { "id": "11204515", "title": "Jurgis Karnavičius (composer)", "text": " (Theme with Variations) (1912) ; Ulalumė, Symphonic Poem, Op.8 (1917) ; Lietuviškoji fantazija (Lithuanian Fantasy), Op.15 (1925) ; Ovalus portretas (The Oval Portrait), Symphonic Poem, Op.18 (1927) Chamber music ; String Quartet in F major ; Variations on the Lithuanian Folk Song \"Siuntė mane motinėlė\" for violin and piano (1907) ; String Quartet No.1, Op.1 (1913) ; 2 Romance-Caprices for violin solo, Op.4 (1915) ; String Quartet No.2, Op.6 (1917, published 1928) ; Poema for cello and piano (1917) ; String Quartet No.3, Op.10 (1922) ; String Quartet No.4 (1925) ; Lietuviškoji fantazija (Lithuanian Fantasy) for string quartet, Op.15 ", "score": "1.6695462" } ]

[ "Beijing", "Peking", "Beiping", "Peiping", "Yanjing", "Zhongdu", "Khanbaliq", "BJ", "Shun Tian Fu", "Pekin", "beijing" ]

[ { "id": "14181563", "title": "Xue Jiye", "text": " Xue Jiye (born in 1965 in Dalian, Liaoning) is a Chinese painter and sculptor. He graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1988 and currently lives and works in Beijing. Xue Jiye and his work have been featured in various art exhibitions both in China and abroad, including the Guangdong Art Museum, National Gallery of Indonesia, Kunstverein Manneim, etc.", "score": "1.7329361" }, { "id": "32921555", "title": "Charles Xue", "text": " Xue was born in Guangdong Province in 1953. His father, Xue Zizheng, was the vice minister of the United Front Work Department. During his childhood, Xue lived in Toufa Hutong, Beijing. In 1966 when Xue was thirteen years old, the Cultural Revolution was launched by Mao Zedong, during which his father Xue Zizheng was isolated and jailed. Two years later, Xue went to Urad Front Banner to work as a Sent-down youth in the Down to the Countryside Movement. In 1976, Xue worked at Wenwu Publisher as an editor, and started to learn English from Xiao Qian, Shen Congwen and Li ", "score": "1.7235844" }, { "id": "2677872", "title": "Xu Pei", "text": " Xu Pei was born on 22 March 1966 in Kangding City, the seat of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the Sichuan of Southwest China. Xu has three older brothers and one younger brother. In her childhood, Xu was sent to foster care in Chengdu. When she was 8 years old, her parents were transferred to work in Ya'an and Xu was taken back to her parents. In 1983, Xu was admitted to the German Department at Sichuan International Studies University and graduated in 1987. Xu later worked in Leshan as a tour guide for German visitor groups. Xu came to Germany at the end of 1988 and studied German philology and philosophy at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, obtaining a PhD in 1996. Xu obtained German citizenship in 2004 and currently lives in Cologne. She is a poet, writer, and human rights activist. Xu specializes in German poetry and published essays, commentaries and papers. She is active in radio and TV programs and on Internet. She has worked with Amnesty International and the Society for Threatened Peoples.", "score": "1.7175171" }, { "id": "3239469", "title": "Cui Jie", "text": " Cui Jie was born in 1983, in Shanghai, China. In 2006, she graduated from China Academy of Art Oil Painting Department. She currently lives and works in Beijing, China. Cui Jie is represented by LEO XU PROJECTS and Mother's Tankstation, Dublin. Cui Jie is described by The Wall Street Journal as one of the youngest \"China's Rising Art Stars.\" She has been named one of Phaidon Press's leading painters in its publication, Vitamin P3, and she is profiled in the December/January 2015 issue of Surface Magazine. Cui's early works questioned the truth in reality through the unconventional combination of images on canvas, a multi-perspective approach which she associates with Orson Welles. Later, in ", "score": "1.7135947" }, { "id": "1779110", "title": "Xue Zizheng", "text": " Xue was born in Lirang Town of Liangshan County in Sichuan Province of China in 1905, which was during the Qing Dynasty. In his early years, he studied at school in Wuchang and Nanjing. He is a graduate of Shanghai University, Communist University of the Toilers of the East, and Lenin Military-Political Academy. In 1926, Xue joined the Communist Party of China. He took part in the Third Rebellion of Shanghai Workers (上海工人第三次武装举事). Xue worked in Eastern Jiangxi Communist-controlled China (赣东东北革命根据地) in 1930, then worked in Minbei Communist-controlled China (闽北革命根据地), he was transferred to Jiangxi Military District (江西军区) in 1934. After 1949, Xue served as the deputy mayor of Beijing, the vice chairman of State Economic and Trade Commission, the deputy head of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, the deputy secretary general of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Members Member of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China. In July 1980, Xue died in Beijing.", "score": "1.7126498" }, { "id": "2164873", "title": "Xue Susu", "text": " Xue was born in either Suzhou or Jiaxing (contemporary sources disagree). According to the historian Qian Qianyi she spent at least some of her childhood in Beijing. She spent her professional life in the Qinhuai pleasure quarter of Nanjing in the 1580s, where she became something of a celebrity among the literati and government officials who frequented the \"flower houses\" there. She was highly selective in her clientele, accepting only learned and scholarly men as her lovers and declining to proffer her affections for mere financial gain; suitors might spend thousands of taels on her to no avail. In the 1590s she returned to Beijing, ", "score": "1.6919956" }, { "id": "12290599", "title": "Jiang Xuemo", "text": " Jiang was born in Guancheng Town of Cixi County, Zhejiang, on March 24, 1918. In 1936 he was accepted to Soochow University, majoring in economy, where he graduated in 1937, the year the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out. Then he went to Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan province, and entered Sichuan University. After graduating in 1944, he joined Financial Review as an editor and translator in British Hong Kong. After British Hong Kong was occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army, Jiang's brother Jiang Xuekai was shot and killed by Japanese forces. He came to Chongqing, Jin Kongzhang introduced him to the Finance Research Committee of the Ministry of Finance for compilation. From 1945 to 1949 he worked as an editor and translator at Fudan University in Chongqing. Since 1949, he taught at Fudan University as Associate Professor and full Professor. He died of illness at Huadong Hospital in Shanghai, on July 18, 2008.", "score": "1.6871226" }, { "id": "16110840", "title": "Xu Jie (Ming dynasty)", "text": " Xu Jie was born in Xuanping, Zhejiang in 1503(sixteenth year of Hongzhi), while his father was working there as the assistant county magistrate. Allegedly, when Xu was less than one year old, he fell into a well but lived on. While he was about five years old, he plummeted from a mountain, but his clothing snagged on a branch and saved him from death. As Xu Jie grew older, he started to study. Once he was reading books in a claim haunted house, locals found him finished his lessons without any accidents, which impressed Xu Jie's father Xu Fu. Following the resignation of Xu Fu, Xu Jie went ", "score": "1.6809137" }, { "id": "10561924", "title": "May Xue", "text": " Xue was born in Xian, China. In 1985, at the age of 15, Xue moved to Shandong where she would finish her schooling all the way through university where she would earn a bachelor's degree in Hotel Management at Shandong University. In 1994, Xue was introduced to an opportunity in Beijing, China, to work as an assistant for Pittler Group China's chief representative. Xue quickly built a good reputation within the company and was sent to the Goethe Institut in Beijing to study German. After completing two semesters at the Goethe Institut, she continued to work for Pittler Group China. In 1998, Xue joined CapitalClub China where she was hired as a membership officer. It only ", "score": "1.6709044" }, { "id": "6363535", "title": "Xie Fei (politician)", "text": " Xie, a Hakka, was born in Hekou Town, Lufeng County, Guangdong Province. He secretly participated in the Communist Party's activities in 1947, and joined Communist Party of China in July 1949. In 1955, he was appointed as a member of CPC's Lufeng County Standing Committee, and the director of its propaganda department. He was later promoted to party secretary of Lufeng. He was transferred to journal Shangyou as an editor in 1960. His following appointments included fellow in office of policy research in CPC's central south bureau, vice director of political office in Guangdong Revolutionary Committee, vice director in department of politics in scientific and educational province Guangdong, and vice ", "score": "1.6661832" }, { "id": "8666002", "title": "Xue Yuqun", "text": " Xue was born into a wealthy and highly educated family in the town of Yuqi, Wuxi, Jiangsu, on 2 November 1931. His uncle Xue Mingjian was a politician. His uncle Sun Yefang was an economist. His elder female cousin Xue Yugu is a microbiologist. His younger male cousin Xue Yusheng is a physicist and member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He secondary studied at Private Wuxi High School (now Wuxi No.3 High School). In 1949, he was accepted to Tangshan Institute of Technology (now Southwest Jiaotong University). After graduating in 1952, he joined Nanjing University as an assistant. In 1955, he entered Changchun Institute of Geology (now Jilin University), studying geology with the tutor of Moscow Institute of Geological Exploration. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Arizona between 1982 and 1984. He was promoted to associate professor in 1986. He died of illness in Shanghai, on 29 June 2021, aged 89.", "score": "1.6648299" }, { "id": "931942", "title": "Xie Bingcan", "text": " Xie Bingcan was born in Yuyao, China. At twenty years old, he traveled on foot from Yuyao to Shanghai, to find work at the Shanghai Mechanized Construction Group. While supporting himself there as a mechanic, Xie devoted his spare hours to the study of Daoist qigong and martial arts. His workmates were so impressed by his dedication, they assigned him the nickname \"Maoshan Dao Shr.\" In 1958, Xie joined the Yongnian Taijiquan Association, led by the Tai Chi master Fu Zhongwen. Xie focused all his efforts on this martial art. Following the instructions of his teacher, Xie repeated the traditional Yang style form ten to twelve times in a row without rest. He performed this feat twice daily, morning and evening, for many years. During this period in his life, ", "score": "1.664144" }, { "id": "1484294", "title": "Joker Xue", "text": " Xue was born and grew up in Shanghai, China. At four years old, his mother died of a heart disease. He studied painting in his youth, then Hotel Management at Glion Institute of Higher Education in Switzerland, before dropping out to pursue a music career.", "score": "1.6613344" }, { "id": "24973274", "title": "Wen Yumei", "text": " Wen was born in Beijing on January 16, 1934, with her ancestral home is in Xishui County, Hubei Province. Her father Wen Yichuan (1896-1939) was an alumnus of the University of Chicago and medical scientist. Her mother Gui Zhiliang graduated from St. Mary's Hall, Wellesley Women's University and Johns Hopkins University. Her uncle Wen Yiduo was a well-known poet and scholar. She has an elder sister. In 1941 she attended the Shanghai Zhongxi No. 2 School. She secondary studied at St. Mary's Hall. She studied and then taught at Shanghai Medical College. In 1980 she pursued advanced studies in the United States and United Kingdom, where she studied at the National Institutes of Health and the University of London respectively. After returning China she led the research on therapeutic hepatitis B vaccine. In 1999 she was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). In February 2019 she was elected an academician of the American Academy of microbiology (AAM).", "score": "1.6592994" }, { "id": "6790966", "title": "Xie Jin", "text": " Xie was born in Shangyu, Zhejiang Province. He spent his childhood in his hometown, and attended primary school for one year there. In the 1930s, he moved to Shanghai with his parents and continued his education. In 1938, he followed his father to Hong Kong and studied there for one year. When returning to Shanghai in 1939, Xie enrolled in Daxia Affiliated High School and Jishan High School. In leisure time, Xie took courses at Huaguang Drama School and Jinxing Film Training School. His teachers included Huang Zuolin and Wu Renzhi. Meanwhile, he participated students drama activities led by Yu Ling, and acted as Yue Yun ", "score": "1.65867" }, { "id": "13809679", "title": "Xue Fei (host)", "text": " Xue Fei is a Chinese host and educator.", "score": "1.6551576" }, { "id": "13514540", "title": "Liu Shahe", "text": " Yu Xuntan was born on 11 November 1931 in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, Republic of China. His parents were small landowners from Jintang County near Chengdu, and the family moved back to Jintang in 1935. His father worked for the Kuomintang government, and for that reason was killed by the Communist Party during the Land Reform Movement. He entered Sichuan University in 1949, majoring in agricultural chemistry. He began writing in 1948, and served as an editor of a supplement to the newspaper Western Sichuan Peasant Daily. He became a professional writer in 1952, and joined the predecessor of the Communist Youth League of China that same year. In 1955, Liu published his first poem, which was well received by ", "score": "1.6550227" }, { "id": "7921506", "title": "Xiaoze Xie", "text": " Xie was born in Guangdong Province, China in 1966. After developing an interest in art as child, and in science and technology in high school, he chose to study architecture as a compromise, earning a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Tsinghua University in Beijing (1988). A desire for a freer, less compromising career, however, compelled him to change to art. He enrolled at Central Academy of Arts and Design in Beijing, where he received a master's degree (1991) and honed a realistic style inflected by modernism. Like many Chinese students in the 1980s, Xie became interested in Western ideas. In 1991, his wife, Daxue Xu, received a scholarship to study physics at the University of North Texas, prompting a move to Denton, Texas. Xie enrolled in the art department there the next year (MFA, 1996), where he encountered postmodernism, inspiring him to combine his realist skills ", "score": "1.6538126" }, { "id": "27014305", "title": "Fei Xiaotong", "text": " Fei Xiaotong was born in Wujiang County of Jiangsu province in China on November 2, 1910. His world was one plagued with political corruption and abject poverty. He grew up in a gentry but yet not wealthy family. His father, Fei Pu'an (费朴安) was educated in the Chinese classics, earned a shengyuan civil service degree, studied in Japan, and founded a middle school. Fei's mother, Yang Renlan (杨纫兰), the Christian daughter of a government official and also highly educated for her time, established a nursery school in Wujiang which Fei attended. Her brothers include Chinese politician Yang Qianli (father of Hong Kong director and lyricwriter Evan Yang), Architect Yang Xiliu(S. J. Young), Chinese-American animator Cy Young, and entrepreneur Yang Xiren.", "score": "1.653492" }, { "id": "9388045", "title": "Fei Xu", "text": " Xu was born and raised in Beijing, China, where she graduated from the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China. She moved to the U.S. and attended Smith College, graduating in 1991 with a B.A. in Cognitive Science. She earned her Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from M.I.T. in 1995.", "score": "1.6484579" } ]

[ "Rathmore, County Kerry" ]

[ { "id": "25505027", "title": "Din Joe Crowley", "text": " Denis Joseph Crowley (1945 – 19 February 2016) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played as a midfielder for the Kerry senior team. Born in Rathmore, County Kerry, Crowley was introduced to Gaelic football in his youth. At club level he lined out with Rathmore, however, it was with divisional side East Kerry that he won four championship medals. Crowley made his debut on the inter-county scene when he first linked up with the Kerry senior team during the 1967 championship. He went on to win two All-Ireland medals, four Munster medals and two National League medals. He was an All-Ireland runner-up on one occasion. Crowley was a member of the Munster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions but never won a Railway Cup medal. He retired from inter-county football following the conclusion of the 1972 championship.", "score": "1.7877617" }, { "id": "14265483", "title": "Joe Crowley (presenter)", "text": " Crowley grew up in Norwich, Norfolk, and gained a degree in history at Magdalene College, Cambridge University, and a post-graduate diploma in broadcast journalism from City University London.", "score": "1.6988406" }, { "id": "5672282", "title": "Din Joe", "text": "Din Joe Buckley (1919–2009), Irish hurler ; Din Joe Crowley (1945–2016), Irish Gaelic footballer Din Joe is an Irish nickname. Notable people with the nickname include: ", "score": "1.6707796" }, { "id": "28920727", "title": "Joseph Martin Crowley", "text": " Crowley was born on April 29, 1871 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.", "score": "1.6316437" }, { "id": "11957796", "title": "Tadhgo Crowley", "text": " Crowley was born in Clonakilty, West Cork, the youngest of eight children born to John and Julia Crowley (née Twohig). After his education he worked as a van driver. Crowley married Sheila Crowley and they had two sons. Crowley died at his home in Clonakilty on 3 December 1963, after suffering a stroke while attending the weekly meeting of the Clonakilty Coursing Club. At just 42-years-old he was the third member of the 1945 All-Ireland-winning team to die.", "score": "1.6152685" }, { "id": "14265482", "title": "Joe Crowley (presenter)", "text": " Joe Crowley is an English television presenter and broadcast journalist, best known for presenting and. reporting on The One Show and Countryfile as well as co-presenting the factual BBC One series Holiday Hit Squad since 2013, alongside Angela Rippon and Helen Skelton.", "score": "1.5931222" }, { "id": "25544025", "title": "Matt Crowley", "text": " Matt Crowley was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He was a student of George Pierce Baker at Yale University. As an actor, Crowley had a career in radio before he moved into films, where he was best known for his roles in The Mob (1951), The Edge of Night (1956), and April Love (1957). He died on March 7, 1983, in Clearwater, Florida, US.", "score": "1.5879898" }, { "id": "14305353", "title": "Evin Crowley", "text": " Evin Crowley is a Northern Irish actress born 1945, Bangor. Evin started as a Lyric Player at the home of Mary O'Malley and her husband (later to become the Lyric Theatre, Belfast).", "score": "1.5730906" }, { "id": "8542231", "title": "Ted Crowley", "text": " Edward J. Crowley (born May 3, 1970) is an American retired professional ice hockey player. He was drafted in 1988 by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 4th round, 69th overall. Crowley was born in Concord, Massachusetts, but grew up in Boxborough, Massachusetts.", "score": "1.5456438" }, { "id": "10299307", "title": "Joseph N. Crowley", "text": " Crowley was born in Oelwein, Iowa. He enlisted and served in the United States Air Force for four years, attending an overseas program of the University of Maryland, College Park during that time. Upon his discharge from the military, Crowley studied Political Science at University of Iowa, earning his BA in 1959. In 1961, Crowley married Joy Reitz, and together they had four children. He received a MA in political science from California State University, Fresno. And went on to a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Washington in 1967.", "score": "1.5379577" }, { "id": "13650691", "title": "Joseph Robert Crowley", "text": " Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Joseph Crowley worked for five years at People's Trust and Savings Company in Fort Wayne. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II serving in both the North African and European campaigns. He attained the rank of captain. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend by Bishop John F. Noll on May 1, 1953. As a priest he served at St. Peter's Church in Fort Wayne, St. Francis Xavier Church in Pierceton, St. Patrick's Church in Lagro, St. Joseph's Church in Fort Wayne and St. Matthew's Cathedral in South Bend. He also served on the diocesan board of directors, as assistant chancellor, consultor, director of religious instruction and vicar general among other responsibilities. In addition ", "score": "1.5287943" }, { "id": "10826739", "title": "Tadhg Crowley", "text": " Born on 1 May, 1890, in Ballylanders, County Limerick, Tadhg Crowley was the second eldest of eight sons and one sister. Timothy Crowley, his father, was the village postmaster and the proprietor of Crowley’s Drapery, as well as the former secretary of the Hospital branch of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, while his mother was Ellen Ryan of Killeen. Crowley was educated at Rockwell College, County Tipperary.", "score": "1.5279672" }, { "id": "24932596", "title": "J.C. Crowley", "text": " John Charles Crowley (born November 13, 1947, in Houston, Texas) is an American musician. In his career, he has been a member of the band Player, has recorded one studio album \"Beneath the Texas Moon\" RCA Records 8370-2-R 1988 and charted several singles on the Billboard country charts.", "score": "1.5238765" }, { "id": "14265485", "title": "Joe Crowley (presenter)", "text": " Crowley is a supporter of The Anthony Nolan Trust and ran the 2014 London Marathon for the charity.", "score": "1.5230184" }, { "id": "6352572", "title": "Peter Crowley (revolutionary)", "text": " By the outbreak of the Civil War, Crowley, having been medically advised to leave Ireland, was living in the Bronx, New York, and working as a ticket agent for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company. He met his future wife, Minnie Daly (1906 - 1991) at a Síbín that her aunt owned during Prohibition. They married in 1928, and their first son, Peter Maurice Crowley, was born in New York in December 1929. Crowley, believing that the \"foot soldiers\" of the war would be rewarded under the new Fianna Fáil government, returned to Ireland against the wishes of his wife Minnie, who wanted to stay in New York. He lived with his brothers in Ballylanders for about three months, and later moved to Collins Avenue, Dublin. Another son, Tadhg Crowley, was born to them in 1934. Crowley would spend the rest of his working life in the civil service.", "score": "1.5220227" }, { "id": "14265484", "title": "Joe Crowley (presenter)", "text": " In his early career, Crowley worked for Inside Out South, which saw him nominated as 'Young Journalist of the Year' at the National RTS awards and earned him the 'Regional TV Personality of the Year' title at the RTS Southern Awards. Crowley is currently a reporter for the BBC One magazine show The One Show. In 2011, 2012 and 2016, he guest hosted The One Show for a few episodes. Crowley presented Country Tracks from 2009 until 2011, three series of Britain's Empty Homes and Britain's Empty Homes Revisited from 2012 until 2014, Turn Back Time in 2012, and Save My Holiday in 2011. He co-presented two series of the factual BBC One programme Holiday Hit Squad with Angela Rippon and Helen Skelton. He narrated the Animal Frontline and the Helicopter Heroes Down Under series in 2013. In 2014, Crowley co-presented the Channel 5 series Police 5 with Kate McIntyre. In 2015 he joined the popular Sunday evening BBC One programme Countryfile", "score": "1.5211704" }, { "id": "25544024", "title": "Matt Crowley", "text": " Matt Crowley (June 20, 1905 – March 7, 1983) was an American film, television and radio actor.", "score": "1.5160189" }, { "id": "30451", "title": "Mart Crowley", "text": " Crowley was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. After graduating from The Catholic University of America (studying acting and show business) in Washington, D.C. in 1957, Crowley headed west to Hollywood, where he worked for a number of television production companies before meeting Natalie Wood on the set of her film Splendor in the Grass. Wood hired him as her assistant, primarily to give him ample free time to work on his gay-themed play The Boys in the Band, which opened off-Broadway on April 14, 1968 and enjoyed a run of 1,000 performances. Crowley became part of Wood's inner circle of friends that she called \"the nucleus\", whose main requirement was that they pass a \"kindness\" test. The Boys ", "score": "1.4957567" }, { "id": "14677177", "title": "John Crowley (author)", "text": " John Crowley was born in Presque Isle, Maine, in 1942; his father was then an officer in the US Army Air Corps. He grew up in Vermont, northeastern Kentucky and (for the longest stretch) Indiana, where he went to high school and college. He moved to New York City after college to make movies, and did find work in documentary films, an occupation he still pursues. He published his first novel (The Deep) in 1975, and his twelfth (Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr) in 2017. Since 1993 he has taught creative writing at Yale University. In 1992 he received the Award ", "score": "1.4946743" }, { "id": "2733799", "title": "José Víctor Crowley", "text": " Crowley, was born in Mexico City in 1935. As a child his inclination to draw and paint was evident, with his father teaching him how to make colors, pigments, binders and all the special effects which has influence in his career to give him the skills. Although he knew he wanted to be a painter, he went to the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México to please his father, studying chemical engineering with a specialty in pigments, graduating in 1957. When Jose Crowley was young his maternal grandmother and uncles who were artists taught him but he did not have any formal training. When he was a teenager, he did a number of murals in ", "score": "1.4946202" } ]

[ "Ristiina", "Kristina", "Kristina kommun" ]

[ { "id": "12376335", "title": "Joachim Zachris Duncker", "text": " Joachim Zachris Duncker (12 November 1774 – 6 July 1809) was a Swedish soldier born in Ristiina in Savonia. In 1789 Duncker obtained the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the Savonia ranger regiment. He fought in the 1790 war against Russia and proved his valor at the Battle of Perttimäki 19 May. In 1804 Duncker was promoted to Captain. During the Finnish War of 1808-1809 he distinguished himself as a brave and prominent officer. When Cronstedt's army retreated from Mikkeli to Iisalmi and Oulu through Leppävirta (March 1808), Duncker commanded the army's rearguard. During the Battle of Pulkkila (2 May 1808) he distinguished himself so well that Johan August Sandels gave him the honorary assignment to bring the news of the victory to the Swedish king. Shortly after, he was ", "score": "2.0394626" }, { "id": "29754339", "title": "Joachim Rücker", "text": " Rücker was born in 1951 in Schwäbisch Hall, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He has a doctoral degree in international economics.", "score": "1.7191908" }, { "id": "27910645", "title": "Balthasar Anton Dunker", "text": " He was the eldest son of pastor Albert Andreas Duncker (1706–1781) and his second wife, Sophie Dorothea von Olthof (d.1761). His early artistic career was promoted by his uncle, Adolf Friedrich von Olthof, a Swedish Pomeranian Councilor from Stralsund, who arranged for him to study with the landscape painter Jakob Philipp Hackert. In 1765, Hackert took him to Paris and, after the Olthofs lost their fortune in 1768, took over his upbringing. In addition to receiving lessons from Joseph Marie Vien and Noël Hallé, he was influenced by the work of the copper engraver, Johann Georg Wille. He also studied the basics of ", "score": "1.6477673" }, { "id": "1758371", "title": "Hermann Duncker", "text": " Duncker was born in Hamburg as a son of a businessman. He studied music at the Leipzig Conservatory, then history, economics and philosophy at the University of Leipzig. He joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1893. In 1898 he married Käte Duncker (née Doell) who was then a teacher, but also became a socialist politician, journalist and feminist. The couple had three children: daughter Hedwig (1899–1996, physician), and sons Karl (1903–1940, Gestalt psychologist) and Wolfgang (1909–1942, journalist and film critic). In 1900, Duncker started teaching at the Leipzig workers' educational association. In 1903 he completed his Ph.D. under supervision of Karl Bücher and Karl Lamprecht. In the same ", "score": "1.6094427" }, { "id": "10450305", "title": "Alexander Duncker", "text": " He was descended from a successful Berlin family of booksellers, born in Berlin, the son of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker (1781–1869) and Fanny Duncker (née Wolff). His brothers included historian and politician Maximilian Duncker (1811–1886), and publisher and pundit Franz Duncker (1822–1888), founder of a trade union with labor economist Max Hirsch (1832–1905). Another brother, Hermann Carl Rudolf Duncker (1817–1892) was a member of the Prussian National Assembly and a mayor of Berlin. Duncker's father had founded the publishing firm Duncker & Humblot in 1809, running it alone after business partner Peter Humblot died in 1828. Alexander Duncker started his education in 1829. After apprenticeships with Friedrich Christoph Perthes and Johann Besser in Hamburg, Duncker founded his own firm, \"Verlag Alexander Duncker.\" His firm ", "score": "1.6085647" }, { "id": "29044978", "title": "Philipp Heinrich Dunker", "text": " He was the fourth child of the painter, Balthasar Anton Dunker, and his wife, Johanna Franziska Fahrni, from Eriz. His name was taken from his godparents, the painters Jacob Philipp Hackert and Heinrich Rieter (Maler). He learned art from his father. In 1800, he relocated to Nuremberg and worked for the art publisher, Johann Friedrich Frauenholz, for whom he did miniature watercolors of Swiss landscapes. Four years later, he became a member of the Nuremberg Painting Academy. After becoming established, he switched to etching a variety of subjects, but always focused on Swiss themes. In addition, he produced numerous prints based on works by other contemporary artists; such ", "score": "1.6015165" }, { "id": "10809548", "title": "Dora Duncker", "text": " Duncker was born in Berlin, a child of the publisher and book dealer Alexander Duncker, grandchild of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker, and part of a larger dynasty well established in several branches of the book trade. She was educated by private tutors. She also undertook significant \"study trips\" through Austria—notably in the Tirol, Northern Italy and Switzerland. She also became acquainted with the artist Karl von Piloty. Both at her family home in Berlin, and at von Piloty's home in Munich, she became part of a wider network of the arts and literature establishment that included the artists Hans Makart and Franz von Lenbach along with the writer, Paul Heyse. Her first published work, the drama Sphinx, appeared in 1881. In 1887, then annually for the next ten years, she produced the children's calendar, Buntes Jahr. In 1888 she married. The marriage was quickly followed by separation and then ended in divorce, however it also resulted in the birth of a daughter. Dora Duncker and her daughter Eva then lived together in Berlin. Following the collapse of her marriage Dora Duncker supported herself as a prolific freelance author and contributing editor.", "score": "1.6010742" }, { "id": "12376336", "title": "Joachim Zachris Duncker", "text": " to Major. In June 1808 he captured a large transport of supplies to the Russians. During the Battle of Koljonvirta (27 October 1808), Duncker together with Colonel Fahlander and Major Malm and only 600 men helped Sandels to utterly defeated a superior Russian force. In 1809 Duncker fought the Russians in the Swedish province of Västerbotten, and was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel. During the Battle of Hörnefors (5 July 1809) Duncker commanded the Swedish rearguard and received fatal wounds and died in the Russian encampment the day after. Duncker was buried next to Umeå church by the Russians that gave him a full honour guard. He lies buried together with a Russian cossack chief. In 1897 a memorial was erected on the spot where the grave was assumed to be.", "score": "1.5920587" }, { "id": "10450304", "title": "Alexander Duncker", "text": " Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker (February 18, 1813 – August 23, 1879) was a German publisher and bookseller.", "score": "1.5873911" }, { "id": "1902963", "title": "Duncker", "text": "Alexander Duncker (1813–1879), German publisher and bookseller ; Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker (1781–1869), German publisher ; Franz Duncker (1822–1888), German publisher, politician, and social reformer. ; Georg Duncker (1870–1953), German ichthyologist ; Hermann Duncker (1874–1960), German Marxist politician, historian and social scientist ; Joachim Zachris Duncker (1774–1809), Swedish soldier ; Karl Duncker (1903–1940), German psychologist ; Käte Duncker (1871–1953), German activist and politician ; Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker (1811–1886), German historian and politician ; Patricia Duncker (born 1951), British novelist and academic ; Wolfgang Duncker (1909–1942), German journalist and film critic Duncker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: ", "score": "1.5769203" }, { "id": "26042622", "title": "Joachim Christian Timm", "text": " Joachim Christian Timm, the son of tobacconist Matthias Ernst Timm (1704–1779), was born in Wangerin in Farther Pomerania, Prussia (now in Poland) and attended school there. In 1749 he started a five-year apprenticeship as an apothecary, initially with Friedrich John in Wangerin, where he served for a year as an assistant. In the 1750s he was in Mecklenburg, working in Rostock. At the end of the 1750s he moved to Malchin to manage the apothecary business of Georg Heinrich Kruger and his successors. In 1760, Timm became the official apothecary of Malchin. In 1771 he was elected senator. In 1778 he became the Second or Vice-Mayor ", "score": "1.5519077" }, { "id": "10450306", "title": "Alexander Duncker", "text": " in Belles lettres (German: Belletristik) and visual arts. Among the authors he published were Thekla von Gumpert, Ida Hahn-Hahn, Paul Heyse, Karl von Holtei, August Kopisch, Fanny Lewald, Elise Polko, Christian Friedrich Scherenberg, Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, and Friedrich von Uechtriz. He was instrumental in promoting new authors, and some of them Emanuel Geibel, Wilhelm Jensen, Marie Petersen, Gustav zu Putlitz, and Theodor Storm found their first recognition through Duncker's efforts. Duncker had far-reaching political connections and regularly corresponded with King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Later, he maintained contact with Emperor William I. From 1841 he held the title \"Royal Court Bookseller.\" As a reserve officer attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel, he participated in the wars against Denmark (1864), Austria (1866), and France (1870-71).", "score": "1.519565" }, { "id": "13051302", "title": "Johann Juncker", "text": " Johann Juncker was born on 23 December 1679 to Johann Ludwig Juncker, a well-to-do tenant farmer in Londorf, near Giessen. Juncker went to school in Allendorf and Obernhof, before attending the Pädagogium in Giessen for four years. The head of the institution at that time, J. H. May, was a Pietist. A dissident evangelical reform movement, Pietism emphasized the practical application of theology and active charitable work. Juncker attended the University of Marburg, matriculating on 30 October 1696 with a degree in philosophy. His studies were briefly interrupted when he helped his parents relocate to Franconia in 1696, due to ", "score": "1.5179267" }, { "id": "30703447", "title": "Johann Joachim Kändler", "text": " Kändler was born in Fischbach near Arnsdorf, Germany, as the son of a pastor. He received a classical education and developed an excellent knowledge of Greco-Roman mythology. This knowledge, great skill with his hands and an exceptional gift for observation laid the foundations for Kändler's later career, which would lead him to the court of Prussian King Frederick the Great. The profits of his porcelain work rose in tandem with his social status. Yet at the end of his life, although he owned several properties and his own vineyard, he left behind large debts. He was buried at.", "score": "1.5168027" }, { "id": "10831089", "title": "Georg Duncker", "text": "Barbodes dunckeri (Ahl 1929), sometimes referred to as a bigspot barb. ; Phallostethus dunckeri (Regan 1913). ; Solegnathus dunckeri (Whitley, 1927), sometimes referred to as Duncker's pipehorse. He studied at the universities of Kiel, Freiburg, and Berlin, receiving his doctorate at Kiel in 1895. Following graduation he lived and worked in Karlsruhe, Plymouth, Naples, Cold Spring Harbour (Long Island N.Y.), and Würzburg. From 1901 he worked as a curator for a year at the Selangor State Museum in Kuala Lumpur, afterwards returning to Europe, where he spent another year in Naples. He was a member of the Hamburg Südsee-Expedition (1908-10) during its first year in Oceania, of which, he collected specimens on behalf of the Hamburg Zoological Museum. From 1928 onward, he worked as a curator and professor at the Museum. In 1939 he became an honorary member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. In 1904 he described the Harlequin rasbora, Trigonostigma heteromorpha, a fish species that inhabits the forest streams of Southeast Asia. Taxa with the specific epithet of dunckeri honor his name, such as:", "score": "1.5151186" }, { "id": "31044978", "title": "Pforzheim", "text": " (born 1954), economist and a former member of the German Council of Economic Experts ; Tomas Maier (born 1957), fashion designer ; Jürgen Elsässer (born 1957), journalist and political activist ; Stefan Mappus (born 1966), economist and politician (CDU) ; Oliver Forster (born 1968), sports commentator and moderator ; Jan Kopp (born 1971), composer, musicologist and publicist ; Florian Ross (born 1972), composer, jazz pianist and bandleader ; Philipp Mohr (born 1972), German-American architect and designer ; Marcello Craca (born 1974), German-Italian tennis player ; Logan McCree (born Philipp Tanzer 1977), DJ and pornographic actor ; Nicola Thost (born 1977), snowboarder and Olympic champion ; Jeff S. Klotz (born 1990), Author, publisher, museum director and entrpreneur ; Robin Hack (born 1998), footballer ", "score": "1.5114694" }, { "id": "27910647", "title": "Balthasar Anton Dunker", "text": " was a thriving market for art. In 1777, he received his Bürgerrechte. He worked primarily as a landscape painter and etcher, but also did portraits, caricatures, and bookplates. In addition he provided illustrations for two works by Louis-Sébastien Mercier: Tableau de Paris, and The Year 2440. In the 1790s, his commissions decreased significantly, due to the unrest caused by the French Revolution. Between 1798 and 1800, he wrote and drew caricatures for several works that were critical of the Revolution's outcome; including bitter, satirical attacks on the city of Bern, for capitulating during the French Invasion. His last years were spent in poverty.", "score": "1.510471" }, { "id": "7519200", "title": "Zacharias Werner", "text": " Werner was born at Königsberg in East Prussia. At the University of Königsberg, he studied law and attended Kant's lectures. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Rousseau's German disciples were also influences that shaped his view of life. He lived an irregular life and entered a series of unsuccessful marriages. However his talent was soon recognized, and in 1793 he became chamber secretary in the Prussian service in Warsaw. In 1805 he obtained a government post in Berlin, but two years later he retired from the public service in order to travel. In the course of his travels, and by correspondence, Werner became acquainted with many eminent literary figures of the time, for example Goethe at Weimar and Madame de Staël at Coppet. At Rome, he joined the Roman Catholic Church in 1811. He was consecrated a priest in 1814 at Aschaffenburg, and, exchanging the pen for the pulpit, became a popular preacher in Vienna, where, during a congress in 1814, his eloquent sermons were listened to by crowded congregations. He was later appointed head of the chapter of the cathedral of Kaminiec. Werner died in Vienna.", "score": "1.5048517" }, { "id": "25914049", "title": "Zacharias Wagenaer", "text": " Zacharias was the son of a Saxonian judge and a painter. In 1633 he traveled from Dresden via Hamburg to Amsterdam. There he worked for Willem Blaeu. Within a year he enlisted as a soldier in the armed forces of the Dutch West India Company to serve in \"New Holland\" (Dutch Brazil) in 1634. Three years later, he was hired as a writer by the newly arrived governor of the colony, Count John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen. In Recife he kept a sort of diary with 109 water-colour drawings of curious fish, strange birds, useful and harmful animals, lovely tasty fruit and nasty, poisonous worms and big, brown or black people, published as \"Thier-Buch\". There are pictures of the smooth hammerhead, cutlassfish, slender filefish, Serranidae, and Cirripedia. On 1 April 1641, he left Dutch Brazil, and arrived on Texel on 17 June. He traveled back to Dresden arriving 12 October. After four months, he left Dresden to return to the Netherlands arriving at Amsterdam on 29 March 1642, and took a position with the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, commonly abbreviated to VOC).", "score": "1.5041041" }, { "id": "10831088", "title": "Georg Duncker", "text": " Paul Georg Egmont Duncker (6 May 1870, Hamburg &ndash; 28 July 1953, Ahrensburg) was a German ichthyologist.", "score": "1.4949703" } ]

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[ { "id": "8977693", "title": "Paul Revere Braniff", "text": " Paul Revere Braniff was born in Kansas City, Kansas. He grew up during the early era of aviation, and, as a youngster, became fascinated with the new way of transport. His family moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1900. Paul Revere Braniff met Marie Agnes Maney and they married on April 29, 1920. Marie Maney was born on May 2, 1898, in El Reno, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of James W. Maney, who was an Oklahoma Territory Pioneer. He built thousands of miles of railroads throughout the Western United States. His occupation was Civil Engineer and was President of the Clinton and Western Oklahoma Railroad and founded a chain of grain elevators in ", "score": "1.7877254" }, { "id": "8977696", "title": "Paul Revere Braniff", "text": " Paul Braniff joined the United States Army during World War I as a mechanic and private on July 6, 1917. He went to France, becoming a corporal, then a temporary sergeant. In France, he learned to shoot, becoming an avid gunman, although he never used this ability other than for warfare. After being honorably discharged from the Army, he joined brother Tom in an insurance company that carried the family's name. Paul Revere, however, kept dreaming about aviation all along and received his pilot's license in 1917. He obtained Transport License Number 690 from Orville Wright. In 1924, Mr. Braniff was able to buy his own aircraft.", "score": "1.704289" }, { "id": "8977692", "title": "Paul Revere Braniff", "text": " Paul Revere Braniff (August 30, 1897 – June 1, 1954 - tombstone incorrectly states June 15, 1954) was an airline entrepreneur. Paul, along with his brother Thomas Elmer Braniff, was one of the original founders of Braniff Airways, Inc. d/b/a Braniff International Airways (after 1948). ", "score": "1.7004446" }, { "id": "8977694", "title": "Paul Revere Braniff", "text": " Enid, Oklahoma, area. Marie Maney grew up at Maney House in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, that is now a historically protected property. She attended and graduated from schools in Baltimore, Maryland. Marie Agnes Braniff was highly interested in her husband's work. When he founded Paul R. Braniff, Inc. and then its successor Braniff Airways, Inc., she traveled with him scouting new routes. Mrs. Braniff's great love for Paul and his aviation interests led her to compile a very detailed archive on the history of Braniff Airways. She remained highly interested and involved in the preservation of Braniff history even after Paul Braniff's death in 1954. Paul and his wife Marie settled into a Northwest Oklahoma ", "score": "1.698266" }, { "id": "8977695", "title": "Paul Revere Braniff", "text": " home shortly after they married, that Mrs. Braniff lived in until her death on April 29, 1988. After Paul's death in 1954, Mrs. Braniff worked as a records archivist at the Oklahoma State Capital Building. She also worked at the St. Thomas More Book Store, also in Oklahoma City. She was active at her church, teaching Sunday School at it, the St. Francis Assisi Catholic Church. She was a member of the Legion of Mary at the same church. Paul and Marie had one child, a son, John Paul Braniff, who was born on October 29, 1927. John Braniff died in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on February 1, 2013, at the age of 85.", "score": "1.671196" }, { "id": "8977704", "title": "Paul Revere Braniff", "text": " Then 44 years old, Paul R. Braniff was re-called into military service as the United States entered World War II, in 1941. Paul Revere Braniff would fly aircraft, this time with the Army's ninth air troop carrier command, in England. But, after his second service in the military was over, so was his flying career.", "score": "1.638628" }, { "id": "1241662", "title": "Braniff (1983–1990)", "text": " Descendants of the original founding Braniff family members were on hand at a special celebration in Oklahoma City, home of Braniff's first flight in June 1928. The Braniff descendants enjoying refreshments at Braniff Gate 22 at Will Rogers World Airport were Braniff co-founder Paul Revere Braniff's son John Paul Braniff, Sr., and John Paul's son Michael S. Braniff. The two Braniff's were the guests of honor aboard the inaugural flight of Braniff, out of Oklahoma City heading to DFW Airport. Flight 103 departed 20 minutes late out of Will Rogers due to the special ceremonies that preceded the history making flight. Scheduled departure time was 927AM but the flight arrived at DFW Airport at ", "score": "1.5843709" }, { "id": "8977701", "title": "Paul Revere Braniff", "text": " to St. Louis with a contract for Braniff Airlines to carry mail, the first time the airline had obtained an airmail contract. Paul R. Braniff then set on exploring new markets for the company that bore his last name. In 1936, Mr. Braniff headed to Brazil, and he returned to St. Louis convinced that Braniff would do great economically if established in South America. The carrier was awarded a 7719-mile route from the Mainland US to far South America in 1946 with service beginning in 1948. Braniff Airways, Inc. began doing business as Braniff International Airways with the beginning of South America service. Paul Braniff had ", "score": "1.5825897" }, { "id": "28141412", "title": "Alberto Braniff", "text": " Braniff was born in Mexico City into a wealthy and powerful family during the Porfiriato. His father was the American industrialist Thomas Braniff and his mother was María Beltran Lorenza Ricard. His father was born in Staten Island, New York, to Irish immigrants; he went to Mexico to be a superintendent of construction for the Mexico City-Veracruz railroad, lived through the Second Mexican Empire and eventually became an established member of the Mexican elite. Alberto went to study in Europe, where aviation flourished as he was a young adult. While in France, Braniff acquired a French-built airplane. Soon after, he returned by ship to his home country, with his airplane aboard. Mexico during that era was a relatively ", "score": "1.5812743" }, { "id": "11545294", "title": "List of people from Oklahoma", "text": "Thomas and Paul Braniff, airline entrepreneurs, founders of Braniff International Airways ; Gordon Cooper (1927–2006), astronaut ; Owen K. Garriott (1930–2019), astronaut ; John Herrington (Chickasaw, born 1958), astronaut ; James Jabara (1923–1966) world's first jet ace, and Korean War triple ace with 15 kills ; Shannon Lucid (born 1943), astronaut ; William R. Pogue (1930–2014), astronaut ; Wiley Post (1898–1935), first pilot to fly solo around the world (born in Texas but grew up in Oklahoma) ; Will Rogers (Cherokee, 1879–1935), aviator ; Thomas Stafford (born 1930), astronaut ; Clarence L. Tinker (Osage, 1887–1942), U.S. Army Air Corps general and supreme commander of the U.S. Army Air Corps in the Pacific during World War II ", "score": "1.5759224" }, { "id": "2188510", "title": "List of people from Kansas City, Kansas", "text": "Paul Revere Braniff (1897-1954), airline entrepreneur ; Jack Gentry (1923-2006), engineer, manufacturing entrepreneur ; Lewis Hill (1919-1957), public radio entrepreneur ; Eldridge Lovelace (1913-2008), urban planner ; Kevin Warren Sloan (1957- ), landscape architect, urban planner and writer ; Charles E. Spahr (1913-2009), oil company executive ; Cheryl Womack (1950- ), trucking insurance executive ", "score": "1.5692742" }, { "id": "8977699", "title": "Paul Revere Braniff", "text": " In 1929, Paul Revere Braniff left the United States to go to Mexico to help someone build a struggling Mexican airline company (apparently this person was Alberto Braniff, but no evidence of this, nor of Alberto Braniff being related to the American Braniff brothers, has ever been reported). In November of that year, Paul R. Braniff, Inc., had merged with Universal Airlines, to become a real airline company, acquiring that airline's planes and setting up headquarters in St. Louis. In April, 1929 the company was sold to Aviation Corporation of America or AVCO, the predecessor of American Airlines, Inc. Paul Revere Braniff remained in Mexico until 1930.", "score": "1.5675699" }, { "id": "10430683", "title": "Braniff (name)", "text": "Braniff Bonaventure (born 1973), American football player ; Alberto Braniff (1884–1966), Mexican airplane pilot ; Kevin Braniff (born 1983), Northern Irish footballer ; Paul Braniff (hurler) (born 1983), Irish hurler ; Paul Revere Braniff (1897–1954), American airline executive ; Thomas Elmer Braniff (1883–1954), American airline executive Braniff is both a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: ", "score": "1.5658444" }, { "id": "8977697", "title": "Paul Revere Braniff", "text": " Paul Braniff founded his own flying company soon after, eventually helping convince Tom Braniff and other investors to bring money and form the Oklahoma Aero Club, in 1927. Reserved for use of the six investors, the company was registered as the Paul R. Braniff, Inc., thus marking the first birth of Braniff Airways. Paul Revere Braniff flew the company's first flight on June 20, 1928, from Oklahoma City to Tulsa, Oklahoma in a 5-passenger single engine Stinson Detroiter aircraft. Records indicate that there were flights between the two cities prior to the June 20 date. However, company records began recording flights on that date. Charles Lindbergh's monumental 1927 Atlantic crossing sparked massive interest in aviation around the nation. In Oklahoma, the interest was manifested in the Oklahoma Air Tour of 1928. Sponsored by ", "score": "1.5443211" }, { "id": "27795299", "title": "Paul Poberezny", "text": " Paul Poberezny was the oldest of three children born to Peter Poberezny, a Ukrainian migrant, and Jettie Dowdy, who hailed from the southern United States. Born in Leavenworth County, Kansas, Paul grew up poor in a tar paper shack in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and never experienced indoor plumbing until he went to school. He became interested in aviation at an early age and built model airplanes as his first educational experience into aircraft design. He then learned how to fly and repair aircraft in high school, starting with a WACO Primary Glider and Porterfield 35 monoplane, and followed by an American Eagle biplane after high school. Having never attended college, Poberezny once described learning to fly and maintain the Eagle as the closest thing he ever had to a college education experience.", "score": "1.5438033" }, { "id": "249316", "title": "Braniff International Airways", "text": " In 1926, Paul Revere Braniff incorporated Braniff Air Lines, Inc., which was eventually dissolved. In 1928, insurance magnate Thomas Elmer Braniff founded an aviation organization with his brother Paul, called Paul R. Braniff, Inc., which did business as Tulsa-Oklahoma City Airline. In 1929, ownership was transferred to Universal Aviation Corporation, at which time, the organization started operating as Braniff Air Lines, Inc. In 1930, the company was bought by the Aviation Corporation (AVCO).", "score": "1.5405216" }, { "id": "8977698", "title": "Paul Revere Braniff", "text": " Chamber of Commerce of Oklahoma, it involved aviators flying to various Oklahoma town expressing an interest in aviation. The five-day tour, departing Oklahoma City on May 14, 1928, flew eighteen thousand cumulative miles and stopped at eighteen towns. An estimated 100,000 people turned out to view the twenty two aircraft and hear the pilots, that included Paul R. Braniff, promote the benefits of commercial aviation. The Oklahoma cities of Altus, Miami, and Guthrie, built airports specifically for air tour usage. The Tour was operated again in 1929, but the onslaught of the Depression ended any further air races. At the time, the airline was very involved with the National Transcontinental air race. In April, 1929 the company was sold to Aviation Corporation of America or AVCO, the predecessor of American Airlines, Inc.", "score": "1.5393428" }, { "id": "8977700", "title": "Paul Revere Braniff", "text": " While in Mexico, he gained airline industry expertise. He returned to the United States with innovative ideas for a new Braniff, including the use of faster aircraft that he knew would help the airline by bringing quicker turn-around times and, as a consequence, enable the airline to carry more passengers. With that idea, Paul R. Braniff convinced Tom Braniff and the other four investors to buy two Lockheed Vega aircraft. Braniff Airways, Inc. was formed in November, 1930. Paul R. Braniff headed to Washington, D.C. in 1934, being called to testify before the congress, which was heading an investigation against air mail services. Paul R. Braniff ", "score": "1.538537" }, { "id": "8977705", "title": "Paul Revere Braniff", "text": " He later worked as an advisor for the Douglas Company in Los Angeles. He moved to Oklahoma, where he worked for another aviation-related company as salesman, selling used aircraft parts. Paul Revere Braniff was diagnosed with cancer later in his life, and he went on to spend his last couple of years relatively inactive. Expected to survive his cancer, Mr. Braniff suffered a cold in the summer of 1954, which later turned into a pneumonia. He underwent surgery to correct the pneumonia, but the surgery aggravated the cancer. He died on June 1, 1954, from complications of cancer that his doctors stated was directly connected with pneumonia and resulting surgery. Mr. Braniff's tombstone at his burial site incorrectly states he died on June 15, 1954.", "score": "1.5371296" }, { "id": "8977703", "title": "Paul Revere Braniff", "text": " Paul Revere Braniff went to Oklahoma to try to work as a mechanic, and he established the Braniff Engineering Corporation. That company was the first one to introduce the Lennox Air Conditioners and heating systems in Oklahoma.", "score": "1.5260715" } ]

[ "Vancouver", "City of Vancouver", "Vancouver, BC", "Vancouver, British Columbia" ]

[ { "id": "1503637", "title": "Chuck Patterson", "text": " Born in Memphis, Tennessee.", "score": "1.74913" }, { "id": "8037548", "title": "Scott Patterson (skier, born 1992)", "text": " All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).", "score": "1.7154776" }, { "id": "29902743", "title": "Scott Patterson (Paralympian)", "text": " Scott Patterson (born December 23, 1961) is a Canadian athlete who has appeared in four Paralympic Games in three different sports. Patterson is a double leg amputee injured in a work accident in 1982. He competed in four events in track athletics in the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul, South Korea, his best result being fifth. His next appearance was not until the 2002 Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City, where he entered 3 alpine skiing events, winning a bronze medal in the Men's giant slalom LW12. He skied again in 2006 in Torino, but his best result was a 20th place. In the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London he appeared for the first time as a swimmer, taking 8th place in the final of the 100 metre breaststroke SB5.", "score": "1.6995523" }, { "id": "8037547", "title": "Scott Patterson (skier, born 1992)", "text": " Scott Patterson (born January 28, 1992) is an American cross-country skier. He competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics. He skied for South Anchorage High School, where he was a three-time Alaska State skimeister. He then skied for University of Vermont, along with his sister, Caitlin. Currently, he represents Alaska Pacific University professionally and the US Ski Team. Most recently, he placed 10th at the World Championships 50k Classic race in Obersdorf, Germany.", "score": "1.6751201" }, { "id": "6009891", "title": "Saladin K. Patterson", "text": " Patterson grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, near South Boulevard, and attended Loveless Academic Magnet Program. He then studied engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and entered a graduate psychology program at Vanderbilt University.", "score": "1.6740005" }, { "id": "9610967", "title": "Nathan Patterson (baseball)", "text": " Patterson was born in 1996 in Kansas City, Missouri. His mother is a long-time nurse and real estate agent and his father a former high school baseball coach in Overland Park, Kansas. He played baseball as a middle infielder on the junior varsity team at Overland Park, but suffered a fracture in the elbow of his throwing arm during his junior year and never recovered sufficiently from the injury to resume his high school career. He enrolled in a local community college before leaving to start his own landscaping business. Patterson moved to Austin, Texas, in the summer of 2015 and met his girlfriend, with whom he relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, in January 2018. There he worked as a salesman of computer software.", "score": "1.6720234" }, { "id": "686631", "title": "Kevin Patterson (writer)", "text": " Kevin Patterson was born on December 27, 1964 in Kapuskasing, Ontario and raised in Selkirk, Manitoba. He put himself through medical school at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg by enlisting in the Canadian army. When his service was up, he worked as a doctor in the Arctic and on the coast of British Columbia while pursuing his MFA in creative writing at the University of British Columbia.", "score": "1.6719027" }, { "id": "27135228", "title": "Eugene Patterson", "text": " Patterson was born in Valdosta, Georgia, the son of Annabel Corbett, a schoolteacher, and William C. Patterson, a bank cashier. After the bank at which his father worked was closed in the course of the Great Depression, the family moved to a small farm near Adel, Georgia. The house had no running water or electricity, and was heated only by the fireplace. With his father able to get only occasional employment at local banks, the family was primarily supported by his mother's work as a teacher and her running the farm. As a teenager, Patterson began to work on weekends at the local journal, the Adel News. He edited a campus newspaper at North Georgia College at Dahlonega, Georgia where he ", "score": "1.665259" }, { "id": "1743568", "title": "Eric Patterson (baseball)", "text": " Eric Scott Patterson (born April 8, 1983) is an American former professional baseball left fielder and second baseman. Patterson made his MLB debut with the Chicago Cubs on August 6, 2007. He was the head coach of the Gwinnett Tides in the Sunbelt Baseball League. Patterson is currently the assistant hitting coach for the South Bend Cubs.", "score": "1.6415617" }, { "id": "12336128", "title": "Gary Patterson (artist)", "text": " Patterson was born in Los Angeles, California on November 16, 1941. His father, Robert Patterson, was a Fire Captain for the Los Angeles Fire Department who was also known for his comical illustrations in the Firemen's Grapevine, a widely distributed periodical popular among firefighters. His mother, Nadine Patterson, was a homemaker. In the beginning of his childhood, Patterson submerged himself into the world of art. Encouraged by his family and friends, he attended Los Angeles Valley College, the Art Center College of Design and UCLA where he studied a diversity of art areas and media before deciding to specialize in humor.", "score": "1.6342541" }, { "id": "29634348", "title": "Gary Patterson", "text": " Patterson grew up in Rozel, Kansas and played football at Dodge City Community College and at Kansas State University. Patterson is married to Kelsey Patterson (née Hayes). He has three sons: Josh, Cade, and Blake. He received his bachelor's degree in physical education in 1983 from Kansas State University, where he became a member of the Acacia fraternity. While coaching at Tennessee Tech, he earned a master's degree in educational administration in 1984. Outside of coaching, Patterson plays guitar and performs at charity events around the Dallas-Fort Worth area during the off season.", "score": "1.6324584" }, { "id": "32937399", "title": "Lee Patterson", "text": " Patterson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, as Beverley Frank Atherly Patterson. He attended the Ontario College of Art and Design.", "score": "1.6313821" }, { "id": "27792997", "title": "James Patterson", "text": " Patterson was born on March 22, 1947, in Newburgh, New York, the son of Isabelle (Morris), a homemaker and teacher, and Charles Patterson, an insurance broker. The family were working-class and of Irish descent. He graduated summa cum laude with both a B.A. in English from Manhattan College and an M.A. in English from Vanderbilt University.", "score": "1.6110823" }, { "id": "905998", "title": "Ed Patterson", "text": " Patterson was born in Delta, British Columbia. As a youth, he played in the 1986 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from North Delta, British Columbia. He played three seasons of junior hockey in the Western Hockey League and was drafted by the Pittsburgh Penguins. He turned professional in 1992 with the Cleveland Lumberjacks. Patterson would play in the minor leagues, with a few stints with the Penguins, until 2000, when he moved to Europe. He played six seasons in Europe before ending his career in 2007.", "score": "1.6110227" }, { "id": "10792358", "title": "Kyle Patterson", "text": " Kyle James N. Patterson (born 6 January 1986) is an English footballer who plays for Midland League Division One side Lichfield City, where he plays as a midfielder.", "score": "1.6041553" }, { "id": "25584951", "title": "David Allen Patterson", "text": " David Allen Patterson was born in Kentucky to Betty (née Allen) and Coleman Sidwell Patterson, the youngest of their three sons. He is of Cherokee and Irish heritage. After dropping out of high school in 1982, David struggled with alcoholism, drug addiction, depression and a suicide attempt at age 18. He entered a psychiatric hospital in 1989, where he stayed for five weeks. David earned his GED and began working as a garbage man for Waste Management in his mid-twenties. In 1990, he considered taking college classes and sought assistance through Vocational Rehabilitation in Kentucky. He was evaluated as having dyslexia, ADHD and learning disabilities, labeled mildly mentally retarded and was told he was not \"college material.\" Ironically, this became the starting point of a new life for Patterson, one devoted to education, addiction treatment and rehabilitation, and advocacy.", "score": "1.6010637" }, { "id": "2633876", "title": "Gavin Patterson", "text": " He was born in Altrincham in Greater Manchester in 1967, and attended schools in Warrington and Yeovil. He graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering.", "score": "1.5961757" }, { "id": "25979509", "title": "MC Ren", "text": " Lorenzo Jerald Patterson was born in Compton, California, on June 16, 1969, and raised in Pannes Ave., around Kelly Park. He grew up with his parents, two brothers and a sister. His father used to work for \"the government\", until he later opened up his own barber shop. Patterson joined the Kelly Park Compton Crips (of which Eazy-E would also become a member) in attempt to make money, but soon departed and turned to drug dealing as he felt it was more lucrative. Following a raid on his childhood friend MC Chip's house, Patterson quit dealing and focused thereafter on making music. Patterson attended Dominguez High School, where he met his future collaborator, DJ Train. At this time, he developed an interest in hip hop music, and began writing songs with MC Chip, with whom he formed the group Awesome Crew, and performed at parties and nightclubs. Patterson officially began his rap career upon joining forces with another childhood friend, Eric \"Eazy-E\" Wright, in 1985. Patterson graduated from high school in 1987 and he planned to join the United States Army after graduation, but changed his mind after watching the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket.", "score": "1.5953133" }, { "id": "12829794", "title": "Richard Patterson (artist)", "text": " Richard Patterson (born 1963 in Leatherhead, Surrey) is an English artist and one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). He is currently based in Dallas, Texas. Patterson's work is primarily painterly, but occasionally morphs into three-dimensional works as well.", "score": "1.5891953" }, { "id": "7190205", "title": "Davie Patterson", "text": " He was born to David Patterson and Maggie Scott. They had 3 daughters and 5 sons, including Davie.", "score": "1.5844247" } ]

[ "Lyon", "Lyons", "Commune-Affranchie" ]

[ { "id": "4578981", "title": "Clément Perron", "text": " Perron was born in Quebec City, Quebec. After graduating from the University of Laval with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy Perron went to France to continue his studies with the goal of becoming a teacher. He studied linguistics at the Academie de Portier.", "score": "1.5819148" }, { "id": "1119002", "title": "Maurice Bizot", "text": " Maurice Bizot was born in Puéchabon on 27 November 1896.", "score": "1.5747709" }, { "id": "26331220", "title": "Martin Biron", "text": " Martin Gaston Biron (born August 15, 1977) is a Canadian American former professional ice hockey goaltender. Drafted by the Buffalo Sabres in the first round (16th overall) of the 1995 NHL Entry Draft, he spent the first half of his 16-year National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Sabres, later having stints with the Philadelphia Flyers, New York Islanders, and New York Rangers. He is currently a television analyst with the Sabres on MSG Western New York. His younger brother Mathieu played 250 games in the NHL as a defenceman.", "score": "1.5690238" }, { "id": "26949587", "title": "Robert Biedroń", "text": " Biedroń was born on 13 April 1976 in Rymanów, in Podkarpackie Voivodeship. He grew up in Krosno. Biedroń completed his secondary education in Ustrzyki Dolne. He received a bachelor in political science at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (2000). He received a master's degree in the same field in 2003. He also is a graduate of the School of Political and Social Leaders and the School of Human Rights at the Helsinki Human Rights Foundation. Biedroń speaks English, French, Russian, Esperanto and Italian.", "score": "1.5467548" }, { "id": "13897753", "title": "Joseph Biroc", "text": " Joseph Francis Biroc was born on February 12, 1903 in New York City, New York. He attended Emerson High School in Union City, New Jersey only to drop out to pursue a career in film – a subject he'd been passionate about since childhood. He saw his “first movie in 1910 on a vacant lot five blocks from his home” and knew from then he wanted to spend the rest of his life making movies.", "score": "1.534775" }, { "id": "1515944", "title": "Emmanuel Perrotin", "text": " Emmanuel Perrotin is the son of Michel Perrotin, a bank employee, and Odile Pradinas, a stay-at-home mother. He grew up in L'Étang-la-Ville and attended the Lycée autogéré de Paris. While there, he found a part-time job making interactive slideshows for the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie and the Musée d'Orsay. He made his first art connections as a middle-school dropout at age 16, when he met the daughter of Gilbert Brownstone, a gallery owner, at Les Bains-Douches nightclub.", "score": "1.5316668" }, { "id": "1515943", "title": "Emmanuel Perrotin", "text": " Emmanuel Perrotin (born in May 1968 in Montreuil) is the French contemporary art gallery owner of Galerie Perrotin.", "score": "1.5119117" }, { "id": "4421780", "title": "Emmanuel Roman", "text": " Roman grew up in Paris, the only child of the artists Philippe Roman and Véronique Jordan Roman. He earned a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from the University of Paris IX Dauphine in 1985. He later received an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.", "score": "1.5083394" }, { "id": "12916676", "title": "Albert Bitran", "text": " Albert Bitran was born in 1931, in a Jewish Sephardic family, in Istanbul, Turkey. After his studies at the French Collège Saint Michel, having both diplomas in French and Turkish, he is admitted in the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture, in Paris. In 1948, at seventeen, he arrives in Montparnasse, knowing already that he wants to become a painter, not an architect. Leaving the school after 8 months, he moves into a studio at the American pavillon of the Cité Universitaire, where he joins the circle of expatriated artists who had come to Paris for inspiration: Ellsworth Kelly and Jack Youngerman from the U.S, many South Americans, Ricardo Porro ", "score": "1.5079391" }, { "id": "14095997", "title": "Emmanuel Halperin", "text": " Halperin was born in Uzbekistan to a Jewish immigrants parents from Poland. He grew up in France, and made Aliyah to Israel when he was 19. In the IDF, he served as a Military Censor. Halperin earned two academic degrees in Law, Literature, and Theatre. As a university student he played in French-language theatre performances in Jerusalem. From 1964, after completing his military service, he began working as a reporter and news presenter in Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) Television, and its Kol Yisrael radio. He remained there for over 40 years, consecutively, and became known as one of IBA's veterans. Initially, he began as an IBA's radio reporter in France, and then became a news editor in IBA's ", "score": "1.5071218" }, { "id": "30923187", "title": "Emmanuel Feldman", "text": " Feldman was born and raised in New York City. He studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and at the Conservatoire de Paris.", "score": "1.5057027" }, { "id": "27507365", "title": "Arghiri Emmanuel", "text": " Not much is known about Emmanuel's whereabouts in the years before moving to France. He was born in Patras, Greece, the son of Charalambos Emmanuel and Katina (born Menounou). Studied at the High School of Economics and Commerce from 1927 to 1932 and then at the Faculty of Law until 1934, from where he went on to work in commerce in Athens until 1937. While his later works clearly identify him as a Marxist or communist of sorts, it is still uncertain when and under which circumstances he began considering himself as such. Publishing articles at least from 1928, an interest in ", "score": "1.5040364" }, { "id": "31956864", "title": "Emmanuel Fillion", "text": " Emmanuel Fillion (born October 28, 1966) is a French-American sculptor. He was born in Soissons, France in 1966. He started sculpting at the age of 15 as an apprentice renovating historical monuments in France. His marble and bronze works can be seen in public places, private homes and private collections including the Spencer and Marlene Hays collection. He has a studio in the Pietrasanta, Italy, and one in Malibu, and was the subject of a documentary by Gina Minervini called \"Through the Eyes of the Sculptor.\" Emmanuel Fillion's work is inspired by dance and movement as seen in the homage to Martha Graham sculpture in the Wallis Center for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles. He portrays the fine line between nature and the ", "score": "1.5025331" }, { "id": "11285579", "title": "Arthur Biram", "text": " Biram was born in Bischofswerda in Saxony in 1878, the son of a modest, but successful businessman. Biram attended school in Hirschberg, Silesia. His sister Else Bodenheimer-Biram became a well known art sociologist. He studied languages, including Arabic, at University of Berlin and at University of Leipzig and earned a doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the University of Leipzig in 1902, discussing the philosophy of Abu-Rasid al-Nisaburi. In 1904 he concluded the rabbi seminar at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums. Afterwards he taught languages and literature at the Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster. Biram was one of the founders of the Bar-Kochba club, and a member of the German liberal religious stream 'Ezra', which recognized the importance of high school education. In 1913, he emigrated to Ottoman Palestine. He married Hannah Tomeshevsky, and they had two sons. Both sons were killed: Aharon died in an accident while on reserve duty, and Binyamin, an engineer at the Dead Sea Works, was killed by a mine.", "score": "1.5022659" }, { "id": "335682", "title": "Federico Bikoro", "text": " Bikoro was born in Douala, Cameroon to an Equatorial Guinean father and a Cameroonian mother. When he was 15, his parents died in a traffic accident. In order to help his family economically he decided to abandon his studies and his intention to be a lawyer. He worked as a mason and carpenter before finally becoming a footballer.", "score": "1.4963706" }, { "id": "1732413", "title": "Henri Emmanuelli", "text": " Emmanuelli was born in Eaux-Bonnes in the French department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques. He grew up with a working-class background and lost his father at a very young age. He studied at Sciences Po in Paris. He joined in 1969 the Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild. In 1971, he was appointed to the management of this company, becoming a senior banking executive and then a co-director in 1975. He continued his professional career at the Rothschild Bank until he was elected at the French National Assembly at age 32 in 1978.", "score": "1.4963508" }, { "id": "26331487", "title": "Mathieu Biron", "text": " As a youth, Biron played in the 1994 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Charlesbourg, Quebec City. He was drafted by the National Hockey League's (NHL) Los Angeles Kings in the first round (twenty-first overall) of the 1998 NHL Entry Draft. New York Islanders traded Žigmund Pálffy, Bryan Smolinski, Marcel Cousineau and 4th round selection (previously acquired from the New Jersey Devils - Daniel Johansson) in 1999 to the Los Angeles Kings for Olli Jokinen, Josh Green, Mathieu Biron and 1st round selection (Taylor Pyatt) in 1999. On November 24, 2003, Biron became the first NHL player in 23 years to score a goal against his brother when he finished ", "score": "1.4939685" }, { "id": "9819205", "title": "Henri Biva", "text": " Henri Biva was born in Montmartre at 18 rue du Vieux Chemin de Paris (named rue Ravignan after 1867). His official date of birth is 23 January 1848. He grew up in an artistic environment, both within his own family and in the neighborhood in which he lived. His younger brother Paul Biva (1851–1900) also became a painter, as would Henri Biva's son Lucien Biva (1878–1965). In 1873 Biva studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where many famous artists in Europe were trained. His teachers included Léon Tanzi (1846–1913), an esteemed Realist painter, and Alexandre Nozal (1852–1929) a respected landscape artist that perambulated from Impressionism to Post-Impressionism. A trace of both instructors can ", "score": "1.4896522" }, { "id": "30193984", "title": "Emmanuel Sebareme", "text": " Sebareme was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Rwandan refugee parents, who had fled the conflict of the mid-1990s. Largely traveling on foot, he and his family arrived in South Africa when he was five years old, settling in Cape Town.", "score": "1.4874227" }, { "id": "2066480", "title": "Rodrigue Biron", "text": " Biron was manager of his family’s sewer pipe factory in Sainte-Croix, Quebec. Prior to entering provincial politics, he had been a card-carrying supporter of the Liberal Party of Quebec.", "score": "1.4844191" } ]

[ "Karatsu", "Katatu" ]

[ { "id": "3026705", "title": "Yasushi Yoshida", "text": " Yoshida was born in Nerima, Tokyo on August 9, 1960. After graduating from Waseda University, he played for Mitsubishi Motors (currently Urawa Reds) from 1983 to 1992. He played 175 games and scored 35 goals at the club.", "score": "1.6857047" }, { "id": "3143591", "title": "D-51", "text": "Yu : born Yū Uezato (上里優 Uezato Yū) on November 9, 1983 in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. ; Yasu : born Yasuhide Yoshida (吉田安英 Yoshida Yasuhide) on April 6, 1982 in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. ", "score": "1.6681824" }, { "id": "26021664", "title": "Shuichi Yoshida", "text": " Shūichi Yoshida was born in Nagasaki, and studied Business Administration at Hosei University. He won the Bungakukai Prize for New Writers in 1997 for his story \"Saigo no Musuko\", and the Akutagawa Prize in 2002 (the fifth time he'd been nominated for the prize) for \"Park Life\". In 2002 he also won the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize for Parade, and for winning both literary and popular prizes Yoshida was seen as a crossover writer, like Amy Yamada or Masahiko Shimada. In 2003 he wrote lyrics for the song \"Great Escape\" on Tomoyasu Hotei's album, 'Doberman'. His 2007 novel, Akunin, won the Osaragi Jiro Prize and the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award, and was adapted into an award-winning 2010 film by Lee Sang-il. Another novel, Taiyo wa Ugokanai has been made into a 2020 film.", "score": "1.6345851" }, { "id": "24930151", "title": "Ken'ichi Yoshida (literary scholar)", "text": " Yoshida was born in Tokyo as the eldest son of future Prime Minister of Japan Shigeru Yoshida, who at the time was a Japanese diplomat in Rome. His mother Yukiko, a daughter of Count Makino Nobuaki, left Tokyo soon after Ken'ichi's birth to join her husband, so he was raised at the Makino household during the first few years of his life. He started living with his parents at the age of six, when his father was posted to Qingdao, China. Thereafter he lived in Paris, London, and Tianjin (where he studied at a school for British children) before moving back to Tokyo where he graduated from secondary school. In October 1930 he enrolled at King's College of the University of Cambridge, where was interested in the works of William Shakespeare, Charles Baudelaire, and Jules Laforgue. He became a student of Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, but dropped out and back to Tokyo in February 1931, on Dickinson's advice that in order to devote his life to literature he should live in Japan. During the next few years he studied French at the Athénée Français in Kanda, Tokyo.", "score": "1.6274128" }, { "id": "14597292", "title": "Yudetamago", "text": "Artist. Hometown: Nishinari-ku, Osaka. Birth date: January 11, 1961. Recognizable Feature: Glasses. A graduate of Hatushiba High School, up until 1984 he went by the name Yoshinori Iwamoto (岩元 義則,). He has stated that he likes to stay home by himself and that his favorite actress is Mariko Kawana. Before he started school, he was an avid baseball player and fan and dreamed of one day becoming a Pro Baseball player. He liked to draw but has said that he didn't really read manga until he met Shimada. Nakai Yoshinori (中井 義則) ", "score": "1.6251762" }, { "id": "3158735", "title": "Yugo Yoshida", "text": " Yugo Yoshida (吉田 雄悟) is a Japanese sailor, who specializes in the two-person dinghy (470) class. He shared gold medals with his partner Ryunosuke Harada in the 470 class at the 2010 Asian Games, and later represented Japan at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Throughout most of his sailing career, Yoshida trained for the ABeam Consulting Team under his personal coach and mentor Kazunori Komatsu. As of September 2013, Yoshida is ranked no. 190 in the world for two-person dinghy class by the International Sailing Federation. Yoshida and his partner and skipper Ryunosuke Harada made their official debut at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, where they edged out the host nation's Wang Weidong and Deng Daokun by ", "score": "1.6244698" }, { "id": "24893184", "title": "Yasutaka Yoshida", "text": " Yoshida was born in Hiroshima Prefecture on November 22, 1966. After graduating from Tokai University, he joined Tanabe Pharmaceutical in 1989. He played many matches as defender from first season. In 1991, he moved to his local club Mazda (later Sanfrecce Hiroshima). However he could not play many matches and he moved to Japan Football League club Cosmo Oil (later Cosmo Oil Yokkaichi) in 1995. Although he played as regular player, the club was disbanded end of 1996 season and he retired end of 1996 season.", "score": "1.6191834" }, { "id": "5853648", "title": "Yuji Yoshida", "text": " Yuji Yoshida (吉田 有志) is a Japanese footballer currently playing as a forward for Cerezo Osaka.", "score": "1.6143482" }, { "id": "13982288", "title": "Zengo Yoshida", "text": " Yoshida was born as the fourth son of an ex-samurai, Mine Kohachi, in Saga prefecture in 1885, and was adopted into the family of a local rice merchant named Yoshida. The future Fleet Admiral Mineichi Koga was a friend from his childhood. Yoshida was graduate of the 32nd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1904, ranking 12th out of 190 cadets. The Russo-Japanese War had just started, and he served as a midshipman, he served on the submarine tender, and participated in the Battle of Tsushima aboard the cruiser. He attended naval artillery and torpedo school in 1906–1907, and was then assigned to the destroyer followed by the cruiser. As a lieutenant from 1909, he specialized in torpedo warfare, and graduated from the Naval Staff College in 1913. His classmates included Kōichi Shiozawa and Shigetarō Shimada. Yoshida was promoted ", "score": "1.6139336" }, { "id": "1087756", "title": "Hiroyuki Yoshida", "text": " Yoshida was born in Nagasaki Prefecture on November 25, 1969. After graduating from Kokushikan University, he joined Yamaha Motors (later Júbilo Iwata) in 1992. He played many matches as offensive midfielder from first season. However his opportunity to play decreased behind Gerald Vanenburg from 1994. From 1995, he played for Fukuoka Blux (1995), Consadole Sapporo (1996) and Blaze Kumamoto (1996). However he could hardly play in the match. In 1997, he moved to Honda. He played many matches in 2 seasons and he retired end of 1997 season.", "score": "1.6131026" }, { "id": "25044312", "title": "Shigeru Yoshida (bureaucrat)", "text": " Yoshida was born in what is now part of the city of Usuki, Ōita, where his father worked as an official of the Bank of Japan. He graduated from the Law Department of Tokyo Imperial University in 1911, and also passed the highest level of the civil service examinations. In late 1911, he entered the Home Ministry, serving as Deputy Mayor of Tokyo in 1923. Following the Great Kantō earthquake, he was assigned to the Reconstruction Bureau within the Home Ministry, and later to the bureau in charge of regulating Shinto shrines under State Shintoism. From October 1934 to May 1935, Yoshida served as Chief Cabinet Secretary under the Okada administration and was also appointed to a seat on the Planning Board. In 1937, he was appointed to the Upper House ", "score": "1.6110821" }, { "id": "5853649", "title": "Yuji Yoshida", "text": "Notes . ", "score": "1.6049731" }, { "id": "12297540", "title": "Takayuki Yoshida", "text": " Yoshida was born in Kawanishi on March 14, 1977. After graduating from high school, he joined Yokohama Flügels with teammate Yasuhiro Hato in 1995. He played many matches as forward from first season and the club won the champions 1994–95 Asian Cup Winners' Cup. In 1998, the club won Emperor's Cup. At final, he scored winning goal. However the club was disbanded end of 1998 season due to financial strain, he moved to Yokohama F. Marinos. However his opportunity to play decreased and he moved to J2 League club Oita Trinita in 2000. He played as offensive midfielder in many matches. The club won the champions in 2002 and was promoted to J1 League. He returned to Yokohama F. Marinos in 2006. However he left the club for generation change and moved to his local club Vissel Kobe in 2008. He played many matches until 2011. In 2012, he could not play for injury and the club was relegated to J2 League. Although he thought of retirement, he extended the contract a year. In 2013, the club won the 2nd place and was promoted to J1 League. He retired end of 2013 season.", "score": "1.6043072" }, { "id": "10723670", "title": "Hiroshi Yoshida", "text": " Hiroshi Yoshida (born Hiroshi Ueda) was born in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka, in Kyushu, on September 19, 1876. He showed an early aptitude for art fostered by his adoptive father, a teacher of painting in the public schools. At age 19 he was sent to Kyoto to study under Tamura Shoryu, a well known teacher of western style painting. He then studied under Koyama Shōtarō, in Tokyo, for another three years. In 1899, Yoshida had his first American exhibition at Detroit Museum of Art (now Detroit Institute of Art). He then traveled to Boston, Washington, D.C., Providence and Europe. In 1920, Yoshida ", "score": "1.6038618" }, { "id": "5079215", "title": "Ken Yoshida", "text": " Yoshida was born in Tokyo on March 1, 1970. He played for Yomiuri, NKK, Ventforet Kofu and Jatco. He retired in 1998.", "score": "1.6036214" }, { "id": "25511989", "title": "Kōtarō Yoshida (actor)", "text": " Yoshida spent six years in Osaka during his grade school days, and later grew up in Hino, Tokyo. While a student at St. Paul High School, he saw the Shakespearean comedy \"Twelfth Night\" by the Kumo Theater Company and decided to become an actor. While studying at the Department of German Literature in the Faculty of Literature at Sophia University, he made his debut by performing Twelfth Night in the Shakespeare Study Group. He later dropped out of the same university. After working with the Shiki Theatre Company for six months, he worked with Shakespeare Theatre, Lyming Theatre Company, and Tokyo Ichigumi before forming Performance Unit AUN with director Yoshihiro Kurita in 1997, which he also directed. He was valued as an actor capable of performing the roles required of foreign classics such as ", "score": "1.6014364" }, { "id": "14579875", "title": "Yoshida", "text": " artist ; Yugo Yoshida (吉田 雄悟), Japanese sailor ; Yuka Yoshida (吉田 友佳), Japanese tennis player ; Yuka Yoshida (cricketer) (born 1989), Japanese women cricketer ; Yuki Yoshida, Canadian film producer ; Yurika Yoshida (吉田 夕梨花), Japanese curler ; Yuta Yoshida (吉田 裕太), Japanese baseball player ; Yutaka Yoshida (吉田 豊), Japanese footballer ; Yūto Yoshida (吉田 雄人), Japanese politician ; Yuya Yoshida (吉田 優也), Japanese judoka ; Zengo Yoshida (吉田 善吾), Imperial Japanese Navy admiral Yoshida (written: 吉田 lit. \"lucky ricefield\") is the 11th most common Japanese surname. A less common variant is 芳田 (lit. \"fragrant ricefield\"). Notable people with the surname include: ", "score": "1.5972229" }, { "id": "13252859", "title": "Satoshi Yoshida", "text": " Yoshida was born in Misato, Kumamoto on February 10, 1990. After graduating from high school, he joined his local club Roasso Kumamoto in 2008. Although he was newcomer, he wore the number \"1\" shirt for the club and played many matches. However his opportunity to play decreased in 2009 and he retired end of 2009 season.", "score": "1.5874015" }, { "id": "15813421", "title": "Yoku Hata", "text": " Yōku Hata (波田陽区, Hata Yōku, real name: Akira Hada (波田 晃, Hada Akira), born June 5, 1975 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture) is a stand up comedian in Japan. He rose to popularity in 2004 with his character \"The Guitar Zamurai (Samurai)\" (ギター侍) on the program The God of Entertainment (エンタの神様). Dressed in a yukata, his skit always follows the same form. He says a supposed quote about someone famous, and then mocks the quote (and the person) and says \"残念!\" (zannen!, Too Bad!) Then he imitates the person and finishes that section with a \"切り\" (giri!, Slash!) as he makes a sword slash movement with his guitar. At the end of a set, he usually says some self-depreciating remark and ", "score": "1.5864029" }, { "id": "24979149", "title": "Yasuhiro Yoshida", "text": " Yoshida was born in Hiroshima on July 14, 1969. After graduating from Meiji University, he joined Kashima Antlers in 1992. However he could hardly play in the match. He moved to Shimizu S-Pulse in 1995 and played many matches. He moved to his local club Sanfrecce Hiroshima in 1996 and played as regular player. He left the club end of 1999 season and moved to Brazil. However he could not sign with a club and he returned to Japan. He signed with Shimizu S-Pulse in June 2000. The club won the champions 2001 Emperor's Cup. From 2004, he could hardly play in the match and he moved to Regional Leagues club FC Gifu in 2006. Although he could not play in the match, the club was promoted to Japan Football League in 2007 and J2 League in 2008. From 2009, he played for FC Oribe Tajimi (2009) and Fujieda MYFC (2009-10). He retired end of 2010 season.", "score": "1.5835315" } ]

[ "Santurtzi", "Santurce" ]

[ { "id": "27782721", "title": "Montxu Miranda", "text": " Montxu Miranda Díez (born 27 December 1976 in Santurce) is a Spanish pole vaulter. His personal best of 5.81 metres, achieved in September 2000 in Barcelona, is still the standing Spanish national record.", "score": "1.9679861" }, { "id": "31227582", "title": "Raphael Miranda", "text": " Miranda was born in Bedford Hills, New York, and graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish, with a concentration in Latin American literature, and a Bachelor of Science degree in broadcast journalism from Brooklyn College. Additionally, he earned a geosciences/meteorology degree from Mississippi State University.", "score": "1.7222679" }, { "id": "12872133", "title": "Edison Miranda", "text": " Miranda was born in 1981 in Buenaventura, Colombia and was abandoned by his mother when he was one month old. At age 9, a precocious Miranda began a quest to locate his mother. He hitched rides on truck beds over the course of hundreds of miles and was able to find his uncle working at a construction site. His uncle informed him that if he was really the little boy his sister gave away, then he should have a birthmark on his leg whereas Miranda unveiled the 2-inch long circular proof. The man led him to his mother's new home, only to be abandoned again by his mother. By the time he was 12, he was working in the plantain fields. The next year, he had a full-time construction job. By the time he was 14, he was working as a cattle butcher. At age 15, Miranda took up boxing, training for a half-year before starting his amateur career. Miranda won 128 out of 132 fights, winning four Colombian national titles. Miranda won a bronze medal in the 2000 Olympic Trials in Argentina, but failed to qualify for the 2000 Colombian Olympic team.", "score": "1.7089263" }, { "id": "26486758", "title": "Luis Miranda (painter)", "text": " Luis Miranda (1932 in Guayaquil, Ecuador – 2016 in Guayaquil, Ecuador) was an Ecuadorian master painter. Miranda was born in 1932 to Pedro Miranda Martinez and Dolores Neira Peñafiel. Miranda's childhood memories were of harvesting honey from his family's many beehives, which they owned all along the route from Empalme to Guayaquil. Miranda was always drawing as a child, scribbling away on any paper that he could find and copying art from books that his mother had in the house. Miranda finished his primary studies in River Basin, where his parents had transferred for work related reasons. Miranda later returned to the port city to attend secondary school at the School Vicente Rocafuerte. In 1950, Miranda's passion for art led him to ", "score": "1.690093" }, { "id": "8662744", "title": "Manuel Miranda", "text": " Miranda was born in Havana in 1959. In 1962, he immigrated with his parents to Asturias, Spain, and immigrated again in 1966 to the United States, settling in New York City. He was naturalized as an American citizen along with his father and sister in 1976. He graduated with honors from Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in Astoria, Queens. He attended Archbishop Molloy High School in Ridgewood, Queens, obtaining that school’s highest graduation award, the Pvt. Louis J. Willet Scholarship. He attended Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service where he was the 1981 Circumnavigators Foundation Fellow, earning a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service. At Georgetown he served as the student representative on the Walsh School’s Executive Committee and as president of Alpha Phi Omega, the National Service Fraternity. (In 2016, he received from ", "score": "1.6887558" }, { "id": "27535028", "title": "Boris Miranda", "text": " Miranda was born in the city of La Paz, he was one of the three children of Jenny Espinoza and Iván Miranda Balcázar, an outstanding journalist and university teacher. He studied at the Colegio San Calixto, then later pursued a career in Political Sciences at the Higher University of San Andrés in La Paz.", "score": "1.6800017" }, { "id": "32887187", "title": "Alberto Montt", "text": " Alberto José Montt Moscoso (Quito, Ecuador, December 22, 1972) is a Chilean graphic designer and plastic artist mainly known for his online comic-strip Dosis diarias, (in English, Daily Doses), where he has published since 2006 until today. He was born in Ecuador as the son of Alberto Montt (Chilean) and Consuelo Moscoso (Ecuadorian). He studied graphic design and plastic arts in Quito. After graduation, he founded a design firm, and published his works on the magazines Gestión, Diners Club and the newspaper supplement «La pandilla» in El Comercio. In 1998 he moved to Santiago de Chile. His first job was as an op-ed ", "score": "1.6375163" }, { "id": "26486759", "title": "Luis Miranda (painter)", "text": " in the School of Fine Arts in Guayaquil to be mentored by Hans Michaelson and Caesar Andrade Faini. In 1955, Miranda graduated from the School of Fine Arts and was granted a scholarship by UNESCO to travel Europe and settle in Italy. Miranda attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome where he graduated in 1961. The impressive quality of his work earned Miranda many praises from the art critics of the \"eternal city\". Miranda obtained the First Prize \"Via Marguta\" and the Prize \"Fiat\" in 1959; The First Prize \"Vittorio Grassi\", the \"Odescalchi Glass\", of Brasiano, and the silver medal by \"Il Giornale Di Italy\", in 1960. Miranda was influenced by great Italian masters such as: Americo Bertoldi, Mario Mafai, ", "score": "1.6234579" }, { "id": "2514747", "title": "Eduardo Reck Miranda", "text": " Miranda was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil. As one of the largest cities in Southern Brazil and a cultural, political and economical center, Porto Alegre had significant influence on Miranda's music.", "score": "1.622551" }, { "id": "13751295", "title": "Montxo Armendáriz", "text": " Born on 27 January 1949 in Olleta, Navarra. He was the last hope for his parents, who had already lost three baby sons. His father was a farmhand and blacksmith and Armendáriz spent his first year in rural Basque Country, a landscape that would reappear repeatedly in his filmography. He was six years old when, in 1955, he moved with his parents to Pamplona in search of a better life. At age eighteen, he discovered existentialism in the works of foreign authors. After completing his mandatory military service, he studied electronics, a subject he taught as university professor at the Instituto politecnico de Pamplona. Interested in filmmaking, he ", "score": "1.6163267" }, { "id": "26495885", "title": "Concha Valdés Miranda", "text": " Concha Valdés Miranda (July 16, 1928 - August 19, 2017) was a Cuban songwriter and performer of Cuban music. Miranda was born in Havana, Cuba. Her greatest success may have been \"El que más te ha querido\". It was nominated for the Grammy and the first place in the United States. In addition, she is the author of numerous songs that were popular in the voices of performers such as Toña la Negra, Celia Cruz, Lucía Méndez, Olga Guillot, Tito Rodríguez, Felipe Pirela, Los Panchos, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Santos Colón, Floria Márquez, Ismael Miranda, Tito Nieves, Tito Puente, Sergio Vargas, Johnny Ventura, Cheo Feliciano and Dyango, among others. Many of her compositions have been used as themes in Spanish and Mexican movies. She is among the first artists to become part of the composers of Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame. She died in Miami, aged 89.", "score": "1.6139457" }, { "id": "26486761", "title": "Luis Miranda (painter)", "text": " In 1982, The National Painting Prize of Ecuador; In 1984, Gold Medal to the Artic Merit of the Municipality of Guayaquil. In the late eighties, Miranda was a professor in the Faculty of Architecture at the Catholic University in Guayaquil. Miranda married his partner Gloria Guerrero who spent her weekends painting alongside her husband. Gloria & Luis moved from Guayaquil to the coast to live in Chanduy, where Miranda focused on painting the life happening around him: daily life on the coast, the working people, the fisherman and their boats, men throwing nets, the sea, the estuary. Miranda continued to paint every morning. \"I have so many ideas for painting, the illusion of paint every day is what keeps me alive\".", "score": "1.6112516" }, { "id": "5519780", "title": "Sol Miranda", "text": " Miranda was born in Puerto Rico. She received a BA in drama from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, and an MFA in acting from the University of California, San Diego. She later moved to Brooklyn, New York City, and worked in English-language Latino theater productions and briefly with the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater. In 1995, she began teaching as an adjunct assistant professor of visual and performing arts at Hostos Community College and in 2004, reintroduced the Hostos Repertory Company. Around 2000, Miranda and her husband moved to Peekskill, New York, as they had heard about the town's burgeoning arts scene, and it was close enough to New York City for Miranda to continue auditioning for roles. Miranda founded Embark Peekskill, a 501(c)(3) organization which supports the development of a performing and literary arts center in the town.", "score": "1.5997164" }, { "id": "13555666", "title": "Tete Montoliu", "text": " Montoliu was born blind, in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Spain, and died in the same city. He was the only son of Vicenç Montoliu (a professional musician) and Àngela Massana, a jazz enthusiast, who encouraged her son to study piano. Montoliu's earliest piano teaching took place under the tutelage of Enric Mas at the private school for blind children he attended from 1939 to 1944. In 1944, Montoliu's mother arranged for Petri Palou to provide him with formal piano lessons. From 1946 to 1953, Montoliu studied music at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona, where he also met jazz musicians and ", "score": "1.5994916" }, { "id": "297195", "title": "Tontxu", "text": " Juan Antonio Ipiña (Tontxu) (Bilbao (Spain), August 17, 1973) is a Spanish singer-songwriter. He worked in the radio station \"40 Principales\" in Bilbao. Later, he went to Madrid where he started to sing in the café Libertad 8. There he met Rosana Arbelo, Andrés Molina, Rogelio Botanz, and Paco Bello.", "score": "1.5978594" }, { "id": "28228572", "title": "Osvaldo Miranda (actor)", "text": " Osvaldo Isaías Mathon Miranda (November 3, 1915 – April 20, 2011) was an Argentine film and television actor whose credits also included more than fifty stage productions. He was born in Villa Crespo neighbourhood, in Buenos Aires, to Spanish immigrants. Miranda began his career as a tango dancer. His film credits included Cita en las estrellas in 1949 and Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina in 1969. Miranda also appeared in numerous television roles including Mi cuñado, La nena and the long-running television series, Escala Musical. Miranda was the namesake of the Argentine electropop group, Miranda!. Miranda died on April 20, 2011, in Buenos Aires at the age of 95.", "score": "1.5953205" }, { "id": "2004699", "title": "Miranda (footballer, born 2000)", "text": "Notes ", "score": "1.5930905" }, { "id": "9605114", "title": "Roxana Miranda", "text": " Miranda was born in Buin on 24 April 1967, to Francisco Miranda Araya, municipal worker, and Orfilia de las Mercedes Meneses Roa, seamstress. Her father died when she was six years old. She completed her secondary studies at the Liceo Comercial de San Bernardo, where she also held positions as student leader in the school's student council. She married Iván Luis Vargas García in San Bernardo on 10 January 1994. The couple have four children.", "score": "1.589573" }, { "id": "15370849", "title": "Miranda (footballer, born 1998)", "text": "Notes ", "score": "1.5887501" }, { "id": "32305486", "title": "Miranda (Colombian singer)", "text": " Miranda was born in Bello, Antioquia, November 20, 1984. Her mother was a physiotherapist by profession and a Christian believer. As a teenager, Miranda always had a strong inclination for music, and spent almost 14 years related to music. She became the winner of The Voice Colombia. She studied at the University of Antioquia. But she soon left a possible professional career to start an artistic career. She also worked as a professor of vocal techniques, at Solo Rock Musical academy in Medellin. Prior to taking part in La Voz Colombia, she formed a band called Miranda & The Soul Band in ", "score": "1.5882356" } ]

[ "Tampere", "Tammerfors" ]

[ { "id": "30567113", "title": "Ismo Leikola", "text": " Leikola was born in Jyväskylä in 1979 and lived his childhood in Kuohu, a small town near Jyväskylä. Prior to a career in stand-up comedy, Leikola studied at the University of Jyväskylä with physics as main as subject and philosophy as secondary.", "score": "1.8126878" }, { "id": "27457243", "title": "Jokela (surname)", "text": "Antti Jokela (born 1981), Finnish ice hockey goaltender ; Juha Jokela (born 1970), Finnish playwright and scriptwriter ; Mikko Jokela (born 1980), Finnish ice hockey defenceman ; Monica Vikström-Jokela (born 1960), Finnish-Swedish television script writer and author ; Leo Jokela (1927-1975), Finnish actor Jokela is a Finnish surname, originating from the name of the town of Jokela, located 30 miles away from Helsinki. Many other locations have the same name around the country. , there are 7,000 Finnish people alive today who have this surname. Notable people with the surname include: ", "score": "1.7648199" }, { "id": "27784505", "title": "Mikko Jokela", "text": " Jokela started his ice hockey career with the KalPa junior team, and was selected 96th overall in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft by the New Jersey Devils He represented various SM-liiga teams before he signed with the Devils for the 2001–02 NHL season. Jokela spent the season with the AHL Albany River Rats, and after starting the next season in the AHL, he was traded to the Vancouver Canucks for Steve Kariya, where he played his only NHL game in the 2002–03 season. After another year with the Canucks' AHL affiliate Manitoba Moose, Jokela returned to Finland and signed with HPK. He was made team captain for the 2005–06 season when the team won the SM-liiga championship. In April 2007, he signed a three-year contract with Jokerit. However, he moved to ", "score": "1.717587" }, { "id": "8448874", "title": "I. K. Inha", "text": " Konrad into Nyström was born in 1865 in the village of Jäähdyspohja in the municipality of Virrat in central Finland. His father was the bailiff Johan Abraham Nyström and his mother Clara Charlotta Nyström (née Vikman). After Inha's childhood years the family moved to the town of Ikaalinen and from there Inha moved to Hämeenlinna in 1877 to study in the famous Lyceum of Hämeenlinna. In addition to normal school subjects Inha also studied additional languages and journalism. Inha matriculated in 1884 and afterwards moved to Helsinki and enrolled in the University of Helsinki to study first aesthetics, Finnish language, and history only to change his majors to geology, geography, and chemistry after one year of studies. Inha never graduated but was an avid generalist and was fluent in several languages. Helsinki remained Inha's home town for the most ", "score": "1.6989377" }, { "id": "3798082", "title": "Jukka Haavisto", "text": " Juhani \"Jukka\" Haavisto (born June 5, 1930 in Alajärvi, Finland) is a Finnish musician with the honorary title of music councilor. He has also worked as an entrepreneur in advertising business from 1959 to the 1990s, when he retired. However, he is perhaps best known for his work as a songwriter and for having played the vibraphone and the accordion in numerous bands.", "score": "1.6884019" }, { "id": "5302778", "title": "Tom of Finland", "text": " Laaksonen was born on 8 May 1920 and raised by a middle-class family in Kaarina, a town in southwestern Finland, near the city of Turku. Both of his parents Suoma and Edwin Laaksonen were schoolteachers at the grammar school that served Kaarina. The family lived in the school building's attached living quarters. He went to school in Turku and in 1939, at the age of 19, he moved to Helsinki to study advertising. In his spare time he also started drawing erotic images for his own pleasure, based on images of male laborers he had seen from an early age. At first he kept these ", "score": "1.6882294" }, { "id": "30837854", "title": "Jarppi Leppälä", "text": " Leppälä was born in Seinäjoki, Finland. Around 2001, he (along with childhood friends Jarno Laasala, Jukka Hildén and HP Parviainen) began filming The Dudesons, originally seen on MoonTV. Shortly after, The Dudesons began touring and performed a live show along with the band The Odorants. In 2004, Leppälä started a new show called Duudsonielämää. In 2005, Leppälä, along with Dillerfar, made guest appearances on the MTV series Viva La Bam with Jackass star Bam Margera. Leppälä is most commonly known as the \"Funny Fat Guy\", known for poking fun at co-star Jukka Hilden's stupidity. From The Dudesons official website: \"Jarppi is the king of one-liners and the physically clumsiest Dudeson. He is also ", "score": "1.6844146" }, { "id": "15237248", "title": "Jokelan Kisa", "text": "Official Website ; Finnish Wikipedia ", "score": "1.673959" }, { "id": "28181735", "title": "Martti Jukola", "text": " Martti Jukola was born in Turku in 1900. His parents were Aapo Henrik Jukola and Maria Wilhelmina Grönroos. In 1922, he graduated with his Bachelor of Arts and in 1932 received his PhD. The subject of his doctoral thesis was J. H. Erkko.", "score": "1.6735306" }, { "id": "29980751", "title": "Leo Jokela", "text": " Jokela worked in several Finnish theatres before making his impact on films. His first major film role came in a 1954 crime comedy Kovanaama, directed by Aarne Tarkas. During the next ten years, Jokela appeared in almost all Tarkas films, in bigger or smaller parts. Besides acting, he also worked occasionally as a make-up artist.", "score": "1.6730258" }, { "id": "1448775", "title": "Juha Ruusuvuori", "text": " Juha Ensio Ruusuvuori (born 16 July 1957) is a Finnish freelance writer. He was born in Oulu, and graduated to Master of Arts from the university of Tampere in 1987. He has worked as photographer in the news paper Kaleva, editor in TV-news of Yleisradio and in radio news and as publication editor in Banana Press Oy. Ruusuvuori has been come to known as editor of the humour magazine Pahkasika and as publication editor. He has moved from Tampere to Dalsbruk in Kimitoön, where he writes among other things columns.", "score": "1.6715436" }, { "id": "30770140", "title": "Juha Malinen", "text": " Malinen was born in Oulu. He was coming to the end of his short career as a football player in 1978 when he decided to enroll as a student at the University of Oulu Department of Education. He started his career as a teacher just before he would have graduated, and thus didn't complete his studies. While working as a teacher he found himself yearning for a job where he could see more concretely the impact of his work. He soon became interested in football coaching. In 1986 Malinen found a job at Kastelli Sports Gymnasium (secondary education) as the school's football coach. Among his students at Kastelli were Antti Niemi and Mika Nurmela who went on to become Finnish internationals. Ville Nylund and Aarno Turpeinen, who later became core players of top team in Finland, HJK Helsinki, were ", "score": "1.6659627" }, { "id": "5310934", "title": "Timo Penttilä", "text": " Timo Jussi Penttilä was born 16 March 1931 in Tampere to Arvo Mikko Penttilä and Ester Elviira Matinheimo. His father was agronomist and acted as a supervisor improving cattle in the country. Penttilä graduated from Tampere secondary school in 1950 and went on to study architecture at Helsinki University of Technology, graduating in 1956.", "score": "1.6559925" }, { "id": "6333217", "title": "Jussi Jalas", "text": " Jalas was born as Armas Jussi Veikko Blomstedt in Jyväskylä in 1908. His father was Yrjö Blomstedt. He studied at the Helsingfors Conservatory 1923–30 (later renamed the Sibelius Academy), and then in Paris 1933–34, under Wladimir Pohl, Pierre Monteux and Rhené-Baton. He had further study in Germany, Austria and Italy before returning to Finland. He changed his surname to Jalas in 1943. He taught at the Sibelius Academy from 1945 to 1965, and was the music director of the Finnish National Opera from 1945. He conducted the Finnish premieres of Benjamin Britten's operas Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia. His wife Margareta née Sibelius was the daughter of Jean Sibelius, and virtually every one of his concerts included a work by his father-in-law. His own works included orchestral works, piano music and songs. He died in Helsinki in 1985, aged 77.", "score": "1.6362412" }, { "id": "30054927", "title": "Mikko Jokela (diplomat)", "text": " Mikko Samuli Jokela (born. 15 October 1947) is a Finnish diplomat and civil servant. He worked as a protocol manager at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs between 2010 and 2012 until his retirement. In 2005-2010, Jokela was Ambassador to the Netherlands. Jokela joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1976 and worked as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the State Secretary as well as for various positions in Trade Policy and Political Affairs, including Head of Research and Planning Unit. Jokela also worked at the embassies of Bonn, Budapest, Stockholm and the Consul General in Hamburg (2001-2005). In 2005-2010, Jokela served as Ambassador to the Netherlands in The Hague. He also represented Finland at the United Nations Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is also located in The Hague. 1 February 2010 Jokela started as a protocol manager at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He left the job retiring in 2012.", "score": "1.632621" }, { "id": "29980750", "title": "Leo Jokela", "text": " Leo Paavali Jokela (24 January 1927 – 11 May 1975) was a Finnish actor. He is best remembered for his role as a detective Kokki in Matti Kassila's Komisario Palmu films and as a parrot G. Pula-aho in Spede Pasanen's radio programs.", "score": "1.6299078" }, { "id": "29336752", "title": "Juhani Aaltonen", "text": " Juhani Aaltonen (born December 12, 1935) is a Finnish jazz saxophonist and flautist. Born in Kouvola, Finland, he studied at Sibelius Academy and Berklee College of Music. He began playing professionally at the end of the 1950s. He played in a sextet led by Heikki Rosendahl during that time, and then studied flute performance at the Sibelius Academy and in the U.S. at the Berklee College of Music. Moving back to Finland, he settled in Helsinki and began working both as a session musician and with fusion groups. Later in the 1960s he formed a duo with Edward Vesala, as well as in the group Eero Koivistoinen for four years. He played with Tasavallan Presidentti in their earlier days, including for their first, eponymous, album. He recorded with Thad Jones and Mel Lewis and with Heikki Sarmanto ", "score": "1.6260078" }, { "id": "12796829", "title": "Martti Suosalo", "text": " Martti Juhani Suosalo (born 19 July 1962) is a Finnish actor and singer. Suosalo was born in Oulu, and began his career in 1986 with an appearance in a TV series. He began to work as a regular actor on Finnish television but also appeared in several films in the early 1990s such as the 1994 film Aapo alongside actors such as Taisto Reimaluoto, Ulla Koivuranta and Kai Lehtinen. While most of his work has been in television in 1999 Suosalo appeared in just about every major film produced in Finland that year appearing on the big screen in films such as Rentun Ruusu, Sibelius and Lapin kullan kimallus. In 2006, Suosalo has appeared in the TV series Ilonen talo and in the movie Kalteva torni, which stars another Suosalo family member, his 7-year-old daughter Siiri Suosalo, in her first major movie role. Suosalo voiced the Finnish janitor Ahti in the 2019 video game Control by Remedy Entertainment, for which he won the British Academy Games Award for Best Supporting Performer. At the 2020 Vienna Independent Film Festival Martti Suosalo received the Best Actor award for his role in Laugh or Die.", "score": "1.6219401" }, { "id": "6037569", "title": "Jalmari Ruokokoski", "text": " His father was a shoemaker from Savonia. The family returned to Finland when he was thirteen and settled in Helsinki. He studied at the \"Central School of Art and Design\" from 1902 to 1904 and at the \"Art Society Drawing School\" from 1903 to 1906. There he met Tyko Sallinen. His first public showing came in 1905. Until his first artistic breakthrough came four years later, he earned extra money by drawing advertisements and cartoons. In 1907 he was engaged with a girl named Olga, whom he had encountered in a cafe that he frequently visited. The engagement was broken after ", "score": "1.6157651" }, { "id": "10765478", "title": "Helsinki", "text": " Sarkola (born 1945), actor ; Heikki Sarmanto (born 1939), jazz pianist and composer ; Teemu Selänne (born 1970), Hall of Fame ice hockey player ; Aki Kaurismäki (born 1957), director, screenwriter and producer ; Märta Tikkanen (born 1935), Finland-Swedish writer and philosophy teacher ; Linus Torvalds (born 1969), software engineer, creator of Linux ; Elin Törnudd (1924– 2008), Finnish chief librarian and professor ; Sirkka Turkka (born 1939), poet ; Ville Valo (born 1976), lead singer of the rock band HIM ; Ulla Vuorela (1945–2011), professor of social anthropology ; Lauri Ylönen (born 1979), lead singer of the rock band The Rasmus ; Anne Marie Pohtamo (born 1955), actress, model, Miss Suomi 1975 and Miss Universe 1975 ", "score": "1.6127665" } ]

[ "Wilkinsburg" ]

[ { "id": "27267028", "title": "Richard Bull (actor)", "text": " Bull was born on June 26, 1924 in Zion, Illinois. After years of living in Los Angeles, he moved back to Chicago in 1994 with his wife Barbara Collentine. The couple moved to the Motion Picture & Television Fund House from Chicago in September 2012. Bull fell into acting by accident. “I never gave a serious consideration about becoming an actor. As a senior in high school, I decided to study music, but a friend suggested we attend the Goodman Theater School. In two weeks the friend dropped out, but I was hooked.” There was a three-year interruption while he served as a radio operator for the Army Air Corps, but when he was discharged in 1946 he resumed his acting studies at Goodman.", "score": "1.9082887" }, { "id": "27267027", "title": "Richard Bull (actor)", "text": " Richard William Bull (June 26, 1924 – February 3, 2014) was an American film, stage and television actor. He was best known for his performances as \"Doc\" on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Nels Oleson on Little House on the Prairie.", "score": "1.7305456" }, { "id": "27267029", "title": "Richard Bull (actor)", "text": " Bull began his stage career at the famous Goodman Theatre in Chicago. He said that a two-line part in The Greatest Story Ever Told \"opened a lot of doors.\" Director George Stevens was impressed with Bull's emoting, and that \"led directly to the role of an FBI agent in The Satan Bug,\" Bull said. He made more than 100 film and TV appearances.", "score": "1.706671" }, { "id": "1450382", "title": "USS Richard S. Bull", "text": " Richard Salisbury Bull, Jr. was born on 6 January 1913 in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. Graduating from the United States Naval Academy, he was commissioned ensign on 4 June 1936. Trained as a naval aviator in 1938–39 at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, he served in the fleet in 1941. He became a naval observer assigned to the American Embassy in London, England. Reporting for duty as a fighter pilot on board USS Lexington (CV-2) on 27 December 1941, he missed out on the early raids against the Japanese as his squadron VF-2 was converting from Brewster F2A Buffalos to Grumman F4F Wildcats (their place being taken by the Grumman-equipped VF-3). In the Battle of the Coral Sea on 8 May 1942, he led the escort section assigned to Lexington's Air Group Commander, Cdr. William B. Ault. After Ault and his men had dive-bombed the carrier Shokaku, scoring one hit, Bull and his wingman, Ens. John B. Bain, were attacked by Zero fighters. Bain managed to fight his way out, but Bull was never seen again. He was posthumously awarded earned the Distinguished Flying Cross.", "score": "1.7044821" }, { "id": "25088523", "title": "William L. Bull", "text": " Bull was born on August 23, 1844, in New York City. He was the seventh child and youngest son of Frederic Bull (1800–1871) and Mary Huntington (née Lanman) Bull (1804–1880). Among his siblings were Elizabeth Atwater Bull (wife of merchant Augustus Oscar van Lennep), Frederic Bull, and Anna Chester Bull. His paternal grandparents were Elizabeth (née Atwater) Bull and Jireh Bull (a descendant of Rhode Island Governor Henry Bull) and his maternal grandparents were Peter Lanman and Abigail (née Trumbull) Lanman (a sister of U.S. Representative and Connecticut governor Joseph Trumbull). Through his mother, he was a first cousin of scholar Charles Rockwell Lanman. After receiving a preparatory education, he studied at the College of the City of New York, where he graduated in 1864.", "score": "1.6323892" }, { "id": "2772596", "title": "Richard Earl Thompson", "text": " Thompson was born at West Suburban Hospital in Oak Park, Illinois. Richard's father, Abijah Snyder Thompson, was an illustrator and commercial art director for Montgomery Ward in Chicago. At a young age Thompson was introduced to many of his father’s colleagues, sparking an early interest in the arts. He started to draw pencil sketches at age eight after watching his father draw at home in the evening. Richard's father also shared with his son his love for fishing and nature. When it was seasonable, they would travel from Chicago to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, on weekend fishing trips. The nature scenes he observed on these excursions became subjects for his sketches. At age ten, Richard awoke a couple of hours before his parents on Christmas morning to find a gift with his name under the Christmas tree. Upon opening, he found it ", "score": "1.6223294" }, { "id": "5765652", "title": "Sandy Bull", "text": " Born February 25, 1941 in New York City, Alexander \"Sandy\" Bull was the only child of Harry A. Bull, an editor in chief of Town & Country magazine, and Daphne van Beuren Bayne (1916–2002), a New Jersey banking heiress who became known as a jazz harpist under the name Daphne Hellman. His parents were divorced in 1941, shortly after his birth. By his mother's second marriage to The New Yorker writer Geoffrey T. Hellman, Bull had a half-sister, the sitar player Daisy Hellman Paradis, and an adopted half-brother, Digger St. John. In the 1950s he studied music at Boston University and performed at nightclubs both in Boston and Cambridge. By the early 1960s he was performing in folk clubs in Greenwich Village, New York City. He moved to San Francisco in 1963 and shared an apartment with musician, Hamza El Din.", "score": "1.6133149" }, { "id": "3037017", "title": "Richard Bagguley", "text": " Richard Bagguley (born 12 November 1955) is an international muralist and artist. He spends much of the year traveling, dividing his time between on site commissions and his studio in London.", "score": "1.605581" }, { "id": "11921930", "title": "Richard Bulliet", "text": " Bulliet grew up in Illinois. He attended Harvard, from which he received a BA in 1962 and a PhD in 1967. He is the grandson of Clarence Joseph (\"C.J.\") Bulliet, an art critic and journalist.", "score": "1.6053636" }, { "id": "10977117", "title": "Henry Lewis Bullen", "text": " Henry Lewis Bullen was born in 1857 in Ballarat, Australia to American-Scotch parentage. He left school at 14 to become a printers apprentice and began writing articles for trade publications. In 1875, he immigrated to the United States. He lived for ten years in Boston where he worked as a printer, later becoming the editor of Trade Review, a printers publication, and made frequent visits to New York City to study new printing technologies.", "score": "1.5983677" }, { "id": "5917375", "title": "Henrik H Bull", "text": " Henrik Helkand Bull was the only child of Johan Bull (1893–1945) and Sonja Geelmuyden Bull (1898–1992). Johan Bull, a native of Norway, was an illustrator who regularly contributed to New Yorker magazine since its inception in 1925. A cousin of Bull’s grandfather, also named Henrik Bull, designed several of Oslo’s landmark civic buildings at the end of the 19th century. This earlier Henrik Bull was nephew of the famed violinist Ole Bull, who began the utopian community of Oleona in Pennsylvania in 1853. In 1954, Bull moved to San Francisco and began working for a firm in Oakland until 1956. He then got married and opened his own business. Bull's firm then merged with two other firms\" to form Bull Field Volkmann Stockwell in 1967\". ", "score": "1.5957577" }, { "id": "27267030", "title": "Richard Bull (actor)", "text": " Bull died on the morning of February 3, 2014, at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Calabasas, California of pneumonia. He was 89 years old.", "score": "1.5892572" }, { "id": "13243155", "title": "Richard B. Fisher", "text": " Fisher was born in Philadelphia. In 1944 at age 8, Fisher contracted a severe case of polio. Doctors told his parents that Fisher should be put in a trade school where he could learn to do things with his hands. One doctor saw Fisher's potential, and even though his parents had little money, he was able to attend the William Penn Charter School on a full scholarship.", "score": "1.5855646" }, { "id": "29200645", "title": "Bart Bull", "text": " Born in Seattle, Washington, Bull grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. He dropped out of high school to write a novel, and then returned briefly, leaving again without graduating. Bull was the editor of Sounds, a free monthly Phoenix-based music newspaper, in the mid-1970s, West Coast Editor of Spin from 1985 to 1988, West Coast editor of Vogue, West Coast editor and a founder of Details. He co-founded Browbeat, first American xerox-punk fanzine, with David Wiley in early summer 1977. He managed The Consumers (1977), an obscure but increasingly acclaimed early American punk band from Phoenix, Arizona. He has written for publications including The Washington Post, Arizona Republic, The ", "score": "1.582721" }, { "id": "10661078", "title": "Benjamin Bull", "text": " Benjamin Bull (January 1, 1798 &ndash; January 23, 1879) was an American lawyer and politician. Born in Harper's Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), Bull moved with his parents to Xenia, Ohio. He went to school there, studied law and was admitted to the Ohio bar. He then moved to Martinsville, Indiana, in 1824, practiced law, and was a probate judge. In 1848 he moved to Mineral Point, Wisconsin and then to Grant County, Wisconsin where he practiced law. He then moved to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin and practiced law. He served in the Wisconsin State Senate in 1865–1866 as a member of the National Union Party.", "score": "1.5772147" }, { "id": "5917374", "title": "Henrik H Bull", "text": " Henrik Helkand Bull (July 13, 1929 – December 3, 2013) was a founder of Bull Stockwell Allen / BSA Architects in San Francisco in 1967.", "score": "1.5720174" }, { "id": "11799032", "title": "Richard E. Schermerhorn", "text": " He was born on October 29, 1927, in Albany, New York. He was sent to a foster home when he was 3 months old, and later stated that if abortion had been legal at the time, he might never have been born. He attended Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk High School and Albany Military Academy and graduated M.B.A. from Bryant University.", "score": "1.5715635" }, { "id": "11921929", "title": "Richard Bulliet", "text": " Richard W. Bulliet (born 1940) is a professor of history at Columbia University who specializes in the history of Islamic society and institutions, the history of technology, and the history of the role of animals in human society.", "score": "1.5597167" }, { "id": "9511498", "title": "Graham Richard", "text": " Graham Arthur Richard was born in Cleveland, Ohio on January 1, 1947. He is one of five children, as well as the only son, of a Tokheim executive. His mother was known in the local arts community for her work with the Fort Wayne Ballet. Richard is a 1965 graduate of North Side High School and a 1969 graduate of Princeton University, where he received his B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. After graduation, he taught at Bishop Dwenger High School.", "score": "1.5563138" }, { "id": "13369332", "title": "B. Andreas Bull-Hansen", "text": " Bull-Hansen was born in Oslo, Norway, on 18 August 1972. He was pursuing an economics master's degree at BI Norwegian Business School but was unable to complete this due to an injury suffered from a car accident on 22 December 1995. Before his career as a novelist, he was a therapist.", "score": "1.5544009" } ]

[ "Geneva", "Genève", "Geneva GE", "Geneve", "Genf" ]

[ { "id": "8673945", "title": "Maurice de Forest", "text": " Born in Paris, in the Rue Legendre (in the 17th arrondissement), Maurice Arnold de Forest was reportedly the elder of the two sons of Edward Deforest/de Forest (1848–1882), an American circus performer, and his wife, the former Juliette Arnold (1860–1882). He had a younger brother, Raymond (1880–1912). The boys' parents died in 1882, while on a professional engagement in the Ottoman Empire, of typhoid. Sent to live in an orphanage, they were adopted on 16 June 1887 by the wealthy Baroness Clara de Hirsch (née Bischoffsheim), wife of banker and philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch, and given the surname de Forest-Bischoffsheim. Baron and Baroness de Hirsch had lost to pneumonia, earlier that year, their only ", "score": "1.6732064" }, { "id": "31887590", "title": "Maurice Houtart", "text": " Maurice was born the son of Baron Jules Houtart (1844-1928). He married Marcelle Jooris (1878-1924), daughter of Emile Jooris, the mayor of Vardenare, with whom he had one son. Descendants through his son are still living. He published a history of his family. From 1934 he lived in the Château de Gesves.", "score": "1.6468616" }, { "id": "27707366", "title": "Maurice Fombeure", "text": " Maurice Alphonse Jacques Fombeure (born in Jardres (Vienne) 23 September 1906; died at La Verrière (Yvelines) 1 January 1981) was a 20th-century French writer and poet. The son of an agricultural family from Poitou, he trained as a teacher at the École normale in Poitiers and then at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud. He taught in Parisian lycées, including the Lycée Lavoisier, but remained always attached to his region of birth. Very active in the literary circles of the capital, he was awarded the Grand Prix for poetry by the town of Paris in 1958. A museum has been dedicated to him in Bonneuil-Matours, where his father was mayor from 1935 to 1947. It contains originals of his works as well as numerous personal effects. The Dutch composer Marjo Tal set several of Fombeure's poems to music.", "score": "1.6459125" }, { "id": "11739880", "title": "Maurice Broun", "text": " Maurice Broun (1906–1979) was an American ornithologist, botanist, naturalist, conservationist, and author. He was born in New York City to parents who immigrated from Romania. Both of his parents died from tuberculosis; his mother died when he was two weeks old, and his father died when he was two years old. Living in a New York City orphanage until he was about six years old, he was taken out by a Catholic family but the mother became ill and the foster father returned Maurice to the orphanage. When he was ten years old, a Jewish family became his foster family, and the family ", "score": "1.6230793" }, { "id": "1679373", "title": "Maurice Boitel", "text": " He was born in Tillières-sur-Avre, Eure département, in Normandy, from a Picard lawyer father, a member of the Saint Francis third order, and from a Parisian mother, of Burgundian ancestry. Until the age of twelve Maurice Boitel lived in Burgundy at Gevrey-Chambertin. In this beautiful province his art reflected his major love of nature, and also the feeling of joie de vivre expressed in his works. He began drawing at the age of five.", "score": "1.6182547" }, { "id": "9187555", "title": "Maurice Utrillo", "text": " Maurice Utrillo, born Maurice Valadon (26 December 1883 – 5 November 1955), was a French painter of School of Paris who specialized in cityscapes. Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre who were born there.", "score": "1.6169722" }, { "id": "702441", "title": "Émile Reynaud", "text": " Charles-Émile Reynaud was born on 8 December 1844 in Montreuil-sous-Bois (now a suburb of Paris). His father Benoît-Claude-Brutus Reynaud was an engineer and medal engraver originally from Le Puy-en-Velay and his mother Marie-Caroline Bellanger had been a school teacher, but stayed at home to raise and educate Émile from his birth. Marie-Caroline was trained in watercolor painting by Pierre-Joseph Redouté and taught her son drawing and painting techniques. Brutus gave him little tasks in his workshop and by the age of 13 Émile was able to build small steam engines. In 1858 he became an apprentice at a Paris company where he repaired, assembled ", "score": "1.5923322" }, { "id": "28660516", "title": "Ernest Daudet", "text": " Ernest Daudet was born in Nîmes, an old Roman city of Languedoc, France. His father, Vincent Daudet, was a silk merchant whose lack of business sense eventually involved him in bankruptcy. His mother, Adeleine Reynaud, was descended from a respected Provençal family. In 1857 he went to Paris with his brother in order to gain a livelihood through literary pursuits. For a time he managed the Journaux Officiels and the Petit Moniteur. He was also the secretary-editor of the Legislative Corps and chief of the Cabinet of the Senate. He died in Petites-Dalles in 1921, aged 84.", "score": "1.5768976" }, { "id": "14939332", "title": "Maurice Lobre", "text": " Maurice Lobre (1862–1951) was a French artist. He was born in Bordeaux and died in Paris. Lobre first gained recognition in the late 19th century when his work was displayed at the Salon du Champs-de-Mars. In 1888 he received an honorary mention and a travel grant from the Salon. That summer he traveled to Normandy where he stayed with Jacques-Émile Blanche. By this time, Blanche regularly hosted popular artists. Degas and Whistler were among his most prominent guests. By the turn of the 20th century, Lobre produced work in the Intimist style. His motifs were dominated by comfortable bourgeois settings. In April 1905, his work was displayed alongside other practitioners of the style in a collective exhibit at Henri Gervex's galleries. The exhibit featured pieces ", "score": "1.5754254" }, { "id": "3716929", "title": "Maurice Bardèche", "text": " Maurice Bardèche was born on 1 October 1907 in Dun-sur-Auron, near Bourges, in a modest, republican and anticlerical family. He attended the lycée of Bourges, before leaving his home region for the lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, where he met Thierry Maulnier and Robert Brasillach in 1926. The latter introduced him to Maurassian nationalist circles. If those groups were mostly anti-Jewish, Bardèche's own antisemitism was at that time more of a conventional manner than a deep conviction. In 1928, he was admitted to the prestigious École Normale Supérieure, where he received his agrégation degree in 1932. Bardèche wrote at that time for the royalist newspaper L'Étudiant français, parented by Action Française.", "score": "1.5713456" }, { "id": "16338319", "title": "Maurice Dessertenne", "text": " Jacques Maurice Dessertenne (1867, Roussillon-en-Morvan, dept. Saône-et-Loire – after 1926) was a French painter and illustrator, with an active career between about 1897 and the mid 1920s. Desertenne studied under artists: Joseph Blanc, Jean Paul Laurens, Antoine Étex and Charles-Gabriel Forget and later was mostly active in Paris. Among his range of works are zoological and anatomical copperplate engravings, paintings, and drawings. He was known for his portraits, historia, and genre work created, and illustrations provided for books. In his later years Maurice Desertenne lived part time in Mussy-sur-Seine, department Aube, a commune situated in the southern Champagne wine region bordering Burgundy, where he painted landscapes and sceneries. Desertenne had been ", "score": "1.5709962" }, { "id": "32668547", "title": "Maurice (name)", "text": " ; Maurice Healy (campaigner) (1933–2020), British consumer campaigner ; Maurice Howard, British art historian ; Maurice Hurst Jr. (born 1995), American football player ; Maurice LaMarche, Canadian actor ; Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941), French novelist and writer ; Maurice Leyland (1900–1967), English cricketer ; Maurice Meisner (1931–2012), historian of 20th century China ; Maurice de Mel, Sri Lankan Sinhala army colonel ; Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961), French phenomenological philosopher ; Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, birth name of Michael Caine, English actor ; Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), French Impressionist music composer and pianist ; Maurice Rioli (1957–2010), Australian football player ; Maurice Roëves (1937–2020), English actor ; Maurice ", "score": "1.5633591" }, { "id": "11653099", "title": "Maurice de Broglie", "text": " De Broglie was born in Paris, to Victor de Broglie and Pauline de La Forest d'Armaillé (1851–1928). In 1901, he was married to Camille Bernou de Rochetaillée (1888–1966) in Paris. They had one daughter, Laure, born on 17 November 1904, who died, aged six, on 12 June 1911. He acceded to the title of duc de Broglie on his father's death in 1906. He died on 14 July 1960 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. His only child having died almost a half-century before, his brother Louis succeeded him as duke. Having graduated from naval officer's school, Maurice de Broglie spent nine years in the French Navy, serving on a gunboat at Bizerte and in the Mediterranean Squadron. While serving, he became interested in physics, and began doing research on electromagnetism. De Broglie defied his family's wishes and left the navy in 1904 to pursue a scientific career. He studied under Paul Langevin at the Collège de France in Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1908.", "score": "1.5611299" }, { "id": "3952773", "title": "Maurice Wullens", "text": " Mauritius Wullens (29 January 1894, Esquelbecq – February 1945, Socx) was French writer and anarcho-syndicalist. He was a co-founder and director of Les humbles 1916-1940). Maurice was born into a family of Flemish peasants. Five out of eight children died in infancy. His mother died when he was nine, and left him responsible for caring for his brother and sister. However he inherited his mother's love of reading, and with the support of his father and his primary school teacher at Bergues he passed the Brevet élémentaire in 1910. He went on to attend the Normal School for teachers at Douai. ", "score": "1.5600178" }, { "id": "12858175", "title": "Maurice Chappaz", "text": " Born in Lausanne, Maurice Chappaz spent his childhood between Martigny and the abbey of Le Châble, in the Swiss canton of Valais. Born of a family of lawyers and solicitors, nephew of Valaisian secretary of State Maurice Troillet, he studied at Saint-Maurice Abbey High School, then he registered first in Law School at the University of Lausanne, but quickly left it to study littérature in the University of Geneva, which he also left a few months later. A poet above all, Maurice Chappaz published his first text, Un homme qui vivait couché sur un banc, in December 1939. On that occasion, he was encouraged by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz and Gustave ", "score": "1.5592253" }, { "id": "4204794", "title": "Maurice de Rothschild", "text": " Maurice de Rothschild was born on 19 May 1881 in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris. He was the second child of Edmond James de Rothschild (1845–1934) and Adelheid von Rothschild. He grew up at the Château Rothschild in Boulogne-Billancourt.", "score": "1.5584755" }, { "id": "10080584", "title": "Paul Léautaud", "text": " He was born in Paris. Abandoned by his mother, an opera singer, soon after birth, his father Firmin, brought him up. The two lived in no 13 and later no 21 of Rue des Martyrs, in Courbevoie. “''At that time, my father used to go down to the cafe every morning, before lunch. He had thirteen dogs. He was walking down the rue des Martyrs with his dogs and holding a whip in his hand which he did not use for dogs.''\" Léautaud became interested in the Comédie-Française and wondered around the corridors and backstage of the theater. His father remarried and had another son, Maurice. Léautaud studied at the Courbevoie municipal school where he met Adolphe van Bever. In 1887, at the age of 15, he moved to Paris to work doing small jobs. \"For eight years I ate lunch and dinner on a ", "score": "1.5503418" }, { "id": "25551430", "title": "Villeneuve-sur-Lot", "text": "Mikaël Brageot (born 1987), pilot, Red Bull Air Race competitor ; Benoît Broutchoux (1879–1944), anarchist ; Nicolas Cazalé (born 1977), actor ; Charles Derennes (1882–1930), writer, winner of the 1924 edition of the Prix Femina ; Georges Leygues (1857–1933), politician of the Third Republic ; Caroline Paulus (born 1959), actress, fashion model and singer ", "score": "1.5486907" }, { "id": "32668548", "title": "Maurice (name)", "text": " (born 1975), French ice hockey player ; Maurice Ruah (born 1971), Venezuelan tennis player ; Maurice Sendak (1928–2012), known for Where the Wild Things Are ; Maurice K. Smith (1926–2020), New Zealand-born American architect ; Maurice Salvador Sreshta (1872-1952), Postmaster General of Sri Lanka from 1923-1928 ; Maurice Stuckey (born 1990), German basketball player ; Maurice Schwartz (1889–1960), Russian-born actor ; Maurice Tulloch (born 1969), British/Canadian businessman ; Maurice Vinot (1888–1916), French film actor ; Maurice de Vlaminck (1876–1958), French painter, one of the principals in the Fauve movement ; Maurice Wilkins (1916–2004), New Zealand-born English physicist and molecular biologist, and Nobel Laureate ", "score": "1.5416224" }, { "id": "3260300", "title": "Maurice Desvallières", "text": " Ernest George Maurice Lefebvre-Desvallières (3 October 1857 – 23 March 1926) was a 19th-20th-century French playwright. Maurice was the brother of George Desvallières, son of Emile Lefebvre Desvallières and Marie Legouvé (daughter and granddaughter of academicians Ernest Legouvé and Gabriel-Marie Legouvé). He studied at lycée Condorcet. He wrote several theatre plays in collaboration with Georges Feydeau.", "score": "1.539604" } ]

[ "Palencia" ]

[ { "id": "27703369", "title": "Juan Manuel Montero Vázquez", "text": " Juan Manuel Montero Vázquez (29 December 1947 – 21 May 2012) was a Spanish military who held the rank of a General de División Médico and served as the surgeon general of the Spanish armed medical service, called the Inspector General de Sanidad de la Defensa. Montero was born in Palencia. He joined the army in the rank of a Teniente (MC) in 1972 and held several assignments at the Gómez Ulla Military Hospital. In May 2012, while participating a special NATO medical officials conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, Montero Vázquez died suddenly of heart failure. He was 64.", "score": "1.8094014" }, { "id": "27340495", "title": "Manuel Vázquez Montalbán", "text": " Vázquez Montalbán was born in Barcelona on 14 June 1939. His parents did not register his birth until 27 July; many sources show 27 July or 14 July as his birth date. He studied Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and was also a member of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia. He spent 18 months in prison after attending a 1962 miner's strike. He began writing poetry in 1967. He is one of the Novísimos from Jose María Castellet. His poetic works until 1986 are collected in Memoria y deseo (\"Memory and desire\"). The same characteristic features of his poetry appear in his novels. Los mares del Sur, part of the Pepe Carvalho series, won the Planeta Award in 1979, ", "score": "1.6488979" }, { "id": "3372051", "title": "José Manuel Martín", "text": " José Manuel Martín Pérez was born on May 24, 1924 in Casavieja, Ávila, Castilla y León, Spain. He initially studied at the Teatro Español Universitario in Madrid with José Luis López Vázquez, María Jesús Valdés and Valeriano Andrés before obtaining a scholarship at the Lope de Rueda. It was there that he started working in professional theater under Alejandro Ulloa. Starting in 1942, he was also employed as a broadcaster for Radio Nacional de España. Pérez eventually received a bachelor degree in journalism.", "score": "1.6418165" }, { "id": "31794014", "title": "Tabaré Vázquez", "text": " Vázquez was born in the Montevideo neighbourhood of La Teja on 17 January 1940, the fourth child of the marriage between Héctor Vázquez, a worker of ANCAP, and Elena Rosas. He had Galician ancestry as his grandparents were originally from Ourense and Santiago de Compostela, in Spain. He studied medicine at the Universidad de la República Medical School, graduating as an oncologist in 1972. In 1976, he received a grant from the French government, allowing him to obtain additional training at the Gustave Roussy Institute in Paris.", "score": "1.6359525" }, { "id": "2786086", "title": "Rafael Montero", "text": " Rafael Montero was born and spent his infancy in Colonia San Rafael in Mexico City. He was the son of Alicia García Betancourt and railroad engineer Rafael Montero Márquez.", "score": "1.630904" }, { "id": "11363874", "title": "Juan Manuel Vázquez (handballer)", "text": " Juan Manuel Vazquez (born 23 March 1988) is an Argentine handball player. He was born in Buenos Aires. He defended Argentina at the 2012 London Summer Olympics.", "score": "1.6274605" }, { "id": "29871509", "title": "José Manuel Marroquín", "text": " José Manuel Marroquín was born in Bogotá, on August 6, 1827. He died in the same city on September 19, 1908.", "score": "1.6226931" }, { "id": "1528319", "title": "Juan Esteban Montero", "text": " He was born in Santiago, the son of Benjamín Montero and of Eugenia Rodríguez. Juan Esteban Montero studied at the colegio de San Ignacio and at the Universidad de Chile. He graduated as a lawyer on September 16, 1901, and soon after became professor of civil and Roman law at his alma mater. He also worked as a government lawyer and in private practice. He married Graciela Fehrman Martínez, with whom he had four children: Juan Esteban, Pedro, Benjamín and Carmen.", "score": "1.6167724" }, { "id": "33159264", "title": "Juan Manuel Eguiagaray", "text": " Eguiagaray was born into a family of Basque origin in Bilbao in 1945. He received degrees in economics and in law from Deusto University in Bilbao and holds a PhD degree in economics.", "score": "1.6097544" }, { "id": "6558882", "title": "Mayra Montero", "text": " Montero was born in Havana, Cuba in 1952. She is the daughter of Manuel Montero, a very successful Cuban comedic writer and actor who made his career in both Cuba and Puerto Rico, where he and his family relocated when Mayra was a young girl. Manuel, whose pen name was \"Membrillo\", earned his greatest success playing \"Ñico Fernández\", a comedic character in Puerto Rican television. This character was a Cuban immigrant with a habit of using hyperbole to describe his homeland and all things Cuban. Mayra has lived in Puerto Rico since the mid-1960s. She studied journalism in Mexico and Puerto Rico and worked for many years as a correspondent in Central America and the Caribbean. In the 1980s she was an editorial page editor for the now defunct El Mundo daily newspaper, at the time Puerto Rico's newspaper of record. She is presently a highly acclaimed journalist in Puerto Rico and writes a weekly column \"Antes que llegue el lunes\" (Before Monday arrives) in El Nuevo Dia newspaper. She is currently fighting cancer but continues an active professional life.", "score": "1.6087713" }, { "id": "14412399", "title": "Juan Luis Vázquez Suárez", "text": " He was born in Oviedo on July 26, 1946. In the years 1964/69 he studied Telecommunication Engineering at the Superior Technical School of Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (ETSIT) in Madrid. In 1973 he graduated in Mathematics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he also obtained the Ph. D. degree in 1979 with a thesis directed by Haïm Brezis.", "score": "1.6075687" }, { "id": "25026776", "title": "Juan T. Vázquez Martín", "text": " Juan T. Vázquez Martín (December 23, 1940 in Caibarién, Las Villas, Cuba - January 31, 2017 in Miami, Florida) lived and worked in Havana, died in Miami. This artist is listed among the Cuban Painters masters. An exceptional prolific abstract painter with a refine style of paint, creativity and cultivated technique. Painter, founder and director of art schools and galleries, teacher of drawing and painting, he was an artist who travelled the world for solo exhibitions, or as a curator for Cuban painters art shows. His paintings are held in international and private collections in South and Central America and Caribbean islands, North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Middle East.", "score": "1.6023612" }, { "id": "6034609", "title": "José Pedro Montero", "text": " Montero was born in Asunción, in a neighborhood called Villa Aurelia, southeast of the Recoleta, on 1 August 1878. He married Andrea Campos Cervera, and studied in the Colegio Nacional de la Capital (Capital's National School) with his friend Pastor Ibáñez. He finished school in 1896, then moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he studied medicine and became a pediatrician. He graduated in 1904 from the Faculty of Medicine of the UBA University of Buenos Aires, that same year he presented a thesis about \"The proof of the chloride\".", "score": "1.6021566" }, { "id": "12437401", "title": "Juan Bautista Vázquez the Elder", "text": " Juan Bautista Vázquez el Viejo (1510 in Pelayos, province of Salamanca Castile and Leon – 12 June 1588 in Llerena, province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain) was a Spanish sculptor.", "score": "1.6005402" }, { "id": "31617537", "title": "Luis García Montero", "text": " Descended from a granadino family that was very active in the community, Luis García Montero was born in Granada in 1958 as the son of Luis García López and Elisa Montero Peña, and studied at the Colegio Dulce Nombre de María- PP.Escolapios in Granada. As a teenager, he was a fan of equestrian sports and had the opportunity to meet Blas de Otero. He studied Philosophy and literature at the University of Granada, where he was a student of Juan Carlos Rodríguez Gómez, a social literature theorist. He received his Masters in 1980 and later became a doctorate in 1985 with a ", "score": "1.590664" }, { "id": "2373724", "title": "Juan Domingo de Monteverde", "text": " Monteverde was born in the Canarian town of San Cristóbal de La Laguna on 2 April 1773. With well won prestige and the rank of Frigate Captain, he was sent to Venezuela from Puerto Rico. He arrived at Coro in early March 1812 along with other Spanish marines. Monteverde was ordered by the governor of Coro, with a small force of 1550 men with soldiers and officers, to aid the small town of Siquisique, which had sent Fr. Andrés Torellas with news that it intended to defect from the Republic. As a nineteenth-century historian described, \"with Spaniards and residents of Coro, a priest named Torellas, a surgeon, ten thousand cartridges, a howitzer, and ", "score": "1.5885824" }, { "id": "11209904", "title": "Manuel Ramos Otero", "text": " Jesús Manuel Ramos Otero was born in Manatí, Puerto Rico, and spent his childhood in his home town, living in the second location of the old building of the Puerto Rican Casino of Manatí. He began his studies at the Colegio La Inmaculada in Manatí. His family then moved to San Juan when he was seven years old. He later attended the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (1960–1965) and went on to receive a B.A. in Social Sciences (with a major in sociology and a minor in political sciences) from the University of Puerto Rico, graduating in 1969. In 1979 he received an M.A. in literature ", "score": "1.574609" }, { "id": "27422434", "title": "José Velázquez", "text": " Velázquez was born in Jalisco, Mexico.", "score": "1.5717196" }, { "id": "4668824", "title": "Carlos Montero Castiñeira", "text": " Carlos Montero was born in 9 October 1972 in Celanova, Province of Ourense, Montero earned a licentiate degree in Information Sciences (Journalism) from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).", "score": "1.5710442" }, { "id": "27025334", "title": "Marcos Montero", "text": " Marcos Montero was born on 19 September 1970 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. He began his school studies in 1970, leaving high school in his hometown in 1981. He started working as radio host at Radio Antena Uno in Santa Cruz. He started studying communication at the Bolivian Catholic University, qualifying as professional journalist; he completed a postgraduate course in journalism at the Universidad Privada Tecnológica de Santa Cruz (UTEPSA).", "score": "1.56591" } ]

[ "Swansea", "Abertawe" ]

[ { "id": "15119271", "title": "Evan Abraham", "text": " Evan Abraham (born 1901, date of death 27 Nov 1990) was a footballer who played in the English Football League for Merthyr Town and Walsall. He was born in Swansea, Wales.", "score": "1.8182445" }, { "id": "862521", "title": "Raymond Tawiah Abraham", "text": " Abraham was born on 10 January 1955 in Yilo Krobo in the Eastern Region of Ghana. He comes from Somanya in the Eastern Region. He attended the University of Ghana and obtained a Diploma in Public administration. He obtained his MBA (Post Graduate School of Management, Paris, France) in 2006, acquired his BSc (Administration) UG in the year 2007 and had his EMGL (GIMPA) in the year 2008.", "score": "1.6486633" }, { "id": "14367685", "title": "Evan Roberts (minister)", "text": " Born in Loughor, Wales, Evan Roberts was the younger of two sons born to Henry and Hannah Roberts. Raised in a Calvinistic Methodist home, he was a devout child who attended church regularly and memorized scripture at night. From the ages of 11 to 23, he worked in the coal mines with his father. Reports indicate that an explosion occurred as he assisted his father in the mine, scorching the Bible he diligently read. Roberts then spent time working for his uncle as a blacksmith's apprentice in Pontarddulais. Roberts was widely known as a young man who spent many hours praying each week both personally and at group prayer meetings. Several character studies have noted his unusual zeal and ", "score": "1.6447213" }, { "id": "26308406", "title": "Eric Abraham (producer)", "text": " Abraham was born in the Wynberg area of Cape Town and grew up in Rondebosch. His father was a naval commander who had arrived in South Africa from Hungary before World War II to escape antisemitism. Abraham attended South African College High School. He participated in school productions and ran a film society. He later received a Spectemur Agendo Award from the school in 2019 for his contributions to civil liberties and the performing arts. Abraham studied Law at the University of Cape Town, but has said he was \"hardly ever at lectures because there was something more important in those days\" as a student ", "score": "1.6354716" }, { "id": "30726470", "title": "Evan, Minnesota", "text": "Ruth Taubert Seeger, athlete and teacher, was born in Evan. ", "score": "1.6335295" }, { "id": "9016200", "title": "Isaac Abraham Amihere", "text": " Amihere was born on 30 March 1915 to Theophilus Amihere and Ama Suamhwe at Axim in the Western Region of Ghana (then Gold Coast). He had his early education at the Half Assini Methodist School and proceeded to the Saltpond English Church School for his middle school education which he completed in 1933. He later undertook studies in shorthand, typing, bookkeeping and English privately.", "score": "1.5897717" }, { "id": "26308405", "title": "Eric Abraham (producer)", "text": " Eric Abraham (born March 1954) is a South African-British producer and former journalist and activist. Born and raised in South Africa, he moved to England in 1977 where he lived in exile for 15 years for his reporting in opposition to the Apartheid government in the press. He has since worked in theatre and screen, co-founding the London-based Portobello Productions as well as Cape Town's Isango Portobello and Fugard Theatre.", "score": "1.5886598" }, { "id": "12213759", "title": "Nabeel Abraham", "text": " Nabeel Abraham (born 1950 ) is an American anthropologist and activist. His research focuses around Arab-Americans and how Arabs and Palestinians are represented in mainstream American media. Abraham was born in 1950 in North Carolina. His family moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1955, where his fathered started a business, a retail shop, on Michigan Avenue. His family is originally from Palestine. Abraham attended Cass Technical High School. He earned degrees in anthropology and sociology from Wayne State University. He earned his master's degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Abraham served as director of the Honors Program at Henry Ford Community College. He operated the program for 18 years, before an early retirement due to financial ", "score": "1.5813501" }, { "id": "1885544", "title": "Evan Winter", "text": " Winter was born in England and raised in Zambia. He has worked as a filmmaker.", "score": "1.5784674" }, { "id": "15165876", "title": "F. Murray Abraham", "text": " Abraham was born Murray Abraham on October 24, 1939, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Fahrid \"Fred\" Abraham, an auto mechanic, and his wife Josephine (née Stello) (April 15, 1915 – March 10, 2012), a housewife. Murray has described himself as a Syrian-American. His father emigrated with his family from Muqlus, Ottoman Syria, a small village in the Valley of the Christians, at age five due to the famine of Mount Lebanon; his paternal grandfather was a priest in the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch. His mother, one of 14 children, was Italian American, and the daughter of an Italian immigrant who worked in ", "score": "1.574526" }, { "id": "25451425", "title": "Abraham Vereide", "text": " Abraham was born in the Vereide home in Gloppen in the Nordfjord district of Norway on October 7, 1886 to Anders and Helene Vereide. He was the youngest and has four older sisters. Helene died when Abraham was eight years old.", "score": "1.5705502" }, { "id": "7856918", "title": "Abraham J. Isserman", "text": " Isserman was born on May 11, 1900, in Belgium.", "score": "1.5660732" }, { "id": "2864445", "title": "Abraham Annan", "text": " Born in Shema, Annan began his career with Heart of Lions, and had a trial in May 2008 with English side Leeds United.", "score": "1.5660416" }, { "id": "29534035", "title": "Evan Lewis (politician)", "text": " Lewis was born in Wales on July 2, 1869, and was taken to Iowa when young. He became a U.S. citizen in 1890, two years after moving to California. He was at various times a deputy sheriff, a paving contractor and a realty dealer. He and Mary Powell, the daughter of Major E.B. Powell, were married in the Powell home at 2041 East Sixth Street on December 7, 1904, and eventually moved into a house at 268 E. 50th Street near South Park. They had one son, Evan Weldon, who became a deputy district attorney. He died on while in office on May 5, 1941. A funeral service was held at the Welsh Presbyterian Church, and the body lay in state beneath the rotunda of the new City Hall. Interment followed at Inglewood Park Cemetery.", "score": "1.5586962" }, { "id": "12450211", "title": "Evan Harris", "text": " Evan Harris was born on 21 October 1965 in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, the son of South African Jewish parents (his father was a medical professor). He was brought up in Liverpool, where he had a state education at the Liverpool Blue Coat School. In 1984 he won a scholarship to the independent Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California, and later won a scholarship to attend Wadham College, Oxford, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in physiology and a diploma in medical sociology. He completed his education at the Oxford Medical School, where he graduated BM BCh and qualified as a physician in 1991. Harris began his career at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in 1991 as a Pre-Registration House Officer (junior doctor). A ", "score": "1.5550094" }, { "id": "10871937", "title": "Harvey R. Abraham", "text": " Abraham was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, educated in the public schools and graduated from Oshkosh Business College. He worked as a sheet metal construction worker before serving overseas in combat duty in the United States Army during World War I. Following his military service, he worked in photographic processing, real estate and as a travelling salesman. He was a member of the American Legion and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.", "score": "1.5533229" }, { "id": "27570224", "title": "Abraham Eraly", "text": " Abraham Eraly was born in the village of Ayyampalli in Ernakulam district, Kerala on 15 August 1934. He studied History at a college in Ernakulam and followed it up with a post-graduate degree in the same subject at Madras Christian College in Chennai. He became a Professor of History at MCC in 1971. Bored with the monotony of teaching, Eraly resigned his professorship in 1977 and founded the Chennai-based magazine Aside, India's first English-language city magazine. Following financial difficulties, it closed in 1997.", "score": "1.5496962" }, { "id": "25503249", "title": "Evan Craft", "text": " Evan Craft was born in 1991 in Conejo Valley, California, Craft from a very young age began to play the guitar at the age of 12 and there he began to write songs. Craft expanded his linguistic studies at university, attending schools in Spain and Costa Rica.", "score": "1.5474036" }, { "id": "9038726", "title": "Ben Abraham", "text": " Ben Abraham (born Henryk Nekrycz; December 11, 1924 – October 9, 2015) was a Polish-born writer and historian who became a naturalized Brazilian citizen. He was the son of Abraham Nekrycz and Ida Nekrycz. Abraham was born in Łódź, Poland. Abraham survived the ghetto in the city and the concentration camps during the years of German occupation of his country. Abraham's parents were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp. After Auschwitz he spent time in three other concentration camps: Braunschweig,, and Ravensbrück. On the night of May 1, 1945, he was released, weighing 28 kg and suffering from tuberculosis in ", "score": "1.5464406" }, { "id": "9647373", "title": "Evan Weinstock", "text": " Weinstock was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. His father, Arnold Weinstock, is Jewish. His mother was not. He told Jewish Sports Review that he was raised without a faith, but he had no problem being identified as a Jewish athlete.", "score": "1.5439032" } ]

[ "La Plata" ]

[ { "id": "1592964", "title": "List of Third Watch characters", "text": "Background Carlos Nieto is a fictional FDNY paramedic on the television series Third Watch. He was portrayed by Anthony Ruivivar and was the only paramedic to stay for the duration of the series. Carlos Nieto was born on May 11, 1975 (although in one episode, \"Band of Brothers,\" he claims he was born in 1977) in Hawaii. He is of Filipino heritage and was originally named Adam, and had an older brother named Christian. After their parents split up, Christian stayed with their mother, while their father took Adam to New York. Their father was the victim of a hit-and-run vehicle accident, which killed him. Young Carlos was found holding ", "score": "1.8255078" }, { "id": "32148752", "title": "Carlos Nakatani", "text": " Carlos Nakatani was born in the La Merced neighborhood of Mexico City in 1934 to a Mexican mother, Ema Avíla Espinoza and Yoshigei Nakatani Moriguchi, who immigrated from Japan to Mexico. His father made his fortune with the creation of a peanut snack called “cacahuates japoneses” (Japanese peanuts), which he originally sold in the La Merced market and later established the Nipon company. These peanuts remain popular in the Mexican capital to this day. While valuing his Latin heritage through his life by enjoying the capital’s nightlife from the 1950s to 1970s and reading Latin American authors such as José Lezama Lima ", "score": "1.7783561" }, { "id": "10609833", "title": "Rodolfo Nieto", "text": " Rodolfo Nieto was born at home in Oaxaca on July 13, 1936. His father Rodolfo Nieto Gris, a medical epidemiologist, left the home mysteriously around 1949. After his disappearance, the family became destitute; his mother, Josefina Labastida de Nieto, a homemaker and seamstress, moved to Mexico City with Rodolfo, his younger brother Carlos Nieto, a poet—who was later murdered due to his political associations—after Rodolfo died, formed a new family with half brother Ignacio Saucedo. While Rodolfo attended public school, the art professor and dancer Santos Balmori on behalf of the Mexican Government, interviewed students for the Mexican folklorico. After Rodolfo auditioned, Balmori asked the teenager if he could do anything else. Rodolfo ", "score": "1.7543659" }, { "id": "16343938", "title": "Nieto", "text": "Alfonso Nieto (born 1991), Mexican footballer ; Alfredo Diez Nieto, Cuban composer and centenarians (1918-2021) ; Amalia Nieto (1907–2003), Uruguayan painter, sculptor, and engraver ; Ángel Nieto (1947–2017), Spanish motorcycle racer ; Antonio Jesús López Nieto (born 1958), Spanish football referee ; Claudio Nieto Jiménez (born 1977), Chilean ski mountaineer and triathlete ; Daniel Nieto Vela, (born 1991), Spanish footballer ; David Nieto (1654&ndash;1728), Jewish Hakham in London ; Domingo Nieto (1803&ndash;1844), President of Peru ; Enrique Peña Nieto (born 1966), President of Mexico ; Enrique Nieto (architect) (1880 or 1883&ndash;1954), Spanish architect ; Ernesto Nieto (born 1940), founder of the National Hispanic Institute ; Federico Nieto (born 1983), Argentine footballer ; Fonsi Nieto (born 1978), Spanish motorcycle racer ; Jamie Nieto (born 1976), American high jumper ; Jan Nieto (born 1981), Filipino singer ; José ", "score": "1.7093024" }, { "id": "9301974", "title": "Carlos Nieto (rugby union)", "text": " Carlos Nieto (born 25 June 1976) is an Italian Argentine international rugby union player. Nieto made his Italy debut against England in the 2002 Six Nations but did not manage to establish himself as an automatic choice in the front row. He was recalled by Berbizier to the national set-up for the 2005 Summer tour of Argentina and Australia. He was one of Italy's best players during the 2006 Six nations championship even though he missed the final game against Scotland because of injury. In the 2006 he signed for Gloucester Rugby. In 2009, Nieto signed for Saracens. He started for Saracens as they won their first Premiership title in 2011. On May 2, 2013, Nieto announced he will retire at the end of the 2012/13 season.", "score": "1.703899" }, { "id": "31372700", "title": "Ernesto Nieto", "text": " In Third Reality: Crafting a 21st Century Latino Agenda, Ernesto Nieto chronicles the long and faith testing trials that he experienced during the early creation days of the National Hispanic Institute (NHI). Although the incorporation of NHI took place in 1979, Nieto refers to the true birth to have taken place sometime between 1903, the year of his father's birth, and 1940, the year Ernesto was born. He states in his book, \"Third Reality is partly a confession to my father and mother, my way of admitting that the counsel they gave me as a young man growing up in Houston was correct in the final analysis. It's an account ", "score": "1.679249" }, { "id": "8311810", "title": "Killing of Alex Nieto", "text": " Nieto, 28, was born on March 3, 1986, in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California, to parents Refugio Nieto and Elvira Nieto (née Rodriguez), Mexican immigrants from the town of Tarimoro, Guanajuato. In 2007, Nieto obtained a California state license to work as a security guard. Nieto graduated from the community college, City College of San Francisco, with a concentration in criminal justice. During this time he held an internship at the City of San Francisco's juvenile probation department.", "score": "1.6771181" }, { "id": "136062", "title": "Carlos Prieto (cellist)", "text": " Carlos Prieto was born in Mexico City and is a Mexican cellist and writer. He has received enthusiastic public acclaim and won excellent reviews for his performances throughout the United States, Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Union, Asia, and Latin America. The New York Times review of his Carnegie Hall debut raved, \"Prieto knows no technical limitations and his musical instincts are impeccable.\" He plays a Stradivarius cello named the \"Piatti\" after Carlo Alfredo Piatti, affectionately nicknamed \"Chelo Prieto\" by the current owner. He is a promoter of contemporary, original classical instrument music by Latin American composers. The Carlos Prieto International Cello Competition is held every three years in Mexico. His son, Carlos Miguel Prieto, is music director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico.", "score": "1.6689954" }, { "id": "13393353", "title": "Carlos Miguel Prieto", "text": " Carlos Miguel Prieto (born 14 November 1965) is a Mexican conductor. He is music director of the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria, of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans, and The Orchestra of the Americas in Washington, D.C..", "score": "1.6622574" }, { "id": "27017340", "title": "Matt Nieto", "text": " Nieto is of Mexican-American descent. Nieto's father, Jesse, is a longshoreman, while his mother, Mary, is a Nordstrom makeup artist. Nieto grew up in Long Beach, California, in a dangerous neighborhood; his mother had stated: \"There were drive-by shootings. He jokes about it, that Snoop Dogg lived around the corner. It's true, but Matt wasn't born then.\" When he was two years old, Nieto became interested in skating, particularly rollerblading, when he saw his sister skating in the family's house. His grandfather later bought him a hockey stick, and when he was three Nieto began playing roller hockey at the YMCA. As a youth, he played in the 2004 and 2005 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with the Los Angeles Hockey Club minor ice hockey team, and was teammates with Emerson Etem and Rocco Grimaldi. Nieto has a sister with Down syndrome and autism and his mother is battling advanced breast cancer.", "score": "1.6528068" }, { "id": "32148751", "title": "Carlos Nakatani", "text": " Carlos Nakatani (Mexico City 1934 – Mexico City February 2, 2004) was a painter, sculptor, cinematographer and writer, the son of a Japanese immigrant to Mexico, noted for his introduction of a snack simply called “Japanese peanuts” in Mexico City, and older brother of singer Yoshio. Nakatani is best known for his painting, which mixes Mexican and Japanese influences, as part of a generation of artists which broke with the Mexican art establishment from the early 20th century. Reclusive, he nonetheless won a number of recognitions for his work and was a member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.", "score": "1.6509713" }, { "id": "31372697", "title": "Ernesto Nieto", "text": " Ernesto Nieto (born October 6, 1940) is the founder of the National Hispanic Institute and has served as President since the organization's inception in 1979. Born in Houston, Texas, Mr. Nieto attended Jefferson Davis High School and entered the University of Houston on an athletic scholarship. Nieto later transferred to Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Education in 1964 with a specialization in special education. After working on his graduate degree at the University of Houston, he served in various management positions in both the state and federal government. In 1979, Mr. Nieto left government to pursue his vision of creating a leadership institute for Latino youth. Thirty six years later, under his leadership, the National Hispanic Institute has worked with over 120 institutions of higher education and 70,000 high-ability youth from across the nation. In addition to his duties as chief executive officer of the National Hispanic Institute, Mr. Nieto serves on the Board of Trustees of Southwestern University as well as on the Board of Visitors. In 2001, he authored the book Third Reality: Crafting a 21st Century Latino Agenda.", "score": "1.6473581" }, { "id": "8676240", "title": "Rafael Nieto Navia", "text": " Nieto was born on 5 February 1938 in Bogotá, D.C. to Eduardo Nieto Umaña (22 November 1904 - 14 January 1946) and Teresa Navia Harker (22 August 1904 - 27 April 1991). He married María Teresa Loaiza Cubides on 28 August 1965. They have four children: Rafael, Juan Carlos, Pablo, and María Teresa.", "score": "1.6374238" }, { "id": "10609841", "title": "Rodolfo Nieto", "text": " native state. After he returned to Mexico, he studied pre Hispanic and popular art which caused him to simplify forms. However, his most popular paintings are of Toros, or Bulls. At auction, these pieces sell in the mid-six figure range. Often asked if he was an abstract painter. Nieto always defended himself from that idea, and did not understand how people could be confused, as he had never stopped doing figuration, but certainly not realistic. He told to his brother Carlos between laughs: \"If I did abstract painting and would like to send a message, I'd better to have written a novel.\"", "score": "1.6307867" }, { "id": "2399656", "title": "Carlos Souto", "text": " Carlos Souto was born in Parque Patricios neighborhood in Buenos Aires City, Argentina, on May 13, 1955. His parents, Maruja and Celestino, were Galician immigrants. Thanks to them and to his grandmother Carmen, both his sister Ana María and Carlos acquired Galician language before Spanish. He spends his childhood and early youth in the southern suburbs of Buenos Aires City. He started his studies at Colegio Bernasconi. Later, in second grade, he changed school (to Cangallo Schule, a German school in Balvanera neighborhood) where he completed his elementary and high school studies.", "score": "1.6277893" }, { "id": "5070918", "title": "Luis Nishizawa", "text": " Luis Nishizawa Flores was born on February 2, 1918 at the San Mateo Ixtacalco Hacienda in the Cuautitlán municipality of the State of Mexico. His father, Kenji Nishizawa, was Japanese and his mother, María de Jesús Flores, was Mexican. Since he was a child, he was introverted and solitary, spending his childhood tending cattle for his family. The family moved to Mexico City in 1925, where Nishizawa learned to create jewelry and studied music with a teacher named Rodolfo Halfter. Although he had interest in art at age 15, he began artistic training at the Academy of San Carlos in 1942, when he was 24, at the height of the Mexican muralism movement. He learned to paint landscapes as well as abstract art and graphics with an interest in ", "score": "1.6085067" }, { "id": "25381694", "title": "Carlos Hernández Vázquez", "text": " Carlos Hernández Vázquez was born on August 14, 1983 at the Lying-In Hospital in Celaya, Guanajuato. As a teenager, Hernández was interested in photography, and briefly attempted a career as a reporter. His parents sent him to live in México City in the hopes that it would help his academic growth.", "score": "1.6070449" }, { "id": "15950349", "title": "Carlos González Nova", "text": " Carlos González Nova was born on August 14, 1917, in México City. He was the second child of parents, Josefina Nova and Antonino González Abascal. He moved to Mexico with his family from Santander, Spain, when he was approximately 10 years old.", "score": "1.604373" }, { "id": "15091027", "title": "Manuel Nieto (soldier)", "text": " Nieto was a mulatto, born in Sinaloa, Mexico in 1734. He came to Alta California with the Gaspar de Portolà expedition of 1769. He served in the Royal Army in the province of Alta California. Jose Manuel Perez-Nieto was first mentioned as a soldier of the Presidio of Monterey, in 1773.", "score": "1.5999393" }, { "id": "16343939", "title": "Nieto", "text": " (composer) (born 1942), Spanish musician and composer ; Juan José Nieto Gil, (1805&ndash;1866), 61st president of Colombia ; Kit Nieto, Filipino lawyer and mayor of Cainta ; Manuel Nieto (1734&ndash;1804), soldier in Spanish California ; Matt Nieto (born 1992), American ice hockey player ; Miguel Ángel Nieto (born 1986), Spanish soccer player ; Pablo Nieto (born 1980), Spanish motorcycle racer ; Tom Nieto (born 1960), American baseball player and manager ; Rafael Nieto Navia (born 1938), Colombian jurist ; Rodolfo Nieto (1936&ndash;1985), Mexican painter ; Victor Nieto (1916&ndash;2008), founder and director of the Cartagena Film Festival ; Yul Servo (born John Marvin C. Nieto) (born 1977), Filipino actor and politician Nieto (“grandchild”) is a Spanish surname, Neto is the Portuguese version of the name. Notable people with the surname include: es:Anexo:Nomenclatura de parentesco en español", "score": "1.5992599" } ]

[ "Basildon" ]

[ { "id": "4100463", "title": "Andy Keeley", "text": " Andrew James Keeley (born 16 September 1956 in Basildon) is an English former professional footballer who played for Tottenham Hotspur, Sheffield United, Scunthorpe United and represented England at youth level.", "score": "2.0514803" }, { "id": "4100464", "title": "Andy Keeley", "text": " Keeley joined Tottenham Hotspur as an apprentice in January 1974. The central defender made his senior debut against Birmingham City on 20 October 1976. Keeley made a total of six appearances in the season of 1976-77 in which the Spurs were relegated. In December 1977 he was granted a free transfer to Sheffield United and went on to feature in 28 fixtures. After leaving Bramall Lane on a free transfer he signed for Scunthorpe United in July 1981 and made a further 77 appearances and scored once from the penalty spot.", "score": "1.8658922" }, { "id": "11668219", "title": "Charles Albert Keeley", "text": " Keeley was born in Bristol, the son of a local clergyman.", "score": "1.7427574" }, { "id": "12318257", "title": "Sam Keeley", "text": " Keeley was born in 1990 and raised in Tullamore in County Offaly in Ireland. In his earlier years he had an interest in establishing a music career. Whilst attending Coláiste Choilm Secondary School, his interest in acting developed and he expanded his acting skills following his failure to complete his Leaving Certificate exams. In his early 20s, he shared his time living between Tullamore and Dublin. During the making of The Cured, he became a vegetarian. In 2016, he left Dublin to reside partly in Iceland.", "score": "1.7185425" }, { "id": "11872479", "title": "Glenn Keeley", "text": " Glenn Matthew Keeley (born 1 September 1954 in Barking, Essex) is an English retired footballer who played as a central defender in the Football League.", "score": "1.7162535" }, { "id": "1249669", "title": "Edmund Keeley", "text": " Edmund Leroy \"Mike\" Keeley (born February 5, 1928) is a prize-winning novelist, translator, and essayist, a poet, and Charles Barnwell Straut Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton University. He is a noted expert on Greek poets C. P. Cavafy, George Seferis, Odysseus Elytis and Yannis Ritsos, and on post-Second World War Greek history.", "score": "1.6932265" }, { "id": "32309249", "title": "Damian Keeley", "text": " Damian Keeley (born 14 February 1963) is an English former professional footballer, born in Salford, who played in the Football League for Torquay United. Keeley, a forward, joined Frank O'Farrell's Torquay United in September 1981, making his debut, as a substitute for Willie Young, on 27 March 1982 in a 2–1 home win against Rochdale. With Torquay in a mid-table position with nothing to play for, Keeley made a further appearance as a substitute (this time replacing Martin Musgrove) in the penultimate game of the season (a 2–0 defeat away to Port Vale) and started the final game of the season, a 1–1 draw away to Darlington. He was released at the end of the season, joining non-league club Teignmouth.", "score": "1.6909888" }, { "id": "31370441", "title": "Shelagh Keeley", "text": " Keeley was born in Oakville, Ontario and graduated with an Honours BFA in Art History / Anthropology from York University, Toronto, in 1977. After spending 23 years in New York City and Paris, Keeley is now based in Toronto.", "score": "1.6843472" }, { "id": "25583512", "title": "Nolan Keeley", "text": " Nolan Keeley (born 24 May 1951) was an English footballer who scored 40 goals from 311 appearances in the Football League playing for Scunthorpe United and Lincoln City. He played in midfield. Keeley was born in East Barsham, Norfolk. He played non-league football for Great Yarmouth Town before joining Scunthorpe United late in the 1972–73 season, as the club were relegated to the Football League Fourth Division. He became a regular member of the starting eleven over six years, eventually making 259 appearances in the league, before moving on to fellow Fourth Division club Lincoln City in January 1980. He contributed to the club's second-place finish and consequent promotion to the Third Division in 1980–81, but did not play at the higher level, and returned to non-league with King's Lynn. He later spent six years on the coaching staff of Cambridge United.", "score": "1.6426859" }, { "id": "14452099", "title": "Steven 'Bo' Keeley", "text": " Steven Bo Keeley, born in February 1949, is an American adventurer, naturalist, holistic healer, veterinarian, professional athlete, commodity market consultant, garage publisher, and executive tour guide, who in 2000 left civilization for a desert burrow in southern California, then, in 2009, became a world-traveling expatriate.", "score": "1.6323721" }, { "id": "4574199", "title": "Joseph C. Keeley", "text": " Joseph Charles Keeley was born on August 10, 1907, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the son of William T. and Martha C. Keeley; he had two brothers. In 1930, Keeley graduated from Columbia University.", "score": "1.6320195" }, { "id": "14452100", "title": "Steven 'Bo' Keeley", "text": " Keeley grew up in Idaho and Michigan, and graduated in 1972 with a DVM from Michigan State University (MSU). His father was an electrical and later nuclear engineer, and mother a Welcome Wagon activist as the family moved through fifteen cities in as many years to settle in Jackson, Michigan. Steven Keeley won the Jackson Junior Chess Championship, and, at MSU, multiple intramural sports championships for Farmhouse fraternity to place them first in the all-fraternity competition for the first time in 100 years. After veterinary school he moved to California where a bureaucratic licensing issue caused him to seek a sports career in professional racquetball and paddleball, in which he gained national prominence.", "score": "1.6002506" }, { "id": "31231340", "title": "Fred Keeley", "text": " Fred Keeley (born May 9, 1950) is a politician in California, U.S. Keeley was a member of the California State Assembly, representing District 27 which included parts of Santa Cruz County and Monterey County from 1996 to 2002. He retired in January 2015 after 10 years as the Treasurer of Santa Cruz County.", "score": "1.5923176" }, { "id": "5227911", "title": "Alfred Keeling", "text": " Keeling was born in Bradford, and spent his early career with Carlton Street School, Sedbergh and East Bierley. He joined Bradford Park Avenue in 1936, playing with the reserves before signing a professional contract on 14 December 1937, his seventeenth birthday. Pugh made his debut in the Football League for them on 26 March 1938, and after a brief spell with Portsmouth, he joined Manchester City in May 1939. Pugh's career was interrupted by World War Two, and he played as a war guest for Bradford City, Manchester City and Bradford Park Avenue. Keeling later joined the Royal Air Force and was shot down over the Bay of Biscay on 1 December 1942.", "score": "1.577795" }, { "id": "7973316", "title": "Mike Ariey", "text": " Ariey was born Michael August Ariey on March 12, 1964 in Bakersfield, California. He currently owns a catering company.", "score": "1.5735781" }, { "id": "28929539", "title": "Robert Keeley (comedian)", "text": " Robert Keeley was born in London as one of sixteen children, his father being a watchmaker. Keeley was an apprentice printer to Hansard, but dissatisfied with this career he joined a travelling acting company. He was at the Richmond Theatre in 1813 before moving to Norwich for four years and then to the West London Theatre. He made his professional London debut at the Olympic Theatre in 1818 as Leporello in Don Giovanni in London, based on Mozart's opera. In 1819 Keeley appeared at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and played the original Jemmy Green in Tom and Jerry, or Life in London by William Thomas Moncrieff at the Adelphi Theatre during 1821–2. At the end of 1821 Keeley appeared at Sadler's Wells Theatre under Daniel Egerton, and in April 1822 he played Jerry in Pierce Egan's Life in London.", "score": "1.5684307" }, { "id": "4217468", "title": "Andy Mooney", "text": " Andy Mooney is a native of Whitburn, UK, United Kingdom and is the son of a miner. He holds an Accounting Certificate in the UK. He played the electric guitar in various bands during and after high school in hopes of becoming a professional musician. He was a semi-professional musician through his 20s until he moved to the United States from the UK.", "score": "1.5677208" }, { "id": "31231341", "title": "Fred Keeley", "text": " Keeley was born in Sacramento, California. He is the second son of Harry and Elizabeth Keeley. He was raised in San Jose. He attended and graduated from Cupertino High School in 1969. He attended DeAnza College in the early 1970s and took film classes from Professor Robert Scott. In 1974, Keeley graduated with honors from San Jose State University, School of Social Sciences. After working for Law Enforcement Training and Research Associates, he was selected by Santa Cruz County Supervisor Joe Cucchaira to be Cucchaira's policy director. Keeley served in that capacity until March 1984 when then-Assembly Member Sam Farr (D-Carmel) hired Keeley to be his chief of staff. Keeley served in that capacity for nearly five years. Keeley served for eight years as a member of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors, prior to his election to the California Assembly.", "score": "1.5613977" }, { "id": "29420907", "title": "Patrick Keely", "text": " Keely was born in Thurles, County Tipperary, then a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on August 9, 1816, to a family in comfortable circumstances. His draftsman and builder father introduced him to architecture and training in construction; having come from Kilkenny to work on the building of St. Patrick's College, Thurles and Patrick was educated there, though nothing is recorded of his architectural design education.", "score": "1.5612242" }, { "id": "11668218", "title": "Charles Albert Keeley", "text": " Charles Albert Keeley (1 December 1821 – 11 August 1889) was a British inventor, amateur scientist, entertainer and pioneering colour expert. He is most famous for his 'Colour Conundrum' parlour game, and is considered by many to be one of Victorian Britain's most significant colour theorists.", "score": "1.5414374" } ]

[ "Santiago", "Santiago de Chile", "Santiago, Chile" ]

[ { "id": "3255667", "title": "Fernando Luis García", "text": " García (birth name: Fernando Luis García Ledesma ) was born in Utuado, Puerto Rico where he received his primary and secondary education. He moved to San Juan where he was hired by the Texas Company as a file clerk.", "score": "1.8494431" }, { "id": "30056649", "title": "Fernando García (composer)", "text": " Fernando García (born July 4, 1930 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean composer. Active since 1956 he has done orchestral music, chamber music, etc. He studied with Juan Orrego-Salas and Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, among others. His style is strongly influenced by serialism and aleatoric procedures. He also played a role in the beginnings of electroacoustic music in Chile, after a trip he made to France in the early 1950s where he heard musique concrete. He worked for the Instituto de Extensión Musical of the University of Chile, and in 1962 he premiered his most important piece, the cantata América Insurrecta, which won an award at the Chilean Music Festival. After the Chilean coup-d'état, he was forced into exile, first in Perú (1973-1979), and then in Cuba (1979-1990). He returned to his country in 1989 and joined the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile where he taught musicology until 2009. In 2002, he received the National Prize for Musical Arts.", "score": "1.7133133" }, { "id": "29173832", "title": "Juan García Postigo", "text": " García was born on January 19, 1982 in Málaga, Costa del Sol, Andalusia, Spain. He attended the Colegio Público Ramón Simonet for his primary education. As a teenager, García played indoor soccer and was his school team's goalkeeper. He was discovered at seventeen (17) years old by Manuel Beltrán, a director of a talent management agency in Málaga, while García was commencing studies for a business management degree at the University of Malaga. His foray into modeling and beauty pageant competitions, and then consequently acting, was accidental and with much hesitation at first. García's parents, especially his mother, wanted him to pursue and complete his degree before anything else. His parents did not want him to get distracted from his studies.", "score": "1.6928201" }, { "id": "28784372", "title": "Jorge Garcia", "text": " Garcia was born in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother, Dora Mesa, is a Cuban-born professor, and his father, Humberto Garcia, is a Chilean-born doctor. He grew up in San Juan Capistrano in Orange County, California and went to San Clemente High School. He wrestled in high school, where he was given the nickname \"Baby-Faced Killer\". As a senior, he was selected by the faculty as \"Triton of the Year\", the highest award given to a graduating senior. Garcia graduated from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1995 as a Communication Studies major. He also studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse acting school.", "score": "1.6814213" }, { "id": "30056132", "title": "Fernando García Roel", "text": " Fernando García Roel (14 August 1921 – 26 February 2009) was a Mexican chemical engineer. He served as the second rector of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM, 1960–1984). García Roel was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, into a family composed by Mario A. García and María Roel, sister of prominent historian Santiago Roel. He received a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (1943) and a master's degree in the same discipline from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1948). In 1966 he was given the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Distinguished Service Award and in 1984 the Víctor Márquez Domínguez Prize of the Mexican Institute of Chemical Engineers. He was conferred an honorary doctorate by the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1979. One of the streets crossing the main campus of the Monterrey Institute of Technology is named in his honor.", "score": "1.6766708" }, { "id": "29879356", "title": "Manuel Pereiras García", "text": " Pereiras García was born in Cifuentes, Cuba, in 1950. His works have been performed at Mercy College, Dumé Spanish Theatre, Stonewall Repertory Theatre, Theater for the New City, and INTAR Theatre. Pereiras García has also written about the history of theater with a focus on Cuban and Spanish drama. In 1998, his complete plays were published by Presbyter's Peartree. He currently resides in New York City.", "score": "1.6381717" }, { "id": "29624728", "title": "Fernando Colunga", "text": " Born in Mexico City, Colunga is the only son of engineers, Fernando Colunga and Margarita Olivares. He earned a degree in civil engineering and operated a hardware store after graduation. He has also worked as an auto dealer, clerk, and bartender.", "score": "1.637716" }, { "id": "30855439", "title": "Jorge García Usta", "text": " García was born in the San Jerónimo hospital of Montería as grandson of Syro-Lebanese immigrants, and was son of the physician José Antonio García Schotborgh and his wife Nevija Usta Zaruf, who lived in Ciénaga de Oro. When he was three years old, his father died in Puebla, Mexico, his mother died in 1988. In 1979 he matriculated at Universidad de Cartagena, where he lectured later, to study law, but soon changed to Saint Thomas Aquinas University, where he did his studies of philosophy and literature. In 1989 he married Rocío García. García worked for several Colombian journals and was president of the Circle of Journalists in Cartagena (Círculo de Periodistas de Cartagena and of the Cultural Foundation Héctor Rojas Herazo. In 1984 he was awarded with the national León de Greiff poetry award. Due to a cerebral disease he died in the hospital of Bocagrande.", "score": "1.6376097" }, { "id": "3897168", "title": "Fernando García (sportsperson)", "text": " Fernando García (born 18 April 1935) is a Filipino sportsperson who competed in wrestling and judo. He competed in two wrestling events at the 1964 Summer Olympics and in two judo events at the 1972 Summer Olympics.", "score": "1.6375315" }, { "id": "6172123", "title": "Fernando Garcia Ponce", "text": " García Ponce was born in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico on August 25, 1933 to Juan García Rodes, immigrant from Spain, and María \"Monina\" Ponce G. Cantón, a member of the so-called \"casta divina\" of Yucatán. At the age of 11, García Ponce's family moved to Mexico City. In 1952, García Ponce enrolled at the National Autonomous University of Mexico to study architecture. In 1967, García Ponce met the French Canadian actress Denise Brosseau, who had previously been married to Alejandro Jodorowsky. Brosseau and García Ponce married and had one child, Esteban García Brosseau. On July 11, 1987, García Ponce died of a heart attack in Coyoacán, Mexico City; García Ponce was 53 at the time. His elder brother, Juan Garcia Ponce, was a well known author and has published works about his brother's art and life.", "score": "1.6293111" }, { "id": "9747314", "title": "Fernando Luis Alvarez", "text": " Alvarez was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, and he was moved to Colombia at the age of three, where he lived with his grandmother till the age of twelve. Alvarez went through the school system from elementary to Greenwich High School. He then moved to London to pursue higher study from Richmond, The American International University in London in International Business & Finance, Economics and Political Science. In 2008, he started working with collector and gallerist Allan Stone. In the same year, while working at the Stone residence, he started the solo studio, Greenwich Soho Factory in Greenwich and in 2009 he founded the Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery in Stamford,Connecticut which opened its second wing in the year 2013.", "score": "1.5999638" }, { "id": "3764567", "title": "Dora García", "text": " García was born in Valladolid, Spain and studied Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca, Spain, and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Holland. She is represented by Michel Rein Gallery, Paris/Brussels, ProjecteSD Barcelona, galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, and Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam.", "score": "1.594625" }, { "id": "2791550", "title": "Adrian Garcia", "text": " Garcia was born in Houston, Texas to Maria and Ignacio Garcia, the youngest of six children. His parents immigrated to the US after his father received a guest-worker visa before his birth, after which he petitioned to be re-admitted to the US under a work visa. In his youth, Adrian Garcia helped at his parents’ automotive shop fixing cars.", "score": "1.5927256" }, { "id": "6872208", "title": "Gabriel García Román", "text": " Born in Zacatecas, Mexico, in 1973, García Román and his family immigrated to the United States when he was two years old. He lived with his family in the San Francisco Bay Area for three years. At the age of five they moved to North Side of Chicago where he spent his formative years. Growing up in a Mexican working-class household he was always afraid of coming out to his family and hid his sexuality. This gave him a chance to blend into the background and observe life's smaller details. At the age of twenty-six he moved to New York to reinvent himself and live life.", "score": "1.5827119" }, { "id": "28716765", "title": "Andrés García", "text": " Andrés García (born May 24, 1941) is a Dominican-Mexican actor. He is one of the more popular and well known actors in Mexico and Latin America and among Hispanic people in the United States. He was also a scuba diving instructor.", "score": "1.5826545" }, { "id": "29222616", "title": "Pablo García Pérez de Lara", "text": " He was born in 1970 in Barcelona, Spain. He studied at the Center d'Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya (CECC).", "score": "1.5780549" }, { "id": "12617331", "title": "David García (footballer, born 1994)", "text": " Born in Pamplona, Navarre, García finished joined CA Osasuna's youth setup in 2003, aged nine. He made his senior debut in 2011–12 season with the reserves in Segunda División B, but appeared more regularly with the Juvenil side. García was called up to the main squad for the pre-season by manager Jan Urban in the summer of 2014, and scored the last of a 4–0 win against Brentford. He played his first match as a professional on 30 August, starting in a 1–1 away draw with Real Zaragoza for the Segunda División. On 26 January 2015, García signed a contract extension with the club running until 2019. He scored his first ", "score": "1.5775234" }, { "id": "28284444", "title": "David García (footballer, born 1981)", "text": " Born in Manresa, Barcelona, Catalonia, García was a product of RCD Espanyol's youth system, and made his La Liga debut on 8 January 2000 in a 0–0 home draw against Deportivo de La Coruña, becoming a regular fixture in the 2001–02 season and also being named second team captain after Raúl Tamudo, the only player to have been on Espanyol's books for longer; on 23 March 2003 he scored the first of only two competitive goals during his career, helping to a 1–1 draw at Valencia CF. In early 2007, García renewed his link to the Pericos for a further two seasons, stating about the deal: \"I want to finish my career here. I can't imagine myself wearing any other ", "score": "1.5752032" }, { "id": "28716766", "title": "Andrés García", "text": " Andrés García was born and raised in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is the son of Spanish exiles from the Spanish Civil War who received refuge in the country during the regime of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. His father was a famous Spanish Republican combat aviator named Andrés García La Calle. Garcia emigrated to Mexico, where he pursued a career in show business. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he became a sex symbol in Mexico and the rest of Latin America, participating in movies, Spanish soap operas and photo-romance novels (magazine featuring photos of actors who create a story&mdash;a popular phenomenon across Latin America during the 1970s). In 1984 García participated in Tú o nadie, with Lucía Mendez and Salvador Pineda. Tú o nadie became a major hit and helped García to receive many international offers. He accepted an offer to go to Puerto Rico in 1986, where he acted in the soap operas Amame, with Johanna Rosaly, and Escándalo, with Iris Chacón and Charytín. Escándalo flopped, and the number of episodes recorded for that soap opera was cut in half by the television channel.", "score": "1.5741472" }, { "id": "4497702", "title": "Alfred García", "text": " García was born on 14 March 1997 in El Prat de Llobregat, Catalonia. He began formal training in vocals and trombone at the age of seven. García is also a self-taught guitarist, drummer, and keyboardist. He received musical training at the Unió Filharmònica del Prat. García is studying for a degree in audiovisual communication, as well as being in his third year of a higher degree in music and jazz and modern music studies at the Taller de Músics, a music school in Barcelona.", "score": "1.5732896" } ]

[ "Columbia", "Columbia, Missouri" ]

[ { "id": "12468527", "title": "William Franklin Switzler", "text": " William Franklin Switzler (March 16, 1819 – May 24, 1906) was an American lawyer, journalist, publisher, and historian from Columbia, Missouri.", "score": "1.9394481" }, { "id": "12468529", "title": "William Franklin Switzler", "text": " He married Mary Jane Royall (1820-1879) of Columbia, Missouri in 1843, and they had three children.", "score": "1.8291211" }, { "id": "12468528", "title": "William Franklin Switzler", "text": " William F. Switzler was born in Fayette County, Kentucky. In 1826 his family moved to Fayette, Missouri. He studied law under Abiel Leonard and James Sidney Rollins, and practiced it for several years. In 1841 he started editing the Columbia Patriot eventually going into journalism business. He printed the Columbia Statesman; later in his life he edited the Chillicothe Constitution and Missouri Democrat (Boonville, Mo.). During the American Civil War, in 1863, he was appointed a provost marshal for the 9th District of Missouri. He served as a State Representative for Boone County, Missouri and twice, in 1866 and 1888 ran for Congress, unsuccessfully. In 1885 he was appointed Chief of the Bureau of Statistics in Washington, D.C. He published Switzler's illustrated history of Missouri, from 1541 to 1877 in 1879, and in 1882 — a History of Boone County, Missouri. He died in Columbia, Missouri, aged 87. His papers are preserved by the State Historical Society of Missouri.", "score": "1.7989297" }, { "id": "12468530", "title": "William Franklin Switzler", "text": " Switzler Hall on the David R. Francis Quadrangle at the University of Missouri is named after him.", "score": "1.7611833" }, { "id": "12468531", "title": "William Franklin Switzler", "text": "Switzler, William F., et al. Switzler's illustrated history of Missouri, from 1541 to 1877. St. Louis: C. R. Barns. 1879. ; Switzler, William F. History of Boone County, Missouri. Written and comp. from the most authentic official and private sources; including a history of its townships, towns, and villages. Together with a condensed history of Missouri; the city of St. Louis ... biographical sketches and portraits of prominent citizens. St. Louis, Western Historical Company, 1882. ", "score": "1.5905662" }, { "id": "8900229", "title": "William H. F. Fiedler", "text": " Fiedler was born in New York City on August 25, 1847. He moved to New Jersey with his parents, who settled in Newark. He attended the public and high schools, and apprenticed to the hat-finishing trade at the age of fifteen.", "score": "1.5243269" }, { "id": "6273733", "title": "William Ziegler (industrialist)", "text": " He was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, of German parents. His father, Francis Ziegler, died in 1846, and in 1848 his mother, Ernestine Ziegler, married Conrad Brandt. The family moved to Muscatine, Iowa, where his stepfather had a farm. He was educated in the public schools there and became a printer's apprentice in a newspaper office. He later became a clerk in a drug store and studied telegraphy and chemistry. In 1862, he enrolled in the Eastman Business School in Poughkeepsie, New York. After he completed his course there, he went to New York City where he worked for a wholesale drug and chemical company from 1863 to 1868. At the same time he took a course at the College of Pharmacy.", "score": "1.481498" }, { "id": "8786015", "title": "William Zeitler", "text": " William Zeitler (born 1954 in St. Louis) is a performer on the armonica, or glass harmonica, an instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin. In 2013 he published The Glass Armonica: The Music and the Madness, a book about glass instruments and their history. Also a composer.", "score": "1.4690988" }, { "id": "3098076", "title": "Benjamin Swig", "text": " Benjamin Harrison Swig (born November 17, 1893 in Taunton, Massachusetts, deceased on October 31, 1980) was a real estate developer and a philanthropist active in Jewish and non-Jewish communities.", "score": "1.4673064" }, { "id": "2898871", "title": "Theodore A. Switzler", "text": " Theodore A. Switzler (March 3, 1828 &ndash; January 21, 1879) was an American Union brevet brigadier general during the period of the American Civil War. He received his appointment as brevet brigadier general dated to March 13, 1865. Switzler began his military career by organizing a company of the Dade County Home Guards and serving as their captain. He participated in the Battle of Wilson's Creek on August 10, 1861. After this battle, his company was combined with other units to form the 6th Missouri Volunteer Cavalry. On March 6, 1862, he was wounded in the neck by a small bullet at Sugar Creek, Arkansas, just before fighting in the Battle of Pea Ridge. Immediately afterwards on March 9, 1862, Switzler was promoted to the rank of major. On August 13, 1862, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. Switzler also fought in the Battle of Prairie Grove, the Vicksburg campaign, and the Red River Campaign. His profession was bookkeeper and merchant.", "score": "1.4359299" }, { "id": "1033172", "title": "William Geissler", "text": " William Geissler was the grandson of Paul Richard Geissler, who in the 1850s had emigrated from Hirschfeld, Saxony in Germany to Edinburgh, where he settled and married, pursuing a career as a music teacher for children of well-to-do families. Following the collapse of the City of Glasgow Bank in 1878, the financial conditions of Paul Richard's clients, as well as his own, became severely strained. As a result, he advised his own children to seek careers that guaranteed security. Thus it was that Hermann Richard Geissler became a railway clerk. Hermann married Jane Hastie on 26 September 1893, and William was born precisely nine months later. William was educated at James Gillespie's Primary School and ", "score": "1.4339724" }, { "id": "6930448", "title": "William Osler", "text": " William Osler was born in Bond Head, Canada West (now Ontario), on July 12, 1849, and raised after 1857 in Dundas, Ontario. (He was called William after William of Orange, who won the Battle of the Boyne on July 12, 1690.) His mother, who was very religious, prayed that Osler would become a priest. Osler was educated at Trinity College School (then located in Weston, Ontario). In 1867, Osler announced that he would follow his father's footsteps into the ministry and entered Trinity College, Toronto (now part of the University of Toronto), in the autumn. At the time, he was becoming increasingly interested in medical science, ", "score": "1.43049" }, { "id": "8652315", "title": "William Donald Scherzer", "text": " Scherzer's parents were William and Wilhelmina Scherzer, who immigrated from Germany in 1847. Scherzer was born in Peru, Illinois on January 27, 1858 as the second son in a family of three sons and one daughter.", "score": "1.4264959" }, { "id": "15333168", "title": "William Little (Pittsburgh mayor)", "text": " William Little was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1809. Early in his life he belonged to the civic/vigilance committee The Duquesne Greys.", "score": "1.4095244" }, { "id": "14712179", "title": "William Moseley Swain", "text": " William Moseley Swain (May 12, 1809, in Manlius, New York – February 16, 1868, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a 19th-century American newspaper journalist, publisher, editor and newspaper owner and businessman. He was one of the founders and proprietors of the most recent daily newspaper in Philadelphia, The Public Ledger established in 1836 (along with Arunah Shepherdson Abell (1806–1888) [also known as \"A.S. Abell\"], and Azariah H. Simmons) and also served as editor. The paper was the first daily to establish a pony-express-style delivery service in the late 1830s and through the next few decades for routing their reporters/correspondents dispatches from throughout the eastern states. The system was made famous 25 ", "score": "1.4081781" }, { "id": "5955512", "title": "William Swainson (lawyer)", "text": " Swainson was born in Lancaster, England on 25 April 1809 and educated in Lancaster Grammar School. His legal education was in Middle Temple and he was called to the bar in 1838.", "score": "1.4064909" }, { "id": "154243", "title": "William Francis Ray", "text": " Ray was born March 2, 1854, in Franklin. He attended the Franklin Public Schools, Dean Academy, and Brown University.", "score": "1.405547" }, { "id": "8045830", "title": "William F. C. Nindemann", "text": " William Nindemann was born on April 22, 1850, in Gingst, on Rügen – Germany's biggest island. He graduated in 1865 and moved to New York in 1867, where he served as a quartermaster on a yacht.", "score": "1.4033026" }, { "id": "33159688", "title": "Francis Folger Franklin", "text": " Francis Folger Franklin was born on October 20, 1732, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (then a colony in British America). He was the oldest legitimate child of Benjamin Franklin, then the publisher of the Pennsylvania Gazette, and Deborah Read. Franklin also had an illegitimate son, William (born c. 1730–31), whose mother may have been a maid in the household, perhaps a woman named Barbara, or even Deborah Read herself. It has been suggested that William was Franklin's son by Deborah, but was acknowledged as illegitimate because he had been conceived before the marriage of his parents. Some accounts argue that William's birth was legitimized sometime after Francis' death, possibly due to the lack of ", "score": "1.4020901" }, { "id": "27074742", "title": "William Wurster", "text": " Wurster was born on October 20, 1895, in Stockton, California. His family encouraged him to observe, read and draw but Wurster often admitted later in life, to holding more of an intellectual gift, rather than a drawing gift. As a child, he held a close relationship with his father, a banker who, on bank holidays and weekends, would take Wurster to observe the life of the town to show him how it functioned. This, Wurster later reflected, was to show him the workings, rather than the structures of the city. During his years at Stockton Public High School, Wurster worked in ", "score": "1.4012877" } ]

[ "Budapest", "Buda Pest", "Buda-Pest", "Budapešť", "Budapesta", "Budapeszt", "Buda", "Ofen", "Budín", "Budim", "Budon", "Pest", "Pešť", "Pešta", "Óbuda", "Alt-Ofen", "Kőbánya" ]

[ { "id": "8937825", "title": "György Kárpáti", "text": " György was born Jewish. He was a great friend of the former water polo player and distinguished Italian actor Bud Spencer.", "score": "1.8417847" }, { "id": "8937822", "title": "György Kárpáti", "text": " György Kárpáti (June 23, 1935 &ndash; June 17, 2020) was a Hungarian water polo player who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics, 1956 Summer Olympics, 1960 Summer Olympics, and 1964 Summer Olympics. He is one of eight male athletes who won four or more Olympic medals in water polo, and one of ten male athletes who won three Olympic gold medals in water polo.", "score": "1.7380052" }, { "id": "8937823", "title": "György Kárpáti", "text": " Kárpáti was born in Budapest, and was a member of the Hungarian team which won the gold medal in the 1952 tournament. He played five matches and scored four goals. Four years later he was a member of the Hungarian team which won again the gold medal in the 1956 Olympic tournament. He played six matches and scored at least six goals (not all scorers are known). At the 1960 Games he won the bronze medal with the Hungarian team. He played four matches and scored five goals. His last Olympic tournament was in Tokyo 1964 where he won his third gold medal. He played six matches and scored four goals for the Hungarian team. Kárpáti studied and gained a degree in law, but he never practised it, he also got a degree in coaching in 1964, which he used when he was assistant coach to Dezső Gyarmati for the national team between 1970-80. Their main success was winning the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics. In 1982, Kárpáti was elected in to the International Swimming Hall of Fame, and from 1994 he became a member of the Association of Immortal Hungarian Athletes.", "score": "1.7342722" }, { "id": "32730366", "title": "György Kárpáti (film director)", "text": " György Kárpáti received his first degree in medicine in 1957 and his second degree in film directing in 1964. He was employed until 1991 as a film director by the MAFILM-MOVI studios of the Hungarian state film industry. As a freelance producer-director he was responsible for more than 300 productions for the Hungarian Television Network, including comedies, music shows, documentaries, scientific programmes, live broadcasts, variety shows, and programmes on jazz and the cinema. From 1973-83 he was commissioned by the International Committee of the Red Cross to shoot documentaries in 80 countries over five continents. From his graduation in 1964 until his retirement in 1999 he taught non-fiction directing and editing at the Academy of Drama and Film (SzFF) in Budapest.", "score": "1.7105815" }, { "id": "30557385", "title": "George Barati", "text": " George Barati (born György Braunstein) (April 3, 1913, Győr, Hungary - June 22, 1996, San Jose, California) was a Hungarian-American cellist, composer, and conductor. Barati studied under Zoltán Kodály and Leo Weiner while a student at the Liszt Academy of Music in the 1930s, and became widely known as a performer throughout Hungary, both as a soloist and with the Pro Ideale Quartet. He immigrated to the United States in 1938, where he studied composition at Princeton under Roger Sessions and taught cello performance until 1943. He then relocated to California, where he was cellist with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (1946–50) and worked with chamber ensembles. In 1950, Barati moved to Oahu, where he became the conductor of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, a position he held from 1950 to 1967. He also began doing international tours as a conductor. He returned to California in 1968 and was co-director of the Villa Montalvo Center for Art in Saratoga, California, from 1971 to 1980 he directed the Santa Cruz County Symphony Orchestra.", "score": "1.6882052" }, { "id": "30981163", "title": "Dénes Györgyi", "text": " Gyorgyi was born in Budapest into a well-known clan of artists which stretched back generations. On his father's side, his great grandfather, Alajos Giergl (1793–1868) was a silversmith who originated from the Tyrol and his grandfather, Alajos Györgyi Giergl (1821–1863), was a well-known painter in Pest. His father, Kálmán Györgyi (1860–1930) was a craftsman and art theorist, the director of the National Society of Applied Arts and editor of its journal. Two other close relatives, Géza Gyorgyi (1851–1934) and Kálmán Giergl (1863–1934) were well known architects. The latter built the Music Academy and Klotild Palaces in Pest. Also notable in the clan was Henrik Giergl (1827–1871), a glass artist and trader.", "score": "1.6689303" }, { "id": "15904949", "title": "Rudolf Kárpáti", "text": " Rudolf Kárpáti (17 July 1920 – 1 February 1999) was a fencer from Hungary, who won six gold medals in sabre at four Olympic Games (1948–1960). He also won seven gold, three silver and two bronze medals at the world championships. For his achievements he was named Hungarian Sportsman of the year in 1959 and 1960. Kárpáti graduated from the National Conservatory majoring in the history of music; he was also an accomplished violinist and the artistic director of the People’s Army Central Artistic Ensemble (1961–1986). Besides fencing and music, he was an employee at the Hungarian State Credit Bank and an officer with the Hungarian Army – he retired as Colonel, and later in 1990 was promoted to Major General. Kárpáti was a member of the Hungarian Fencing Federation from 1961 to 1991. After retiring from competitions, in 1977 he became president of the Budapest Fencing Federation and an administrator with the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime.", "score": "1.6672239" }, { "id": "32730365", "title": "György Kárpáti (film director)", "text": " György Kárpáti (born 3 July 1933 in Budapest) is a Hungarian film director whose most celebrated feature film is Nem szoktam hazudni (I Hardly Ever Lie, 1966). Over the last five decades he has directed around 200 films, including documentaries, feature films, short films and commercials. His films have won several awards at major international film festivals, and he has received the Hungarian Programme of the Year award eight times for his television programmes.", "score": "1.661755" }, { "id": "32730367", "title": "György Kárpáti (film director)", "text": " As a member of the Executive Board of the European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA), he was made Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France in 1992 and of the Order of the White Rose of Finland in 1998, both distinctions given for his contribution to European art teaching and for bilateral cultural relations.", "score": "1.655071" }, { "id": "29915902", "title": "György Károly", "text": " Károly was born in Budapest on 31 August 1953, the only son of György Károly (1924–2003), a butcher, and Ilona Szabó (1928–2014), a tailor. He spent his early life in Szigetszentmiklós, where he finished his primary school years. After he completed his studies in Budapest. Károly was educated as a geologist and began to write in the 1970s. He published his first poems in Élet és Irodalom (“Life and Literature”). He was poetic silent in the 1980s. In the nineties Károly began writing again.", "score": "1.6462694" }, { "id": "27251652", "title": "György Hajós", "text": " Hajós was born February 21, 1912, in Budapest; his great-grandfather, Adam Clark, was the famous Scottish engineer who built the Chain Bridge in Budapest. He earned a teaching degree from the University of Budapest in 1935. He then took a position at the Technical University of Budapest, where he stayed from 1935 to 1949. While at the Technical University of Budapest, he earned a doctorate in 1938. He became a professor at the Eötvös Loránd University in 1949 and remained there until his death in 1972. Additionally he was president of the János Bolyai Mathematical Society from 1963 to 1972.", "score": "1.6322618" }, { "id": "32822686", "title": "György Harag", "text": " György Harag was born on June 4, 1925 at Marghita in a Hungarian Jewish family. He was the son of Kádár Magda and Harag Jenő, timber-merchant. He started his elemental schools on Marghita, but finished it in Tășnad. Made his high-school studies on Oradea Mare, first at Emanoil Gojdu High School, then at Jewish High School of Oradea Mare, finally he sat his school examinations in Szent László High School. After graduation he worked for a year as an apprentice, learning ceramics making in Budapest. He shows close ties to theater from his earliest childhood. He faced, first, at Tășnad, some itinerant ", "score": "1.6256437" }, { "id": "8937824", "title": "György Kárpáti", "text": " After a long illness Kárpáti died on 17 June 2020, aged 84 years. He was buried in the Farkasréti Cemetery on 2 July 2020.", "score": "1.6184146" }, { "id": "29273490", "title": "Gyula Kautz", "text": " Born in Győr, he started his University studies at the Royal Academy of Philosophy at Győr. After two academic years, he moved to Pest to study at the University of Pest, where he earned his doctorate in law in 1850. He then went on to study abroad for a year, visiting universities of Berlin, Heidelberg and Leipzig. He was influenced by the English classical school of Economics, and also by Wilhelm Roscher, then a professor at Leipzig, a representative of the German historian school.", "score": "1.6148458" }, { "id": "26156483", "title": "György Gattyán", "text": " He was born on 24 May 1970 in Budapest. His father worked as a mason and a construction entrepreneur; his mother was a homemaker. He attended the Corvin Mátyás High School and continues his studies at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences (later part of Semmelweis University for few years). He trained at the Ikarus Sports Club as a runner; his trainer was István Tomhauser.", "score": "1.6121979" }, { "id": "28000471", "title": "György Szrogh", "text": " Szrogh György (January 23, 1915 – 1999) was a Hungarian architect and professor. He graduated in 1938 from Royal Jozsef Nador Technical University. After finished his studies, he worked in several places, such as the Louis Hidas studio, MÉMOSZ Construction Company, City Building Research Institute (VATI) and Residential Building Design Bureau (LAKÓTERV). He had participated in the UNESCO foreign exchange program between 1966 and 1967. At that time he was in England, Mexico and United States of America, when he learned new principles and methods of design. From 1966 he was professor at the Hungarian College of Applied Arts and led the Department of Architecture from 1966 to 1984. ", "score": "1.6107867" }, { "id": "33032567", "title": "Paul Gyorgy", "text": " Gyorgy was born on April 7, 1893 in Nagyvárad, Hungary to a Jewish family. He was said to be an avid reader and musician as a child. His father was a general practitioner in the community. Influenced by his father's occupation and with his parents' encouragement, Gyorgy began to pursue a career in medicine. He attended the University of Budapest Medical School and graduated with Doctor of Medicine degree in 1915. In 1920, after the end of World War I, Gyorgy was offered a job at the University of Heidelberg as an assistant to the physician and researcher Ernst Moro. He remained at the University of Heidelberg until 1933, obtaining full ", "score": "1.6086941" }, { "id": "31804518", "title": "György Ligeti (musician)", "text": " Ligeti was born in Kaposvár, Hungary. He attended the Munkácsy Mihály Gimnázium és Szakközépiskola in Kaposvár. Ligeti obtained a Master of Arts in Communication and media studies from the University of Pécs in 2012. Ligeti moved to London, United Kingdom where he worked as a shop assistant at the Algerian Coffee Stores from 2004 to 2009. On 26 February 2009, Ligeti was interviewed by Magyar Rádió. In 2010 Ligeti became the radio presenter of the Stockholm Syndrome Radio which aims to present new Hungarian indie rock bands. On 25 July 2013, Ligeti was interviewed by Phenomenon.hu in order to present his favourite meal, Aglio olio peperoncino. In 2014 Ligeti sang Odett's song called Éjszaka, while Odett sang We Are Rockstars's 2014 single Rólunk szól at the Szimfonik Live 2014. Ligeti considers himself as a Parni -Scythian.", "score": "1.6074659" }, { "id": "9437779", "title": "List of people from Kaposvár", "text": "Sándor Abday (1800 – 1882), Hungarian actor, theater director ; György Buzsáki (born 1949), Hungarian neuroscientist ; Péter Frankl (born 1953), Hungarian mathematician, street performer, columnist, educator ; Péter Hanák (1921 - 1997), Hungarian historian, cultural historian ; János Haraszti (1924 – 2007), Hungarian veterinarian, university teacher, researcher ; Moritz Kaposi (1837 – 1902), Hungarian physician, dermatologist, discoverer of the skin tumor called Kaposi's sarcoma ; Ernő Lendvai (1925 – 1993), Hungarian mathematician, music theorists ; György Németh (born 1956), Hungarian historian, teacher ; Lajos Papp (born 1948), Hungarian heart surgeon, professor ; Virag Dora (born 1993), Hungarian medical doctor, ", "score": "1.6044738" }, { "id": "9437774", "title": "List of people from Kaposvár", "text": "László Babarczy (born 1941), Hungarian theater director ; Aurél Bernáth (1895–1982), Hungarian painter, art theorist ; István Bors (1938 - 2003), Hungarian sculptor ; Béla Faragó (born 1961), Hungarian composer ; Sándor Galimberti (1883 - 1915), Hungarian painter ; János Gyenes (1912 - 1995), Hungarian photographer ; Zsolt Homonnay (born 1971), Hungarian actor ; Ilona Ivancsics (born 1960), Hungarian actress ; Ferenc Martyn (1899 – 1986), Hungarian artist, sculptor, graphic designer ; Zoltán Őszi (born 1967), Hungarian graphic designer, illustrator ; Judit Pogány (born 1944), Hungarian actress ; József Rippl-Rónai (1861 - 1927), Hungarian painter ; Magdolna Szőnyi (1915 - 1992), Hungarian arts teacher, artist ; Klári Varga (born 1970), Hungarian actress ; Zsuzsanna Varga (born 1970), Hungarian actress ; János Vaszary (1817 - 1939), Hungarian painter, graphic artist ", "score": "1.6030774" } ]

[ "Warsaw", "Warszawa", "Varshe", "Warschau", "Varshava", "Varšava", "Varsó", "Varsavia", "Varsovie", "Varsovia", "Varšuva" ]

[ { "id": "12998825", "title": "Szymon Szurmiej", "text": " Szymon Szurmiej was born on 18 June 1923 in Lutsk, Volhynian Voivodeship as a son of Polish father Jan Szurmiej and Jewish mother, Rebeka (Ryfka) née Biterman. Szurmiej debuted as an actor in 1951 at the Polish Theater in Wrocław. In 1969 he moved to Warsaw, where he has become a general manager of the Jewish Theater. Szymon Szurmiej was a member and activist of different Jewish organizations in Poland and world. In 2007 Polish writer Krystyna Gucewicz-Przybora wrote a Szurmiej's biography. Szymon Szurmiej died on 16 July 2014 in Warsaw.", "score": "1.7729087" }, { "id": "12998824", "title": "Szymon Szurmiej", "text": " Szymon Symcha Szurmiej (18 June 1923 − 16 July 2014) was a Polish actor, director, and general manager of the Ester Rachel Kamińska and Ida Kamińska State Jewish Theater in Warsaw. He was a director of the Yiddish Theater of Warsaw. Since July 2004, he has been an honorary citizen of Warsaw. Member of the World Jewish Congress.", "score": "1.7722323" }, { "id": "2462614", "title": "Szymon Majewski", "text": " Szymon Majewski (born on June 1, 1967, in Warsaw) is a Polish journalist, showman, radio and television presenter and professional television and film actor. Majewski is a graduate of Edward Dembowski High School in Warsaw. He has a wife, Magdalena, and two children.", "score": "1.6965442" }, { "id": "31191779", "title": "Szymon Pawłowski (footballer)", "text": " Born in Połczyn Zdrój, Pawłowski made his professional debut in Poland's by appearing against Lech Poznań on March 10, 2007. On 31 August 2017 he was loaned to Bruk-Bet Termalica Nieciecza.", "score": "1.671757" }, { "id": "1973013", "title": "Szymon (Romańczuk)", "text": " Warsaw and all of Poland. Four days later he was ordained a deacon, and on 22 February of the same year - as priest. On 21 September 1970, he was appointed inspector of the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Warsaw, where he was previously employed as a foreign language teacher and catechesis lecturer. A year later, he became the chairman of the Publishing and Press Commission at the Metropolitan Council and its secretary. In the period from 1971, as a representative of the PAKP or a member of its delegation, he participated in numerous theological conferences and inter-church meetings. In 1973, he was elevated to the rank of ihumen, and on ", "score": "1.6680593" }, { "id": "30734538", "title": "Szymon Krzeszowiec", "text": " Szymon Krzeszowiec was born in Tychy, Poland. He started his musical education in the Complex of State Music Schools in Katowice, with Urszula Szygulska. Later, he went to the Karol Szymanowski Secondary Musical School in Katowice and studied there with prof. Paweł Puczek. As a pupil of this school, he won first prizes on all-Poland competitions and auditions. He took part in summer music academies in Łańcut and Żagań. Between 1993 and 1997, he studied in the violin class of prof. Roman Lasocki in the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice (diploma with distinction). Later, he studied at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with prof. Herman Krebbers. He participated in masterclasses with such artists as, among others: Glenn Dicterow, Dmitri Ferschtman, Paweł Głombik, Yair Kless, Krzysztof Węgrzyn and Tadeusz Wroński.", "score": "1.6602185" }, { "id": "26526263", "title": "Wladek Zbyszko", "text": " Władysław Cyganiewicz was born in 1891 in Kraków, Poland. He studied at the University of Krakow and would later receive a degree in Law from the University of Vienna. Besides his exploits in the ring he was also considered an excellent pianist.", "score": "1.6580503" }, { "id": "12377469", "title": "Maciej Szymon Cieśla", "text": " Maciej Szymon Cieśla (29 June 1989 – 2 July 2016), Polish artist and graphics designer, visual communication designer. He was responsible for visual design of World Youth Day 2016.", "score": "1.633991" }, { "id": "3241931", "title": "Szymon Pawłowski (politician)", "text": " Szymon Jerzy Pawłowski (born December 5, 1978 in Sanok) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 7984 votes in 20 Warsaw district, candidating from the League of Polish Families list.", "score": "1.6318346" }, { "id": "9585158", "title": "Szymon Niemiec", "text": " Szymon Niemiec (born 5 October 1977, in Warsaw) is a Polish priest, gay rights activist, journalist, photographer, and politician. He is the founder of the first Polish Gay Pride parade, Parada Równości held in 2001. From 2000 to 2006, Niemiec held the post of Cultural Ambassador of Poland to the International Lesbian and Gay Culture Network. From 2001 to 2005, he was President of the International Lesbian and Gay Culture Association in Poland. Niemiec has been a member of the Union of the Left party since 2002, and on 6 May 2005 he was elected vice president. Since 2008 he is also a pastor of Free Reformed Church of Poland, a progressive Christian denomination. Since 2010 he serves as Elder in Full Connection and Dean of Missionary Conference for Europe in Christian United Church of Poland. On 25 August 2012, Niemiec was consecrated for a Bishop ", "score": "1.6289237" }, { "id": "4822901", "title": "June 1989", "text": "Born: ; Maciej Szymon Cieśla, Polish graphics designer; in Katowice, Poland (d. 2016, bone cancer) ; Isabelle Gulldén, Swedish Olympic and professional handball player; in Sävedalen, Partille Municipality, Sweden ; Maciej Sadlok, Polish footballer; in Oświęcim, Poland ; Jens Westin, Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman; in Kalix, Sweden ", "score": "1.6252251" }, { "id": "4336478", "title": "Szymon Koszyk", "text": " for the local newspapers including: Tygodnik Illustrowany, Zwrot and Polonia. In 1938 he was awarded by the Polish Literature Academy with a golden Laurus. During World War II he hid himself in Kresy and later in Kraków. After the war he was the mayor of Głuchołazy. After that, in 1947, he returned to Opole and again started to work in the press. He was one of the founders of the Opole city archives. He was a member of Związek Literatów Polskich, Silesian Institute, ZBoWiD and PTTK. Since 1957 retired. He died in 1972 in his hometown. One of the streets in Opole bears his name.", "score": "1.6150568" }, { "id": "8194220", "title": "Szymon Ziółkowski", "text": " Szymon Jerzy Ziółkowski (born 1 July 1976 in Poznań) is a retired Polish hammer thrower and an Olympic gold medal winner from Sydney 2000. He also won a gold medal at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton with a career best throw of 83.38 metres, and two silvers at the 2005 and 2009 editions in Helsinki and Berlin respectively.", "score": "1.6066253" }, { "id": "4336476", "title": "Szymon Koszyk", "text": " Szymon Koszyk (July 3, 1891, Opole – August 11, 1972, Opole) was a Polish writer, national and social activist. He finished Teachers' Seminary in Prószków. He collaborated with Gazeta Opolska and Der Weisse Adler. He was conscripted to the German army in 1914, he fought in the Battle of Verdun and was severely wounded. In 1918 he deserted from the German Army and hid in Tarnów. There he formed a battalion of Polish soldiers and with its help he captured local Austrian garrison. In 1919 he returned to Opole and was sent by the local Poles to the Paris peace conference to represent Polish interests in ", "score": "1.6045778" }, { "id": "12377470", "title": "Maciej Szymon Cieśla", "text": " Cieśla was born in Katowice in 1989. He graduated from Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, specifically Faculty of Art Conservation and Faculty of Industrial Design. In September, 2014 he began working in World Youth Day 2016 organisation committee, and from December, 2014 he started as full-time volunteer in the graphics design department. He designed all chasubles and computer animations for World Youth Day 2016. He was also responsible for drafting the Cracow decoration project. In November, 2015 he was diagnosed with bone cancer. Despite chemotherapy, he continued working until his death on July 2, 2016. He was buried on the cemetery at Józefowska street in Katowice. On July 27, 2016 Pope Francis mentioned Maciej Cieśla and his contribution while preaching from the papal window. On July 31, 2016 during the meeting with World Youth Day volunteers, which marked the end of Francis’ visit in Poland, Maciej Cieśla's letter to the Pope and pilgrims was read.", "score": "1.602272" }, { "id": "1568620", "title": "1937 in Poland", "text": "January 1. Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, a science fiction writer is born in Płock, ; January 3. Composer Zygmunt Konieczny is born in Kraków, ; January 12. Composer Marian Sawa is born in Krasnystaw, ; February 6. Opera singer Wiesław Ochman is born in Warsaw, ; February 11. Singer and composer Maciej Kossowski is born in Grudziądz, ; February 13. Opera singer Anna Malewicz-Madey is born in Pinsk, ; May 16. Jan Drzezdzon, a Kashubian writer is born in Domatowo, ; July 19. Rock singer Boguslaw Wyrobek is born in Gdynia, ; August 18. Edward Stachura, a poet and writer, is born in Charvieu-Chavagneux, ; September 17. Musician Urszula Mazurek is born in Toruń, ; November 22. Musician Edward Hulewicz is born in Berezne, ; November 27. Birth of hurdler Cezary Kuleszyński ; December 26. Opera singer Teresa Kubiak is born in Ldzanie near Pabianice. ", "score": "1.5992596" }, { "id": "7687296", "title": "Grzegorz Szymański", "text": " Szymański was born in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland. He is married to Magdalena. They have a daughter Oliwia and a son Arkadiusz.", "score": "1.5959227" }, { "id": "2872820", "title": "Waldemar Świerzy", "text": " Born in Katowice, Poland, he graduated from the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts in 1952. He was subsequently Professor in the University of Fine Arts in Poznań from 1965 and Professor in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1994. In 1992 the government of Poland issued a postage stamp to honor one of his Cyrk posters, 'Clown with derby'. Swierzy is one of the Polish School of Posters' most prolific artists, having created over 2500 posters. He employed unusual concepts with a variety of techniques, frequently mirroring Polish social history from 1950s through 1980s, with a myriad of styles: ", "score": "1.5936708" }, { "id": "31191782", "title": "Szymon Pawłowski (footballer)", "text": "Zagłębie Lubin ; Ekstraklasa: 2006–07 ; Polish SuperCup: 2007 Lech Poznań ; Ekstraklasa: 2014–15 ; Polish SuperCup: 2015, 2016 ", "score": "1.5913737" }, { "id": "7774762", "title": "Szymon Bobrowski", "text": " Szymon Bobrowski (born 16 January 1972 in Konin, Poland) is a Polish actor. Acted in tens of cinema and TV films, as well as theatre plays.", "score": "1.590867" } ]

[ "New York City", "NYC", "New York", "the five boroughs", "Big Apple", "City of New York", "NY City", "New York, New York", "New York City, New York", "New York, NY", "New York City (NYC)" ]

[ { "id": "26358609", "title": "David Arthur Granger", "text": "1) REDIRECT:David A. Granger ", "score": "1.7280492" }, { "id": "27360567", "title": "David Granger (footballer)", "text": " David Granger commenced his football career in Victoria where he played trial games with St Kilda.", "score": "1.6935501" }, { "id": "27360566", "title": "David Granger (footballer)", "text": " David Granger (born 23 January 1955) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).", "score": "1.6626873" }, { "id": "28211013", "title": "David E. Grange Jr.", "text": " Grange was born on April 9, 1925, and grew up in Lake Ronkonkoma, New York. He joined the United States Army in June 1943 and served as an enlisted parachute infantryman in Europe, taking part in the Rome-Arno, Southern France, Rhineland, Ardennes, and Central Europe Campaigns as a member of the 517th Parachute Infantry Regiment. In 1949, he departed the 82d Airborne Division to attend Officer Candidate School. He was commissioned a second lieutenant of Infantry in 1950, with an initial assignment with the 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment in Korea.", "score": "1.6491334" }, { "id": "4941055", "title": "Michel Granger", "text": " Michel Granger, born 13 October 1946 in Roanne, is a French visual artist. His childhood took place in Arsenal County, a period that will strongly mark his artistic work. But encounters and successive travels took him to new horizons and far from his homeland: during the 1970s, his career became international. Granger is known for his work associated with the musician Jean-Michel Jarre.", "score": "1.627383" }, { "id": "28211168", "title": "David L. Grange", "text": " Born on December 29, 1947, in Long Island, New York, Grange is the son of retired Lieutenant General David E. Grange, Jr.. He graduated from North Georgia College with a Bachelor of Science degree and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry. Grange later earned a master's degree in public service from Western Kentucky University.", "score": "1.6266613" }, { "id": "26800002", "title": "David A. Granger", "text": " Born in Georgetown, David Arthur Granger became a senior officer of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) by Prime Minister Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham. Granger attended Queen's College, one of Guyana's most prestigious schools, along the likes of Presidents Forbes Burnham, Cheddi Jagan, Samuel Hinds and scholars Walter Rodney and Rupert Roopnaraine. After leaving Queen's College, where he was a member of the Queen's College Cadet Corps, Granger joined the Guyana Defence Force as an officer cadet in 1965 and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in 1966. He received his professional military training at the Army Command and Staff College in Nigeria; the Jungle Warfare Instruction Centre in Brazil; and the School of Infantry and the Mons ", "score": "1.6070125" }, { "id": "1233263", "title": "David M. Granger", "text": " Granger has a Master of Arts in English from the University of Virginia and a B.A. in English and History from the University of Tennessee. Granger also attended the famed Radcliffe Publishing Course.", "score": "1.5980558" }, { "id": "30369091", "title": "Bill Granger (author)", "text": " Born June 1, 1941, in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, William F. Granger lived most of his life in Chicago, on the city's South Side. He attended St. Ambrose Catholic School until 1955. Next, Granger attended DePaul University, where he was a student newspaper editor of The DePaulia. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in English in 1963. During his student years he was a copy boy with The Washington Post'', where he met his wife Lori.", "score": "1.5957065" }, { "id": "6634096", "title": "Lester Granger", "text": " Granger was born in Newport News, Virginia and was one of six sons. His mother was a teacher, and his father was a doctor from Barbados. He grew up in Newark, New Jersey, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1918. He was a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He served in the US Army during World War I and worked briefly for the Newark chapter of the National Urban League.", "score": "1.5947134" }, { "id": "10830909", "title": "Norm Granger", "text": " Granger was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, where he graduated from Barringer High School as part of the class of 1980, where he was a teammate of future NFL player Andre Tippett. He was a high school All-American running back, who posted 1,900 rushing yards and 13 touchdowns as a senior. He also received the Newark Academic Scholar-Athlete Award.", "score": "1.5929642" }, { "id": "1233262", "title": "David M. Granger", "text": " David M. Granger is an American journalist. He was editor-in-chief of Esquire Magazine from June 1997 until March 2016. Granger is a literary agent and media consultant working with Aevitas Creative Management.", "score": "1.5927992" }, { "id": "1378961", "title": "Makandal Daaga", "text": " Geddes Granger was born in Laventille, Trinidad and Tobago. His father, Philip, was a barber and World War I veteran. Granger attended Belmont Intermediate School, and St. Mary's College before entering the University of the West Indies in St. Augustine in 1967 where he was elected president of the Guild of Students.", "score": "1.5842832" }, { "id": "32268136", "title": "David Granger (bobsleigh)", "text": " David Granger (January 26, 1903 &ndash; September 27, 2002) was an American bobsledder and businessman who competed in the late 1920s. He won a silver medal in the five-man bobsleigh event at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz. He died in New York City. Granger graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale, and attended Christ's College, Cambridge. He married in 1950 and had a son. He held a New York Stock Exchange seat for longer than anyone else in history - from 1926 until his death in 2002. He joined his father's Wall Street firm, Sulzbacher, Granger & Co. (now a part of Ingalls & Snyder), ", "score": "1.571742" }, { "id": "32268137", "title": "David Granger (bobsleigh)", "text": " age 23 and purchased his seat for $143,000. He still went to work regularly until his health began to fail two years before his death, by which time he already held his longevity record. He served in World War II, rising to the rank of major and earning the Order of the British Empire for helping supply Britain with war planes. He was injured in the 1975 bombing of Fraunces Tavern. He served on the board of the Museum of the City of New York and as a trustee of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. He also was a director of the English-Speaking Union.", "score": "1.5681665" }, { "id": "6129679", "title": "John Granger", "text": " Granger was born in Corning, New York and grew up in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and the University of Chicago, where he studied classical languages and literature. Granger has a Master of Fine Arts (Creative Writing) from Oklahoma City University and is currently writing his PhD thesis at Swansea University (Wales). Previously he taught Latin and English at The Asheville School, Peninsula College, and Valley Forge Military Academy. Granger served for 6 years in the US Marine Corps including postings at the Air Ground Combat Center in 29 Palms, California, and at Camp Butler, Okinawa, Japan. He is married to Mary, is a reader in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and has seven children.", "score": "1.5540665" }, { "id": "26800006", "title": "David A. Granger", "text": " Granger attended the prestigious institution of Queen's College. He did some workshops from time and he was covered by the Army. He also attended the Urban Policy Development Workshop at the University of California, Los Angeles; the Defense Planning and Resource Management course at the National Defense University, Washington DC; and the Counter-Terrorism Educators' Workshop at the Joint Special Operations University, Florida, USA.", "score": "1.5498934" }, { "id": "27360568", "title": "David Granger (footballer)", "text": " Granger played for Port Adelaide Football Club in the SANFL between 1975 and 1982. He was a strong, skilled and effective footballer, becoming famously known by his spoonerism nickname, 'Grave Danger'. This was during an era of unprecedented violence in the game and Granger was often employed as an on-field hitman. Over the years he handed out and received countless injuries on the field. Although he played nominally as a forward, Granger was often sent into defence to harass opposition star forwards. Opposition players often found themselves fearing Granger instead of concentrating on the game, a situation Port Adelaide exploited. In ", "score": "1.5448489" }, { "id": "32021907", "title": "Jeff Granger", "text": " Granger was drafted in the 1st Round (5th overall pick) of the 1993 MLB Draft by the Kansas City Royals. He was only 21 when he broke into the majors with the Royals in September of that same year after only 7 impressive starts at single-A Eugene in which he struck out 56 batters in only 36 innings. He began the 1994 Season at AA Memphis and was called up to the big leagues for two respectable (but not overpowering) starts in May. Although he had dominated at the minor league level, it was clear that he needed some finesse to complement his impressive velocity, and the Royals kept him at AA Wichita in 1995. Granger was moved to the bullpen the following season and made a smooth transition, compiling an impressive 2.34 ERA for the AAA Omaha Royals. He was once again hit hard in 15 ", "score": "1.5325699" }, { "id": "30776470", "title": "Michael Granger", "text": " Michael Granger (May 14, 1923 – October 22, 1981) was an American actor. Born Milton Grossman in Kansas City, MO, Granger, he appeared in The Big Heat and in B movies such as Creature With The Atom Brain, as well as on TV shows including Rawhide, Kojak, Gunsmoke and The Untouchables. He created the role of Lazar Wolf, the butcher, in the original Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof in 1964, and can be heard on the original cast album singing L'Chaim with Zero Mostel. He appeared in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center with Liv Ullmann in 1975, and was again on Broadway in 1980 in Tennessee Williams's Clothes for a Summer Hotel. Known for his resonant bass speaking voice, in the final years of Granger's life, he became a sought after voice over actor. He died October 22, 1981 in New York, NY of heart failure.", "score": "1.5308819" } ]

[ "Darling Point", "Darling Point, New South Wales", "Darling Point, New South Wales, Australia" ]

[ { "id": "31842851", "title": "Vincent de Roulet", "text": " De Roulet was born in Los Angeles, California. He lived there until moving to Manhasset, New York in 1954.", "score": "1.5499036" }, { "id": "29383557", "title": "John Man (author)", "text": " John Anthony Garnet Man (born 15 May 1941) is a British historian and travel writer. His special interests are China, Mongolia and the history of written communication.", "score": "1.5332868" }, { "id": "8070350", "title": "Keith Mant", "text": " Mant was born in Purley, Surrey on 11 September 1919. His father George was a solicitor who represented the tenth generation of members of the legal profession in the family. Mant was educated at Denstone College before choosing not to follow in his father's footsteps, and in 1939 joined an undergraduate course at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in London on a rugby exhibition. While studying Mant worked as an ambulance driver and plane spotter, and after graduating in 1943 started work in obstetrics and gynaecology at St Mary's. In January 1944 Mant was called up for service in the British Army, and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps. He worked in military hospitals in France and Germany after crossing the English Channel soon after D-Day in June 1944.", "score": "1.5198087" }, { "id": "11291396", "title": "John Clempert", "text": " Clempert was born in Siberia on April 19, 1878, in a city Edwin A. Dawes indicated as “Poletavarr.” He started working in Farroni's Circus as a wrestler, but became famous as “The Man They Cannot Hang” for the acts of escapology he managed to perform after an assistant had hung him. In 1903, however, one of his hanging performances failed in Rochester, New York, and the accident nearly costed Clempert his life. He abandoned the hanging tricks and joined the Warren American Circus, touring India and the Middle East.", "score": "1.5071182" }, { "id": "2138813", "title": "John Mant", "text": " Lieutenant Colonel John Francis Mant OBE (8 February 1897 – 19 November 1985) was an Australian solicitor. He was born at Darling Point to solicitor William Hall Mant and Frances Gordon, née McCrae, a granddaughter of Georgiana McCrae. His godfather was A. B. Paterson. Mant attended Sydney Grammar School and from 1914 worked in Queensland as a station hand. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 11 April 1916 and sailed for England in May, attached to the Cyclist Training Battalion. He served in France with the 3rd Divisional Cyclist Company from December 1916 and then with the 1st Infantry Battalion from January 1917. Promoted lieutenant in February 1918 and mentioned in despatches in 1919, he remained in Britain after the ", "score": "1.4956317" }, { "id": "4174110", "title": "John Finet", "text": " Finet was a son of Robert Finet (d. 1582) of Soulton, near Dover, Kent. His mother was Alice, daughter and coheiress of John Wenlock, a captain of Calais. His great-grandfather, John Finet, an Italian of Siena, came to England as a servant in the train of Cardinal Campeggio in 1519, settled here and married a lady named Mantell, maid of honour to Catherine of Aragon.", "score": "1.4950147" }, { "id": "13417237", "title": "John Gast (painter)", "text": " John inherited his father's talent for lithography and was immensely gifted. He left for Berlin in 1860 to finish his education during the Civil War. He earned a degree from the Royal Academy there and returned to St. Louis to work at his father's company. After three years, about 1867, he went to Paris to study art. The 1870 Census shows him living with his parents in St. Louis but within a year, he was working in New York. His drawings from Paris, Missouri, and New York at this time are in the Autry Museum collection.", "score": "1.4872122" }, { "id": "4999011", "title": "John Manley Barnett", "text": " Conductor John Manley Barnett was born September 3, 1917 in Manhattan, New York to optician Guy Carlton Barnett and Bernadette Emma (Manley) Barnett. He died in Los Angeles, California December 6, 2013 at the age of 96.", "score": "1.4866724" }, { "id": "13417235", "title": "John Gast (painter)", "text": " John Gast (b. 21 December 1842 in Berlin, Prussia – d. 26 July 1896 in Brooklyn) was a Prussian-born American painter and lithographer. His most famous work is American Progress (1872); this painting and many of his drawings are found in the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles.", "score": "1.4742706" }, { "id": "2138814", "title": "John Mant", "text": " to study law at the University of Edinburgh before returning to Sydney, receiving his Bachelor of Law from the University of Sydney in 1924. His appointment with the AIF was formally terminated on 23 July 1920. On 30 October 1924, Mant was admitted as a solicitor by the New South Wales Supreme Court and began working for Ellison, Rich & Son. In 1927 he became a partner with Frank A. Davenport & Mant, which established an expertise in insurance and liquor licensing. He married widowed clerk associate Helen Musgrave Dalziel on 29 October 1931 at Darling Point. He returned to active service for World War II on 17 March 1941, first with the Citizen Military Forces and then, from 28 July ", "score": "1.4648305" }, { "id": "12029685", "title": "Melanie Manchot", "text": " Born in Witten, Germany in 1966, Manchot studied in New York at New York University (1988–1989) before moving to London to continue her studies at City University and later at the Royal College of Art. From 1992 until 2005 Manchot was a lecturer at various institutions including Goldsmiths College of Art, Central St Martins, London College of Communication and Middlesex University.", "score": "1.4644372" }, { "id": "7905726", "title": "John Manton", "text": " Manton was born in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. As a teenager he became aware of his vocation and after a trial with the Methodist Society he was made a local preacher before being ordained in 1830. The following year he left for missionary service in New South Wales.", "score": "1.4623888" }, { "id": "7995980", "title": "Joshua Mann Pailet", "text": " Joshua Mann Pailet was born June 30, 1950 in New Orleans, the son of Charlotte Mann Pailet and Gustave Pailet. His mother was born in 1924 in Brno, Czechoslovakia to a Jewish family, and was the only member of her immediate family to survive the Holocaust after she was rescued along with 668 other children as part of the Kindertransport effort organized by Sir Nicholas Winton. Pailet's parents met in London at the end of World War II – his mother was working as a nurse and his father was a United States Army Lieutenant – and moved to America to Gustave's birthplace, New Orleans, in 1945. The family then moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where Pailet lived before attending Rice University, graduating with Bachelor's degrees in Accounting and Economics in 1973. At Rice University Pailet was first exposed to photography under the tutelage of Eve Sonneman, and was mentored by world-renowned art collectors John and Dominique de Menil of the Menil Collection. After his graduation, Pailet then returned to his birthplace of New Orleans and opened A Gallery for Fine Photography that same year.", "score": "1.4584651" }, { "id": "25934484", "title": "Manton Marble", "text": " Marble was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on November 16, 1835. He graduated from the University of Rochester in 1855, at age 20. He joined the Boston Journal and also became editor of the Traveller. He moved to New York City in 1858 and joined the New York Evening Post. In 1859, he went to the Red River Valley as The Evening Post's correspondent. He contributed three papers on his journey, to Harper's Magazine.", "score": "1.4547722" }, { "id": "12490018", "title": "John Abt", "text": " Abt was born on May 1, 1904 in Chicago, Illinois. He was a graduate of the University of Chicago, and from its law school.", "score": "1.4512918" }, { "id": "29383558", "title": "John Man (author)", "text": " Man studied German and French at Keble College, Oxford, before completing two postgraduate courses, a diploma in the History and Philosophy of Science at Oxford and Mongolian at the School of Oriental and African Studies, finishing the latter in 1968.", "score": "1.4457716" }, { "id": "26444250", "title": "John J.A. Jannone", "text": " Jannone was born in Towanda, Pennsylvania. He studied philosophy at Colgate University where he received a BA in 1991. He studied Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he received an MFA in 1993. He has lived in New York City since 1999.", "score": "1.4448286" }, { "id": "28007870", "title": "John E. Manders", "text": " John Edgar Manders was born February 3, 1895, in Denver, Colorado to Robert Francis Manders and Letha Clementine Barnes Manders. In 1914, he married Henrietta Bertolas. He attended the University of San Francisco and the San Francisco Law School, and was admitted to the California Bar in 1918. He practiced law in San Francisco until 1941, when he moved his practice to Anchorage, Alaska. In 1945, Manders was elected mayor of Anchorage. He resigned on March 18, 1946, several weeks before his term was complete, in protest of plans to weaken the mayor's office by transferring powers to the city council and to a newly created office of city manager. \"I will not be a figurehead ", "score": "1.4447327" }, { "id": "1281639", "title": "John James Hattstaedt", "text": " John James Hattstaedt was born in 1851 in Monroe, Michigan, the fourth of six children. His parents were both immigrants from Langenzeneur, Bavaria. His father, Georg Wilhelm Christoph Hattstaedt/Haddstadt (1811–1884), was a Lutheran pastor. His mother, the former Anne Marie Schmid (1826-1861), known as Mary Hattstadt in the United States, was 14 years younger than her husband. She died in 1861, when John was ten years old. The widower Wilhelm married again that year, to Louisa Baehr (1820-1902), also from Bavaria. They had a son together. The young John Hattstaedt studied music from an early age, becoming a pianist.", "score": "1.4437582" }, { "id": "8800561", "title": "Stephen Menheniott", "text": " William Thomas (Tom) Menheniott was born in Cornwall on 26 February 1924. His mother died when he was three months old and his father was apparently blind, so he and his brother George, who was three years older, were brought up in a children's home administered by the Public Assistance Committee. The regime was harsh and corporal punishment was often employed. At the age of fourteen, George ran away and, after working on a farm for a while, enlisted in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. When he reached the age of fourteen, Tom also ran away and joined the Army, where he qualified as a motor mechanic. In the 1940s he married Deirdre Philippa Maddern and they had two children. A girl, Deirdre Ann, was born on 18 January 1948 and ", "score": "1.4405555" } ]

[ "Pesaro" ]

[ { "id": "3147932", "title": "Andrea Magi", "text": " Andrea Magi (born 14 July 1966 in Pesaro, Pesaro e Urbino) is a former amateur boxer from Italy. He is best known for winning the bronze medal at the 1987 European Championships in Turin, Italy in the Men's Light Heavyweight (&ndash; 81 kg) division. He represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.", "score": "1.7042096" }, { "id": "2758312", "title": "Antonio Magini-Coletti", "text": " Magini-Coletti was born in 1855 in the medieval town of Iesi (written Jesi in Italian), which is situated inland from Ancona on central Italy's east coast. Published details of his early life are scant but sources agree that he studied singing during the 1870s with the distinguished pedagogue Venceslao Persichini at Rome's Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia. (Persichini's other students included the lyric tenor Francesco Marconi and Magini-Coletti's fellow baritones Mattia Battistini, Giuseppe De Luca and Titta Ruffo.) In 1880, Magini-Colleti made his operatic debut at Rome's Teatro Costanzi, as Valentin in Gounod's Faust. He continued to perform regularly at that opera house for the ", "score": "1.6257142" }, { "id": "11570112", "title": "Andrea Vici", "text": " Church and Monastery of Città della Pieve ; Cascata delle Marmore, Terni ; Hydraulic works in the Val di Chiana in the Romagna, Pontine marshes, Port of Fano, Aqueducts in Loreto, Perugia, and Rome Andrea was born in Arcevia in the Marche, the brother of Arcangelo, who was also an architect of note, leaving behind works at Jesi, Arcevia, Fano, Corinaldo, and Cupramontana. At the age of 14, Andrea was given a classical education in mathematics, letters and design by Francesco Appiani at Perugia. At the age of 17 he joined the studio of the painter Cesare Pozzi in Rome, then studied architecture under Carlo Murena. At the age of ", "score": "1.6163341" }, { "id": "12028236", "title": "Andrea Nurcis", "text": " Andrea Nurcis (born Andrea Curreli, February 26, 1962) was born in Cagliari, Italy. Since 1980 he has exhibited in private galleries in Italy and the United States, and in museums and public spaces including the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, the Royal Palace of Naples, the Italian Pavilion at the 48th Venice Biennale, the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation in Milan, the Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive museum in Spoleto. Since 1986 he has lived and worked much of the time in Rome; his works are to be found in private and public collections in Italy, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and the United States. He has held public lectures at ", "score": "1.5952144" }, { "id": "28385659", "title": "Andrea Radrizzani", "text": " Radrizzani was born in Rho, a metropolitan area of Milan. He graduated with a degree in public relations from IULM University in 1996.", "score": "1.5940294" }, { "id": "15548852", "title": "Andrea Bocelli", "text": " Bocelli was born to Alessandro and Edi Bocelli on September 22, 1958. Doctors advised the couple to abort him, as they predicted that the child would be born with a disability. It was evident at birth that Bocelli had numerous problems with his sight, and was eventually diagnosed with congenital glaucoma. He stated that his mother's decision to give birth to him and overrule the doctor's advice was the inspiration for him to oppose abortion. Bocelli grew up on his family's farm where they sold farm machinery and made wine in the small village of La Sterza, a frazione of Lajatico, Tuscany, Italy, about 40 km south of Pisa. His mother and younger brother Alberto still live in the ", "score": "1.5699345" }, { "id": "10329374", "title": "Andrea Zanzotto", "text": " Andrea Zanzotto was born in Pieve di Soligo (province of Treviso, Veneto), Italy to Giovanni and Carmela Bernardi. His father, Giovanni (born 18 November 1888), had received degrees from the École supérieure de peinture at Brussels (1911, specializing in trompe-l'œil in wood and marble) and the Academy of Fine Arts at Bologna (1913, diploma di professore di disegno). Having been hired by a large painting business in Trieste, he was inducted into the army in 1915 and took part in combat on the Piave River. Giovanni had been involved with Carmela for some time, but postponed marriage until his work abroad (Trieste at that time belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire) earned him enough to support a family.", "score": "1.5673773" }, { "id": "10760260", "title": "Andrea Postacchini", "text": " Andrea Postacchini (November 30, 1781 - February 3, 1862) was an Italian violin maker born in Fermo, known as \"Stradivari of the Marches\" (a region of central Italy). Postacchini was born on 30 December 1781 in Fermo, a hilltop town near the east coast in Italy's Marches region. He came from a wealthy, religious family of farm workers. The young Postacchini was sent to a monastery in Fermo where he met a priest who made violins using primitive tools. Postacchini became fascinated with this craft and upon his departure (age of 28), he decided to become a violinmaker. Although he was self-taught, Postacchini produced ", "score": "1.5630603" }, { "id": "5056534", "title": "Andrea Mugione", "text": " Andrea Mugione was born on 9 November 1940 in the Italian comune of Caivano, in the region of Campania. He studied at the diocesan seminary in Aversa and the Pontifical Regional Seminary of Salerno, where he studied philosophy and theology.", "score": "1.5580465" }, { "id": "9964303", "title": "Leone Magiera", "text": " He was born in Modena in 1934, the son of an engineer named Ubaldo. He belonged to an ancient Modenese family of jurists. Anna Maria, his mother, was from a long line of large landowners. A childhood music prodigy, he performed for the first time in concert at age 12. He grew up in Lino Rastelli, Giorgio Vidusso and Alberto Mozzati's school and graduated in piano at the age of 18 at the Conservatory \"Arrigo Boito \"of Parma. He later graduated in singing (didactic branch), choir direction, composition and choral music at Bologna Conservatory, Giovanni Battista Martini Conservatory.", "score": "1.5570774" }, { "id": "3859715", "title": "Andrea", "text": "Andrea Aguyar (died 1849), Uruguayan slave turned soldier and revolutionary ; Andrea Alciato (1492–1550), Italian jurist ; Andrea Amati (1505–1577), luthier from Cremona, Italy, credited with making the first instruments of the violin family that are in the form we use today ; Andrea Antico (c. 1480 – c. 1538) was an Istrian music printer, editor, publisher and composer of the Renaissance ; Andrea Aleksi (1425–1505), Albanian architect ; Andrea Ammonio (c. 1478–1517), Italian poet ; Andrea Andreani (1540–1623), Italian engraver on wood ; Andrea Appiani (1754–1817), Italian painter ; Andrea Argoli (1570–1657), Italian mathematician and astronomer ; Andrea Aromatico (born 1966), Italian historian and expert ", "score": "1.555737" }, { "id": "7339143", "title": "Andrea Favilli (sculptor)", "text": " Andrea Favilli was born in Rome, Italy March 8, 1963. His early art education was with his father Riccardo Aldo Favilli, who worked as an art director at the famed Cinecittà Studios. When Andrea was 7 years old, his family moved from Italy to Redondo Beach, California. He graduated from Bishop Montgomery High School in 1981 and from the Art Center College of Design in 1986. Favilli created the Disney Legends Award, The American Teacher Award, and the Frank G. Wells Award; The Cameraman in front of the Warner Brothers Studio in Burbank, California, The Transpacific Yacht Race New Course Record Trophy; the Tree of Life, Stough Canyon, Burbank, CA; Monumental Disney Legends Trophies at Disneyland, Paris and Walt Disney Studios, Burbank, CA; the Roy O. & Edna Disney at St. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank, CA; and Dr. David Burbank at Five Points in Burbank, CA.", "score": "1.5444996" }, { "id": "9707527", "title": "Vico Magistretti", "text": " Vico Magistretti was born on October 6, 1920 in Milan, Italy. He was the son of an architect. During the second world war, to avoid being deported to Germany, on September 8, 1943 he left Italy during his military service and moved to Switzerland. While in the country he taught at the local university and took courses at the Champ Universitaire Italien in Lausanne. While in Switzerland he met Ernesto Nathan Rogers, who turned out to be his maestro. According to The Guardian, \"He soon came under the influence of the architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers, whose humanist ideas for the reconstruction of postwar Italy inspired a whole series of intellectuals. At that time Magistretti took part in work on the extraordinary experimental neighbourhood on the edge of Milan known as QT8, where a group of architects and planners were given complete freedom. Magistretti built its \"poetic\" round church.\" He returned to Milan in 1945, graduating from the Politecnico di Milano University in 1945.", "score": "1.5434384" }, { "id": "15194117", "title": "Antonio Magarotto", "text": " Born in Pojana Maggiore, Magarotto became deaf at age three because of a meningitis. He was sent to a deaf school, the Tommaso Pendola Institute in Siena where he learned to speak and lipsread. When he moved to Padua, he founded the Deaf Association of the Veneto Region. In the year of 1923, he obtained from the Mussolini government a law that enabled the deaf and blind people to attend elementary schools. In 1932, on the day of Saint Anthony of Padua, together with his deaf friends, he founded the Italian National Agency for the Deaf where he was president from 1932 to 1950.", "score": "1.5397127" }, { "id": "31761732", "title": "Andrea Verga", "text": " Andrea Verga was born in Treviglio (Bergamo) on 30 May 1811, to a modest family. He was the second son of Domitilla Carcano and Giosuè Verga, who worked as a conveyor from Treviglio to Milan. As a child, he did not attend elementary school, but due to his mother's religious interest, he was initiated into ecclesiastical studies in the seminary. Consequently, he enrolled at the medical faculty of the University of Pavia, in November 1830. During the earliest years, he was attracted to lessons of the anatomy teacher Bartolomeo Panizza, of whom in 1836, after graduation, he became an assistant. In the same period, he participated with Giulio Carcano, Cesare Correnti, and other young patriots in the \"Strenna Il Presagio\", in which he published the ", "score": "1.5368378" }, { "id": "29454756", "title": "Andrea Colli", "text": " Andrea Colli was born 15 June 1966. He graduated from Bocconi University, where he also earned a PhD in Economic and Social History.", "score": "1.5366364" }, { "id": "10350034", "title": "Alessandro Carloni", "text": " Born in Bologna, Carloni spent his childhood in Urbino, a walled city and World Heritage site southwest of Pesaro, known for its remarkable legacy of independent Renaissance culture and for being the birthplace of Renaissance master Raphael Santi. But Carloni was not a young artist, at least not officially. Not even though his father worked as an illustrator for magazines, book covers and advertisements. “I was exposed to his work, but he never pushed me to be part of his studio,” Carloni says. “He taught me many things. He wanted me to explore on my own.” He became an artist almost despite himself. Carloni entered ", "score": "1.531563" }, { "id": "3937080", "title": "Andrea Maffei (architect)", "text": " Andrea Maffei is an Italian architect, born in Modena in 1968. He was associate director for the projects based in Italy by Arata Isozaki. Among these projects is the New exit for the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, which won first place in an international design competition launched in 1998. In 2005 he founded his own architecture firm Andrea Maffei Architects, with headquarters in Brera (district of Milan), Italy. Together with Isozaki Arata Maffei co-designed the New Town Library in Maranello, which was opened to the public in 2012; the CityLife office tower in Milan (currently under construction and due to become, with its height of 207 meters, the tallest skyscraper in Italy); and the expansion of the Bologna Centrale railway station, due to be completed by 2016. Maffei was also the project architect for the Palasport Olimpico, designed by Arata Isozaki & Associates and built for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.", "score": "1.531237" }, { "id": "10155858", "title": "Riccardo Magi", "text": " In 2003 he graduated in Historical Sciences at the University of Rome La Sapienza, with a thesis in History of Europe. He enter politics joining the Italian Radicals. From 2009 to 2013 he is among the promoters of the proposals of popular resolutions for the municipal register of advance healthcare directive and the recognition of civil unions in Rome. In 2012 he coordinated the citizen referendum campaign on sustainable mobility, land consumption, civil rights and free access to the sea in Ostia. He was elected to the City Council of Rome in 2013, supporting the centre-left mayoral candidate Ignazio Marino, who is elected Mayor. During the activity in the City Council has asked the adoption, by Rome Capital, of the Registry of Waste, with ", "score": "1.5293784" }, { "id": "26858719", "title": "Andrea Zanoni", "text": " Andrea Zanoni (born 26 August 1965 in Treviso) is a politician from Veneto, Italy. A long-time green activist and campaigner, he was an unsuccessful candidate of the Federation of the Greens in the 2005 regional election. Having joined Italy of Values, in 2009 he was elected to the European Parliament, where he switched to the Democratic Party in 2013. In the 2015 regional election Zanoni, who had failed re-election to the EP in 2014, was elected to the Regional Council of Veneto as a Democrat. Zanoni was re-elected for a second term as regional councillor in the 2020 regional election.", "score": "1.5253037" } ]

[ "Kano" ]

[ { "id": "31220947", "title": "Shehu Shagari", "text": " Shehu Usman Shagari was born on 25 February 1925 in Shagari to a Sunni Muslim Fulani family. Shagari was founded by his great-grandfather, Ahmadu Rufa'i. He was raised in a polygamous family, and was the sixth child born into the family. His father, Aliyu Shagari, was the Magajin Shagari (magaji means village head). Prior to becoming Magajin Shagari, Aliyu was a farmer, trader and herder. However, due to traditional rites that prevented rulers from participating in business, Aliyu relinquished some of his trading interests when he became the Magaji. Aliyu died five years after Shehu's birth, and Shehu's elder brother, Bello, ", "score": "1.6816475" }, { "id": "29590516", "title": "Shagari Mohammed", "text": " Shehu Mohammed Shagari (born 29 November 1990 in Kano) is a Nigerian footballer who is currently playing in the Nigerian Premier League for Kano Pillars F.C..", "score": "1.6378449" }, { "id": "4515900", "title": "Muhammad Bala Shagari", "text": " Shagari is the eldest son of former president Shehu Shagari by his wife Hajiya Amina. He was born in the town of Shagari, Sokoto State in 1949. He attended the prestigious Barewa College, Zaria and proceeded to the Nigerian Defence Academy in 1975 where he was a member of the 18th Regular Course. In the aftermath of the December 1983 coup in Nigeria led by General Muhammadu Buhari which removed his father, he was detained briefly and was later forcefully retired from the Nigerian army without offense at the rank of Captain.", "score": "1.6167754" }, { "id": "1908584", "title": "Mohammed Maigari Dingyadi", "text": " Dingyadi was born in Dingyadi, Sokoto. He is a 1978 graduate of Ahmadu Bello University.", "score": "1.6160432" }, { "id": "25818359", "title": "Mujtaba A. Mohammed", "text": " Mohammed was born in Toledo, Ohio, and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was born to two immigrant parents from India. Mohammed is a graduate of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, earning his bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte and law degree from North Carolina Central University School of Law. His professional experience includes working as a children's rights advocate and public interest attorney. In addition to defending the rights of the underprivileged in the courtroom, and fighting to connect low-income families to the services they need every day, Mohammed serves on the Boards of Directors of non-profit and child advocacy organizations.", "score": "1.6027997" }, { "id": "31220948", "title": "Shehu Shagari", "text": " took on his father's mantle as Magajin Shagari. Shagari started his education in a Quranic school and then went to live with relatives at a nearby town, where from 1931 to 1935 he attended Yabo elementary school. In 1936–1940, he went to Sokoto for middle school, and then from 1941 to 1944 he attended Barewa College. Between 1944 and 1952, Shagari matriculated at the Teachers Training College, in Zaria, Kaduna, Nigeria. From 1953 to 1958, Shagari got a job as a visiting teacher at Sokoto Province. He was also a member of the Federal Scholarship Board from 1954 to 1958.", "score": "1.5952358" }, { "id": "29590517", "title": "Shagari Mohammed", "text": " Shehu began 2004 his career with the second team of Kano Pillars F.C. The left Midfielder was promoted to the first team in 2008.", "score": "1.5859337" }, { "id": "29132788", "title": "Mohammed Daggash", "text": " Mohammed Sanusi Daggash was born on 22 December 1960 in Kironewa, Marte Local Government Area, Borno State. He attended the Capacity School, Kaduna (1966–1973) and the King’s College, Lagos (1973–1978). He attended Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1978, obtaining an MSc in Architecture in 1984. Daggash served under the NYSC scheme (1984–1985) with the Ministry of Works and Housing in Borno State. In 1985, he became a Commonwealth Scholar, attending University College, London where he attained an M.Sc in Development Economics in 1986. He also attended a graduate program in Harvard University in 1988. Returning to Nigeria in 1986, Daggash established a Consultancy Firm (Mass Consult – ", "score": "1.5556519" }, { "id": "3093401", "title": "Danladi Mohammed", "text": " Danladi Mohammed was born to Muhammad Pantami and Amina Pantami on 29 September 1968. He began his education at Jan-Kai Primary School in Gombe State. He obtained a degree in economics at the University of Maiduguri. He obtained an MBA in finance, from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University. He also attended a course on policy analysis and policy implementation in 2011 at Global Training Consultation London, an executive leadership management in the year 2014 at Howard, Washington, D.C., US, and a course on budgeting financing for gender equity at the Bowie State University in 2014.", "score": "1.5494357" }, { "id": "13629559", "title": "Mohammed Nabi Yusufi", "text": " Mohammed Nabi Yusufi was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan on 10 March 1923. Mohammed Nabi Yusufi was born to an ethnic Pashtun and Akhounzada Khail family. Yusufi had a burgeoning export business in Afghanistan; he had homes both in the capital Kabul and his home town of Kandahar. Yusufi fled Afghanistan with his family shortly after the Russians invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Mohammed Nabi Yusufi held a post in King Zahir Shah's government as an emir and due to his successful business and worldly knowledge he was elected as the president of the Kandahar chamber of commerce, as well the mayor of Zabol. He traveled extensively throughout the world due to his business and brought new ideas and teachings back to Afghanistan. He spoke five languages that included Pashto, Dari, Arabic, Urdu, and English. He lectured at hundreds of meetings, gatherings, and sermons. Yusufi was instrumental in the preservation of the Afghan culture and Islam for Afghans that were resettling in New York. This made life easier for the many Afghan immigrants that were adjusting to the new country they now called home, the United States.", "score": "1.5357947" }, { "id": "33164728", "title": "Shai Abuhatsira", "text": " Abuhatsira, the son of Eliyhau and Nelly, was born and raised in Kiryat Ata and is of Jewish Moroccan descent. He is a distant relative of the famous Sephardic Jewish rabbi, Baba Sali. Abuhatsira is the fourth son in his family and he has three sisters. He graduated from high school at age 18 and shortly after his mandatory military service, he attended the University of Haifa.", "score": "1.5290139" }, { "id": "1949125", "title": "Mohammed Al Shanfari", "text": " He was born on 26 December 1949, in Salalah, Dhofar, Oman. where he and his two brothers Ahmed and Abdullah were raised. His mother, who died while he was young, was Saida Bint Abdulazis Al Ruwas and his father was Sheikh Said Bin Asalm Mohammed Al Shanfari. His earliest education was from tutors at home. At age 10 he went to the Al Saidiya School in Salalah. At age 12 he left Oman and went to an English-curriculum Oil-company school in Abu Dhabi from which he graduated. He held a master's degree in Theatrical Directing which he obtained from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1974; a Higher Diploma in Theatre Studies which he obtained from Cardiff University, United Kingdom, in 1978; and a Television Sciences Higher Diploma which he obtained from Syracuse University, New York, United States, in 1980.", "score": "1.5275323" }, { "id": "14234247", "title": "Mohammed Khadda", "text": " Born in Mostaganem, Mohammed Khadda was the eldest of five children, two of whom died while infants. His father, Bendehiba Khadda, was born in 1912 in the town of Mina and moved to Mostaganem at a very young age. He was born blind, yet held various occupations such as a bricklayer and a dock worker. Khadda’s mother, Nebi El Ghali was born in 1911 in Zemora, Algeria, a city near Tiaret. When she was a little girl, her parents were murdered by a settler tribe near where she lived. She, like Mohammed’s father, was also blind, but managed to adjust. Benedehiba and Nebi met in Mostaganem and were ", "score": "1.5208343" }, { "id": "7835045", "title": "Hind Rostom", "text": " Hind Hussain Mohammed was born in the neighborhood of Moharram Bek, Alexandria, Egypt on November 12, 1929. She was born to a Middle class family, to an Egyptian mother and an Egyptian Alexandrian father of a distant Turkish roots, She started her career at the age of 16 with the film Azhaar wa Ashwak (Flowers and Thorns). Her first true success was in 1955 when the famous director Hassan Al Imam offered her a role in Banat el Lail (Women of the Night). Her famous films include Ibn Hamidu in 1957, Youssef Chahine's Cairo Station (The Iron Gate / Bab El Hadid) with Farid ", "score": "1.5198498" }, { "id": "13590186", "title": "Jawar Mohammed", "text": " Jawar Mohammed was born on 12 May 1986 in the Dhumuga, Arsi Province bordering Hararghe. His father was Arsi Oromo, of Muslim faith, while his mother was Tulama Oromo, an Orthodox Christian; the inter-religious union was novel but gained acceptance within the community. Jawar began his formal education at a Catholic school in Asella. He attended secondary school in Adama until 2003, when he was awarded a scholarship to study at the United World College of South East Asia in Singapore, from which he graduated in 2005. He described his experience at the UWC as awakening his consciousness to his own Oromo identity. He graduated from Stanford University in 2009 with a degree in political science, and acquired a Master's in human rights from Columbia University, in 2012.", "score": "1.517053" }, { "id": "9353079", "title": "Mushtari Shafi", "text": " Shafi was born on 15 January 1938 in West Bengal of the then British India. Her ancestral home is in Faridpur District. Her father's workplace was in Kolkata during the time of her birth.", "score": "1.5164614" }, { "id": "1312790", "title": "Barmani Choge", "text": " Hajiya Sa'adatu Ahmad was born in 1945 in the village of Gwaigwayi, in Katsina State in northern Nigeria. Born into a household of Islamic scholars, she received Islamic education from her father. She also took part in dandali, open-air playing and singing with other children. At the age of fifteen she married Alhaji Aliya, a local young businessman, with whom she would have twelve children. Her husband had himself sung and played the garaya lute with his father, and encouraged her singing. In 1973 she started performing at marriage and naming ceremonies. She gained \"a reputation as a boisterous and uninhibited performer who 'said it like it was', since she addressed issues intimate to women, about life, wealth, husbands and survival.\" Alhaji Aliyu died in 1991. Hajiya Sa’adatu remarried in 1995 to Alhaji Bello Kansila, but the marriage only lasted a year. For the rest of her life she concentrated on her performance and looking after her children. Her last public performance was in Kaduna on 15 December 2012. She fell ill soon after, and died, aged 68, in Funtuwa on 2 March 2013.", "score": "1.515534" }, { "id": "26886641", "title": "Ahmed Adaweyah", "text": " Adaweyah was born in 1945 in Minya Governorate, Egypt, to a livestock dealer, and he lived with 14 siblings, He later moved to Cairo and started his career as a cafe waiter, while he also performed songs in Cairo in 1969, full of working class slang and double entendres. His recordings outsold many others and were circulated via audiocassette in the streets. Among them, \"Salamit Ummih Hassan\" referred to Egypt (as Umm Hassan) and its defeat in 1967; \"Zahma ya Dunia, Zahma\" lamented the crowded and hectic conditions in Cairo, \"Ya Bint el-Sultan\" became a favorite song performed for dancers. Like many Sha'abi singers, Adaweyah was capable of delivering a strong mawal (vocal improvisation). Despite the disapproval of the music establishment and the exclusion of his songs ", "score": "1.5102925" }, { "id": "6143392", "title": "Shattari", "text": " Shah & Sufi Shafi Ali Shah). The stones & the skilled labours were called in from Agra & Jaipur. This work went on for 6 months with the approval from ASI officer Mr. Dixit. Sufi Mohammed Saeed Ali Shah was Born on 5 May 1942 in Bombay, he is the son of Mohammed Shah Husaini Kadri Shattari. (A renowned Shattari Saint – discussed in above passages). He graduated in science (B. Sc) from Jai Hind College in 1965 with distinction. He was extremely hard working since childhood. His hard work and honesty rewarded him with extremely successful career. He got ", "score": "1.5023441" }, { "id": "7320556", "title": "Mohammed Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani", "text": " Rabbani was born in Saudi Arabia to a Pakistani family who migrated to Karachi from India during the partition in 1947. He learned to speak Arabic while growing up in Saudi Arabia. Rabbani eventually moved back to Karachi where he worked as a taxi driver during the 1990s. Due to his fluency in Arabic, his clientele included Arabs visiting the city, and he became a referred driver and guide for them. He married in 2001 and had a son, whom he has never seen and only came to learn of during custody, when his son was six years old. Rabbani has written that he was handed over to American authorities because his crime was that he \"spoke Arabic\" and that he was accused of being one of them. He has also written on the torture he has endured during captivity in Afghanistan and Guantanamo.", "score": "1.5021503" } ]

[ "Montreal", "Montréal", "City of Montreal", "Montreal, Quebec", "Ville de Montréal", "Ville de Montreal" ]

[ { "id": "2399776", "title": "Frederick Donald MacKenzie", "text": " Frederick Donald MacKenzie, (December 18, 1882 &ndash; October 13, 1970) was a soldier, teacher and Member of Parliament in Canada. Mackenzie was born in Presqu'île, Ontario and was educated at Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute and Queen's University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts. He served during the First World War with the Queen's University Hospital Unit from 1915 to 1916 in Egypt and the Dardanelles. He was subsequently a lieutenant with the Canadian Field Artillery from 1916 to 1919. Following the war, he returned to Canada and settled in Neepawa, Manitoba, where he worked as a teacher and became a school principal. In the 1935 federal election he ran as a Liberal candidate in Neepawa and was returned to the House of Commons of Canada. He was re-elected in the 1940 federal election but defeated in the 1945 election by the Progressive Conservative leader and former Manitoba Premier John Bracken. He died in 1970 in Ottawa.", "score": "1.852143" }, { "id": "31946479", "title": "Frederick Mackenzie (Quebec politician)", "text": " He was born in 1941 at Sherbrooke Street in Montreal. He was the son of John Gordon Mackenzie (1796–1881), a wealthy dry goods merchant and native of Dingwall. Mackenzie's mother was a daughter of the Hon. Horatio Yates. Mackenzie was educated at McGill University and was called to the Lower Canada bar in 1862. Frederick Mackenzie was a captain in the militia and served during the Fenian raids. He was a lay secretary for the Church of England in Quebec and Montreal. His election in 1874 was declared void by reason of bribery by his agents; he was elected again in a by-election held in December that year. That election was also declared void and Thomas Workman was elected in a by-election held the following year. Mackenzie represented Montreal West in the House of Commons of Canada from 1874 to 1875 as a Liberal member.", "score": "1.7915298" }, { "id": "8759468", "title": "Frederick Arthur MacKenzie", "text": " Frederick Arthur MacKenzie (1869–1931, often spelled as McKenzie) was a correspondent active in the early 20th century who wrote several books on geopolitical developments in eastern Asia. He was born in Quebec, and described himself as \"Scots-Canadian\". He briefly contributed to the Pall Mall Gazette, and then for several years he worked with the Daily Mail as traveling correspondent in the Far East. Mackenzie was one of the few Western journalists to cover the Russo-Japanese War from the Japanese side, and one of the few Western correspondents that wrote about the Korean resistance against Japan during the Japanese Rule. His last book was related to religious persecution in Soviet Russia. In 2014, he was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit for National Foundation by the Korean Government.", "score": "1.7589703" }, { "id": "1091600", "title": "Frederick Mackenzie (painter)", "text": " Born in 1787 or 1788, he was the son of Thomas Mackenzie, linendraper, and a pupil of John Adey Repton the architect. He was early employed in making architectural and topographical drawings for the works of John Britton and others, and this set the direction for his career. His style was quite close to that of Auguste Pugin, with whom he worked; and they were both under the influence of John Nash. In 1804 Mackenzie began to exhibit at the Royal Academy, and contributed eleven drawings between that year and 1828. He contributed to the Society of Painters in Water-colours from 1813, becoming an associate in 1822, and a full member the following year. From 30 November 1831 till his death he was treasurer to the society. In later life Mackenzie was no longer commissioned to illustrate books. He died on the 25th April 1854, of disease of the heart and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery. His grave (no.1007) no longer has a headstone or any memorial. His remaining works were sold at Sotheby's in March 1855.", "score": "1.7484334" }, { "id": "6577684", "title": "Thomas Mackenzie", "text": " Mackenzie was born in Edinburgh in 1853. His family emigrated to New Zealand in 1858 when he was four and Mackenzie was educated at Green Island School and at the Stone School, both in Dunedin. After ending his education in his early teens he worked for several years in commercial firms before, aged 20, following his brother James into surveying. He gained employment at the Department of Lands and Survey and worked in several locations including the Hutt Valley, Rangitikei and Manawatu before finally returning to his home area in Dunedin. In 1877 he purchased a general storekeeping business in Balclutha. He managed the business well and it developed well before he sold it in 1886 for a considerable profit. ", "score": "1.7118864" }, { "id": "1091599", "title": "Frederick Mackenzie (painter)", "text": " Frederick Mackenzie (1788?–1854) was a British watercolourist and architectural draughtsman.", "score": "1.7103653" }, { "id": "31946478", "title": "Frederick Mackenzie (Quebec politician)", "text": " Frederick Mackenzie (April 10, 1841 &ndash; July 2, 1889) was a lawyer and political figure in Quebec.", "score": "1.6934392" }, { "id": "29771407", "title": "John Drew MacKenzie", "text": " John Drew MacKenzie (10 April 1861 – 22 July 1918) was a British master craftsman and instructor of the Newlyn Copper school in Cornwall, England. His style is described as arts and crafts/art nouveau. Mackenzie was born in Shanghai, China, and educated at Clifton College. He is credited with being the instigator of the Newlyn Copper industry. He arrived in Cornwall in 1888 as a painter and illustrator and in 1890 founded the Newlyn Industrial Class, instructing local people in metalwork, enamelling and embroidery. MacKenzie died in 1918 but Tom Batten and Johnny Payne Cotton restarted production at the Newlyn school in 1920. In 1908, his portrait was painted by Newlyn artist Stanhope Forbes. Entitled The Young Apprentice, Newlyn Copperworks it depicts MacKenzie giving instruction to a young Johnny Payne Cotton. This painting is now on display at Penlee House Gallery in Penzance, Cornwall. Mackenzie died in the Norfolk War Hospital in Norwich on 22 July 1918, suffering from influenza and pneumonia.", "score": "1.6931596" }, { "id": "1091604", "title": "Frederick Mackenzie (painter)", "text": "Attribution ", "score": "1.6868011" }, { "id": "7677278", "title": "Frederick Mackenzie (cricketer)", "text": " Colonel Frederick Finch Mackenzie (14 July 1849 – 17 July 1934) was an English magistrate, militia soldier and amateur cricketer. He was the commander of 5th battalion The Lancashire Fusiliers and played two first-class cricket matches for Kent County Cricket Club in 1880. Mackenzie was born at Kensington in London, the son of Frederick William Mackenzie and his wife Ella. He was educated at Wellington College, where he captained the cricket team in his final year, and at Worcester College, Oxford (matriculated 1868). Mackenzie was described as a \"gentleman\" when he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 7th battalion, Royal Lancashire Militia in 1871. By 1886 he ", "score": "1.6806867" }, { "id": "3840547", "title": "Eric Mackenzie (baseball)", "text": " Eric Hugh Mackenzie (born August 29, 1932 in Glendon, Alberta) is a Canadian retired professional baseball player. A former catcher, he played professional ball for eight seasons, but appeared in only one Major League game and had only one at bat for the Kansas City Athletics in. He batted left-handed, threw right-handed and was listed as 6 ft tall and 185 lb (13 stone, 3 pounds). Mackenzie's career extended from 1951 to 1958 and included 632 games played, all but 105 of them in the Athletics' organisation. He signed with them when the team was still based in Philadelphia, and made his debut and lone appearance with them during their inaugural season in Kansas City. On April 23, 1955, against the Chicago White Sox at Municipal Stadium, he pinch hit for A's catcher Joe Astroth in the eighth inning against pitcher Harry Dorish and grounded out to second baseman Nellie Fox. Mackenzie stayed in the game and caught the ninth inning. Chicago thrashed Kansas City, 29–6. Mackenzie then split the remainder of the season between the Class A Savannah Athletics and the Class B Lancaster Red Roses. He currently lives in Bright's Grove, Ontario, Canada.", "score": "1.671979" }, { "id": "2571670", "title": "Kenneth Mackenzie (author)", "text": " Mackenzie was born in South Perth. He grew up in Pinjarra, Western Australia, and attended Guildford Grammar School. His experiences at Guildford in part inspired his novel of 1937 The Young Desire It. His novel Dead Men Rising was about the Cowra breakout of which he had first hand experience, having been stationed there at the time of the event. He married Kate Bartlett (nee Loveday), in 1935. Their daughter Elizabeth was born in 1936, and son Hugh was born in 1938. His life in Sydney included involvement with the world of Norman Lindsay and Hugh McCrae and archival records show significant influence from them. He received a number of literary grants and awards, and left a number of works which have been since edited and published. In his later years he was separated from his wife who had moved into Sydney, while he lived in limited conditions in Kurrajong. He died by accidental drowning in Tallong Creek near Goulburn, New South Wales, aged 41. Most of his works were originally published during his lifetime, however, some material has been reprinted by Text Publishing.", "score": "1.6447935" }, { "id": "10557625", "title": "Thomas Mackenzie (illustrator)", "text": " Mackenzie was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and became an artist producing illustrations for books, and watercolours. His earliest commissioned works were for Ali Baba and Aladdin and illustrations for James Stephens's The Crock of Gold, Arthur Ransome's Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp in Rhyme, Christine Chaundler's Arthur and His Knights and James Elroy Flecker's Hassan. He failed to make a career as a painter in France and died in 1944.", "score": "1.6431408" }, { "id": "28433397", "title": "Henry Mackenzie", "text": " Henry Mackenzie FRSE (August 1745 – 14 January 1831, born and died in Edinburgh) was a Scottish lawyer, novelist and writer, sometimes seen as the Addison of the North. While remembered mostly as an author, his main income came from legal roles, which led in 1804–1831 to a lucrative post as Comptroller of Taxes for Scotland, whose possession allowing him to follow his interest in writing.", "score": "1.6420825" }, { "id": "12944733", "title": "Paul MacKenzie", "text": " He was born on 31 July 1919 the son of Major Lionel do Amaral MacKenzie and his wife Mary Isobel (née Rusk). His father was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of Peter Alexander Cameron Mackenzie, and his Brazilian wife Anita (née do Amaral). Lionel died in 1927 aged 36 from an accidental insulin overdose in treatment of his diabetes. MacKenzie was educated at Edinburgh Academy and then joined the British Army in 1938. He saw active service in the World War II as an officer in the Border Regiment serving under Lord Mountbatten in Burma at the rank of captain. After the war he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, qualifying at the age of 33, going on to be a GP at Bridge of Earn in Perthshire. He lived at Forgandenny. A keen skier from the age of ten he skied regularly at Lech am Arlberg in Austria staying with his friend, the Olympic skier Othmar Schneider. As an archer he won 27 trophies. He was also a keen golfer. He died on 16 September 2014 aged 95, and was buried with his parents in the western extension to Grange Cemetery in south Edinburgh.", "score": "1.6272264" }, { "id": "6332590", "title": "H. L. Mackenzie", "text": " Mackenzie was born in Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland on February 22, 1833. He was also christened in Inverness soon thereafter on March 13, 1833. Mackenzie was the fourteenth youngest of the seventeen children of Thomas Mackenzie and Grace Fraser. Mackenzie graduated from The University and King's College of Aberdeen, which has been merged into what is now known simply as the University of Aberdeen, with a Master of Arts (MA) degree in March 1854. He subsequently received his postgraduate theological training at New College in the University of Edinburgh, where he received his degree as a Doctor of Divinity (DD).", "score": "1.6265497" }, { "id": "9951111", "title": "Alexander Mackenzie (civil servant)", "text": " Mackenzie was born in Dumfries, Scotland, to Reverend John R. Mackenzie and Alexanderina Mackenzie, and as a child moved with his parents to Birmingham where his father worked for many years. He attended King Edward's School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Upon obtaining his BA and completion of his Indian Civil Service exans, Mackenzie joined the Bengal Civil Service and went to Calcutta in 1862.", "score": "1.6249883" }, { "id": "4521243", "title": "Kenneth N. MacKenzie", "text": " MacKenzie was born in Oban, Argyllshire on the west coast of Scotland in 1897. His father, Duncan, worked in the town's legal administration. Kenneth was the third of four sons – eldest was William (born 1893) who emigrated to be with his mother's family in New Zealand. He was killed at the age of 22 in 1915 whilst fighting with the ANZACS at Gallipoli. Second was Hamish (born 1895) who emigrated to Canada. He served the Canadian Bank of Commerce and was the bank's Chief Inspector at the Toronto head office until he died of a heart attack in 1949, aged 54. Kenneth was third and Douglas (born 1903); the youngest; was fourth. ", "score": "1.6243656" }, { "id": "13461577", "title": "Alexander Mackenzie (artist)", "text": " His Drawing, June 1963 is in the Tate collection. Two works are in the Arts Council collection. Mackenzie's art work can be seen at Bishop Suter Gallery, Nelson, New Zealand, Brasenose College, University of Oxford, Bradford City Art Gallery, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation collection, the Contemporary Art Society collection, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, the Nuffield Foundation collection, Plymouth City Art Gallery, Salford Museum & Art Gallery and York City Art Gallery.", "score": "1.6183686" }, { "id": "14870368", "title": "Clutha Mackenzie", "text": " Mackenzie was born in Balclutha in 1895. He was the youngest child of Sir Thomas Mackenzie, who was High Commissioner in London and was previously a Liberal politician (and Prime Minister in 1912). Mackenzie Jr. enlisted in the Army in World War I. He was blinded at Chunuk Bair during the Gallipoli campaign and was sent to the No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital at Walton-on-Thames to convalesce. At the hospital he was one of the patients of his sister Mary, who was a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment here. After recovering he was sent to the live with other blind soldiers in a house in Portland before attending St Dunstan's, ", "score": "1.6168823" } ]

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[ { "id": "26347838", "title": "Gyula Czimra", "text": " Gyula Czimra (3 January 1901 – 16 July 1966) was a Hungarian painter, with works in the collection of Hungarian National Gallery, the Tornyai Museum of Hódmezővásárhely, the Rákospalota Museum and the Kiscell Museum.", "score": "2.0486615" }, { "id": "32798568", "title": "György Cziffra", "text": " Cziffra was born to a poor family in Budapest in 1921. In his memoirs Cziffra describes his father as \"a cabaret artist\". His parents had lived in Paris before World War I, when they were expelled as enemy aliens. His earliest training in piano came from watching his elder sister Yolande practice. She had decided she was going to learn the piano after finding a job which allowed her to save the required amount of money for buying an upright piano. Cziffra, who was weak as a child, often watched his sister practice, and mimicked her. He learned without sheet music, instead repeating and improvising over tunes sung by his parents. Later he earned money as a child improvising on popular music at a local circus. In 1930 Cziffra began to study at the Franz Liszt Academy under the tuition of Ernő Dohnányi until 1941, when he was conscripted into the Hungarian Army. He gave numerous concerts in Hungary, Scandinavia and the Netherlands.", "score": "1.7623978" }, { "id": "3483954", "title": "Gyula Kabos", "text": " Kabos was born on 19 March 1887, in Budapest as Gyula Kann. After completing Elek Solymosi's acting school, he started acting in Szabadka (Subotica), where he worked until 1910 with a short interruption in 1906–07 when he lived in Zombor (Sombor). Szabadka granted him his first successes, his first successful forays into the world of theatre, and this is the town where he met his first great comedic partner, Gyula Gózon. Following his advice, he moved to Nagyvárad (Oradea) and lived there from 1910 to 1913. Later on, he remembered these years quite fondly. He was a well-known actor in town and had various comic adventures with his partner (which were released weekly in the town newspaper). He later moved to Budapest to play in different theatres, including the Király Színház, the Vígszínház, Pesti Kabaré, while trying, but ultimately failing to start an American-styled variety theatre in Nagyvárad (1919).", "score": "1.7162547" }, { "id": "1607410", "title": "Gyula Gózon", "text": " Gyula Gózon was born on 19 April 1885, in Érsekújvár, but grew up in Esztergom. With the mentoring of his brother, he could fulfill his dream of learning to be a singer actor at the actor school of Szidi Rákosi in Budapest. After graduating, he joins a group touring the southern part of the country, often working under harsh conditions, changing location and repertory often. During this period he has the chance to polish his prosaic capabilities, one that was omitted in Rákosi's school. After playing in Târgu Mureş and Miercurea Ciuc, he gains the attention of Miklós Erdélyi, the director of Oradea's theater, who offers him contract in 1904. He plays here for six ", "score": "1.7156298" }, { "id": "15683582", "title": "Gyula Kristó", "text": " Gyula Kristó was born in Orosháza on 11 July 1939. He studied at the József Attila University Szeged between 1957 and 1962.", "score": "1.6919506" }, { "id": "1165765", "title": "Gyula Illyés", "text": " He was born the son of János Illés (1870 – 1931) and Ida Kállay (1878 – 1931) in Tolna County. His father belonged to a rich gentry family, but his mother came from the most deprived segment of society, agricultural servants. He was their third child and spent his first nine years at his birthplace, where he finished his primary school years (1908 – 1912) and when his family moved to Simontornya, he continued his education at grammar schools there and Dombóvár (1913 – 1914) and Bonyhád (1914 – 1916). In 1926 his parents separated, and he moved to the capital with his mother. He continued senior high school at the Budapest Munkácsy Mihály street gimnazium (1916 – 1917) and at the Izabella Street Kereskedelmi school (1917 – 1921). In 1921 he graduated. From 1918 to 1919 he took part in various left-wing students and youth workers' movements, being present at an attack on Romanian forces in Szolnok during the Hungarian Republic of Councils. On 22 December 1920 his first poem was published (El ne essél, testvér) anonymously in the Social Democrat daily Népszava.", "score": "1.6786315" }, { "id": "4595556", "title": "Gyula, Hungary", "text": "Béla Bánáthy (1919–2003), social scientist and professor ; Zoltán Bay (1900–1992), physicist (born in Gyulavári, now part of Gyula) ; Imre Bródy (1891–1944), physicist ; Albrecht Dürer the Elder (1427–1502), the father of Albrecht Dürer ; Ferenc Erkel (1810–1893), composer ; Imre König (1901–1992), chess player ; László Krasznahorkai (born 1954), novelist and screenwriter ; Mihály Mező (born 1978), singer and musician ; George Pomutz (1818–1882), American diplomat and general ", "score": "1.6783447" }, { "id": "32798569", "title": "György Cziffra", "text": " Hungary was allied with the Axis during the Second World War. Cziffra had just married his wife Soleilka, who was pregnant when he entered military training. His unit was sent to the Russian front. He was captured by Russian partisans and held as a prisoner of war. After the war he earned a living playing in Budapest bars and clubs, touring with a European jazz band from 1947 to 1950 and earning recognition as a superb jazz pianist and virtuoso. After attempting to escape communist Hungary in 1950 he was again imprisoned and subject to hard labour in the period 1950–1953. In 1956 Cziffra escaped with his wife and son to Vienna, where his recital was warmly received. His successful Paris debut the following year preceded his London debut at the Royal ", "score": "1.6712475" }, { "id": "30711699", "title": "Géza von Cziffra", "text": " Cziffra was a Banat German in origin, born in 1900 in Arad in the Banat region, at that date in the Kingdom of Hungary, now in Romania. Cziffra made films from the 1930s onwards, at first in Hungary, and from 1936 in Germany as well, where however he was initially more active as a screenwriter. In 1945 in Prague, then occupied by the Germans, he made the film Leuchtende Schatten (\"Glowing Shadows\"). As adviser for the criminal police he was assigned SS-Sturmbannführer Eweler, a member of the SD and brother of the actress Ruth Eweler. After some time Cziffra banned Eweler from the ", "score": "1.6669624" }, { "id": "29736320", "title": "Tibor Czorba", "text": " Tibor Czorba (1906 in Szepesváralja &ndash; September 5, 1985 in Warsaw) was a Hungarian artist. In 1929 he completed art school in Budapest and in 1938 at PIRR in Warsaw, Poland. In 1944 he earned a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Budapest. Czorba traveled a lot through France, Belgium, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, and the former Czechoslovakia. He published many works in the field of history and literature in the form of textbooks and dictionaries. His art is found at the Gallery of Modern Art in Krakow, Poland, as well as Washington DC, New York City, and many other Hungarian galleries.", "score": "1.6642382" }, { "id": "5948", "title": "Gyula Szabó", "text": " Gyula Szabó (15 July 1930 &ndash; 4 April 2014) was a Hungarian actor. He won two Mari Jászai Prizes. He appeared in forty movies between 1953 and 2002. He is best known for appearing in movies such as Ifjú szívvel (1953), Kiskrajcár (1953), Egy pikoló világos (1955), A tizedes meg a többiek (1965) and Defekt (1977). He was the Hungarian voice of the eponymous American television character Columbo and the narrator of the Hungarian Folktales animated television series. He was born in Kunszentmárton, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. Szabó died on 4 April 2014 at the age of 83.", "score": "1.660452" }, { "id": "29980950", "title": "Gyula Tornai", "text": " Tornai was born in Görgö, Hungary (today Spišský Hrhov, Slovakia), in 1861. He received his art education at academies in Vienna, Munich and at Benczúr's Studios in Budapest where he studied under Hans Makart and Gyula Benczúr. His initial paintings were pictures of popular everyday themes such as the Good Fat, Camelian Lady. His style was heavily influenced by Makart (Makartstil or \"Makart’s style\" in German). Following his travels to Spain, Algeria and Morocco, he turned to more exotic themes and painted works depicting street life, merchants, musicians and harems. He spent 10 years in Morocco and lived in Tangiers for a year between 1890 and 1891. In 1900, he exhibited pictures in the Exposition Universelle in Paris to great acclaim, winning the bronze medal. In 1904, he sold many of his works ", "score": "1.6598371" }, { "id": "28375715", "title": "Győző Czigler", "text": " Győző Czigler (July 19, 1850 in Arad – March 28, 1905 in Budapest) was a Hungarian architect and academic.", "score": "1.6553671" }, { "id": "29273490", "title": "Gyula Kautz", "text": " Born in Győr, he started his University studies at the Royal Academy of Philosophy at Győr. After two academic years, he moved to Pest to study at the University of Pest, where he earned his doctorate in law in 1850. He then went on to study abroad for a year, visiting universities of Berlin, Heidelberg and Leipzig. He was influenced by the English classical school of Economics, and also by Wilhelm Roscher, then a professor at Leipzig, a representative of the German historian school.", "score": "1.6481934" }, { "id": "26710682", "title": "Gyula Bereznai", "text": " He was born in Sátoraljaújhely on 1 May 1921. He completed his elementary school in Tornyospálca, the secondary school in Kisvárda. His studies at the University of Debrecen were interrupted by the war (captivity). After six years in prison, he received a degree in mathematics from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. After the Nyíregyháza Vocational School and the Kölcsey Grammar School, he was admitted to the mathematics department of the Bessenyei György Teacher Training College in 1962. From 1969 to 1983 he was head of the department. For more than two decades he taught the future generation of teachers the basics of mathematical analysis, to whom he tried to ", "score": "1.6449867" }, { "id": "13982432", "title": "Gyula Kosice", "text": " Ferdinand Fallik, who later adopted the stage name Gyula Kosice as a tribute to his hometown, was born into an ethnic Hungarian family in Kosice, Czechoslovakia on April 26, 1924. He lived there with his parents and two brothers until he was 4 years, at which time his family emigrated to Argentina aboard the Royal Mail Lines (RMS) Alcanatara steamship (1928). In 1932, at the age of 8, Kosice was orphaned and he and his two brothers were taken in by an immigrant companion of his father. As a child and a young adult, Kosice was an avid reader and frequently visited popular libraries where ", "score": "1.6441331" }, { "id": "32798567", "title": "György Cziffra", "text": " György Cziffra (5 November 1921 – 15 January 1994), also known as Georges Cziffra and George Cziffra, was a Hungarian-French virtuoso pianist and composer. He is considered to be one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of the twentieth century. Among his teachers was István Thomán, who was a favourite pupil of Franz Liszt. He became a French citizen in 1968. Cziffra is known for his recordings of works of Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann, and also for his technically demanding arrangements of several orchestral works for the piano, including Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee and Johann Strauss II's The Blue Danube. Cziffra left a sizeable body of recordings. In recent years, dozens of private recordings from various sources have surfaced online, on YouTube. The non-profit short-run record label Zenith Classical is in the process of making Cziffra's private recordings available on CD.", "score": "1.639446" }, { "id": "26347788", "title": "Dezső Czigány", "text": " Dezső Czigány was born to a Jewish-Hungarian family in Budapest in 1883. As a young man, he went to Munich to study art, and also to Paris. In 1901 and 1903, he studied at the Nagybánya artists' colony in Hungary, at what is now Baia Mare, Romania.", "score": "1.6377182" }, { "id": "12513660", "title": "Gyula Szőreghy", "text": " Gyula Szőreghy (30 November 1887 – 22 December 1942) was a Hungarian film actor. Szőreghy was born in Algyo, Austria-Hungary (now, Hungary) and died in 1942 in Budapest. He was also credited as Julius von Szöreghy.", "score": "1.6320584" }, { "id": "11770428", "title": "Gyula Aggházy", "text": " Gyula Aggházy (20 March 1850 in Dombóvár &ndash; 23 May 1919 in Budapest) was a Hungarian genre painter and art teacher.", "score": "1.6317966" } ]

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[ { "id": "31381102", "title": "Catherine Tishem", "text": " Catherine Thysmans alias Tishem (died after 1577) was an erudite woman from Antwerp who educated her son, the celebrated scholar Jan Gruter, while in exile in England. She was the one woman in England under the bourgeoisie to be known as a classical scholar. The principal source for Catherine Tishem's life is a worshipful tribute to her son, Jan Gruter, written by one of his pupils, Balthasar Venator. According to Venator, Tishem was a remarkably erudite woman, fluent in Latin, Greek, French, Italian, and English and able to read Galen's original text. In 1558 in Antwerp, Tishem married a widowed and wealthy merchant and juror, Wouter Gruter (also \"Walterus\", \"de Gruytere\", etc.), ", "score": "1.66591" }, { "id": "31381103", "title": "Catherine Tishem", "text": " from Breda. They had four children, Jan being born in December 1560. Her husband co-signed the Compromise of Nobles in 1566, and to flee prosecution in the Spanish Netherlands, they moved to the Dutch Calvinist exile community of Norwich. Some biographies of Jan Gruter claim that Tishem was originally from Norwich herself, though Thijsmans/Thysmans was a regular Flemish patronymic. When their son enrolled at the new Leiden University in Holland in 1578/1579, Catherine and Wouter returned to Antwerp, but the Siege of Antwerp in 1584 made them flee again, this time to Lübeck and then Gdańsk. Wouter Gruter died in Gdańsk in 1588, and, according to Peter Fuchs, Catherine died in 1595.", "score": "1.6203809" }, { "id": "26130341", "title": "Catherine Duchemin", "text": " Catherine Duchemin (12 November 1630 – 21 September 1698) was a French flower and fruit painter. She was born in Paris as the daughter of the sculptor Jaques Duchemin and Elizabeth Hubault. She married the sculptor Girardon in 1657, and 14 April 1663 was received into the Academy as the first lady on whom this honour had been conferred. Her reception piece was a flower still-life. Her portrait was painted by Sébastien Bourdon, whose portrait she also painted. The portrait of her by Bourdon was shown at the Paris Exposition Universelle (1878), \"Les Portraits nationaux\", palais du Trocadéro. She had around 10 children which probably affected her productivity as a painter. She died in Paris.", "score": "1.4970005" }, { "id": "37170", "title": "Catherine Uhlmyer", "text": " She was born as Catherine Uhlmyer in Manhattan, New York on April 4, 1893. Her father died before she was a year old, and her mother, Veronica, married John Gallagher. On June 15, 1904 when she was 11 years old, she was one of the passengers aboard the General Slocum when it caught fire on the East River in New York City. She remembered a boy shouting \"fire\" while a brass band was playing on the deck of the ship to entertain the travelers. She recounted the images of mothers and children with their clothing on fire drowning in the rough waters of Hell Gate. Others were killed as they were drawn into the blades of the paddlewheel. The total death count was 1,021 of the 1,331 passengers who were on a Sunday school outing, and among the victims were ", "score": "1.495857" }, { "id": "26934080", "title": "Catherine S. Roskam", "text": " Catherine Scimeca was born on March 30, 1943, in Hempstead, New York and was raised as a Roman Catholic. She studied at Middlebury College in Vermont, and later commenced her career as theater actress, playing a variety of roles, mainly Shakespearian. She also worked as a municipal case worker. In 1966, she married Philip Roskam, who was also a case worker. She joined the Episcopal Church in 1974. She attended the General Theological Seminary and graduated in 1984. She was then ordained to the diaconate on June 9, 1984 and to the priesthood on December 20, 1984. Catherine worked closely with AIDS victims in New York City, before moving to San Francisco in 1989. While there, she became rector of Our Saviour in Mill Valley, California and in 1991 became priest-in-charge of Holy Innocents Church in San Francisco. None months later she became diocesan missioner for 24 congregations.", "score": "1.4951375" }, { "id": "29041731", "title": "Catherine Gaskin", "text": " Gaskin was born in Dundalk Bay, County Louth, Ireland in 1929. When she was only three months old, her parents moved to Australia, settling in Coogee, a suburb of Sydney, where she grew up. Her first novel This Other Eden, was written when she was 15 and published two years later. After her second novel, With Every Year, was published, she moved to London. Three best-sellers followed: Dust in Sunlight (1950), All Else is Folly (1951), and Daughter of the House (1952). She completed her best-known work, Sara Dane, on her 25th birthday in 1954, and it was published in 1955. It sold more than 2 million copies, was translated into a number of other languages, ", "score": "1.4863021" }, { "id": "28959419", "title": "Catherine Flon", "text": " Catherine Flon was born on an unknown date in Arcahaie in Saint-Domingue. Her parents traded in textiles from France. She became a seamstress with her own workshop, and had several apprentices. She was the god daughter of Jean-Jacques Dessalines.", "score": "1.4859424" }, { "id": "655271", "title": "Catherine Barba", "text": " Born in 1973 in Rueil-Malmaison in Île-de-France, Barba is the granddaughter of a poor family of Spanish immigrants. Her parents, however, prospered as managers: her father at Esso and her mother at Technip. She studied business at the École supérieure de commerce de Paris, graduating in 1996. In 1995, while working as an intern at Technip in the United States, she became interested in the Web. As a result, on graduating she headed OMD's newborn internet department until 1999 when she joined IFrance where she was managing director until the company was acquired by Vivendi in 2003. She then set up her own internet shopping company, CashStore, which in ", "score": "1.4760333" }, { "id": "10440232", "title": "Catherine Afeku", "text": " She was born at Axim in the Western Region. She obtained a Master of Business Administration from the Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University in Atlanta, Georgia in the year 2000.", "score": "1.4747205" }, { "id": "82169", "title": "Catherine Jacob (actress)", "text": " Born in Paris on 16 December 1956, Catherine Jacob spent part of her childhood and adolescence in Compiègne, where she was educated at primary school and then Pierre d'Ailly high school. Her father was a dental surgeon and her mother an orthodontist. She has a younger brother. After obtaining a diploma in architecture, Catherine Jacob moved to Paris. From 1978 to 1980, she studied acting at the Cours Florent, then located on Saint Louis Island. She started to act in the early 1980s as an extra in movies like Swann in Love by Volker Schlöndorff (1984), Les Nanas by Annick Lanoë ", "score": "1.4699116" }, { "id": "6645047", "title": "Catherine Hiller", "text": " Born in New York City, Hiller was raised in Paris, Greenwich Village, and Park Slope. She attended Hunter College High School and Sussex University, and graduated summa cum laude from Brooklyn College. She has a PhD. in English from Brown University. In 1969, while with her then-fiancé, film editor Stan Warnow, Hiller attended the legendary Woodstock music festival with the documentary film crew. A chapter in Just Say Yes chronicles her memories of making that epochal weekend.", "score": "1.4668169" }, { "id": "29931785", "title": "Catherine Zuber", "text": " Zuber was born in England, and came with her family to New York City when she was 9 years old. Her first choice of career was photography, but she switched to costume design because she found photography to be \"a lonely art form\". In addition, she enjoyed the collaborative nature of working in the theatre.", "score": "1.466796" }, { "id": "26086748", "title": "Emma Catherine Embury", "text": " She was born Emma Catherine Manley in New York City on February 25, 1806. She was the eldest child of Dr. James R. Manley, an eminent physician of New York, and Elizabeth Post. As a child she was precocious, and learned to read almost intuitively. Early on, she developed a talent for compositions, and her juvenile productions are remarkable for their graceful and flowing rhythm.", "score": "1.466546" }, { "id": "15803169", "title": "Catherine Clark", "text": " Clark was born in Ottawa, Ontario. When she was 18, she moved alone to Paris to attend the American University for five months, and lived in a tiny one-bedroom flat. She graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in art history. After graduating, she worked at the publicity firm Hill & Knowlton. She played a prominent role in the federal election of 2000, and was credited by her father as one of his most trusted political advisors. She has been an advocate for engaging youth in the political process. In 2001, she began a career in broadcasting, hosting a television news magazine, Unzipped, for the new Canadian digital cable network ichannel. The show was cancelled the following year due to financial constraints and questionable content at the network, but Clark continued to work for ", "score": "1.4652512" }, { "id": "12039083", "title": "Catherine Haduca", "text": " Catherine Haduca was born on 12 May 1991 in Liège, Belgium. She speaks English and French. Her father is Belgian and her mother Filipina. Catherine has French origins from her father and Spanish origins from her mother. She attended baby jazz and ballet classes when she was three and took drama classes in primary school. At the age of 13, Haduca called herself a modeling agency saying she wanted to become a model. She then walked her first runway and worked for l'Oréal. In 2014, she received a scholarship and moved to London, United Kingdom to study musical theater. In 2016, she graduated in acting for film and television from the IAFT academy. Her hobbies are modeling, acting, dancing, singing and traveling. On December 2018, Catherine was granted an O-1 extraordinary ability artist visa by the USCIS. She is now based in New York City.", "score": "1.4616699" }, { "id": "14169446", "title": "Catherine Frot", "text": " Frot was born in Paris, France, the daughter of an engineer and a mathematics teacher. Her younger sister, Dominique, is also an actress. Catherine demonstrated comic talent at an early age, and enrolled in the Versailles conservatory when she was 14, and was still in school. In 1974, she began her education at the Rue Blanche school, and afterwards took up full-time studies at the conservatory.", "score": "1.4613343" }, { "id": "29038841", "title": "Catherine Troeh", "text": " Troeh was born in Ilwaco, Pacific County, Washington, 24 minutes after her identical twin sister, Charlotte. Both sisters went on to attend school at St. Vincent's Hospital in Portland, Oregon, sometime around the year 1933. Catherine Troeh later enrolled at the University of Washington and received a bachelor's degree in public health. Troeh worked as a nurse for several Seattle area hospitals and for the Seattle Health Department. She also opened and owned an antique store in Burien, Washington.", "score": "1.4574034" }, { "id": "32168958", "title": "Catherine Belkhodja", "text": " On 15 April 1955, Belkhodja was born in Paris, France, to an Algerian father and a French mother. She lived and studied in Algiers where she wrote her first short stories. She went on studying theatre, music and fine arts, took her first steps in the cinema and left for Paris to read architecture, philosophy, town planning and ethnology of the Maghreb. She graduated in philosophy and began earning her living as a teacher, then reading architecture, specialising in bioclimatics and working in the town planning department of the Paris Prefecture. She later took aesthetics with Olivier Revault d'Allones at the Sorbonne University, prior to leaving for Belgium to further her studies in solar architecture, then for Egypt to work with Hassan Fathy on earth architecture.", "score": "1.4518545" }, { "id": "30963053", "title": "Catherine Pelonero", "text": " Catherine Pelonero was born on November 7, 1967 in Alexandria, Virginia, the oldest child of Salvatore J. Pelonero and Trieva (née Peay) Pelonero. Her parents soon after moved to her father's hometown of Buffalo, New York where her father became a police officer. Pelonero grew up in Buffalo and the surrounding Western New York area. Her nonfiction articles and books often deal with crimes that occurred in Buffalo and New York City.", "score": "1.4425428" }, { "id": "8671532", "title": "Catherine Livingston Hamersley", "text": " Catherine Livingston Hamersley (8 May 1891 – 23 November 1977) was a New York City, Newport, and Palm Beach society figure, and the first American woman to visit the Najd city of Riyadh, capital of the new state of Saudi Arabia, in 1939. Her other travels included early 20th century visits to Timbuktu, Mali, and she witnessed the 1937 volcano at Rabaul, New Guinea. In 1939 she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.", "score": "1.4414165" } ]

[ "Prague", "Praha", "Hlavní město Praha", "City of Prague" ]

[ { "id": "10387118", "title": "Jiří Vyčichlo", "text": " Jiří Vyčichlo (born 17 May 1946) is a retired Czechoslovak triple jumper. He was born in Prague and represented the club Dukla Praha. He finished seventh at the 1974 European Championships, ninth at the 1975 European Indoor Championships, and ninth at the 1976 Olympic Games. He became Czechoslovak champion in 1968, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977 and 1978; and Czechoslovak indoor champion in 1974, 1975 and 1978. His personal best jump was 16.87 metres, achieved in May 1976 in Prague.", "score": "1.8800333" }, { "id": "7703717", "title": "Jaro Křivohlavý", "text": " Křivohlavý was born on 19 March 1925 in Třebenice (Czechoslovakia). When he was 17, he was imprisoned by Nazis in Small Fortress in Terezín. Later, during the communist regime, he was forced to work for three years in the Prago IV mine in Kladno. He studied on the Faculty of Philosophy of the Charles University, majoring in Psychology, Philosophy and Anglicistics. In 1950 he obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy. In 1996 he was granted the title of Doctor of Science. Later, after his habilitation on the Masaryk University (Brno), the president of the Czech Republic Václav Havel awarded him with the university professor degree. In 1967–1994 he worked in the Postgradual Medical Institute in Prague teaching medical doctors in their preparation for specializing in medicine, and working in the hospitals especially with cancer patients, ", "score": "1.7278208" }, { "id": "4588311", "title": "Ivan Martin Jirous", "text": " Jirous was born in Humpolec in Vysočina. His mother was a teacher, and his father worked in tax. He completed his secondary education at Dr. A Hrdlička's Secondary Comprehensive and Primary School in Humpolec (now known as Dr A Hrdlička's Gymnasium). Initially, Jirous wanted to study at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), but his cousin Jiří Padrta, editor of the journal Výtvarná práce, steered him towards art history. In 1962, Jirous sat the entrance exam to study history of art at the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University in Prague. A condition of entry for students at the time was the completion of a year in industry before beginning their studies; in Jirous' case, he had to work as a construction worker and stoker. Jirous studied between 1963 and 1968. The topic of his diploma thesis was visual poetry in the works of the poets Jiří Kolář and Henri Michaux. His sister Zara, who was two years older than him and married to the photographer Jan Ságl, also pursued fine art.", "score": "1.7219934" }, { "id": "31332899", "title": "Vysoké Mýto", "text": "Bedřich Bridel (1619–1680), writer, poet and missionary ; Dismas Hataš (1724–1777), violinist and composer ; Alois Vojtěch Šembera (1807–1882), linguist and historian of literature ; Josef Jireček (1825–1888), scholar ; Hermenegild Jireček (1827–1909), jurisconsult ; Hermann Škorpil (1858–1923), Czech-Bulgarian archaeologist and museum worker ; Karel Škorpil (1859–1944), Czech-Bulgarian archaeologist and museum worker ; František Ventura (1894–1969), equestrian, Olympic winner ; Maria Tauberová (1911–2003), opera singer ; Ladislav Trpkoš (1915–2004), basketball player ; Zdeněk Mlynář (1930–1997), politologist and politician ; Marie Málková (born 1941), actress ; Josef Krečmer (born 1958), violoncellist ; Luboš Kubík (born 1964), football player and coach ; Martin Dejdar (born 1965), actor, writer and producer ; Jan Jiraský (born 1973), pianist and pedagogue ", "score": "1.6731502" }, { "id": "7825968", "title": "Jiri Lev", "text": " Lev was born in the Czech Republic, then part of Czechoslovakia, to parents Jiri Loew, architect, academic and politician and Lydie Loewova, architect. He was educated at a grammar school in Brno, Moravia. He first established his multidisciplinary design practice in Prague in 1998. In 2005 he moved to Sydney, Australia.", "score": "1.6717721" }, { "id": "9080138", "title": "Werner Vycichl", "text": " Werner Vycichl (Prague, Bohemia, 20 January 1909 – Geneva, Switzerland, 23 September 1999) was an Austro-Hungarian philologist, linguist, and scholar in Berberology, Coptology, and Egyptology, as well as in the areas of Ancient Egyptian, Berber, and Hamito-Semitic (Afroasiatic) comparative linguistics. Born in Prague, Bohemia (in the present-day Czech Republic), he began his studies in 1928 with the Institute for Egyptology and Africanistic at the University of Vienna, completing his dissertation on a Hausa Dialect in 1932. From 1934 to 1938 he carried out fieldwork in Zeniya, Egypt where he studied and recorded the pronunciation of Coptic by Copts in the area near Luxor, later collaborating with William Worrel in the production of \"Popular Traditions of the Coptic Language\" in 1934. From 1948, he resided in Paris. In ", "score": "1.6483102" }, { "id": "11968500", "title": "Josef Jireček", "text": " Josef Jireček (9 October 1825, in Vysoké Mýto – 25 November 1888, in Prague) was a Czech scholar. He was born in Vysoké Mýto (then part of the Austrian Empire). He entered the Prague bureau of education in 1850, and became minister of the department in the Hohenwart cabinet in 1871. His efforts to secure equal educational privileges for the Slav nationalities in the Austrian dominions brought him into disfavour with the German element. He became a member of the Bohemian Landtag in 1878, and of the Austrian Reichsrat in 1879. His merits as a scholar were recognized in 1875 by his ", "score": "1.6472931" }, { "id": "12045501", "title": "Michal Tučný", "text": " Michal Tučný was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1947. He played piano as a child. In 1965, he passed the maturita exam at a business school. By profession, he was a qualified shopkeeper (which he mentions in several of his songs). His whole life he was a devote fan of SK Slavia Prague. He began his musical career at the age of 14 in Dixieland. In 1967, he participated in the first festival of the Czech Country Music. He played with many different bands, including \"Rangers\". In 1969, he became a soloist of the group \"Greenhorns\". In 1974, he joined the group \"Fešáci\", and in 1980, he created his own band \"Tučňáci\" (engl. Penguins, but relating to his surname). The cause of his death was liver cancer. He is buried in Hoštice in the South Bohemian Region; the town square there bears his name. His grave is marked by a stone in the shape of a cowboy hat.", "score": "1.6445872" }, { "id": "31035669", "title": "Vlastiboř (Jablonec nad Nisou District)", "text": "Jiří Malec (born 1962), ski jumper, Olympic medalist ", "score": "1.6417167" }, { "id": "4368629", "title": "Hradec Králové", "text": "Jan Šindel (1370s–c.1456), scientist and professor ; Bohuslav Balbín (1621–1688), writer, historian and geographer ; Václav Kliment Klicpera (1792–1859), dramatist, writer and poet ; Carl von Rokitansky (1804–1878), physiologist, pathologist ; Antonín Petrof (1839–1915), piano maker ; František Plesnivý (1845–1918), architect ; Viktor Mucha (1877–1933), dermatologist ; Josef Gočár (1880–1945), architect ; Josef Čapek (1887–1945), painter, writer, poet ; Otakar Vávra (1911–2011), film director ; Avigdor Dagan (1912–2006), Israeli diplomat ; Jiří Horák (1924–2003), politician, first chairman of ČSSD ; Václav Snítil (1928–2015), violinist ; Jiří Petr (1931–2014), agroscientist, Rector Emeritus, Czech University of Agriculture Prague ; Dušan Salfický (born 1972), ice hockey player ; Sonja Vectomov (born 1979), Czech-Finnish electronic musician ; Vít Jedlička (born 1983), politician and publicist ; Kateřina Siniaková (born 1996), tennis player ", "score": "1.6402955" }, { "id": "13967049", "title": "Karel Sládeček", "text": " Sládeček was born in Ostrava. In the 1980s, he lived in Prague and was an opera singer for the Vít Nejedlý Army Art Ensemble. He later returned to Ostrava, where he worked in a number of jobs including as a driving school instructor before studying for a master's degree in social work at the University of Ostrava and worked for a health insurance company. He became a member of the Party of Civic Rights (SPO), and in 2016 was elected as a regional councilor in Moravia on the joint SPO-SPD list. He later became a member of the SPD, and was elected as an MP for the party in the 2021 legislative elections, for the Moravian-Silesian Region.", "score": "1.639916" }, { "id": "27999033", "title": "Jiří Helekal", "text": " Jiri Helekal grew up in the centre of Prague, near today's Praha hlavní nádraží. He has been focused on music since he was 22, when he started to play the violin. But he was soon also fascinated by playing the cello and switched over to it. He was taught by Professor Sadl and afterwards successfully graduated from Jezek's Conservatory; he became even more interested in music. He had to postpone his artistic work due to compulsory military service. Eventually the break took longer – he worked as a furniture remover and also unloaded wood and coal.", "score": "1.6372161" }, { "id": "6447175", "title": "Vaclav Vytlacil", "text": " Vaclav \"Vyt\" Vytlacil was born in New York City to Czech immigrant parents on November 1, 1892. At an early age he moved with his parents to Chicago. In 1906, he began studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, returning to New York on a scholarship to the Art Students League in 1913. While there, he studied under portraitist John C. Johansen. Vytlacil left the League to take a teaching position at the Minneapolis School of Art. He also spent time in Europe, working as an assistant to Hans Hofmann and studying the Cubist movement. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Vytlacil taught at a variety of places, including the Art Students League of New York City, Queens College in New York, Black Mountain College ", "score": "1.63284" }, { "id": "28142117", "title": "Jiří Wolker", "text": " He was born in Prostějov, into a cultural family. He studied at the Prostějov gymnasium, and after he graduated, he moved to Prague. He studied law there, but simultaneously attended lectures of Zdeněk Nejedlý and F. X. Šalda at the Faculty of Arts. He was in close connection with the association of Czech avant-garde artists Devětsil. Wolker suffered of lung disease and died of tuberculosis at age 23.", "score": "1.6247401" }, { "id": "14029406", "title": "Jiří Vacek", "text": " Jiří Vacek was born in 1931 in Slaný (a town near Prague) on Whit Monday, a day belonging to Whitsuntide – a significant feast of the liturgical year (the feast of the Holy Spirit). His childhood was affected by the German occupation of the Czechoslovakia during the World War II, when the whole Czech nation suffered greatly under the Nazi rule. The beginnings of his interest in the spiritual life date back to as early as 1945. The very first spiritual book J. Vacek encountered, which influenced him greatly, was the Burning Bush (subtitled the Revealed Mystic Path) by Karel Weinfurter. According to this book, J. Vacek started practising mystic exercises, namely ", "score": "1.623091" }, { "id": "31945381", "title": "Jiří Šlitr", "text": " Jiří Šlitr (15 February 1924 in Zálesní Lhota near Jilemnice – 26 December 1969 in Prague) was a Czech songwriter, pianist, singer, actor and painter. Together with Jiří Suchý he significantly influenced Czech pop music and theatre in the 1960s.", "score": "1.6224782" }, { "id": "5269240", "title": "Olomouc", "text": "Evžen Rošický (1914–1942), athlete, journalist and resistance fighter ; Karel Brückner (born 1939), football coach ; Jiří Kavan (1943–2010), handball player ; Martin Kotůlek (born 1969), football player and manager ; David Prinosil (born 1973), tennis player ; Radim Kořínek (born 1973), cyclist ; Josef Karas (born 1978), decathlete and beauty pageant titleholder ; František Huf (born 1981), bodybuilder and model ; Jiří Hudler (born 1984), ice hockey player ; Karlos Vemola (born 1985), mixed martial artist, bodybuilder and Greco-Roman wrestler ; Tomáš Kalas (born 1993), footballer ; Václav Jemelka (born 1995) footballer ", "score": "1.6178403" }, { "id": "10906573", "title": "Pelhřimov", "text": "Vojtěch Benedikt Juhn (1779–1843), painter ; Václav Fresl (1868–1915), politician ; Otomar Krejča (1921–2003), theatre director and dissident ; Lubomír Lipský (1923–2015), actor ; Oldřich Lipský (1924–1986), film director and screenwriter ; Joseph Veverka (born 1941), American astronomer ; František Vyskočil (born 1941), neurophysiologist ; Jan Kůrka (born 1943), sports shooter, Olympic winner ; Jiří Novotný (born 1983), ice hockey player ; Tomáš Sivok (born 1983), footballer ; Milan Kopic (born 1985), footballer ; Martin Frk (born 1993), ice hockey player ; Libor Šulák (born 1994), ice hockey player ", "score": "1.6134591" }, { "id": "24927275", "title": "Jan Zrzavý", "text": " He was born in Vadín in Bohemia, today a part of Okrouhlice near Havlíčkův Brod in the Czech Republic. He studied privately in Prague and then attended the UMPRUM there for 2 years starting in 1907, before being expelled. He first visited France in 1907, returning to Paris and Brittany frequently until 1939, but maintaining close links to his homeland. After the war he became an associate professor at Palacký University of Olomouc from 1947 to 1950. Later he maintained private studios in Prague and Okrouhlice. He grew increasingly recognized on a national and international level in the 1950s and 1960s, and was honoured a title of a National Artist in 1965. He died in Prague on October 12, 1977.", "score": "1.6131846" }, { "id": "25688519", "title": "Václav Čtvrtek", "text": " Čtvrtek was born in Prague, however, he spent a part of his childhood in Jičín, the town which later became the setting for his stories and fairy tales. He studied at gymnasium (graduated in 1931) and continued his studies at the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague. Initially, he worked as a clerk, and only after the World War II he began contributing to the children's magazines, such as Mateřídouška and Ohníček. In 1949, he was engaged as a dramaturgist in the Czechoslovak Radio, where he participated in broadcasting for children and youth. From the late 1950s, he created scripts for cartoons produced by the Czechoslovak Television. In collaboration with illustrator Radek Pilař and voice actors Karel Höger, Vlastimil Brodský, Jiřina Bohdalová and Jiří Hrzán he created some of the most popular cycles of the television programme Večerníček. In his later years, Čtvrtek focused on writing. He wrote more than 70 books, mainly for children.", "score": "1.6124616" } ]

[ "Los Mochis", "Los Mochis" ]

[ { "id": "12594300", "title": "Jesús Hernández (footballer, born 1993)", "text": " Hernández was born in Cumaná, Sucre, and began his career in the 2015 education tournament with ACD Lara until Torneo Clausura 2017, he accumulated 5365 minutes, in 73 games with 26 goals. He plays with Deportivo Anzoátegui, Llaneros de Guanare y Aragua FC.", "score": "1.7745559" }, { "id": "10015728", "title": "Jesús Hernández (footballer, born 2004)", "text": "Notes ", "score": "1.7694702" }, { "id": "30557603", "title": "Jesús Adrián Rodríguez Samaniego", "text": " Samaniego was born in 1975 in Chihuahua, Mexico. Samaniego lived with his girlfriend and his two daughters in the Chihuahua City's Santa Rosa neighborhood.", "score": "1.6875802" }, { "id": "6012823", "title": "Jesús Hernández (footballer, born 2001)", "text": " Hernández is a product of Monagas. He got his professional debut for the club at the age of 17, on 21 October 2018, against Metropolitanos.", "score": "1.6614791" }, { "id": "10015726", "title": "Jesús Hernández (footballer, born 2004)", "text": " Jesús Hernández Moreno (born 9 January 2004) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga MX club Querétaro. He was included in The Guardian's \"Next Generation\" list for 2021.", "score": "1.6531861" }, { "id": "12594299", "title": "Jesús Hernández (footballer, born 1993)", "text": " Jesús Isaac Hernández Córdova (born 6 January 1993) is a Venezuelan footballer who currently plays for Deportes Iquique as Striker in the Primera División de Chile.", "score": "1.6237444" }, { "id": "30516730", "title": "Paul Hernandez", "text": " Hernandez was born in East Austin, the oldest of eight children of Paul Hernandez, Sr. and Maria Olivarez Hernandez. He attended Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic School, St. Edward's Prep School for Boys, and Johnston High School. In his early 20s Hernandez helped support his family by working for a ring-making company where he saw how discriminatory practices impacted workers. Hernandez experienced racism on the job, which paid low wages and lacked advancement. When the local Economy Furniture Company workers went on strike in the late 1960s, Hernandez learned from the organizers how they sought to change their workplace. Hernandez attempted to organize his coworkers at the ring-making company. Subsequently the company let him go. From these experiences Hernandez developed an attitude he called \"mentality of resistance' against forces of repression, suppression and oppression. He felt a deep compassion for how the lives of his East Austin community were negatively affected by Austin's political establishment. Hernandez had pneumonia as young man. While in the hospital recovering, a priest, brought him books to read including Rules for Radicals and \"Liberation Theology.\" Reading these expanding his political perspectives and he realized he wanted take political action and not simply react.", "score": "1.6223729" }, { "id": "10015727", "title": "Jesús Hernández (footballer, born 2004)", "text": " Hernández was part of the Mexico U-20 squad that competed at the 2021 Revelations Cup, where Mexico won the competition.", "score": "1.6192428" }, { "id": "14683864", "title": "Antonio Alarcó Hernandez", "text": " Hernandez was born and raised in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 31 August 1951. He attended University of La Laguna where he studied Medicine and Surgery and graduated with a Bachelors. He also obtained a Doctorate degree in 1980 in the same field. Later, he became a doctor in Information Sciences and a doctor in Sociology. In 1980, Hernandez was appointed professor of Pathology and Surgical Clinic at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of La Laguna. Since 1996, he has also been the professor of surgery at the same university. He is the Chief physician at Hospital Universitario de Canarias. He has authored numerous books, published in national and international magazines.", "score": "1.616775" }, { "id": "30025221", "title": "José M. Hernández", "text": " Hernández was born in French Camp, California, but calls Stockton, California, his hometown. His family is from La Piedad, Michoacán, Mexico, with indigenous Purépecha roots. In an August 25, 2009, conversation with President Felipe Calderón of Mexico, Hernández stated that as a child, he lived half the year in La Piedad and half in the United States. As a child, Hernández worked alongside his family and other farmworkers throughout the fields of California, harvesting crops and moving from one town to another. He attended many schools and didn't learn to speak English until he was 12. His first memory of space is about adjusting the television in order ", "score": "1.6142507" }, { "id": "27522651", "title": "Jesús Hernández Hernández", "text": " Jesús Hernández Hernández (born 27 October 1991) is a Mexican Paralympic swimmer. He represented Mexico at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, where he won a bronze medal in the 50 meters backstroke S4 event, and at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, where he won a gold medal in the 150 meters individual medley SM3 event. He also participated at the 2019 Parapan American Games, where he won two gold medals and two silver medals.", "score": "1.610474" }, { "id": "30439022", "title": "Jesús Hernández (cyclist)", "text": " Born in Ávila, Hernández turned professional in 2004, and has taken part in the Vuelta a España three times, but withdrew on the first two occasions during the third week. He finished 19th in the 2009 event. He is well known as being the long-term friend and domestique of Alberto Contador, accompanying Contador at each of his last four teams as a professional cyclist. During the Astana years Lance Armstrong applied to him the nickname \"Sweet baby Jesus\". He rode his first Tour de France in 2010 with being part of Contador's winning team, although that title was later stripped.", "score": "1.6074724" }, { "id": "25381694", "title": "Carlos Hernández Vázquez", "text": " Carlos Hernández Vázquez was born on August 14, 1983 at the Lying-In Hospital in Celaya, Guanajuato. As a teenager, Hernández was interested in photography, and briefly attempted a career as a reporter. His parents sent him to live in México City in the hopes that it would help his academic growth.", "score": "1.6033256" }, { "id": "8644516", "title": "Christopher J. Hernandez", "text": " Hernandez was born in Fresno, California and is Mexican American.", "score": "1.596941" }, { "id": "12772718", "title": "Joseph Marion Hernández", "text": " José Mariano Hernández or Joseph Marion Hernández (May 26, 1788 – June 8, 1857) was an American politician, plantation owner, and soldier. He was the first from the Florida Territory and the first Hispanic American to serve in the United States Congress. A member of the Whig Party, he served from September 1822 to March 1823. José Mariano Hernández was born in St. Augustine, Florida during Florida's second Spanish period. His parents were Minorcans who had originally come to the region as indentured servants in Andrew Turnbull's New Smyrna colony. Prior to the American acquisition of Florida, Hernández owned three plantations south of St. Augustine (in what was then East Florida): San Jose, Mala Compra, and Bella ", "score": "1.5937424" }, { "id": "902786", "title": "José Hernández (footballer, born 1997)", "text": "Notes ", "score": "1.5923526" }, { "id": "3073566", "title": "Luis Almarcha Hernández", "text": " Hernández was born at Orihuela, in the province of Alicante. He began his ecclesiastical studies at the local Diocesan Seminary at the age of eleven, studying humanities, philosophy, and theology, and ten years later, in 1908, he moved to Rome, where he obtained his doctorate in canon law at the Gregorian University. He was ordained a priest on July 17, 1910, and on his return to Orihuela two years later, became a canon priest at the cathedral there. He was named professor of the seminary there and Prefect of Discipline. In 1923, he was named cantor of the cathedral, and in 1924, general vicar of the diocese. ", "score": "1.5920849" }, { "id": "960318", "title": "Jesús Álvarez Amaya", "text": " Jesús Álvarez Amaya was born on November 19, 1925 in the La Merced neighborhood in Mexico City. He came from modest background, working as a baker in his youth. He studied art at the Escuela de Arte para Trabajadores (Art School for Workers) and later studied with noted artist Ramón Alva de la Canal. He later worked as an assistant to Diego Rivera for the mural done at the Insurgentes Theater, as well as the Olympic Stadium at the Ciudad Universitaria. He was a lifelong militant communist, involved in activities mostly through the Taller de Gráfica Popular, for example printing posters during the student uprising in 1968. He was a heavy reader especially valuing poetry, and that of his friend Jaime Sabines. He was also a fan of Carlos Monsiváis. He died on June 21, 2010 in Mexico City of cancer which could not be treated because of his advanced age.", "score": "1.5907402" }, { "id": "6202042", "title": "Tim Z. Hernandez", "text": " Born in Dinuba, California, Hernandez was raised in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California, where he lived in predominantly farm-worker communities in the agricultural region. His family roots are in Texas, New Mexico, and East Los Angeles. Early in his life, Hernandez's parents were migrant farmworkers, following the seasons across the southwest. It was during this time on the road that he developed an interest in travel and stories. In his adolescent years, Hernandez was immersed in acting and visual arts. As a teenager, he focused mainly on painting. He met the artist Joseph De La Cruz in 1990 and began his first apprenticeship at the age of 16. In ", "score": "1.5892524" }, { "id": "31949158", "title": "John of Jesus Hernández y Delgado", "text": " point of throwing him into a bonfire, burned as a traditional part of the festival of Saint John the Baptist, which caused the boy the loss of his left eye. He accepted this treatment with deep resignation as a trial of his faith and kept at his job, combining prayer and penance to deal with it. Hernández learned to read and in 1641 moved to the city of Puerto de la Cruz for better work. While he was making a better living, he felt drawn to follow a more religious way of life, a desire he put off, however, to support his mother. During that period, though, he first begin ", "score": "1.5858958" } ]

[ "Berlin", "Berlin, Germany", "Berlin (Germany)", "DE-BE" ]

[ { "id": "7244851", "title": "Gerd Ludwig", "text": " Gerd Ludwig (birth name Gerhard Erich Ludwig, born March 17, 1947 in Alsfeld, Hesse, Germany) is a German-American documentary photographer and photojournalist.", "score": "1.6415334" }, { "id": "16532011", "title": "Ludwig Gerhardt", "text": " Ludwig Gerhardt is the son of Dietrich Kurt Gerhardt. He attended school in Zorbau from 1944 to 1945, in Halle an der Saale from 1945 to 1946, in Erlangen from 1946 to 1948, and grammar school from 1948 to 1958 in Münster. After graduating from high school in 1958 at the Schillergymnasium, Münster, he served in the military from 1958 to 1959, where he was a first lieutenant. Gerhardt studied African studies, phonetics and ethnomusicology at the University of Hamburg from 1959 to 1967, where he obtained a doctorate in 1967.", "score": "1.6375805" }, { "id": "16273286", "title": "Ludwig Kieninger", "text": " Ludwig Kieninger was born in Passau, Bavaria, on November 19, 1925. Kieninger emigrated to Santiago, Chile in 1953. He opened up a studio there and remained very active in his art there until 1959. At that time, he emigrated to Muenster, Texas. Due to increased demand of his art and teaching skills, in 1975, he opened up a more centrally located studio in Dallas, Texas, near University Park. As he grew older, he desired a studio more closely located to his home in DeSoto, Texas. So in the late 1980s, he moved his busy shop there. He continued to teach and work steadily on his art until 2006 when he suffered a severe stroke. Ludwig Kieninger passed away Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014.", "score": "1.6111758" }, { "id": "14257490", "title": "Gerhard Charles Rump", "text": " Born in Bochum on February 24, 1947, he finished the Graf-Engelbert-Schule (Gymnasium) in 1967 and studied Art History, English Language and Literature, Philosophy, Pedagogics and Psychology at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum from 1968 to 1972; later also Anthropology at the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn. He received his PhD with a book on the British 18th Century portrait painter George Romney in 1972. He became a curator at the University of Bochum’s University Library, in 1974 he went to Bonn University as Assistant Professor for Art History. In 1983 he left the University to become a freelance journalist for the national newspapers “Die Welt” and “Rheinischer Merkur” as well as a number of regional journals like “Kölnische Rundschau” and “Bonner Rundschau”. Concurrently he worked as an asset consultant for “Deutsche Vermögensberatung”. In 1986/7 he was curator of monuments for the city of Wesel (Germany), but joined the computer printer manufacturer Mannesmann ", "score": "1.569434" }, { "id": "26296266", "title": "Gerhard Ludwig", "text": "Heinrich Böll ; Ernst von Salomon ; Gustaf Gründgens ; Werner Finck Gerhard Ludwig (1909&ndash;1994) was a German bookseller. Born into a very poor working-class family in Berlin, his mother worked in an ammunitions factory, and his father was a beer deliverer and an alcoholic. During the Third Reich he worked for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a newspaper which sheltered non-conformist writers. He was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen between 1941 and 1945, for writing a cheeky post-card about pompous Nazi references to Frederick the Great. He was liberated by the Red Army on April 22 1945, by which time he had developed severe tuberculosis. In 1946, he received a 10.000 Reichsmark credit and took over the bookshop in Cologne main station. Between 1950 and 1956, he illegally used the ", "score": "1.5676433" }, { "id": "2401916", "title": "Elmar Ludwig", "text": " Elmar Ludwig (born 1935) is a German photographer. Ludwig was born in Halle in 1935. In 1961, John Hinde recruited two German photographers, Ludwig (as head of photographic department) and Edmund Nägele, and one British, David Noble to expand his eponymous postcard business. Ludwig travelled the world for John Hinde, before establishing his own Munich studio at the end of the 1960s, focused on architecture, product and advertising photography.", "score": "1.5637743" }, { "id": "553993", "title": "Auguste Ludwig", "text": " Ludwig was born on 26 February 1834 in Gräfenthal. Throughout her career she live in Dresden, Weimar, Berlin, and Düsseldorf. She exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. Ludwig died in 1901. ", "score": "1.5492821" }, { "id": "11075008", "title": "Dieter Gerhardt", "text": " Gerhardt was born on 1 November 1935, in Berlin, Germany.", "score": "1.5459555" }, { "id": "1393539", "title": "Eduard Ludwig", "text": " Ludwig was born in Mühlhausen, in Thuringia. His father was a cabinet maker, and he served as his apprentice, then received further training at the handwork school in Blankenburg in the Harz and beginning in 1926 at the Hochschule für Werkkunst Dresden, now part of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. He enrolled in the Bauhaus in Dessau in 1928 and graduated from it in 1932. He became one of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's favourite students, and after graduating worked for him in Berlin until 1937. Until 1938 he worked for the post office; during World War II, he worked for construction battalions in Crossen an der Oder (now Krosno Odrzańskie, Poland) and then in Berlin, designing air-raid shelters. After the war, in 1946, he became professor at the newly founded architecture school at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Berlin, now Berlin University of the Arts, while maintaining his own architecture firm. Ludwig never married. He died in an accident in a bright red sports car on the AVUS, at the age of 54.", "score": "1.5444461" }, { "id": "16532010", "title": "Ludwig Gerhardt", "text": " Ludwig Gerhardt (born November 1, 1938 in Halle an der Saale) is a German linguist and Africanist. He is known for his work on various languages of Africa, particularly the Plateau languages of Nigeria.", "score": "1.535759" }, { "id": "29979087", "title": "Ludwig Blochberger", "text": " Ludwig Blochberger was born in 1982 in East Berlin. His father Lutz Blochberger (an actor and director) and his mother Gitta Blochberger (a puppeteer) studied at this time at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. In 1984, the family moved to Dresden, due to the theater engagements of the two parents. In 1990, Ludwig attended the Kreuzschule in Dresden for one year. Then in 1992 they moved to Vienna, and he stayed with the Vienna Boys' Choir until 1995. With this famous Austrian boys choir, he got to know the world early via the joint concert tours (Japan, Australia, USA). In 1995, ", "score": "1.5349101" }, { "id": "13657098", "title": "Gerhard", "text": " German football striker ; Gerhard Ludwig Müller (born 1947), German cardinal ; Gerhard Munthe (1849–1929), Norwegian painter and illustrator ; Gerhard Neumann (1917–1997), aircraft engine designer and executive ; Gerhard Noodt (1647–1725), Dutch jurist ; Gerhard Jan Palthe (1681–1767), Dutch painter and portraitist ; Gerhard Potma (1967–2006), Dutch competitive sailor ; Gerhard Präsent (born 1957), Austrian composer ; Gerhard Richter (born 1932), German expressionist painter ; Gerhard Ritter (1888–1967), German nationalist-conservative historian ; Gerhard Rohlfs (1892–1986), German linguist ; Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755–1813), German general ; Gerhard Schmidhuber (1894–1945), German general during World War II ; Gerhard Schröder (born 1944), German SDP ", "score": "1.5343466" }, { "id": "6532785", "title": "Gerhard Polt", "text": " Gerhard Polt (born 7 May 1942 in Munich ) is a German writer, filmmaker, actor and satirical cabaret artist from Bavaria. Gerhard Polt's main topics are Bavarian people, culture and politics. On stage he often plays the role of an ignorant Bavarian petty bourgeoisie. One of his trademarks is the constant switching and the combining of Bavarian, Standard German and even (pseudo-) Englisch language elements (albeit always performed with strongly Bavarian pronunciation and melody), where a lot of jokes and wordplays derive from. His performances in Munich theaters, which he started in 1976, are very popular. In 1979 he became known to a wider audience in Germany as a result of his television comedy series Fast wia im richtigen Leben (Almost like in real life). In the following years, he was writer and actor in the movies (1983), Man spricht deutsh [sic] (1987), Germanikus (2004), and writer and director of Herr Ober! (1992). He's one of the most regarded and highest decorated German cabaret artists.", "score": "1.5281479" }, { "id": "8599500", "title": "Gerhard Kretschmar", "text": " Gerhard Kretschmar was born in Pomssen, a village south-east of Leipzig. His parents were Richard Kretschmar, a farm labourer, and his wife Lina Kretschmar. Schmidt describes them as \"ardent Nazis.\" Gerhard was born blind, with either no legs or one leg, and with one arm. (The original medical records are lost, and second-hand accounts vary.) He was also subject to convulsions. Brandt later testified that the child was also \"an idiot\", although how this was determined is not stated. Richard Kretschmar took the newborn Gerhard to Dr Werner Catel, a pediatrician at the University Children's Clinic in Leipzig, and asked that his son be ", "score": "1.5279" }, { "id": "4759429", "title": "Klaus Uwe Ludwig", "text": " Ludwig was born in Göttingen. He studied first mathematics and physics in Mannheim, then Protestant church music at the Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Heidelberg. He graduated in 1966 with the A-Exam, in 1967 with the concert diploma. He also studied voice and orchestral conducting in Mannheim. He worked at the Melanchthonkirche, Mannheim) in Mannheim, the Stadtkirche, Kitzingen in Kitzingen and for the regional Stadt- und Bezirkskantorat in Regensburg. He was promoted to Kirchenmusikdirektor in 1977. From 1978 to the end of 2008 he was Kantor (director of music) at the Lutherkirche in Wiesbaden. He founded and conducted the Bachchor Wiesbaden, the Bach orchestra, the Kleine Kantorei (Little chorale) ", "score": "1.5252932" }, { "id": "1085652", "title": "Louis H. Giele", "text": " Giele was born \"Ludwig Heinrich Giele\" in Hanover and emigrated to the United States in January 1882 as a carpenter. He married Linda Holder in July 1884 in Jersey City and set up an architectural practice there.", "score": "1.5216353" }, { "id": "912202", "title": "Christa Ludwig (writer)", "text": " Born in Wolfhagen, Ludwig attended the Goethe-Gymnasium in Dortmund and majored in German studies and English at the University of Münster from 1968, then in Berlin to 1974, where she subsequently worked as a teacher. Later she moved to work at the boarding school Schule Schloss Salem, in the department housed at Hohenfels Castle in Hohenfels, Konstanz. Ludwig's first published work, a fable play entitled Die Kinder und die Tiere im Weltenreich Volumien, was originally written for her pupils; it was published in 1983 as a one-off special edition in a small number of copies. From 1989 onwards, she has worked as a freelance writer. She is known for books for young people and young adults. Her many years of experience with horses resulted in the six-volume ", "score": "1.5188445" }, { "id": "3099472", "title": "Ludwig Becker (politician)", "text": " Ludwig Becker was born and grew up in Schwäbisch Gmünd, a midsized town in the hills to the east of Stuttgart. His father was a socialist and a Goldsmith, the trade in which he, too, was apprenticed. His apprenticeship completed, he undertook a \"Journeyman year\" travelling the country while working at his chosen trade in order to gain hands-on experience from a variety of more experienced practitioners. That was when he came into contact with the rapidly evolving Labour movement. In 1907 he joined both the Metal Workers' Union (\"Deutscher Metallarbeiter-Verband\" / DMV) and the Young Socialists. In 1910, when only 18 years old, he joined the Social Democratics (\"Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands\" / SPD). A year later he relocated from Gmünd to Berlin: here he was picked out for a study course at the SPD National Party Academy where the lecturers included Rosa Luxemburg, a ", "score": "1.5167711" }, { "id": "32036591", "title": "Ludwig Hoffmann (architect)", "text": " Ludwig Hoffmann was born in Darmstadt and educated at the Kunstakademie Kassel (Kassel Academy of Art) and the Bauakademie (Academy of Architecture) in Berlin. In 1879, after passing the first state examination, Hoffmann began working for the government of Berlin as a construction foreman under Franz Heinrich Schwechten. His architectural career began in 1880 when he and Peter Dybwad, both unknowns, won the competition to design the Supreme Court building in Leipzig against 118 other entries. In 1895, the year it was completed, he returned to Berlin and that June married Marie Weisbach, a banker's daughter. In 1896, Hoffmann became Stadtbaurat&mdash;director of urban ", "score": "1.5166514" }, { "id": "15560098", "title": "Ludwig Zeller", "text": " Ludwig Zeller Ocampo (1927-2019) was a Chilean poet and surreal visual artist. He was born in 1927 in Rio Loa in northern Chile to an immigrant father who worked in mining. After gaining a reputation as an innovative avant-garde artist, he directed the Gallery of the Ministry of Education from 1952 to 1968. In 1971 he moved to Toronto, Canada with his wife, the artist Susana Wald, and three of their four children. In 1993, he and his family moved to Oaxaca, Mexico, where he lived until his death in 2019. His poetry is noted for its visual influences and use of collage. He directed several magazines throughout his career and described himself as a \"researcher of speculative and algorithmic cultures.\"", "score": "1.5165691" } ]

[ "Antwerp", "Antwerpen", "City of Antwerp", "Anvers" ]

[ { "id": "5482218", "title": "Jean Gaston Darboux", "text": " According to his birth certificate, he was born in Nîmes in France on 14 August 1842, at 1 am. However, probably due to the midnight birth, Darboux himself usually reported his own birthday as 13 August, e.g. in his filled form for Légion d'Honneur. His parents were François Darboux, businessman of mercery, and Alix Gourdoux. The father died when Gaston was 7. His mother undertook the mercery business with great courage, and insisted that her children receive good education. Gaston had a younger brother, Louis, who taught mathematics at the Lycée Nîmes for almost his entire life. He studied at the Nîmes Lycée and the Montpellier Lycée before being accepted ", "score": "1.6103804" }, { "id": "6411071", "title": "Louis-Gaston de Sonis", "text": " Louis Gaston was born August 25, 1825 in Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe), and came to France in 1832, where he studied for the military, following in his father's footsteps. At age 10, he lost his mother, and at age 19, his father. This double wound marked the beginning of his conversion. In 1848, as a young officer—the only practicing Catholic in his class—he discerned a call to become a monk of Solemes, but realized that it was in the world that he was called to serve God. At age 23, he married Anaïs, a girl of 17 years, with whom he began a family that would grow to include 12 children. He was a loving husband and father, showed great love for the Eucharist, and shone especially in ", "score": "1.5804989" }, { "id": "16196969", "title": "Joseph P. Gaston", "text": " Gaston was born in St. Clairsville, Ohio, in 1833 to parents Joseph Gaston and Nancy Fowler. He was raised in the home of his maternal grandmother, Jean Fowler. He worked on the family farm, attending school during winter sessions. When he was 16, he began teaching school and later worked in a saw mill. Gaston's grand-uncle, William Gaston, had been chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina and founder of Gaston, North Carolina. His cousin, William Gaston, served as Governor of Massachusetts.", "score": "1.550333" }, { "id": "27806197", "title": "Gaston de Saporta", "text": " (Louis Charles Joseph) Gaston de Saporta born in the Château de Montvert in Saint-Zacharie, Var, on July 28, 1823. He was a member of the Provençal nobility. His father was Adolphe Charles François Anne de Saporta (1800-1879) and his mother, Irène Boyer de Fonscolombe de La Mole (1799-1879). He grew up in the Hôtel Boyer de Fonscolombe, a listed hôtel particulier at 21 Rue Gaston de Saporta in Aix-en-Provence, where he resided all his life.", "score": "1.5485058" }, { "id": "26508510", "title": "Gaston Bouatchidzé", "text": " Gaston Bouatchidzé (გასტონ ბუაჩიძე) (born October 21, 1935) is a Georgian-French writer and translator. Bouatchidzé was born in Tbilisi, of a Georgian father and French mother who had lived in France for ten years before moving to the Soviet Union in 1934. Bouatchidzé graduated from the Lviv University, Ukrainian SSR, in 1958 and specialized in the French language and literature. He was a professor of French literature at the Tbilisi State University from 1960 to 1990, and an associate professor of comparative literary studies at the University of Nantes from 1991 to 2001. He has translated several pieces of Georgian literature into French, and vice versa. A principal subject of his research is the history of Franco-Georgian literary contacts. He was instrumental in forging sisterly ties between the cities of Nantes and Tbilisi, and in organizing the exhibition of the Georgian painter Pirosmani at the Nantes Museum of Fine Arts in 1999.", "score": "1.5433002" }, { "id": "30174045", "title": "Leconte de Lisle", "text": " Leconte de Lisle was born on the French overseas island of La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean. He spent his childhood there and later in Brittany. Among his friends in those years was the musician Charles Bénézit. His father, an army surgeon who brought Leconte up with great severity, sent him to travel in the East Indies intending to prepare him for a business career. However, after returning from this journey, the young man preferred to complete his education in Rennes, Brittany, specializing in Greek, Italian and history. In 1845 he settled definitively in Paris. He was involved in the French Revolution of 1848 which ended with the overthrow of ", "score": "1.5374192" }, { "id": "30342937", "title": "1649 in France", "text": "24 April &ndash; Gaston Jean Baptiste de Renty, aristocrat and philanthropist (born 1611) ; 30 June &ndash; Simon Vouet, painter and draftsman (born 1590) ; 30 October &ndash; Honoré d'Albert, duke (born 1581) ; Full date missing ; Jean Sirmond, poet and historiographer (born 1589) ; Christophe Justel, scholar (born 1580) ; François Véron, Jesuit controversialist (born c.1575) ", "score": "1.5359386" }, { "id": "916941", "title": "Gaston Arman de Caillavet", "text": " Gaston Arman de Caillavet was born on 13 March 1869. He was the son of Albert Arman de Caillavet and Léontine Lippmann. His maternal grandfather, Auguste Lippmann, was a banker of Jewish descent.", "score": "1.5280515" }, { "id": "31897251", "title": "Benoît de Boigne", "text": " He was born at Chambéry in Savoy on 24 March 1751, the son of a fur merchant. His paternal grandfather, born at Burneuil in Picardy, moved to Chambéry, in the Dukedom of Savoy, at the beginning of the 18th century. In 1709 the grandfather married Claudine Latoud, born in 1682. They had thirteen children, of whom only four reached the age of twenty, and opened up a fur shop on rue Tupin in Chambéry. This shop made an impression on the young Benoît Leborgne. In his Mémoires, he wrote that he was fascinated by the exotic sign outside the shop. It was brightly colored and featured wild animals including lions, elephants, panthers ", "score": "1.5245266" }, { "id": "582550", "title": "Ivan De Witte", "text": " Ivan De Witte was born in 1947 in the Moortsele. His parents were the owners of a charcuterie house. Later on, the family moved to Merelbeke. De Witte studied classical studies at the Sint-Lievenscollege in Ghent and got a certificate in business psychology at the Ghent University. Once he finished his studies, he worked a year as an assistant of the university. Since his teens, De Witte has played soccer at the amateur level.", "score": "1.523696" }, { "id": "6546181", "title": "Lionel de Moustier", "text": " Lionel Désiré-Marie-René-François, Marquis de Moustier was born in Paris on 23 August 1817, son of Clément-Édouard, Marquis de Moustier (1779-1830). His mother was Marie-Caroline de La Forest. His father was an ardent legitimist. Lionel inherited a large fortune. He married Fanny de Mérode, niece of Philippe-Félix-Balthasar-Othon Ghislain, Count of Mérode (1791-1857), whose daughter Marie-Anne married Charles Forbes René de Montalembert. Lionel de Moustiere and Fanny had two daughters, one of whom married the Marquis de Marmier. Under King Louis-Philippe he was a member of the general council of the department of Doubs. In 1848 he was a candidate for election in Franche-Comté, his native land. He was elected to represent the department of Doubs on 13 May 1849 by conservative monarchists. He sat on the right, and continued to support the administration until the coup of 2 December 1851. He was appointed to the Advisory Committee, but soon resigned.", "score": "1.5231159" }, { "id": "8590443", "title": "Pierre Adolphe Valette", "text": " Born in Saint-Étienne in eastern central France, on 13 October 1876, he trained at the Ecole Municipale de Beaux-Arts et des Arts Decoratifs in Bordeaux. Valette arrived in England for unknown reasons in 1904 and studied at the Birkbeck Institute, now part of the University of London. In 1905 he travelled to the North West of England where he designed greetings cards and calendars for a Manchester printing company. He attended evening classes at Manchester Municipal School of Art and in 1907 he was invited to join the staff as a teacher. Salford painter, L. S. Lowry became a pupil of Valette, expressed great admiration for his tutor, who taught him new techniques and showed him the potential of the urban landscape as a subject. He called him \"a real teacher ... a dedicated teacher\" and added: \"I cannot over-estimate the effect on me of ", "score": "1.5229884" }, { "id": "10975271", "title": "Étienne Pinte", "text": " Étienne Pinte (born 19 March 1939) is a French politician. He held the position Député-maire of Versailles, meaning that he was separately elected as both the Mayor of the city and as a Deputy in the National Assembly (Assemblée nationale), but decided not to run again for Mayor in the 2008 election. He represents the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party. He is a member of the Cultural Affairs Commission in the National Assembly. He is a law graduate. Born in Ixelles, Belgium, he started his political career in 1973 when Alain Peyrefitte named him as substitute Deputy for his constituency in Seine-et-Marne. Peyrefitte, being appointed a minister a few months later, handed ", "score": "1.5174264" }, { "id": "10404376", "title": "André de Witte", "text": " André De Witte was born into a farming family in the village of Scheldewindeke, in the intensively developed countryside to the south of Ghent. He was the third child of Armand and Agnes de Witte (born Agnes Delbeke, 1906-1983). He undertook his studies for the priesthood in response to the call of Pope Pius XII in the encyclical Fidei donum, attending the College for Latin America in Leuven (Louvain) where he was ordained on 6 July 1968. During the next few years he worked as an agricultural engineer in Leuven (Louvain). In 1973 he embarked on a two-year interneeship for the priesthood in Zwijndrecht. At the end of January 1976 de ", "score": "1.510833" }, { "id": "12213807", "title": "Wittouck family", "text": " 1883, married on 16 May 1833 in Leeuw-Saint-Pierre, François Xavier Rittweger, born in Brussels on 4 July 1801 and died there 24 February 1887, son of François and Anne-Catherine Sauvage. He was domiciled in Brussels, rue de la Fiancée 24. They are the ancestors of the actress Stephanie Crayencour, whose real name Stéphanie Rittweger de Moor. C) Barbara Wittouck, born in Brussels on 6 June 1796, died in Brussels on 17 June 1830, married in Brussels on 9 July 1823 (act 429), Napoleon Joseph Delcourt, born in Ath, on 12 December 1804, brewer, was wounded during the fighting of the Belgian independence of 1830, died ", "score": "1.5054905" }, { "id": "9983555", "title": "Georges Danton", "text": "François, born in May 1788, died in infancy on 24 April 1789. ; Antoine, born on 18 June 1790, died on 14 June 1858. ; François Georges, born on 2 February 1792, died on 18 June 1848. Danton was born in Arcis-sur-Aube (Champagne in northeastern France) to Jacques Danton, a respectable, but not wealthy lawyer, and Mary Camus. As a baby, he was attacked by a bull and run over by pigs, which, along with smallpox, resulted in the disfigurement and scarring of his face. He initially attended the school in Sézanne, and at the age of thirteen he left his parents' home to enter the seminary in Troyes. In 1780, he settled in Paris, where he became a clerk. In 1784, he started studying law, and in 1787 he became a member of the Conseil du Roi. He married Antoinette Gabrielle Charpentier (6 January 1760 – 10 February 1793) on 14 June 1787 at the church of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois. The couple lived in a six-room apartment in the heart of the Left Bank (near the Café Procope), and had three sons: ", "score": "1.5037978" }, { "id": "31662522", "title": "Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan", "text": " Avant le rattachement à la France, le prince-évêque de Strasbourg résidait à Saverne. Après l'incendie du château épiscopal en 1709, Gaston le fait rénover par un architecte réputé de l'époque : Robert de Cotte. Le chantier durera jusqu'en 1723 et le château sera également richement redécoré avec tapisseries, mobilier et tableaux venus de Paris. À partir de 1732 et jusqu'en 1741, il fera également construire son propre palais épiscopal à Strasbourg, entre la cathédrale et l'Ill, devenu musée de la place du Château. In 1734 he founded the congregation of Sisters of Charity of Strasbourg. --->The prince de Rohan was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions in 1701 and of the Académie française in 1703. He was made a commander of the Saint-Esprit in 1713.", "score": "1.502055" }, { "id": "30458083", "title": "Gaston La Touche", "text": " His family originally came from Normandy. He was born in Saint-Cloud. His passion for art began at a very early age and he finally persuaded his parents to give him drawing lessons, which he took for ten years from a local instructor at the rate of three Francs per month. His lessons had to be cancelled at the start of the Franco-Prussian War, when his family returned to Normandy to ensure their safety. This would be all the formal art training he ever received. Nevertheless, in 1875 he was able to make his début at the Salon with a bas-relief ", "score": "1.5001235" }, { "id": "3930945", "title": "William Gaston", "text": " Gaston was born in New Bern, North Carolina, on September 19, 1778. He was the son of Dr. Alexander Gaston and Margaret Sharpe. He entered the Catholic Georgetown Academy in Washington, D.C., at the age of thirteen, becoming its first student. Due to illness shortly thereafter, he also became its first dropout. After Georgetown and some education in North Carolina, he graduated from the College of New Jersey (today Princeton University) in 1796, where he studied law.", "score": "1.4933184" }, { "id": "27273661", "title": "Félix Barthe", "text": " Félix Barthe was born in Narbonne, Aude, on 28 July 1795. His parents were Michel Barthe (1758-1820), deputy and counsel of the five hundred, and Marie-Anne Valette (1762-1830). He was educated at Saint-Rémy college in Toulouse, then studied at the faculty of Law, and began his career in Paris. He became affiliated with the Carbonari. On 8 August 1820 he married Célestine Victoire Thomas (1801-1875). They had one daughter. Barthe soon became known by the Liberal party when he spoke at the funeral of a young man named Lallemand who was killed by a royal guard in June 1820 while shouting \"Long Live the Charter\" during a riot in the Place de la Concorde. Barthe attacked the murderer before the council of ", "score": "1.4894122" } ]

[ "Tehran", "Teheran" ]

[ { "id": "29655718", "title": "Farman Behboud", "text": " Farman Behboud (1946 - March 2010; ) was an Iranian pianist and piano teacher. He was born in Tehran and studied the piano at the Tehran Conservatory of Music under Emanuel Melik-Aslanian and Ophelia Kombadjian. Behboud gave several recitals and concerts with the NIRT Chamber Orchestra. He was also the pianist of the Persian Ballets Organization in Tehran. Behboud used to teach at the Tehran Conservatory. Since the 1979 Iranian revolution he has preferred to teach private classes. In recent years Behboud has held some recitals for his students in Tehran. Classical pianist, composer, and Ney player Rasool Akbari, renowned Canadian composer, conductor and strategist Joseph Lerner and Peyman Yazdanian were Farman Behboud's students.", "score": "2.0013828" }, { "id": "8581893", "title": "Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian", "text": " Shahroudy was born on December 18, 1922, to educated parents in the religious town of Qazvin in north-western Iran. Farmanfarmaian acquired artistic skills early on in childhood, receiving drawing lessons from a tutor and studying postcard depictions of western art. After studying at the University of Tehran at the Faculty of Fine Art in 1944, she then moved to New York City via steamboat, when World War II derailed her plans to study art in Paris. In New York, she studied at Cornell University, at Parsons The New School for Design, where she majored in fashion illustration, and at the Art Students League of New York.", "score": "1.618779" }, { "id": "1796228", "title": "Berhan Ahmed", "text": " Ahmed was born in Eritrea. He became a refugee at age 15 during the civil war and fled to Sudan. After attending high school with funding from the UNHCR, he gained a degree in Agricultural Sciences at the University of Alexandria in Egypt. At the age of 22, Ahmed sought asylum in Australia, eventually settling in Melbourne. He drove a taxi and worked as a tram conductor, while earning a master's degree in Animal Science at La Trobe University. Ahmed worked for a decade at the CSIRO, and also gained a PhD in forest sciences at the University of Melbourne. He was latterly a senior research fellow at the Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science, and retains an honorary appointment at the university.", "score": "1.6184988" }, { "id": "7005941", "title": "Akbar Behkalam", "text": " Akbar Behkalam was born in Tabriz, Iran on 16 September 1944, the capital of the Iranian province East Azerbaijan. From 1961 until 1964, he studied art at Tabriz Art School. After his military service he moved to Istanbul, where he enrolled at the Mimar Sinan University in Fine Arts and became the student of professor Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu. From 1972 until 1974, he lived in different European cities, including Paris, Frankfurt, Rome and Berlin. In 1974, he went back to Iran, to teach at the Tabriz Art School. In 1976, he left Iran for political reasons, and has since lived in Berlin. As of 1989, he had a studio in Brandenburg. In 1989, he published the book, Movement and Change Paintings and Sketches: 1977–1988. He is married to a German women, and together they have two children.", "score": "1.6056296" }, { "id": "30544956", "title": "Abdol-Hossein Farman Farma", "text": " Prince Abdol Hossein was born to Prince Nosrat Dowleh Firouz in 1857 through his wife Hajieh Homa Khanoum. According to custom, Abdol Hossein was educated at home by private tutors, studying such traditional subjects as poetry, literature, mathematics, Arabic language, and religion, along with perhaps a smattering of modern science. Since 1878, he continued his education at the Austrian Military Academy in Tehran, where he distinguished himself as a soldier and strategist. He also showed himself to be an enthusiastic builder of bridges and roads, with a very keen interest in new Western sciences and social improvements. By 1882, following his time in the academy, ", "score": "1.599334" }, { "id": "25668808", "title": "Khashayar Farmanbar", "text": " Khashayar Carl Farmanbar (born 21 September 1976 in Teheran) is a Swedish entrepreneur and politician for the Social Democratic Party. Since 30 November 2021 he is the Minister for Energy and Minister for Digital Development in Magdalena Andersson's Cabinet, replacing Anders Ygeman. Farmanbar was born in Teheran but lived in Boden after coming to Sweden at twelve years of age. He studied computer engineering and marketing at Luleå University of Technology and has worked in the IT sector. Before becoming minister, he was oppositional municipal commissioner in Nacka, where has lived since 2007.", "score": "1.5921938" }, { "id": "10729637", "title": "Ib Benoh", "text": " Born to parents of Libyan descent. Ib Benoh grew up in Damascus, Syria, where as a teen, he began his academic artistic training in sculpture and drawing, attending the Center of Fine Arts of Damascus for eight years. During that time, Benoh participated in yearly group exhibitions held by the art centers of major cities in Syria, including a 1968 group show with one of his larger than life sculptures, ‘The Farmer’, exhibited at the National Museum of Damascus. As a practicing artist, Benoh gained membership at the Damascus Artists Association of Fine Arts in 1971. By the age of twenty, Benoh was on his way to become one of the leading artists in the country, receiving a commission for a 13-meter bas-relief for the city of Damascus, which he completed in 1970. However, shortly after, Benoh left Syria, ", "score": "1.5920576" }, { "id": "7263302", "title": "Jumana Emil Abboud", "text": " Jumana Emil Abboud (جمانة إميل عبّود, born 1971) is a Palestinian artist living and working in Jerusalem. She was born in Shefa-'Amr, Galilee and came to Ontario, Canada with her parents in 1979. She studied at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. In 1991, she moved to Jerusalem where she studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, receiving a BFA and continuing there with post-graduate studies. Abboud has used drawing, video, performance, objects and text in her work which deals with memory, both personal and collective history, loss and resilience. She was a finalist for the Celeste Prize in 2013. She has had solo exhibitions in Tel Aviv, at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art and at the Forum Schlossplatz in Aarau, Switzerland. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Venice Biennale, the Istanbul Biennial. the Bahrain National Museum in Manama, the Arab World Institute in Paris, The Jerusalem Show, the Darat al Funun in Amman, at the Carré d'Art in Nîmes. at the Gallery for Contemporary Arts in Leipzig and at the Museo Fundacion Antonio Perez in Cuenca.", "score": "1.5713494" }, { "id": "12825658", "title": "Henri Farman", "text": " Henri Farman was born in Paris, France, and was baptised as Harry Edgar Mudford Farman. He was a son of Thomas Frederick Farman, the Paris correspondent of the London Standard. His father was born in 1845 at Layer Marney, Essex, England. His mother, Sophia Ann Louisa Mudford, was born in Canterbury, Kent, on 9 September 1841. She was baptised on 16 July 1844 at St Pancras Old Church in London, and was a daughter of the author William Mudford, who by the time of Sophia's baptism was living at Harrington Square. Sophia and Thomas were married at St George's Hanover Square Church London, on 31 August 1868. Henri trained as a painter at the École des Beaux Arts, but soon became interested in the new mechanical inventions that were appearing at the end of the 19th century. He was able to pursue this interest as an amateur sportsman.", "score": "1.5584387" }, { "id": "16229963", "title": "Hamed Behdad", "text": " Hamed Behdad was born on 17 November 1973 in Mashhad, Iran. He has lived his childhood and youth in Mashhad, Tehran, and Nishabur in a row. Behdad has returned to his hometown, Mashhad, again with his family when he was a high school freshman. He holds a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts Acting from Islamic Azad University of Tehran, Iran.", "score": "1.5563558" }, { "id": "25348636", "title": "Lotfi Achour", "text": " He was born in Bab Souika, an emblematic cultural area of the Medina of Tunis. Achour arrived in France at age twenty, where he attended Sorbonne University to pursue cinema and theater. He took part in the Varan workshops on documentary filmmaking.", "score": "1.5550411" }, { "id": "12032052", "title": "Mahmoud Dahoud", "text": " Dahoud was born in Amuda, a town in Syria close to the Turkish border. He was taken to Germany by his family in 1996. In an interview with the official Bundesliga website, he revealed that his footballing idol is French legend Zinedine Zidane.", "score": "1.5518907" }, { "id": "3405779", "title": "Hamza Abboud", "text": " Hamza Mustafa Abboud (حمزة مصطفى عبود; born 1 November 1984) is a Lebanese footballer who plays as a right-back for club Bourj. Abboud played for Safa between 2008 and 2013, winning two league titles, one FA Cup, and two Elite Cups, as well as finishing runner-up in the 2008 AFC Cup. In 2013 he moved to Ansar, where he won an FA Cup, before joining Nejmeh in 2017, who sent him on loan to Nabi Chit. After one season on loan, Abboud stayed another season at Nabi Chit, who changed their name to Bekaa, before moving to Bourj in 2019. Abboud also represented Lebanon internationally between 2009 and 2011, playing 10 games.", "score": "1.5453483" }, { "id": "2000981", "title": "Émile Lahoud", "text": " Emile Lahoud was born in Baabdat on 12 January 1936. However, his birthplace is given as Beirut by the Armed Forces. He is the youngest son of General and former minister Jamil Lahoud. His mother, Andrenee Bajakian, is of Armenian descent from the Armenian-populated village of Kesab in Syria. Lahoud's older brother, Nasri Lahoud, was a judge who served as the military prosecutor general. Emile Lahoud is the nephew of Salim Lahoud who served as Lebanese foreign minister from 1955 to 1957. Emile Lahoud is the great-grandson of Takouhi Kalebjian and Minas Sagerian on his maternal side who were from Adabazar, Ottoman Empire (now Adapazari, Republic of Turkey). Adabazar is located about 50 miles (80 kilometers) outside Istanbul on the Black Sea. Both Minas and Takouhi were massacred during the Armenian genocide which occurred under the rule of the Ottoman Empire ", "score": "1.5432127" }, { "id": "25646078", "title": "Layal Abboud", "text": " Layal Abboud was born into a large Muslim family on May 15, 1982 in the southern village of Kanisah in Lebanon's Tyre District. Abboud's father and mother, named Mounir and Maryam, had three brothers and six sisters between them. As a child Abboud started singing and dancing and was a fan of Egyptian pop singer Amr Diab. Her father encouraged her and bought her a violin while she was six years old. Starting at age 14 she worked as a private tutor for more than 13 students. Abboud studied English literature at the Lebanese University and translation in the Beirut Arab University, graduating with a master's degree. She went on to study music at the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of music for two years. Abboud served as an officer for the Lebanese Police Force, working security for two years in the Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport's Inspection Department.", "score": "1.53951" }, { "id": "15635861", "title": "Chaouki Chamoun", "text": " Chaouki Chamoun was born in Sarine, in the Bekaa Valley. As a school boy he worked as an art instructor to pay for the education of himself and his younger brothers, while at the same time attending art and design night schools, before finally joining the Fine Art Institute at the Lebanese University in Beirut in fall 1968, at the age of 26. He received his Diploma of Higher Studies in Painting in 1972, and received a five-year scholarship on to study art in the United States the same year. In 1975, Chaouki received his Master of Fine Arts from Syracuse University, N Y. He was a PhD fellow at New York University from 1975 to 1979. ", "score": "1.5275781" }, { "id": "13968432", "title": "Pierre Jamjian", "text": " Jamjian was born in Jal El Dib, Metn in 1951, and studied at Al-Jawdah High School, where his acting talent appeared. He drew the attention of the artist Assi Rahbani, who saw him in one of the plays of the Social League in Jal El Dib, which gathered the talents of the school theater in the region, so he summoned him to represent with his band and in front of the singer Fairuz at the Piccadilly Theater located on Hamra Street in Beirut. Jamjian continued his artistic career with Al-Rahbani and participated in the most prominent plays of that period with Ziad Al-Rahbani, such as: “Nazl Al-Surour” (1974), “An American Long Film” (1980) and “Shi Fashil” (1983).", "score": "1.5262803" }, { "id": "15558119", "title": "Ghoulem Berrah", "text": " Ghoulem Berrah was born in Aïn Beïda, Algeria on May 29, 1938. After earning his baccalaureate, Berrah started attending his medical school in France. While there he was the co-founder of the Association of North African Muslim Students, an anti-colonial civil rights association, and joined the Algerian Revolution. He received a master's degree in 1961 and PhD in Microbiology from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1963.", "score": "1.5256126" }, { "id": "25913287", "title": "Richard Millet", "text": " He was born in Viam, Corrèze in 1953. He spent part of his childhood in the neighborhood of Badaro in Beirut, Lebanon.", "score": "1.5252962" }, { "id": "3931867", "title": "Peyman Yazdanian", "text": " Peyman Yazdanian was born in 1969 in Tehran. He started learning the piano at the age of 6 and continued with his master Farman Behboud up to the advanced level. At the age of 12, he started taking harmony and composition lessons from Paulus Khofri. He has taken part in a few master classes of Austrian professor Gerhard Geretschlaeger from the Konservatorium Wien University and Professor Ernest Hozel from the Graz conservatory and he has also taken an advanced stage course in Marseille with Professor Ginette Gaubert. He has taken a few Conducting lessons with Iradj Sahbai (The conductor of Strasbourg-Schiltigheim Orchestra). He has had many concerts both as a soloist and an accompanist. Taking part in the international piano competition, Concours Musical de France(CMF) held in 2000, he won the first prize and afterwards he had a recital in the French University, École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (E.N.S.T). A year before he had won the second prize in the same competition (CMF). As a composer, he has written more than forty pieces for the piano and some of them have been performed in Paris.", "score": "1.5232912" } ]

[ "Cartago", "Cartago, Costa Rica" ]

[ { "id": "31098787", "title": "Francisco María Oreamuno Bonilla", "text": " Francisco María Oreamuno Bonilla (4 October 1801, Cartago, Costa Rica – 23 May 1856) was head of state of Costa Rica from November to December 1844.", "score": "1.7947683" }, { "id": "598473", "title": "Jorge Antonio Salas Bonilla", "text": " Salas was born in Heredia on 2 January 1953. He moved to Tibás when he was thirteen and attended Liceo Mauro Fernández (Mauro Fernández High School). He studied law at the University of Costa Rica, becoming a licentiate. Salas is married with two children.", "score": "1.6712373" }, { "id": "4611148", "title": "José María Bonilla", "text": " Bonilla's  parents were Adelaida Ruano Marroquín and José María Bonilla Carrillo. He completed his early studies in his native Jalapa. Before he turned seventeen, Bonilla received his teacher-training certificate from the Central Normal School of Professors. Immediately after, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in science and letters from the National Central Institute of men. As Bonilla continued his studies for his bachelor's degree, he was in charge of the direction of the preparatory school annexed to the Institute- making him a secondary school professor for many years. In the Public Education branch, Bonilla was also the head of Normal, Secondary, and Special Education, a professor at the National University (summer courses), and member of the Departmental Board and the Advisory Committee. On 24 October 1930, the Real Academy of Madrid awarded Bonilla his diploma in the class of Foreign Correspondence in Guatemala. Later on, the members of the Guatemalan Academy unanimously voted him in as Censor of said academy.", "score": "1.6509299" }, { "id": "16056805", "title": "José Ravest y Bonilla", "text": " José Ravest y Bonilla (August 1823 &ndash; September 18, 1900) was a Chilean lawyer, writer, and judge. Ravest y Bonilla was born in La Serena, Chile. His parents were Lt. Col. Ramón Ravest y Castillo, who served in the war of independence, and Mrs. Tadea Bonilla. He studied humanities at the Colegio Literario de la Serena and studied natural sciences under the Ignacio Domeyko. From an early age, he was among the best students at his secondary school. In 1837 he began to study teaching at the Liceo de la Serena, distinguishing himself as a remarkable Latinist. Having moved to Santiago, in 1841, he entered the Instituto Nacional, beginning the ", "score": "1.6401811" }, { "id": "9503565", "title": "Porfirio Salinas", "text": " Salinas married Maria Bonillas, a Mexican woman who worked for the Mexican National Railways, in San Antonio in 1943. They had a single child, Christina Maria Salinas, who was born in 1945. Maria Bonillas Salinas helped manage her husband's career. The Salinas home and studio was located at 2723 Buena Vista Street in San Antonio. It consists of a small stone home with a detached studio.", "score": "1.6253672" }, { "id": "16216260", "title": "Frank Bonilla", "text": " Frank Bonilla (February 3, 1925 – December 28, 2010) was an American academic of Puerto Rican descent who became a leading figure in Puerto Rican Studies. After earning his doctorate from Harvard University, where his dissertation was supervised by Talcott Parsons, he had held faculty positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and the City University of New York. He is a key figure in the establishment of the Puerto Rican Hispanic Leadership Forum and the Center for Puerto Rico Studies at the City University of New York.", "score": "1.6004988" }, { "id": "32659387", "title": "Manuel Antonio Bonilla Nava", "text": " Manuel Antonio Bonilla Nava (October 15, 1806 – 1880) was a Costa Rican politician. He was born in Cartago. His parents were Félix de Bonilla y Pacheco and Catalina de Nava López del Corral, the daughter of the Spanish Governor José Joaquín de Nava y Cabezudo. In San José, Costa Rica, May 16, 1830 he married Jesús Carrillo y Morales, the daughter of Basilio Carrillo Colina and Jacinta Morales y Saravia, the niece of Braulio Carrillo Colina, head of state from 1835 to 1837 and from 1838 to 1842. In 1841 he was elected as Deputy Chief of State and Minister General, positions he held until the fall of the government of Braulio Carrillo Colina on April 12, 1842. He was temporarily in charge of the head of the State from April 8 to 12, 1842.", "score": "1.5885214" }, { "id": "16216261", "title": "Frank Bonilla", "text": " Bonilla was born in New York City in 1925. His parents were both from Puerto Rico and had moved to the United States early in their lives. His mother emigrated to the United States in hopes of attending college, and his father had been a cigar maker and had served in the U.S. Cavalry. They were on the same boat going to the United States, and it was there where they met and began their courtship. Bonilla was raised around East Harlem, a neighborhood full of diversity of culture and race. He said that children were very often exposed to multiple languages at an early age and that they became bilingual to interact with people in their day-to-day lives. Bonilla spent his first years of high school attending a Franciscan high school in Illinois, where he showed academic and leadership skills. His favorite subjects were classical Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, and German. He was also elected President of his class. Bonilla then transferred to Morris High School (Bronx, New York).", "score": "1.5880183" }, { "id": "13749639", "title": "Luis Bonilla", "text": " Luis Bonilla was born and raised in Eagle Rock, California to parents who had immigrated to the United States from Costa Rica. He was introduced to music and jazz while attending Eagle Rock High School in Los Angeles. Bonilla was enrolled in a 'brass class' (believing it to be a metal shop class) only to find himself learning to play trombone. At Eagle Rock High School he studied under trumpeter John Rinaldo in a well established, award winning music and jazz program that had produced musicians such as Roger Ingram, Carlos Vega, and Art Velasco. During this time he was heavily influenced by the playing and recordings of legendary trombonist Carl Fontana. After graduating ", "score": "1.5847154" }, { "id": "4429697", "title": "Ibo Bonilla", "text": " Ibo Bonilla Oconitrillo (born 23 January 1951) is an architect, sculptor, mathematician and educator of Costa Rica. He has Costa Rican and Spanish nationality. He is known mainly because of the creation of Bioclimatic Buildings and his Monuments in Public Square.", "score": "1.5779326" }, { "id": "11926549", "title": "Dionisia Amaya", "text": " Amaya-Bonilla was born in La Ceiba, Honduras, in 1933. Amaya-Bonilla went to the United States in May 1964 from Honduras originally going to Fort Worth, Texas, where she worked as a housekeeper until moving to New York City. She first lived on Longfellow in the Bronx until moving to East New York. She received her American citizenship in 1977. After getting her General Equivalency Diploma, in 1979, Amaya-Bonilla received a B.A. with high honors in Education from Medgar Evers College in New York City. She also has a M.A. and Advanced Certificate in Guidance and Counseling from Brooklyn College.", "score": "1.5778432" }, { "id": "10074590", "title": "Francisco Corzas", "text": " Born in Mexico City, Francisco Corzas was the last of eight children of Enrique Corzas and Regina Chávez, who were musicians originally from Quecholac, Puebla. He grew up in the rough Tepito neighborhood and was nicknamed Pancho. His family was extremely poor and has a child Corzas dreamed of being a bullfighter or a boxer to better his lot. However, he spent time creating drawings on the bathroom wall using pieces of coal, the first indication of his artistic talent. At the age of fourteen, he enrolled in La Esmeralda, with his mother’s support, despite their still dire financial circumstances. He studied there from 1951 to 1955 under teachers such as Agustín ", "score": "1.5750058" }, { "id": "15552728", "title": "Iñaki Bonillas", "text": " Iñaki Bonillas (born 1981 in Mexico City) is an artist living and working in Mexico City. His recent work is based on the photographic archive of his grandfather J.R. Plaza and family. In 2007 he participated in a group exhibition at Claremont Museum of Art.", "score": "1.5723723" }, { "id": "4611147", "title": "José María Bonilla", "text": " José María Bonilla (1889–1957) was a Guatemalan writer, artist and pedagogue, best known for his didactical works and modifications made to the Guatemala anthem in 1934.", "score": "1.5691845" }, { "id": "4611150", "title": "José María Bonilla", "text": "La feria de Jocotenango (1944) ; Efigies Líricas (1953) ", "score": "1.5634965" }, { "id": "13344438", "title": "Juan Francisco Elso", "text": " Juan Francisco Elso (August 1956 – 1988), born Juan Francisco Elso Padilla in Havana, Cuba was a Cuban artist. He created art in a variety of media, such as drawing, painting, engraving, and sculpture, and also did installations. In 1972, he finished his studies in the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes “San Alejandro” in Havana. From 1972–1976, he studied in Escuela Nacional de Arte in Havana. He was also a teacher at 20 de Octubre School of Arts during the 1970s and 1980s.", "score": "1.5612633" }, { "id": "11344031", "title": "1842 in Mexico", "text": "September 8 &ndash; Juan José Carrillo, Mayor of Santa Monica, California was born in Santa Barbara, Alta California (died 1916) ; October 8 &ndash; Francisco del Paso y Troncoso, historian and Nahuatl scholar was born in Veracruz, Veracruz (died 1916) ", "score": "1.5586944" }, { "id": "16056806", "title": "José Ravest y Bonilla", "text": " of law in the university section. At this school he earned the appreciation of rector Francisco de Borja Solar and was appointed a professor of humanities. He received his law degree on January 20, 1849, and he returned to La Serena, where he held important public positions. Beginning in 1852, he served the town and the country in university and charity committees, in the municipal government, and in the judiciary, being a judge and prosecutor. In 1891 he was appointed by President Balmaceda as Minister of the Court of Appeals of Santiago. He distinguished himself as a writer, both in newspapers and in books, in defense of the law. He ", "score": "1.55673" }, { "id": "4429698", "title": "Ibo Bonilla", "text": " Ibo Bonilla, known as “Professor Ibo”, was born in Sarchí, a town of Alajuela recognized as the cradle of Art in Costa Rica. He has traveled all around the world, carried out different jobs, and graduated in different professions: he is an Architect, Sculptor, Mathematic, and Pedagogue of the Costa Rica University, Technician in Management and Evaluation of Quality from the Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain, and a master's degree in Businesses Administration from the European Businesses School of Spain. At this moment he counsels a Consultant Engineers Company and works for his own Architecture Company. He is the first graduated Architect in Costa Rica, 1977 (before, they did it out of Costa Rica) and the first Costa Rican Architect incorporated as an Architect in Spain.", "score": "1.5496087" }, { "id": "13537758", "title": "Francisco Dosamantes", "text": " Francisco Dosamantes was born in Mexico City on October 4, 1911. His father was Daniel Dosamantes who was a builder, interior decorator and painter. He was not registered into the civil registry until he was about twenty years old on March 6, 1939. His mother’s name is not listed on the certificate. As a child, he demonstrated a strong interest in drawing and color, influenced by his father and his uncle Juan. The Mexican Revolution occurred while he was a young child and he stated that he remembered events such as soldiers on horses charging as well as the execution of rural farm workers. ", "score": "1.542182" } ]

[ "Gothenburg", "Göteborg" ]

[ { "id": "14745010", "title": "Erik Simonson", "text": " Simonson was born in Duluth, Minnesota.", "score": "1.9036641" }, { "id": "14045137", "title": "Robert Simonson", "text": " Robert Simonson was born in Wisconsin; he has lived in Brooklyn since 1988.", "score": "1.831639" }, { "id": "30057997", "title": "Martin Simonson", "text": " Martin Simonson is a Swedish scholar, novelist, and translator, specialized in fantasy literature and science fiction. He teaches at the University of the Basque Country in Spain, and is mainly known for being the Spanish translator of some of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Simonson, who was born in Göteborg, Sweden, in 1973, holds a Ph.D. in English literature (March 2006). Before moving to Spain, he studied psychology, anthropology and creative writing at the University of Göteborg and Fridhems Folkhögskola. He is the author of various novels, among others The Wind of the Wild Lands, the first part of the saga The Faceless Keeper, which takes place in a parallel world and explores themes of identity, personal relationships, the power of nature and spirituality. He has written and edited a number of books on fantasy, science fiction, Western American literature and Gothic horror, and he has translated novels, plays, and graphic novels from English, Swedish and Norwegian into Spanish. Simonson has also published various books and articles on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.", "score": "1.7330155" }, { "id": "12684411", "title": "Martin Andreasson", "text": " Martin Andreasson (born 1 October 1970 in Malmö), is a Swedish Liberal People's Party politician, a member of the Riksdag 2002&ndash;2006. He is openly gay. He is also an active member of Swedish science fiction fandom.", "score": "1.7056215" }, { "id": "4765653", "title": "Mark Simonson", "text": " Mark Simonson (born 1955) is an American independent type designer who works in St. Paul, Minnesota.", "score": "1.6983253" }, { "id": "11412755", "title": "Per-Martin Meyerson", "text": " Dr Per-Martin Meyerson, born 21 August 1927 in Stockholm, Sweden, died 18 August 2013 in Dalhalla, Sweden, was a Swedish economist, an entrepreneur and a policy maker.", "score": "1.6883858" }, { "id": "30482154", "title": "Lee Simonson", "text": " Lee Simonson (June 26, 1888, New York City – January 23, 1967, Yonkers) was an American architect painter, stage setting designer. He acted as a stage set designer for the Washington Square Players (1915–1917). When it became the Theatre Guild in 1919, he became a stage setting staff of the theater.", "score": "1.6664704" }, { "id": "14045136", "title": "Robert Simonson", "text": " Robert Simonson (born September 11, 1964) is an American journalist and author.", "score": "1.6644068" }, { "id": "250923", "title": "Jan Simonsen", "text": " Simonsen was born in Stavanger to businesspersons Viktor Holck Simonsen (1913–90) and Martha Espevoll (1917–91). He was born and raised in the city district Våland, and later lived a few years in Eiganes. He studied social science at Rogaland University College and has a minor in history. He was editor for the publications Strandbuen, Video- og TV-guiden and the official Progress Party publication Fremskritt. He was not married. While he was christened in the Church of Norway, and as an adult remained a strong supporter of the church, he left it during the term of Gunnar Stålsett as bishop of Oslo. This was as Stålsett had been the chairman of the Centre Party in the 1970s, and got his bid for bishop supported by Centre Party MPs in 1998, with Simonsen thinking the choice to have been too politicized. When Stålsett stepped down in 2005, and was succeeded by Ole Christian Kvarme, Simonsen however rejoined the church. In 2005 Simonsen was a competitor on the television show Robinson VIP, a Scandinavian adaptation and celebrity edition of Survivor, achieving the position as runner-up. His favourite Album was Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones, and his favourite writer was Leon Uris.", "score": "1.6531004" }, { "id": "25203429", "title": "Martin Meyerson", "text": " Meyerson was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1922 and graduated from Columbia University. He then obtained his MA in city planning from Harvard University, and began working for the Philadelphia City Planning Commission. In 1948, he became an assistant professor at the University of Chicago. In 1952 Meyerson came to University of Pennsylvania as associate professor of city and regional planning (in the Graduate School of Fine Arts). In 1957 he moved to Harvard as a full professor (the \"Williams Professor\"). From 1963 to 1966 he served as dean of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley; he was the acting chancellor in 1965 during the student unrest there, and is credited with helping to defuse the tension that had built up on that campus. According to UC President Clark Kerr, Meyerson thereby ", "score": "1.6453195" }, { "id": "8507697", "title": "Roy W. Simonson", "text": " University of Maryland until relocating to Oberlin, Ohio, in 1993. Roy Simonson was born to Norwegian immigrants (Otto & Johanna Simonson) on September 7, 1908 on a farm in Agate, North Dakota 16 miles from the Canadian border. He was the second of eight children. He attended high school in Bisbee at age 11. In 1926, Simonson attended North Dakota Agricultural College in Fargo to study engineering, later switching to agriculture in 1929. He studied soils under Charles E. Kellogg and helped map the soils of McKenzie County, ND summer, 1932. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Soils and Chemistry in 1934, and then studied at the University ", "score": "1.6369882" }, { "id": "14745009", "title": "Erik Simonson", "text": " Erik Simonson (born May 26, 1968) is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he represented District 7 which includes the city of Duluth in St. Louis County in northeastern Minnesota.", "score": "1.6294314" }, { "id": "27239131", "title": "Walt Simonson", "text": " Walter Simonson was born September 2, 1946 in Knoxville, Tennessee, and lived there for two and a half years. When his father, who worked for the United States Department of Agriculture, received a promotion at work that required him to relocate to Washington, D.C., Simonson, his younger brother and his parents moved to Maryland, where Simonson's parents still lived as of 1989. Simonson first read comics as a child, through the subscriptions to Walt Disney's Comics and Stories that his brother had. By the age of ten he was an avid fan of the work of Carl Barks, Little Lulu, Little Iodine, and Alex Toth's work on The Land Unknown. He also enjoyed drawing from a very young ", "score": "1.6255894" }, { "id": "1361260", "title": "Roland Poirier Martinsson", "text": " Roland Poirier Martinsson (born in Aahus, Kristianstad County, Sweden, 15 February 1962) is an author, conservative philosopher and radio- and TV-personality from Sweden, now living in Austin, Texas. As a columnist, he writes mainly on American politics from a social and cultural point of view. He is a regular contributor to Svenska Dagbladet and Expressen, two major Swedish newspapers. He has also written for The Weekly Standard. Martinsson is married and has three children. In 1997, he left the Church of Sweden and converted to Roman Catholicism. Poirier Martinsson received his PhD in philosophy from Lund University, Sweden, in 2001 for a thesis on the justification of empirical beliefs (published in 2001 as A Two-Front Battle). His books are mainly concerned with the historic and contemporary relations between science, religion, culture and society.", "score": "1.6169996" }, { "id": "7013134", "title": "Hans Mosesson", "text": " Hans Kristoffer Mosesson (born 1 August 1944) is a Swedish actor and musician. Hans Mosesson was born in the Enskede district of Stockholm. He studied medicine at the University of Lund in the 1970s. In Lund, he met the newly founded leftist theater and musical group Nationalteatern, and Mosesson quit his studies and joined the group and moved with them to Gothenburg. He both wrote and sang the songs \"Plast's sång\" and \"Lägg av!\", among others. Mosesson has also been in many Swedish films and TV-productions. In recent years, he has become a household face in Sweden after starring in a long-running series of commercials for grocery chain ICA.", "score": "1.6023967" }, { "id": "16415810", "title": "Per-Martin Hamberg", "text": " Per-Martin Hamberg (born 14 July 1912 in Grundsunda, Sweden,– d. 11. December 1974 in Lidingö, Sweden) was a Swedish composer, scriptwriter, director, author and radio producer. Per-Martin Hamberg was born in Ångermanland, but, at age 3, came to Stugun in Jämtland County where his father worked as priest. Per-Martin finished High School at Östersund in 1932. Already during his high school years he performed at local city shows with his own melodies. Then he moved to Stockholm, where he passed the exam in Philosophy at Stockholm University in 1939. In high school at Östersund he met Karin Juel, and with her help he was able to publish a number of ", "score": "1.597547" }, { "id": "28463344", "title": "Martin Kolberg", "text": " Kolberg was born in the city of Drammen, Buskerud. He is the son of railroad worker Kjell O. J. Kolberg (1921-) and homemaker Ruth Utengen (1921-2006). After finishing primary school, Kolberg attended Oslo Technical College, but later dropped out. He since completed training as an electrician. He held a variety of jobs, including mailman, Lab assistant at a cable wire factory and also as assistant at the local shoe-factory.", "score": "1.5906576" }, { "id": "6265234", "title": "Rolf Martinsson", "text": " Rolf Martinsson (born 1 May 1956 in Glimåkra, Skåne, Sweden) is a Swedish composer. Martinsson studied composition at Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University 1981-85 under Brian Ferneyhough, Sven-David Sandström, Hans Eklund, Sven-Eric Johanson, Jan W. Morthenson and Sven-Erik Bäck. Since 1987 he has taught composition and arranging at the same academy. In 1980, he was one of the founders of FUTIM (Föreningen unga tonsättare i Malmö), Association of young composers in Malmö. In 1984 he was the producer for UNM (Ung nordisk musik), Young Scandinavian music, in Malmö and in 1986 was elected into the Association of Swedish composers. Since 2002 he has been artistic director (for new music) of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra. Rolf Martinsson has written pieces in many different genres such as orchestral music, solo concertos, choral music, chamber music and music for radio theatre. Several pieces have been commissioned by Swedish and overseas ensembles.", "score": "1.5777876" }, { "id": "14568035", "title": "Simon Flem Devold", "text": " Simon Flem Devold birthname Helge Flem Devold (17 March 1929 – 20 May 2015) born in Namsos, Norway, was a Norwegian author, journalist and jazz clarinetist. When he was three years of age he and his family moved to Ålesund, where he was raised. His change of name from Helge to Simon occurred in connection with his affiliation with Subud, a worldwide association with Indonesian Indonesian roots where «the desire for the individual is to find the person you want to be here on earth». In 2012, Devold received the Fritt Ord Honorary Award for his «groundbreaking commitment as a facilitator of children's voices, life experiences and rights» through the column «På skråss» in Aftenposten, often based on taboo themes.", "score": "1.5731983" }, { "id": "3531500", "title": "Einar Jonasson", "text": " Einar Sigurjon Jonasson (17 June 1887 – 8 July 1935) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1932 to 1935, as a member of the Manitoba Liberal Party. Jonasson was born in Mountain, North Dakota, the son of Einar Jonasson and Jonina Sigfusdottir, both Icelandic immigrants. His family moved to Canada in 1888, and he was educated at Vernon, British Columbia, and Gimli, Manitoba. He married Anna Tergersen. Jonasson served as clerk for Gimli from 1908 to 1920, as chair of the Gimli school board from 1918 to 1923 and as mayor of the Town of Gimli from 1924 to 1926. He also became the secretary-treasurer of the Rural Municipality of Gimli in 1911, and continued to hold this office into ", "score": "1.5655688" } ]

[ "Amsterdam", "Mokum", "Amsterdam, NL", "Amsterdam, Netherlands", "A'dam" ]

[ { "id": "28106245", "title": "Mimoun Ouled Radi", "text": " Mimoun Ouled Radi (born 5 June 1977) is a Dutch actor. He was born into a Moroccan family of seven in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is best known for his role as 'Rachid Boussabon' in the Hush Hush Baby series.", "score": "2.0087564" }, { "id": "8494313", "title": "Mimoun El Oujdi", "text": " Mimoun El Oujdi (ميمون الوجدي) was a Moroccan singer raï genre of music. Like other Maghrebi raï singers, he is habitually given the title \"Cheb\" (الشاب), meaning \"young\", and is usually known as Cheb Mimoun El Oujdi (الشاب ميمون الوجدي). He was born Mimoun Bakoush (ميمون بكوش) in Oujda in 1950; Oujda is approximately fifteen kilometres from the Algerian border. Mimoun El Oujdi released 18 albums between 1982 and 2012, including Barmān (1985), Alamāne (1995) and Soulouh (2008). He died in November 2018.", "score": "1.8224678" }, { "id": "6884521", "title": "Mimoun Oaïssa", "text": " He was born in Beni Said, Nador Province, Morocco and graduated from Amsterdam Theatre School in 1999 and followed acting lessons abroad. He was a stage actor from 1998 till 2001 and then quit to start acting on screen. His major films include Hush Hush Baby and Schnitzel Paradise. For his role in the latter he won the 2005 Golden Calf Award for Best Supporting Actor.", "score": "1.8073124" }, { "id": "28794870", "title": "M'hamed Issiakhem", "text": " M'hamed Issiakhem born on the 17th of June 1928 in Taboudoucht, a small village near Azeffoun, around 43 kilometers from Tizi Ouzou (Algeria). In 1931 his family moved to Relizane where he spent most of his childhood. In 1943 he handled a stolen grenade, from a French military camp, which exploded. Two sisters and a nephew of his died. Hospitalized for two years, he lost his left arm. Between 1947 and 1951 he was in the Student Society of Fine Arts at the School of Fine Arts of Algiers and followed the courses of miniaturiste Omar Racim. Between 1953 and 1958 he attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de ", "score": "1.7636564" }, { "id": "28106247", "title": "Mimoun Ouled Radi", "text": " Mimoun got married in May 2017and he has a daughter named Sofia.", "score": "1.751112" }, { "id": "14560021", "title": "Hassan Aourid", "text": "Wistful Conversation (2015) ; Morisco (published in French in 2011 and Arabic in 2017) ; Biography of a Donkey (2014) ; Sintra (2017) ; Cordoba Spring (2017) ; Mutanabbi's Rabat (2018) Hassan Aourid (born 1962) is a Moroccan writer. He was born in Errachidia. He has a PhD in political science and lectures at the Mohammed V University. He has published widely in both Arabic and French. He has written half a dozen novels: Mutanabbi’s Rabat was nominated for the Arabic Booker Prize.", "score": "1.7342223" }, { "id": "5705758", "title": "Akbar Radi", "text": " Radi was born to a middle-class family and was raised in the city of Rasht, where he lived the first eleven years of his life until his father, the owner of a confectionary factory, went bankrupt. Consequently, the family moved to Tehran in 1948, where he attended Lycée Razi (see FRANCE xv. FRENCH SCHOOLS IN PERSIA) in 1951, graduating in 1959. After completing a yearlong course in teachers’ training, he was employed by the Ministry of Education in 1962. He received his bachelor's degree from the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Tehran’s Faculty of Letters and Humanities ", "score": "1.7309959" }, { "id": "10046561", "title": "Rachid Ramda", "text": " Rachid Ramda was born in El Ogla on 29 September 1969, in the East of Algeria. He is from a Berber Chaouia family, although Arabic is his native language. All the members of his family are well educated: one of his brothers is an architect-engineer, another a computer scientist. Ramda studied architecture at the Institut Polytechnique. He became a supporter of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) when it was founded in 1988; his literature teacher was a co-founder of the FIS. According to his own statements, he left Algeria in 1989 for Pakistan, thus before the cancellation of the elections which set ", "score": "1.7302959" }, { "id": "15556550", "title": "Mamoun Elyounoussi", "text": " Elyounoussi was born in Amsterdam.", "score": "1.7297815" }, { "id": "7332213", "title": "Mohammed Arkoun", "text": " Arkoun was born in 1928 in Taourirt Mimoun, a Berber village in Great Kabylia in northern Algeria. His family was traditional, religious and relatively poor. His father was a shopkeeper in Ain al-Arba'a, a wealthy French settlement in east of Oran. He attended primary school in his Berber-speaking home village until he was nine-years-old. As the eldest son, he was expected to learn his father's trade, while continuing to attend primary school. He studied at the Faculty of Literature of the University of Algiers and at the Sorbonne in Paris (agrégé in Arabic language and Literature, 1956 and Ph.D., 1968). He established his academic reputation with his studies of the history and philosophy of Ibn Miskawayh. As he began to consider how one ", "score": "1.7287866" }, { "id": "16048604", "title": "Mounsi", "text": " Mounsi (born 1951) is a French novelist and singer, born in Kabylie, Algeria. Aged seven, his father brought him to live in France, growing up in the red-belt suburb of Nanterre in Paris. Petty crime saw him in borstal, where he discovered his voice as an author after reading the poetry of François Villon. His only work published in English translation is The Demented Dance (Black Amber, 2003), which was originally published in France in 1986. The book draws heavily on Mounsi's growing up amidst petty crime in the red-belt suburbs and could be seen as a companion piece for films like La Haine. The book was released ", "score": "1.7252102" }, { "id": "13391690", "title": "Djemaa Saharidj", "text": "Sidi Sahnoun (v.776–v.854), marabou and lawyer Maliki school of Kairouan (current Tunisia ), is a mausoleum ; Ben Yahia Mostafa (16th century), Agha of the Ottoman Empire, built the mosque ; Salah Benacer (1900–1961), mayor of Mekla and Senator of Tizi Ouzou (1959-1961) under the French colonization, was born there. ; Aïssat Idir (1915–1959), militant nationalist and unionist, founder of the UGTA, was born there ; Arab sheikh Bouzgarene (1917–1988), singer of Kabyle music, was born there ; Ouali Bennaï (v.1920–1957), nationalist activist, advocate within the PPP / BACT of the thesis of the Algerian Algeria, was born and died assassinated ; Ali Mecili André (1940–1987), lawyer and politician assassinated in Paris, are his paternal origins ; Nait-Hashimi Djoudi (1946–2001), general secretary of the FFS and Minister under the chairmanship of Mohamed Boudiaf, was born there ; Alain Remond (born 1946), columnist, has taught ; Essaïd Belkalem (born 1 January 1989), footballer, was born there ", "score": "1.7221389" }, { "id": "27776881", "title": "Rabah Khedouci", "text": " Rabah Khedouci was born in 1995 in Beni Misra, Algeria. He completed his education in Institute National De Formation Et De Perfictionnment Du Personnel De L'education. Between 1974 and 1997, he worked as a teacher and an education inspector. He is the founder of ‘Dar Alhadara’, a publishing house established in 1992. Also, he is the founder of ‘Almoa’alm’, an educational and cultural magazine that was started in 2000. Khedouci has two novels Addahya and Alghoraba’a which has won the national prize \"Iqbal\". His name emerged as one of the interested in children's literature as he published several story series including \"A’alam Alfokaha\", \"Qisasi Aldjamila\", and others.", "score": "1.7151346" }, { "id": "29032053", "title": "Issam Mahfouz", "text": " Mahfouz was born on September 12, 1939 in the southern Lebanese town of Jdeideh Marjeyoun, to a culturally active family. His mother, Monifa Shadid, was a schoolteacher before marriage. His grandfather Eid managed a popular brass band that played music during ceremonies. His father, Abdel-Masiḥ, was educated in Jerusalem and began producing plays in Marjayoun with the backing of his brother Ramez, although he earned his living as a dentist. In the 1930s, the brothers introduced cinema to the region with the establishment of the Haramoun Cinema and Theater in Marjayoun which drew audiences from the entire region, including Syria and Palestine. Abdel-Masiḥ was also one of the founders ", "score": "1.7054248" }, { "id": "9866359", "title": "Mouloud Mammeri", "text": " He was born on December 28, 1917 in Ait Yenni, in Tizi Ouzou Province, French Algeria. He attended a primary school in his native village, then emigrated to Morocco to live in his uncle's house in Rabat. Four years later he returned to Algiers and pursued his studies at Bugeaud College, before continuing his education at Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, intending to join the École Normale Supérieure. Conscripted in 1939 and discharged in October 1940, Mammeri registered at the Faculté des Lettres d’Alger. Re-conscripted in 1942 after the American landing, he participated in the allied campaigns in France, Italy, and Germany. After the end of the war, he received his degree as a ", "score": "1.7030866" }, { "id": "13398177", "title": "Rachid Azzouzi", "text": " Azzouzi was born in Fez, Morocco, but moved as a kid with his family to Germany. He was raised in Rhineland.", "score": "1.6996682" }, { "id": "32466581", "title": "Fouad Abdelmoumni", "text": " Fouad Abdelmoumni was born in 1958 in Berkane in the north-east of Morocco after the independence of 1956. His father, of Oujdie origin, is an official in the Ministry of Justice and will, because of his activism within the 'UNFP, subject to several mutations across the country during his career. Fouad will thus find himself a pupil in a primary school in Fez and will continue his training at the lycée Moulay Idriss and then in Casablanca to complete his secondary studies in Ibn Toumert and Mohammed V. After obtaining in 1976 a bac in experimental sciences, he Is registered at the Institute of Agricultural and Veterinary Studies of Rabat.", "score": "1.6950793" }, { "id": "1100924", "title": "Rachid Belhout", "text": " Belhout was born on June 14, 1944 in Sétif. At age 4, he moved with his family to France.", "score": "1.6922425" }, { "id": "6428865", "title": "Mourad Oussedik", "text": " He came from a family of notables from Aïn El Hammam (ex-Michelet), in Greater Kabylia. His father, Sedik, was a lawyer in Béjaïa, his mother came from one of the richest and most powerful families of Algeria, which made fortune under the Regency of Algiers the maraboutic family AMEUR.", "score": "1.6892512" }, { "id": "15368327", "title": "Rachid Taha", "text": " Taha was born in 1958 in Sig, Mascara Province, Algeria, although a second source suggests he was born in the Algerian seacoast city of Oran. This town was the \"birthplace of raï\" music, and 1958 was a key year in the Algerian struggle for independence against French authority. He began listening to Algerian music in the 1960s, including street-style music called chaabi. Additionally, music from the Maghreb region was part of his upbringing. He moved with his parents to France when he was ten years old, settling in an immigrant community around the French city of Lyon in 1968. His father ", "score": "1.6887438" } ]

[ "Toronto", "City of Toronto", "The Six", "T-O", "The 416", "Hogtown" ]

[ { "id": "26356265", "title": "Anthony Galea", "text": " Galea was born in Toronto and grew up in Etobicoke. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Waterloo in Health Studies and then earned his medical degree at McMaster University in Hamilton in 1986.", "score": "1.7124369" }, { "id": "25349891", "title": "Anthony Gale (sledge hockey)", "text": " Anthony Gale (born 12 May 1993) is a Canadian ice sledge hockey player. Born in Toronto in 1993 to Tony and Anna Gale with spina bifida, Gale began playing sledge hockey around 2000 at the age of seven, with the Halton Peel Cruisers Sports for the Physically Disabled. He played with their junior and intermediate sledge hockey teams, winning their MVP award in 2004 and 2005 and captaining the junior team. With the Cruisers, he also played wheelchair basketball. Gale was named to Canada men's national ice sledge hockey team in 2010 at the age of 17. He won a gold medal with the team at the 2013 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships. He won a bronze medal at the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympics in the men's ice sledge hockey tournament. He is an alumnus of St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School in Brampton.", "score": "1.6465678" }, { "id": "26356264", "title": "Anthony Galea", "text": " Anthony Galea (born August 19, 1959) is a Canadian doctor who specializes in sports medicine and director of the ISM Health & Wellness Center Inc. in Toronto, Ontario.", "score": "1.6387036" }, { "id": "31893056", "title": "Anthony Gale", "text": " His date of birth is in dispute. It is variously reported to be in 1761 or on September 17, 1782, in Dublin, Ireland. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant on July 26, 1798. According to a transcript of a October 23, 1838 letter to President Martin Van Buren, Anthony Gale writes (in part): \"as a military man that I embraced in my nineteenth year\", which would place his birth in 1779–1780. Born in Ireland to Anthony Gale and Ann Delany, Gale declared his intent to become a United States citizen on June 15, 1798, and completed the naturalization process on November 27, 1801. Ireland land records involving his mother Ann Delany suggest Gale was born in Queen's County, Ireland, subsequently renamed County Laois. Gale married Catherine Swope on January 4, 1800, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. The couple settled in Philadelphia and had three children – Amelia, who died after four weeks; a son, Washington Anthony; and another daughter, Emily, both of whom survived into adulthood.", "score": "1.6343513" }, { "id": "31893055", "title": "Anthony Gale", "text": " Anthony Gale was the fourth Commandant of the United States Marine Corps and the only one ever fired. Fewer records survive concerning him than any other commandant. He is the only commandant for whom the Marines neither know his burial location nor have a portrait or likeness.", "score": "1.5632868" }, { "id": "2766955", "title": "Luke Gale", "text": " Gale was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England on 22 June 1988.", "score": "1.5498729" }, { "id": "12798304", "title": "David Gale (actor)", "text": " David Gale was born October 2, 1936 in Wimbledon, UK, but moved with his family to New Jersey at a young age. He grew up in a very religious environment; participating in a Catholic choir as a child, and eventually attending St. James Catholic High School in Red Bank, NJ. In 1950, at age thirteen, David ran away from home to New York, citing Catholic guilt and emotional struggles. He survived by getting a job as a busboy in an Italian restaurant. He states: \"I looked old for my age. When I was 13, I was very tall-- almost as tall as I am now-- and I'm 6'3\". ", "score": "1.545692" }, { "id": "25304583", "title": "Elan Gale", "text": " Gale was born in Los Angeles County, California.", "score": "1.5421888" }, { "id": "15450740", "title": "Tony Anthony (actor)", "text": " Anthony was born Tony Roger Petitto in Clarksburg, West Virginia. With his friend Saul Swimmer directing, Anthony and Peter Gayle produced the half-hour children's short The Boy Who Owned a Melephant (1959), narrated by actress Tallulah Bankhead. The three men would become his frequent collaborators. The film won a Gold Leaf award at the Venice International Children's Film Festival. Following that short, Anthony and Swimmer co-wrote the Swimmer-directed independent features Force of Impulse (1961), a Romeo and Juliet story about a high school football player who turns to robbery, filmed in Miami Beach, Florida, and Without Each Other (1962). Anthony then moved to Italy to film Wounds of Hunger and La ragazza in prestito. Swimmer had moved to England, where he befriended Allen Klein.", "score": "1.4908924" }, { "id": "6922473", "title": "Joseph Gales Sr.", "text": " Gales was born in Eckington, Derbyshire, in England to Timothy Gales and Sarah (Clay). He left to undertake a printing apprenticeship in Manchester, but left after he was attacked by his master's wife. Soon after, he completed his apprenticeship with James Tomlinson in Newark, Nottinghamshire. While in Newark, he married Winifred Marshall, a novelist and political writer. In 1784, Gales moved to Sheffield in Yorkshire. Shortly after moving to Sheffield, he became a Unitarian, and took up various Radical causes, advocating religious tolerance, Parliamentary reform and the abolition of slavery, and opposing boxing and bull-baiting. Gales met Tom Paine, who encouraged him to found a radical newspaper. In June 1787, he began publishing ", "score": "1.4900956" }, { "id": "11962488", "title": "Anthony J. Lumsden", "text": " Lumsden was born on May 16, 1928, in Bournemouth, England. He was raised in Sydney Australia, where he went to the University of Sydney architecture school. After graduation, he traveled throughout Europe on motorcycle for a year from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean and settled in London. After a few years there, he was eventually encouraged by a colleague to travel to the United States.", "score": "1.480784" }, { "id": "9524237", "title": "George Gale (aeronaut)", "text": " Gale was, according to the register of his burial, born about 1797. He was originally an actor in small parts in London minor theatres. He became a great favourite of Andrew Ducrow. In 1831 he went to America, and was claimed to have played Mazeppa for two hundred nights at the Bowery Theatre in New York City (he did play at least about 45 consecutive performances). He afterwards traveled in the west and joined a tribe of native Americans. He brought six of them, with their chief, \"Ma Caust\", to London, and was scarcely distinguishable from his companions. They were exhibited at the Victoria Theatre till their popularity declined. Sir Augustus Frederick D'Este had become interested in them, and procured Gale an appointment as coast blockade inspector in the north of Ireland. On the strength of this appointment, which he held for seven years, he afterwards assumed the title of lieutenant.", "score": "1.4794307" }, { "id": "30302351", "title": "Anthony J. DePace", "text": " DePace was born on July 13, 1892, in Italy. Shortly thereafter he emigrated to the United States and moved to the Bronx in New York where he lived for the rest of his life. He was educated at Morris High School (Bronx, New York) and studied evenings at the Engineering and Architecture School of New York University, earning a degree there in architectural engineering.", "score": "1.4791431" }, { "id": "13163998", "title": "Joseph Gales", "text": " Joseph Gales Jr. (June 15, 1786 – July 21, 1860) was an American journalist and the ninth mayor of Washington, D.C., from 1827 to 1830.", "score": "1.4713937" }, { "id": "28344522", "title": "Anthony Finkelstein", "text": " Anthony Finkelstein was born on 28 July 1959. He was educated at University College School, the University of Bradford (BEng), the London School of Economics (MSc) and the Royal College of Art (PhD, 1985).", "score": "1.4678414" }, { "id": "12730302", "title": "Tony Gale", "text": " Anthony Peter Gale (born 19 November 1959) is an English football coach, former professional footballer and television pundit for Sky Sports. He is also the chairman of non-league club Walton Casuals. As a player, he made 636 appearances as a defender from 1977 until 1998, notably in the Premier League with West Ham United and Blackburn Rovers, where he won the title in 1995. He also played for Fulham, Crystal Palace and Maidenhead United. Since retiring he has worked as a pundit, co-commentator and sports writer, notably for Premier League productions, Sky Sports and former clubs West Ham and Fulham.", "score": "1.463277" }, { "id": "348250", "title": "Anthony Birchak", "text": " Birchak is Mexican American and was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona. Birchak was a highly decorated amateur wrestler at Sahuarita High School. Birchak attended Pima Community College and Grand Canyon University where he majored in Visual Communications. His wife Mercedes White acts as his manager. Together they have launched a mixed martial arts school TOROTech MMA.", "score": "1.4609768" }, { "id": "2958756", "title": "James Scarth Gale", "text": " Gale was born on February 19, 1863 in Alma, Ontario, Canada. His father John Gale was a Scottish immigrant who moved to Canada in 1832. His Pennsylvania Dutch mother Miami Bradt was from Hamilton, Ontario. Together they had six children, of which James was the fifth. In 1882 Gale entered St. Catharine's Collegiate Institute, St. Catharines, Ontario. From 1884 to 1888 Gale studied arts at the University of Toronto, including the summer of 1886 at the Collège de France, Paris on a language course. During his first year of study he heard Dwight L. Moody preach and was deeply impressed. Gale graduated with a B.A. from the University College of the University of Toronto in 1898.", "score": "1.4591955" }, { "id": "32732198", "title": "Anthony Lewis", "text": " Lewis was born Joseph Anthony Lewis in New York City on March 27, 1927, to Kassel Lewis, who worked in textiles manufacturing, and Sylvia Surut, who became director of the nursery school at the 92nd Street Y. He and his family were Jewish. He attended the Horace Mann School in the Bronx, where he was a classmate of Roy Cohn, and graduated from Harvard College in 1948. While at Harvard, he was Managing Editor of the Harvard Crimson.", "score": "1.4579717" }, { "id": "1045684", "title": "Rocky Gale", "text": " Gale was born in Portland, Oregon on February 22, 1988. He grew up in Yoncalla, Oregon, later moving to Keizer, Oregon where he attended junior high school. After graduating from North Salem High School in Salem, Oregon, Gale was drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 49th round of the 2006 Major League Baseball Draft, but did not sign. In 2006, Gale began attending the University of Portland where he played baseball with the Portland Pilots. Gale also played with the Corvallis Knights, a collegiate summer league team. Gale batted .254 during his freshman season, .261 in his sophomore season, .194 in his junior season and .347 in his senior as a member of the Pilots. After the season, he was named to the first-team all-West Coast Conference (WCC) team and was the conference's defensive player of the year. Gale was drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 24th round of the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft out of the University of Portland.", "score": "1.4578896" } ]

[ "Kure" ]

[ { "id": "32586007", "title": "Hideshi Hamaguchi", "text": " Born in Osaka, Japan. Lives in Beaverton, Oregon.", "score": "1.7199934" }, { "id": "28003859", "title": "Shinji Hamazaki", "text": " Shinji Hamazaki (浜崎 真二, 10 December 1901 – May 6, 1981) was a former Japanese baseball player and manager. Thought short in stature, Hamazaki was well known for his forceful personality. He is a member of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. Hamazaki attended Hiroshima Shogyo High School and Keio University. Hamazaki was signed at age 45 by the Hankyu Braves in 1947 prior to the draft, having previously played for the Chinese mainland Industrial League Mantetsu Club. He began as a player-manager for the Braves. In 1950, at age 48 years, 4 months, Hamazki became the oldest Japanese pitcher to win a professional game. That record stood until September 5, 2014, when Masahiro Yamamoto, aged 49 years, 25 days, defeated the Hanshin Tigers. Finally retiring as a player in 1950, Hamazaki continued managing the Braves through 1953. He later managed the Takahashi/Tombo Unions and the Kokutetsu Swallows. His career managing record was 535-639, a .456 winning percentage.", "score": "1.6597617" }, { "id": "25327744", "title": "Shōji Hamada", "text": " Having spent three years in St Ives with Bernard Leach, he returned to Japan in 1923 and traveled to potteries and stayed at Tsuboya in Okinawa Prefecture for weeks, then eventually established his workshop in Mashiko, about 100 km north-east of Tokyo. Here, he built his own pottery and committed himself to using only locally sourced materials, not only in the clay he used, but also the glazes he created and the brushes he manufactured himself from dog hair and bamboo. In 1955 the Japanese government designated him \"Living National Treasure\", the first time for someone from the field of crafts. The previous year on 29 May 1954, the Cultural Property Protection Act had been amended, and a new Preservers of Important Intangible Cultural Properties (Jūyō Mukei Bunkazai ", "score": "1.655899" }, { "id": "25327743", "title": "Shōji Hamada", "text": " Hamada was born in Kawasaki, Japan, in 1894 named Shoji (象ニ). After finishing elitist Hibiya High School, he studied ceramics at Tokyo Institute of Technology, then known as Tokyo Industrial College with Kawai Kanjirō under Itaya Hazan. As the sole students in the school interested in becoming artist-potters, Hamada and the slightly elder Kawai were soon friends, touring the city in search of inspiration. They worked together in Kyoto at the former body of the Kyoto Municipal Institute of Industrial Technology and Culture where they experimented on glazes using various minerals. They were acquainted by Yanagi Sōetsu and Tomimoto Kenkichi while visiting potteries and exhibitions. Hamada was deeply impressed by a Tokyo exhibition of ceramic art by Bernard Leach, who was then staying with Yanagi Sōetsu, and wrote to Leach seeking an introduction. The two found much in common and became good friends, so much so that Hamada asked and was granted permission to accompany Leach to England in 1920 when the latter decided to return and establish a pottery there.", "score": "1.6509347" }, { "id": "29170471", "title": "Shinji Jojo", "text": " Jojo was born in Hamura on August 28, 1977. After graduating from high school, he joined Urawa Reds in 1996. From 1997, he played several matches as left side midfielder and left side back. However, his ability to play decreased from 2000. He moved to Albirex Niigata on loan in September 2002 and he returned to Urawa Reds in 2003. However he could hardly play in the match. He moved to Shonan Bellmare in 2004. He played many matches as left side back. He retired end of 2006 season.", "score": "1.5822029" }, { "id": "13410798", "title": "Kumaji Furuya", "text": " Furuya was born on February 22, 1889, in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, and moved to the territory of Hawaii in 1907. He originally planned to move to the United States, but the 1907 Gentleman's Agreement banned him from moving there, so he stayed in Hawaii. Furuya worked in sugar plantations and stores all across the islands for five years. In 1914, he opened up a store of his own, the Fuji furniture store. He also joined the Japanese Merchants Association (Chuo Rengo) in 1918. He later helped with a merger between the Japanese Merchants Association and two other organizations to become the Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce (HJCC) in 1939. He served as the Vice President of the HJCC and the United Japanese Society for ", "score": "1.5687535" }, { "id": "30840934", "title": "Toshiyuki Kajiyama", "text": " Kajiyama was born in Keijo (present day Seoul) in Japanese-occupied Korea, where his father was a civil engineer. He lived in Korea to the end of World War II, when he was repatriated together with his parents to his father's home town of Hatsukaichi, in Hiroshima Prefecture. He was a graduate of the Hiroshima Higher Normal School (the predecessor to Hiroshima University). After graduation, he worked as an investigative reporter, and submitted short stories and small articles to literary magazines such as Shukan Shincho and Shukan Bunshun. In 1961, Kajiyama was hospitalized for three months with tuberculosis.", "score": "1.5683169" }, { "id": "29372749", "title": "Kōsaku Hamada", "text": " Hamada was born in Osaka. He was educated at the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University; and he studied in England.", "score": "1.5639281" }, { "id": "32289976", "title": "Masatoshi Hamada", "text": " Hamada was born near Daikokucho Station in Naniwa-ku, Osaka to Kengoro and Nobuko Hamada. His family moved to Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture before entering a kindergarten. There, he attended Ushio Elementary School and met Hitoshi Matsumoto. He and Matsumoto did not become friends until junior high. Like Matsumoto, his family was very poor and lived in an old, run-down apartment building. In 1982, he and Matsumoto entered Yoshimoto Kōgyō, to become a comedy duo. They made their debut in 1983.", "score": "1.5591868" }, { "id": "29741958", "title": "Ushio Shinohara", "text": " Ushio Shinohara was born on January 17, 1932 in the Kōjimachi neighborhood of central Tokyo. His father was a tanka poet who was taught by Wakayama Bokusui, and his mother was a Nihonga painter doll-maker who had studied at the Private Women's School of Fine Arts (present-day Joshibi University of Art and Design) in Tokyo. In 1952 Shinohara entered the Tokyo Art University (later renamed to Tokyo University of the Arts), where he studied oil painting under the renowned painter Takeshi Hayashi. However, Shinohara quit the school in 1957 without completing his degree.", "score": "1.5562396" }, { "id": "11342628", "title": "Yozo Hamaguchi", "text": " Hamaguchi was born in Hirogawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan to an upper-class family. His father, Gihei, was the 10th President of the Yamasa Corporation, a major soy sauce company. The Hamaguchi family’s ties to the soy sauce industry extends as far back as 1645. While the family’s wealth mainly derived from their centuries-old business, Hamaguchi’s lineage demonstrated a long-held appreciation for the arts as his father was an avid collector of Nanga, Edo-period literati paintings. Additionally, one of Yozo’s ancestors, Kansuke Hamaguchi, was a Nanga painter during the late Edo era. From an early age, Hamaguchi desired to pursue a career in the arts instead of the family business. He entered the Tokyo Art School (now Tokyo University of the Arts) in 1927 to study sculpture, but left in 1930 to pursue an independent career. The Yōga style painter Ryuzaburo Umehara advised Hamaguchi to seek artistic training and inspiration in France as this was the means through which he developed his style.", "score": "1.5524061" }, { "id": "16161539", "title": "Junichi Hamada", "text": " Junichi Hamada (濱田 純一) is the 29th President of the University of Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan. He was born in Akashi in Hyōgo Prefecture, graduated from Nada High School and is the first University of Tokyo President to be born after World War II. He is also a Professor of Law, specializing in media law, constitutional law, the freedom of speech, and human rights law. He earned his Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctorate degrees from the University of Tokyo. His hobby is mountain climbing.", "score": "1.5514544" }, { "id": "2981511", "title": "Hiroshi Hamaya", "text": " Hamaya was born in Shitaya, Tokyo, on 28 March 1915.", "score": "1.54959" }, { "id": "4438072", "title": "Shinji Aoyama", "text": " Shinji Aoyama was born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. He began to be interested in cinema when he watched Apocalypse Now and he thought seriously about making films after watching Jean-Luc Godard's films such as Pierrot le Fou and Two or Three Things I Know About Her. He graduated from Rikkyo University, where he was deeply influenced by the film critic Shigehiko Hasumi, from whom he took classes. After graduating, Aoyama worked as an assistant director to Swiss film director Daniel Schmid, Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Icelandic director Fridrik Thor Fridriksson. He made his directorial debut with the V-Cinema production It's Not in the Textbook! in 1995. In 1996, Aoyama made Helpless, which is his first feature film. His 2000 film Eureka, also set in Fukuoka, opened at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival where it received both the FIPRESCI prize ", "score": "1.5415287" }, { "id": "26567834", "title": "Danzan-ryū", "text": " Seishiro Okazaki was born in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan in 1890. In 1906, he immigrated to the island of Hawaii. Soon after, he was afflicted with a pulmonary condition which may have been tuberculosis. It was during this time, however, that young Okazaki began studying under a Yōshin-ryū jujutsu sensei by the name of Yoshimatsu Tanaka in Hilo, Hawaii. Okazaki intensely pursued his studies under Tanaka and he found after sometime that his respiratory condition had gone into remission. Okazaki felt that the study of martial arts had played a large role in his physical recovery and as a result he decided to dedicate his life to the study and teaching of jujitsu and related disciplines. Later in his life he would adopt the Western first name, Henry. In 1924, Okazaki returned to Japan ", "score": "1.5370312" }, { "id": "6606032", "title": "Kazuyuki Hamada", "text": " Hamada was born in Yonago, Tottori on 17 March 1953. His father was employed at Japanese National Railways and his mother was from a farming family. He graduated from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies with a degree in Chinese language in 1975 and joined Nippon Steel the same year. After leaving Nippon Steel Hamada joined the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., becoming a Fellow and Associate Director in 1987. He obtained a Ph.D. in political science from George Washington University in 1992. In 1995 he became a consultant at the United States' Congressional Research Service.", "score": "1.534053" }, { "id": "31238345", "title": "Hiroyuki Hamada (artist)", "text": " Hiroyuki Hamada grew up in Japan until the age of eighteen, then moved with his family to Wheeling, West Virginia where his father held a temporary post in the steel industry; the culture shock Hamada experienced was underscored by the linguistic gap, and it was through the study of drawing while in college that Hamada found an outlet to bridge the gap. He changed his major from psychology to studio art, then went on to earn a Masters in Fine Art from the University of Maryland. Hamada has been awarded residencies at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Edward F. Albee Foundation/William Flanagan Memorial Creative Person's Center, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the MacDowell Colony, Studios Midwest in Illinois, and the Virginia Center of the Creative Arts. In 1998, Hamada was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, and in 2009 he was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. The artist lives and works in East Hampton, New York.", "score": "1.5335133" }, { "id": "27218914", "title": "Hyōgo Prefecture", "text": " born in Konohana-ku, Osaka grew up in Kawanishi ; Minako Nishiyama, contemporary artist ; Masamune Shirow, manga artist was born in Kobe ; So Taguchi, outfielder for the Chicago Cubs ; Masahiro Tanaka, pitcher for the New York Yankees ; Nagaru Tanigawa, creator of the Haruhi Suzumiya series was born in Kinki ; Tsuneko Taniuchi, contemporary performance artist ; Fumito Ueda, video game creator of Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Last Guardian ; Juri Ueno, Japanese Academy Award-winning actress best known for her performances in Swing Girls and the live-action adaptation of Nodame Cantabile, is from Kakogawa ; Shota Yasuda, guitarist of Kanjani Eight is from Amagasaki ; Piko, musician, Vocaloid singer born in Kobe, Hyōgo ", "score": "1.5328355" }, { "id": "33034704", "title": "Shinji Tarutoko", "text": " Tarutoko was born in Shimane Prefecture on 6 August 1959. He studied at the Matsushita Institute of Government and Management.", "score": "1.5326796" }, { "id": "1178294", "title": "Shin Noguchi", "text": " Noguchi was born in 1976 in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, and he has lived in Kamakura for 20 years. He has been featured on The Leica Camera Blog, in Courrier International, Internazionale, Libération, Tages-Anzeiger, The Independent, and The Guardian. Some assignment work has also been published in Die Zeit, Die Zeit Wissen, and Libération.", "score": "1.5309085" } ]

[ "Brighton", "Brighthelmston", "Brighthelmstone", "Brighton, East Sussex", "Brighton, England" ]

[ { "id": "9938905", "title": "Arthur Granville Soames", "text": " He was born on 12 October 1886 in Wingerworth, Derbyshire, England. He was the only son of Harold Soames (1855-1918), brewer, later of Gray Rigg, Lilliput, Dorset (whose brother founded the landed gentry Soames family of Sheffield Park) and his wife Katherine Mary (1851-1932), daughter of George Hill. He was the brother of Olave St. Clair Baden-Powell, World Chief Guide.", "score": "1.6562582" }, { "id": "10559738", "title": "Arthur Soames (politician)", "text": " Soames was born in Brighton, the son of William Aldwin Soames. He was educated at Brighton College, the public school which his father had founded in 1845, and in 1871 he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge where he obtained his BA in 1877 and MA in 1881. In 1876 he married Eveline, the daughter of T. Horsman Coles from Ore in East Sussex. They had three sons and two daughters. Of the three sons, two, Gilbert and Maurice, were killed during the First World War.", "score": "1.6114428" }, { "id": "5394747", "title": "Henry Soames", "text": " Henry Soames (18 January 1843&ndash; 30 August 1913) was an English cricketer. Soames' batting style is unknown. He was born at Brighton, Sussex, and was educated at Brighton College. His father, William Aldwin Soames, had founded the college in 1845. Soames made a single first-class appearance for Hampshire against Kent in 1867 at B. M. Close's Ground, Southborough. Hampshire won the toss and elected to bat first, with the county making 41 all out in their first-innings, with Soames being dismissed for 2 runs by George Bennett. Kent then made 231 all out in their first-innings, to which Hampshire responded to in their second-innings by making 212 all out, with Soames top-scoring in the innings with 52, before he was dismissed by Charles Payne. Kent went on to win the match by nine wickets. This was his only major appearance for the county. Soames died at Salisbury, Wiltshire, on 30 August 1913. His brother, William, played first-class cricket for Sussex.", "score": "1.5803664" }, { "id": "6692759", "title": "Rupert Soames", "text": " Soames was educated at St Aubyns School in Rottingdean, East Sussex, and Eton College, and then Worcester College, Oxford, where he studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE). While at Oxford he worked as a DJ at the London nightclub Annabel's and was a member of the Bullingdon Club, as well as being elected to the Presidency of the Oxford Union.", "score": "1.5644194" }, { "id": "14398287", "title": "David Soames", "text": " David Michael Soames (born 10 December 1984) is an English former professional footballer who played as a forward from 2002 to 2006. He played in the Football League for Grimsby Town from 2002 until 2005, but retired a year later aged just 21, due to a persistent injury problem that hampered most of his playing career. He now works for North East Lincolnshire Council as a community sports coach.", "score": "1.5540886" }, { "id": "26464237", "title": "Henry Soames (historian)", "text": " Henry Soames (1785 – 21 October 1860) was an English clergyman and ecclesiastical historian.", "score": "1.5522759" }, { "id": "10559739", "title": "Arthur Soames (politician)", "text": " Soames studied architecture under Sir Arthur Blomfield who was an Associate of the Royal Academy. He then set up his own architectural practice between 1882 and 1898.", "score": "1.5308199" }, { "id": "7943317", "title": "Nicholas Soames", "text": " Soames was born in 1948 in Croydon, Surrey, the eldest son of Christopher Soames and Mary (née Spencer-Churchill). He is a grandson of the British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, and a grandnephew of the founders of the Scout movement, Lord Baden-Powell and his sister, Agnes Baden-Powell. His brother is industrialist Rupert Soames. Simon Hoggart, writing in The Guardian, related an anecdote of Soames' childhood: \"He gave me the true version of what I had always suspected was an apocryphal story. In or around 1953, when Soames was five, he didn't know how important his grandfather was until someone told him. So he walked up to the old man's bedroom, managed to ", "score": "1.5306709" }, { "id": "10559737", "title": "Arthur Soames (politician)", "text": " Arthur Wellesley Soames (30 November 1852 – 2 November 1934) was a British Liberal politician and architect.", "score": "1.5303602" }, { "id": "26464238", "title": "Henry Soames (historian)", "text": " The son of Nathaniel Soames, shoemaker of Ludgate Street, London, he was educated at St. Paul's School and went to Wadham College, Oxford, matriculating on 21 February 1803. He graduated B.A. in 1807, M.A. in 1810. He held the post of assistant to the high master of St. Paul's School from 1809 to 1814, and took holy orders. In 1812 he was made rector of Shelley, Essex, and at this time, or later, rector of the neighbouring parish of Little Laver. From 1831 to 1839 he was vicar of Brent with Furneaux Pelham, Hertfordshire. In 1839 he became rector of Stapleford Tawney with Theydon Mount, Essex, where he remained till his death. He was Bampton lecturer in 1830, and was appointed chancellor of St. Paul's Cathedral by Bishop Charles James Blomfield in 1842. He died on 21 October 1860.", "score": "1.5257251" }, { "id": "9610738", "title": "Stephen Soames", "text": " Stephen Soames (6 August 1826 – 14 July 1908) was an English cricketer and barrister. The son of Charles Soames, he was born at Stoke Newington in August 1826. He was educated at Rugby School, before going up to Trinity College, Oxford. While studying at Oxford, he made his debut in first-class cricket for Oxford University against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Oxford in 1846. He played first-class cricket for Oxford until 1850, making six appearances. He made four first-class appearances for the MCC between 1850&ndash;53, as well as making one appearance for the Gentlemen of England against the Gentlemen of Kent in 1851. In eleven first-class matches, Soames took a total of 28 wickets, taking five wickets in an innings and ten wickets in a match once. A student of Lincoln's Inn, Soames was called to the bar in November 1851. On 6 August 1863 he married Julia Constance Martin (born 1 October 1837), with the couple having four sons. He later served as a justice of the peace for Northamptonshire and Hertfordshire, as well as being commissioned to the Lieutenancy of the City of London in 1892. Soames died at Kensington in July 1908.", "score": "1.4778911" }, { "id": "10083096", "title": "Olave Baden-Powell", "text": " Born in Chesterfield, England, Olave Soames was the third child and youngest daughter of brewery owner and artist Harold Soames (13 Aug 1855 – 25 December 1918), of Gray Rigg, Lilliput, Dorset (descended from the landed gentry Soames family of Sheffield Park) and his wife Katherine Mary, daughter of George Hill. She was educated by her parents and by a number of governesses at home. She lived in seventeen homes in the first 23 years of her life. Olave became keen on outdoor sports including tennis, swimming, football, skating and canoeing, and also played the violin. Olave was the sister of Arthur Granville Soames and thus aunt to his children, including Christopher Soames, Conservative politician and diplomat, who in 1947 wed Mary Churchill, youngest child of Sir Winston Churchill.", "score": "1.4718689" }, { "id": "6692758", "title": "Rupert Soames", "text": " Soames was born in Croydon, to Christopher and Mary Soames. He is a grandson of Winston Churchill, a nephew of one-time Defence Secretary Duncan Sandys and his wife Diana Churchill, of journalist Randolph Churchill, and of actress and dancer Sarah Churchill, and is a great-nephew of the founders of the Scout movement, the 1st Baron Baden-Powell and his wife, the Baroness Baden-Powell. His brother is former MP Sir Nicholas Soames.", "score": "1.4676707" }, { "id": "25529656", "title": "Stephen Soame", "text": " Sir Stephen Soame (c. 1540 &ndash; 23 May 1619) was an English merchant, landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1601. He served as Lord Mayor of London for the year 1598 to 1599.", "score": "1.4664845" }, { "id": "10559740", "title": "Arthur Soames (politician)", "text": " Soames was a Liberal in the Radical tradition. He was Chairman of the East Marylebone Liberal and Radical Association. He was adopted as the Radical candidate for Ipswich at the 1892 general election and fought the seat, without success, in 1895. However he got his opportunity to enter Parliament at a by-election in the constituency of South Norfolk held on 12 May 1898. The by-election was occasioned by the resignation on grounds of ill-health of the sitting Liberal Unionist (formerly Liberal) MP, Francis Taylor. Standing as a Radical, Soames gained 4,625 votes. His Unionist opponent, Sancroft Holmes received 3,295 giving a very healthy Liberal majority of 1,330. Soames decided not to contest his seat again at the 1918 general election, by that time aged 66 years.", "score": "1.4638988" }, { "id": "12817254", "title": "Emma Soames", "text": " Soames was educated at three independent schools: at Laverock School in Oxted in Surrey, followed by Hamilton House School in Kent (both in South East England), followed by Queen's College (from 1965–66) in Harley Street in Central London. She then studied in Paris at the Sorbonne and the Ecoles de Sciences Politiques.", "score": "1.4579896" }, { "id": "25530682", "title": "Thomas Soame", "text": " Soame was the son of Sir Stephen Soame and his wife Anne Stone daughter of William Stone, haberdasher of London and his wife Mercy Gray daughter of John Gray of Barley, Hertfordshire. His father was Lord Mayor of London. He was baptised at St.Mary Colechurch in London on 4 February 1584. Soame was alderman of Farringdon Without ward from 28 July 1635 to 29 January 1639 and in 1635 became Sheriff of London. He was Merchant Commissioner of the East India Company from 1640 to 1643. In April 1640, Soame was elected Member of Parliament for City of London in the Short Parliament. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London in May 1640 with three other aldermen - Nicholas Rainton, John Gayre and Thomas Atkins - for refusing to list the inhabitants of his ward who were able ", "score": "1.4566858" }, { "id": "9938907", "title": "Arthur Granville Soames", "text": "Sanchia Mary (Bunty) Soames (21 Sept 1914 - 1 Jan 1953) ; Diana Katherine (Dido) Soames (24 Sept 1917 - 4 Feb 1997), m. 1939 Lt.Col. Hugh William Cairns, M.C. ; (Arthur) Christopher (John) Soames (12 Oct 1920 - Sept 1987) On 23 Oct 1934 in London to Annette Constance Jardine née Fraser (b. Sep 1876, East Grinstead, Sussex, England ; On 16 Mar 1948 to Audrey Alma Humphreys. He was married on 20 Dec 1913 in London to Hope Mary Woodbine (b. 2 Aug 1893 in Westminster), daughter of businessman Charles Woodbyne Parish, of Ennismore Gardens, Kensington. The Parish family were Norfolk landed gentry, and Hope's mother Frances (née Boyle) was descended from ", "score": "1.4528233" }, { "id": "25529658", "title": "Stephen Soame", "text": " Bradley and Little Thurlow, in Suffolk, and at Beetley, North Elmham, Bilney, Great Bittering and Gressingham in Norfolk: his eldest son and heir Thomas was (according to the inquisition) then aged twenty-six. Stephen Soame was originally a member of the Worshipful Company of Girdlers, into which he was apprenticed in the ward of Cheap in the City of London. He married, during the 1570s, Anne (1555-1622), daughter of the London Haberdasher William Stone and his wife Marye Gray, daughter of John Gray of Barley, Hertfordshire. Their eldest son, William Soame, was born about 1580. His business in the cloth trade lay largely with the Eastland Company from its charter ", "score": "1.4466183" }, { "id": "9810314", "title": "Henry Souttar", "text": " Henry Sessions Souttar was born at Birkenhead on 14 December 1875, the only son of Robinson Souttar, Member of Parliament for Dumfries (1895–1900), and his wife Mary. He was educated at Oxford high school and Queen's College, Oxford (1895–8). He gained a double first in mathematics and also studied engineering. In 1904 he married Catharine Edith, daughter of Robert Bellamy Clifton, professor of experimental philosophy at Oxford. They had a son and a daughter. Souttar qualified in medicine at the London Hospital, where he became MRCS, LRCP in 1906. He became FRCS in 1909 and was appointed as a surgical registrar. He joined the staff of the West London Hospital ", "score": "1.4431558" } ]

[ "Moravia" ]

[ { "id": "1202704", "title": "Karl Bartholomaeus Heller", "text": " Karl Bartholomaeus Heller (20 November 1824 – 14 December 1880) was an Austrian botanist and naturalist who explored Mexico in 1845–48 and published his memoir. In the latter year Johann Jakob Heckel published the livebearing freshwater Green swordtail (Xiphophorus helleri), since the early 20th century a common aquarium fish, from specimens Heller deposited in Vienna. Born in Moravia, Heller was a professor at the Theresianum in Vienna. Among Heller's later works is his defense of Darwinism, Darwin und der Darwinismus, 1869.", "score": "1.8088986" }, { "id": "15597400", "title": "Stephen Heller", "text": " Heller was born in Pest, Hungary in 1815. He had been destined for a legal career, but instead decided to devote his life to music. At the age of nine he performed Jan Ladislav Dussek's Concerto for Two Pianos with his teacher, F. Brauer, at the Budapest Theater. He played so well that he was sent to study in Vienna, Austria, under Carl Czerny. Unable to afford Czerny's expensive fees, he became a student of Anton Halm. After a success in the first public concert in Vienna at the age of 15, his father undertook a concert tour through Hungary, Poland and Germany. Heller returned to Budapest by way of Kassel, Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Hamburg, and Augsburg. After passing the winter of 1829 at Hamburg, he was taken ill at Augsburg in the summer of 1830. He ", "score": "1.7283466" }, { "id": "27463712", "title": "Karl Schmidt-Hellerau", "text": " Karl Camillo Schmidt-Hellerau (1 February 1873 – 6 November 1948) was a German carpenter, furniture manufacturer and social reformer. He was born in Zschopau, and is notable as the founder of Hellerau, Germany's first garden city, where he died.", "score": "1.7040999" }, { "id": "27515407", "title": "Otto Heller (author)", "text": " Heller was born in Karlsbad, Bohemia (now Karlovy Vary, Česko). He attended the University of Prague, followed by the universities of Munich, Vienna, and Berlin. He came to the United States in 1883 as a tutor and secured the post of instructor in Greek at LaSalle College in Philadelphia in 1887. Heller received his doctor’s degree from the University of Chicago in 1890. Heller taught briefly at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before becoming a professor of German language and literature at Washington University in 1892. In 1914, Heller was made professor of modern European literature in addition to his original professorship, and in 1924 he became the first dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, a post he held until he became dean emeritus in 1937. Heller died on 28 July 1941 at his summer cottage in Bellaire, Michigan.", "score": "1.6977589" }, { "id": "7203388", "title": "Karl Borromaeus Maria Josef Heller", "text": " Karl Borromaeus Maria Josef Heller (21 March 1864, Rappoltenkirchen, Tulln (district) – 25 December 1945, Dresden), was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. He was a Professor and Section leader in the Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden where his collection is maintained. Heller was a taxonomist. He described many new species of world fauna. He was a Member of the Stettin Entomological Society.", "score": "1.6825459" }, { "id": "27078042", "title": "Melanie Kent Steinhardt", "text": " Kent Steinhardt was born in the town of Lemberg, Poland (currently Lvov, Ukraine), which was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. She and her parents, Leopold and Isabella Heller (née Blaustein) were secular Jews. The artist was raised in her father's hometown, Saaz, Bohemia (currently, Zatec, Czech Republic), in the hops-growing region west of Prague. As a teenager, she attended the Kunstgewerbeschule (an arts and crafts school) in Vienna, Austria. In the summer of 1921, in nearby Marienbad (currently Marianski Lasne, Czech Republic), the Heller family encountered a Bavarian merchant, Fritz Steinhardt, who profoundly altered the lives of the Heller family.", "score": "1.632988" }, { "id": "16213400", "title": "Bert Heller", "text": " Bert Heller was born in Aachen, where in 1927 he enrolled for three years as a student at the Fine Arts Academy (as the institution was known at the time). One of his teachers was. On completing his three years at the academy he undertook a study tour that took in the Netherlands, Belgium and Austria, before embarking on a career as a freelance artist based in Laurensberg (Aachen), very close to Germany's Dutch frontier. He also produced some high-profile murals. January 1933 brought régime change and the Hitler government lost little time in imposing one-party government in Germany. Bert Heller joined the ruling Nazi Party in 1940. Between 1940 and 1942 he studied under ", "score": "1.608263" }, { "id": "6374319", "title": "Joseph Heller (zoologist)", "text": " Joseph Alexander Heller (born April 10, 1941 in Sydney, Australia) is an Israeli zoologist-malacologist. Heller is an Associate Professor Emeritus at the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior in the Silverman Institute of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Heller immigrated to Israel in 1949. He received his B.Sc. in Life Science; Zoology and Microbiology in 1965, MSc in Zoology in 1968 and his PhD in 1972 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His dissertation thesis is titled \"Studies on the systematics distribution and ecology of the landsnail Buliminus in Israel\". Heller was a visiting scientist at the University of Liverpool, University of Bristol, University of Cape Town, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He published 4 books and over 100 articles. His books are the first ever on the land snails of Israel and on marine molluscs of the land of Israel.", "score": "1.5915301" }, { "id": "8399713", "title": "Joseph Heller", "text": " Heller was born on May 1, 1923 in Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, the son of poor Jewish parents, Lena and Isaac Donald Heller, from Russia. Even as a child, he loved to write; as a teenager, he wrote a story about the Russian invasion of Finland and sent it to the New York Daily News, which rejected it. After graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1941, Heller spent the next year working as a blacksmith's apprentice, a messenger boy, and a filing clerk. In 1942, at age 19, he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps. Two years later he was sent to the Italian Front, where he flew 60 ", "score": "1.586059" }, { "id": "26393330", "title": "Hietzing", "text": "Hildegard Burjan (1883–1933), social reformer, lived from 1925 to 1933 in Larochegasse ; Friedrich Cerha (born 1926), composer; Kupelwiesergasse ; Franz André Heller, aka André Heller (born 1947), artist, author, singer; Elßlergasse 9 ; Josef Holaubek (1907–1999), legendary Vienna police chief, lived and died in Larochegasse 14 (de) ; Gustav Klimt (1862–1918), painter; Feldmühlgasse 11 ; Adolf Loos (1870–1933), Moravian-born architect ; Hans Moser (1880–1964), actor; Auhofstraße 76–78 ; Klaus Wildbolz (1937-2017), Swiss actor (de) ; Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosopher, resided in late 1919 in the villa of the Sjögren family; St.-Veit-Gasse 17 ", "score": "1.5855854" }, { "id": "12223563", "title": "Walter Heller", "text": " Heller was born in Buffalo, New York, to German immigrants, Gertrude (Warmburg) and Ernst Heller, a civil engineer. After attending Shorewood High School in Shorewood, Wisconsin, he entered Oberlin College in 1931, graduating with a B.A. degree in 1935. Heller received his masters and doctorate degrees in economics from the University of Wisconsin. As a Keynesian, he promoted cuts in the marginal federal income tax rates. This tax cut, which was passed by President Lyndon B. Johnson and Congress after Kennedy's death, was credited for boosting the U.S. economy. Heller developed the first \"voluntary\" wage-price guidelines. When the steel industry failed to follow them, ", "score": "1.5772141" }, { "id": "13983645", "title": "Heller House", "text": " Little is known about Isidore H. Heller and his family, but what is known has been compiled through personal interviews as well as census and county records. Heller was born in Austria in 1847, and his wife, Ida, was born in Wisconsin in 1857. In America, Heller worked at Wolf, Sayer, and Heller: Packers and Butcher's Supplies, which was located on Fulton Street, Chicago, on the northwest side of the city. Heller and Ida were later married and had three children, including Walter Heller, a Chicago investment banker. Heller purchased land in the Hyde Park area of Chicago from Jonas Hamburger on January 2, 1895 and commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design the house in 1896. A building permit was issued on July 13, 1897, at a cost of $7.70, ", "score": "1.5759447" }, { "id": "1023035", "title": "H. Robert Heller", "text": " Heinz Robert Heller (born Heinz Robert Heller) was born January 8, 1940 in Cologne, Germany. He has served as a Governor of the Federal Reserve System and as President of VISA U.S.A. Inc.", "score": "1.5728114" }, { "id": "15597401", "title": "Stephen Heller", "text": " the tour there and was soon afterwards adopted by a wealthy patron of music. At the age of 25, he travelled to Paris, where he became closely acquainted with Hector Berlioz, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt and other renowned composers of his era. Here Heller achieved distinction both as a concert performer and as a teacher. He taught piano to Isidor Philipp, who later became head of the piano department of the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1849 Heller performed in England, where in 1850 he was the subject of a long serial article (that is divided between many issues) devoted to his music in the British Musical World. In 1862 he performed Mozart's E-flat concerto for two pianos with Charles Hallé at The Crystal Palace. He spent the last twenty-five years of his life in Paris.", "score": "1.5712991" }, { "id": "3992093", "title": "Johann Florian Heller", "text": " Johann Florian Heller (4 May 1813 – 21 November 1871) was an Austrian chemist who was one of the founders of clinical chemistry. Heller was born in Vienna, Austria. He studied chemistry in Prague and later with Liebig and Wöhler at Giessen. During those studies he characterized rhodizonic acid and its potassium salt (1837). In 1844 Heller established a laboratory of pathological chemistry in Vienna's General Hospital, but his appointment as head of the lab was delayed until 1855 because some of the faculty thought that the position should be occupied by a medical doctor. During that period he studied the chemistry of urine, and he developed the well-known Heller's ", "score": "1.5650129" }, { "id": "9038165", "title": "Michael Heller (businessman)", "text": " Michael Aron Heller was born in July 1936, and educated at the Harrogate Grammar School in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. He graduated from St Catharine's College, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, where he received a Master of Arts degree in 1955. He is married to Morven Livingstone, Lady Heller (b.1940). Her father, Julius Livingstone (b. Glasgow, 1908) was a family doctor. Her mother Pearl (née Levy, b. Manchester, 1918) studied law but never practiced it. Morven was raised with her younger sister, the human rights lawyer Frances Raday, in Manchester.", "score": "1.5645683" }, { "id": "15063612", "title": "Benjamin Heller (lawyer)", "text": " Heller was born in Liverpool, England, ca. 1905.", "score": "1.5582428" }, { "id": "694779", "title": "Robert Heller (journalist)", "text": " Born in London, Heller attended Christ's Hospital in the Sussex countryside, served in the Royal Army Service Corps, and then attended Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a double first in history. In 1955 Heller started to work for the Financial Times, where in 1958 he was made US correspondent. In 1963 he moved to become business editor of The Observer. In 1966 Heller was founding editor of Management Today, a monthly business magazine published by Haymarket Publishing, where he worked for two decades. Here he started a second career as a writer of business books. During the early 1970s, he started a relationship with gallerist Angela Flowers, who he eventually married in 2003. They had a daughter, Rachel Heller, born on 15 September 1973, who was born with Down's syndrome, and became an artist represented by Flowers Gallery.", "score": "1.5441728" }, { "id": "6057499", "title": "Hermine Heller-Ostersetzer", "text": " Heller-Ostersetzer was born on 23 July 1874 in Vienna, Austria. She attended the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She died in Grimmenstein, Austria on 8 March 1909.", "score": "1.5437844" }, { "id": "2745658", "title": "Barbara Heller", "text": " Barbara Heller was born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Her father Eugene Heller was a restorer of church art. After the parental home was bombed in 1943, the family moved to Hammelbach/Odenwald. In 1948 they returned to Ludwigshafen, in 1949 moved to Mannheim, then to Cologne and Darmstadt. Barbara Heller studied music in Mannheim and Munich and graduated in 1957. Her first attempts at composition were in 1949, though self-taught. She studied composition with Hans Vogt and Harald Genzmer and film music for a short time in Siena. She received several scholarships to the Darmstädter Ferienkurse where she studied under Hermann Heiss and David Tudor, among others. From 1958 to 1962 she was a lecturer and piano teacher at the School ", "score": "1.5302432" } ]

[ "Madrid", "City of Madrid", "Madrid, Spain" ]

[ { "id": "5350346", "title": "Aurelio Suárez", "text": " Suárez was born in Gijón, where he held his first exhibition when he was 19 years old at the Escuela Superior de Comercio. He mixed his surrealistic imagination with images of his life: the city, people and self-portraits. He also worked for magazines drawing comics strips or even designing for dishes and ceramics. In 1934, he had an exhibition in the Modern Art Museum of Madrid (currently Museo Reina Sofía).", "score": "1.7429762" }, { "id": "4784283", "title": "Enrique Omar Suárez", "text": " Suárez was born and raised in Monte Caseros, a town in the province of Corrientes, where he grew up in “a humble family.” His father was a carpenter, and his mother a hairdresser. He had two brothers and a sister. His brother Antonio, who was in turn president of the Social Work SOMU and head of the AFJP (Administradoras de Fondos de Jubilaciones y Pensiones) San José, died under “strange” circumstances but was ruled a suicide.", "score": "1.7408613" }, { "id": "12654452", "title": "Luis Suárez", "text": " Suárez was born in Salto, Uruguay to Sandra Diaz and Rodolfo Suárez, the fourth of seven boys. His older brother, Paolo Suárez, is a retired professional footballer, who last played for Isidro Metapán in El Salvador. Suárez moved with his family to Montevideo when he was seven, and his parents separated when he was nine. In Montevideo, he developed his football skills on the streets, while also taking up work as a street sweeper at the age of 15. The contrast between his life in Europe and the poverty he left behind has been cited as contributing to his periodic aggression on the field, as well as being a possible explanation for the more ", "score": "1.7023411" }, { "id": "3445863", "title": "Xavier Suarez", "text": " He was born on May 21, 1949, in Las Villas, Cuba. Suarez attended the Colegio de Belén but graduated from St. Anselm's Abbey School in 1967. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering from Villanova University in 1971, followed by a Master of Public Administration and Juris Doctor from Harvard University.", "score": "1.6993436" }, { "id": "6607256", "title": "Alejandro Suárez Lozano", "text": " Suárez was born in Barakaldo, Basque Country in Spain and is the son of filmmaker Julio Suárez Vega known for his adventure comedy At Full Gallop and Tritones. His family moved to Léon when he was one year-old. Suárez first experienced working with film when he helped his father shoot short films with Super 8 camera. In 1999, Suarez began his professional career as a storyboard artist, working under the guidance of renown Spanish directors Achero Mañas and Daniel Monzón. In 2005, Suarez co-directed his first short film Escorzo with Guillermo Navajo.", "score": "1.6927149" }, { "id": "24910454", "title": "Juan Carlos Suárez-Quiñones", "text": " Juan Carlos was born in León, Spain. Juan Carlos has been a member of various commissions and reflection groups of the ministry of justice. Juan Carlos was honored in 1999 by the decree mayor of the león at the police academy. Juan Carlos was studied at University of León.", "score": "1.6893374" }, { "id": "14848510", "title": "Rodolfo Suárez", "text": " Rodolfo Alejandro Suarez was born on 20 April 1963 in the rural town of La Consulta, in the San Carlos Department of Mendoza Province, the youngest of four siblings. Suárez comes from a political family: both of his grandfathers served as mayors of San Carlos; Ricardo Reynoso for the Justicialist Party (PJ) and Ulpiano Suárez for the Radical Civic Union (UCR). Rodolfo's father, Ulpiano, served as president of the provincial Chamber of Deputies. His nephew, also named Ulpiano after his father and grandfather, succeeded him as mayor of Mendoza in 2019. Suárez moved to Mendoza in 1981 to study law at the University of Mendoza, later finishing his studies at the National University of Córdoba, where he earned his licenciatura in 1991.", "score": "1.6868731" }, { "id": "3445862", "title": "Xavier Suarez", "text": " Xavier Louis Suarez (born May 21, 1949) is an American politician in who was the first Cuban-born mayor of Miami and was a Miami-Dade county commissioner.", "score": "1.683381" }, { "id": "28652125", "title": "Gastón Suárez", "text": " Gastón Suárez (born January 27, 1929 &ndash; November 6, 1984) was a Bolivian novelist and dramatist. Suárez was born in the town of Tupiza in the southern part of Potosí, Bolivia in 1929. A self-taught writer, Suárez abandoned elementary school at third grade, following a traumatizing event in which his teacher suffered an epilepsy attack while reading for him. Ironically, his mother, who was also a rural teacher, accepted to home-school him. When he was ten, after reading Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen by Jules Verne and Jerry of the Islands by Jack London he promised and swore himself to become, some day, a writer. By the end of the 1950s he ", "score": "1.6831951" }, { "id": "31015315", "title": "Javier Suárez (economist)", "text": " Javier Suárez Bernaldo de Quirós (born 1966, in Madrid) is a Spanish economist who is known for his specialization in financial crises. He studied economics at the Complutense University of Madrid (Bachelor's degree, 1989) and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Doctorate, 1994) He was a Postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University (1994) and Lecturer in Economics at the London School of Economics (1994–1996). He currently works as a professor at CEMFI (Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros, Center for Monetary and Financial Studies), and collaborates with Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), with the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and with the Editorial Board of the Review of Finance.", "score": "1.6698711" }, { "id": "8557084", "title": "José A. Suarez", "text": " Suarez was born in Puerto Rico and moved to Connecticut with his family at the age of 11.", "score": "1.6679068" }, { "id": "12654367", "title": "Luis Suárez", "text": " Suárez lived his early years at the Cerro neighbourhood in Salto, where he played youth football at Sportivo Artigas. At age seven, he moved with his family (parents and six brothers) to Montevideo, where he played youth football at Urreta. When he was a kid, a car ran over his foot, breaking the fifth metatarsal bone. In spite of the injury, he continued to play.", "score": "1.6629604" }, { "id": "4964415", "title": "Tony Suarez", "text": " Suarez was born in Havana, Cuba. In 1972 his parents, Roberto and Miriam Suarez, left Cuba and relocated their family in Charlotte, North Carolina, where Suarez attended Myers Park High School. He graduated from Myers Park in 1974, enrolled in Appalachian State University, then transferred to Belmont Abbey College, where he received a B.A. in Business Management.", "score": "1.6603421" }, { "id": "3455811", "title": "Manuel Suárez y Suárez", "text": " Manuel Suárez y Suárez was born on 23 March 1896 in Téifaros, 3 km from Navia, Asturias. He was the second son of a family of ten. His parents were cousins, Balbina Suárez Rodríguez of Téifaros and Manuel Suárez Fernández of Loredo, Villayón. They grew potatoes and grain, and had two cows and a donkey. He received a basic education in the village school, and acquired a love of books. Manuel's older brother Joaquin moved to Mexico to work on the dairy farm of his uncle Joaquín Rodríguez y García Loredo, but when he arrived found his uncle had died. Joaquin became a clerk at the wholesale grain merchant Casa Peral Alverde ", "score": "1.6580148" }, { "id": "27403471", "title": "Carlos Fonseca Suárez", "text": " Fonseca Suárez was born in San José, Costa Rica in 1987. Born to a Costa Rican father and a Puerto Rican mother, he spent most of his adolescence in Puerto Rico. After attending high school at Colegio San Ignacio in Puerto Rico, he attended Stanford University where in 2009 he graduated with a degree in Comparative Literature. He then attended Princeton University where he obtained a PhD in Latin American Literature and Culture, with a dissertation on artistic representations of natural catastrophes in Latin American culture. He currently lives in London and is a lecturer at the Centre for Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. His first novel, Colonel Lágrimas, published in Spain and Latin America by Anagrama and in English by Restless Books, received critical acclaim and was praised by The Guardian as a “dazzling debut” and by Valerie Miles, in The New York Times Book Review as a “gorgeous opera prima” His second novel, Museo animal, Natural History, will be published in 2020 in an English translation.", "score": "1.6474645" }, { "id": "4997668", "title": "Manolo Caro", "text": " He was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, in 1985, son of Norma Alicia Serrano and Gil Caro. He studied architecture at the TEC de Monterrey, Mexico City campus, and later studied directing at the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños, in Cuba, and at the studio of Juan Carlos Corazza, in Madrid. Caro first met Cecilia Suárez when he was a teenager and she visited his high school to listen to a reading of Los cuervos están de luto; the pair were introduced after the reading by his teacher, Suárez' cousin.", "score": "1.6407175" }, { "id": "520703", "title": "Anthony R. Suarez", "text": " Suarez was born in Englewood, New Jersey and was raised in Ridgefield. He graduated from Ridgefield Memorial High School in 1984. He then attended Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, graduating with a B.A. degree in 1988. He received a J.D. degree from Fordham University School of Law in 1993. He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1993 and the New York Bar in 1994. He is currently an attorney at the Fort Lee law firm Dario Yacker Suarez & Albert. Suarez was elected to the Ridgefield Borough Council in 1998, and was reelected to the Council in 2001. He was elected mayor in 2003 and was reelected in 2007. He is the first elected Latino mayor in the history of Bergen County and the second Democratic mayor in the history of Ridgefield.", "score": "1.6288035" }, { "id": "31585980", "title": "Alejandro Mayorkas", "text": " Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, nicknamed Ali, was born in Havana, Cuba, on November 24, 1959. When he was one year old, his parents fled with him and his sister to the United States in 1960 as refugees, following the Cuban Revolution. He lived in Miami, Florida, before his family moved to Los Angeles, California, where he was raised for the remainder of his youth. Mayorkas grew up in Beverly Hills and attended Beverly Hills High School. His father, Charles R. \"Nicky\" Mayorkas, was born in Cuba. He was a Cuban Jew of Sephardi (from the former Ottoman Empire, present-day Turkey and Greece) and Ashkenazi (from Poland) background. He owned and operated a steel wool factory on the outskirts of Havana. Nicky Mayorkas studied economics at Dartmouth College. His mother, Anita (Gabor), was a Romanian Jew whose family escaped the Holocaust and fled to Cuba in the 1940s. The Cuban Revolution marked the second time his mother would be forced to flee a country she considered home. Mayorkas earned his Bachelor of Arts degree with distinction from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1981. He received his Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School in 1985.", "score": "1.6277881" }, { "id": "16305028", "title": "Javier Cámara", "text": " He was born in Albelda de Iregua, La Rioja. He later moved to Madrid and graduated from the Dramatic Art School. He worked as an usher at the Figaro Theatre in Madrid.", "score": "1.6186748" }, { "id": "27431555", "title": "Luis Suárez (Spanish footballer)", "text": " Luis Suárez Miramontes was born on 2 May 1935, in A Coruña, Galicia. He lived on Avenida de Hércules in the working-class neighborhood of Monte Alto where he was known by the diminutive Luisito. He began his career with local side Deportivo de La Coruña in 1949 and worked his way through the junior sides before making his La Liga debut with Deportivo on 6 December 1953 in a 6–1 defeat to FC Barcelona. Among his teammates at Deportivo were Pahiño and Arsenio Iglesias. He played 17 games and scored 3 goals for Deportivo during the remaining season. In 1954, he was transferred to CF Barcelona but spent most of the 1954–55 season playing for their reserve side, España Industrial, in the second division.", "score": "1.613353" } ]

[ "Kursk" ]

[ { "id": "6380453", "title": "Anatol Ugorski", "text": " Anatol Ugorski was born into a poor background and is the eldest of five children. In 1945 his parents moved to Leningrad where he attended his first school, singing and playing the xylophone. At the age of six he passed selection for the Saint Petersburg Conservatory where he studied until 1960. He was subsequently admitted to the Conservatory of Leningrad in the piano class of Nadezhda Gouloubovskaia with whom he worked until 1965. As a student he attracted attention through the interpretation of avant-garde pieces; abandoning the repertoire traditionally devoted to Russian pianists, he played in the USSR some of the works of controversial Western composers such as Arnold Schönberg (Pierrot Lunaire), Alban Berg, Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Boulez, assisted by his ", "score": "1.6597633" }, { "id": "6380452", "title": "Anatol Ugorski", "text": " Anatol Ugorski (in Анатолий Угорский, born 28 September 1942 in Rubtsovsk, Altai Krai, Soviet Union) is a classical pianist of Russian origin who lives in Germany.", "score": "1.627777" }, { "id": "9444024", "title": "Anatoli Georgievich Vitushkin", "text": " Anatoli Georgievich Vitushkin was born on 25 June 1931 in Moscow. He was blind.", "score": "1.5958655" }, { "id": "12213249", "title": "Victor Nemtsev", "text": " Victor Nemtsev (January 16, 1936 - November 9, 2018) was a Chuvash painter and member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1967). He was born in the village of Votlany, Komsomol district, Chuvash ASSR, and died in Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic.", "score": "1.5806103" }, { "id": "5298524", "title": "Nikolai Vasilyevich Vasilyev", "text": " Nicholas B. Vassilieve was born on 26th of November 1875 in the village of Uglich in the Governorate of Yaroslavl, His father, a native peasant, later became a member of the merchant class in St. Petersburg.", "score": "1.5537454" }, { "id": "12334826", "title": "List of people from Yekaterinburg", "text": "Viktor Anichkin (1941–1975), Russian footballer ; Vladimir Mulyavin (1941–2003), Soviet and Belarusian rock musician and the founder of the folk-rock band Pesniary ; Alexander Maslyakov (born 1941), prominent Soviet and Russian television game show host ; Vladimir Grammatikov (born 1942), Russian and Soviet actor theater and film, director, screenwriter and producer ; Samuil Lurie (1942–2015), Russian writer and literary historian ; Lyudmila Bragina (born 1943), Russian middle distance runner ; Semyon Altov (born 1945), Jewish Russian and Soviet comedy writer ; Vitaly Naumkin (born 1945), Russian Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences ; Vladimir Gostyukhin (born 1946), Soviet, Russian and Belarusian film and stage actor ; Nukhim Rashkovsky (born 1946), Russian chess Grandmaster and coach ; Sergey Cheskidov (born 1947), Soviet and Russian sports commentator, broadcaster ; Vladimir Ilyin (born 1947), Soviet and Russian actor ; Vladimir Makeranets (born 1947), Soviet and Russian director of photography, producer and film director ; Boris Belkin (born 1948), Russian violin virtuoso ; Georgy Shishkin (born 1948), Russian painter ; Alfia Nazmutdinova (born 1949), Soviet rhythmic gymnast ; Oleg Platonov (born 1950), Russian writer, historian and economist ", "score": "1.5503918" }, { "id": "788501", "title": "Vladimir Efimov", "text": " Vladimir Efimov was born in Kursk on June 26, 1981.", "score": "1.5467589" }, { "id": "12213250", "title": "Victor Nemtsev", "text": " In 1959, Nemtsev graduated from Cheboksary art school, and later the Chuvash State Pedagogical Institute in 1970. From 1961 to 1966, he worked as the headteacher of the Cheboksary Children's Art School No. 1.", "score": "1.5451343" }, { "id": "32003967", "title": "Victor Kostetskiy", "text": " Kosteskiy was born in Zhmerinka. He lived in St. Petersburg. He spent eighteen months in the graphic arts department of the Herzen Pedagogical Institute. In 1965 he graduated from Saint Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy (Boris Sohn's course).", "score": "1.5417488" }, { "id": "11473953", "title": "Viktor Verzhbitsky", "text": " Viktor Alexandrovich Verzhbitsky was born on 21 September 1959 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR. His aristocratic surname is due to his great-grandfather - a Krakow Pole. Viktor spent his childhood behind the scenes - his grandmother worked in the theater as a dresser. In 1983 he graduated from the Tashkent Theater and Art Institute named after A.N. Ostrovsky.", "score": "1.5416708" }, { "id": "30189101", "title": "Ujal Hagverdiyev", "text": " Ujal Hagverdiyev was born on June 9, 1960 in Baku. He studied at Art School named after Azim Azimzade. In 1979 he was admitted to the State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR, but continued his education at Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University named after Vladimir Lenin (now named after N.Tusi). In 1985 Hagverdiyev joined the Young Artists Union under the Union of Artists. Since 1997, he became a member of the Union of Artists of Azerbaijan. In 1987 U.Hagverdiyev started participating in exhibitions in the Soviet Union and Azerbaijan. The same year, he became an Orthodox Christian, got baptized and took the name \"Peter\". In 1988–1991, he was a pensioner of the USSR Academy of Arts and participated in the Academy's reporting exhibitions. In 1990 Ujal Hagverdiyev participated ", "score": "1.5263877" }, { "id": "4273784", "title": "Vladimir Uflyand", "text": " Vladimir Iosifovich Uflyand (Владимир Иосифович Уфлянд; 1937–2007) was a Russian poet, famous for such poems as It has For Ages Been Observed; Now, At Last, Even Nikifor's A Suitor; The Peasant; and The Working Week Comes To An End. Vladimir Uflyand was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). He studied history at Leningrad State University, and later worked as a labourer and as a stoker. His poems circulated in samizdat, and he also published his poems for children in Soviet periodicals. His poetry for adults was first published in a book form in the USA in 1978, titled Texts 1955–1977. In 1993, his collection, Poems and Texts, was published in St. Petersburg. Two more poetry books followed in 1995 and in 1997. In 2000, a book of his essays was published in St. Petersburg.", "score": "1.5232267" }, { "id": "15032474", "title": "Vasily Kamensky", "text": " Kamensky was born in the Perm district, where his father was an inspector of goldfields. (The story that he was born on a boat on the Kama River, which he himself promoted and recounts in his memoirs, is untrue. ) He lost his parents at the age of five and went to live in Perm with his aunt, whose husband piloted steam tugs on the river; he later wrote \"My whole childhood took place in a house on the Kama wharf among tugs, barges, rafts, boats, stevedores, sailors, bargees, captains...\" He left school in 1900, and from 1902 to 1906 worked as a railroad clerk. In 1904 he began to contribute to the newspaper Permskii Krai, publishing poems and notices; at the newspaper he met local Marxists and developed his own leftist political orientation. At this time he also took up acting and traveled around Russia with a theatrical troupe. On his return to the Urals, he became an agitator and led the strike committee at Nizhny Tagil, for which he was sentenced to prison. On his release, he traveled to Istanbul and Tehran; the impressions from this Eastern trip would leave a mark on his later work.", "score": "1.5221126" }, { "id": "12965931", "title": "Dmitry Fedoseyev", "text": " Fedoseev was born on October 3, 1965, in Perm. From 1982 to 1987 he studied in the department of Cryolithology and Glaciology in the geographical faculty of Moscow State University. From 1987 to 1989 he served in the Soviet Army. In 1989, he moved to Norilsk. He worked in the scientific-research and design institute of bases and underground structures named after N. M. Gersevanov (NIIOSP). He was engaged in scientific-research works on construction and exploitation of buildings and structures in the conditions of permafrost soils. He also worked for some time in the institute of Norilskproekt and the MMC Norilsk Nickel. Since childhood he had always played football at the amateur level, continuing to play while studying at the university, in the army, and in his free time ", "score": "1.5168109" }, { "id": "12172481", "title": "Vitebsk", "text": "Zhores Alferov (1930-2019), physicist, 2000 Nobel Prize Winner for Physics ; S. Ansky (1863–1920), playwright, The Dybbuk ; Anatol Baharyroǔ (Anatoly Bogatyrev) (1913 – 2003), Belarusian composer ; Vladimir Bourmeister (1904–1971), ballet choreographer ; Marc Chagall (1887–1985), artist ; Max Danish (1881–1964), U.S. labor journalist with ILGWU ; Sam Dolgoff (1902–1990), anarcho-syndicalist housepainter ; Tanya Dziahileva (1991-), model ; Alexandra Holub (1986-), painter and poet ; Mark Fradkin (1914 – 1990), composer ; Leon Gaspard (1882–1964), artist ; Joseph Günzburg (1812–1878), Russian financier and philanthropist ; Isser Harel (1912–2003), Israel intelligence chief ; Lazar Khidekel (1904–1986), artist, architect ; Lev Khidekel (1909—1977), architect ; Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin (1750 – 1807), poet ", "score": "1.5157433" }, { "id": "27939916", "title": "Dmitri Lyudvigovich Tomashevich", "text": " Tomashevich was born into a noble - but impoverished - family on 27 September 1899, in the town of Rokitnoe near Kyiv (Kiev). On leaving school in 1918 he entered St. Vladimir University in Kyiv (now known as the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), but his studies were soon terminated by the political turmoil of the time. Needing to support himself he returned to Rokitnoe, where he found work as a mechanic at the Siniavskyi sugar factory. There, in October 1920, he lost his right eye in an accident. By 1922, however, he had worked long enough to qualify for entry as a \"non-proletariat\" student ", "score": "1.5146953" }, { "id": "5048745", "title": "Vasily Anisimoff", "text": " Vasily Anisimovich Anisimoff (alias, né Vasily Onisimovich Afanasiev), the youngest child in the family of protopriest Father Onesimus (Onesimus Afanasiev), was born in 1878 in the remote village of Apanasovo-Tamashi of Kazan province (now Kazan region), where his father, a graduate of the Saint Petersburg Theological seminary, had been sent in the early 1870s to serve as the Dean of the local church. Vasily Anisimoff entered the Kazan Pedagogical Seminary and, in 1898, successfully passed the examination for the title of magister. In 1905, Anisimoff graduated from the Kazan Teachers Institute (now Tatar State University of Humanities and Education). During the years of study at the Kazan Teachers Institute, about mid-1902, ", "score": "1.5118961" }, { "id": "12334825", "title": "List of people from Yekaterinburg", "text": "Alexander Avdonin (born 1932), Russian mineralogist, archeologist ; Roman Tkachuk (1932–1994), Soviet theatre and film actor ; Erik Bulatov (born 1933), Russian artist ; Valeri Urin (born 1934), Soviet football player ; Edouard Pliner (born 1936), Soviet and Russian figure skating coach ; Aleksandr Demyanenko (1937–1999), Russian film and theater actor ; Albert Filozov (1937–2016), Soviet and Russian actor ; Aleksei Zasukhin (1937–1996), Soviet boxer ; Old Man Bukashkin (1938–2005), Russian artist and poet ; Oleg Dementiev (1938–1991), Russian chess master who won the Russian Chess Championship in 1971 ; Viktor Dolnik (1938–2013), Russian ornithologist ; Alexander Dolsky (born 1938), Soviet and Russian poet, writer, artist and most famously known for being a bard ; Igor Bakalov (1939–1992), Soviet sports shooter ; Igor Ksenofontov (1939–1999), Soviet and Russian figure skating coach, founder of the Yekaterinburg figure skating school, president of the Sverdlovsk Figure Skating Federation ; Dmitri Z. Garbuzov (1940–2006), Russian-American physicist; one of the pioneers and inventors of room temperature continuous-wave-operating diode lasers and high-power diode lasers ; Alexei Khvostenko (1940–2004), Russian avant-garde poet, singer-songwriter, artist and sculptor ", "score": "1.5076344" }, { "id": "10403995", "title": "Vladimir Burtsev", "text": " Burtsev was born in Fort- Aleksandrovsky, in the Transcaspian Oblast of the Russian Empire (present-day Kazakhstan) to a military family. In 1882, he was expelled from Saint Petersburg State University and in 1885 from Kazan State University for taking part in student disturbances. As a member of Narodnaya Volya, he was imprisoned for two years (for about a year in the Peter and Paul Fortress) and in 1886 exiled to the Irkutsk region of Eastern Siberia.", "score": "1.5069703" }, { "id": "28751541", "title": "Alexander Poskrebyshev", "text": " Poskrebyshev was born on 7 August 1891, in the village of Uspenskoe near the city of Vyatka in the Russian Empire, the son of a shoemaker. His mother was Nadezhda Efimovna. He had one brother, Ivan, and two sisters, Olga and Alexandra. He studied to become a medical assistant, graduating in 1918.", "score": "1.5061386" } ]

[ "Turin", "Torino", "Turin, Italy" ]

[ { "id": "6373348", "title": "Domenico Bologna", "text": " Domenico Bologna (born in Turin August 22, 1845 – 1885) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes with figures. He trained under professors Antonio Fontanesi and Francesco Gamba in Accademia Albertina. Among his works are: Dopo Vespro, exhibited in 1875 at Milan; Tramonto, exhibited in 1881 at Milan; Il Tanaro, bought by the Società promotrice of Fine Arts in Genoa; Le sponde del Po at Turin, sold in 1878 at St Petersburg, Russia, Le sponde del Tanaro; Inverno ; Pascolo; and Tramonto, exhibited in 1883 at Rome.", "score": "1.8773005" }, { "id": "11198357", "title": "Bologna", "text": " the Bologna Chamber Orchestra in 1946, 7 February 1915 – 13 December 2007) ; Umberto Eco (writer and academic, born in Alessandria, Piedmont, 1932–2016) ; Enzio of Sardinia (born c. 1218, King of Sardinia and illegitimate son of Emperor Frederick II, was imprisoned in Palazzo Re Enzo from 1249 until his death in 1272) ; Vasco Errani (politician, born 1955) ; William Girometti (painter, born in Milan, 1924–1998) ; Alfonso Lombardi (sculptor, born in Ferrara, c. 1497–1537) ; Niccolò dell'Arca (sculptor, born in Bari, c. 1435/1440–2 March 1494) ; Juan Ignacio Molina (naturalist, born in Chile, 1740–1829) ; Giovanni Pascoli (poet and ", "score": "1.7231818" }, { "id": "11198358", "title": "Bologna", "text": " born in San Mauro di Romagna, 1855–1912) ; St. Petronius (San Petronio, bishop of Bologna and patron saint of the city, birthplace unknown, died c. 450 AD) ; Romano Prodi (economist, politician, born in Scandiano, Reggio Emilia, 1939) ; Gioachino Rossini (opera composer, born in Pesaro, 1792–1868) ; Giuseppe Torelli (composer, born in Verona, 1658–1709) ; Wu Ming (collective of writers, active since 2000) ; Farinelli (Carlo Broschi, castrato opera singer, 1705–1782) ; Giorgio Rosa (engineer, president of short-lived micronation Republic of Rose Island, 1925–2017) In addition to the natives of the city listed above, the following have made Bologna their home:", "score": "1.6994522" }, { "id": "88614", "title": "Domenico Pedrini", "text": " Domenico Pedrini (Bologna, 1728 - Bologna, 1800) was an Italian painter. Fiercely provincial in his geographic activity, Pedrini's works were mainly completed in and around Bologna, and yet his atavistic style strayed far afield into Bologna's strong Baroque ancestry.", "score": "1.6982138" }, { "id": "5590945", "title": "Domenico Ferrabosco", "text": " Born in Bologna, Domenico was one of four sons of Annibale Ferrabosco, members of a distinguished Bolognese family whose genealogical records date back to the middle of the 15th century. Domenico is the first of the family known to be a musician. Little is known about his early life. He was a singer at the cathedral of San Petronio, and by 1540 had established a high enough reputation for his various musical activities that the city officials gave him a lifetime stipend to oversee the palace musicians. Sometime in the 1540s he went to Rome, and he became magister puerorum (director of the boy's choir) for the Julian Chapel in 1546. However, due to family obligations he returned to Bologna in 1547, ", "score": "1.689389" }, { "id": "8414599", "title": "Domenico Guglielmini", "text": " Born in Bologna within a well-off family, he graduated in medicine in 1678 with Marcello Malpighi at the University of Bologna, at the same time he studied mathematics with Geminiano Montanari and became a member of the Academia della Traccia o dei Filosofi. His first mathematical writings topic was astronomy, but later he focused his studies on hydraulics. In 1686 he was named \"Bologna General Water Administrator\", an important role due to the large number of watercourses existing in the area and the frequent flooding that required surveillance. The experience gave inspiration for his well known work \"Della natura dei fiumi\" which is considered a masterpiece of modern ", "score": "1.6744441" }, { "id": "13978527", "title": "Antonio Mosca", "text": " Mosca was born in Pieve di Cento, and died in Bologna. Born to a humble family, he obtained a stipend from the Pious Legacy or Endowment by the Melloni family to attend the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna during 1894 to 1896. He refined his ability to paint portraits. By 1900, Antonio had moved to Bologna, and established friendships with Francesco Fabbri and Cesare Mauro Trebbi, with whom he would collaborate in the decoration of the cupola of the church of Church of San Pietro in Castello d'Argile. In 1905, he was employed in collaboration with Domenico Ferri, in the decoration of the cupola and apse of the church of Santa Maria Magdalena in Bologna. He pursued this work in a number of churches in Northeast Italy, including the parish church of Tuenno in Trentino-Alto Adige and in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception in Borgo Valsugana, Trento. He wrote a treatise on perspective awarded at prizes in Milan, Paris, and Bologna in 1913. In 1912-1913 he painted a portrait of King Nikola I of Montenegro. Pieve di Cento in 1924 commissioned him to decorate the public clock in the Palazzo Comunale.", "score": "1.6518312" }, { "id": "27894980", "title": "Domenico Maria Viani", "text": " He was born in Bologna, the son of Giovanni Maria Viani, and was educated there under his father, who kept a rival academy to that of Carlo Cignani. For the church of La Natività at Bologna, there is a series of Prophets and Evangelists by him; for the church of Santo Spirito, Bergamo, he painted a Miracle of St Antony of Padua. He disappeared in Pistoia where he is also thought to have died.", "score": "1.6251092" }, { "id": "8414598", "title": "Domenico Guglielmini", "text": " Domenico Guglielmini (Bologna, 27 September 1655 - Padua, 27 July 1710) was an Italian mathematician, chemist and physician. He lived and worked with success in Bologna and Padua rising to a notable level of prominence.", "score": "1.6187817" }, { "id": "12361001", "title": "Giuseppe Antonio Caccioli", "text": " Giuseppe Antonio Caccioli was born in Bologna. When he was three, his father the painter Giovanni Battista Caccioli died, and from a very early age he was taught to paint by his tutors. He later apprenticed with the brothers Giuseppe and Antonio Rolli who at the time were painting the ceiling of San Paolo Maggiore church in Bologna. Caccioli had a natural predisposition for the art of painting. He married Rosa Teresa Fontana with whom he had two boys. He died in Bologna at the age of 67 and was buried in Santa Maria Maggiore in Bologna.", "score": "1.6170908" }, { "id": "3732319", "title": "Domenico Canale", "text": " Domenico was from San Pietro di Rovereto, a community within the municipality of Zoagli along the Italian Riviera, approximately 40 km southeast of Genoa. The son of Giovanni Canale and A. Vaccaro, Domenico sailed to America in February 1859 at sixteen years old. He landed in New Orleans after a 65-day voyage, and boarded the steamboat John Simon up the Mississippi River and settled in Memphis, Tennessee.", "score": "1.6156633" }, { "id": "11968964", "title": "Domenichino", "text": " Domenichino was born in Bologna, son of a shoemaker, and there initially studied under Denis Calvaert. After quarreling with Calvaert, he left to work in the Accademia degli Incamminati of the Carracci where, because of his small stature, he was nicknamed Domenichino, meaning \"little Domenico\" in Italian. He left Bologna for Rome in 1602 and became one of the most talented apprentices to emerge from Annibale Carracci's supervision. As a young artist in Rome he lived with his slightly older Bolognese colleagues Albani and Guido Reni, and worked alongside Lanfranco, who later would become a chief rival. In addition to assisting Annibale with completion of ", "score": "1.611721" }, { "id": "912695", "title": "Domenico Galeazzi", "text": " Domenico Galeazzi (Bologna, 20 May 1647 &ndash; Bologna, 9 April 1731) was an Italian painter.", "score": "1.6113794" }, { "id": "8604144", "title": "Giovanni Battista Guglielmini", "text": " Guglielmini was born at Bologna, received the tonsure in early youth and was a secular priest (\"abate\"). His career in the Church is unknown; he died single. A protégé of Cardinal Ignazio Boncompagni, he pursued higher studies, and graduated in philosophy, in 1787, at the age of 24. If he was a relative of the famous engineer and physician, Domenico Guglielmini, who had been general superintendent of the Bologna waterworks a hundred years before, he was certainly not his direct descendant.", "score": "1.5946724" }, { "id": "31589800", "title": "Giovanni Battista Savelli", "text": " He was born in Rome. There is no data about his education. As a young man, he was appointed protonotary apostolic. He was named governor of Bologna during 1468 - 1470.", "score": "1.5940764" }, { "id": "3564966", "title": "Paolo Negro", "text": " Negro was born in Arzignano, Province of Vicenza. A youth player at Brescia Calcio, he joined Bologna in 1990, and made his Serie A debut against Genoa, on 28 October 1990, amassing over 50 overall appearances in his first two professional seasons, the latter spent in Serie B.", "score": "1.589699" }, { "id": "11445167", "title": "David Bologna", "text": " Born and raised in New Orleans, Bologna is the son of Rick Bologna and Holly Bologna. Their home was flooded when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, and the family moved to Austin, Texas. He was active in local theatre productions, including Bye Bye Birdie at Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, “Seussical the Musical” with Brandt Blocker Presents at Six Flags New Orleans, and Peter Pan, until Hurricane Katrina forced his family to relocate to Austin, Texas. In Texas he performed with the Zachary Scott Theatre and the youth theatre kidsActing Studio and appeared in multiple productions, including Beauty and the Beast, Grease, and Cabaret. He is a two-time winner of the North American Irish Dancing Championships and placed fifth in the World Irish Dance Championships. He also won the Big Easy ", "score": "1.5879443" }, { "id": "12566230", "title": "Pio Panfili", "text": " He was born in Porto San Giorgio in the province of Fermo. He trained with Antiveduto Grammatica, Natale Ricci in Fermo, and finally in the Accademia Clementina of Bologna, and was awarded Bolognese citizenship. After painting throughout the region, he moved to Bologna in 1767. He died in 1812 in Bologna. He painted the ceiling of the staircase of the monastery of the Padri Conventuali of Montegiorgio and the refectory of the Augustinians in Rimini. Also painted for palaces, including the Palazzo Priorale, and the ceiling of the cathedral of Fermo. He published Vedute di Bologna with 52 engravings by himself and published by Petronio Dalla Volpe.", "score": "1.5868609" }, { "id": "7080619", "title": "Domenico Svampa", "text": " Domenico Svampa (13 June 1851, in Montegranaro, Papal States – 10 August 1907, in Bologna, Kingdom of Italy) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal who served as the Archbishop of Bologna from 1894 until his death.", "score": "1.5844023" }, { "id": "11198356", "title": "Bologna", "text": " 1973) ; Vitale da Bologna (painter, fl. 1330, d. 1361) ; Anteo Zamboni (anarchist who at the age of 15 attempted to assassinate Benito Mussolini, 1911–1926) ; Alex Zanardi (racing driver, born 1966) ; Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti (writer, musician, and composer, 1801–1878) ; Alessandro Carloni (director, animator, artist who worked on films like Kung Fu Panda and The Croods, born 1978) ; Saint Catherine of Bologna (Caterina de' Vigri) (1413–1463) Poor Claire nun, writer, mystic, artist Giosuè Carducci (poet and academic, Nobel Prize for Literature, born near Lucca, Tuscany, 1835–1907) ; Carlo Felice Cillario (Italian conductor of international renown, founder ", "score": "1.5838015" } ]

[ "Athens" ]

[ { "id": "14207580", "title": "Alexandros Matsas", "text": " Alexandros A. Mátsas (Αλέξανδρος Μάτσας, 1911 &ndash; 1969) was a Greek poet and ambassador of Greece. He was born in Athens, Greece. After following courses on political science and classical studies at Oxford University, he entered the Greek diplomatic service in 1934. He served in various posts in Egypt, Paris, The Hague, and Rome, and was Royal Greek Ambassador to Turkey and the United States of America. He published several books of poetry (the first written in French) and three poetical dramas on ancient themes, of which two (Clytemnestra and Croesus) were produced by the Royal Theater of Athens in 1957 and 1963 respectively.", "score": "1.901895" }, { "id": "14207581", "title": "Alexandros Matsas", "text": "Poems. Athens. 1946.''' ", "score": "1.7044857" }, { "id": "911446", "title": "Michael Matsas", "text": " Michael Naoum Matsas (b. 1930) is a Holocaust survivor and author. He was born in Ioannina, Greece, and survived the Holocaust by hiding with the Greek resistance.", "score": "1.6679639" }, { "id": "15144628", "title": "Alexandros Papanastasiou", "text": " Papanastasiou was born on 8 July 1876 in Tripoli to Panagiotis Papanastasiou, a member of Parliament and Marigo Rogari-Apostolopoulou. He spent part of his childhood in Kalamata (1876–1883) and Piraeus (1883–1889). He studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1895–1898), earning his doctorate in 1899 and a licence in 1901. From 1901 to 1905 he studied social science, law and philosophy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität of Berlin and in Heidelberg. In 1905 he goes to London, later on to Paris, continuing with his studies until 1907, when he decides to return to Greece. In 1908 with Alexandros Delmouzos founded the \"Society of sociologists\". He tried to combine political activity with scientific research.", "score": "1.6407219" }, { "id": "13128015", "title": "Alexandros Christofis", "text": " Alexandros Christofis or Alexandros Hristofis (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Χριστόφης, 1882-1953) was a Greek painter. He was born in Piraeus in 1882. He attended the School of Great Arts where he excelled with the studend Nikiforos Lytras. He later went to Naples, where he attended the Institute of Great Arts. From his journey until his death, he presented paintings with popular and teamwork positions. From 1925, he was a professor of the technical school. In his work, it depicts mainly its scenes of everyday life of its people either in outdoors or in the city and from the life of the Greek sailors at its ports in Piraeus. Pictures are founded also in Germany. His technique in which austerely judges academically with intense personal tone.", "score": "1.6401117" }, { "id": "29565990", "title": "Savas Matsas", "text": " Savas Mihail Matsas (or Savas Michael Matsas or Savas Michael-Matsas; Σάββας Μιχαήλ Μάτσας; born as Sabetai Benaki Matsas (Σαμπετάι Μπενάκη Μάτσας) 1947, Athens) is a Greek Jewish intellectual, leader of the Workers Revolutionary Party (Greece). He is an antizionist and internationalist author of a considerable work of culture about literature, philosophy, religion and class struggle.", "score": "1.6336803" }, { "id": "28369485", "title": "Aris Alexandrou", "text": " Alexandrou was born in Leningrad to a Greek father (Vasilis Vasiliadis) and a Russian mother (Polina Antovna Vilgelmson). Aristotle Vasiliadis (who at that time had yet not adopted the name Aris Alexandrou) and his parents moved to Greece in 1928, initially residing in Thessaloniki and shortly thereafter in Athens. He completed high school in 1940, taking the university entrance exam at the engineering school (following his father's wishes) and failing. After that, he was admitted to the Athens University of Economics and Business. In 1942 he decided to drop out of the university and devote himself to work as a translator. At the same time, he joined a small resistance group (this was the time of ", "score": "1.611138" }, { "id": "14736219", "title": "Alexandros Tzannis", "text": " Alexandros Tzannis (born 1979 in Athens) is a Greek painter. His work has been shown at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany, the New Benaki Museum, Athens and the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece.", "score": "1.5892283" }, { "id": "8168019", "title": "Pavlos Sidiropoulos", "text": " Pavlos Sidiropoulos was born on 27 July 1948 in Athens in a wealthy family. His father Kostas has been raised in a known family of merchants from Pontos and he owned the paper production company ELFOT, however politically was a supporter of the left. His mother Jenny was granddaughter of George Zorbas (the real person behind the novel Alexis Zorbas of Nikos Kazantzakis). He was also nephew of writer Elli Alexiou and poet Galatea Kazantzaki who was the first wife of Nikos Kazantzakis. He lived in Thessaloniki until the age of six in the house of his grandfather but after the birth of his sister Melina the family moved permanently to Athens, in the beginning at the neighborhood of Patisia and then in Kypseli. During his school years he was a good student although he was not studying a ", "score": "1.5822017" }, { "id": "30383603", "title": "Lefteris Matsoukas", "text": " Born in Piraeus, Matsoukas played in the youth teams of Olympiacos before being promoted to the first team. He was given his first contract by the club and scored his first goal in a pre-season friendly against Viktoria Plzeň. His first league match came on 29 December 2007 against Xanthi. Following loans to Egaleo, Ethnikos Asteras and SV Werder Bremen II he permanently moved to Werder Bremen II on a free transfer on 30 June 2010. On 4 August 2013, he signed a contract with Greek Football League club Iraklis. In July 2014 he signed for Fostiras. On 11 August 2018, he moved to newly promoted side Aittitos Spata on a free transfer.", "score": "1.5702219" }, { "id": "945687", "title": "Aleksandros Hacopulos", "text": " He was born on 21 May 1911 to a prominent Phanariote Greek banking family in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. A relative of him, John Cyriaco Hacopulos served as mayor of Princes' Islands in 1890s. His family also owned famous Hazzopulo Passage in the Beyoğlu (Pera) neighborhood. His father's name was Constantine and mother's name was Euthymia. Alexandros completed his basic education at Fener Maraşlı Greek Primary School. He got his second education at Phanar Greek Orthodox College. He graduated from Istanbul Higher School of Economics and Commerce (part of modern Marmara University), completing the fields of mathematics, banking and insurance. Hacopulos, started teaching at Phanar College in 1934, later worked as a teacher in economics and finance classes at Zografeion Lyceum and Zappeion High School for Girls in 1946, and as a principal at the same school. In the meantime, he completed his military service as a private in Haydarpaşa Military Hospital in 1936 and was discharged in 1937. In May 1941, he was conscripted for the second time in The Twenty Classes, which was formed from non-Muslims during World War II. After completing this service, he was discharged in 1942.", "score": "1.563729" }, { "id": "29441509", "title": "Kyriakos Matsis", "text": " Matsis was born in Palaichori Morphou, Cyprus. He received his secondary education at the Famagusta gymnasium and, in 1946, enrolled at the University of Thessaloniki in Greece, from which he obtained his agricultural studies degree. During the years of the Greek Civil War, Matsis traveled in various Greek Army encampments to support the nationalist side. In 1948, he testified as a defence witness in the trial of Yannakis Drousiotis, a Cypriot communist captured by the Army, stating in court that the defendant's motives were \"pure\" and \"not traitorous.\" Drousiotis was sentenced to death by firing squad but was eventually not executed and survived the war.", "score": "1.5587635" }, { "id": "7478655", "title": "Petros Avgerinos", "text": " He was born in Pyrgos, Elis and was related to the Avgerinos family. He was mayor of Pyrgos a number of times between 1868 and 1889. During his term as mayor, he created the public market, the Apollo Theatre, and organised work on the Pyrgos-Katakolo railway line. He also ran a philharmonic school.", "score": "1.5540812" }, { "id": "1266276", "title": "Alexandros Margaritis", "text": " Alexandros \"Alex\" Margaritis (Αλέξανδρος Μαργαρίτης; born 20 September 1984) is a Greek-German racing driver who is best known for competing in the German-based Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters touring car championship. Prior to that, his career had focused on formula single seater racing in Europe. Margaritis has dual nationality as a result of his place of birth and Greek parentage.", "score": "1.5538847" }, { "id": "25993552", "title": "Dimitrios Sarros", "text": " Sarros was born in 1869 or 1870 in Vitsa of Zagori. He graduated from the Zosimaia School of Ioannina and later from the Philosophical School of the University of Athens. He initially was appointed as a teacher to a school of Piraeus (1897). He later taught in Larnaca and in the Pancyprian Gymnasium of Nicosia. In 1902 he was appointed as a teacher to Serres and Alexandroupoli, where he got involved with the Macedonian Committee and became an active member of the Macedonian Struggle. Later, he served as a teacher in the Phanar Greek Orthodox College, the Joachimio Greek Girls' School of Constantinople and in ", "score": "1.5512794" }, { "id": "8852016", "title": "Ioannis Sotiris Alexakis", "text": " Ioannis was born on 1 November 1885 in the village of Potamoi, at the Lasithi Plateau on the then Turkish occupied island of Crete. At that time the conditions were primitive and dangerous. His forefathers were warriors who fought for freedom and for Crete's independence from the Ottomans. Michael Alexis, Nicholas Alexios Alexis, Alexios Alexis, the nobleman Misser Alexis, to name but a few, were amongst many patriotic family members. As a child, Ioannis had seen atrocities and experienced struggles and revolutions. Therefore, he spent most of his later school years in the nearby city of Agios Nikolaos, Crete. Alexakis entered service in the Hellenic Army and graduated from the Hellenic Military Academy. Raised to become a military leader, he quickly climbed in ranks. His first measure of fame came early when Alexakis was 27 and received orders to proceed to Thessaloniki. He executed the order with the maximum of dispatch and his platoon was the first to enter Thessaloniki on 26 October 1912.", "score": "1.5508902" }, { "id": "11629217", "title": "Stathis Psaltis", "text": " He was born in Velo, Corinthia where he lived during his childhood until the age of 11, when his family moved to Aigaleo. He studied at the acting school of Kostis Michailidis and finished the law school of the university of Athens.", "score": "1.5487815" }, { "id": "30853354", "title": "Alexander Savvas", "text": " He was born in Pergamon (now Bergama) in Asia Minor on March 10, 1907. Son of a soap and oil trader, he was the oldest of the four children of the family of Panagiotis Savva. His early school years were defined by events of the time, namely the destruction and expulsion of the Greek population in Asia Minor. He studied at the Municipal School of Pergamon, the Elementary School of Mytilene, in the second primary male school in Mytilene, in the historic Kydoniai Gymnasium (school of the great centers of Asia Minor), in the Demi-gymnasium of Pergamon and Athens High School. He was an outstanding student throughout the course of his schooling. At the age of 15, his whole family faced tragic ", "score": "1.548692" }, { "id": "15184176", "title": "Achilles Papapetrou", "text": " Papapetrou was born in Irakleia Serres in Northern Greece (Macedonia province), on February 2, 1907. His father was a schoolteacher. During World War I, his family was deported from Serres, but returned at the end of the war. From 1925, Papapetrou studied mechanical and electrical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, graduating in 1930. While a student, he was an assistant in the mathematics department, and he started work as an engineer.", "score": "1.5452332" }, { "id": "15853767", "title": "AJ Ginnis", "text": " Alexandros Ioannis (AJ) Ginnis was born in Athens, Greece on November 17, 1994. He grew up in the seaside suburb Vouliagmeni. His father ran a ski school and that was where he met his American wife. Young Alexandros started skiing at Mt. Parnassus as a toddler, at the age of just two. When he was 12, Alexandros moved to Austria, where his father worked as a ski instructor. It was then that the young skier decided to make his fun pastime a potential career. Ginnis was 15 when his family decided to move to the United States, where he was enrolled at the Green Mountain Valley School in Vermont, where he improved his skiing skills. Two years later, he became a member of the U.S. team.", "score": "1.5448008" } ]

[ "Tokyo", "Tōkyō", "Tôkyô", "Tokyo-to", "Tokyo Metropolitan prefecture", "Tōkyō-to", "Tôkyô-to", "Tokyo Metropolis", "Tokio", "Tokyo Prefecture" ]

[ { "id": "30254135", "title": "Kazuhiro Suzuki", "text": " Suzuki was born in Tokyo on November 16, 1976. After graduating from high school, he joined JEF United Ichihara with Takayuki Chano in 1995. He played many matches from first season. However his opportunity to play decreased and he moved to Kyoto Purple Sanga in 2001. He played many matches and the club won 2002 Emperor's Cup their first major title. In 2006, he could hardly play in the match and moved to Mito HollyHock in 2007. He retired end of 2009 season.", "score": "1.764589" }, { "id": "1035748", "title": "Takekazu Suzuki", "text": " Suzuki was born in Shiogama on April 8, 1956. After graduating from high school, he joined Yomiuri in 1975 and he played until 1986. In 1989, he came back as player and coach at his local club Tohoku Electric Power (later Brummell Sendai). He retired in 1995.", "score": "1.7207904" }, { "id": "30161593", "title": "Sakari Suzuki", "text": " Suzuki was born in Iwate, Japan. He moved to San Francisco in 1918 to join his father. Sukuzi attended California School of Fine Arts there in 1924. From 1932 until 1936 he exhibited in New York. In 1936 he worked for the Federal Art Project creating murals at the Willard Parker Hospital, which is now demolished. Suzuki moved to Chicago, Illinois in about 1951 and died in January 1995.", "score": "1.6988275" }, { "id": "10413872", "title": "Ichiro Suzuki (engineer)", "text": " Suzuki was born in Tokyo in 1937. Before 1941, his family had moved to the town of Tsushima, Aichi, outside Nagoya, where his father took a job at the Nisshin Flour Milling Company. In school, Suzuki proved to be a gifted student, finding schoolwork easy, particularly in the field of mathematics. As he grew older, he developed a disinterest in school lessons, leading to a pattern of truancy. Unknown to Suzuki until his high school reunion years later, his mother persuaded a teacher to excuse his absences, allowing him to graduate and enroll in Nagoya University.", "score": "1.6885346" }, { "id": "26709812", "title": "Naomichi Suzuki", "text": " Suzuki was born in Kasukabe city of Saitama Prefecture and was raised in Misato City in the same Prefecture. He attended Misato High School in Misato City. He lived with his mother due to divorce of his parents. He wasn't able to attend college due to economic problems. At 18 years of age he passed the Tokyo Metropolitan Staff Employment Examination and entered the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in April 1999 as an employee. In April 2000, he took admission at Hosei University and graduated from law faculty of the university in 2004. In University he served as captain of boxing club and was runner-up in 2002 at National Sports Tournament in Boxing Competition. During ", "score": "1.6882503" }, { "id": "12572929", "title": "Masakazu Suzuki", "text": " Suzuki was born in Yamanashi Prefecture on January 1, 1955. After graduating from Nippon Sport Science University, he played for Yamaha Motors (later Júbilo Iwata) from 1977 to 1982.", "score": "1.6880224" }, { "id": "32220569", "title": "Toshio Suzuki (producer)", "text": " Suzuki was born in Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture in 1948. In 1967 he enrolled at Keio University and graduated with a degree in literature in 1972.", "score": "1.6819549" }, { "id": "11992797", "title": "Yasuhito Suzuki", "text": " Suzuki was born in Osaka Prefecture on December 19, 1959. After graduating from high school, he joined his local club Yanmar Diesel in 1978. However, he could not play in the game much, as he was the team's reserve goalkeeper behind Kazumi Tsubota. The club won the league champions in 1980. He retired in 1982. He played 8 games in the league.", "score": "1.663575" }, { "id": "12251973", "title": "Yōichirō Suzuki", "text": " Suzuki was born and grew up in Tokyo. His father was a tailor.", "score": "1.6395588" }, { "id": "3257734", "title": "Masayuki Suzuki", "text": " Suzuki was born in Tokyo on September 22, 1956. His sister Kiyomi Suzuki is also a musician. He rose to fame as a member of the band Rats & Star (formerly known as Chanels), which began activities in 1975. His first single \"Runaway\" was released in 1980. He would continue solo music activities after Rats & Star disbanded in 1996. In 2019, he sang \"Love Dramatic\", the opening theme for the 2019 anime Kaguya-sama: Love Is War. In 2020 he sang \"DADDY! DADDY! DO! feat. Airi Suzuki\", the opening theme for the show's second season.", "score": "1.6345816" }, { "id": "29249855", "title": "Suzuki Kisaburō", "text": " Suzuki was born Kawashima Kisaburō in what is now part of the city of Kawasaki, Kanagawa. A younger son, he was adopted at an early age by Suzuki Jiko, a Buddhist prelate in Kawasaki, and received the Suzuki surname. He was a graduate of the law school of Tokyo Imperial University in 1891.", "score": "1.6334671" }, { "id": "2208246", "title": "Masanori Suzuki", "text": " Suzuki was born in Tokyo on September 15, 1968. After graduating from Kokushikan University, he joined Toshiba in 1991. He played as offensive midfielder and forward. In 1994, he moved to newly was promoted to J1 League club, Júbilo Iwata. From 1994, he played many matches instead Masashi Nakayama and Salvatore Schillaci left the games for injury. However he could hardly play in the match from 1996 and retired end of 1997 season.", "score": "1.6318274" }, { "id": "31316142", "title": "Norio Suzuki (explorer)", "text": " Suzuki was born in Chiba and lived in Ichihara. He studied economics at Hosei University, but dropped out and decided to explore the world. He toured Asia, the Middle East and Africa. In 1972, after four years of wandering the world, he decided to return to Japan and found himself surrounded by what he felt as “fake”.", "score": "1.6233499" }, { "id": "24893067", "title": "Katsuhiro Suzuki", "text": " Suzuki was born in Yokosuka on November 26, 1977. After graduating from Kokushikan University, he joined J1 League club Avispa Fukuoka in 2000. However he could hardly play in the match. In 2001, he moved to J2 League club Sagan Tosu. He played many matches as midfielder from 2001 and became a regular player right midfielder and right side back in 2003. However he could hardly play in the match in 2004. In July 2004, he moved to Regional Leagues club Volca Kagoshima. In 2005, he moved to Regional Leagues club Rosso Kumamoto. He played many matches and the club was promoted to Japan Football League. He retired end of 2006 season.", "score": "1.6184529" }, { "id": "10283277", "title": "Seijun Suzuki", "text": " Suzuki was born during the Taishō period, and three months before the Great Kantō earthquake, in the Nihonbashi Ward (now the Chūō Special Ward) in Tokyo. His younger brother, Kenji Suzuki (now a retired NHK television announcer), was born six years his junior. His family was in the textile trade. After earning a degree at a Tokyo Trade School in 1941, Suzuki applied to the college of the Ministry of Agriculture, but failed the entrance exam due to poor marks in chemistry and physics. A year later he successfully enrolled in a Hirosaki college. In 1943, he was recruited by ", "score": "1.6180112" }, { "id": "28248581", "title": "Kiyotaka Suzuki", "text": " Kiyotaka Suzuki was born in Bunkyō, Tokyo, in 1971. In elementary school, Suzuki was a fan of novel writers Jules Berne and Ranpo Edogawa. Once in middle school, Suzuki became more interested in crafting things. During this time, he also developed a passion for anime. So, he decided to become a director in order to do both at once. In 2020, Suzuki was nominated for best director at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards.", "score": "1.6167629" }, { "id": "32804238", "title": "Mosaburō Suzuki", "text": " Suzuki was born in Gamagori, Aichi Prefecture, to a family descended from medieval hatamoto; however, his father had lost the family's fortune, and as a result Suzuki was forced to work his way through school. He attended Waseda University and graduated with a degree in politics and economics in 1915. After graduation, he wrote for several newspapers, including the Hochi Shimbun, Taishō Nichi Nichi Shimbun, and Mainichi Shimbun, becoming well known as a business writer. In 1918, Suzuki was a war correspondent during the Japanese intervention in Siberia where his sympathies were with the Bolshevik movement, and was later known as ", "score": "1.6089032" }, { "id": "6425330", "title": "Kazuhiro", "text": "Kazuhiro Fujita, Japanese manga artist ; Kazuhiro Furuhashi, Japanese anime director and supervisor ; Kazuhiro Hamanaka, professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter ; Kazuhiro Haraguchi (born 1959), Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan ; Kazuhiro Inoue (born 1973), Japanese mixed martial artist ; Kazuhiro Kawata (born 1982), Japanese football player ; Kirishima Kazuhiro (born 1959), former sumo wrestler from Makizono, Kagoshima, Japan ; Kazuhiro Kiuchi (born 1960), Japanese manga artist and film director ; Kazuhiro Kiyohara (born 1967), former professional baseball player in Japan ; Kazuhiro Kokubo (born 1988), Japanese snowboarder ; Kazuhiro Koshi (born 1964), Japanese skeleton racer who has competed since 1991 ; Kotoshōgiku Kazuhiro (born 1984), sumo ", "score": "1.6063209" }, { "id": "28140411", "title": "Keiichi Suzuki", "text": " Suzuki was born in Tokyo, Japan, the son of actor Akio Suzuki. He has a younger brother, Hirobumi Suzuki. In the early 1970s, Keiichi became involved with the Japanese band Hachimitsu Pie, who released one album in 1973. Later in the 1970s, Suzuki functioned as the occasional leader and regular singer of the Moonriders — the group's first album was in fact credited to \"Keiichi Suzuki and the Moonriders\". The band included his brother Hirobumi on bass. Afterward, he collaborated with Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder Yukihiro Takahashi as the duo The Beatniks. He was also a member of the trio Three Blind Moses. As an actor, Suzuki appeared in the 1980s films; Body Drop Asphalt, Shunji Iwai's Swallowtail, and Love Letter, as well as ", "score": "1.6056058" }, { "id": "14489956", "title": "Ryozo Suzuki", "text": " Suzuki was born in Saitama on September 20, 1939. After graduating from Rikkyo University, he joined Hitachi in 1962. In 1965, Hitachi joined new league Japan Soccer League. He retired in 1970. He played 67 games and scored 5 goals in the league.", "score": "1.5965986" } ]

[ "Vaxholm" ]

[ { "id": "6122951", "title": "Gösta Adrian-Nilsson", "text": " He was born in a farming family in Southern Sweden. He was debuted as an artist in 1907 from an Art exhibition in the University of Lund. He then went to Technical Company School and then to Kristian Zahrtmann's School in Copenhagen. He then travelled in the year 1913 to Berlin. There he came in contact with abstract art, futurism and cubism, something that had a major impact on his own art. Gösta Adrian-Nilsson became a pioneer for radical art in 1910 and 20th century Sweden.", "score": "1.774663" }, { "id": "15576059", "title": "Frans Otto Eriksson", "text": " Eriksson was born in Badelunda, Västerås, Sweden. His family moved to Stenby, Adelsö, when he was six years old. At the age of thirteen, Eriksson moved back to Västerås, where he lived until his church confirmation.", "score": "1.7400379" }, { "id": "11070251", "title": "Gösta Peterson", "text": " Peterson was born in Stockholm in 1923 and grew up in Örebro, before returning to Stockholm where he studied to become an illustrator. He went to work in an advertising agency in Stockholm. A relative invited him to come to the US and in 1948 he moved to New York, where he got a job as illustrator at the department store Lord & Taylor. Although of service age, he did not serve in World War II.", "score": "1.6788529" }, { "id": "27290054", "title": "Gösta Wallmark", "text": " Per Gustav Gösta Hjalmar Wallmark is a Swedish artist. He was born on June 11, 1928, in Luleå, Sweden and died in Visby on November 20, 2017. Gösta Wallmark got his education from Otte Skölds målarskola in Stockholm, Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. He created a wall relief at Garnisonen, Stockholm in 1972. Together with Elis Eriksson he was responsible for the artistic decoration of Hallonbergen metro station in Stockholm which opened 31 August 1975. 5", "score": "1.6715078" }, { "id": "11828408", "title": "Gösta Knutsson", "text": " Gösta Lars August Knutsson (original surname Johansson; 12 October 1908, in Stockholm – 4 April 1973) was a Swedish radio producer and writer of a popular series of children's books about the cat Pelle Svanslös. Gösta Knutsson was born in a middle-class family in Stockholm and came to the University of Uppsala as a student, remaining in Uppsala for the rest of his life. After completing an M.A. degree, he was curator (chairman) of the Stockholm Nation and later chairman of the Uppsala Student Union (1936–1938). He was also editor of the student union paper Ergo 1940–42. During his time as ", "score": "1.660485" }, { "id": "10490510", "title": "Gösta Nystroem", "text": " Gösta Nystroem (Silvberg, 13 October 1890 – Särö, 9 August 1966) was a Swedish composer. Nystroem, originally Nyström, was born in Silvberg, Sweden, a parish in the province of Dalarna, but spent most of his childhood in Österhaninge near Stockholm, at the time a small village but nowadays a suburban district. His father was a headmaster and an organist. In his younger days, Nystroem was both a composer and a painter (one of the first Swedish Cubists), but when he was about thirty years old, he eventually decided to focus on music. He studied composition in Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Paris. Among his teachers in Paris were Vincent d'Indy and Leonid Sabaneyev. ", "score": "1.6525357" }, { "id": "1192279", "title": "Erik Grönwall", "text": " Erik was born in Knivsta, a small town about 30 miles north of Stockholm. Erik started his musical career by playing the guitar in a local punk/rock band. During high school, his focus went from mostly playing the guitar to singing. He became the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the metalband RAID from north-eastern Stockholm and played with them until summer 2008. His future as a singer really took shape for the first time as he performed the leading role as Galileo Figaro in the Queen musical We Will Rock You, doing a number of shows at Oscarsteatern in Stockholm. Aggressive, charismatic hard rock frontmen such as Paul Stanley (of KISS) and Freddie Mercury (of Queen) proved huge influences on Erik.", "score": "1.6517894" }, { "id": "13274092", "title": "Andreas Eriksson (visual artist)", "text": " Eriksson was born 1975 in Björsäter, Västergötland, Sweden. Eriksson works mainly with painting, inspired by the nature around his studio. He also works with sculpture, photography and weaving. Eriksson represented Sweden at the 2011 Venice Bienniale. Eriksson had a major solo exhibition in 2020 titled From Sketch to Tapestry at Nordic Watercolour Museum on the island of Tjörn in Sweden.", "score": "1.6503637" }, { "id": "30743363", "title": "Elis Eriksson", "text": " Elis Ernst Eriksson (22 August 1906 – 4 January 2006) was a Swedish artist, sculptor and writer. He was born in Stockholm and studied there at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in 1934&ndash;1939. He had his first solo exhibition in 1959. His work is commonly described as experimental or anarchic, stylistically akin to Dadaist art. He was awarded the Prince Eugen Medal for sculpture in 1981. He made his prose debut with the book Nattens hundar. Later writings include Pavan, a series of books about a character who first appeared in Eriksson's 1965 installation Indijaner å en kåvvbåj.", "score": "1.6478741" }, { "id": "15576060", "title": "Frans Otto Eriksson", "text": " After his confirmation, Eriksson became an apprentice with a local baker. In the early 1890s, Eriksson moved to Stockholm, where he held jobs at several bakeries. He later moved to Gnesta. Around 1900, Eriksson moved to Obbola, where he found work at a local store. After about a year, he became very poor and began to live as a vagrant. In July 1907, Eriksson found employment at a baker's shop in Vretstorp, where the owner was pleased with his work.", "score": "1.6394515" }, { "id": "10828047", "title": "Gösta Andersson (wrestler)", "text": " Erik Gösta Andersson (15 February 1917 – 12 September 1975), known as Gösta Andersson, was a Swedish welterweight Greco-Roman wrestler. He competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics and won a gold and a silver medal, respectively. In the 1948 final against Miklós Szilvási Andersson cut his eyebrow while leading 3:0. The referee allowed the bout to continue despite strong bleeding, and Andersson won the gold medal. He lost to Szilvási in the 1952 Olympic final.", "score": "1.6380229" }, { "id": "27168672", "title": "Gösta Winbergh", "text": " Winbergh was born in Stockholm. There was no musical tradition in Winbergh's family. He himself was a building engineer when he watched his first opera performance in 1967; the experience so moved him that he decided on an operatic career. Accordingly, he applied for the opera class at Sweden's Royal Academy of Music. He trained at the school between 1969-71. He began singing at the Royal Opera in Stockholm, and gradually began to receive international attention in the 1980s when he guest performed on stages abroad. Copenhagen, Aix-en-Provence, San Francisco and in 1980, Glyndebourne, where he sang Belmonte. He later worked several times at the opera house in Zürich and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, singing Mozart's Don Giovanni, Wagner's Lohengrin, Verdi's Rigoletto and Puccini's Turandot.", "score": "1.637296" }, { "id": "32345133", "title": "Gösta Persson", "text": " O. Gösta A. Persson (8 January 1904 &ndash; 23 February 1991) was a Swedish freestyle swimmer and water polo player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. Persson was born in Stockholm on 8 January 1904. In 1924 he won the bronze medal as member of the Swedish 4 x 200 metres freestyle relay team. He was also part of the Swedish team which finished fourth in the Olympic water polo tournament. He played all six matches. Twelve years later he played four matches in the 1936 Olympic water polo tournament when the Swedish team finished in seventh place. Persson died in Malmö on 23 February 1991.", "score": "1.6315291" }, { "id": "4105500", "title": "Gösta &quot;Snoddas&quot; Nordgren", "text": " Gösta Nordgren, known as Snoddas (30 December 1926 - 18 February 1981) was a Swedish entertainer (singer, actor) and bandy player. Born in Arbrå, Gävleborg County, Snoddas was by profession a timber rafter, which he also sings about in his most famous song Flottarkärlek (1952) which became the best selling song up till that time in Sweden with over 300.000 records sold. Snoddas played bandy for Bollnäs GIF. As an actor Snoddas starred in two Åsa-Nisse films in 1952 and 1967.", "score": "1.6275585" }, { "id": "32881626", "title": "Jan Eriksson (footballer born 1962)", "text": " After spending two years in the United States, Eriksson returned to Sweden in 1986 and represented Spårvägens GoIF and Vasalunds IF before retiring from competitive football following an Achilles' heel injury in 1992.", "score": "1.6266454" }, { "id": "31103195", "title": "Joacim Eriksson", "text": " Eriksson started his junior career in Valbo before he moved onto the more prestigious Brynäs IF in his hometown of Gävle in 2007. He was born and raised in the village Hedesunda, where he played his first game as a child. He was drafted in the 7th round of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft at 196th overall by the Philadelphia Flyers. However the Flyers did not sign him by June 1, 2011, they lost the rights to him. Unable to find significant playing time behind Jacob Markström after two years of juniors play and after setting league high marks for ", "score": "1.6261156" }, { "id": "5379288", "title": "Liss Eriksson", "text": " The son of the sculptor Christian Eriksson (1858-1935), Liss Eriksson grew up on Maria Prästgårdsgatan on Södermalm in southern-central Stockholm. Following his studies at the College of Fine Arts for Nils Sjögren and Eric Grate in 1939-1944, Liss participated in the pioneering exhibition Ung Konst in 1947, before spending five years in Paris together with his wife, the artist Britta Reich-Eriksson, to study for Jean Osouf and Henri Laurens. He returned to Stockholm in 1951, in 1975 succeeding the studio of his father previously used by Sven 'X:et' Erixson (1899-1970). During his last years, he was working on a retable for the church Katarina kyrka, near his home.", "score": "1.6199055" }, { "id": "11425623", "title": "Henok Goitom", "text": " Goitom was born in Solna, Stockholm, and raised in the nearby Husby district. His parents were born in Eritrea.", "score": "1.6105311" }, { "id": "8042163", "title": "Erik Josefsson (activist)", "text": " Erik Josefsson was born in Lund. He graduated from Malmö Academy of Music in 1997 (double bass) while finalising a teachers degree in maths and physics at Umeå University. While studying in Umeå, Josefsson was playing with Kammarorkester Bothnia, Trio Lligo and Projektor 7. After a shoulder injury, Josefsson worked as a programmer at WM-data with billing and case handling.", "score": "1.6095436" }, { "id": "9734114", "title": "Erik Eriksson (politician)", "text": " Erik Eriksson of Spraxkya, in Borlänge, Dalarna, (1864–1939), was a Swedish politician. He was the first chairman of the Centre Party, but not its founder.", "score": "1.6090585" } ]

[ "Jersey City", "Jersey City, New Jersey" ]

[ { "id": "198667", "title": "Rob Lukachyk", "text": " Robert James Lukachyk (born July 24, 1968 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is a former American professional baseball player. Lukachyk played briefly for the Montreal Expos of the Major League Baseball (MLB) during their 1996 season.", "score": "1.7784" }, { "id": "1231592", "title": "Rob Jachym", "text": " Born in Poland, Jachym moved to the United States with his family when he was five. He graduated from Francis T Maloney High School after being named a 1991 First Team High School All American soccer player. He then attended University of Hartford where he was a 1996 Second Team All American soccer player. Jachym played five seasons with the Hawks, losing his junior season to injury. As a result, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in marketing in 1996 and a master's degree in finance in 1997. In 2004, Hartford inducted Jachym into its Athletic Hall of Fame.", "score": "1.5305054" }, { "id": "8463555", "title": "Rob Zastryzny", "text": " Zastryzny was born in Edmonton, Alberta. His family moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, when he was one year old. Zastryzny holds dual Canadian-American citizenship, and was homeschooled.", "score": "1.5251744" }, { "id": "198668", "title": "Rob Lukachyk", "text": " Lukachyk was selected by the Chicago White Sox in the 10th round of the 1987 MLB Draft out of Brookdale Community College in New Jersey. After that, he signed as a free agent with the Baltimore Orioles (1993) and Detroit Tigers (1994) before joining the Expos organization. Originally a corner infielder and outfielder in the minors, Lukachyk made two appearances as a pinch-hitter for Montreal and went hitless in two at bats. In between, Lukachyk played winter ball with the Pastora de Occidente club of the Venezuelan League in the 1996–97 season. Lukachyk eventually moved on to play for the Somerset Patriots of the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. After his playing days were over, he moved on to work in their front office. In a 12-season minor league career, he posted a .267 batting average with 104 home runs and 586 runs batted in in 1,185 games.", "score": "1.5172508" }, { "id": "13149928", "title": "Stefan Czapsky", "text": " Born in Oldenburg in West Germany to Ukrainian parents, his family emigrated to United States while he was still an infant, and then settled in Cleveland. After studying at Case Western Reserve, he enrolled in a film studies graduate program at Columbia University, and permanently relocated to New York City.", "score": "1.5044172" }, { "id": "1231591", "title": "Rob Jachym", "text": " Robert Jachym (born October 28, 1974) is a retired Polish-American football (soccer) forward who played professionally in Major League Soccer and USISL. He was the 2003 USL D3 Pro League MVP.", "score": "1.5010431" }, { "id": "13801123", "title": "Roberto Lugo", "text": " rock and hockey, in addition to the salsa, rap, and baseball favored by neighborhood kids, who pointed to him as \"weird\" or \"trying to be white.\" He didn’t have access to art in school, and partly to better fit in, he took up writing graffiti with cousins on the streets of Philadelphia. He signed his work with the tag \"Robske\", which he continues to use on all his work and credits with his artistic career; \"I couldn’t make the pottery I make today if I hadn’t started doing graffiti as a teen.\" Lugo worked various factory jobs in Philadelphia, until at age 22 he moved to South Florida to ", "score": "1.4528651" }, { "id": "5385553", "title": "Tabor Robak", "text": " Tabor Robak was born in Portland, Oregon. He began working freelance as a photoshop editor at the age of 13, before earning a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. After earning his degree in 2010, Robak moved to New York City and began participating in group shows internationally at places such as MoMA PS1, Rhizome, Thaddeus Ropac, and the Lyon Biennale before his first solo exhibition at Team Gallery in 2013.", "score": "1.4520754" }, { "id": "15380575", "title": "Aleksandr Robak", "text": " Aleksandr Robak was born in the family of Ram Aleksandrovich Robak, a metallurgical engineer, and teacher Raisa Lukinichna. Since childhood, the main hobbies were a guitar and a school drama circle. In 1994 he graduated from the Yaroslavl Theater Institute.", "score": "1.4467828" }, { "id": "15563244", "title": "Rob Bochnik", "text": " Bochnik was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He is a graduate of DePaul University where he studied music, recording, and classical guitar. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree for sound recording technology with a minor in physics. While still a student, he adapted Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring to be playable by a classic rock quartet of two guitars, bass and drums. During and after college, Bochnik played guitar in a local Chicago band called Garden Bower. He also played in The Butcher Shop Quartet, which arranged, recorded and performed the Rite of Spring, by Igor Stravinsky, for two guitars, bass and drums (rock band format). During this time he also worked at Steve Albini's recording studio, Electrical ", "score": "1.4332857" }, { "id": "3312843", "title": "Robert Sikoryak", "text": " Robert Sikoryak was born in 1964. He is originally from New Jersey. He earned his BFA from the Parsons School of Design in 1987, and is on staff at the school.", "score": "1.4291735" }, { "id": "6961510", "title": "Volodymyr Runchak", "text": " Volodymyr Petrovych Runchak (Володимир Рунчак) is a Ukrainian accordionist, conductor and composer who was born on June 12, 1960 in Lutsk where in 1979 he attended its music college. In 1984 he was a winner of the Republican Accordion Competition and the same year began studying conducting at the Kiev Conservatory where he also studied composing two years later. In 1988 he joined National Union of Composers of Ukraine and remained there till this day. He has conducted over 100 works which he performed in his native Ukraine, neighboring Russia, and then went to Kazakhstan and France. Currently he serves as a member of the New Music Association and is a founder of New Music Concert Series.", "score": "1.421932" }, { "id": "7292235", "title": "Antonio Lukich", "text": " Antonio Lukic (Ukrainian: Антоніо Лукіч) is a Ukrainian filmmaker who was born in Uzhgorod, Western Ukraine. Throughout his career, Antonio has achieved much success, gaining awards at an international and nationally recognised level. One such award is the Merited Artist of Ukraine awarded to him in March, 2021. This state honorary decoration is awarded to those who make significant contributions and achieve notable success in film and art for the country of Ukraine.", "score": "1.4192656" }, { "id": "31351771", "title": "Luka Jones", "text": " Jones was born in Evanston, Illinois and raised in the Chicago and Denver metro areas. He graduated from the University of Kansas. He later earned his master's degree in philosophy from California State University, Los Angeles and his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Southern California. Jones studied acting at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York City and the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. He studied improv and has been a regular performer at both I.O. West and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles.", "score": "1.409644" }, { "id": "6066731", "title": "Aleks Danko", "text": " Aleks Danko (born 1950) is an Australian performance artist and sculptor. The son of Ukrainian migrants, he was born in Adelaide, and educated at the South Australian School of Art (University of South Australia) and the Hawthorn Institute of Education. He started exhibiting in Adelaide in 1970. The first exhibition at Llewellyn Galleries, Adelaide was titled UCK, a collaboration with the poet and artist Richard Tipping. Since then he has held over 45 solo exhibitions and his work has been selected for a number of national and international exhibitions and collections. They include Born to Concrete, the Heide Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2011); The ", "score": "1.4069867" }, { "id": "26225458", "title": "Bruno Bobak", "text": " Born in Wawelówka, Vavylivka in Ukraine, then near Skalat, now a part of Skalat, Ukraine, then in Poland, Bobak's family left in 1925 and eventually settled in Saskatchewan, Canada in 1925. Bobak lived in Toronto where he studied art at Central Technical School and under Arthur Lismer. Bobak moved to Hamilton, Ontario. He settled in Toronto in 1935. He studied at then Art Gallery of Toronto under Lismer. Bobak joined the Canadian Army in 1942, following high school. He won first prize in Canadian Army Art Competition. He was named as an Official War Artist. He served in Europe as Canada's youngest war artist in World War II.", "score": "1.4066036" }, { "id": "32947804", "title": "Rob Kinelski", "text": " Rob was born in Staten Island, New York; at a young age, he relocated with his family to nearby Howell Township in New Jersey, and later graduated from Howell High School and the SAE Institute in Manhattan. He started his career at Sony Studios New York, engineering for Swizz Beatz, LL Cool J, and Ryan Leslie, amongst others, notably working on Beyoncé's GRAMMY-winning album B'Day. After relocating to Los Angeles in 2009, Rob would collaborate with No I.D., J. Cole, Rihanna, Nas, Common, Vince Staples, Jhené Aiko, and Big Sean, and more as a member of the Cocaine 80s music collective. Beginning in 2018, Rob has worked very closely with Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell, mixing a majority of their discography through the present.", "score": "1.4059837" }, { "id": "10644723", "title": "Don Rusnak", "text": " Born and raised in Northwestern Ontario, Rusnak has deep roots in Thunder Bay–Rainy River, and as the son of Ukrainian and Anishinaabe (Ojibway) parents.", "score": "1.4056821" }, { "id": "16306887", "title": "James Urbaniak", "text": " Urbaniak was born in Bayonne, New Jersey and lives in Los Angeles, California. He is of Polish descent.", "score": "1.405352" }, { "id": "4857213", "title": "Markiyan Lubkivsky", "text": " Lubkivsky was born in Lviv, on September 2, 1971. He is the son of Ukrainian author and politician Roman Lubkivsky. Lubkivsky graduated from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.", "score": "1.4027174" } ]

[ "Paris", "City of Light", "Paris, France" ]

[ { "id": "1560406", "title": "François Poullain de la Barre", "text": " François Poullain de la Barre was born on July 1647 in Paris, France, to a family with judicial nobility. He added \"de la Barre\" to his name later in life. After graduating in 1663 with a master of arts, he spent three years at the College of Sorbonne where he studied theology. In 1679, he became an ordained Catholic priest. From 1679 to 1688, he led two modest parishes, Versigny and La Flamengrie, in Picardy in northern France. In 1688, Poullaine de la Barre left Picardy and the priesthood to return to Paris. At the time the Catholic Church was critical of Cartesianism. By 1689 he moved to Geneva where he converted to Calvinism, a branch of Protestantism. The following year, he married Marie Ravier. After a year as a tutor, he got a position teaching at a local Genevan university. After the Edict of Fontainebleau revoked the Edict of Nantes, he was exiled in the Republic of Geneva, where he obtained the citizenship (bourgeoisie) in 1716. He spent the remainder of his life in Geneva, where he died on May 4, 1723.", "score": "1.6516395" }, { "id": "8150654", "title": "Barré (automobile)", "text": " Barré was born in Cholet on 25 June 1864, but in 1888 relocated to nearby Parthenay, where he worked as a gunsmith. Six years later he moved again, establishing himself in 1894 at Niort in the rue Ricard Il, as a manufacturer and renter of cycles. France was in the middle of a massive cycling boom, and business was good. Barré relocated his business several times, but now always staying in Niort. As he amassed his fortune he decided that the future lay not with cycles but with the automobile.", "score": "1.6309978" }, { "id": "8561469", "title": "Jean-Auguste Barre", "text": " Jean Auguste Barre (25 September 1811 &ndash; 5 February 1896) was a French sculptor and medalist. Born in Paris, he was trained by his father Jean-Jacques Barre (1793–1855), a medalist. Barre studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Jean-Pierre Cortot, and he is mainly known as a portrait sculptor. Exhibiting at the French Salon from 1831 to 1886, his first showings were of medallions and medals. Barre is known to be one of the first sculptors to make miniatures of famous contemporaries, such as Napoleon III, Queen Victoria, dancers Marie Taglioni and Emma Livry, and Susan B. Anthony. His bronze works are on display in such places as the Louvre and the Cleveland Art Museum. One of his stone works is found in the cemetery of Père Lachaise Cemetery, where he did a bust for the tomb of his friend Alfred de Musset. He died in Paris in 1896. ", "score": "1.6276294" }, { "id": "7684949", "title": "Jean-Benoît-Vincent Barré", "text": " Jean Benoît Vincent Barré (Seine-Port, Seine-et-Marne, 22 January 1735 - Seine-Port, 27 January 1824) was a French architect. He was one of the most important architects of the 18th century and one of the creators of the 'Louis XVI style' of architecture.", "score": "1.6056921" }, { "id": "26314334", "title": "Gisèle Barreau", "text": " Gisèle Barreau was born in Couëron, west of Nantes in Brittany, and studied with Émile Leipp and Michèle Castellengo for musical acoustics at Jussieu University. She continued her studies with Pierre Schaeffer at the Paris Conservatory and later with Olivier Messiaen. In 1977 she received a diploma in electroacoustic music from the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM). After completing her university studies, Barreau obtained a teaching certificate for music. She was composer-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony in 1978 and resident at the Villa Medici from 1980-82. Barreau works as a professor at the Paris Conservatoire.", "score": "1.6048579" }, { "id": "9270266", "title": "Nicholas Barré", "text": " Barré was born in Amiens, in the ancient province of Picardy in the Kingdom of France on 21 October 1621, the first-born and only son of Louis and Antoinette Barré. His father was one in a family line of haberdashers, a profession which had Saint Nicholas as a patron saint. As a boy, he was educated by the Jesuits, but later, in 1640, chose to join the Minims friars, founded by St. Francis of Paola, whose friars lead a very austere and penitential life. He professed religious vows in 1642.", "score": "1.590904" }, { "id": "29831592", "title": "Port Barre, Louisiana", "text": " before the days of the railroads. Alex Charles Barre is a descendant of Guillaume Barre, born 1642 in St. Valery, France. He emigrated, settling about 1665 at Martinique in the French West Indies. There Guillaume Barre met Jean Roy (1625–1707) and Jean Hebert (1624), and they traveled together to Louisiana. The Barres settled in Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, where they met the Nezat family (Pierre Nezat coming from Saint Domingue), and the Provost family (Nicolas Provost coming from Paris via Fort de Chartres, in the Illinois Country. In 1765, Charles Alex Barre bought a large parcel of land including the site of the first trading post from Jacques Courtableau. Barre married ", "score": "1.5725632" }, { "id": "12160748", "title": "Isaac Barré", "text": " Barré was born in Dublin on 15 October 1726, the son of Marie Madelaine (Raboteau) Barré and Peter Barré, Huguenot refugees who escaped to Ireland. Peter Barré became a linen dealer and served as High Sheriff of Dublin City. Isaac Barré was educated at Trinity College, and graduated in 1745. His parents hoped he would study law, and David Garrick thought he had potential as an actor and offered to hire and train him, but Barré decided on a military career and entered the British Army in 1746.", "score": "1.571091" }, { "id": "1949207", "title": "Gabriel Barre", "text": " Gabriel Barre was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, and raised throughout the state, primarily in Burlington, Vermont. He is the son of an Episcopal priest, James Lyman Barre, and a systems analyst, Hallie Susan Hebb, and is the oldest of three children. At 18 he moved to New York City to pursue a career as an actor, attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA). Upon graduation he spent five years as a member of the Richard Morse Mime Theatre at their Greenwich Village location, and performed with them at Lincoln Center, as well as touring the United States. His work with the company included serving as a cultural ambassador performing throughout the Middle East, including in Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia and Greece.", "score": "1.5665544" }, { "id": "3425966", "title": "Raymond Barre", "text": " Raymond Octave Joseph Barre (12 April 1924 – 25 August 2007) was a French centre-right politician and economist. He was a Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs under three presidents (Rey, Malfatti and Mansholt) and later served as Prime Minister under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing from 1976 until 1981. As a candidate for the presidency in 1988, he came in third and was eliminated in the first round. He was born in Saint-Denis, in the French island of Réunion, then still a colony (it became an overseas department in 1946).", "score": "1.5635333" }, { "id": "29963206", "title": "Pierre Bergé", "text": " Bergé was born in Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron, on the Oléron Island, Poitou-Charentes, on 14 November 1930. His mother, Christiane, was a progressive teacher, who used the Montessori method. His father worked for the tax office. Bergé attended the Lycée Eugène Fromentin in La Rochelle, and, later, went to Paris. On the day of his arrival, as he was walking on the Champs-Élysées, French poet Jacques Prévert landed on him following a fall from his apartment window. \"At the age of 18 in La Rochelle, I decided to leave my family. The day I arrived in Paris, I went for a walk on the Champs-Elysées when suddenly I saw a man go ", "score": "1.5630972" }, { "id": "7832506", "title": "Pierre-Yves", "text": "Pierre-Yves André (born 1974), retired French footballer ; Pierre-Yves Barré(1749–1832), French vaudevillist and songwriter ; Pierre-Yves Bény (born 1983), French gymnast ; Pierre-Yves Borgeaud, Swiss film director ; Pierre-Yves Bournazel (born 1977), French politician ; Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Canadian film and television actor ; Pierre Yves Clouin, video artist and filmmaker ; Pierre-Yves Collombat (born 1945), member of the Senate of France ; Pierre-Yves Corthals (born 1975), Belgian auto racing driver ; Pierre-Yves Gerbeau (born 1965), French businessman, based in the United Kingdom ; Pierre Yves Lenik (born 1958), French composer, known for his work in French documentaries ; Pierre-Yves Maillard (born 1968), Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party ; Pierre-Yves Melançon, Canadian politician and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec ; Pierre-Yves Monette (born 1960), ", "score": "1.5569961" }, { "id": "28853935", "title": "Yves Duteil", "text": " Yves Duteil is a French singer-songwriter. He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), on 24 July 1949 and is the third child to be born in the family. Duteil is a noted proponent of the French language, the rights of children and the respect of environment. Duteil is the mayor of Précy-sur-Marne in Seine et Marne.", "score": "1.5530121" }, { "id": "32263036", "title": "Barre (name)", "text": "Abdulrahman Jama Barre, former Foreign Minister of Somalia ; Alexandra Barré (born 1958), Hungarian-born Canadian sprint kayaker ; Antoine Lefèbvre de La Barre (1622–1688), Governor of New France ; Denis Barré (born 1948), Canadian sprint canoer ; François-Jean de la Barre (1745–1766), French nobleman ; Isaac Barré (1726–1802), Irish soldier and politician ; Jacques-Jean Barre (1793–1855), French engraver (also often styled \"Jean-Jacques Barre\") ; Jean Alexandre Barré (1880–1967), French neurologist ; Jean-Auguste Barre (1811–1896), French sculptor and medalist ; Jean-Benoît-Vincent Barré (1732–1824), French architect ; Martin Barre (born 1946), guitarist of rock band Jethro Tull ; Michel de la Barre (c. 1670–1745), French composer and flutist ; Mohammed Sulaymon Barre (born 1964), ", "score": "1.5524117" }, { "id": "14126800", "title": "Louis Carolus-Barré", "text": " Louis Carolus-Barré (9 April 1910, in Paris – 18 July 1993, in Paris) was a 20th-century French librarian and medievalist.", "score": "1.5515407" }, { "id": "29567815", "title": "Aubais", "text": " René Grousset was born in Aubais on September 5, 1885, in Aubais and died on September 12, 1952, in Paris. He was a historian, curator of both the Cernuschi- and Guimet-Museums in Paris, and a member of the prestigious Académie française (French Academy). The painter Claude Viallat was born in Nîmes in 1936 and grew up in Aubais.", "score": "1.5414735" }, { "id": "417234", "title": "William Vincent Barré", "text": " Barré was born in Germany about the year 1760 of French Protestant parents, who had left their native country on account of their religious opinions. He served first in the Russian navy, returned to France when the first revolution broke out, went as a volunteer in the army during the Italian campaign of 1796, and was raised to the rank of captain for the bravery he displayed on the field of battle. Through his intimate acquaintance with the principal languages of Europe, he became a favourite of General Bonaparte, who appointed him his personal interpreter. But he wrote some satirical verses about his employer, ", "score": "1.5394058" }, { "id": "14126801", "title": "Louis Carolus-Barré", "text": " After studying at the École nationale des chartes of which he graduated in 1934, he was a member of the École française de Rome. His career as curator of libraries successively led him to the manuscript department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, in the library of the Institute of France, at the General Secretariat of the French School of Rome, at the CNRS and the library of the Musée du Louvre and that of the Réunion des Musées Nationaux. He also published numerous works devoted to the history of Picardy and the north of the Île-de-France in the Middle Ages. Louis Carolus-Barré was a member of the Société des Antiquaires de France. His son, Charles Barré, is known as a painter under the name.", "score": "1.5291142" }, { "id": "7868105", "title": "Pierre Henriet", "text": " Henriet, born 26 novembre 1991, is from Saint-Pierre-le-Vieux, where his father, Christian Henriet, is the mayor. Currently a Ph.D. student in philosophy of science at the University of Nantes since 2015, he has also completed courses as a temporary epistemologist at the François-Rabelais high school in Fontenay-le-Comte.", "score": "1.5287657" }, { "id": "16255548", "title": "Ben Barres", "text": " Barres was born on September 13, 1954, in West Orange, New Jersey, assigned female as Barbara A. Barres. As a child, his salesman father and homemaker mother saw him as a tomboy. He later recalled: \"Internally I felt strongly that I was a boy. This was evident in everything about my behavior.\" Attending a West Orange school, Barres excelled in mathematics and science and was impressed by his eighth-grade teacher, Jeffrey Davis. At the age of 17, he learned that he had been born with Müllerian agenesis, for which he received surgical correction. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1976), a medical degree (MD) from Dartmouth Medical School (1979), and ", "score": "1.5285733" } ]

[ "Geneseo", "Geneseo, Illinois" ]

[ { "id": "26773037", "title": "Mike Sieben", "text": " Sieben was born on June 23, 1946, and grew up in Hastings, Minnesota. He attended St. Cloud State University, graduating with a B.S., and later attended law school at the University of Minnesota, graduating with a J.D. in 1973.", "score": "1.7087419" }, { "id": "9933390", "title": "Todd Siler", "text": " Todd Siler (born August 23, 1953) is an American multimedia artist, author, educator, and inventor, equally well known for his art and for his work in creativity research. A graduate of Bowdoin College, he became the first visual artist to be granted a PhD from MIT (interdisciplinary studies in Psychology and Art, 1986). Siler began advocating the full integration of the arts and sciences in the 1970s and is the founder of the ArtScience Program and movement.", "score": "1.6300056" }, { "id": "12745106", "title": "Todd Strobeck", "text": " Known to most as une Todd Todd Strobeck (born August 17, 1966) is a retired U.S. soccer goalkeeper who four seasons in the Western Soccer Alliance, one in the American Professional Soccer League, one in Major Indoor Soccer League and at least one in USISL. Strobeck attended Warner Pacific College where he played on the men’s soccer team from 1984 to 1987. While still in college, he also played for F.C. Portland, a local semi-pro team in the Western Soccer Alliance during the collegiate off-season. Strobeck played with F.C. Portland from 1985 through 1988. In his last season with the team he was the ", "score": "1.624624" }, { "id": "6178971", "title": "Todd Sanders", "text": " Todd Sanders was born in Houston, TX on August 10, 1967. He started sign painting while studying advertising and graphic design at Sam Houston State University. His mother influenced him to become an artist, and his father encouraged a work ethic. During a spring break trip in 1990, Sanders decided he would live in Austin, Texas.", "score": "1.6242256" }, { "id": "15391953", "title": "Katie Sieben", "text": " Sieben was born on March 23, 1977 and grew up in Newport, Minnesota. She attended Colorado College, graduating with a B.A. and later attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, graduating with an M.P.A.", "score": "1.6147285" }, { "id": "25085089", "title": "Todd Boyce", "text": " Todd was born in Columbus, Ohio, the son of a business manager. Raised in New York, Germany, Chicago and Brazil, at age 16 he moved with his family to Australia. He graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (Sydney, Australia) in 1983.", "score": "1.5780518" }, { "id": "28752822", "title": "Todd Allen", "text": " Todd Allen grew up in Victoria, British Columbia with one year stints living in both Tokyo (1987) and Honolulu (1994). Shortly after moving to Vancouver in his early twenties, Allen started performing comedy in local comedy clubs.", "score": "1.5635798" }, { "id": "28178962", "title": "Anthony Martin (escape artist)", "text": " Todd Anthony Martin is of German Russian descent and was born March 4, 1966, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin U.S.A. His great grandfather fled Russia just prior to the Russian Revolution. He is the first of two children born to David and Georgene Martin. Born to a working-class family in a Midwestern town, Anthony began his career without the advantages of financial backing or theatrical connections. His early beginnings and news clippings indicate an unusually early effort to document and substantiate his escapes which has since become the cornerstone of his career. His first police substantiated escape was at the age of 12 while still in elementary school. He currently offers a reward to anyone who can prove he resorts to the use of any fake locks or handcuffs.", "score": "1.5613096" }, { "id": "6178970", "title": "Todd Sanders", "text": " Todd Sanders (born August 10, 1967) is an American neon sign artist based in Austin, Texas.", "score": "1.5599096" }, { "id": "30133526", "title": "Todd Jay Weinstein", "text": " Todd Jay Weinstein (born 1951) is a photographer and artist, born in Detroit, Michigan, and who now lives in New York City. Todd's first started photography back in high school in the mid 1960s. After graduating high school he studied at the Center for Creative Studies under his teacher George Phillips. Worked as 3rd assistant to the photographer Dick James studio in Detroit Michigan, after moving to New York City in 1970 Todd started working at the Gaslight folk music club which move to upstairs at Max's Kansas City. Was also part of the theater troop The Banana Company. With the luck of meeting the photographer Burt Stern's ", "score": "1.5478722" }, { "id": "3085507", "title": "Todd Webb", "text": " Todd Webb (September 5, 1905 – April 15, 2000) was an American photographer notable for documenting everyday life and architecture in cities such as New York City, Paris as well as from the American west. His photography has been compared with Harry Callahan, Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, and the French photographer Eugène Atget. He traveled extensively during his long life and had important friendships with artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Ansel Adams and Harry Callahan. He photographed famous people including Dorothea Lange.", "score": "1.5434445" }, { "id": "9933392", "title": "Todd Siler", "text": " The son of an aspiring concert pianist and bio-medical researcher, as a child, Siler was a prodigy in the fine arts, often using highly detailed drawings to express his ideas on integrating the arts and sciences. He studied art as an undergraduate, spending a year \"apprenticed\" in the studio of American artist Leonard Baskin. In his 20s Siler was part of the same SoHo art scene which launched Julian Schnabel, Francesco Clemente and David Salle. Today, Siler's artworks are in numerous public collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (20th Century Collection), The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, and The Israel Museum in Jerusalem.", "score": "1.532047" }, { "id": "8398748", "title": "Todd Auer", "text": " Auer was born in Winona, Minnesota on January 18, 1965, grew up in Trempealeau and attendedGale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School in Galesville, Wisconsin. He has four children.", "score": "1.525423" }, { "id": "33162625", "title": "Todd R. Klaenhammer", "text": " Todd Robert Klaenhammer was born on October 30, 1951 in Maplewood, Minnesota, which is on the outskirts of Saint Paul. His parents were Robert and Eleanor Klaenhammer. Robert was a fire marshal who died in a work-related traffic accident when Todd was fifteen years old; Todd used the resulting Social Security Survivor money to pay for his undergraduate degree in microbiology at the University of Minnesota. During his summer breaks he worked as a gas station clerk and as mail carrier for the United States Postal Service. He graduated with his bachelor's degree in 1973, staying on at UMN for a master's degree (1975) and PhD (1978) in food science under the advisorship of Larry McKay.", "score": "1.5216687" }, { "id": "32756719", "title": "Tony Todd", "text": " Todd was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Hartford, Connecticut, attending local schools including Hartford Public High School. He is also an alumnus of the Artists Collective, Inc. Tony attended the University of Connecticut and then went on to study theater at the Tony Award-winning Eugene O'Neill National Actors Theatre Institute, and the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island.", "score": "1.5187676" }, { "id": "7567510", "title": "Mike Todd", "text": " Todd was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Chaim Goldbogen (an Orthodox rabbi), and Sophia Hellerman, both of whom were Polish Jewish immigrants. He was one of nine children in a poor family, the youngest son, and his siblings nicknamed him \"Tod\" (pronounced \"Toat\" in German) to mimic his difficulty pronouncing the word \"coat.\" It was from this that his name was derived. The family later moved to Chicago, arriving on the day World War I ended. Todd was expelled in the sixth grade for running a game of craps inside the school. In high school, he produced the school play, ", "score": "1.517823" }, { "id": "7997884", "title": "Siebren Versteeg", "text": " Versteeg was born in 1971 in New Haven, Connecticut. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Art Institute of Chicago in 1995 and his Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago.", "score": "1.5170164" }, { "id": "28916894", "title": "Todd Sand", "text": " Sand was born in Burbank, California. He has dual American and Danish citizenship, since his father is Danish. He is married to Jenni Meno, with whom he has two sons, Jack, born in 2004, and Matthew Kenneth, born on August 14, 2006.", "score": "1.5153337" }, { "id": "15754173", "title": "Todd Pettengill", "text": " Todd Clark Pettengill (born April 18, 1966) is an American radio disc jockey who most recently worked for WPLJ 95.5 in the New York area. From 1993 to 1997, he also served as an on-screen backstage interviewer for the World Wrestling Federation.", "score": "1.5141901" }, { "id": "26637772", "title": "David Peck Todd", "text": " Todd was born in Lake Ridge, New York, the son of Sereno Edwards Todd and Rhoda (Peck) Todd. He prepared at John C. Overhiser's School in Brooklyn. He studied at Columbia University from 1870 to 1872, then at Amherst College from 1873 to 1875, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in the class of 1875. He earned his M.A. from Amherst in 1878. He was awarded an honorary degree from Washington and Jefferson College in 1888. Todd worked at the US Naval Observatory from 1875 to 1878, and at the US Nautical Almanac Office from 1878 to 1881. From 1881 to 1917 he was a professor of astronomy and director ", "score": "1.5099349" } ]

[ "Paris", "City of Light", "Paris, France" ]

[ { "id": "7956414", "title": "Gerard Troost", "text": " Troost was born in Den Bosch, Netherlands, to Anna Cornelia (Van Heeck) and Everardus Josephus Troost. He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Leyden, and of Master in Pharmacy, in 1801, from the University of Amsterdam. After a brief practice at Amsterdam and the Hague, he was enlisted in the army as a private soldier, and then as an officer of the first class in the medical department. During these periods of service, he was wounded in the thigh and in the head. In 1807 Troost went to Paris under the patronage of Louis Napoleon, King of Holland. There he studied ", "score": "1.7289633" }, { "id": "2324460", "title": "Troost", "text": "Axel Troost (born 1954), German politician ; Benoist Troost (1786–1859), Dutch-born physician, publisher and community leader in Kansas City, Missouri. ; Named after him: Troost Avenue, a major north-south street in Kansas City, Missouri ; Cornelis Troost (1697–1750), Dutch painter ; Gerard Troost (1776–1850), Dutch physician, naturalist and mineralogist who emigrated to the US in 1825. ; Named after him: Troost's moccasin, Troostite ; Gerdy Troost (1904–2003), German architect, wife of Paul ; J. Maarten Troost (born 1969), Dutch travel writer living in the US ; Louis Joseph Troost (1825–1911), French chemist ; Paul Troost (1878–1934), German architect, husband of Gerdy ; Renee Troost (born 1988), Dutch footballer ; Sara Troost (1732–1803), Dutch painter ; Sjaak Troost (born 1959), Dutch footballer ; Willem Troost (1684–1752), Dutch painter ; William Troost-Ekong (born 1993), Dutch footballer ; Van Troost ; Andre van Troost (born 1972), Dutch cricketer ; Luuk van Troost (born 1969), Dutch cricketer ", "score": "1.7022462" }, { "id": "26059172", "title": "Troost Avenue", "text": " The street is named after the first physician to reside in Kansas City, Dr. Benoist Troost. He was born November 17, 1786 in Holland and moved to the United States in 1815, settling in Independence, Missouri in 1844. Troost Avenue has been continuously developing from 1834 into the 1990s, including movie theaters and apartments. After the Town of Kansas (which is now the city of Kansas City, Missouri) was established in 1850, Dr. Troost became one of the governing trustees. In the 1850s, he was involved in publishing the first newspaper, the Kansas City Enterprise. He was one of the originators of ", "score": "1.6993079" }, { "id": "7988659", "title": "J. Maarten Troost", "text": " Troost was born in Groningen, The Netherlands in 1969, and is of Dutch-Czech descent. He was educated at Boston University (B.A.) and The George Washington University (M.A.). He has lived in the Netherlands, Canada, the Czech Republic, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Fiji, and the United States, where, after a long stint in California, he presently resides in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area with his wife and children.", "score": "1.6691935" }, { "id": "28932196", "title": "Antoinism", "text": " Louis-Joseph Antoine was born on 7 June 1846 in Mons-Crotteux, Belgium at a place called \"In the Chapel\", the youngest of a large family, which belonged to the Roman Catholic Church. His mother was Catherine Castille, born in 1797. He was raised in the Priesse street and attended primary school in Mons. From the age of twelve, Louis was employed as a coal miner, following in the footsteps of his father. One day, while working at the mine, his lamp went out without apparent reason, which he interpreted as a divine sign that he should abandon this work. He worked for two years in ", "score": "1.6403869" }, { "id": "26059173", "title": "Troost Avenue", "text": " first Chamber of Commerce in 1857. He died February 8, 1859 and is buried at the Mount St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery at 2201 Cleveland Avenue. Troost Avenue has historically served as a dividing line of racist segregation and disinvestment in Kansas City, with more white residents living west of Troost and more black residents living to the east. For decades, this line was legally enforced under Jim Crow laws, which had been templated after the neighborhood system of house deed covenants blocking homeownership or occupancy by Blacks and Jews, which had been written by Kansas City real estate developer J.C. Nichols.", "score": "1.6181344" }, { "id": "3413338", "title": "Joseph Darst", "text": " Joseph M. Darst (March 18, 1889 in St. Louis, Missouri &ndash; June 8, 1953 in St. Louis) was the 37th Mayor of St. Louis, serving from 1949 to 1953. Darst attended St. Louis University High School, Christian Brothers College, and Saint Louis University. His business career was in real estate, but he was always interested in politics and worked on several campaigns. In 1933, he worked on behalf of Bernard F. Dickmann in his successful race for Mayor. Mayor Dickmann appointed Darst as Director of Public Welfare. During his 8 years in this position, Darst oversaw the construction of three public hospitals in St. Louis. Darst returned to his real estate practice in 1941. He made an unsuccessful bid for President of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen in 1943, losing to Aloys P. Kaufmann. Darst served as director of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) during 1947-1948. Darst was ", "score": "1.6060114" }, { "id": "15278400", "title": "Louis Casartelli", "text": " Born of Italian parents at 2 Clarence Street, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, 14 November 1852. His parents, Joseph Louis (an optician) and Jane Henrietta Casartelli (Ronchetti), had resided in the area for some time. He was believed to have been considered an intelligent as well as pious child, something which was felt he learned from his mother.", "score": "1.552055" }, { "id": "28932197", "title": "Antoinism", "text": " mine, then was a steelworker in the Cockerill factory in Seraing. He was enrolled in the militia of Belgium in 1866, and filled his military obligations in Bruges. During the Franco-Prussian War, he accidentally killed a comrade; although there was no legal action, this event led him to question the meaning of life. After marrying Jeanne Catherine Collon on 15 April 1873, while he was a hammerer, he became the father of a son, Louis Martin Joseph, born in Hamborn, Prussia on 23 September 1873, and baptized five days later in the Catholic Church of St. John. Then the family went to Belgium in ", "score": "1.5298378" }, { "id": "7832837", "title": "Joseph W. Postlewaite", "text": " Joseph W. Postlewaite was an American composer and organizer of bands and orchestras in the 1850s to 1880s. He was born in outstate Missouri in 1827 and came to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1848. Joseph was the son of Phyllis Benito, alias Felicité Crevier and the cousin of Julia Clamorgan, with whom he boarded in St. Louis in 1880. Joseph was married to Eliza Lee, who he met on a trip to Cincinnati, Ohio. Her father worked on the river, as did Joseph for a brief period. Postlewaite's racial heritage has been debated. He was included in \"A History of Negro Musicians\" with a brief entry and no documentation of his racial identity. In the St. Louis Census of ", "score": "1.5257305" }, { "id": "7566475", "title": "Charles Gratiot", "text": " Charles Chouteau Gratiot (August 29, 1786 – May 18, 1855) was born in St. Louis, Spanish Upper Louisiana Territory, now the present-day State of Missouri. He was the son of Charles Gratiot, Sr., a fur trader in the Illinois country during the American Revolution, and Victoire Chouteau, who was from an important mercantile family. His father became a wealthy merchant, during the early years of St. Louis. After 1796, Charles was raised in the large stone house purchased by his father in St. Louis, near the Mississippi River. ", "score": "1.5215007" }, { "id": "3722199", "title": "Paul L. Troast", "text": " Born on November 19, 1894, in Garfield, New Jersey, Troast grew up in Passaic, New Jersey and graduated from Passaic High School in 1908, where he met his future wife, the former Eleanor Mahony; he had been president of his senior class and she had been vice president.", "score": "1.5009358" }, { "id": "27911440", "title": "Louis Postiaux", "text": " Louis-Joseph Postiaux was born in La Hulpe, Belgium, on 15 August 1882. His parents were Jean-Baptiste-Alexis Postiaux and Elise Hernalsteen. After completing his secondary education he worked for several employers before entering the colonial service in 1905 as a clerk 1st class.", "score": "1.4987259" }, { "id": "3645496", "title": "Louis Joseph Kirn", "text": " Kirn was born on June 8, 1908 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He died on November 7, 1995.", "score": "1.4936528" }, { "id": "12131369", "title": "Jacques Trovic", "text": " Jacques Trovic was born in Anzin, a mining town near Valenciennes in the North of France. Due to health issues, he attends school intermittently. He learned embroidery and sewing with his mother and two sisters, who were seamstresses. As a teenager, he attends the art school of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux. He lived in Anzin for most of his life, and spent his later years la Pommeraie in Belgium.", "score": "1.4928067" }, { "id": "5977019", "title": "Marcel Trudel", "text": " Marcel Trudel was born in Saint-Narcisse-de-Champlain, Quebec, northeast of Trois-Rivières, the son of Hermyle Trudel and Antoinette Cossette, the ninth of eleven children. Orphaned at the age of five, he was adopted by a local couple in his extended family, Théodore Baril and Mary Trépanier. He showed great academic progress and spent some months at a seminary at Trois-Rivières, but concluded that the priesthood was not for him. Rather, he had a particular interest in literature and hoped to make his living as a writer. He earned a licence ès lettres (cum laude) in 1941 and a Doctorat ès lettres (magna cum laude) in 1945, both from Université Laval. He then had two years of post-doctoral studies at Harvard University before returning to Laval to teach history.", "score": "1.4921347" }, { "id": "3450631", "title": "Joseph Touchemoulin", "text": " Born in Chalon-sur-Saône, Joseph Touchemoulin, the son of the town's oboist Louis Touchemoulin and his wife Jeanne Roulot, had been employed as a violinist at the court of the elector of Cologne of Bavaria in Bonn from a very early age. This enabled him to study in Italy, where he was taught by Giuseppe Tartini who was also the one who inspired Touchemoulin to develop his compositional skills. He returned to Bonn in 1753, where his salary was augmented by 1,000 fl. in March 1753. One of his symphonies was performed successfully at the Paris Concert Spirituel on 15 August of the following year. On 4 February 1761, he was appointed, contrary to customary practice, as Kapellmeister in Bonn instead of the more senior singer Ludwig ", "score": "1.4915074" }, { "id": "9334103", "title": "Louis P. and Clara K. Best Residence and Auto House", "text": " Louis P. Best was born in 1848 in present-day Osthofen, Germany, and was educated in Stuttgart and Berlin. He came to the United States in 1869 and worked as a chemist in New York City. He moved to Davenport in 1874 to work for the Davenport Glucose Manufacturing Company. He eventually bought stock in the company to the point that he became one of their chief stockholders and became involved in the management of the company. He also had other business interests in the city including Davenport Machinery & Foundry Company, of which he was president, the Bettendorf Axle Company, Hawkeye Electric Company, and Citizens National Bank. He later founded a ", "score": "1.4892746" }, { "id": "217954", "title": "Louis Davids", "text": " Louis Davids was born in Rotterdam as son of the comedian and café owner Levie David and Francina Terveen (deceased in 1927) in a poor Jewish family of eight children. His parents were performing artists and Louis sang from the age of eight years at all the state fairs with his brother Hakkie who played the Piano. Until he was 13 years old he also performed with his sister Rika in Rotterdam outside of the fair. After an argument with his father he left for England to be an assistant to a Magician. Returning to Rotterdam a year later, returning home with a lot more experience in variety theater. Together with ", "score": "1.4861465" }, { "id": "10664794", "title": "Joseph Davilmar Théodore", "text": " Joseph Davilmar Theodore \"Bon Da\" was born in Ouanaminthe on March 25, 1846. He was the son of Ismée Theodore and Adélaïde Sejourné. His father was originally from Grande-Riviere du Nord and his mother from Jeremie. He worked beside Sylvain Salnave from the age of 18 and served in the Haitian Navy. He became Consul of Haiti to Dajabon, Mayor of Ouananminthe and Senator of The Republic in 1888. Like many Haitians in the past, he made his fortune in agriculture. On March 17, 1897, he started receiving his pension of 100 gourdes a month, which is 3230.27 gourdes in today's money.", "score": "1.4838707" } ]

[ "Burg", "Burg bei Magdeburg", "Burg (bei Magdeburg)", "Burg (b Magdeburg)", "Stadt Burg" ]

[ { "id": "2365002", "title": "Erwin Bälz", "text": " The son of a contractor, Bälz was born in 1849 in Bietigheim-Bissingen in Germany. He attended grammar school in Stuttgart and studied medicine at University of Tübingen. He graduated at the age of 23, and subsequently worked at the medical department of the University of Leipzig in 1869, and served as a medic in the German army during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. He returned to the University of Leipzig in 1875. While at Leipzig, he treated a Japanese exchange student, which led to the offer by the Japanese government of a two-year contract with the Medical College of Tokyo Imperial University in 1876. Bälz’s contract was renewed several times, and he ended up spending ", "score": "1.7491164" }, { "id": "11270076", "title": "Heiko Engelkes", "text": " Heiko Engelkes (1 April 1933 – 6 November 2008) was a German journalist. Born in Norden, he studied law, political science and journalism in Wilhelmshaven, Hamburg and Berlin. Following this he spent time as a Fulbright scholar at the William Allan White School of Journalism of the University of Kansas. He began his career as a journalist in 1956, freelancing for the Norddeutscher Rundfunk, the local public broadcaster for Hamburg and surrounding areas of the Federal Republic, and for the Deutsches Allgemeines Sonntagsblatt, a weekly newspaper published by the Evangelical Church in Germany. In 1960 he switched to the Westdeutscher ", "score": "1.690366" }, { "id": "13922850", "title": "Heiko Maas", "text": " Maas was born on 19 September 1966 to a Catholic, middle class family in Saarlouis, a city near the French border that is named for Louis XIV of France. His father was a professional soldier who later became a manager at Saarlouis Body & Assembly, a car plant owned by Ford Germany, while his mother was a dressmaker. He graduated from the gymnasium in 1987 and served his compulsory military service from 1987 to 1988; he thereafter worked for a year at Saarlouis Body & Assembly. From 1989 he studied law at Saarland University, and he passed his first state examination in 1993 and was called to the bar in 1996. He lives with the actress Natalia Wörner, and has two children from a former marriage.", "score": "1.6666718" }, { "id": "6020344", "title": "Heiko März", "text": " Heiko März (born 9 July 1965) is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender or midfielder. He played over 210 top-flight matches in East and unified Germany. In 1989 he won one cap for the East Germany national team.", "score": "1.653382" }, { "id": "10260194", "title": "Heiko Daxl", "text": " Heiko Daxl (21 September 1957 &ndash; 21 May 2012) was a German media artist, exhibition curator, art gallery owner and design / art collector. Born in Oldenburg, Germany, he lived and worked in Berlin and Zagreb.", "score": "1.653069" }, { "id": "10260195", "title": "Heiko Daxl", "text": " Until 1976 he grew up in Varel, Dangast and Neuenburg next to Jadebusen in the (Friesland (district)). During his education at the Lothar Meyer High-School he learned about the medium film. He first studied architecture and urbanism at the Technical University Braunschweig (1978), but changed to the University of Osnabrück, which offered at that time in Germany a unique course of studies in communication and aesthetics. There he studied art history with Franz Joachim Verspohl, Walter Grasskamp, Lothar Knapp and Jutta Held as well as media studies with Joachim Paech, Werner Faulstich, Walter Fähnders, Peter von Rueden, Ingo Petzke and Wolfgang Becker,. Here he was conferred his Magister Artium degree in 1985. He also studied German Language and Literature at the Technical University Berlin and Art History at the University of Zurich.", "score": "1.6524872" }, { "id": "2365005", "title": "Erwin Bälz", "text": " Bälz was also an ardent art collector; the majority of the Japanese works collected by him are located at the Linden Museum in Stuttgart. A stone sculpture at his alma mater, University of Tübingen is a reminder of his contributions to Japanese medical science. In 1961, a sister city relationship between Kusatsu and Bietigheim-Bissingen was established. After his death, his diary Das Leben eines deutschen Arztes im erwachenden Japan (1931, tr. The Diary of a German Doctor in Awakening Japan) was published, giving unique insights into Japan in the Meiji era. In 1883, while staying at the Fujiya Hotel in Miyanoshita, Hakone, Bälz noticed that his maid's hands were chapped. He made a mixture of glycerin and water for her, which was later sold widely in Japan under the name of Bälz Water. It is also listed in the Japan Pharmacopoeia. During his time in Japan, Bälz became a fan of judo, and is credited with introducing the sport to Germany. In the year 2000, a commemorative museum honoring Bälz was erected in Kusatsu.", "score": "1.6035459" }, { "id": "9840968", "title": "Bietigheim-Bissingen", "text": "Erwin Bälz (1849-1913), personal physician of the Imperial House of Japan and co-founder of modern medicine in Japan ; Elisabeth Goes (1911-2007), pastor's wife and Righteous Among the Nations ; Kurt Hager (1912-1998), member of the Politbüro of the SED in GDR ; Gebhard Fürst (born 1948), bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart and a member of the National Ethics Council ; Michael Jacobi (born 1960), member of Parliament from 1988 to 1991 ; Heiko Maile, Marcus Meyn and Oliver Kreyssig, members of the German pop group Camouflage ; Matthias Ettrich, (born 1972) founder of KDE ; Roland Bless (born 1961) and Ingo Reidl (born 1961), members of the German pop group Pur ; Stefan Hofmann (born 1964), an author, psychologist, and professor at Boston University ; Namosh, (born 1981) a German musician and singer ; Bernd Leno, (born 1992) a football goalkeeper ; Shindy, (born 1988) a German Rap artist ", "score": "1.5822465" }, { "id": "2055169", "title": "Heiko Müller", "text": " Heiko Müller works as an independent artist. His works have been exhibited in his hometown of Hamburg as well as in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Paris, Saint Petersburg and Tartu. He also curated several exhibitions in Hamburg. He has a design diploma from the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and is also working as a professional media designer and illustrator. He is living with his wife and his two sons near Hamburg.", "score": "1.5519763" }, { "id": "29920425", "title": "Stephen Balch", "text": " Balch was born on January 31, 1944, into a Jewish family and grew up in Brooklyn, New York City. In 1979 he married Maria Schelz, and they have two children: Leah and Daniel.", "score": "1.5432403" }, { "id": "14105456", "title": "Villach", "text": " in Klagenfurt, went to school in Villach. ; Heidemarie Hatheyer (1918 in Villach – 1990) Austrian film actress, appearing in 43 films between 1938 and 1988 ; Paul Watzlawick (1921 in Villach – 2007) Austrian-American therapist, psychologist, communications theorist and philosopher. ; Kurt Diemberger (born 1932), mountaineer and author ; Bruno Gironcoli (1936 in Villach – 2010) Austrian modern artist ; Heidelinde Weis (born 1940) Austrian actress ; Hermann Knoflacher (born 1940 in Villach) Austrian civil engineer. ; Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (born 1944 in Villach), former CEO of the Nestlé Group ; George Zebrowski (born 1945 in Villach) American science fiction author and editor ; Zoltan J. Acs (born 1947 in Villach) American economist and Professor of Management at The London School of Economics ; Felix Tretter (born 1949 in Villach) Austrian psychologist, ", "score": "1.5377369" }, { "id": "11270077", "title": "Heiko Engelkes", "text": " a public broadcaster based in Cologne, and became part of the editorial team of the Tagesschau, the broadcaster’s news service. He became head of the editorial team in 1965. In 1974 he moved to Paris as an ARD correspondent, taking over the leadership of ARD’s studio there in 1978. After five years there he returned to Germany in 1983, becoming Second-Editor-in-Chief of ARD-aktuell, the broadcaster’s central TV news bureau. He returned to Paris as local chief at the ARD studio in 1991, remaining there until his retirement in 1998. He died in Cologne on 6 November 2008 from cancer.", "score": "1.5370052" }, { "id": "15491835", "title": "Baltasar Breki Samper", "text": " Baltasar Breki was born in Reykjavík, Iceland to parents Ástrós Gunnarsdóttir, choreographer and Baltasar Kormákur Baltasarsson (better known as Baltasar Kormákur) in 1989. He graduated from Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík in 2008. During the first two years he was part of the school's drama department, but decided to quit in his third year to focus on other studies. When Baltasar Breki was a boy he attended ballroom dancing classes. His mother recalls in a 2008 interview: \"I think he only attended because he had a crush on the girl that he went with. He is a fine dancer and also very musical. He learned to play ", "score": "1.531336" }, { "id": "1468949", "title": "Ernst Balz", "text": " Ernst Balz (24 February 1904 – 31 December 1945) was a German sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics. He went missing in action during World War II, and was declared dead on 31 December 1945.", "score": "1.5279715" }, { "id": "28120036", "title": "Heiko Haumann", "text": " Heiko Haumann (born 9 February 1945) is a German historian and retired academic scholar. Born in Attendorn, Haumann studied history, political science, sociology and education at the University of Marburg and the Goethe University Frankfurt. In 1969, he graduated with the Staatsexamen, and in 1971 he received his doctorate. After working at the University of Marburg and the University of Freiburg, from 1991 to 2010, he was Professor of Eastern European and Modern General History at the Department of History of the University of Basel. Haumann methodologically represents a life-world-oriented microhistorical approach in the study of history. This approach places the people or the perspective of the historical actors at the centre ", "score": "1.52629" }, { "id": "1737179", "title": "Heiko Gentzel", "text": " Gentzel was born in Thuringia, which was then in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). His father was a building engineer and his mother was a nurse. He completed his school education at a Polytechnic Secondary School before undertaking, between 1976 and 1978, an apprenticeship as a fitter, focusing in farm machinery. Military service followed, after which he worked as a machinery repair man working for Kombinat für Landtechnik in Erfurt, and then for Automobilwerk Eisenach, formerly the principal BMW car plant, but by now, following the division of Germany in 1945, known for producing East German Wartburgs.", "score": "1.5203235" }, { "id": "32827816", "title": "Eiko &amp; Koma", "text": " Eiko (born in 1952) and Koma (born in 1948) were law and political science students in Tokyo when, in 1971, they each joined Tatsumi Hijikata’s company. Their collaboration began as an experiment and then developed into an exclusive partnership. They started to work as independent artists in Tokyo in 1972 and at the same time began to study with Kazuo Ohno, who, along with Hijikata, was a central figure in the Japanese avant-garde theatrical movement of the 1960s. Their interest in Neue Tanz took them to Hanover, Germany in 1972 where they studied with Manja Chmiel, a disciple of Mary Wigman. In 1973, they moved to Amsterdam, and for the next two years toured ", "score": "1.519443" }, { "id": "13879196", "title": "Bruno Ganz", "text": " Ganz was born on 22 March 1941 in Zürich to a Swiss-German factory worker father and a northern Italian mother. He had decided to pursue an acting career by the time he entered university. He was equally drawn to stage and screen but initially enjoyed greater success on the stage.", "score": "1.5081985" }, { "id": "7891451", "title": "Hans Baltisberger", "text": " Baltisberger was born in the Betzingen District of Reutlingen, Germany. His father was a doctor, he had three sisters and one brother. His best year was in 1954 when he finished the season in fifth place in the 250cc world championship. Baltisberger was killed while riding a 250cc NSU motorcycle at the 1956 Czechoslovakian Grand Prix, a non-championship event at the Masaryk Circuit in Brno.", "score": "1.4997649" }, { "id": "13638684", "title": "Heiko Bleher", "text": " Heiko Bleher was born in Frankfurt on Main, Germany. He is the fourth and last child of Ludwig Bleher and Amanda Flora Hilda Bleher, born Kiel. Bleher inherited his passion for freshwater fishes and aquatic plants from his mother. Amanda Flora Hilda Bleher was the daughter of Adolf Kiel – \"Father of Water Plants\" and pioneer of the modern aquarium starting in 1887, who established the world's largest plant and ornamental fish farm in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1900. At the age of 4, Bleher’s mother took him to Equatorial Guinea, in West Africa on a research expedition and 2 years later he accompanied his ", "score": "1.494906" } ]

[ "Cincinnati", "Cincy", "Cincinnati, Ohio", "Cinti", "Cincinnati, OH", "Cin City" ]

[ { "id": "10561419", "title": "Margot Shumway", "text": " Margot Shumway (born August 2, 1979) is an American rower. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she place fifth in quadruple sculls. She competed in double sculls together with Sarah Trowbridge at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where they placed sixth.", "score": "1.9021459" }, { "id": "6549710", "title": "Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein", "text": " Shumiatcher was born on October 21, 1896 in Gomel to parents Judah and Chasia as one of eleven siblings. (Katz gives her birth year as 1899.) She and her family emigrated to Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1911. All members of the family worked to support the household; they also had boarders in their house. Shumiatcher worked as a waitress and at a meat-packing plant until 1918, when she met and married Peretz Hirschbein, a New York Yiddish playwright, when he was on tour in Calgary. Shumiatcher had her son, Omus, in 1934 in New York. He would grow to become a prominent concert producer. Shumiatcher moved to Los Angeles in 1940 where her husband had an offer to write film scripts, of which one was produced. Her husband died in 1948 from lateral sclerosis, after which Shumiatcher primarily gave lectures. She eventually moved back to New York, where she died in 1985.", "score": "1.637174" }, { "id": "27016282", "title": "Hettie Shumway", "text": " York area. They designed, built, and moved into a home on Ambassador Drive in Brighton, New York by the end of 1935. The third and final child of the family, Charles Lakin Shumway, was born on July 8, 1936. With a living room full of family photos, that home would become a gathering place for health and social agency staff, various committee members, traveling figure skaters, and many other friends. The Shumway family had a passion for sailing and owned two schooners named “Spindrift” and “Skookum III”. They also owned a beloved fifty-foot ketch named “Flying Gull”. Summers were ", "score": "1.6335852" }, { "id": "15828251", "title": "Mae Shumway Enderly", "text": " Minnie Mae Shumway was born in Galesburg, Illinois, the daughter of Stephen Burroughs Shumway and Lydia Jane Streeter Shumway. She pursued training for the stage at the Frohman School for Expression in New York.", "score": "1.6084733" }, { "id": "27016278", "title": "Hettie Shumway", "text": " Hettie Beaman Lakin Shumway (September 1, 1903 – June 17, 1985) was an American philanthropist and humanist during the early and mid-twentieth century. She committed much of her time to volunteering and worked to change and improve the Rochester, New York area, particularly at the Strong Memorial Hospital, the East House Corporation, Lifeline, the Rochester School for the Deaf, among various other councils and committees. Shumway was also a strong advocate for establishing the National Technical Institute for the Deaf on the campus of the Rochester Institute of Technology.", "score": "1.5955061" }, { "id": "27016281", "title": "Hettie Shumway", "text": " Hettie Lakin met Frank Ritter Shumway when they both went to see Carmen at the opera. Nine months later on Monday, September 8, 1930 Hettie and Frank were married at Round Hill Community Church in Greenwich, Connecticut. Shortly after their wedding, the couple moved to 14 Crick Road, Oxford, England so Mr. Shumway could be educated at the University of Oxford. On May 30, 1931, Frank and Hettie Shumway welcomed their first child, Mary Ellen Shumway. The couple's second child, Frank Ritter Shumway Jr., would be born on May 9, 1933. In 1934 the Shumway family moved to the Rochester, ", "score": "1.5712318" }, { "id": "12472113", "title": "Norman D. Shumway", "text": " On July 28. 1934, Shumway was born in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1952, Shumway graduated from Stockton High School in California.", "score": "1.5624609" }, { "id": "31959684", "title": "Margot Seitelman", "text": " Seitelman was born in Würzburg, Germany to a Jewish family and immigrated to America via Luxembourg, where she settled in Brooklyn, New York.", "score": "1.555362" }, { "id": "6252576", "title": "Margot Adler", "text": " Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Adler grew up mostly in New York City. She attended The High School of Music & Art (later joined with LaGuardia High School) in New York City. Her grandfather, Alfred Adler, was a noted Austrian Jewish psychotherapist, collaborator with Sigmund Freud and the founder of the school of individual psychology.", "score": "1.5544314" }, { "id": "2722415", "title": "Norman Shumway", "text": " Shumway was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan and brought up as an only child by his parents Norman Edward Shumway and Laura Irene Van der Vliet who ran the dairy in Jackson, Michigan. At school he was a key member of the debating team which won the state debating contest. In 1941, he entered the University of Michigan and remained there for one year as an undergraduate law student until he was drafted by the Army in 1943, which sent him to John Tarleton Agricultural College in Stephenville, Texas for engineering training. He then underwent Army Specialized Training, which included nine months of pre-medical training at Baylor University, followed by enrollment at Vanderbilt University for medical school. He received his M.D. from Vanderbilt in 1949.", "score": "1.5402255" }, { "id": "27016304", "title": "Hettie Shumway", "text": " Hettie Shumway was a member of New York State's Committee for Children in 1971.", "score": "1.5392795" }, { "id": "723924", "title": "Nehemiah Shumway", "text": " Shumway was born in Oxford, Massachusetts, the youngest of seven children of Amos Shumway and Ruth Parker. He graduated from the College of Rhode Island in 1790, and became principal of the Freehold Academy in New Jersey. Shumway married Sarah/Sara Tice/Tyse on December 10, 1795. She was baptised in Freehold on July 4, 1773, and died in Lyme, New York, in 1831. They had four children together, but no known grandchildren. Shumway moved to Albany, New York, where his first two sons were born in 1796 and 1798, relocated to Schenectady in around 1800, and returned to Albany in 1806. In 1820 he settled in Lyme; after he lost his farm there through a title defect. A few years later he returned to Freehold, where he died in 1843.", "score": "1.5343273" }, { "id": "31125102", "title": "R. H. Shumway", "text": " Shumway was born July 26, 1842 at his family farm in Kishwaukee, Illinois. At the age of 19, he was enlisted and served in Illinois forces (there being no national standing army until World War I) during the American Civil War. Two years later, he re-enlisted in the 50th Illinois Volunteer. Between enlistments, he married Emma Davis in 1864, and together they had four sons and two daughters. He was discharged in 1865.", "score": "1.5326692" }, { "id": "7160394", "title": "Mina Shum", "text": " Mina Shum was born in Hong Kong in 1966 and came to Vancouver with her family at the age of one. Her family, who had originally left Maoist China, settled in Vancouver as part of the first wave of Chinese immigration. In her early school years, Shum was interested in acting and theatre, and decided to pursue these interests despite her parents' disapproval. Shum attended the University of British Columbia from 1983 to 1989, and received a B.A. in theatre as well as a Diploma in Film Production. At the age of 19, Shum decided that she wanted to be a filmmaker after watching a film by Peter Weir titled, Gallipoli. From Gallipoli she discovered that \"one, you could make a film that wasn't American-centric as well as find an audience and two, you could marry beautiful visuals with a very intimate story.\" After receiving her degree, she was briefly part of the director's program at the Canadian Film Centre, in Toronto. Shum is also close friends with fellow filmmaker, Ann Marie Fleming, whom she met in 1989 while they were both students.", "score": "1.530144" }, { "id": "5945283", "title": "Margot Webb", "text": " Margot Webb was born on 18 March 1910 — as Marjorie Smith — and grew up in Harlem as a native New Yorker. She danced part-time through high school. She attended Hunter College until she dropped out to pursue dancing full-time and became a headline dancer in the Cotton Club from 1933-1939. Webb studied ballet at the Louis Chalif studios in midtown Manhattan. She remembers being taken to a child audition for a Nora Bayes production.", "score": "1.5236228" }, { "id": "8705964", "title": "Ruth V. Hemenway", "text": " After Sun’s alliance with the Communist Party and Chiang Kai-shek’s control over the Nationalists, armies led the “Northern Expedition”, which was a march to Canton that passed over Fukien in the process. Hemenway described this event when she wrote, “We awoke one morning late in June 1929, to the sound of rapid gunfire all around us, screaming in the street, and the quick slamming together of shop fronts. Nurses came running, breathless and frightened,” (113). Hemenway spent thirteen years in Min Valley, a rural area within Fukien nearby the city of Foochow, and lived in Nanking for a year working as a surgeon in the Methodist hospital. Her time in the countryside significantly altered her religious beliefs and opinions on the medical and political problems in China during this period. After imperialist Japan invaded China in 1937, Hemenway worked in Chungking until 1941 and then went to Shanghai before leaving for the United States. She studied at the Hague Maternity Center in Jersey City, New Jersey before practicing medicine in Sharon, Pennsylvania. Eventually, Hemenway moved back to Northampton, Massachusetts and adopted four Chinese children. She died on July 9, 1974 at 80 years old.", "score": "1.5221553" }, { "id": "10393396", "title": "Margot", "text": " Käßmann (born 1958), German theologist and writer ; Margot Kidder, actress famous for playing Lois Lane in Superman ; Margot Lander, Danish ballerina ; Margot Lumb, British squash player ; Margot Marsman (born 1932), Dutch swimmer ; Margot Osmeña (born 1949), Filipino politician ; Margot Pardoe (1902–1996), British children's writer ; Margot Rojas Mendoza (1903 – 1996), Cuban pianist and teacher ; Margot Robbie (born 1990), Australian actress ; Margot Roosevelt, American journalist ; Małgorzata Szutowicz (born 1995), widely known as Margot, Polish non-binary LGBTQIA activist and co-founder of the Stop Bzdurom collective ; Margot Taule, Dominican engineer and architect ; Margot Wallström (born 1954), European Commissioner for Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy ; Margot Wells, Scottish sprinter ; Margot Zemach, American illustrator ", "score": "1.5184956" }, { "id": "27016279", "title": "Hettie Shumway", "text": " Hettie Beaman Lakin (September 1, 1903 – June 17, 1985) was born to Herbert Conrad Lakin (1872–1952) and Helen Wardner Beaman (1877–1967) on her maternal grandparent's country estate named Blow-Me-Down in Cornish, New Hampshire. The oldest of four children, she and her family lived in New York City then moved to Scarsdale, New York and eventually settled down in Greenwich, Connecticut. Hettie was first educated at Brearley School in New York City and graduated from St. Timothy's School in Catonsville, Maryland. She also took courses at Barnard College and later would take American Red Cross courses in 1939. Hettie spent ", "score": "1.5149851" }, { "id": "31915352", "title": "Margot Siegel", "text": " Margot Siegel was born April 2, 1923, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her parents were Jeanne and William Auerbacher. She graduated from University High School in 1940. She completed her B.E in journalism and advertising from the University of Minnesota in 1944. Siegel was also the first teaching assistant in the University's new American Studies program. She was a news and feature writer in the American Red Cross during World War II. Later she became a reporter and editor at Women's Wear Daily in New York, after a stint in Hollywood as a publicist. She also worked as an overseas correspondent from 1947 to 1948 for Fairchild Publications, the parent company of Women's Wear. After returning to Minneapolis in the 1950s she married attorney Harold Siegel, with whom she had two children, William and Sandra, followed ", "score": "1.5078547" }, { "id": "6747768", "title": "Bella Shumiatcher", "text": " Bella Shumiatcher was born on February 9, 1911, in Gomel, Russia, the youngest of 11 children of Judah and Chasia Shumiatcher. Her father and brother homesteaded briefly in Rumsey, Alberta, before the rest of the family joined them in Calgary in August 1911. At age 10 Bella performed in a piano recital organized by the studio of John M. Williams and Shaylor Turner; her niece, six-year-old Minuetta Shumiatcher, also performed. Bella and Minuetta both went on to attend the Juilliard School, while two of Bella's sisters, Fanny (Ziskin) and Sarah (Weiner), also pursued musical careers in New York. In 1932 Bella enrolled in a four-year course at the Institute of Musical Art, the predecessor to the Juilliard School, in New York City. She completed the program in two and a half years, graduating in 1935. She studied under Egon Petri, Ernest Hutcheson, Nadia Reisenberg, and Alfred Mirovitch at the Juilliard Graduate School. She studied music education under Rosalyn Tureck and earned her teaching certificate at Columbia University Teachers College.", "score": "1.5071642" } ]

[ "Kharkiv", "Kharkov", "Chárkiv", "Harkov", "Khar'kov", "Kharkoff" ]

[ { "id": "28347986", "title": "Vitaliy Sobko", "text": " Vitaliy Sobko began his football career in Metalist Youth in Kharkiv. He transferred to FC Kremin Kremenchuk during 2009 winter transfer window.", "score": "1.9038424" }, { "id": "28347985", "title": "Vitaliy Sobko", "text": " Vitaliy Ivanovych Sobko (Віталій Іванович Собко; born 27 July 1987) is a Ukrainian football midfielder.", "score": "1.7625012" }, { "id": "11841312", "title": "Vitaliy Antonov", "text": " Vitaliy Borysovyvch Antonov (born December 12, 1962 in Stryi, Lviv Oblast) is an entrepreneur from Western Ukraine the founder of OKKO Group.", "score": "1.7296268" }, { "id": "32438306", "title": "Vitaly Raevsky", "text": " Vitaliy Anatoliovich Raevskiy was born on February 25, 1949 in Khyriv, Lviv oblast Ukraine.", "score": "1.7167714" }, { "id": "10824946", "title": "Vitalii Kurylo", "text": " Vitalii S. Kurylo was born on February 2, 1957 in the settlement of Bilokurakyne, Lugansk. His father Semen Yevhrafovych (born 1929) and his mother Anastasiia Arsentiivna (born 1930) died. He is married and has four children: two sons and two daughters. He graduated from the Historical Faculty of Luhansk Taras Shevchenko State Pedagogical Institute in 1982. In 1974, he began his career as a teacher in Bilokurakyne Secondary School. He worked as a teacher in Pidhorivka Secondary School and Starobilsk Secondary School No. 3. In 1983-1986, he studied at the postgraduate school. From 1986 to 1996, he worked as an Assistant, ", "score": "1.7002585" }, { "id": "26992707", "title": "Vitaly Mutko", "text": " Mutko was born on 8 December 1958 in the stanitsa of Kurinskaya of Apsheronsky District in Krasnodar Krai in the Soviet Union. He started working as a technician on shipping vessels in 1977. In 1983, he was selected to work for the executive committee of Kirov district of Leningrad. He attended the Saint Petersburg State University of Water Communication in Leningrad, graduating from the River Vocational College in 1987. Before graduating from College, Mutko changed his name from Victor to Vitaly. In 1990, he was appointed as a member of the district council and the head of the district administration a year later. He also graduated from the Law Department of Saint Petersburg State University ", "score": "1.6940128" }, { "id": "3796365", "title": "Sobko", "text": "Aleksandr Sobko (born 1982), Russian football player ; Sergei Sobko (born 1949), Russian politician ; Vadim Sobko (1912–1981), Ukrainian writer ; Vitaliy Sobko (born 1987), Ukrainian football midfielder Sobko (Собко) is a gender-neutral Ukrainian surname that may refer to", "score": "1.6927342" }, { "id": "3744982", "title": "VitaliV", "text": " Vitali was born in Odessa (in Ukraine, U.S.S.R.) in 1957. He studied engineering and classical painting. VitaliV received his first degree (engineering) from the Odessa Maritime College. Thereafter, he was deployed to different locations in the Russian Arctic and Siberia for 6 years. In 1979 Vitali moved to St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) and in 1983 he enrolled at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, first, as a part-time and subsequently, as a full-time student in the sculpture department. In 1989 he won a scholarship at the Norwich University College of the Arts in the UK as an exchange student. In 1989 he lived in the legendary St. ", "score": "1.6853416" }, { "id": "28347987", "title": "Vitaliy Sobko", "text": " His older brother Aleksandr Sobko is also a footballer.", "score": "1.6706383" }, { "id": "27340458", "title": "Vitaly Pashin", "text": " Pashin was born in Sosnovka, Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast. He studied physical education at Chelyabinsk Pedagogical University, graduating in 2006. He advanced to a degree in public administration from the Moscow Academy of Law and Management in 2011, and in 2014 received an MBA from the Russian University of Economics.", "score": "1.6590989" }, { "id": "6756470", "title": "Leonid Sobinov", "text": "Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg ; Palais Garnier, Paris ; Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London ; Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo ; Teatro Real, Madrid. Leonid Sobinov was born in Yaroslavl, into the family of the lower middle-class trade officer Vitaly Vasilyevich Sobinov. The period of his childhood was apparently happy and calm. Sobinov's mother, who died early, was a keen singer, and due to her inspiration, he began singing himself. In 1881, at the age of nine, he entered a boys' school, graduating in 1890 with a silver medal. As a schoolboy, he had played the guitar as well as joining a local ", "score": "1.6474949" }, { "id": "8446877", "title": "Vitaliy Sobolev", "text": " Vitaliy Sobolev (25 January 1930 – 1995) was an footballer from the former Soviet Union who played for FC Dynamo Kyiv. In 1956 Sobolev played a game for the Ukraine national team at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.", "score": "1.6427596" }, { "id": "2136542", "title": "Vitaliy Hoshkoderya", "text": " He was born in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, and is a product of FC Shakhtar Donetsk training academy. His father Valeriy Hoshkoderya is a retired Shakhtar Donetsk player. He was loaned to Volyn Lutsk in the Ukrainian Premier League from 30 August 2010.", "score": "1.623199" }, { "id": "28163124", "title": "Vitaly Mukha", "text": " Vitaly Mukha was born in Kharkov, Ukraine, on 17 May 1935, to a Ukrainian family.", "score": "1.6221154" }, { "id": "788617", "title": "Vitalii Markiv", "text": " Vitalii Markiv was born on August 16, 1989 in the city of Khorostkiv of Ternopil region in West Ukraine. At the age of 16 he moved to Italy with his sister and became an Italian citizen. He returned to Ukraine at the end of 2013 to take part in the demonstrations and the 2014 Euromaidan revolution.", "score": "1.6148235" }, { "id": "13313560", "title": "Vitaliy Ivanko", "text": " Vitaliy Ivanko (Віталій Миколайович Іванко; born 9 April 1992) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a forward.", "score": "1.6094639" }, { "id": "13313561", "title": "Vitaliy Ivanko", "text": " He is the product of the Metalurh Donetsk Youth school system. He played for FC Helios Kharkiv in the Ukrainian First League.", "score": "1.602447" }, { "id": "3795024", "title": "Ilya M. Sobol", "text": " Ilya Meyerovich Sobol was born on August 15, 1926, in Panevėžys (Lithuania). When World War II reached Lithuania his family was evacuated to Izhevsk. Here Sobol attended high school which he finished in 1943 with distinction. Sobol then moved to Moscow at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University, where he graduated with distinction in 1948. Ilya Meyerovich Sobol recognizes Aleksandr Khinchin, Viktor Vladimirovich Nemytskii, and A. Kolmogorov as his teachers. In 1949, Sobol joined a laboratory of the Geophysical Complex Expedition at the Institute of Geophysics of the USSR Academy of Sciences led by Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov. This laboratory was subsequently merged with the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He has been for many years professor at the Department of Mathematical Physics of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, and was an active contributor to the Journal of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics.", "score": "1.5980778" }, { "id": "7282950", "title": "Vadim Sobko", "text": " Vadim Nikolayevich Sobko (Вадим Николаевич Собко) (May 18 (O.S. May 5), 1912 in Moscow &ndash; September 12, 1981) was a Soviet/Ukrainian writer. Vadim Sobko was awarded the Stalin Prize (1951), seven orders, and several medals. He wrote the screenplay of the 1962 drama film Flower on the Stone.", "score": "1.5970297" }, { "id": "30607003", "title": "Aleksandr Sobko", "text": " His younger brother Vitaliy Sobko is also a footballer.", "score": "1.5926414" } ]

[ "Karlskoga" ]

[ { "id": "25738735", "title": "Mikael Eriksson (ice hockey)", "text": " Thorbjörn Mikael Eriksson (born January 3, 1987) is a Swedish professional ice hockey forward, currently playing with Växjö Lakers Hockey in the Swedish Elitserien (SEL). Eriksson was born and raised in Karlskoga, Sweden, with Bofors HC as his youth team. After scoring 13 goals and 35 points with Karlskoga HC in the 2005–06 Swedish Division 2 season, Eriksson signed with the Division 1 team Grums IK for the 2006–07 season, where he scored 12 points in 26 games. During the season he was also called up to the senior Bofors IK team of the second tier HockeyAllsvenskan on 17 occasions, but he only scored 3 points. After 14 goals and 29 points in 162 HockeyAllsvenskan games, Eriksson signed a two-year contract with Växjö Lakers Hockey who were newcomers of the Swedish top tier league Elitserien (SEL) in the 2011–12 season. He made his Elitserien debut on September 13, 2011, in the Lakers' premier game of the season against Frölunda HC. Eriksson did not score any points as Frölunda shutout the Lakers 2–0.", "score": "1.8062909" }, { "id": "15576059", "title": "Frans Otto Eriksson", "text": " Eriksson was born in Badelunda, Västerås, Sweden. His family moved to Stenby, Adelsö, when he was six years old. At the age of thirteen, Eriksson moved back to Västerås, where he lived until his church confirmation.", "score": "1.7529662" }, { "id": "4840129", "title": "Mikael Håfström", "text": " Born in Lund, Sweden, Mikael Håfström studied film at the University of Stockholm and the School of Visual Arts.", "score": "1.7525821" }, { "id": "4138409", "title": "Mikael Samuelsson", "text": " Karl Mikael Samuelsson (born 23 December 1976) is a Swedish former professional ice hockey right winger. Samuelsson began his career in Sweden, starting with small town team IFK Mariefred, followed by Södertälje SK as a junior in 1994. He went on to also play for Swedish teams IK Nyköping, Frölunda HC and Brynäs IF. After being selected 145th overall in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft by the San Jose Sharks, he moved to North America for the 2000–01 NHL season. Samuelsson spent short stints with the Sharks, New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins and Florida Panthers, before returning to Europe during the 2004–05 NHL lockout. As NHL play resumed, Samuelsson signed with the Detroit Red Wings, where he enjoyed ", "score": "1.7279459" }, { "id": "152397", "title": "Mikael Eriksson", "text": " Mikael Eriksson is a Swedish footballer currently playing for Jönköpings Södra IF in the Swedish Superettan. He has previously played for Degerfors IF. In mid-2007, there was speculation in the Australian media that Eriksson was the target of Sydney FC manager Branko Culina, but nothing came of it.", "score": "1.7249527" }, { "id": "16203123", "title": "Paul Eriksson", "text": " Eriksson was born in Gävle, Sweden in 1991. He has a sister. He is half Russian and his father works for Scania AB in St. Petersburg.", "score": "1.7198849" }, { "id": "26505445", "title": "Robert Eriksson", "text": " Eriksson was born on 23 April 1974 in Levanger in Nord-Trøndelag county. His parents are truck-driver Gjermund Eriksson (1955-) and mother Rita Helene Musum (1956-) who worked as an office manager. He attended elementary school at Ness elementary school between 1981 and 1987, and Verdalsøra lower secondary school between 1987 and 1990. Later he enrolled at the Verdal Upper Secondary school between 1990 and 1993. After finishing secondary school, he was drafted into the Norwegian army serving his mandatory service from 1993 to 1994. He later studied corporate economy at the Nord-Trøndelag University College.", "score": "1.6987879" }, { "id": "13263383", "title": "Mikael Mikael", "text": " Mikael Mikael grew up in Wiesbaden, Germany. He studied Fine Art at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) and at the HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg HFBK. Subsequently, he worked as VJ in the midst of Berlin's wild club scene. 2009 he received a scholarship from the Berlin Senate for a stay in New York. 2011 he received yet another scholarship from the Akademie Schloss Solitude. (Engl. Academy Schloss Solitude), Stuttgart, Germany.", "score": "1.6984202" }, { "id": "31103195", "title": "Joacim Eriksson", "text": " Eriksson started his junior career in Valbo before he moved onto the more prestigious Brynäs IF in his hometown of Gävle in 2007. He was born and raised in the village Hedesunda, where he played his first game as a child. He was drafted in the 7th round of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft at 196th overall by the Philadelphia Flyers. However the Flyers did not sign him by June 1, 2011, they lost the rights to him. Unable to find significant playing time behind Jacob Markström after two years of juniors play and after setting league high marks for ", "score": "1.6856183" }, { "id": "13274092", "title": "Andreas Eriksson (visual artist)", "text": " Eriksson was born 1975 in Björsäter, Västergötland, Sweden. Eriksson works mainly with painting, inspired by the nature around his studio. He also works with sculpture, photography and weaving. Eriksson represented Sweden at the 2011 Venice Bienniale. Eriksson had a major solo exhibition in 2020 titled From Sketch to Tapestry at Nordic Watercolour Museum on the island of Tjörn in Sweden.", "score": "1.6764627" }, { "id": "130673", "title": "Robin Eriksson", "text": " Eriksson was born in Gothenburg, and began his football career with local seventh-tier club Kärra KIF. The 15-year-old Eriksson attracted attention from bigger clubs in the locality, and trained with GAIS, before choosing to join the youth system of Eredivisie club Heerenveen. At 16, he moved to the Netherlands, initially on loan for a year, before the move was made permanent in 2008. He developed through that club's youth system, and, with his initial contract due to expire in the summer of 2010, signed a new two-year contract with the option of a further year. Eriksson had chosen Heerenveen because of the club's approach to personalised training for development players, and thought of the club as a \"warm family\", ", "score": "1.676289" }, { "id": "29134073", "title": "Jan Erik Mikalsen", "text": " Jan Erik Mikalsen (born 6 May 1979 in Kristiansund, Norway) is a Norwegian composer of contemporary music, living in Oslo.", "score": "1.6643784" }, { "id": "30743363", "title": "Elis Eriksson", "text": " Elis Ernst Eriksson (22 August 1906 – 4 January 2006) was a Swedish artist, sculptor and writer. He was born in Stockholm and studied there at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in 1934&ndash;1939. He had his first solo exhibition in 1959. His work is commonly described as experimental or anarchic, stylistically akin to Dadaist art. He was awarded the Prince Eugen Medal for sculpture in 1981. He made his prose debut with the book Nattens hundar. Later writings include Pavan, a series of books about a character who first appeared in Eriksson's 1965 installation Indijaner å en kåvvbåj.", "score": "1.663552" }, { "id": "4921378", "title": "Kjell Eriksson (radio presenter)", "text": " Kjell Mikael Eriksson (born 27 December 1975) is a Swedish radio presenter, television personality, blogger and author. In 2008 he was a regular guest at ''VAKNA! med The Voice'' which was broadcast both on the radio station The Voice and on Kanal 5. Eriksson also goes by the pseudonyms of \"Kjelleman\", \"Kjell ger igen\" and \"DumKjell\". He has worked on the comedy show Pippirull and has presented the morning show Morgonpasset, and Sovmorgon all of them broadcast on Sveriges Radio. He also has presented the show Långlunch at the local radio Sveriges Radio Stockholm. Eriksson has frequently appeared on commercial television and radio channels such as RIX FM, The Voice, Kanal 5 and TV3. He has also written the biography Kjell, about his upbringing in Täby in the 1980s when he was severely overweight.", "score": "1.6492534" }, { "id": "13836574", "title": "Mikael Hansson", "text": " Source:", "score": "1.6428885" }, { "id": "13500417", "title": "Mikael Nilsson (footballer, born 1978)", "text": " Nilsson started his career with Ovesholms IF, where he stayed until 1998 when he moved to Åhus Horna BK. He played for the club for only one season before moving to Halmstads BK in 2000. His first season was mostly spent on the bench, but eventually he became one of the team's more important players until, during the 2004 season, he was sold to English club Southampton. At Southampton, he was not able to establish himself as a regular member of the first team and in 2005 he was sold to Greek club Panathinaikos. On 4 March 2008, he stated that when returning to Sweden he would play for Halmstads BK, but he would live in Malmö since he wanted to live in a ", "score": "1.6375782" }, { "id": "8042163", "title": "Erik Josefsson (activist)", "text": " Erik Josefsson was born in Lund. He graduated from Malmö Academy of Music in 1997 (double bass) while finalising a teachers degree in maths and physics at Umeå University. While studying in Umeå, Josefsson was playing with Kammarorkester Bothnia, Trio Lligo and Projektor 7. After a shoulder injury, Josefsson worked as a programmer at WM-data with billing and case handling.", "score": "1.6369674" }, { "id": "31983366", "title": "Birgir Mikaelsson", "text": " Birgir was born in Akureyri, Iceland, before moving with his family to the capital city of Reykjavík at a young age. There he started playing basketball along with football and handball.", "score": "1.636621" }, { "id": "29163293", "title": "Mikael Antonsson", "text": " Mikael Antonsson (born 31 May 1981) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a defender. He currently works for the Danish Superliga side F.C. Copenhagen as assistant manager. As a player, he played professionally in Sweden, Austria, Greece, Italy, and Denmark during a career that spanned between 1996 and 2018. A full international between 2004 and 2015, he won 28 caps for the Sweden national team and was a part of their UEFA Euro 2012 squad.", "score": "1.6333709" }, { "id": "13797107", "title": "Erik Samuelson", "text": " Samuelson was born on 16 April 1893 at Ekedal Estate in Hyringa socken, Grästorp Municipality, Skaraborg County, Sweden, the son of Johan Samuelson and his wife Augusta Modh. He was brother of hippologist Frans Oscar Samuelson (born 1876). Erik Samuelson passed studentexamen in Vänersborg in 1911. He spent some time as an engineer student on the Swedish East Asian Company's steamship Ceylon during a trip to East Asia. He also had some time employment at a shipyard in Le Havre.", "score": "1.6293428" } ]

[ "Brooklyn", "Brooklyn, New York" ]

[ { "id": "15599351", "title": "Fisher Stevens", "text": " Fisher Stevens was born Steven Fisher in Chicago, the son of Sally, a painter and AIDS activist, and Norman Fisher, a furniture executive. Stevens grew up in the Chicago, Illinois area, living in Hyde Park, Highland Park, and Evanston and describes himself as a \"white Jewish kid from Chicago.\" His parents divorced when he was 13, after which he moved to New York with his mother. In the past, Stevens had Hodgkin's disease. At age 16, Stevens landed his first movie role, acting in the horror film The Burning. He completed one year at New York University before deciding to pursue acting full time.", "score": "1.7032324" }, { "id": "4695481", "title": "Brody Stevens", "text": " Stevens was born Steven Brody in Los Angeles, California on May 22, 1970. Stevens' family is from New Mexico and Arizona. His grandmother was born in New Mexico on May 2, 1909. His father, Harold Morris Brody, was born in Phoenix and worked as a private investigator. Stevens described his family as the \"pioneering Jews of the southwest\". Stevens was raised in Los Angeles, and briefly enrolled in private school until his mother decided he would attend public school. The family moved to Sacramento during Stevens' early childhood. After his parents divorced when Stevens was eight years old, he lived with his mother and older sister in the San Fernando Valley. Stevens did not go to Hebrew School nor read from the ", "score": "1.7020931" }, { "id": "30274167", "title": "Craig Stevens (actor)", "text": " Stevens was born in Liberty, Missouri, to Marie and Gail Shikles. His father was a high school teacher in Liberty and later an elementary school principal in Kansas City, Missouri. He studied dentistry at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, from which he received a bachelor's degree in 1936. Later, in the early 1940s, he also majored in theatre at the University of Kansas at Lawrence.", "score": "1.6885353" }, { "id": "14235751", "title": "Brooks Stevens", "text": " Stevens was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 7, 1911. Stricken with polio as a child, he was encouraged by his father to practice drawing while confined to his bed, perhaps motivating his career in design. He studied architecture at Cornell University from 1929 to 1933, and established his own home-furnishings design firm in 1934 in Milwaukee. His son, Kipp Stevens, ran the Brooks Stevens Design Associates until late 2008, when he stepped down. In 1959, Stevens opened a 12,500sf automotive museum in Mequon, Wisconsin, which became a repository for his own designs as well as others—and became a production facility in the late 1980s for the Wienermobile fleet. The museum closed in 1999, four years after his death. Stevens died on January 4, 1995, in Milwaukee. He was survived by his wife Alice, sons Kipp, William, and David, a daughter, Sandra A. Stevens, and five grandchildren.", "score": "1.6827695" }, { "id": "16324077", "title": "Sufjan Stevens", "text": " Stevens was born in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of nine, when his family moved to Alanson, Michigan, in the northern part of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. He was raised by his father Rasjid and his stepmother Pat, only occasionally visiting his mother, Carrie, in Oregon after she married her second husband Lowell Brams. Brams later became the head of Stevens' record label Asthmatic Kitty. His brother Marzuki Stevens is a former professional road runner. Stevens is of Lithuanian and Greek descent. Stevens attended the Detroit Waldorf School, Alanson Public Schools and Interlochen Arts Academy, and graduated from Harbor Light Christian School. He then attended Hope College in Holland, Michigan, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and then earned an MFA from The New School in New York City. Sufjan is a Persian name that means \"comes with a sword\". Most famously belonged to Abu Sufyan, a figure from early Islamic history. The name was given to Stevens by the founder of Subud, an interfaith spiritual community to which his parents belonged when he was born.", "score": "1.6590292" }, { "id": "25017798", "title": "Mark Stevens (art critic)", "text": " On August 14, 1951, Stevens was born in New York City. For his post-secondary education, Stevens received a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 1973 and a Master of Arts from King's College in 1975.", "score": "1.6276708" }, { "id": "4599231", "title": "Derek Stevens", "text": " Stevens was born on September 17, 1967, in Detroit, Michigan. His father John Stevens was an architect, and his mother, Betty, was a high school teacher who had studied math and physics. His grandfather, Rene DeSeranno, started Cold Heading Company, an auto-parts manufacturer, in Warren, Michigan in 1952. He has a younger brother, Greg Stevens. The family lived in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and Stevens attended Grosse Pointe South High School, where he played baseball and some football. In 1990, Stevens graduated from University of Michigan, located in the city of Ann Arbor. Four years later, he earned a Master of Business Administration degree in finance, from Wayne State University in Detroit. He initially studied to be an engineer, but decided he wanted to be in business instead, after spending time in Ann Arbor.", "score": "1.6248636" }, { "id": "10103774", "title": "Halsey Stevens", "text": " Halsey Stevens was born in Scott, New York and educated at Syracuse University and the University of California, Berkeley. He studied with William Berwald at Syracuse and with the composer Ernest Bloch at Berkeley. Stevens served as a faculty member at Syracuse University (1935–1937), Dakota Wesleyan University (1937–1941), Bradley University (1941–1946), the University of Redlands (1946), and then at the University of Southern California from 1946 until his retirement in 1976. His notable students there included Charles Lloyd, Houston Bright, Benjamin Lees, and Morten Lauridsen. He died in a Long Beach, California, medical facility on January 20, 1989, after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.", "score": "1.6213398" }, { "id": "8015179", "title": "Joe Stevens", "text": " Joe Stevens (born July 25, 1938 in New York City) is an American photographer. He is best known for his images of 1970s and 1980s rock musicians and bands such as David Bowie, the Sex Pistols, and The Clash. In the 1960s, he managed the Playhouse, a Greenwich Village coffee house, where he began taking pictures of musicians who played there. He was encouraged by photographer Jim Marshall. His 1965 image of Johnny Cash and guitarist Luther Perkins backstage at Carnegie Hall appeared in the 2019 television series Country Music. Stevens does not have formal training in photography, but worked in the music business as road manager for Miriam Makeba and The ", "score": "1.6101382" }, { "id": "9761736", "title": "Brad Stevens", "text": " Stevens grew up in Zionsville, Indiana, where he developed his love for basketball. Starting at age five, Stevens would watch taped basketball games \"before he went to afternoon kindergarten\". His father often drove him to Bloomington to watch Indiana Hoosiers games. \"It's hard not to be [in love with basketball] when you're a kid growing up in Indiana\", Stevens later said. For his eighth birthday, Stevens received a new basketball hoop. \"It's so much fun to dream in your driveway,\" he later remarked. \"That's where my friends and I hung out. It was a lot of fun to grow up in that era.\" When a friend, Brandon Monk, had a basketball court installed ", "score": "1.60649" }, { "id": "33028638", "title": "James Stevens (composer)", "text": " Stevens was born in London, where he studied initially with Benjamin Frankel in his exclusive class at the Guildhall School of Music. There he won several prestigious awards including the Royal Philharmonic Prize for his First Symphony; the Wainwright Scholarship for \"composer of the year\"; and a French Government Bursary which took him across the Channel to study with Darius Milhaud at the Paris Conservatoire. There he met Nadia Boulanger, who made him one of her star pupils who received Saturday evening tuition free of charge. He also enjoyed an open invitation to Arthur Honegger's classes. Stevens commenced his extensive film career while still a student and was acclaimed at the Ealing Studios, where he constantly devised new film music techniques which are now ", "score": "1.6044191" }, { "id": "5810524", "title": "Shadoe Stevens", "text": " Stevens was born in Jamestown, North Dakota. He first came to fame in 1957 when a Life magazine article about him, entitled \"America's Youngest D.J.\", featured a photo of Stevens broadcasting live over radio station KEYJ (now called KQDJ) in his hometown of Jamestown. The accompanying article extolled the fact that he had built his own working transmitter in the attic of his home the year before, using a \"souped-up\" wireless broadcasting kit with a hundred-foot antenna. It omitted, however, the additional information that the equipment and advice needed to build the transmitter had both been furnished by the staff engineers at KEYJ, which happened to be owned by his father and uncle; his family continues to own many radio stations in North Dakota to this day, under the Ingstad Family Media group. He was later \"discovered\" in a \"man on the street\" interview by the station and was soon broadcasting a weekly rock show called Spin with Terry. During his high school years, he obtained a full-time shift at the station as a host of the Mister Midnight program, where he developed his now-famous \"slow 'n low\" style of speaking.", "score": "1.5953135" }, { "id": "15981880", "title": "Art Stevens", "text": " Stevens was born in Roy, Montana. He was married to his wife, Penny, for 68 years, with whom he had two sons Craig and Kent. Stevens died of a heart attack in Studio City, California in 2007.", "score": "1.5920749" }, { "id": "31510375", "title": "Christopher Stevens (musician)", "text": " Stevens was born Christopher Edmund Stevens, on November 29, 1967, in Eugene, Oregon. He graduated from North Eugene High School. After working as a composer for video games in the 1990s, Stevens eventually relocated to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue songwriting and record production full-time.", "score": "1.5906848" }, { "id": "32636464", "title": "James Stevens (writer)", "text": " For the English composer, see James Stevens (composer). For other people with the same name, see James Stevens (disambiguation). James Stevens (1892 &ndash; December 31, 1971) was an American author and composer. Born in Albia, Iowa, he lived in Idaho from a young age, and based much of his later novel Big Jim Turner (1948) on his childhood spent in Pacific Northwest logging camps. After fighting in World War I, he came back to work in the woods and sawmills of Oregon. Stevens \"...characterized himself as 'a hobo laborer with wishful literary yearning,' and became self-educated at public libraries, which he called 'the poor man's universities. He later traveled through the West and Midwest, and lived in Detroit, Portland, and Seattle. He researched logging history and wrote about the logging industry ", "score": "1.5854231" }, { "id": "27125981", "title": "Kenneth N. Stevens", "text": " Ken Stevens was born in Toronto on March 23, 1924. His older brother, Pete, was born in England; Ken was born four years later, shortly after the family emigrated to Canada. His childhood ambition was to become a doctor, because he admired an uncle who was a doctor. He attended high school at a school attached to the Department of Education at the University of Toronto. Stevens attended college in the School of Engineering at the University of Toronto on a full scholarship. He lived at home throughout his undergraduate years. Though Stevens himself could not fight in World War II because of his visual impairment, his brother was away for the entire war; his parents tuned in nightly to the BBC for updates. Stevens majored in engineering physics at the university, covering topics from the design of motorized machines through to basic ", "score": "1.5815797" }, { "id": "3879392", "title": "Michael Stevens (educator)", "text": " Stevens was born on January 23, 1986, in Kansas City, Missouri. His mother worked as a teaching assistant, while his father was a chemical engineer. The family relocated to Stilwell, Kansas, in 1991. Stevens graduated from Blue Valley High School, where he developed a comedic personality, as well as a passion for knowledge, participating in informative speech and drama club programs. He then graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in psychology and English literature. As an undergraduate, Stevens became interested in video editing, having viewed a re-cut trailer of The Shining.", "score": "1.5782745" }, { "id": "25096575", "title": "Wallace Stevens", "text": " Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1879 into a Lutheran family in the line of John Zeller, his maternal great-grandfather, who settled in the Susquehanna Valley in 1709 as a religious refugee.", "score": "1.5781997" }, { "id": "29633214", "title": "Jimmy Stevens (musician)", "text": " Stevens was born in Liverpool, England, to Tom and Mary Stevens. He had a brother called Tommy and a sister, Mary. The family lived in Garston and Speke. His father bought him an old pub piano, but like many of his generation he veered away from his classical training. He studied at St. Francis Assisi School and later he went to John Almond Secondary Modern School and for two years Stevens was sent to board at Blackrock College, set in 56 acres overlooking Dublin Bay and run by the Holy Ghost Fathers. On a black wind-up gramophone in a dormitory there, he first heard Buddy Holly, who immediately became ", "score": "1.5758468" }, { "id": "14980270", "title": "Cat Stevens", "text": " Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948), commonly known by his stage names Cat Stevens, Yusuf, and Yusuf / Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His musical style consists of folk, pop, rock, and, later in his career, Islamic music. He returned to making secular music in 2006. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. His 1967 debut album and its title song \"Matthew and Son\" both reached top ten in the UK charts. Stevens' albums Tea for the Tillerman (1970) and Teaser and the Firecat (1971) were certified triple platinum in the US. His 1972 album Catch Bull at Four ", "score": "1.5746946" } ]

[ "Kinnitty" ]

[ { "id": "1536788", "title": "Patrick J. Carroll", "text": " Carroll was born in England in 1991 and attended the Preparatory School for Monkton Combe School, Bath. He and his family emigrated to New Zealand in 2004 and he was educated at St Andrew's College, Christchurch. He is a graduate of NZ Drama school Toi Whakaari, with a Bachelor of Performing Arts and has worked with Long Cloud Youth Theatre and travelled to London's Globe Theatre with Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand. In 2014 Carroll attended the Buffon/Le Jeu at L'Ecole Phillipe Gaulier in Paris. He also played in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Strindberg's A Dream-play, and As You Like It. He is represented by Auckland Actors and has played as Thomas Klopper in the award-winning staging of The Book of Everything in 2015/2016 at the Silo Theatre. Over these years, Carroll has performed in Alice In Wonderland, The ", "score": "1.705306" }, { "id": "5757270", "title": "Jim Carroll", "text": " Carroll was born to a working-class family of Irish descent, and grew up in New York City's Lower East Side. When he was about 11 (in the sixth grade) his family moved north to Inwood in Upper Manhattan. He was taught by the LaSalle Christian Brothers. In fall 1963, he entered Rice High School in Harlem, but was soon awarded a scholarship to the elite Trinity School. He attended Trinity from 1964 to 1968. Carroll was a basketball star in high school, but also developed an addiction to heroin. He financed his drug habit by engaging in prostitution in the vicinity of 53rd Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan. Carroll briefly attended Wagner College and Columbia University. He dated Patti Smith.", "score": "1.6996528" }, { "id": "3227237", "title": "Rocky Carroll", "text": " Carroll was born Roscoe Carroll in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 8, 1963. His acting career is rooted in the theater. In 1981, Carroll graduated from the famed School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) in Cincinnati Ohio, in the Cincinnati Public School District. Determined to further his knowledge of acting, he attended The Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University in St. Louis, where he graduated with a B.F.A. degree. Carroll would later receive an honorary degree from his alma mater in 2009. After graduating, Carroll decided to test the waters by moving to New York City, the heart of the theater community. There, he introduced many young children to the works of William Shakespeare by participating in Joe Papp's \"Shakespeare on Broadway\" series.", "score": "1.6902957" }, { "id": "10158998", "title": "Adam Carroll (American musician)", "text": " Carroll was born in 1975 in Tyler, Texas. His father is an attorney and his mother, a musician and choir director. He studied classical guitar and creative writing briefly at Tyler Junior College. He left college in his early 20s, around 1995, and began performing in the Austin-Dallas-San Antonio area, initially in coffeehouses and later at pubs and clubs throughout the region. In 1998, he released his debut South of Town which was followed by Lookin' Out the Screen Door in 2000 and Adam Carroll Live in 2002. All three were produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Lloyd Maines. While on the road, Carroll opened for some of East ", "score": "1.6893808" }, { "id": "5932409", "title": "Lawrence Carroll", "text": " Carroll was born to George and Mary Carroll (Gaynor) in Melbourne, Australia. He moved to Santa Monica, California, with his parents and older brother Ronald in 1958. In 1960 his family relocated to Newbury Park, a suburb located 45 minutes north of Los Angeles. He attended Newbury Park High School and later worked as a chef to pay for his studies at Moorpark Junior College and then later the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where he studied art on a full scholarship.", "score": "1.6822138" }, { "id": "2965575", "title": "Liz Carroll", "text": " Carroll's parents were born in Ireland; her father Kevin was from Brocca, County Offaly, and her mother Eileen was from Ballyhahill, West Limerick. Her maternal grandfather played the violin and her father played button accordion. Carroll was born September 19, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois and raised on Chicago's south side. She took classical music lessons from nuns at Visitation Catholic School. On Sunday nights, Carroll and her family visited a south side Irish pub that hosted a live radio show featuring traditional Irish music. She earned a degree in social psychology at DePaul University. Carroll's influences include Chicago-born Irish fiddler John McGreevy, Irish button accordionist Joe Cooley, Irish fiddler Sean McGuire, 1983 National Heritage Award-winning uilleann piper Joe Shannon, and pianist Eleanor Neary.", "score": "1.6790811" }, { "id": "16233686", "title": "Mickey Carroll", "text": " Born Michael Finocchiaro in St. Louis, Missouri, Carroll was the son of Italian immigrants. He was born along with a twin sister, who, unlike Carroll, was of average size. As a child Carroll began dance lessons at the Fox Theater in St. Louis. At 17 he was one of six bellhops in the 'Call for Phillip Morris' live radio ads, and at 18 was appearing in shows with Mae West. While under contract to MGM, he went to school with Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. It was Garland herself who offered him a part in The Wizard of Oz. Carroll was cast as Munchkinland's \"Town Crier\". His costume consisted of a purple cloak with a yellow flower sticking out of his striped vest. He also marched as a \"Munchkin Soldier\", and as one of the candy-striped \"Fiddlers\" ", "score": "1.6578122" }, { "id": "5892433", "title": "Noel Carroll (athlete)", "text": " Noel Carroll was born in Annagassan, County Louth, in 1941, and left school to join the Army where he began running. In 1962, while competing in the Millrose Games in New York City, he was recruited by \"Jumbo Elliott\" and attended Villanova University, where he joined the university's athletics team, the Villanova Wildcats and won a number of track championships. At Villanova, he ran a sub-four-minute mile and in 1964, was the anchor for the team which broke the 4 x 880 yard relay World Record. In the same year, he also set the European Indoor record for the 880 yards and competed in the Olympic Games in Tokyo in the Men's 800 metres finishing just outside of ", "score": "1.6449115" }, { "id": "6785423", "title": "Leo G. Carroll", "text": " Carroll was born in Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire, to William and Catherine Carroll. His Roman Catholic parents named him after then-Pope Leo XIII. In 1897, his family lived in York, where his Irish-born father was a foreman in an ordnance store. In the 1901 census for West Ham, Essex, his occupation is listed as \"wine trade clerk\". In the 1911 census, he is living at the same address and described as a \"dramatic agent\".", "score": "1.6442437" }, { "id": "30748040", "title": "Adam Carroll (Irish musician)", "text": " Carroll was born and raised in Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland. Carroll's musical career began when he formed Time Is A Thief in 2007 with James Keane who were in school together and friends Micheal Murphy & Pierce Day (Day later replaced by Jeffrey Hayes). He is vocalist in London-based band Zoax which formed in 2013, also in the band are Joe Copcutt, Doug Wotherspoon, Sean Weir & Jonathan Rogers. In 2018 Carroll formed The Gore Club with Joe Copcutt.", "score": "1.6379843" }, { "id": "11412798", "title": "James Carroll (actor)", "text": " Carroll was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. He moved from the U.S. to Toronto during the 1970s after performing in stage productions in the Canadian city. In addition to acting, Carroll later worked as the stage manager at The Second City improv club in Toronto. His other television roles included Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning in 2008, as well as commercials. Carroll originally left the entertainment industry and moved to Huntsville, Ontario, to live closer to his daughter Emma. He soon became involved with Hunters Bay Radio, the local community radio station, as an afternoon host in 2010. Carroll and his colleagues oversaw the expansion of Hunters Bay Radio into a full FM station with 60 employees which now broadcasts across Muskoka's cottage country and the Almaguin Highlands.", "score": "1.6339719" }, { "id": "10158997", "title": "Adam Carroll (American musician)", "text": " Adam Carroll (born 1975) is an Americana singer-songwriter who was born in Tyler, Texas, and has spent most of his career in the Austin, Texas area. Carroll has eight albums to his credit, all indie releases, beginning with 2000's South of Town. His songwriting, which focuses on life in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma, is widely respected and has been compared to the work of Texas greats such as Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt. He was honored in 2016 with the release Highway Prayer: A Tribute to Adam Carroll, which features recordings of his songs by some of Austin's leading Americana music artists, including Slaid Cleaves, James McMurtry, Terri Hendrix and Tim Easton.", "score": "1.63274" }, { "id": "6097315", "title": "Jack Carroll (comedian)", "text": " Carroll was born 11 weeks prematurely and he developed cerebral palsy. In 2012, he won a Pride of Britain Award in the \"Teenager of Courage\" category. Carroll lives in Hipperholme, West Yorkshire, with his parents. He is a Leeds United F.C fan and on 31 August 2013, he performed at Elland Road at the launch of the club's Families United initiative.", "score": "1.628032" }, { "id": "7393971", "title": "Liam Cunningham", "text": " Cunningham was born in East Wall, which is an inner city area of the Northside of Dublin. He grew up in Kilmore West with his three sisters and a brother. Cunningham left secondary school at 15 and pursued a career as an electrician. In the 1980s, Cunningham moved to Zimbabwe for three years where he maintained electrical equipment at a safari park and trained Zimbabwean electricians. After returning to Ireland, Cunningham became dissatisfied with his work as an electrician and decided to pursue his interest in acting. He attended acting classes and began to work in local theatre, including Royal Shakespeare Company. He appeared in a production of Studs at The Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn, London.", "score": "1.6176245" }, { "id": "11137232", "title": "Curtis Carroll", "text": " Carroll was born in Washington, D.C. and later moved to East Oakland, where he grew up, amidst the crack epidemic in the United States. His mother was a waitress at a bowling alley and the family was often on welfare. He later befriended his mother's drug dealer, who taught him to steal quarters from arcade machines. Carroll was eventually caught and sentenced to juvenile hall.", "score": "1.614074" }, { "id": "5401511", "title": "Liam Aiken", "text": " Aiken was born in New York City, the only child of Moya Aiken, an Irish-born artist; and Bill Aiken, an MTV producer, who is of Scots-Irish descent. Bill died of esophageal cancer in September 1992, at age 34, when Liam was two years old. Aiken grew up in New Jersey and attended Dwight-Englewood School, graduating in 2008. He then went on to major in film at New York University. , Aiken resides in Los Angeles.", "score": "1.5957885" }, { "id": "5041541", "title": "Bill Carroll (broadcaster)", "text": " Carroll was born in Scotland on July 29, 1959 and grew up in Coatbridge near Glasgow. He came with his family to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the late 1960s. The family first lived in Don Mills in an apartment (later in a townhouse in Scarborough), where he attended Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute, a few years before Mike Myers. Bill married Sylvie LaPointe in July 2003. They have two children, Killian and Magalie. Like Bill's father, Magalie was born with spina bifida. Bill has cited as one of the reasons for his relocation to California was to be closer to Ramon Cuevas, a physical therapist who had worked with Magalie.", "score": "1.5950043" }, { "id": "15282437", "title": "Canice Carroll", "text": " Canice Michael Carroll (born 16 January 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Oxford City. Carroll is a product of the Oxford United youth system and began his professional career with the club, before moving to Brentford in 2018. After loan spells at Swindon Town and Carlisle United and a short period with Stevenage, he moved to Scotland to join Queen's Park in 2020. Born in England, Carroll was capped by the Republic of Ireland at youth level and has played club football in England and Scotland.", "score": "1.5921214" }, { "id": "4113424", "title": "Liam Carroll (hurler)", "text": " Liam Carroll is an Irish retired hurler who played as a midfielder for the Offaly senior team. Born in Kinnitty, County Offaly, Carroll first played competitive hurling in his youth. He made his senior debut with Offaly during the 1984 championship and immediately became a regular member of the team. During his career Carroll won one Leinster medal. He was an All-Ireland runner-up on one occasion. At club level Carroll is a three-time championship medallist with Kinnitty. His retirement came following the conclusion of the 1985-86 National League.", "score": "1.5908687" }, { "id": "10369701", "title": "Andy Carroll", "text": " Born in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, Carroll attended Brighton Avenue Primary School and Joseph Swan School. He is a model for clothing retail company H&M and has fronted a campaign led by fashion designer Alexander Wang. In November 2014, Carroll became engaged to reality TV star Billi Mucklow. The couple live in Essex. Their son, Arlo, was born in June 2015. He has two children, Emilie Rose and Lucas, from a previous relationship. In November 2017, Mucklow and Carroll had a second child, Wolf Nine. In November 2016, Carroll was approached by two men on motorcycles while driving near his home in Brentwood, Essex. Armed with a handgun, they attempted to steal his £22,000 watch but failed. Carroll was then chased in his car for about 20 minutes as he drove back to West Ham's training ground in Rush Green to get help from security staff. In September 2017, 22-year-old Jack O'Brien was found guilty of the attempted robbery. He was sentenced to six years in prison for the offence. In May 2019, Carroll was listed as the 14th-wealthiest sports person aged 30 or under in The Sunday Times Rich List, his personal wealth having increased to £19m.", "score": "1.5826409" } ]

[ "Guarulhos" ]

[ { "id": "7841144", "title": "Wellington Silva (footballer, born 1988)", "text": "(Correct ) ''according to combined sources on the Flamengo official website. ''", "score": "1.6560025" }, { "id": "15576865", "title": "Wellington (footballer, born 1987)", "text": " Wellington Carlos da Silva (born 5 October 1987) is a Brazilian footballer who last played as a Striker for the Feirense.", "score": "1.6380253" }, { "id": "29691504", "title": "Wellington Silva (footballer, born 1993)", "text": " On 18 July 2016, Wellington Silva returned to his former team Fluminense on a four-year contract. His name changed to Wellington to not be confused with Wellington Silva. In 2018, Fluminense dealt Wellington Silva to Internacional.", "score": "1.6285467" }, { "id": "1635598", "title": "Wellington (footballer, born June 1982)", "text": " Born in Itabuna, Wellington started his career at Atlético Mineiro. He signed a five-year contract in June 2001. He moved to Aalborg Boldspilklub in summer 2004. He then returned to Brazil for Estrela do Norte. In summer 2007, he left for Sannois Saint-Gratien in Championnat National.", "score": "1.6280451" }, { "id": "26689829", "title": "Wellington Silva (footballer, born 1987)", "text": " Wellington da Silva de Souza(born 27 May 1987), sometimes known as just Souza, is a Brazilian football striker who currently plays for Oeste Futebol Clube. He played for Gyeongnam FC in the South Korea and J2 League side Tokushima Vortis.", "score": "1.625313" }, { "id": "29691498", "title": "Wellington Silva (footballer, born 1993)", "text": " Wellington Alves da Silva (born 6 January 1993) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Gamba Osaka as a winger.", "score": "1.6209695" }, { "id": "7841145", "title": "Wellington Silva (footballer, born 1988)", "text": "Fluminense ; Primeira Liga: 2016 Bahia ; Copa do Nordeste: 2017 Remo ; Copa Verde: 2021 ", "score": "1.6199052" }, { "id": "6338148", "title": "Wellington Dias", "text": " Son of Joaquim Antônio Neto, elected mayor of Paes Landim by ARENA in 1972, and Teresinha de Araújo Dias, elected deputy mayor of the same municipality by the PFL in 1988, Wellington Dias was born in the municipality of Oeiras, in Piauí, but was raised in Paes Lacy in the same state. [2]During his youth, he joined the undergraduate course in Portuguese Literature at the Federal University of Piauí (1982) and specialized in Public Policy and Government at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He started working at the age of 19, working as a broadcaster at Rádio Difusora in Teresina, Piauí. As a bank employee, he ", "score": "1.6194212" }, { "id": "9487713", "title": "Wellington (footballer, born June 1981)", "text": " Wellington Damião Nogueira Marinho (born 13 June 1981) is a Brazilian footballer. He plays for São Bernardo FC. In February 2006, he was signed by Sporting Braga. He then spent 3 more seasons in Europe. After without a club for a season, he signed a 1-year contract with São Bernardo FC.", "score": "1.6170998" }, { "id": "29691506", "title": "Wellington Silva (footballer, born 1993)", "text": "Campeonato Brasileiro Série A: 2010 Fluminense", "score": "1.5994196" }, { "id": "4424405", "title": "Wellington Paulista", "text": " Born in São Paulo, he started as a youth team player with Juventus-SP. He gained experience while on loan to Mirassol, Paraná and Santos, where he scored nine goals in 30 games. This performance brought him to the attention of the Spanish Second Division club Deportivo Alavés. Moving to Spain in 2006, he remained with Alavés until December 2007, when he returned to his home country to sign with Botafogo. Paulista scored seven league goals in 28 appearances and was part of the Botafogo side that won the Rio Cup.", "score": "1.5777307" }, { "id": "29691507", "title": "Wellington Silva (footballer, born 1993)", "text": "Campeonato Carioca Team of the year: 2017 ", "score": "1.5675347" }, { "id": "30904007", "title": "Wellington Luís", "text": " Wellington Luís Farias da Silva (born 4 January 1995) is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Spanish club UD Almería B. He previously played for Gil Vicente, Salgueiros and Marítimo.", "score": "1.5640254" }, { "id": "7841143", "title": "Wellington Silva (footballer, born 1988)", "text": " Wellington Nascimento Silva (born 6 March 1988), known as Wellington Silva, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a right back for Remo. After mild prominence in the Flamengo, the player notified and left the team, unilaterally.", "score": "1.5633488" }, { "id": "29691500", "title": "Wellington Silva (footballer, born 1993)", "text": " On 31 January 2010, Silva signed for Arsenal, and featured in a reserves match against Manchester United on 19 August 2010. He played the whole 90 minutes and scored, cutting in from the right to hit the back of the net. He played in a closed-doors friendly for Arsenal in January 2010 against Dagenham and Redbridge, scoring a brace and setting up a third, being replaced after 70 minutes. On 9 December 2010, it was announced that the FA had backtracked on its initial decision to award Silva his \"Special Talent Visa\". The next day, it was announced on Arsenal's official website that the club planned to send him out on loan due to the fact he couldn't get a work permit. On 30 October 2014, it was reported that Silva had obtained the necessary work permit to play for Arsenal from the start of the following (2015–16) season.", "score": "1.5604987" }, { "id": "15576866", "title": "Wellington (footballer, born 1987)", "text": " After having played for Sertãozinho in his country, Wellington moved abroad, signing for Romanian club Concordia on 27 June 2012. He was a victim of a racial abuse during a match in September 2014 against Rapid București with a banana being thrown at him. One week later, the fan who threw the banana apologised and Wellington reportedly promised to give him a signed Jersey besides accepting a public apology. In April 2015, it was announced that he demanded an early termination of his contract so that he could return to Brazil for treatment of an injury. On 29 April 2015, he officially terminated his contract after spending three seasons with it during which he scored 19 goals. On 24 June 2015, Wellington moved to Pandurii of the same league, penning a one year deal. After having scored a single goal for the club, he switched clubs and countries, signing for Cypriot club AEL Limassol on 9 May 2016. On 31 January 2017, he joined Portuguese club Feirense.", "score": "1.5562317" }, { "id": "29691499", "title": "Wellington Silva (footballer, born 1993)", "text": " Silva joined Fluminense's youth setup in 2004, from neighbours Portuguesa. In December 2008 he was invited to a trial period at Arsenal, and scored four goals in a single match against Norwich with the Academy side. He returned to Brazil, however, and was assigned back to the youth setup at Flu. On 31 December 2009, Silva agreed a deal with Arsenal, for a £3.5 million fee. The deal was delayed until 2011 due to his age. On 28 February 2010, Silva made his senior debut for Fluminense, starting and scoring the second of a 5–1 home routing over Friburguense for the Campeonato Carioca championship; his Série A debut came on 9 May, coming on as a late substitute in a 1–0 loss at Ceará. In October, Silva was widely criticised by coach Muricy Ramalho, after his complaints due to the lack of opportunities, and subsequently appeared rarely after the disruption with his manager.", "score": "1.5494757" }, { "id": "1635661", "title": "Wellington (footballer)", "text": " Silva, Brazilian football left-back ; Wellington (footballer, born 1987), full name Wellington Carlos da Silva, Brazilian football striker ; Wellington Silva (footballer, born 1987), Brazilian football forward ; Wellington Adão (born 1988), Brazilian football forward ; Wellington (footballer, born 1988), full name Wellington Luís de Sousa, Brazilian football forward ; Wellington Silva (footballer, born 1988), Brazilian football right-back ; Wellington (footballer, born 1989), full name Wellington Oliveira dos Reis, Brazilian football defender ; Wellington Baroni (born 1989), Brazilian football defender ; Wellington Júnior (born 1989), Brazilian football forward ; Wellington (footballer, born January 1991), full name Wellington Aparecido Martins, Brazilian football defensive midfielder ; Wellington (footballer, born ", "score": "1.5492625" }, { "id": "29691505", "title": "Wellington Silva (footballer, born 1993)", "text": " Silva was a part of the Brazil under-17 squad that performed at the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup. In November 2014 he appeared with the under-21s in a 2–2 draw against Australia and a 3–1 win against South Korea.", "score": "1.5464802" }, { "id": "32789142", "title": "Wellington (footballer, born 1988)", "text": " Wellington started his professional career in 2007 with Sport Club Internacional. In the same year, he was lent to São Caetano. He played for Náutico in 2008 also on loan, before Wellington left Internacional for TSG 1899 Hoffenheim on 7 August 2008. He played only 18 games and was loaned out to FC Twente on 31 August 2009. On 6 July 2010, he was loaned out to Fortuna Düsseldorf in the 2. Bundesliga. He made his debut in the DFB-Pokal match against TuS Koblenz on 15 August 2010 and scored his first goal – a wide distance shot from 35 meters – as a substitute during a 1–2 defeat against Hertha BSC Berlin on 30 August. In the winter break, he returned to Brazil, transferring to Figueirense on loan. On 2 August 2012, his contract until June 2013 at 1899 Hoffenheim was terminated in mutual consent. After playing for EC Pelotas in the first half of 2013, he was acquired by Shonan Bellmare.", "score": "1.5429573" } ]

[ "Kimberley", "Kimberley, Nottinghamshire" ]

[ { "id": "30120577", "title": "George Frederick Chambers", "text": " George Frederick Chambers (October 18, 1841–May 24, 1915) was an English barrister, amateur astronomer and author, who wrote a number of popular books about science. Chambers was born on 18 October 1841 at Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire. He was introduced to astronomy by his uncle, who owned an observatory in Eastbourne, Sussex, where Chambers stayed from time to time as a child. Chambers went on to study engineering asa student in London. George Chambers published his first book, A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy, when he was aged only 19 years. It provided a review of astronomy across 600 pages. It was later republished in anexpanded form, and eventually appeared as three volumes. Chambers turned from engineering to study law. He became abarrister in 1868, and worked for many years as a parliamentary barrister. Chambers set up home in Eastbourne in 1873, where he and his ", "score": "1.794286" }, { "id": "30375231", "title": "George B. Chambers", "text": " George Bennet Chambers (18 January 1881 in Ealing, London – 1969 in Surrey) was an English priest, social activist and author (writing as G. B. Chambers). Following a long ministry in the Church of England, he became the vicar of Carbrooke Church in Norfolk. An expert on folk music (in particular, plainsong ), he was also well known for his left-wing social and political views, which were evident in his well publicised commission of a crucifix incorporating hammer and sickle iconography.", "score": "1.7191417" }, { "id": "6307991", "title": "George Chambers (cricketer, born 1866)", "text": " George Chambers (18 October 1866 – 15 June 1927) was an English cricketer. He was a left-arm fast bowler who played for Nottinghamshire. He was born in Ilkeston and died in New Awsworth. Chambers' debut came during the 1896 County Championship season, against Sussex. Batting in the tailend, he finished not out in the first innings in which he batted, and with a sturdy 16 runs in his second innings. Chambers had to wait nearly three seasons until he played first-class cricket again, during the 1899 season - in which his first action was to bowl out Stanley Jackson. He would play just two matches during the season - his final match coming against Derbyshire, who narrowly avoided an innings defeat following the wicket of Joe Humphries.", "score": "1.7178507" }, { "id": "2797119", "title": "Jason Chambers", "text": " Jason Chambers, of Greek, French and Irish descent, was born on March 23, 1980 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dale Chambers, a homemaker, and George West, who worked for Roadway Services. Chambers resided in Tinley Park, Illinois until the age of 12, then moved to Chicago where he resided until he was 16. At 21, Chambers moved to New York City to study acting. In 2006 he moved to Los Angeles, California. Chambers resides in Miami, Florida.", "score": "1.7083063" }, { "id": "30375232", "title": "George B. Chambers", "text": " Chambers was the seventh child of George Nicholson Chambers and Margaret Bennet. His father was related to the former Chief Justice of Bengal, Sir Robert Chambers, and the family were originally from Northumberland before settling in London. Chambers spent some time in his youth as a Benedictine monk, based at Caldey Island in Pembrokeshire. After changing denomination, he took successive roles in the East End of London and South Africa working with the Church of England. He was ordained a deacon in 1906 and a priest in 1907. He was appointed Vicar of Carbrooke Church in 1927, where he remained until 1955. Whilst at Carbrooke he also became Rector of Ovington, Norfolk in 1952.", "score": "1.7038972" }, { "id": "11150275", "title": "Amanda and Samuel Chambers", "text": " Chambers was born in Pickens County, Alabama on 21 May, 1831, to James Davidson, and his slave, Hester Gillespie. He was secretly baptized at the age of 13 by Thomas Preston, a recent convert to the church. In 1850, he married Priscilla Beasley, with whom he had one child, named Peter. After the Civil War, he began sharecropping and shoemaking for a living.", "score": "1.6808423" }, { "id": "9541365", "title": "James F. Chambers Jr.", "text": " Chambers was born May 13, 1913 to James F. and Elizabeth Troutman Chambers. While born in Houston, he was raised in Dallas. After attending public schools, he transferred to the Terrill School for Boys, where he graduated in 1931. As he later recounted, “I went there to prepare for entrance into Boston Tech (the forerunner to MIT). My father wanted me to be an engineer like he was.”", "score": "1.6659211" }, { "id": "8585758", "title": "C. Haddon Chambers", "text": " Chambers was born in Petersham, Sydney, the son of John Ritchie Chambers, who had a good position in the New South Wales civil service, came from Ulster, his mother, Frances, daughter of William Kellett, from Waterford. Charles was educated at the Petersham, Marrickville, and Fort Street High schools, but found routine study tedious and showed no special promise. He entered the lands department at 15 but did not stay long. After two years in the outback working as a boundary rider, in 1880 he was invited by cousins to return with them to Ulster, from there he visited England. On Chambers' return he was in the managerial department of the Montague-Turner opera company.", "score": "1.645573" }, { "id": "14785478", "title": "John Chambers (artist)", "text": " Chambers was born in South Shields and educated at the town's Union British School, where the pupils were particularly encouraged to draw ships and other nautical subjects. He joined the Tyne Pilot Service on leaving school, but left before reaching manhood and decided to become an artist. Chambers enrolled at the Government School of Design in Newcastle upon Tyne and later went to study in Paris in the ateliers of Professors Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre, before settling at North Shields as a professional artist. He first began exhibiting in 1877, showing several examples at the South Shields Fine Art & Industrial Exhibition. He followed this by ", "score": "1.6432185" }, { "id": "10935715", "title": "Charles Edward Chambers", "text": " Chambers was born on August 9, 1883, in Ottumwa, Iowa to Horatio Cox Chambers (1849-1914) and Rosa A. Lee Chambers (1849-1920). He had one sibling, Helen Lee Chambers (1880-1899). Chambers received his education in art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Later, he attended the National Academy of Design, where he studied under George Bridgman. One of Chambers' teachers was Fanny Musnell (1884-1920). She was an illustrator for national magazines including, Cosmopolitan and Woman's Home Companion. Her style of illustration influenced Chambers, and the two would eventually marry. They remained together till her death in 1920. Chambers later remarried to Pauline True (1912-?), the model from his 1933 Red Cross painting. On November 4, 1941, Chambers died in New York, New York. He is buried in Ottumwa Cemetery in Iowa.", "score": "1.6404777" }, { "id": "4140861", "title": "George Chambers (cricketer, born 1884)", "text": " George Henry Chambers (24 March 1884 – 13 September 1947) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. He was born at Kimberley, Nottinghamshire. Chambers made his first-class debut for Nottinghamshire against Middlesex in the 1903 County Championship. The following season he played a single first-class match for the county against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's. The 1905 season was to be his last in first-class cricket, with him representing Nottinghamshire in 2 further first-class matches against Oxford University and Yorkshire. In his 4 first-class matches, he scored 58 runs at a batting average of 11.60, with a high score of 30.", "score": "1.6363103" }, { "id": "28209625", "title": "John Chambers (make-up artist)", "text": " Chambers was born in Chicago, Illinois, to an Irish-American family. His father Michael emigrated from Newport in Ireland.", "score": "1.633843" }, { "id": "30190921", "title": "Albert A. Chambers", "text": " Chambers was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Arthur Samuel Chambers and his wife, the former Eleanor Jenny Terbrack. He had a least one sister, who ultimately survived him. Educated at Hobart College, he received his B.A. in 1928, then prepared for ordination at the General Theological Seminary in New York, from which he graduated in 1932. He later received Divinity degrees from Hobart in 1957, GTS in 1961 and Nashotah House in 1963. He married the former Frances Hewette Davis, and they raised two daughters (Sally and Fran) before her death in 1976. He remarried, to Janet Snyder Wilson, who also predeceased him.", "score": "1.589813" }, { "id": "30375233", "title": "George B. Chambers", "text": " Chambers was actively involved in fundraising for institutions that included the Imperial Cancer Research fund (now part of Cancer Research UK). A friend of several prominent left-wing figures in England, he was married in 1921 to Aline Robinson (daughter of Louis Robinson) and had four children.", "score": "1.589722" }, { "id": "602188", "title": "Michael Chambers", "text": " Born in Wilmington, California, Chambers is the youngest of four. He grew up in a small town, but a community with a diverse mix of ethnic groups and cultures. In 1978, while at junior high, Chambers would see a member of the Samoan American dance group Blue City Strutters perform. The group would heavily influence Chambers' style, performing King Tut and domino routines and bringing dance styles from San Jose and San Francisco to South Bay Los Angeles. Initially, he formulated his style of dance through his interest in fantasy and sci-fi television shows, including the work of Ray Harryhausen and other stop-motion experts. He credits his older brother with introducing him to the \"moonwalk\", a move he would later perfect and share with pop superstar Michael Jackson, as well as his signature style of animated ", "score": "1.5849105" }, { "id": "3162744", "title": "Walter B. Chambers", "text": " Chambers was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of attorney William P. Chambers and Caroline Smith Boughton, both of whom were New York natives. As a child both Walter and his brother, author, Robert William Chambers, attended Brooklyn Polytechnic School, from there he was accepted into the class of 1887 at Yale University, At Yale he served on the fifteenth editorial board of The Yale Record and was a member of the Scroll and Key Society. Following his graduation Chambers was unsure of his career path when his brother,Robert, suggested that he come to Paris to study architecture. In order to convince his parents that Walter doing so was a practical idea he noted Walter's proficiency in drawing buildings. Robert reminded his parents ", "score": "1.5794284" }, { "id": "9509113", "title": "John T. Chambers", "text": " Chambers was born on August 23, 1949 in Cleveland, Ohio to John Tuner \"Jack\" and June Chambers. His mother was a psychiatrist and his father was an obstetrician. The family resided in Kanawha City, West Virginia. When Chambers was nine years old, he was diagnosed with dyslexia. Aided by a therapist, Chambers learned to cope with his disability.", "score": "1.5775564" }, { "id": "11204568", "title": "E. K. Chambers", "text": " Chambers was born in West Ilsley, Berkshire. His father was a curate there and his mother the daughter of a Victorian theologian. He was educated at Marlborough College, before matriculating at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He won a number of prizes, including the chancellor's prize in English for an essay on literary forgery in 1891. He took a job with the national education department, and married Eleanor Bowman in 1893. In the newly created Board of Education, Chambers worked principally to oversee adult and continuing education. He rose to be second secretary, but the work for which he is remembered took place outside the office, ", "score": "1.5736735" }, { "id": "5960792", "title": "Julius Chambers", "text": " Julius Chambers was born in Bellefontaine, Ohio in 1850, the son of Joseph and Sarabella (née Walker) Chambers. When he was only eleven years old, he began working as a printer's devil in his uncles' newspaper office the \"Bellefontaine Republican\". He first attended Ohio Wesleyan University, and later, Cornell University, from which he graduated in 1870. At Cornell, he was a co-founder in 1869 of the Irving Literary Society. Around 1880, while working as a journalist he spent some time reading law in Philadelphia with Benjamin H. Brewster, who became U.S. Attorney General in December 1881, and studying at Columbia College Law School in New York City.", "score": "1.5695148" }, { "id": "2004543", "title": "George Chambers (MP)", "text": " George Chambers (1766 – after 1826), of Hartford, near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, was an English soldier, lawyer and Member of Parliament.", "score": "1.5641553" } ]

[ "Nantes" ]

[ { "id": "5550207", "title": "Marie-Hélène Aubert", "text": " Marie-Hélène Aubert (born 16 November 1955 in Nantes) is a French politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the West of France. She is a member of the Socialist Party, having quit the Greens in 2008. Aubert was a Vice Chair of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.", "score": "1.8037641" }, { "id": "29438954", "title": "Jeanne Aubert", "text": " Aubert was born in Paris, France, to a single mother, Augustine Marguerite Perrinot, who pushed her daughter into a career in show business. Preceding her birth, four generations of Auberts had made artificial flowers, but the influence of war changed the direction of her life. At age five, she began performing on stage at the Théâtre du Châtelet. As a teenager, she was given voice and music lessons and at age eighteen appeared in an elaborate Mistinguett production at the Casino de Paris. She sang in the chorus at the Apollo theater in Paris and had bit parts in revues at the ", "score": "1.7504995" }, { "id": "13456475", "title": "Marie-Thérèse Humbert", "text": " She was born in Quatre Bornes and was educated at Cambridge University and the Sorbonne. She moved to France in 1968. She ran as a socialist candidate in the Indre department of France and also ran as a candidate for municipal government in Saint-Julien-de-Vouvantes.", "score": "1.7135637" }, { "id": "4485448", "title": "Marie-Anne Libert", "text": " Marie-Anne Libert was born in Malmedy in April 1782, twelfth of the thirteen children of Henri-Joseph Libert and his wife Marie-Jeanne-Bernadine Libert (née Dubois). The parents, educated members of the middle class who ran a tanning business, recognised her intellectual potential. She was initially a pupil of the Sépulcrines of Malmedy. At the age of eleven her parents sent her to stay in Prüm in Germany to learn German and the violin, both of which she quickly mastered. Her father recognised his daughter's emerging interest in the exact sciences and taught her algebra and geometry, so that she could follow him into the business. She was enthusiastic and pushed the education well beyond the needs of commerce. At an age when other girls only wanted to amuse themselves, Marie-Anne Libert was motivated by a thirst for knowledge: everything interested her, she wanted to know everything. Nature drew her in particular; she spent long hours walking in the area of Malmedy, particularly in the High Fens. She observed, gathered many minerals and plants then identified them in her father's office, cataloguing and classifying them. As most reference works were written in Latin, she began to teach herself Latin.", "score": "1.6999284" }, { "id": "12818081", "title": "Micheline Montreuil", "text": " ; La Belle de l'Au-delà ISBN: 978-2-89436-934-0 ; Isabelle ISBN: 978-2-89436-934-0 Helene Montreuil is born in 1952 in the city of Quebec, town of her family since 1637 and always her residence town. She is the daughter of Louis Papineau Montreuil and Lina Chicoine and she is the grand daughter of Yves Montreuil, public notary in Quebec city and of Leonie Papineau, on father's side, and of Georges Alfred Chicoine and Mary Lapointe, on mother's side. She is the third child of a four children's family : Louise, Georges, Helene and Jean. Helene Montreuil studied civil law at University Laval, common law at University of Manitoba and University of Ottawa, management at University Laval, industrial relations at University of Paris I - Pantheon-Sorbonne, and finally, ethics and education at the University ", "score": "1.6695346" }, { "id": "31150077", "title": "Marguerite Alibert", "text": " Marguerite Marie Alibert was born on 9 December 1890, in Paris to Firmin Alibert, a coachman, and Marie Aurand, a housekeeper. At the age of sixteen she gave birth to a daughter, Raymonde. In the following eight to ten years, Alibert led an itinerant life until she met Mme Denant who ran a Maison de Rendezvous, a brothel catering to a high society clientele. Under the tutelage of Denant, Alibert became a high-class prostitute.", "score": "1.6550329" }, { "id": "1948629", "title": "Marie-Hélène Lafon", "text": " Marie-Hélène Lafon (born 1962) is a French educator and award-winning writer. She was born in Aurillac in the Cantal department and grew up on the family farm there. She was educated at a religious boarding school in Saint-Flour and, after moving to Paris in 1980, continued her studies at the Sorbonne. She took her agrégation de grammaire in 1987, going on to teach classical literature. Lafon only began writing when she was 34, publishing her first novel Le soir du chien in 2001.", "score": "1.6482203" }, { "id": "28330766", "title": "Hélène Baillargeon", "text": " Hélène Baillargeon (1916–1997) was a Canadian singer, actor, and folklorist probably best known as the host of the CBC television show Chez Hélène from 1959 to 1973. She was born in Saint-Martin, Quebec, on 28 August 1916 and studied singing in Quebec City and New York City and then in Montreal with Alfred La Liberté. She went on to work as a researcher with Marius Barbeau at the National Museum of Canada in Ottawa (later the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau). In 1944, Baillargeon married André Côté, a Crown attorney in Montreal. She performed and hosted shows on CBC radio and television such as Le réveil rural (1951–1955), Songs de chez nous (1952–1955), and Cap aux sorciers (1955–1958). Baillargeon was named to the Order of Canada in 1973. In 1974, she was appointed a Canadian citizenship court judge. She also recorded a number of collections of French-Canadian folk songs. She died in Montreal on 25 September 1997.", "score": "1.6295047" }, { "id": "26229530", "title": "Hélène Darly", "text": " Hélène Darly was born Éliane Émilienne Pauline Pilate in the 11th arrondissement of Paris and began her film career in the early 1920s. She soon became known for her roles as Berthe Janin in Camille de Morlhon's Daughter of the People (1920), as Régine de Bettigny in Alexandre Volkoff's The House of Mystery (1923), and Marie Didier in Serge Nadejdine's Le chiffonnier de Paris (1924). She made several appearances after the transition to sound film, then later retired from the industry. On 14 October 1930, Darly married actor Marcel Vibert. She died in Conches-sur-Gondoire, Seine-et-Marne, in 1994 at age 94.", "score": "1.6289015" }, { "id": "4822041", "title": "Hélène Desportes", "text": " On the first of October 1634, Hélène married Joseph Guillaume Hébert, son of Louis Hébert and Marie Rollet. Joseph's family had remained in Québec during the occupation and had the first settler's farm there. His father Louis Hébert had been involved in early expeditions to Port Royal with Champlain and others. After Joseph Hebert died in 1639, Hélène at age nineteen, was left with three living children, Joseph (1636–1662), Françoise (1638–1716), and Angélique (born 1639). She then married Noël Morin, a native of the parish of St-Étienne in Brie-Comte-Robert, a village near Paris, on January 9, 1640, in Quebec City. They had 12 children. Agnes Morin (1641–1687), Germain Morin (1642–1702), ", "score": "1.6259773" }, { "id": "29438955", "title": "Jeanne Aubert", "text": " Édouard VII. She gained prominence when, as an understudy, she replaced the lead actress in Pennsylvania, Le Bon Juge. After that, she was signed for a featured role in a production in London and went on to perform in Belgium, Italy, and Switzerland. She came to the United States to perform in Gay Paree. In 1928, she helped organize the first female branch of the Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne (JOC), a Roman Catholic apostolic organization for young people. Aubert served as the first president of the JOCF of France. Using the stage name Jane Aubert, in 1929, she made her motion picture ", "score": "1.6211848" }, { "id": "13321778", "title": "Hélène Dutrieu", "text": " Hélène Marguerite Dutrieu was born on 10 July 1877 in Tournai, Belgium, the daughter of a Belgian Army officer. The family later moved to Lille in northern France. She left school at the age of 14 to earn a living.", "score": "1.6208022" }, { "id": "7332450", "title": "Marie Savard", "text": " Marie Savard (August 15, 1936 &ndash; January 16, 2012) was a Canadian writer living in Quebec. The daughter of Paul Savard and Germaine Collin, she was born in Quebec City, Quebec. In 1965, she published her first poetry collection Les Coins de l'Ove. In the same year, she released a self-titled recording of songs/poems. From 1961 to 1966, she wrote a number of scripts for children for Radio-Canada. Savard also wrote a number of scripts for radio broadcasts, including Bien à moi which was first broadcast in 1969 and later rebroadcast in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg. Her work appeared in various literary magazines such as Liberté, ', Sorcières (Paris), ', LittéRéalité (York University), Arcade and l'Arbre à Paroles. In 1974, she established Éditions de la Pleine Lune, the first publishing house in Quebec dedicated to women. Savard died in Montreal at the age of 75.", "score": "1.6143546" }, { "id": "27199627", "title": "Chantal Hébert", "text": " Hébert was born on April 24, 1954, in Ottawa, Ontario. She is the oldest of five children. In 1966 her family moved to Toronto where the 12-year-old was enrolled in École secondaire catholique Monseigneur-de-Charbonnel. She then attended Toronto's first public francophone high school, École secondaire Étienne-Brûlé. After high school, Hébert obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976 in political science from the bilingual Glendon College of York University. She is a Senior Fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto. Hébert began her media career in 1975 at the regional television and radio newsroom of the French-language Radio-Canada facility in Toronto. She eventually became their reporter covering provincial politics at Queen's Park. After Radio-Canada appointed Hébert to cover federal politics on Parliament Hill, she worked as bureau chief for Montreal's Le Devoir and La Presse. She has written columns appearing in The London Free Press, the Ottawa Citizen, and the National Post, and currently in Le Devoir, Metro, and the Toronto Star.", "score": "1.6131779" }, { "id": "12051818", "title": "Hélène Marie Antigna", "text": " Hélène Marie Antigna (8 July 1837 – 10 March 1918) was a French painter. Hélène-Marie Pettit was born at Melun), 8 July 1837. She was a pupil of her husband, Jean Pierre Antigna, and of Eugène Delacroix. Her best works are small genre subjects. She exhibited every year after 1861; Chercheuse de bois mort (1861) and Retour du contrebandier (1868) are mentioned. In 1877, she exhibited at the Paris Salon, On n'entre pas! and the New Cider; in 1876, an Interior at Saint Brieuc and A Stable; in 1875, Tant va la cruche à l'eau.", "score": "1.6116483" }, { "id": "25453566", "title": "Hélène Brodeur", "text": " Hélène Brodeur (July 13, 1923 &ndash; August 15, 2010) was a Franco-Ontarian educator, journalist and writer. The daughter of Joseph Brodeur and Marie-Ange Turcotte, she was born in Saint-Léon-de-Val-Racine in Quebec's Eastern Townships and grew up in Val Gagné near Timmins, Ontario. She received her teaching certificate from the University of Ottawa and taught in a one-room school until 1946, when she returned to university to complete a BA. Brodeur settled in Ottawa, where she taught high school, worked as a freelance journalist for various newspapers and magazines and was an information officer for the federal Treasury Board. In 1947, she married Robert Nantais. She was known for the trilogies Les chroniques du Nouvel-Ontario and The Saga of Northern Ontario, as well as a number of historical novels. Her work is studied in high schools, colleges and universities in Ontario. In 1982, she received the Prix Champlain from the Conseil de la vie française en Amérique for La Quête d'Alexandre. In 1984, she received the Prix du Nouvel-Ontario for Entre l'aube et le jour. Brodeur died at Montfort Hospital in Ottawa at the age of 87.", "score": "1.6041002" }, { "id": "31334095", "title": "Marie-Anne Asselin", "text": " Asselin was born in the town of Sainte-Famille on l'Île d'Orléans in Quebec Around 1900, she moved with her family to Montreal, where she studied music with Miss Lemire and Béatrice Lapalme. Asselin made her singing debut on 25 April 1919 in the role of Jeanne in La Basoche by André Messager, which was performed in the Théâtre Français in Montreal. In 1920, Asselin opened a vocal studio on Saint-Denis Street in Montreal. That year she performed many concerts, featuring performances with Émile Gour, Germain Lefevbre, Hercule Lavoie and Blanche Gonthier. A series of radio performances with José Delaquerrière, Jeanne Maubourg, Blanche Archambault, Germaine Lebel, André Durieux and Maurice Jacquet broadcast on CKAC were also heard in New England, and as a result the group was invited to perform a concert broadcast on a new station in Springfield, Illinois. She remained a vocal teacher in Montreal for her life, moving studios to Rue Saint Hubert in the 1930s and Saint-Joseph Boulevard East in the 1950s. She died in Montreal in 1971.", "score": "1.5941772" }, { "id": "13456474", "title": "Marie-Thérèse Humbert", "text": " Marie-Thérèse Humbert (born July 17, 1940) is a Mauritian writer. She is a recipient of the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle.", "score": "1.5886979" }, { "id": "10578212", "title": "Hélène Monastier", "text": " Hélène-Sophie Monastier was born in Payerne. Daughter of Charles Louis, Protestant pastor and librarian, and Marie Louise Gonin. She had a brother, Louis, who was twelve years older. She lived her entire life with a paralyzed leg as a result of the poliomyelitis contracted at the age of two years. Her parents attitude facilitated her childhood, but she suffered from the consequences of the disease in his adolescence. At the age of 27 she tried an operation but without obtaining noticeable improvements. However, her friend Samuel Gagnebin gifted her excerpts of Prière pour demander à Dieu le bon usage des maladies by from Blaise Pascal, and she was transformed. Since this moment she considered herself \"cured\". Monastier did her studies in Payerne and ", "score": "1.5885036" }, { "id": "4787239", "title": "Claire Ferchaud", "text": " Claire Ferchaud was born a few miles from Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, in the little village of Loublande, in the province of Vendée. She attended the school of the Sacred Heart and since her early childhood, she said she had had appearances from Jesus Christ, Mary (mother of Jesus) and Saint Joan of Arc. They ‘would come to meet her’ and would give her ‘messages’. In 1916, during World War I, she lived in the convent of the ‘Rinfilières’ at Loublande, France. At that time, she claimed to have been given a vision of Christ himself, a vision of Jesus showing his heart \"slashed by the sins of mankind\" and crossed by a deeper wound still, atheism. She passed this on to the pastor of the town, the Abbé Audebert.", "score": "1.5859152" } ]

[ "Linz" ]

[ { "id": "26969442", "title": "Johann Gregor Memhardt", "text": " Johann Gregor Memhardt or Memhard (1607 in Linz an der Donau – 1678 in Berlin) was a master builder, architect and politician.", "score": "1.8947577" }, { "id": "26969443", "title": "Johann Gregor Memhardt", "text": " Memhardt emigrated from Linz to the Netherlands in 1622, where he probably learned the art of fortification. He served as a military engineer with George William, Elector of Brandenburg from 1638 onwards and in 1641 was appointed court engineer. Under his leadership the Residenzschloss was repaired and a chapel built for crown princess Louise Henriette. In the Lustgarten he built a 'Lusthaus'. From 1651 the Schloss Oranienburg and its gardens were built to Memhardt's designs, known from the plan of Berlin published in 1652.", "score": "1.7039914" }, { "id": "8046940", "title": "August Ferdinand Mehren", "text": " Mehren was born in Helsingør, the son of merchant Johann Friedrich van Mehren (1789-1853) and Claudine Amalie Liebmann (1791-1852). He studied at the Universities of Copenhagen, Leipzig and Kiel, obtaining his doctorate in 1845. In Leipzig he was a student of Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer (1801-1888), and in Kiel he studied under Justus Olshausen (1800-1882).", "score": "1.6330581" }, { "id": "14444587", "title": "Johann Christian Dieterich", "text": " Dieterich was born in Stendal. He began his career as proprietor of a silk shop in Berlin, which he moved to Gotha. In 1749 he married the daughter of the bookseller Mevius and began running his shop for him.", "score": "1.6037657" }, { "id": "2545538", "title": "Johann Andreas Schubert", "text": " Schubert was born on 19 March 1808 in Wernesgrün (Vogtland) in the Kingdom of Saxony in Germany. He was the son of a day labourer (Tagelöhner) and was brought up by foster parents, who enabled him to have a sound education at the St Thomas School in Leipzig, at the garrison school at Königstein Fortress and at the Freemasons Institute in Dresden's Friedrichstadt. He studied civil and structural engineering (architecture) at the architecture school in the academy of Fine Arts in Dresden and in 1828 (at the age of 20 ) was given a post as a lecturer with the recently founded Royal Institute ", "score": "1.6004052" }, { "id": "31886050", "title": "Johann Georg Bergmüller", "text": " Bergmüller was born in Türkheim near Buchloe (now in Bavaria) and received his first artistic education at his father's cabinet making workshop. From 1702 until 1708 he was apprentice to court painter Johann Andreas Wolff in Munich. In 1711 he went on cultural journey to the Netherlands in order to broaden his horizon. He became master painter and received the citizenship of Augsburg in 1711. In the same year he married Barbara Kreutzerin with whom he had ten children, one of which, Johann Baptist Konrad Bergmüller, became a fresco painter too, and also a renowned copperplate engraver and art theorist. Bergmüller ", "score": "1.5817318" }, { "id": "28012408", "title": "Johann Bernhard Basedow", "text": " Basedow was born in Hamburg, the son of a wigmaker. His father (Heinrich Basedau) has been described as \"severe almost to brutality\", and his mother, Anna Maria Leonhard, as suffering from \"melancholy almost to madness\", which made his childhood a less than happy one. It was planned that he should follow his father's profession, but, at the age of 14, he ran away from home, finding employment as a servant of a country physician in Holstein. His employer recognized Johann's extraordinary intellectual gifts and sent him back home to his parents with a letter which persuaded them to allow their son ", "score": "1.5749685" }, { "id": "5171065", "title": "Johann Georg Veit Engelhardt", "text": " He was born at Neustadt-on-the-Aisch. He and was educated at Erlangen, where he afterwards taught in the gymnasium (1817), and became professor of theology in the university (1821). During the years 1845, 1847 and 1848 was the representative of his university in the diet at Munich.", "score": "1.5637698" }, { "id": "1779582", "title": "Jakob Erhardt", "text": " Erhardt was born on 17 April 1823 in Bönnigheim, then in the Kingdom of Württemberg. He was the son of a master tailor, and was apprenticed to a cooper. He worked with the Boennigheim Pietists, then joined the Basel Mission, where he was trained as a missionary until 1846. From 1846 to 1848 he studied with the Church Mission Society in London, where he was ordained in 1848.", "score": "1.5519879" }, { "id": "32485766", "title": "Johann Jakob Balmer", "text": " Balmer was born in Lausen, Switzerland, the son of a chief justice also named Johann Jakob Balmer. His mother was Elizabeth Rolle Balmer, and he was the oldest son. During his schooling he excelled in mathematics, and so decided to focus on that field when he attended university. He studied at the University of Karlsruhe and the University of Berlin, then completed his Ph.D. from the University of Basel in 1849 with a dissertation on the cycloid. Johann then spent his entire life in Basel, where he taught at a school for girls. He also lectured at the University of Basel. In 1868 he married Christine Pauline Rinck at the age of ", "score": "1.5499861" }, { "id": "28514147", "title": "House of Soterius von Sachsenheim", "text": " Johann Michael (the Elder) was born in Schellenberg on 25 November 1742 and started his studies at the Hermannstadt (Sibiu) gymnasium. In 1770, he married Anna Mara Filtsch, the daughter of the Hermannstadt parish pastor. Their first child, Anna Maria, was born in 1771. Later, two boys were born, Johann Michael (the Younger) and Charles. In 1771, he became Gubernialkonzipist and, in 1786, Gubernialsekretär in the administrative system of Transylvania. Following the Edict of Restitution in 1790, a decision was made in 1791 to send a delegation to the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, on behalf of the Transylvanian Saxons as they wanted to put forward their own proposal for regulation. Mayor Rosenfeld of Hermannstadt and Johann Michael headed the delegation and in January 1792 they travelled to Vienna to ", "score": "1.5457342" }, { "id": "399741", "title": "Georg Schmitt", "text": " Johann Georg Gerhard Schmitt was born at Zurlaubenen, a riverside fishing hamlet on the northern edge of Trier (into which it has subsequently been subsumed). His birth took place in the little hotel run by his parents, Johann Georg Schmitt (1787-1832) and his wife, born Catharina Marx (1809-1868). Two hundred years later, there is still a hotel on the site: it is now named \"Gasthaus Mosellied\", after a song which during the nineteenth century became one of Schmitt's more widely appreciated compositions. The elder Johann Georg Schmitt combined his business as an hotelier with the post of cathedral organist between 1810 and ", "score": "1.5448751" }, { "id": "16384715", "title": "Johann Martin Miller", "text": " Miller, the son of the Evangelical pastor Johann Michael Miller (1722–1774), was born in Jungingen, nowadays part of the city of Ulm. From 15 October 1770, he studied theology at the University of Göttingen, where he helped to establish the Göttinger Hainbund. Through this literary group, founded in 1772, Miller became acquainted with Matthias Claudius, Gottfried August Bürger, Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty, Johann Heinrich Voss, and Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. In 1774 he accompanied Klopstock from Göttingen to Hamburg. In 1774 and 1775 he studied in Leipzig. During his years in Göttingen, Miller mainly wrote folk songs, many of which were set to music during his lifetime and are still found ", "score": "1.5405486" }, { "id": "5928198", "title": "Johann Christian Eberlein", "text": " Johann Christian Eberlein (1770–1815), a German painter, was born at Göttingen about 1770, and died there in 1815. An Italian Landscape by him is in the Modern Gallery at Munich.", "score": "1.5370193" }, { "id": "11669051", "title": "Johann Heinrich Schröder", "text": " Schröder was born on 12 December 1784 in Hamburg to the prominent merchant (and First Mayor of Hamburg) Christian Matthias Schröder and his wife, Luise Mutzenbecher, from the notable Mutzenbecher family. Schröder's family was Lutheran.", "score": "1.5351311" }, { "id": "28708053", "title": "Johann Georg Fischer", "text": " Fischer was born in Groß-Süßen, Württemberg. His father was a carpenter, who died early. After Johann finished his studies in Tübingen between 1831 and 1833, he began to work as a teacher assistant at different places, including Langenau and Ulm. After a further study as a school teacher, he went to Stuttgart in 1845 to teach at the elementary school. He became school master as well as the leader of the economic school in the city. In 1857 he gained the title of Doctor of Philosophy. Between 1862 and 1885, he worked as a professor later as a master professor at the Oberen Stuttgarter Realschule. As a poet, Fischer may be regarded as the last noteworthy representative of the traditional Swabian School. He was not in sympathy with the naturalism of his ", "score": "1.534691" }, { "id": "14473736", "title": "Neckarsulm", "text": "1766, November 3, Franz Simon Molitor, † 21 February 1848 in Vienna, musician 1902, 7 August, August Herold, † 8 January 1973 by Neckarsulm; vine growers ", "score": "1.5334488" }, { "id": "33129257", "title": "Johann Beckmann", "text": " He was born on June 4, 1739, at Hoya in Hanover, where his father was postmaster and receiver of taxes. He was educated at Stade and the university of Göttingen, where he studied theology, mathematics, physics, natural history, and public finance and administration. After completing his studies, in 1762 he made a study tour through Brunswick and the Dutch Republic examining mines, factories, natural history museums, private collections, universities and their professors. The death of his mother in 1762 having deprived him of his means of support, he went in 1763 on the invitation of the pastor of the Lutheran community, Anton Friedrich Büsching, the ", "score": "1.5326226" }, { "id": "7211214", "title": "Johann Georg Rist", "text": " Johann Georg Rist was born in Niendorf, at that time a prosperous village on the edge of Altona in Holstein, and today a quarter in Hamburg. His father was the minister-preacher at the Lutheran Ninedorf Market Church, Johann Christoph Friedrich Rist (1735-1807). They were both directly descended from the poet-dramatist Johann Rist 1607-1667. Rist received his education at home from his father until 1794 when for a year he attended the prestigious Johanneum (school) in Hamburg. In the Easter term of 1795 he moved to the University of Jena where he studied Law and where contemporaries whom he got to know included, Johann Diederich Gries and Johann Friedrich Herbart. He also found time for frequent visits ", "score": "1.5310266" }, { "id": "9252941", "title": "Christian Gregor", "text": " Christian Gregor (January 1, 1723 - November 6, 1801) was a Moravian composer and bishop. Gregor was born to a peasant family living in the Silesian village of Dirsdorf, near Peilau and became a member of the Moravian Church when he was seventeen. He moved to Herrnhut, Germany in 1742, where he soon became organist and director of congregational music. He later served similar roles in Herrnhaag (1748) and Zeist (1749). He was ordained a Deacon in 1756, and was appointed to several administrative posts within the Moravian Church during which time he traveled extensively: Riga (1744) where he met Nicolaus Zinzendorf, North America (1770-1772), and a trip to Old Sarepta, Russia ", "score": "1.529902" } ]

[ "Ano Syros" ]

[ { "id": "6900588", "title": "Manthos Papagiannis", "text": " Papagiannis was born in Argyrocastro, Epirus region, Ottoman Empire (modern Gjirokastër, southern Albania) to a local Greek family. He was one of the representatives of the town's Greek community. Papagiannis was one of the most active merchants in his homeland as well as in the nearby Venetian possessions on the Ionian coast.", "score": "1.7309713" }, { "id": "5161705", "title": "Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos", "text": " Rev. Archimandrite Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos was born Christos Papasarantopoulos in 1903 in Vasilitsi, Messenia, Greece to Theodoros Papasarantopoulos and Stavroula Trigourea (afterwards Nun Sebastiani), the seventh child of the family. He was born into a devout Christian home, and from childhood he devoted his life to Christ. At the age of 10 he lost his father, and was forced to leave school in order to work. At 15 years of age he left his family home in secret and went to settle at the Koroni monastery in order to pursue his longing for the spiritual life; however he soon left this monastery since his relatives would visit him and beg him to return to the family. Afterwards, he went to Kalamata, to the then well-known Hermitage of Panagoulakis (Holy Monastery of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary), known for its strict asceticism; here he became a monk. The excesses of the Igumen there and the very strict lifestyle of that Hermitage overcame him and left him with a permanent health problem.", "score": "1.6853625" }, { "id": "15027581", "title": "Frangiskos Papamanolis", "text": " Frangiskos Papamanolis (Φραγκίσκος Παπαμανώλης, born on December 5, 1936 in Ano Syros, Greece) is the Roman Catholic bishop emeritus of Syros and Milos, bishop emeritus of Santorini and Apostolic Administrator emeritus of Crete. In 1962 Papamanolis was ordained priest of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and on July 27, 1974 was appointed bishop, being ordained on October 20, 1974.", "score": "1.6845202" }, { "id": "10905304", "title": "Manolis Stefanoudakis", "text": " Stefanoudakis was born in Heraklion, Greece in 1983. He suffered permanent spinal chord injuries after a traffic accident in 2007.", "score": "1.6734953" }, { "id": "4324890", "title": "Christos Papakyriakopoulos", "text": " Papakyriakopoulos was born in Chalandri, then in the Municipality of Athens, now in North Athens.", "score": "1.655503" }, { "id": "11025396", "title": "Athanasios Diamandopoulos", "text": " Athanasios Diamandopoulos (Αθανάσιος Διαμαντόπουλος; born 1943) is a Greek doctor and writer on medicine. He was born in the town of Arginio, Greece, in 1943 and spent his childhood in Patras and Ioannina. He graduated from the Medical School of the University of Athens in 1967 and in 1974 finished his specialization in pathology at the Therapeutic Unit of the \"Alexandra\" Hospital in Athens. During the same year he left for Glasgow, having won a state scholarship. He returned to Greece in 1978 with the titles of PhD from the University of Athens, Philosophiae Doctorem from the University of Glasgow, a specialization in nephrology, and a Scottish wife. Upon his return he was placed at the Renal Unit of ", "score": "1.654434" }, { "id": "26722677", "title": "Vrtanes Papazian", "text": " Vrtanes Papazian was born in the city of Van, Ottoman Empire, in 1866. His father, archimandrite Mesrop Papazyan, was a well-known religious and public figure, pedagogue, writer, theater expert, and playwright. At the age of four he moved with his parents to Agulis where he received his primary education. He continued his study at the Aramian School in Tavriz and Gevorgian Theological Seminary in Etchmiadzin. Later he studied at the Geneva University, the faculty of literature and social sciences. Hard conditions made him start working at the age of 15 and wander from city to city, country to country. He worked as a laborer, photographer ", "score": "1.6465737" }, { "id": "26512832", "title": "Nikos Papazoglou", "text": " Nikolaos \"Nikos\" Papazoglou (in Greek: Νίκος Παπάζογλου; 20 March 1948 – 17 April 2011) was a Greek singer-songwriter, musician, and producer from Thessaloniki. Papazoglou began performing in a number of Greek local groups in the 1960s. In 1972, he moved to Aachen, Germany with the group Zilotis (Ζηλωτής, \"Zealot\") in an attempt to break into the international music scene. The group recorded six songs in Milan, Italy. Shortly afterwards, he returned to Greece. In 1976, Greek songwriter Dionysis Savvopoulos invited him to participate in Acharnees, a cycle of songs and stage acts based on the ancient comedy The Acharnians by Aristophanes. There Papazoglou met Manolis Rasoulis ", "score": "1.634263" }, { "id": "15282731", "title": "Konstantinos Fostiropoulos", "text": " Fostiropoulos was born 20 June 1960 in Krya Vrysi, Pella, Greece, to Anastasios Fostiropoulos and Lemonia Fostiropoulou (née Atmatzidou) the second of three children (Niko, Kosta, Eleni). In 1961 his father emigrated to Mannheim, Germany, where later his wife followed with their two sons when Fostiropoulos was four years old. There, five years later his sister Eleni was born. Until they retired his parents Anastasios and Lemonia had been working as labourer and cleaner, respectively. In 2015 they re-immigrated in Greece, together with his sister Eleni and her family. His brother Niko has been elected town counsellor in Karlsruhe, Germany and is owner of the centre for further education alfatraining.", "score": "1.633481" }, { "id": "10361895", "title": "N. A. Diaman", "text": " He was born Nikolaos Aristotle Diamantidis on November 1, 1936 in San Francisco, California, into a Greece family. His parents were both from Icaria, a Greek island in the Aegean sea. Diaman received a BA degree in 1958 from the University of Southern California, with a major in humanities.", "score": "1.6316469" }, { "id": "2540482", "title": "Yorgo Bacanos", "text": " Yorgo Carlo George Kehdy (born in Silivri, Turkey in 1900, died in Istanbul in 1977; Γιώργος Μπατζανός in Greek) was a master oud player and improvisational composer of Ottoman classical music. His father Carlo was of Greek gypsy descent, and a legendary oud improviser, and several in his family were kemençe artists. He was largely responsible for introducing the young Yorgo to music, presenting him with his first oud at the age of five. Yorgo soon left school (the Saint Benoit High School) to concentrate on music full-time—he had made his first public appearance in the Eftalofos Club in Taksim at the age of twelve. Rapidly achieving fame, he started performing on Turkish Radio in 1927, and went on performing there for 51 years, until ", "score": "1.6251422" }, { "id": "25126778", "title": "Aristotelis Kourtidis", "text": " He was born in Myriofyto in Eastern Thrace and lived the first years of his life in Istanbul, where he studied in the Great School of the Nation. In 1880 he went to Athens to study law at the University of Athens, but he didn’t complete his studies. Later he studied literature at the University of Athens and met the writer and historian, Dimitrios Kambouroglou through which he came in contact with the director of the Diaplasis ton Paidon (Children’s Edification) magazine, Nikolaos Papadopoulos – whose daughter later he married – to work in the magazine. From 1880 until 1893 he was editor of ", "score": "1.6237109" }, { "id": "27290874", "title": "Marios Papadopoulos (musician)", "text": " Born in Cyprus, Papadopoulos began playing the piano at the age of 5. In 1967, he moved with his family to the UK to continue his musical education. His teachers were Ilona Kabos and Gina Bachauer. In 1969, at the age of 14, he received the ARCM Diploma from the Royal College of Music. In 1971, he made his debut at the Royal Festival Hall as soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in one of the Robert Mayer Concerts for Children. In 1972, he won the piano category prize in the Greater London Arts Association’s Young Musicians Scheme. In the same year, Sir Michael Tippett invited him to appear at the Bath International Music Festival in recital and as soloist in Tippett’s Fantasia on a Theme by Handel conducted by the composer.", "score": "1.6214646" }, { "id": "426814", "title": "Costas Taktsis", "text": " Costas Taktsís' father, Grigórios, and his mother Eli were from Eastern Rumelia, a region of Thrace now part of Bulgaria. At the age of seven, after the separation from his parents, young Costas was sent to Athens to live with his grandmother. At the end of high school, he enrolled at the Athens Law School, but would never finish his studies. In 1947, he was called up for military service, and in 1951 he was hired as assistant to the American director of the Louros dam project. From the beginning of 1954 to 1964, he travelled and lived in Australia where he was befriended by the Australian modernist painter Carl Plate, various Western European countries, Africa and the United States, practicing various trades, from seafarer to sous-chef in a restaurant. When he returned to Greece, he tried to survive as a tour guide, translator and finally as a professional writer. During the period of the Junta (1967-1974), he had several encounters with the police. A homosexual, he advocated for gay rights and denounced their repression and marginalization. On August 27, 1988, he was discovered by his sister, strangled at his home in Kolono. This crime has never been solved.", "score": "1.6203752" }, { "id": "15144628", "title": "Alexandros Papanastasiou", "text": " Papanastasiou was born on 8 July 1876 in Tripoli to Panagiotis Papanastasiou, a member of Parliament and Marigo Rogari-Apostolopoulou. He spent part of his childhood in Kalamata (1876–1883) and Piraeus (1883–1889). He studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1895–1898), earning his doctorate in 1899 and a licence in 1901. From 1901 to 1905 he studied social science, law and philosophy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität of Berlin and in Heidelberg. In 1905 he goes to London, later on to Paris, continuing with his studies until 1907, when he decides to return to Greece. In 1908 with Alexandros Delmouzos founded the \"Society of sociologists\". He tried to combine political activity with scientific research.", "score": "1.6193895" }, { "id": "15400177", "title": "Dimitri Papadimos", "text": " Papadimos was born in Cairo, Egypt of Greek parents in 1918. His father was from mainland Greece, Pelion, and his mother from the Greek island of Imbros At a young age, Papadimos lost both his parents.", "score": "1.6137286" }, { "id": "15184176", "title": "Achilles Papapetrou", "text": " Papapetrou was born in Irakleia Serres in Northern Greece (Macedonia province), on February 2, 1907. His father was a schoolteacher. During World War I, his family was deported from Serres, but returned at the end of the war. From 1925, Papapetrou studied mechanical and electrical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, graduating in 1930. While a student, he was an assistant in the mathematics department, and he started work as an engineer.", "score": "1.6100775" }, { "id": "7661791", "title": "Yorgos Manessis", "text": " Manessis was born on 26 May 1931 in Piraeus, Greece. Soon afterwards, his mother Ioanna Yapapa (a pianist and pupil of Emil von Sauer who had also studied Emile Dalcroze’s method at his school in Switzerland) decided that the newly-born should be raised in close contact with nature. Thus, the family moved to Manessis’ father estate in Portoheli, in the region of Argolida (Pelopponisos). There he had the privilege of enjoying a quite unique upbringing, combining freedom and strict discipline (sleep, diet e.t.c.). Body [gymnastics, Dalcroze Eurhythmics (his mother playing at the piano while he dance), boating, horse riding, trekking, swimming] and mind (piano lessons, attending school e.t.c.) were equally «exercised». It was an upbringing that – according to Manessis himself – laid the foundation for his later artistic endeavours.", "score": "1.6096451" }, { "id": "16339570", "title": "Sophocles Papas", "text": " Papas was born in Sopiki, Greece, then a part of Albania. He was exposed to classical music at an early age by his father, who was a church chanter, a voice teacher, and a casual player of the violin. When Papas was a young teenager, he went to live with an uncle in Cairo. He attended school and studied piano, and it was then that he began to study both the mandolin and the guitar. He returned to Greece in 1912, where he fought as an Albanian guerrilla against the Turks in the Balkan Wars. Later he joined the Greek army and fought in the Graeco-Turkish wars. In 1914, Papas moved to the United States and began teaching classical guitar in Washington, D.C. He also taught at American University in Washington, D.C. The lack of published guitar music ", "score": "1.6084394" }, { "id": "32246202", "title": "Alexis Papahelas", "text": " Papahelas was born in Athens in March 1961 the son of Aristomenis and Aikaterini Papahelas. The family's origins lie in Messinia, southern Peloponnese and in Istanbul. Papahelas grew up in the Athens district Plateia Victorias. He attended Athens College and then went to the United States for tertiary studies. He majored in economics and history at Bard College and later received a Master's in Journalism and International Relations from Columbia University. Papahelas started his journalistic career in 1983, as the New York City correspondent for the daily Greek newspaper I Avgi, then for Kathimerini, the BBC Greek service and Mega Channel. He returned to Greece in 1998 and wrote for ", "score": "1.6080393" } ]

[ "Notodden" ]

[ { "id": "25210887", "title": "Stig Kleven", "text": " Stig Kleven (born 12 January 1967) is a Norwegian sport wrestler. He was born in Notodden and represented the club IF Urædd. He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics, where he placed 4th in Greco-Roman wrestling. He placed sixth at the 1994 World Wrestling Championships.", "score": "1.8330069" }, { "id": "27250535", "title": "Knut Kleve", "text": " Kleve was born in Oslo on 24 February 1926, the son of wholesaler Alfred Lauritz Kleve and Miriam Blom Bakke. He was a resistance member during the German occupation of Norway, and was arrested in May 1942 and incarcerated at Møllergata 19 and at the Grini concentration camp until June 1944.", "score": "1.6301401" }, { "id": "31680344", "title": "Julian Strøm", "text": " Strøm grew up in Kristiania (now Oslo) and studied acting. He performed as a student at the National Theatre in Oslo, and he made his debut at the private Mayol Theater in 1920. In the early 1920s, Strøm was engaged at the Stavanger Theater, where he staged Veslefrikk med fela (Little Freddy and His Fiddle) with children in all the roles. He later moved back to his hometown, where he joined the artists' colony in Ekeberg. In the 1930s and 1940s, Strøm held reading and cultural evenings. He also ran his own one-man theater with support from the church and the Ministry of Education, and later also in a touring partnership with the National Traveling Theater.", "score": "1.5936906" }, { "id": "16331498", "title": "Stig Holmås", "text": " Stig Holmås (born 25 February 1946) is a Norwegian librarian, poet, novelist and children's writer. He was born in Bergen. He made his literary debut in the 1969 anthology Åtte fra Bergen. Among his poetry collections are Vi er mange from 1970 and Tenke på i morgen from 1972. Among his novels are O.K. Corral from 1991 and Regn from 2008. He has written two book series for children about the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. He is the father of Heikki Holmås.", "score": "1.5725794" }, { "id": "8581176", "title": "Sverre Sverressøn Klingenberg", "text": " He attended Trondhjem Technical School from 1900 to 1902. After spending the following two years in America, he settled in Strinda in 1905. He was mainly an engineer and technical consultant, but also a farmer. From 1910 to 1914 he took further education, in construction engineering, at the new Norwegian Institute of Technology. He was then an assistant at the municipal engineer's office, and from 1918 he ran the factory Strindens Torvstrøfabrik. He continued as an engineering consultant by leading the construction of Strinda Hospital (1923–1924), the Trøndelag Art Exhibition (1929–1930), Trøndelag Travbane (1931) and Reitgjerdet Asylum (1932). He was an elected member of Strinda municipal council from 1916 to 1922, serving as deputy mayor for the last three years. ", "score": "1.5650783" }, { "id": "31264641", "title": "Strib", "text": "Esther Vagning (1905 in Strib-Røjleskov – 1986) a pianist, performed widely in Denmark and abroad for over 50 years ; Ole Bjørnmose (1944 in Odense - 2006 in Strib) a football player, spent 11 seasons in the Bundesliga with SV Werder Bremen and Hamburger SV. ; Søren Kragh Andersen (born 1994 in Strib) a Danish cyclist, winner of stage 14 and 19 of the Tour de France 2020 ", "score": "1.5648342" }, { "id": "27071742", "title": "Lars Klevstrand", "text": " Lars Klevstrand (born 30 September 1949) is a Norwegian singer, guitarist, composer and actor. He was born in Drammen, Buskerud, the son of Olav Klevstrand and Grethe Sofie Larsen, and was brought up in Bærum.", "score": "1.5516607" }, { "id": "6190069", "title": "Peder Severin Krøyer", "text": " Krøyer was born in Stavanger, Norway, on 23 July 1851 to Ellen Cecilie Gjesdal. He was raised by Gjesdal's sister, Bertha Cecilie (born 1817) and brother-in-law, the Danish zoologist Henrik Nikolai Krøyer, after his mother was judged unfit to care for him. Krøyer moved to Copenhagen to live with his foster parents soon afterward. Having begun his art education at the age of nine under private tutelage, he was enrolled in Copenhagen's Technical Institute the following year. In 1870 at the age of 19 Krøyer completed his studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi), where he had studied with Frederik Vermehren. In 1873 he was awarded the gold medal, as well as a scholarship.", "score": "1.5509653" }, { "id": "207780", "title": "Stig Brøgger", "text": " Born in Slagelse, Brøgger studied political science at the University of Copenhagen (1960–67) but also studied art at Eks-skolen (the experimental art school) from 1964 to 1966. In the 1960s, he began to develop new trends in Danish art, influenced by developments in the United States in the areas of Minimal Art, Land Art and Conceptual Art. He helped to communicate his ideas by presenting illustrated articles in the art journal ta'. Early works included De fire temperamenter (The Four Temperaments, 1966) consisting of large figures covering the exhibition walls, Lady Luck (1967), which was repositioned every day providing different effects, and the Pamela Series ", "score": "1.5421944" }, { "id": "25236067", "title": "Stig Dalager", "text": " Dalager was born in Copenhagen in the post-war period of the 1950s, a time of painful remembrances of the Second World War, continued economic restrictions, and a growing optimism about the future. His parents were grocers throughout the 1950s and 1960s, until his father was struck by Parkinson's disease. He describes his radically changing family structure as he and his two younger brothers moved with their parents to the provincial town of Herning in Jutland, near to where his father had been raised. There he graduated from high school, after which he attended the University of Århus, where he received his ", "score": "1.5286126" }, { "id": "9489168", "title": "Odd Nansen", "text": " Odd Nansen was born in Bærum, Akershus, Norway. He was the second youngest of five children born to scientist and explorer Fridtjof Nansen. He was raised at Lysaker outside of Oslo. After his mother, Eva Nansen, died in 1907, he was raised in the home of his neighbor, Anton Klaveness. In 1920 he began studying architecture at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim. From 1927-30, he worked in New York City. During 1930, he returned to Oslo and apprenticed with Arnstein Arneberg. In 1931 Nansen started his own architectural practice in Oslo. He also formed the humanitarian organization Nansenhjelpen in ", "score": "1.524619" }, { "id": "27250534", "title": "Knut Kleve", "text": " Knut Kleve (24 February 1926 – 11 February 2017) was a Norwegian classical philologist and a professor at the University of Bergen and at the University of Oslo. He was particularly known for his efforts on restoration of papyrus fragments from the ancient Roman town Herculaneum.", "score": "1.519948" }, { "id": "31373736", "title": "Stig Hvalryg", "text": " Stig Hvalryg (born 15 July 1960 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (upright bass), known from several orchestras and recordings, and a profile on the Oslo Jazz scene in recent years.", "score": "1.5168837" }, { "id": "6505720", "title": "Ishøj Municipality", "text": "Gudrun Stig Aagaard (1895 in the village of Torslunde – 1986) a Danish textile artist who specialized in printed fabrics ", "score": "1.5150807" }, { "id": "6482378", "title": "Virum", "text": "Jan Popiel (born 1947), ice hockey player ; Kirsten Ortwed (born 1948), artist and sculptor ; Marianne Halfdan-Nielsen (born 1956), sailor ; Klaus Berggreen (born 1958), footballer ; John Helt (born 1959), footballer ; Stine Bosse (born 1960), businesswoman ; Morten Wedendahl (born 1961), composer ; Torsten Stiig Jansen (born 1963), journalist and diplomat ; Henrik Sass Larsen (born 1966), former MF and minister ; Morten Egeblad Christoffersen (born 1968), windsurfer ; Berit Christoffersen (born 1973), rower ; Jakob Piil (born 1973, bicycle racer ; Sofia Osmani (born 1979), politician and mayor ; Mikkel Beckmann (born 1983), footballer ; Thomas Kristensen (born 1983), footballer ; Mikkel Basse (born 1996), footballer ", "score": "1.5115848" }, { "id": "947878", "title": "Stig Abell", "text": " Abell was born in Nottingham and educated at Loughborough Grammar School, and studied English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge graduating with a double first.", "score": "1.511152" }, { "id": "31639192", "title": "Thomas Krag", "text": " Thomas Peter Krag (28 July 1868 &ndash; 13 March 1913) was a Norwegian novelist, playwright and writer of short stories. He was born in Kragerø, grew up in Kristiansand, and settled in Copenhagen. Some of his books were bestsellers in Denmark when they were published, but today Krag is more or less sunk into oblivion.", "score": "1.5108751" }, { "id": "6932901", "title": "Struer Municipality", "text": "Kristian Ostergaard (1855 in Østergård - 1931) a Danish-American Lutheran pastor, educator and author, emigrated to the US in 1878. ; Jakob Lyng (1907 in Søndbjerg – 1995) a Danish fencer, competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics ; Grethe Sønck (1929 in Hjerm – 2010) a Danish actress and singer ", "score": "1.5069969" }, { "id": "27727228", "title": "Stig Egede-Nissen", "text": " Egede-Nissen was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the son of Communist Party of Norway leader Adam Egede-Nissen and Goggi Egede-Nissen. He was the brother of the actors and actresses Aud Egede-Nissen, Gerd Grieg, Ada Kramm, Oscar Egede-Nissen, Lill Egede-Nissen, and Gøril Havrevold. He discontinued his studies in medicine and studied at the Norwegian Institute of Technology until 1935, before studying theater at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh from 1935 to 1938. Back in Trondheim, he made his debut at the Trøndelag Theater and then moved to Oslo, where he was at the Carl Johan Theater from 1940 to 1942. During the war, he was arrested on May 24, 1941, and taken to the jail in Oslo. He was released after a month and a half, on July 5. In 1942 he fled the country via Sweden to England. He was ", "score": "1.5068066" }, { "id": "16562819", "title": "Stavanger", "text": "Alexander Kielland (1849–1906) a realistic writer, one of \"The Four Greats\" ; Peder Severin Krøyer (1851–1909) one of the Skagen Painters ; Frida Hansen (1855-1931) a textile artist in the Art Nouveau style ; Olaf Lange (1875–1965) a symbolistic painter linked to art nouveau ; Henny Skjønberg (1886–1973) a Norwegian actress and stage director ; Fartein Valen (1887–1952) a composer, worked in atonal polyphonic music. ; Henrik Grevenor (1896–1937) a Norwegian art historian and academic ; Gunnar Eide (1920–2012) theatre director Stavanger Teater, actor at Rogaland Teater ; Gunnar Bull Gundersen (1929–1993) a sailor, novelist, playwright and lyricist ; Knut Husebø (born 1946) a Norwegian actor and visual artist ; Frode Gjerstad (born 1948) a Norwegian jazz musician, plays alto saxophone ; Ståle Kleiberg (born 1958) ", "score": "1.5065806" } ]

[ "Hong Kong", "HKSAR", "HKG", "HK", "Hong Kong SAR", "China Hong Kong", "Hong Kong, China", "hk", "Hong Kong SAR, China", "🇭🇰", "Hong Kong Special Administrative Region", "Hongkong", "xiang gang" ]

[ { "id": "32640246", "title": "Li Shengjiao", "text": " Li Shengjiao was born in 1935 in Nanjing, the then capital of China, in a distinguished family. His father Dr. Li Linsi was an educator and diplomat who enjoyed equal fame with Shanghai diplomat Wellington Koo, while his mother Tang Liling was a brilliant pianist who was considered by Italian pianist Mario Paci as \"the brightest star of tomorrow\". His family moved to Shanghai when he was two years old in 1937. He grew up in Shanghai and made a name for himself in the city for his talent. With a great family tradition and remarkable natural talent, Li was able to ", "score": "1.7775753" }, { "id": "32593421", "title": "Li Huai Min", "text": " Li was born in Hong Kong and his family migrated to Singapore in 1999. His mother is a Taiwanese which means that he was eligible to represent either Hong Kong or Taiwan before he obtained Singapore citizenship in November 2016. He is also a supporter of his former football club Balestier Khalsa, even creating a Facebook fan page titled ‘Tiger’s Troopers’.", "score": "1.7646725" }, { "id": "900196", "title": "Li Shengsu", "text": " Li Shengsu was born on February 16, 1966 in Baixiang County, Xingtai City of Hebei, China. She began her career in performing Chinese opera after she was specially recruited into the Yu Opera Troupe of Baixiang County by Wei Shengliang (魏胜良) who was a teacher in the troupe. At that time, she was ten years old. In 1979, at the age of thirteen, Li converted to learning Peking opera since the Hebei Vocational Art College was recruiting students for Peking opera. There, under the instructions of Qi Lanqiu (齐兰秋), she began learning how to perform Dan roles such as Tsing Yi (青衣) and Hua Dan (花旦). Upon graduating in 1986, Li was assigned ", "score": "1.703461" }, { "id": "32593415", "title": "Li Huai Min", "text": " Li Min (born 4 August 1992) is a Hong Kong-Singaporean footballer, currently a free agent in Singapore.", "score": "1.6914663" }, { "id": "33004929", "title": "Li Guyi", "text": " Li was born in 1944 in Kunming, Yunnan, at Huidian Hospital (惠滇医院), she graduated from Hunan Art College (now part of Hunan Normal University) in 1961. From 1961 to 1974, Li worked in Hunan Opera Theatre. In 1970, Li performed Tinker a Pan (补锅). Chinese officials thought she was a revisionist black talent. Officials searched her house, confiscated her property, and she was sentenced to hard labor. From 1974 to 1984, Li was transferred to Central Philharmonic Orchestra as a solo. Then she has toured with the Central Philharmonic Orchestra to perform in China and abroad, including in France, Japan and the United ", "score": "1.6888003" }, { "id": "6295483", "title": "Li Li-hua", "text": " Li Li-hua was born on July 17, 1924 in Shanghai. She was the daughter of famous Beijing Opera actor Li Guifang (李桂芳). At age 12 she moved to Beijing and studied Beijing Opera. Four years later she moved to Shanghai and joined the Yihua Film Company. Her first movie was 3 Smiles (三笑) which was released in two parts in 1940. Her final movie was New Dream of the Red Chamber (新紅樓夢) in 1978, after which she retired and moved to the United States. She acted in over one hundred twenty movies during her 38-year career. In 1969 she was awarded the Golden Horse Best Actress award for Storm over the Yangtze River (揚子江風雲). In 2015 she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 52nd Golden Horse Awards. In April 2016 she was honored with a Hong Kong Film Awards Lifetime Achievement Award. She died on 19 March 2017, aged 92.", "score": "1.6871889" }, { "id": "32640259", "title": "Li Shengjiao", "text": " A direct descendant of the renowned Qing Dynasty poet and scholar Li E (厉鹗), Li Shengjiao is the son of Li Linsi (厉麟似), a distinguished scholar and diplomat in modern China. Li, whose given name translates as \"to educate with a stern voice\", was born in January 1935 to an upper-class family. His mother Tang Liling (唐丽玲) was a renowned pianist and actress, while his father, Li Linsi, was a prominent educator, diplomat and linguist, and a pioneering figure in China-Europe cultural exchanges in the 1930s. His father also had the nickname \"China's Mahatma Gandhi\" and helped Jews to escape persecution and settle in Shanghai during the second world war.", "score": "1.6654987" }, { "id": "15863886", "title": "Li Xianhua", "text": " Li was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu in 1961, while his ancestral home in Cangnan County, Zhejiang. After the resumption of college entrance examination, he entered University of Science and Technology of China, where he graduated in 1983. He received his master's degree and doctor's degree from the Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1985 and 1988, respectively.", "score": "1.6611505" }, { "id": "7822378", "title": "Li Huajun", "text": " Li was born in Guangrao County, Shandong, on 25 February 1962. In 1978, he enrolled at Shandong Institute of Technology (now Shandong University), where he majored in power machinery. After graduating in 1982, he became a technician at Guangrao Planter Factory. He did his postgraduate work at Dalian Institute of Technology (now Dalian University of Technology) between August 1983 and July 1986. He received his Doctor of Engineering degree from Kyoto University in 2001. He joined the Communist Party of China in June 1986. In July 1986, he joined the faculty of PLA Navy Submarine Academy, he remained at the university until August 1992, then he moved to Qingdao University of Oceanology (now Ocean University of China), becoming dean of the College of Engineering in March 2001 and vice president in December 2009. He was honored as a Distinguished Young Scholar by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2003. He was appointed as a \"Chang Jiang Scholar\" (or \" Yangtze River Scholar\") by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China in February 2006.", "score": "1.6602747" }, { "id": "3038822", "title": "Li Hongzhong", "text": " Li was born in Shenyang, but traces his ancestry to Changle County, Shandong province. During the Cultural Revolution, he performed manual labour as a sent-down youth in Sujiatun District, Shenyang, Liaoning Province. In 1978, he earned admission to the history department at Jilin University. After he graduated, Li was sent to work at the government. He worked for the General Office of the Shenyang municipal government, then a secretary at the ministry of electronics industry. In 1988 he was sent to Guangdong province, where he would go on to spend two decades of his political career. He successively served as the mayor and party chief of Huizhou City, then the vice governor of Guangdong, then in 2003, the acting mayor and mayor of Shenzhen, China's most prominent Special ", "score": "1.6539192" }, { "id": "28361834", "title": "Li Yin", "text": " Li Yin was born in Kuaiji (Shaoxing), Zhejiang, during the late Ming dynasty. Various sources give her year of birth as 1610, 1611, or 1616. Her family background is not known but according to a contemporary biographical sketch her parents made her study poetry and painting from an early age. Their financial circumstances were poor enough that she was said to have stored up liver mosses as paper and persimmon sticks to write with. She likely made a living as a courtesan, as her contemporary biographer Huang Zongxi compares her to Wang Wei and Liu Rushi, two famous courtesans of the era. She studied painting from the artists Chen Chun and Ye Danian (葉大年).", "score": "1.6416752" }, { "id": "11309835", "title": "Li Shu-hua", "text": " Li Shu-hua was born in Qinhuangdao, Hebei. As a youth he studied Chinese Classics with private tutors. In 1912 he graduated first in his class at Chihli Higher Agricultural School and received a government grant to study in France, where he participated in the Diligent Work-Frugal Study Movement. He studied under a number of renowned professors, among them Nobel laureates Paul Sabatier, Gabriel Lippmann and Marie Curie. He also worked in the lab of Jean Perrin. Li received the certificate of Ingenieur Agricole from the University of Toulouse in 1918, and the degrees Licencie es Sciences Physiques and Docteur es Sciences Physiques from the University of Paris in 1920 and 1922, respectively.", "score": "1.6394473" }, { "id": "9458112", "title": "Li Jinzao", "text": " Li was born in January 1958 in Xiantao, Hubei. After the Cultural Revolution, he studied, then taught, at what is now Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. In 1984 he earned a master's degree in economic from Wuhan University. After university, he was assigned to the Ministry of Finance. In October 1988 he received his doctor's degree in economic from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In October 1988, he joined the State Planning Commission. In August 1996, he was transferred to Guilin, capital of Guangxi, where he was appointed vice-mayor, party chief of Qixing District and party chief of Guilin High-Tech Development Zone. He was promoted to mayor in October 1998. In December 2001 he was promoted again to become party chief. He became vice-governor of Guangxi in September 2003, and served until January 2008. In October 2011 he was transferred to Beijing and appointed vice-minister of Commerce. In October 2014 he became chairman and party branch secretary of the China National Tourism Administration. After the institutional reform, he served as the vice-minister of vice-minister of Culture and Tourism in March 2018.", "score": "1.6341281" }, { "id": "32593416", "title": "Li Huai Min", "text": " Li began his football career at the age of 15, joining youth team of Balestier Khalsa in 2009. He was promoted to the Prime League team of the S-League club Balestier Khalsa when he was just 17, spending just one season playing under Salim Moin before leaving the club due to personal reasons. In Prime League, he scored on his debut for Balestier Khalsa against Gombak United. He made his first appearance for Balestier Khalsa's first-team that year, as a substitute in a friendly match against Etoile FC. He scored on his first start against Beijing Guoan Talent in a friendly. Ended the season with 8 goals and 24 appearances to his name. Despite holding Singapore Permanent Resident status for ", "score": "1.6288552" }, { "id": "15238169", "title": "Li Yu (author)", "text": " Born in Rugao, in present-day Jiangsu province, he lived in the late-Ming and early-Qing dynasties. Although he passed the first stage of the imperial examination, he did not succeed in passing the higher levels before the political turmoil of the new dynasty, but instead turned to writing for the market. Li was an actor, producer, and director as well as a playwright, who traveled with his own troupe. His play Fēngzhēng wù (風箏誤, \"Errors caused by the Kite\") remains a favorite of the Chinese Kun opera stage. His biographers call him a \"writer-entrepreneur\" and the “most versatile and enterprising writer of his time”. Li is the presumed author of Ròu pútuán (肉蒲團, The ", "score": "1.6264331" }, { "id": "1459260", "title": "Li Shucai", "text": " Li was born in Laishui County, Hebei, in December 1965. He enrolled at Shandong Mining Institute (now Shandong University of Science and Technology) where he received his B.Eng. degree in 1987 and his M.Eng. degree in 1990. After receiving his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1996, he stayed for researching. He moved to Shandong University in 2000 as Dean of the School of Civil Engineering and Director of the Geotechnical and Structural Engineering Research Center.", "score": "1.6236299" }, { "id": "3827868", "title": "Hong Yi", "text": " He was born in Tianjin to a banking family originating in Hongtong County, Shanxi, that migrated to Tianjin in the Ming Dynasty, though his mother was from Pinghu, Zhejiang province. In 1898 Li moved to Shanghai and joined the \"Shanghai Painting and Calligraphy Association\", and the \"Shanghai Scholarly Society\" while he was attending the Nanyang Public School (later became Jiaotong University). In 1905 Li went to Japan to study at Tokyo School of Fine Art in Ueno Park where he specialized in Western painting and music, and met a lover by the name of Yukiko who was to become his ", "score": "1.6236234" }, { "id": "12276254", "title": "Li Jinxi", "text": " Born into a scholarly family in Xiangtan, Hunan, China, Li was the oldest of the eight Li brothers. He studied classic works from his childhood. He also learned poetry, painting, engraving and flute. From the age of 12, he began to write diaries, and never stopped in the following 70 years. In 1905, he passed the imperial examination at the county level and obtained a xiucai degree. In 1906, he was admitted to the No.1 Middle School of Hunan Province (湖南省立一中). In 1907, he studied at the Beijing Railway School (北京铁路学校). In 1908, he was admitted to Hunan Advanced Normal School (湖南优级师范学堂). After his graduation, he ", "score": "1.6195993" }, { "id": "32594629", "title": "Li Jindou", "text": " Li was born on 15 October 1947, in Beijing. He started to learn the arts of xiangsheng from master Zhao Zhenduo (赵振铎). At the age of 13, he became an eighth-generation xiangsheng performer. Li performed xiangsheng in many areas, such as America, Canada, Singapore, Hongkong and Taiwan.", "score": "1.6158466" }, { "id": "28005973", "title": "Li Yan (artist)", "text": " Li Yan is an oil painting artist, born in Jilin, China in 1977, who lives and works in Beijing, China.", "score": "1.6158428" } ]

[ "Vienna", "Wien", "Vienna, Austria", "W" ]

[ { "id": "3005597", "title": "Florian Reichstädter", "text": " Florian Reichstädter (born 3 July 1980 in Vienna) is an Austrian sailor, who specialized in two-person dinghy (470) class. He represented Austria, along with his partner Matthias Schmid, in two editions of the Olympic Games (2008 and 2012), and has also been training for Yacht Club Breitenbrunn in Germany throughout most of his sporting career under his personal coaches Alfred Pelinka and Christian Binder. As of September 2013, Reichstadter is ranked second in the world for two-person dinghy class by the International Sailing Federation, following his successes at the North American Championships and Sailing World Cup Series in Miami, Florida, United States. Reichstadter made his official debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he paired up with crew member ", "score": "1.8401425" }, { "id": "12888122", "title": "Florian von Bornstädt", "text": " Von Bornstädt lives in Berlin since July 2017.", "score": "1.6473036" }, { "id": "4442410", "title": "Florian Pronold", "text": " Pronold was born in Passau. After graduating from high school in 1992 at the Robert Koch High School in Deggendorf, Pronold initially completed training - alongside comedian Django Asül - to become a banker at Sparkasse Deggendorf. In 1995, Pronold began to study law at the University of Regensburg, which he finished in 2000 with the first state law exam. After completing his legal clerkship, he also passed the second state examination in 2002 and has since been admitted as a lawyer. His activity and partnership in a law firm is currently suspended due to his work as Parliamentary State Secretary.", "score": "1.6215189" }, { "id": "5585061", "title": "Florian Pumhösl", "text": " Florian Pumhösl was born in Vienna in 1971, where he lives and works. He studied at the Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna (1991) and the Hochschule für angewandte Kunst Wien (Diploma, 1997). His international career began at the age of twenty two, when he participated in Backstage: Topologie Zeitgenössischer Kunst at the.", "score": "1.606504" }, { "id": "13020713", "title": "Stefan Gelbhaar", "text": " Born in Friedrichshain, Berlin, Gelbhaar has lived in the Berlin district of Pankow since 1980. He attended the \"Neumannschule\" (30th POS) and the Carl-von-Ossietzky-Gymnasium, and later became a student at Humboldt University. He completed his legal clerkship in the state of Brandenburg. Afterwards he worked as a criminal defence lawyer.", "score": "1.5971696" }, { "id": "6796172", "title": "Florian (name)", "text": " Koch (born 1992), a German basketball player ; Florian Kohfeldt (born 1982), a German football manager ; Florian Kringe (born 1982), a German footballer ; Florian Lampert (1863&ndash;1930), an American politician ; Florian Lechner (born 1981), a German football player ; Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729&ndash;1774), a German-speaking Bohemian opera composer ; Florian Liegl (born 1983), an Austrian ski jumper ; Florian Lucchini, a French footballer ; Florian Müller (disambiguation): several people ; Florian Mader (born 1982), an Austrian association football player ; Florian Maier-Aichen (born 1973), a German landscape photographer ; Florian Marange (born 1986), a French football defender ; Florian Marciniak (1915&ndash;1944), a Polish scoutmaster ; Florian ", "score": "1.571211" }, { "id": "12888120", "title": "Florian von Bornstädt", "text": " Florian von Bornstädt grew up in Kellinghusen and completed with the Mittlere Reife at the local secondary school. After school he started a vocational training as a media designer at h1 - Fernsehen aus Hannover, a regional German TV channel. In the meantime he wrote the script for his first short film Little Red Riding Hood: A Tale of Blood and Death. He shared the directing position with Martin Czaja. This was followed by two more short films in sole direction, which were shown at international film festivals. In his second short film, He was there again, he worked i.a. with the actor and voice actor Charles Rettinghaus. In 2015 he wrote the script for the horror film #funnyFACE, directed by Marcel ", "score": "1.5622451" }, { "id": "6796170", "title": "Florian (name)", "text": " ; Florian Grassl (born 1980), a German skeleton racer ; Florian Gruber (born 1983), a German auto racing driver ; Florian Grzechowiak (1914&ndash;1972), a Polish basketball player ; Florian Guay, a Québécois politician ; Florian Habicht (born 1975), a New Zealand film director ; Florian Hart (born 1990), an Austrian footballer ; Florian Havemann (born 1952), the son of East German dissident Robert Havemann ; Florian Hecker, a German electronic music composer ; Florian Heller (born 1982), a German football player ; Johann Florian Heller (1813&ndash;1871), an Austrian chemist, a founder of clinical chemistry ; Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (born 1973), an Austrian-German director and screenwriter ; Florian ", "score": "1.5600224" }, { "id": "32185437", "title": "Florian Riedel", "text": " Riedel was born in Werdau, East Germany. He started his professional career with Hertha BSC, making his first appearance on 31 July 2008 in the 2008–09 UEFA Cup first qualifying round second leg against FC Nistru Otaci. He was substituted on in the 63rd minute. On 31 August 2010, the last day of the transfer window, Riedel left Hertha BSC, having been relegated to the reserves, and joined Dutch club AGOVV Apeldoorn. In summer 2012, Riedel joined 1. FC Kaiserslautern. After 12 appearances in the 2. Bundesliga and after playing mostly for the reserves, he was released from his contract in summer 2015. On 19 January 2016, Riedel signed for Eintracht Trier until June 2017.", "score": "1.5552578" }, { "id": "2156463", "title": "Florian Homm", "text": " Florian Wilhelm Jürgen Homm was born on 7 October 1959 in Oberursel, a small town near Frankfurt, Germany. His father was self made and had set up a large business including that of welding pipes and installing bathroom fittings, something that did not interest young Florian. Instead, Florian was influenced by his great uncle Josef Neckermann, a successful businessman at whose mansion the entire family would attend weekly gatherings every Sunday. In an interview with Deutsche Welle (DW), Homm described being impressed by his great uncle and with the idea of being wealthy. Homm attended high school in the United States, at Bentley High School (Livonia, Michigan). He subsequently entered Harvard College, graduating in 1982. He then earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1987. Homm worked for Merrill Lynch, Fidelity Investments and Julius Bär.", "score": "1.5547954" }, { "id": "29380822", "title": "Juan José Florián", "text": " Florián is from Puerto Berrío, Antioquia, Colombia, and grew up in Lejanías, Meta. At the age of 16, Florián was conscripted into the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), after his brother had joined the Colombian Government forces. He was one of an estimated 6,000 child soldiers enlisted by FARC. He fled FARC a year later, and joined the Colombian Government's Army in 2000, when he was a legal age to enlist. After leaving the army, his brother suffered with schizophrenia. In 2011, Florián was injured by an explosive device left by FARC on his doorstep, disguised as a package. He lost both arms and part of his right leg. He was in a coma for 12 days, and now uses a prosthesic limb. In 2016, Florián started studying psychology at Sergio Arboleda University. After three semesters, he postponed his course to focus on his sports career. He is nicknamed \"Mochoman\". Florián is a member of the Fundación Colombianitos, which tackles child and youth poverty.", "score": "1.5530123" }, { "id": "6796171", "title": "Florian (name)", "text": " (born 1959), a German financier ; Florian Hube (born 1980), a German football player ; Florian Hufsky (1986&ndash;2009), an Austrian new media artist, political activist ; Florian Iberer (born 1982), an Austrian ice hockey player ; Florian Jarjat (born 1980), a French football player ; Florian Jenni (born 1980), a Swiss chess player ; Florian Jungwirth (born 1989), a German footballer ; Florian Just (born 1982), a German pair skater ; Florian Kehrmann (born 1977), a German handball player ; Florian Keller (born 1981), a German field hockey player ; Florian Kempf (born 1956), an American football player ; Florian Klein (born 1986), an Austrian football player ; ", "score": "1.5511649" }, { "id": "2803678", "title": "Florian Hoffmann", "text": " Florian Hoffmann is the son of designer Mathias Hoffmann and grew up between Tübingen, Germany and Ibiza, Spain. Florian played competitive handball and was later listed at the European Handball Federation playing first in the German youth league. Hoffmann graduated from the Kepler Gymnasium and served as student speaker from 1998-2000. Hoffmann studied at the European College of Liberal Arts, Duke University, Humboldt University and St Antony's College, Oxford. At Duke, his professors included Frederick Jameson and Peter Feaver. Hoffmann wrote his BA on normative foreign policy supervised by Ellen M. Immergut. Hoffmann also participated in the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations in 2005. Hoffmann received the DAAD Scholarship to pursue his graduate studies at Oxford University. At Oxford, Florian Hoffmann worked with Kalypso Nicolaidis, Timothy Garton-Ash and Michael Freeden researching a common European Value Pluralism finishing an MPHil with distinction and starting a DPhil, which he did not complete.", "score": "1.5488319" }, { "id": "6796174", "title": "Florian (name)", "text": " ; Florian Quintilla (born 1988), a professional rugby league footballer ; Hieronim Florian Radziwiłł (1715&ndash;1760), a Polish-Lithuanian szlachcic ; Florian Riedel (born 1990), a German footballer ; Florian Roost (born 1989), a Swiss ice dancer ; Florian Rousseau (born 1974), a French track cyclist ; Florian Süssmayr (born 1963), a German painter ; Florian Schönbeck (born 1974), a German decathlete ; Florian Schabereiter (born 1991), an Austrian ski jumper ; Florian Schneider (1947&ndash;2020), a German electronic musician ; Florian Schulz, a German photographer ; Florian Schwarthoff (born 1968), a German hurdler ; Florian Seidl (born 1979), an Austrian vehicle designer ; Florian Seitz (born 1982), a German sprinter ", "score": "1.5400469" }, { "id": "12888119", "title": "Florian von Bornstädt", "text": " Florian von Bornstädt (born 26 August 1991 in Itzehoe) is a German writer and screenwriter, known for the Netflix original film The Four of Us.", "score": "1.5368868" }, { "id": "3698706", "title": "Florian Ballhaus", "text": " Ballhaus was born in Baden-Baden, Germany, the son of Helga Mavia Betten and noted German cinematographer Michael Ballhaus. At the age of 16, he moved to the U.S. with his family, when his father began working on American films such as After Hours. He began working as a second cinematographer's assistant and then later as a camera assistant and operator. He returned to Germany in his adulthood to make his own name in his father's profession, debuting in episodes of the television show, Alles außer Mord, then in 1996 with Sandman. He returned to the U.S. seven years later to shoot episodes of Sex and the City. In 2005, he earned praise for his work in the thriller Flightplan. Later he reunited with David Frankel, one of the Sex and the City directors, for The Devil Wears Prada.", "score": "1.5329838" }, { "id": "1112530", "title": "Feldkirch, Vorarlberg", "text": "Bartholomäus Bernhardi (1487–1551), Lutheran theologian ; Wolf Huber (c. 1485–1553), painter (Danube school) and architect ; Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514–1574), mathematician and astronomer ; Karl Bleyle (1880–1969), musician and composer ; Elmar Fischer (born 1936), bishop of the Feldkirch diocese ; Bernhard Leitner (born 1938), artist ; P. Georg Sporschill SJ (born 1946), pastor known for his social engagement for orphans and street children in Romania and Moldova and work with the homeless in Vienna. ; Wiltrud Drexel (born 1950), ski racer ; Günther Freitag (born 1952), novelist ; Herbert Bösch (born 1954), politician and MEP ; Hans Weingartner (born 1970), author, director and film producer (famous for the international hit The Edukators starring Daniel Brühl and Julia Jentsch). ; Katharina Liensberger (born 1997), alpine ski racer ; Marco Rossi (born 2001) NHL player for the Minnesota Wild ", "score": "1.5308163" }, { "id": "12580074", "title": "Florian Hill", "text": " Hill was introduced to the mountains by his family early on in life. By the age of five, he had already climbed his first 10,000 foot mountain with his father in the Alps. In his late adolescence he competed in Olympic boxing in national and international tournaments, training at the Olympic Training Center in Germany. He was awarded Citizen of Honor in his hometown in the federal state of Hesse. Florian's passion for the outdoors led him to the Arctic where he trained sled dog teams for the longest and toughest distance race in the world e.g. for Yukon Quest winner and Iditarod veteran Sebastian Schnuelle in Canada and Alaska. As a professional mountaineer he extensively climbed in the ice-wastes of Alaska, the South American Andes, Himalaya, Kyrgyzstan, Burma, Central Asia and the Yukon Territory in Northern Canada. Florian Hill consistently strives to combine high performance and adventure.", "score": "1.5278397" }, { "id": "7153691", "title": "Florian Bachelier", "text": " Born in Thionville as the son of a vocational high school teacher and a nursery assistant, Bachelier studied law at the University of Rennes while working as a pizza deliveryman, waiter, and receptionist for Gaumont as side jobs.", "score": "1.5265148" }, { "id": "29985382", "title": "Florian Koschat", "text": " Koschat grew up Hörzendorf (Carinthia) in Austria. In his school days he became aware of the advantages of being wealthy. He studied Business Administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and graduated with a doctorate in 2000.", "score": "1.5231173" } ]

[ "Montauban", "Rive-Civique" ]

[ { "id": "27218764", "title": "Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan", "text": " Jean-Jacques Lefranc (also Le Franc), Marquis de Pompignan (10 August 1709 – 1 November 1784) was a French man of letters and erudition, who published a considerable output of theatrical work, poems, literary criticism, and polemics; treatises on archeology, nature, travel and many other subjects; and a wide selection of highly regarded translations of the classics and other works from several European languages including English. His life and career, as well as his literary and other works are noteworthy today because of their location at the very center of the French Enlightenment; and although some of the positions he took are also considered to have been ", "score": "1.8109391" }, { "id": "27218769", "title": "Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan", "text": " the Parlement de Toulouse, where Jean-Jacques was also to have a brief tenure. His education was entrusted to \" ... the most skillful masters at the Capital, where he found himself among the disciples of the celebrated Pere Poré. The student made rapid progress, and was not slow in showing proof of a talent as rare as it was precocious. After successfully completing his classical studies [at the Collège de Louis-le-Grand], he remained in Paris to attend the School of Law.\" Voltaire, fifteen years older than Lefranc, attended this school from 1704 to 1711, and was also influenced by Pere Poré. He joined the staff of the Cours des Aides in 1730, during ", "score": "1.7952218" }, { "id": "1352357", "title": "Lefranc", "text": "Christelle Lefranc (born 1980), French fashion model from Paris, France ; Jean Georges Lefranc de Pompignan (1715–1790), French clergyman and younger brother of Jean-Jacques ; Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan (1709–1784), French jurist, man of letters and gardener ; Jean-Marc Lefranc (born 1947), member of the National Assembly of France ; Victor Lefranc (1809–1883), French lawyer and politician, moderated republican, Minister of Agriculture and Trade, then Interior Minister Lefranc may refer to: ", "score": "1.7632902" }, { "id": "27218772", "title": "Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan", "text": " His marriage with a wealthy widow enabled him to devote himself fully to literature, and also funded his campaign for a seat in the Académie française, which was achieved in 1759. However, on his formal induction into the Academie in 1760, he made an ill-considered speech violently attacking the Encyclopaedists, many of whom were in his audience and had voted for him. Lefranc soon had reason to repent of his action, for the epigrams and stories circulated by those he had attacked made it difficult for him to remain in Paris, and he returned to his native town, where he spent the rest of his life gardening, writing poetry and translating from the classics. Jean-François de la Harpe, who is severe enough on Lefranc in his correspondence, does his abilities full justice in his Cours littéraire, and ranks him next to JB Rousseau among French lyric poets. With those of other 18th-century poets his works may be studied in the Petits poètes français (1838) of Prosper Poitevin. His Œuvres complètes (5 vols.) were published in 1781, selections (2 vols.) in 1800, 1813, 1822.", "score": "1.746814" }, { "id": "3428205", "title": "Jean Georges Lefranc de Pompignan", "text": " Jean Georges Lefranc de Pompignan (22 February 1715 in Montauban – 29 December 1790 in Paris) was a French clergyman, younger brother of Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan. Pompignan was the archbishop of Vienne against whose defense of the faith Voltaire launched the good-natured mockery of Les Lettres d'un Quaker. Elected to the Estates General, he passed over to the Liberal side, and led the 149 members of the clergy who united with the third estate to form the National Assembly. He was one of its first presidents, and was minister of public worship when the Civil Constitution of the Clergy was forced upon the clergy.", "score": "1.7406579" }, { "id": "27218774", "title": "Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan", "text": " Jean-Jaques' younger brother, Jean Georges Lefranc de Pompignan, rose through the hierarchy to become Archbishop of Vienne and a favourite of the king, whose eulogy he delivered. Pompignan was also the alleged biological father of the French suffragist and playwright Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793).", "score": "1.7045201" }, { "id": "27218768", "title": "Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan", "text": " Lefranc de Pompignan nearby). At the same time, lands were purchased at Pompignan (some 20 km to the southwest of Montauban) to provide a convenient rural retreat. Jean-Jacques' father, Jacques Lefranc, was the third of the name to become president of the Cour des Aides, and he was to be followed by his eldest son and grandson. The family retained the seat at Cayx, and the beautifully sited old chateau was where Jean-Jacques and his brother were reared; as a young man he styled himself Lefranc de Caix. His mother, born Mademoiselle de Caulet, was of the same millieu, her father serving as a \"president of the morter\" - a judicial rank - ", "score": "1.704154" }, { "id": "25141935", "title": "Château de Pompignan", "text": " is, of a marquis). His son, Jean-Georges-Louis-Lefranc de Pompignan (1760–1840) inherited the chateau and the marquisate on the death of his father in 1784. John Stuart Mill, the English thinker and politician, began a formative year visiting France at the age of 14 with a two-week stay at Pompignan in June 1820. In long letters to his father (who financed the educational trip), the precocious Mill details his extensive reading in the library of the chateau, including almost one work per day by Voltaire, Lefranc's main enemy, without once referring to the marquis' own works. Even by then something of a connoisseur of gardens, he walked in ", "score": "1.6753223" }, { "id": "27218770", "title": "Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan", "text": " presidency of his uncle, the abbé Louis Lefranc, who had succeeded his brother, Jean-Jacques' father Jacques, on the death of the latter in 1719. When Louis died in 1745, Jean-Jacques, who had by then served for fifteen years as a general advocate at the court, although expected to succeed him in turn, was not yet old enough to be awarded the position, and had to wait until early 1747 to take over its presidency. The same year he was also appointed conseiller d'honneur of the Toulouse parlement, but his opposition to the abuses of the royal power, especially in the matter of taxation, brought him so much trouble that he resigned almost immediately.", "score": "1.6703982" }, { "id": "27218767", "title": "Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan", "text": " The Lefranc family were originally landlords of the Château de Cayx (or see Château de Caïx on French Wiki, which gives more detail), overlooking a bend on the Lot some 12 km northwest of Cahors. Successive Lefrancs had served since 1640 as hereditary presidents of the regional Cours des Aides, which was located in Cahors. When Louis XIV ordered the court to be moved to Montauban (some 60 km south of Cahors over difficult roads), during the presidency of Jacques Lefranc in the early years of the 18th century, the family built a town house in Montauban as their local residence. It still stands impressively today at 10 rue Armand Cambon (there is a ", "score": "1.6565704" }, { "id": "25141922", "title": "Château de Pompignan", "text": " the garden project, and major structural elements were put in place between 1766 and 1774. It was finally judged complete by its author (who was then 71 years old) in 1780, 35 years after he had started. Jean-Georges-Louis-Marie Lefranc de Pompignan (1760–1840), son of the builder, inherited the estate on the death of his father in 1784. Like his father, he too married well, and was in a position to attend to his country estates. It appears as if he also commissioned works in the park, and it is not possible at present to distinguish which Lefranc was responsible for which part of the garden.", "score": "1.6559163" }, { "id": "5746383", "title": "Olympe de Gouges", "text": " credible. The Pompignan family had longstanding close ties to the Mouisset family of Marie Gouze's mother, Anne. When Anne was born in 1712, the eldest Pompignan son, Jean-Jacques Lefranc de Pompignan (age five), was her godfather. Anne's father tutored him as he grew. During their childhoods, Pompignan became close to Anne, but was separated from her in 1734 when he was sent to Paris. Anne married Pierre Gouze, a butcher, in 1737 and had three children before Marie, a son and two girls. Pompignan returned to Montauban in 1747, the year before Marie's birth. Pierre was legally recognized as Marie's father. ", "score": "1.6453671" }, { "id": "27218766", "title": "Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan", "text": " His library of some 25,000 volumes was sold after his death by his son, and became founding collections for no less than three learned institution in Toulouse. He built a neo-classical chateau at Pompignan, and over a period of thirty-five years created one of the earliest and most extensive parcs à fabriques (or French landscape garden). The chateau stands in good order today, and although the park and its follies have been neglected, the extensive hydrological system still functions. In May 2011 the decision was taken to route the planned Bordeaux-Toulouse TGV and high-speed freight rail lines through the center of the Lefranc's landscape park.", "score": "1.637906" }, { "id": "27218765", "title": "Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan", "text": " contributions to the counter-Enlightenment tendencies that were being articulated in parallel, he remains, in many respects, the typical Enlightenment man. The prolific volumes of literary works are now of academic interest only, mainly to flesh out aspects of the culture of the time, which embraced a period in which tensions that were to explode in the French Revolution five years after his death were still held in check. Lefranc is remembered today, if he is at all, as a consequence of the maiden speech he gave at the Académie française in 1760, which led to him becoming forever known and defined as \"the enemy of ", "score": "1.6229496" }, { "id": "32206536", "title": "1709 in France", "text": "7 February &ndash; Charles de Brosses, writer (died 1777) ; 24 February &ndash; Jacques de Vaucanson, engineer and inventor (died 1782) ; 14 April &ndash; Charles Collé, dramatist (died 1783) ; 7 August &ndash; Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan, polymath (died 1784) ; 29 August &ndash; Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, poet and dramatist (died 1777) ; 3 September &ndash; Joan Claudi Peiròt, Occitan writer (died 1795) ; 23 November &ndash; Julien Offray de La Mettrie, physician and philosopher (died 1751) ; Full date missing &ndash; Jean Girardet, painter of portrait miniatures (died 1778) ", "score": "1.6199802" }, { "id": "27218773", "title": "Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan", "text": " Beginning in 1745, Lefranc rebuilt the manor house at Pompignan as the present neoclassical Chateau de Pompignan, and over a period of thirty-five years created a very extensive landscape garden, containing many follies, or architectural constructions to enhance the natural and created landscape. These included ruined temples, a gothic bridge, pleasure houses, and an extensive hydraulic and reservoir system which managed a lake and fishpond, streams, fountains and the water for the house.", "score": "1.5998371" }, { "id": "31176542", "title": "Abel Lefranc", "text": " Lefranc was born in Élincourt-Sainte-Marguerite. After studying at the École Nationale des Chartes, where he wrote a thesis on the history and organization of the town of Noyon until the end of the 13th century (1886). He left to study in Leipzig and Berlin (1887), where he prepared a report on the teaching of history in Germany, which he believed to be the most advanced in the world.", "score": "1.5820138" }, { "id": "2152100", "title": "1784 in France", "text": "29 January &ndash; Abbé François Blanchet, intellectual (born 1707) ; 15 February &ndash; Pierre Macquer, chemist (born 1718) ; 7 March &ndash; Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Théodore de Tschudi, botanist and poet (born 1734) ; 30 March &ndash; Emmanuel de Croÿ-Solre, military officer (born 1718) ; 30 July &ndash; Denis Diderot, philosopher (born 1713). ; 1 September &ndash; Jean-François Séguier, botanist and astronomer (born 1703) ; 1 November &ndash; Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan, man of letters and erudition (born 1709) ", "score": "1.573051" }, { "id": "25141934", "title": "Château de Pompignan", "text": " began his association with the Cours des Aides in 1730, and took over its presidency in 1747. He began working on the chateau in 1745, a project that was to take 35 years to complete. His marriage to a rich and ambitious widow in 1757 obviated the need to work for the state, and she encouraged his literary and paid for his architectural projects. Jean-Jacques Lefranc was elevated to the marquisate by royal appointment, for services rendered (in defending monarchical and ecclesiastical powers against opposition generated by the Encyclopédistes) in 1763, and from this point his garden began to get recognition as a proper parc du chateau ", "score": "1.5687548" }, { "id": "30120565", "title": "Jacques de Juigné", "text": " Le Clerc de Juigné was born on 16 February 1874 in Paris, France.", "score": "1.5590119" } ]

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[ { "id": "26820262", "title": "Brad Goddard", "text": " Bradley David Goddard (born May 17, 1977) is a Canadian actor. His identical twin brother Chris Goddard is also an actor.", "score": "1.7224133" }, { "id": "27380323", "title": "Drew Goddard", "text": " Goddard was born in Houston, Texas and was raised in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He is the son of Colleen Mary (Hogan), a teacher, and Dr. Laurence Woodbury Goddard. He attended Los Alamos High School and graduated in 1993. He then enrolled in University of Colorado Boulder and graduated with B.A. in English in 1997.", "score": "1.6615667" }, { "id": "26820263", "title": "Brad Goddard", "text": " Brad and his brother attended The University of Waterloo theatre programme. By the end of his study at Waterloo, Brad had appeared in 26 productions and had taught the University's Drama Department First Year acting course for three years. After moving to Toronto, Ontario Brad joined Skye Management and landed the role of Carter Travis alongside his twin brother Chris in the role of Cody Travis in the MTV series Undressed (which twice was awarded the GLAAD Media Award for its positive portrayal of queer culture and icons). They have featured in two Season 6 story lines, and appeared in 10 episodes. Brad then went on to work with fellow University of Waterloo grads in Studio 180's inaugural production, the Canadian theatre premiere ", "score": "1.6253526" }, { "id": "899564", "title": "Brad Rowswell", "text": " Rowswell was born at the Sandringham Hospital and grew up in the suburb of Beaumaris. He was educated at St Bede's College in Mentone.", "score": "1.5841852" }, { "id": "13263810", "title": "Brad Dwyer", "text": " Dwyer was born in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.", "score": "1.5724726" }, { "id": "14279985", "title": "Brad Clavering", "text": " Clavering was born in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.", "score": "1.5594927" }, { "id": "695047", "title": "Graham Goddard", "text": " Graham Goddard was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad. In 1989, the Goddard’s moved from Woodbrook, Trinidad to Spring Valley, New York. As a child Goddard received training in watercolor painting from Rockland Center for the Arts and had his first solo exhibition in 1992 at the age of 10 at the Filkenstein Gallery in New York. As a child Goddard won numerous art contests including Coca-Cola's national art competition in 1995. In 1995 Graham Goddard was the youngest artist selected to attend the prestigious New York State Summer School of the Arts (NYSSSA) in Cazenovia, New York. Goddard attended Spring Valley High ", "score": "1.5584528" }, { "id": "1743026", "title": "Johnathan Goddard", "text": " Goddard was born in San Diego, California, and attended Edward H. White High School in Jacksonville, Florida.", "score": "1.5555086" }, { "id": "918503", "title": "Eben Goddard", "text": " Goddard was born in Sydney, Australia.", "score": "1.5540822" }, { "id": "14353711", "title": "Brad Pye Jr.", "text": " Pye was born in Plain Dealing, Louisiana, on June 11, 1931. At the age of 12 he moved to Los Angeles by himself. He lived on Central Avenue on his own for four years, until his mother joined him. He went on to study at Jefferson High School, and worked as a shoe shiner, gas station attendant, and factory worker.", "score": "1.5514555" }, { "id": "30557905", "title": "Brad Parker (artist)", "text": " Parker was born in 1961 and raised in Southern California. He later attended the art program at UCLA, where he discovered his future career path as a cartoonist. Following his departure from UCLA, he began work as an illustrator.", "score": "1.5470185" }, { "id": "26013479", "title": "Brad Williams (puppeteer)", "text": " Bradford Cody Williams was born to Robert Cody \"Bob\" Williams and Patricia Packard Williams on January 8, 1951 in White Plains, New York.", "score": "1.5420339" }, { "id": "31560666", "title": "Brad Walls", "text": " Walls was born in 1992 in Sydney, Australia. Walls's artworks have appeared in magazines such as The Washington Post, CNN and The Guardian.", "score": "1.5361437" }, { "id": "2273559", "title": "Brad Teague", "text": " Teague was born in Buladean, North Carolina, growing up in the mountains; he remains a resident of Johnson City.", "score": "1.5296239" }, { "id": "16044785", "title": "Brad Morris", "text": " Morris was born in Chicago and is a 1998 alumnus of Skidmore College. He was working for The Second City before his TV career, writing and performing in up to eight live shows a week for several years. At The Second City, Morris also co-founded the comedy troupes the Reckoning, Stubs, and Uncle's Brother.", "score": "1.5261432" }, { "id": "15799412", "title": "Daniel Goddard (actor)", "text": " Goddard was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He married Rachael Marcus on 3 February 2002. They have two sons, born February 2006 and December 2008. On 12 June 2020, Goddard became an American citizen.", "score": "1.524071" }, { "id": "28418468", "title": "Brad Renfro", "text": " Renfro was born on July 25, 1982, in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Angela Denise Olsen (née McCrory) and Mark Renfro, a factory worker. He was raised from the age of five by his paternal grandmother, Joanne Renfro, a church secretary, after his parents divorced. He reportedly did not have a close relationship with his father.", "score": "1.5233386" }, { "id": "8948948", "title": "Mark Goddard", "text": " Charles Harvey Goddard was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the youngest of five children, and grew up in Scituate. He was raised Catholic. He led both his high school baseball and basketball teams to the state championship finals. Goddard dreamed of becoming a basketball player, but eventually turned to acting. He originally attended Holy Cross College after high school, but he then transferred and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. After two years, he moved to Los Angeles.", "score": "1.5178401" }, { "id": "29325795", "title": "Brad Katsuyama", "text": " Born in 1978, Katsuyama is a native of Markham, Ontario, Canada. He is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, where he attended Lazaridis School of Business and Economics.", "score": "1.5168161" }, { "id": "4918045", "title": "Brad M. Kelley", "text": " Kelley was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He was raised in Simpson County, Kentucky, and went to Franklin-Simpson High School in Franklin, Kentucky, where he was a secretary for the Future Farmers of America and was named Kentucky high school conservationist of the year. He bought his first piece of land, a farm near his childhood home, at age 17, and his first warehouse at age 20. He attended Western Kentucky University for a short period but left before the completion of his studies to pursue business interests.", "score": "1.5105634" } ]

[ "pop music", "pop", "Pop" ]

[ { "id": "16167824", "title": "Drive (2011 film)", "text": " novel, then print those words in large font, and hung them on his walls or draw pictures during viewings of Drive. Although Jewel's music was used in the score, at the last minute the studio hired composer Cliff Martinez to imitate the style and feel of Jewel's bands Chromatics and Glass Candy. Refn gave him a sampling of songs he liked and asked Martinez to emulate the sound, resulting in \"a kind of retro, 80ish, synthesizer europop\". Editor Mat Newman suggested Drives opening credits song: \"Nightcall\" by French electronic musician Kavinsky. Most of its ethereal electronic-pop score was composed by Martinez. Refn was a particular fan of his ambient music on the Sex, ", "score": "1.5687819" }, { "id": "16167838", "title": "Drive (2011 film)", "text": " Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, and [with] angst-laden love scenes that would not be out of place in a Scandinavian drama\". Christopher Hawthorne, also from the Los Angeles Times, has compared it to the works of Walter Hill, John Carpenter, Nathanael West, J. G. Ballard, and Mike Davis. According to Refn, Drive is dedicated to filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky and includes shades of Jodorowsky's existentialism. Drive has been described as a tough, hard-edged, neo-noir, art house feature, extremely violent and very stylish, with European art and grindhouse influences. Drive also refers to 1970s and 1980s cult hits such as The Day of the Locust (1975) ", "score": "1.5496113" }, { "id": "16167827", "title": "Drive (2011 film)", "text": " as the film itself. She stated the album, beginning with non-Martinez songs instead of mixing it up for a more enjoyable listening experience, cost it a star. In September 2016, Lakeshore and Invada Records released a fifth anniversary special edition pressing of the soundtrack, featuring new liner notes and artwork. That same month, Johnny Jewel, College, Electric Youth, and Cliff Martinez discussed the impact of the soundtrack and film on their lives and contemporary music culture. Jewel told Aaron Vehling that Drives \"blend of sonic and visual nostalgia with a contemporary spin is always deadly.\" The soundtrack was listed on Spin magazine's list of 40 Movie Soundtracks That Changed Alternative Music. Charts", "score": "1.5368788" }, { "id": "32408415", "title": "Drive (novel)", "text": " Drive is an expansion of a story of the same name that Sallis originally wrote for the noir anthology Measures of Poison (2002), published by Dennis McMillan Publications. The novel was published by Poisoned Pen Press on September 1, 2005.", "score": "1.5243137" }, { "id": "16167826", "title": "Drive (2011 film)", "text": " climbing as high as number four on the sales charts. The album was released on vinyl in June 2012, by Mondo. The nineteen-track album has amassed positive reviews. James Verniere of the Boston Herald graded it an \"A\", stating, \"The cool crowd isn't just watching Drive; they're listening to it, too ... The Drive soundtrack is such an integral part of the experience of the film, once you see it, you can't imagine the film without it.\" AllMusic reviewer James Christopher Monger selected opening track \"Nightcall\", \"I Drive\", \"Hammer\" and \"Bride of Deluxe\" as soundtrack's highlights. Mayer Nissim of Digital Spy gave it a four out of five star rating, finding it as ", "score": "1.522088" }, { "id": "29470602", "title": "Drive On (song)", "text": " \"Drive On\" is a 1989 single by British boy band / pop group Brother Beyond, taken from their second album, Trust. It made the Top 40 on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 39, in October 1989. It was their fifth consecutive hit to peak inside the Top 40.", "score": "1.5182862" }, { "id": "32408413", "title": "Drive (novel)", "text": " Drive is a 2005 novel by James Sallis. It was first published by Poisoned Pen Press on September 1, 2005. A sequel, entitled Driven, was published in 2012. The novel was adapted as a 2011 film of the same name, starring Ryan Gosling.", "score": "1.5067713" }, { "id": "16167840", "title": "Drive (2011 film)", "text": " the hero. To play with the common theme of fairy tales, The Driver protects what is good while at the same time killing degenerate people in violent ways. Refn said Drive turns into a superhero film during the elevator scene when The Driver kills the villain. The director said he was also inspired by films such as Point Blank (1967), Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), The Driver (1978), and Thief (1981). Jean-Pierre Melville's crime productions influenced the cinematography. Amini's script imposes \"a kind of sideways moral code,\" where even those who comply with it are almost never rewarded for their efforts, as seen ", "score": "1.5055041" }, { "id": "5336379", "title": "Sex Drive (film)", "text": " Sex Drive is a 2008 American road sex comedy film about a high school graduate who goes on a road trip to have sex with a girl he met online. It is based on the young adult novel All the Way by American author Andy Behrens. The film was directed by Sean Anders, and stars Josh Zuckerman, Amanda Crew, Clark Duke, Seth Green, and James Marsden, while Katrina Bowden, Alice Greczyn, Michael Cudlitz, Dave Sheridan, and David Koechner appear in supporting roles. It was released in North America on October 17, 2008, and in the United Kingdom on January 9, 2009. The film received mixed reviews, with the performances of Duke, Marsden, and Green receiving praise.", "score": "1.5052643" }, { "id": "16167825", "title": "Drive (2011 film)", "text": " and Videotape soundtrack. The score contains tracks with vintage keyboards and bluntly descriptive titles. Jewel reworked his unused soundtrack for the film into Themes for an Imaginary Film, the debut album by his side-project Symmetry. A re-scored soundtrack for the film was produced for the BBC by Zane Lowe for its television broadcast in October 2014. The soundtrack included original music from Chvrches, Banks, Bastille, Eric Prydz, SBTRKT, Bring Me the Horizon, The 1975 and Laura Mvula. Track listingReception Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) was released on CD on September 27, 2011 by Lakeshore Records. Prior to that, owing to viral reviews such as those found on Twitter, the soundtrack sold well on ", "score": "1.5034297" }, { "id": "16167839", "title": "Drive (2011 film)", "text": " To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). Other influences can be seen in the neon-bright opening credits and the retro song picks – \"a mix of tension-ratcheting synthesizer tones and catchy club anthems that collectively give the film its consistent tone\". Drives title sequence is hot-pink, which was inspired by Risky Business (1983). Refn has also indicated that the film's romance was partly inspired by the films of writer-director John Hughes. Refn's inspiration for Drive came partly from reading Grimms' Fairy Tales, and his goal was to make \"a fairy tale that takes Los Angeles as the background,\" with The Driver ", "score": "1.4948097" }, { "id": "16167804", "title": "Drive (2011 film)", "text": " the many current action genre films that focused more on stunts instead of characters. But he responded to Platt about two days later, as he was strongly attracted to the plot and the leading role of the unnamed driver. He thought the story had a \"very strong character\" at its core, and a \"powerful\" romance. In an interview with Rotten Tomatoes, Gosling was asked what had attracted him to the film, and whether he had read the earlier script when Jackman and director Neil Marshall were attached to it. He said: \"I think that might be the original one I read. I read a few drafts. ", "score": "1.4936092" }, { "id": "16167791", "title": "Drive (2011 film)", "text": " Drive is a 2011 American action drama film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. The screenplay, written by Hossein Amini, is based on James Sallis's 2005 novel of the same name. The film stars Ryan Gosling as an unnamed Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver. He quickly grows fond of his neighbor, Irene (Carey Mulligan), and her young son, Benicio. When her debt-ridden husband, Standard (Oscar Isaac), is released from prison, the two men take part in what turns out to be a botched million-dollar heist that endangers the lives of everyone involved. The film co-stars Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman, and Albert Brooks. Producers Marc Platt and ", "score": "1.4903321" }, { "id": "16167837", "title": "Drive (2011 film)", "text": " Andrew O'Hehir of Salon magazine described Drive as a \"classic Los Angeles heist-gone-wrong story,\" that \"isn't trying to outdo Bullitt or get the next assignment in The Fast and the Furious franchise\". O'Hehir also described homages to \"Roger Corman's B-movie aesthetic and the glossy Hollywood spectacles of Michael Mann\". Steven Zeitchik of the Los Angeles Times examined themes in the characters of \"loyalty, loneliness and the dark impulses that rise up even when we try our hardest to suppress them\". Reuters Nick Vinocur described a series of comic gore, resulting in \"a bizarre concoction ... reminiscent of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive ... ", "score": "1.4858023" }, { "id": "15028274", "title": "Music to Driveby", "text": " Music to Driveby is considered one of the great gangsta rap albums from the golden age of hip hop. Similar to N.W.A.'s Straight Outta Compton, Music to Driveby includes similar themes centered around nihilism, 'hood life and participation in gangs. It is notable for the single \"Hood Took Me Under\", which was later included in 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas ' radio station Radio Los Santos, and has been considered a classic example of gangsta rap by reviewers. The album contains a diss song aimed at the Bronx rapper Tim Dog, \"Who's Fucking Who?\", as well as numerous shots thrown at Bloods rapper DJ Quik throughout the album.", "score": "1.4761478" }, { "id": "10952586", "title": "Drive (Amerie EP)", "text": " Drive is the first extended play (EP) by American recording artist Amerie. It was released for online streaming and purchase on May 20, 2016 through her independent recording label Feeniix Rising Entertainment. It contains production by Mike City and Focus..., as well as long-time collaborators The Buchanans and Rich Harrison. Lead single \"Out Loud\" was released on March 16, 2015. It serves as her first musical release since her fourth studio album, In Love & War (2009). The EP was recorded during the same time her upcoming studio albums Cymatika, Vol. 1 and BILI. Her following EP was announced for July 2016, however, nothing came out from those plans.", "score": "1.4753544" }, { "id": "15028273", "title": "Music to Driveby", "text": " Music to Driveby is the third studio album by American gangsta rap group Compton's Most Wanted. It was released on September 29, 1992 through Orpheus/Epic Records. Recording sessions took place at Big Beat Soundlabs in Los Angeles and at Slips X Factor Studios in Inglewood from May 18 to June 9, 1992. Production was handled by members DJ Slip, MC Eiht and DJ Mike T, as well as The Unknown DJ and Ric Roc. It features contributions from William \"Willie Z\" Zimmerman on background vocals, keyboards, saxophone and harmonica, EMmage on backing vocals, and guest appearance by Scarface of Geto Boys. The album peaked at number 66 on the Billboard 200 and at number 20 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart in the United States. Along with the singles, music videos were produced for the songs \"Hood Took Me Under\" and \"Def Wish II\".", "score": "1.4736114" }, { "id": "15274848", "title": "Drive (2007 TV series)", "text": " Drive is an American action drama television series created by Tim Minear and Ben Queen, produced by Minear, Queen, and Greg Yaitanes, and starring Nathan Fillion. Four episodes aired on the Fox Network in April 2007. Two unaired episodes were later released directly to digital distribution. The series is set against the backdrop of an illegal cross-country automobile road race, focusing on the willing and unwilling competitors and, as the plot develops, the unseen puppet masters who sponsor the race. Minear has described the show's thematic tone by saying \"a secret, illegal, underground road race can be anything from Cannonball Run to The Game to North by Northwest to Magnolia-on-wheels. ", "score": "1.4696982" }, { "id": "25991989", "title": "Drive (Gareth Emery album)", "text": " Drive is the second studio album produced by the electronic dance music artist Gareth Emery, released on 1 April 2014. The album is the follow up to Emery's first studio album, Northern Lights, released in 2010. The album features vocals from Christina Novelli who also sang on \"Concrete Angel\". Also featured are Gavin Beach, Ben Gold, LJ Ayrten, Asia Whiteacre, Krewella, Bo Bruce and Emery's sister Roxanne Emery.", "score": "1.469384" }, { "id": "9626938", "title": "The Drive (album)", "text": " The Drive is the second album of dance artist Haddaway, which includes the three singles \"Fly Away\", \"Catch a Fire\" and \"Lover Be Thy Name\". The album was released in many European countries on June 24, 1995. Although it met with success, this album obtained less extraordinary runnings in the various charts than those of the previous album, The Album. It managed, however, to reach #10 in Switzerland.", "score": "1.4653721" } ]

[ "rock music", "rock and roll", "rock", "Rock" ]

[ { "id": "28370798", "title": "Mother (video game)", "text": " Mother is a single-player, role-playing video game set in a \"slightly offbeat\", late 20th-century United States as interpreted by Japanese author Shigesato Itoi. The game deliberately avoids traits of its Japanese role-playing game contemporaries: it is not set within the fantasy genre and only enters science fiction for its final sequence. The player fights in warehouses and laboratories instead of in standard dungeons. Instead of swords, assault weapons, and magic, the player uses baseball bats, toy guns, and psychic abilities. The game's protagonist, Ninten, is about 12 years old. Like the Dragon Quest series, Mother uses a random encounter combat system. The player explores the overworld from a top-down ", "score": "1.7430456" }, { "id": "25298546", "title": "The Mother and the Enemy", "text": " The Mother and the Enemy is the fourth studio album by the Polish symphonic black metal group Lux Occulta. It expands upon the band's signature sound by incorporating influences from a variety of styles, including free jazz, trip hop, death metal, industrial music, electronica, and spoken word.", "score": "1.7361987" }, { "id": "28370797", "title": "Mother (video game)", "text": " received a \"Silver Hall of Fame\" score from Famitsu magazine. Mother was praised for its similarities to the Dragon Quest series and its simultaneous parody of the genre's tropes; however, many considered its sequel EarthBound to be similar and a better overall implementation of Mother gameplay ideas, with the game's high difficulty level polarizing critics, along with balance issues. Jeremy Parish of 1UP.com wrote that Mother importantly generated interest in video game emulation and the historical preservation of unreleased games. The game was re-released in Japan on the single-cartridge compilation Mother 1+2 for the Game Boy Advance in 2003.", "score": "1.7143643" }, { "id": "28370795", "title": "Mother (video game)", "text": " Mother, (マザー) officially known outside of Japan as EarthBound Beginnings, is a 1989 role-playing video game developed by Ape and published by Nintendo for the Famicom. It is the first entry in the Mother series. It is modeled on the gameplay of the Dragon Quest series, but is set in the late 20th-century United States, unlike its fantasy genre contemporaries. Mother follows the young Ninten as he uses his great-grandfather's studies on psychic powers to fight hostile, formerly inanimate objects and other enemies. The game uses random encounters to enter a menu-based, first-person perspective battle system. Writer and director Shigesato ", "score": "1.6940207" }, { "id": "11405478", "title": "Mother and the Addicts", "text": " The band's sound includes elements of \"white funk\", disco, krautrock and pub rock, and has seen them compared to the likes of Franz Ferdinand, Dr. Feelgood, The Violent Femmes, and Roxy Music, while Mother's songwriting and singing have been compared to Mark E. Smith and Jarvis Cocker.", "score": "1.6890827" }, { "id": "28370814", "title": "Mother (video game)", "text": " Mother was the sixth best-selling game of 1989 in Japan, where it sold about 400,000 copies. Mother received a \"Silver Hall of Fame\" score of 31/40 from Japanese magazine Famitsu. Reviewers noted the game's similarities with the Dragon Quest series and its simultaneous \"parody\" of the genre's tropes. They thought the game's sequel, EarthBound, to be very similar and a better implementation of Mother gameplay ideas. Critics also disliked the game's high difficulty level and balance issues. Jeremy Parish of USgamer described the game as a mild-mannered parody (\"between satire and pastiche\") of the role-playing game genre, specifically the Dragon Quest ", "score": "1.6876417" }, { "id": "26298103", "title": "Mother Mother", "text": " Mother Mother is a Canadian indie rock band based in Quadra Island, British Columbia. The band consists of Ryan Guldemond on guitar and vocals, Molly Guldemond and Jasmin Parkin on vocals and keyboard, Ali Siadat on drums, and Mike Young on bass. Longtime bassist Jeremy Page left the band in 2016. In 2005, they independently released their self-titled debut album under the band name Mother. They later changed their name to Mother Mother, and re-released the album on Last Gang Records in 2007. Retitled Touch Up, the reissue also featured several new songs. The band's second album, O My Heart, was released on September 16, 2008; their third ", "score": "1.6786851" }, { "id": "26215551", "title": "Music of the Mother series", "text": " Mother 3 is a role-playing video game published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance handheld game console in 2006. The music for the game was composed exclusively by Shogo Sakai, who had previously composed music for games such as Super Smash Bros. Melee and Kirby Air Ride. Series developer Shigesato Itoi stated that Sakai was given the position because he understood Mother 3 the most, given that he could not use Keiichi Suzuki or Hirokazu Tanaka, the composers for the first two games, as they were both busy with other projects. Itoi also said that given the massive number of songs ", "score": "1.6767452" }, { "id": "26215533", "title": "Music of the Mother series", "text": " The Mother series is a role-playing video game series created by Shigesato Itoi for Nintendo. The series started in 1989 with the Japan-only release of Mother, which was followed up by Mother 2, released as EarthBound outside Japan, for the Super NES in 1994. A second sequel was released in Japan only, Mother 3, for the Game Boy Advance in 2006. The music of the Mother series includes the soundtracks to all three games; the first game was composed for by Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka, who were joined by Hiroshi Kanazu for the second game, while Mother 3s score was ", "score": "1.6726121" }, { "id": "26215548", "title": "Music of the Mother series", "text": " The video game Mother 1+2 (MOTHER 1+2) is a port release of Mother and EarthBound (Mother 2) by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance, released in 2003. Despite its title, the eponymous album is an arranged album. It was released by Toshiba-EMI on August 20, 2003. The first ten tracks from the album are from Mother, while the last 16 are from Earthbound. Unlike the original soundtrack albums, the Mother tracks on this album did not include any vocal arrangements and the Earthbound tracks were not composed of tracks merged. Another album for the collection, Mother 1+2 midi Piano Version, was released three years later ", "score": "1.6680915" }, { "id": "26215549", "title": "Music of the Mother series", "text": " May 27, 2006 by Sky Port Publishing. The album contains MIDI piano arrangements by Shunsuke Sakamoto of songs from the two games with its music covering many different moods, from \"lively to sedated\". Like the soundtrack album, Mother 1+2 midi Piano Version had its first ten tracks taken from Mother and the other 16 from Earthbound, but with several different tracks than the first album. Kyle Miller of RPGFan, in his review of the Mother 1+2 album, called it \"a quality collection of uplifting, passionate songs\". He preferred the Mother tracks to the Earthbound ones, as he felt that the second half of the ", "score": "1.6635314" }, { "id": "26298106", "title": "Mother Mother", "text": " with the New Pornographers and Tegan and Sara. When the Vancouver Province rated Mother as one of the top five BC bands to watch for in 2007, they began to receive acclaim for their debut album. Shortly thereafter, Mother landed a nationally broadcast concert opening for K'naan and the Wailin' Jennys. In the summer of 2006, they opened for the Australian band the Cat Empire at the sold-out Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Later that year, they made their debut in central Canada at the Montreal International Jazz Festival on June 29 as well as in Toronto on July 1, Canada Day, at the Harbourfront Centre.", "score": "1.6554353" }, { "id": "16200118", "title": "Mother Mother (song)", "text": " \"Mother Mother\" is a song by Tracy Bonham from her debut album The Burdens of Being Upright. Released on March 12, 1996, it became her most successful single, topping the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, entering the top five in Australia, and finding success in several other countries, including Canada and Norway.", "score": "1.6549972" }, { "id": "1883733", "title": "Mothers (band)", "text": " Mothers is an American band from Athens, Georgia, United States, composed of Kristine Leschper, Matthew Anderegg, Chris Taylor, and Garrett Burke. They released their debut album When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired, on February 26, 2016. Their sophomore album, Render Another Ugly Method, released September 7, 2018.", "score": "1.6542807" }, { "id": "28370816", "title": "Mother (video game)", "text": " right. Parish said this makes the player wonder which game events are real and which are Ninten's imagination. Parish cited Itoi's interest in entering the games industry to make a \"satirical\" role-playing game as proof of the genre's swift five-year rise to widespread popularity in Japan. Cassandra Ramos of RPGamer praised the game's graphics and music, and considered it among the console's best, with \"rich, ... nicely detailed\" visuals, Peanuts-style characters, and \"simple but effective\" audio. In contrast, she found the battle sequences aesthetically \"pretty bland\" and, otherwise, the game's \"least interesting\" aspect. Overall, she found Mother \"surprisingly complex ... for ", "score": "1.6503075" }, { "id": "1995815", "title": "Touch Up", "text": " Touch Up is Mother Mother's debut album released on February 27, 2007 on Last Gang Records. The album was self-titled when it was originally released in 2005. Two tracks were added when the band signed with Last Gang Records and the album was re-released in 2007. A video has been made for the song \"Touch Up\".", "score": "1.6499753" }, { "id": "11140127", "title": "Mother (Kubb album)", "text": " Mother is the only album of British band Kubb. It was released on 14 November 2005 in the UK on the Mercury Records label. It reached a peak of 26 the week of 13 February 2006. The album was never released in the US, although some versions have surfaced stateside (these versions removed the track \"Bitch\", bringing the album down to 11 tracks).", "score": "1.6483595" }, { "id": "9302446", "title": "Mother (1996 film)", "text": " Mother is a 1996 American comedy-drama film directed by Albert Brooks, co-written by Brooks with Monica Johnson, and starring Brooks and Debbie Reynolds as son and mother. Brooks portrays a novelist who moves back home with his mother after his second divorce, hoping to determine why all his relationships with women were unsuccessful. Mother was Reynolds's first major film role in over 20 years. The film earned positive reviews and was Brooks's most financially successful film as a director.", "score": "1.6477556" }, { "id": "14162196", "title": "Mother (opera)", "text": " Mother, op. 35 (Matka) is a quarter-tone opera in ten scenes by the Czech composer Alois Hába. It was completed in 1929 to the composer's own libretto; its plot is drawn from author's native Valašsko. The opera is written in prose.", "score": "1.6474817" }, { "id": "16378920", "title": "Mother's Milk (novel)", "text": " Mother's Milk is a novel by Edward St. Aubyn. The 279-page book is a sequel to the trilogy Some Hope that St. Aubyn wrote in the 1990s. Mother's Milk was written in 2006 and was short listed for the Booker Prize that year. It was republished in a single volume with Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope in 2012. All four novels are based on the author's life growing up in an upper-class English family and deal with issues including alcoholism, heroin addiction, parent-child relationships, and child molestation. In 2012, the book was adapted into a film directed by Gerry Fox and co-written by St. Aubyn. The film starred Jack Davenport, Adrian Dunbar, Diana Quick, and Margaret Tyzack.", "score": "1.6468707" } ]

[ "sitcom", "situational comedy", "situation comedy" ]

[ { "id": "10367332", "title": "My Funny Friend and Me", "text": " \"My Funny Friend and Me\" is a song by English musician Sting. It was written by Sting and David Hartley for Walt Disney Pictures' 40th animated feature film The Emperor's New Groove. When the film began development in 1994 under the title Kingdom of the Sun, Sting was hired to write the film's songs. Released in November 2000, the track reached 24 on the American Billboard Adult Contemporary Singles chart, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 73rd Academy Awards in 2001.", "score": "1.6258028" }, { "id": "14080517", "title": "A Friend of Mine (2006 film)", "text": " The soundtrack mixed acoustic rock and electronic music and included tracks by Gravenhurst, Talk Talk, Savath & Savalas and International Pony. Variety praised its quality. The musical landscape of this film is somewhat barren with very thin textures, often playing up the silence as a parallel to the quiet, isolated nature of main character Karl. Schipper specifically chose to use the music from the English band Gravenhurst because of their unique sound which is “a bit like Morriessey, sad, but still rocking.” Also used in the score for this film is the Lieder by Mahler, “ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” (I am lost to the world).", "score": "1.5252781" }, { "id": "31707908", "title": "My Friend (film)", "text": " My Friend (Mi socio) is a 1983 Bolivian drama film directed by Paolo Agazzi. It was entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival.", "score": "1.5161519" }, { "id": "32348996", "title": "Me and My Friend", "text": " Me and My Friend is an Irish television sitcom that aired on RTÉ Television for one series from 1967 to 1968. Starring actresses and comedians Maureen Potter and Rosaleen Linehan, it was RTÉ's first home-grown sitcom.", "score": "1.511406" }, { "id": "14080514", "title": "A Friend of Mine (2006 film)", "text": " Although music fills the cinematic void in a few scenes, the notions of naturalistic sounds are more of use; For example, the sounds of an empty train station or the sounds of moving cars in quiet garages. In addition, the absence of sound also is of use, emphasizing extreme loneliness of the characters feelings.", "score": "1.50142" }, { "id": "9947759", "title": "Friendship (2008 film)", "text": " Friendship (เฟรนด์ชิพ เธอกับฉัน) (also known as Friendship You and Me) is a 2008 Thai romantic drama film directed by Chatchai Naksuriya, starring Mario Maurer and Apinya Sakuljaroensuk (known for Ploy). The film, set in 1972, explores Singha and Mituna's love for each other; it opens in the present, before returning to their high-school days.", "score": "1.4989846" }, { "id": "8891610", "title": "My Friend (SG Wannabe album)", "text": " \"Lalala\" was SG Wannabe's title track for this album. Instead of a ballad track, \"Lalala\" had country-style tempo and was enjoyed by many fans.", "score": "1.4831605" }, { "id": "31307430", "title": "Matt Butcher Me and My Friends", "text": " Me and My Friends is a 2008 album by Matt Butcher, accompanied by \"The Revolvers\". The album received overwhelmingly positive reviews, including commentaries from the Orlando Weekly, The Daily Times and KillerPop.", "score": "1.4818947" }, { "id": "5932682", "title": "Natasha Friend", "text": "2004 - Perfect — Milkweed Editions ; 2006 - Lush — Scholastic Corporation ; 2009 - Bounce — Scholastic Corporation ; 2010 - For Keeps ; 2012 - My Life in Black and White ; 2016 - Where You'll Find Me ; 2017 - The Other F-Word ; 2018 - How We Roll ", "score": "1.47755" }, { "id": "27340742", "title": "The Friend (novel)", "text": " The unnamed narrator, a writer living in Manhattan, recalls the life and recent suicide of her best friend and mentor, also unnamed. Addressing him in the second person, she recounts her friend's three troubled marriages and his career as a college professor. The narrator reveals that the main point of contention between her and her friend involved his illicit affairs with his female students. The narrator meets with her friend's third wife, who asks her to adopt her friend's senior Great Dane, Apollo. The wife, whom the narrator calls \"Wife Three\", explains that Apollo appears to be in mourning and has been temporarily placed in a kennel. Recalling the story of Hachikō, ", "score": "1.4706726" }, { "id": "9142316", "title": "Your Friend and Mine", "text": " With no prints of Your Friend and Mine located in any film archives, it is a lost film.", "score": "1.4611428" }, { "id": "8601636", "title": "My Best Friend's Girl (novel)", "text": " My Best Friend's Girl is a 2006 novel by Dorothy Koomson. The book's sales were boosted when it was chosen for the Richard and Judy's Summer Reads shortlist. The novel is about a woman called Kamryn Matika, who finds out that her best friend, Adele, is dying of cancer. Adele wants Kamryn to adopt her five-year-old daughter, Tegan after she dies. The book deals with themes of death and grief, innocence and forgiveness. The title is drawn from the 1976 song \"My Best Friend's Girl\" by The Cars.", "score": "1.4602717" }, { "id": "13378534", "title": "Friend of Mine (Treble Charger song)", "text": " \"Friend of Mine\" is a song by Canadian alternative rock band Treble Charger. It was released in May 1997 as the lead single from the band's third studio album, Maybe It's Me. The song was used by ESPN as the theme music for the 1997 X Games Wakeboarding Championship.", "score": "1.4571748" }, { "id": "4724746", "title": "Hawk Nelson Is My Friend", "text": " In 2009, the album was nominated for a Dove Award for Recorded Music Packaging of the Year at the 40th GMA Dove Awards.", "score": "1.4568853" }, { "id": "26963661", "title": "My Friend the Chocolate Cake", "text": " My Friend the Chocolate Cake's music can be seen to straddle the worlds of ambient and world music, with an emphasis on piano and violin-led acoustic music. The band's collective musical influences are diverse and include: Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Irish and Scottish folk music, Joy Division, Arvo Pärt, and folk / pop / rock performers such as Billy Bragg, Talk Talk, John Cale and Michelle Shocked.", "score": "1.4531326" }, { "id": "7934003", "title": "My Friend (Oblivia song)", "text": " \"My Friend\" is a song by Australian pop band Oblivia. It was released in May 2000 as the group's debut single and lead single from their album, The Careless Ones (2001). The song peaked at number 35 on the ARIA charts. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2000, Steve James won the ARIA Award for Producer of the Year and ARIA Award for Engineer of the Year for \"My Friend\".", "score": "1.4469764" }, { "id": "10064565", "title": "My Tutor Friend", "text": " Comparisons were made to My Sassy Girl (2001), another successful romantic comedy about young people who came from different backgrounds, that was originally serialized on the Internet. Though criticized for its over-long second half and using predictable rom-com tropes, the film was praised for its witty dialogue and avoiding melodrama, and the chemistry and charismatic performances of its two lead actors.", "score": "1.4456521" }, { "id": "4631914", "title": "Verity Bargate Award", "text": "Me and My Friend, by Gillian Plowman ; Obeah, by Michele Celeste ; Here is Monster, by Brock Norman Brock ", "score": "1.4383924" }, { "id": "5104243", "title": "My Best Friend (2006 film)", "text": " In 2008, producer Brian Grazer hired Wes Anderson to write the script for an English-language remake of My Best Friend; Anderson completed a draft for the script, with the film tentatively called The Rosenthaler Suite, in 2009.", "score": "1.4339876" }, { "id": "10994024", "title": "My Friend the Polish Girl", "text": " The film had a cinema release in the UK on July 19, 2019 by Republic Distribution and later on November 29, 2019 in the USA by Subliminal Films.", "score": "1.429422" } ]

[ "fantasy", "fantasy fiction" ]

[ { "id": "29147825", "title": "Unknown (1988 anthology)", "text": " Unknown is an anthology of fantasy fiction short stories edited by Stanley Schmidt, the fifth of a number of anthologies drawing their contents from the classic magazine Unknown of the 1930s-1940s. It was first published in paperback by Baen Books in October 1988. The book collects nine tales by various authors, together with an introduction by the editor.", "score": "1.7506135" }, { "id": "5522600", "title": "The Unknown (novel)", "text": " The Unknown is the fourteenth book in the Animorphs series, written by K.A. Applegate. It is narrated by Cassie.", "score": "1.720634" }, { "id": "26195124", "title": "The Unknown Known", "text": " The Unknown Known was screened in the main competition section at the 70th Venice International Film Festival, and premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 29, 2013.", "score": "1.7000587" }, { "id": "3696153", "title": "Unknown (magazine)", "text": " Unknown (also known as Unknown Worlds) was an American pulp fantasy fiction magazine, published from 1939 to 1943 by Street & Smith, and edited by John W. Campbell. Unknown was a companion to Street & Smith's science fiction pulp, Astounding Science Fiction, which was also edited by Campbell at the time; many authors and illustrators contributed to both magazines. The leading fantasy magazine in the 1930s was Weird Tales, which focused on shock and horror. Campbell wanted to publish a fantasy magazine with more finesse and humor than Weird Tales, and put his plans into action when Eric Frank Russell sent him the manuscript of his novel Sinister Barrier, about aliens who own the human race. Unknowns first issue appeared ", "score": "1.6848031" }, { "id": "5600880", "title": "Unknown (2011 film)", "text": " Unknown was screened out of competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. It was released in the United States on 18 February 2011.", "score": "1.6541932" }, { "id": "26830533", "title": "The Unknown (Madeline Juno album)", "text": " The Unknown is the first album by German singer-songwriter Madeline Juno. It was released on March 7, 2014, by Polydor and peaked at number 24 on the German album charts.", "score": "1.6449087" }, { "id": "29147683", "title": "The Unknown (1963 anthology)", "text": " The Unknown is an anthology of fantasy fiction short stories edited by D. R. Bensen and illustrated by Edd Cartier, the second of a number of anthologies drawing their contents from the American magazine Unknown of the 1930s-1940s. It was first published in paperback by Pyramid Books in April 1963. It was reprinted by the same publisher in October 1970, and by Jove/HBJ in August 1978 A companion anthology, The Unknown Five, was issued in 1964. The book collects eleven tales by various authors, together with a foreword by Isaac Asimov and an introduction by the editor.", "score": "1.6313263" }, { "id": "25716540", "title": "Hitchcockian", "text": "Unknown (2011) ", "score": "1.629935" }, { "id": "12614739", "title": "The Unknown Photographer", "text": " The Unknown Photographer (French: Le photographe inconnu) is a 2015 Quebec virtual reality work based around found photographs of World War I, co-produced by the digital production agency Turbulent and the National Film Board of Canada's French-language Digital Studio, both located in Montreal. The lead artists on the project were Loïc Suty (director, sound designer, scriptwriter), Osman Zeki (lead developer, 3D modeler) and Claudine Matte (art director). The work was produced by Claire Buffet and Louis-Richard Tremblay, with executive producers Marc Beaudet, Benoit Beauséjour and Hugues Sweeney.", "score": "1.6299114" }, { "id": "3696155", "title": "Unknown (magazine)", "text": " Other notable works included several novels by L. Ron Hubbard and short stories such as Manly Wade Wellman's \"When It Was Moonlight\" and Fritz Leiber's \"Two Sought Adventure\", the first in his Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series. Unknown was forced to a bimonthly schedule in 1941 by poor sales and canceled in 1943 when wartime paper shortages became so acute that Campbell had to choose between turning Astounding into a bimonthly or ending Unknown. The magazine is generally regarded as the finest fantasy fiction magazine ever published, despite the fact that it was not commercially successful, and in the opinion of science fiction historian Mike Ashley it was responsible for the creation of the modern fantasy publishing genre.", "score": "1.6286108" }, { "id": "4960945", "title": "Worlds Unknown", "text": " Worlds Unknown was a science-fiction comic book published by American company Marvel Comics in the 1970s, which adapted classic short stories of that genre, including works by Frederik Pohl, Harry Bates, and Theodore Sturgeon.", "score": "1.6268437" }, { "id": "29147826", "title": "Unknown (1988 anthology)", "text": "\"Introduction\" (Stanley Schmidt) ; \"The Compleat Werewolf\" (Anthony Boucher (Unknown Worlds, Apr. 1942) ; \"The Coppersmith\" (Lester del Rey (Unknown, Sep. 1939) ; \"A God in a Garden\" (Theodore Sturgeon (Unknown, Oct. 1939) ; \"Even the Angels\" (Malcolm Jameson (Unknown Fantasy Fiction, Aug. 1941) ; \"Smoke Ghost\" (Fritz Leiber (Unknown Worlds, Oct. 1941) ; \"Nothing in the Rules\" (L. Sprague de Camp ((Unknown, Jul. 1939) ; \"A Good Knight's Work\" (Robert Bloch (Unknown Worlds, Oct. 1941) ; \"The Devil We Know\" (Henry Kuttner (Unknown Fantasy Fiction, Aug. 1941) ; \"The Angelic Angleworm\" (Fredric Brown (Unknown Worlds, Feb. 1943) ", "score": "1.626587" }, { "id": "30755422", "title": "The Most Known Unknown", "text": " The Most Known Unknown is a DVD recorded by The Acacia Strain on December 28, 2008, in Worcester, Massachusetts at The Palladium. The band shared the stage with The Red Chord, Whitechapel, Shipwreck AD, Cruel Hand, and Thy Will Be Done.", "score": "1.6250066" }, { "id": "2487048", "title": "Noh Matta Wat!", "text": " Unknown.", "score": "1.6195085" }, { "id": "28471854", "title": "The Unknown (song)", "text": " \"The Unknown\" is a song by American rock band 10 Years. It was their second single off of their ninth studio album, Violent Allies. It peaked on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart at number 20 in August 2021.", "score": "1.6181928" }, { "id": "5600871", "title": "Unknown (2011 film)", "text": " Unknown is a 2011 action-thriller film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and starring Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Aidan Quinn, Bruno Ganz, and Frank Langella. The film, produced by Joel Silver, Leonard Goldberg and Andrew Rona, is based on the 2003 French novel by Didier Van Cauwelaert published in English as Out of My Head which was adapted as the film's screenplay by Oliver Butcher and Stephen Cornwell. The narrative centers around a professor who wakes up from a four-day long coma and sets out to prove his identity after no one recognizes him, including his own wife, and another man claims to be him. Released on 18 February 2011, the film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $136 million against its $30 million budget.", "score": "1.6176343" }, { "id": "26853920", "title": "The Big Unknown", "text": " \"The Big Unknown\" is a song by the English singer Sade released in 2018. The song is featured in the motion picture Widows directed by Steve McQueen (director) and centered on four women forced to pull off a robbery to pay a large criminal debt left behind by their late husbands. The film, which was adapted from the UK crime series of the same name, stars Viola Davis, Daniel Kaluuya, and Robert Duvall. Along with the songs by Sade and Nina Simone (\"Wild Is the Wind\"), the official soundtrack to Widows features an original score written by Hans Zimmer.", "score": "1.6123519" }, { "id": "3696172", "title": "Unknown (magazine)", "text": " direct descendants of Unknown. Unknown is widely regarded as the finest fantasy magazine ever published: Ashley says, for example, that \"Unknown published without doubt the greatest collection of fantasy stories produced in one magazine.\" Despite its lack of commercial success, Unknown is the most lamented of all science fiction and fantasy magazines; Lester del Rey describes it as having gained \"a devotion from its readers that no other magazine can match\". Edwards comments that Unknown \"appeared during Campbell's peak years as an editor; its reputation may stand as high as it does partly because it died while still at its best\".", "score": "1.609443" }, { "id": "28917237", "title": "The Unknown (1927 film)", "text": " The Unknown is a 1927 American silent horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney as carnival knife thrower \"Alonzo the Armless\" and Joan Crawford as his beloved carnival girl Nanon. The Unknown is considered the most unique and disturbing of the eight films that Tod Browning and Lon Chaney made together at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in the late silent era. Lon Chaney’s rendering of character Alfonzo and the horrific self-mutilation he endures to win the love of Nonan is reminiscent of the theatre of the Grand Guignol.", "score": "1.6030383" }, { "id": "3696171", "title": "Unknown (magazine)", "text": " attention, though on occasion writers such as James Branch Cabell had achieved respectability. In Ashley's opinion, Unknown created the modern genre of fantasy, though commercial success for the genre had to wait until the 1970s. Clareson also suggests that Unknown influenced the science fiction that appeared in Astounding after Unknown folded. According to this view, stories such as Clifford Simak's City series would not have appeared without the destruction of genre boundaries that Campbell oversaw. Clareson further proposes that Galaxy Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, two of the most important and successful science fiction and fantasy magazines, ", "score": "1.5982792" } ]

[ "country music", "country and western", "country & western", "country", "Nashville sound" ]

[ { "id": "9405501", "title": "Reach (Jacky Terrasson album)", "text": " Reach is a studio album by German jazz pianist Jacky Terrasson released in 1995 by Blue Note label. This is his second album for Blue Note. The album is a collection of five originals written by Terrasson and three jazz standards.", "score": "1.6615455" }, { "id": "26731032", "title": "The Reach", "text": " \"The Reach\" is a short story by American writer Stephen King. First published in Yankee in 1981 under the title \"Do the Dead Sing?\", it was later collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew.", "score": "1.5975827" }, { "id": "29141650", "title": "Reached", "text": " Reached is a 2012 young adult dystopian novel by Allyson Braithwaite Condie and is the final novel in the Matched Trilogy, preceded by Matched and Crossed. The novel was published on November 13, 2012 by Dutton Juvenile and was set to have a first printing of 500,000 copies. The novel is told from the viewpoints of Cassia, Ky, and Xander, a point that Condie insisted on. The plot follows the experiences of the three protagonists with the rising of the rebellion against the Society, the race to find the cure against a plague of mysterious origin, and discovering the real intentions of the Rising. Critical reception of the novel was positive and it reached No. 6 on USA Today's Best Selling Books list in 2012.", "score": "1.5809674" }, { "id": "29263783", "title": "Sin Vergüenza (116 album)", "text": " In May 2021, it was announced that Reach would make an alliance with Netflix for the musicalization of the movie Blue Miracle. The songs on the album are used to set the film, in addition to other songs by artists of Latin descent such as Gawvi and Whatuprg.", "score": "1.5695004" }, { "id": "31797982", "title": "Reach (Meredith Edwards album)", "text": " Reach is the only album by American country music artist Meredith Edwards. It was released in 2001 by Mercury Nashville and peaked at No. 24 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. The album includes the singles \"A Rose Is a Rose\" and \"The Bird Song.\" Keith Stegall produced the album, except for \"Ready to Fall\" (featured on the On the Line soundtrack and in its theatrical trailer) and \"This Is the Heartache\" (produced by Richard Marx), and \"The Bird Song\", \"You Get to Me\", \"But I Can't Let You Go\", and \"You\" (produced by Robin Wiley).", "score": "1.5457819" }, { "id": "9257431", "title": "Reach (Survivor album)", "text": " Reach is the eighth and most recent studio album from rock band Survivor, released under Frontiers Records on 25 April 2006. This is the band's first album in 18 years. Some of the material originates from a period from 1993 to 1996 when the band recorded demos for an unreleased album that can be heard on the Fire Makes Steel bootleg. By this time, Frankie Sullivan was the only original member of Survivor, as Jim Peterik left the band in 1996. Following the release of this album singer Jimi Jamison left Survivor as well, though he subsequently reunited with them in 2012. Ultimately, this turned out to be his final album with the band, due to his death in 2014.", "score": "1.5253832" }, { "id": "31381381", "title": "Reaching (album)", "text": " Reaching is the third and last studio album by the American Christian duo LaRue formed by the siblings Natalie LaRue and Phillip LaRue, released on October 8, 2002.", "score": "1.5221078" }, { "id": "32838839", "title": "Star Reach (video game)", "text": " The purpose of the game is to lead one of seven species (humans and six other alien species) in a race to rule the universe, one galaxy at a time.", "score": "1.518396" }, { "id": "1489777", "title": "Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)", "text": " Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) is the debut album by alternative hip hop group Digable Planets released on February 9, 1993, by Pendulum/Elektra Records. The album has been certified Gold in the US by the RIAA.", "score": "1.5085217" }, { "id": "853005", "title": "Reach for the Stars (video game)", "text": " Reach for the Stars is a science fiction strategy video game. It is the earliest known commercially published example of the 4X genre. It was written by Roger Keating and Ian Trout of SSG of Australia and published in 1983 for the Commodore 64 and then the Apple II in 1985. Version 3 added an MS-DOS port, though it did not share all of the features of the other platforms. The game was eventually ported to pre-Mac OS X versions of the Macintosh operating system, such as System 6. It was also ported to the Amiga and Apple II GS, from the Mac OS version. The player ", "score": "1.5073807" }, { "id": "4452543", "title": "Maximum Fun", "text": " The Outer Reach was a limited scifi anthology series meant to imitate the style of science fiction of the 50s and 60s. Originally a bonus feed for donors of Maximum Fun, it was released publicly on May 8th, 2020.", "score": "1.5070515" }, { "id": "8556576", "title": "Halo: Reach", "text": " addressing old story threads. As the game would take place on a human world doomed to be destroyed, they focused on making the environment a character unto itself. Longtime Halo composers Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori returned to compose Reachs music, aiming for a more somber sound to match the story. Reach was announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2009 in Los Angeles, California, and the first in-engine trailer was shown at the 2009 Spike Video Game Awards. Players who purchased ODST were eligible to participate in a Reach multiplayer beta in May 2010; the beta allowed Bungie to gain player feedback for fixing bugs and making gameplay tweaks before shipping the final version. Microsoft gave Reach its biggest game marketing budget yet and ", "score": "1.5069113" }, { "id": "2956586", "title": "Reach (comics)", "text": " The Reach were a race of world conquerors. Their actions eventually brought them into conflict with the Green Lantern Corps, the two sides eventually fighting to a stalemate. The Corps' leaders, the Guardians of the Universe forced The Reach into a truce, making them promise never to invade any other planets. The Reach agreed to this, and then devised a new method of conquest: infiltration. By sending an Infiltrator scarab to the targeted world, and having it bond with and overwhelm the mind of one of its native lifeforms, The Reach could use it as a faux ambassador, pretending that they sent the scarab to help the people of the targeted world, as a gesture of ", "score": "1.4991969" }, { "id": "2956584", "title": "Reach (comics)", "text": " The Reach are a villainous race of cybernetic insectoid aliens in the DC Comics universe. They are unintentionally responsible for the creation of the dynasty of superheroes known as the Blue Beetles.", "score": "1.4955227" }, { "id": "853016", "title": "Reach for the Stars (video game)", "text": " A series of books was written in 2018 by the game company Greentwip, called Interstellar, Anatomy and The Garlan Wars. While its publication is still ongoing, it is being said that a TV channel would produce cinematographic films out of the books. This happened after Greentwip's founder got deep into the story and proposed to give a better and linear approach to all the species that the game aims to deliver to the player, in order to become a better \"pure Sci-Fi\" experience.", "score": "1.4931209" }, { "id": "9405504", "title": "Reach (Jacky Terrasson album)", "text": "Jacky Terrasson – piano ; Ugonna Okegwo – bass ; Leon Parker – drums ", "score": "1.4780676" }, { "id": "9405503", "title": "Reach (Jacky Terrasson album)", "text": " last year, but his new piano trio recording, \"Reach,\" lives up to its title by stretching Terrasson's emotional range considerably. The new album has passages that are simply decorous or exhibitionist, but it also has many more moments in which the pianist captures the joy or the melancholy of the moment in his quicksilver phrases and rhythmic shifts.\" The Buffalo News review by Jeff Simon observed, \"...Terrasson got roped into trying out a new recording process designed to maximize spontaneous interaction. As promising as the process may be, it seems to have distracted Terrasson a bit from the music itself.\"", "score": "1.4741278" }, { "id": "32838838", "title": "Star Reach (video game)", "text": " Star Reach is a real-time strategy video game for MS-DOS released by Interplay in 1994. It was published as Space Federation in Europe.", "score": "1.4638511" }, { "id": "13956991", "title": "Ray Reach", "text": " Raymond Everett Reach, Jr. (born August 3, 1948) is an American pianist, vocalist, guitarist, composer, arranger, music producer, and educator, named by AL.com as one of \"30 Alabamians who changed jazz history.\" He serves as President and CEO of Ray Reach Music and Magic City Music Productions. Reach has performed and recorded in various genres, including pop, R&B, Motown/soul, gospel, rock, classic rock, country (contemporary and traditional), contemporary Christian, classical, and jazz music, but is perhaps best known for his work in jazz, combining jazz piano stylings with Sinatra-style vocals. He resides in Birmingham, Alabama.", "score": "1.4577572" }, { "id": "26731037", "title": "The Reach", "text": " \"The Reach\" has been adapted by artist Glenn Chadbourne for the book The Secretary of Dreams, a collection of comics based on King's short fiction released by Cemetery Dance in December 2006. It was turned into a short film that was shown in the Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018 produced by Landon Kestinger and Iona MacRitchie.", "score": "1.4494762" } ]

[ "landscape art", "landscape painting", "landscape" ]

[ { "id": "11232657", "title": "Elias Childe", "text": "Attribution ", "score": "1.845093" }, { "id": "11232654", "title": "Elias Childe", "text": " Elias Childe (1778–1849) was a British landscape painter. He was a prolific artist, working both in oils and watercolours.", "score": "1.8040202" }, { "id": "11232656", "title": "Elias Childe", "text": " Childe exhibited upwards of 500 pictures at the exhibitions of the Society of British Artists, the Royal Academy, and the British Institution. His pictures were popular, and sold well. He particularly excelled in moonlight effects, and an example of that style went to the National Gallery of British Art at South Kensington.", "score": "1.7183067" }, { "id": "3651549", "title": "Elias (singer)", "text": " of banjo-guitar and the lyrics, optimistic, are in the true French music tradition of years 2000. At the beginning of 2014, in order to record and to promote his 2nd LP; with 11 titles, he signed up on My Major Company, the crowdfunding site. If he is still composing musics, he makes sure of the support of many writers such as Sabine Cardinal, Iza Loris, Daria de Martynoff, Jacques Roure, Maurice Vallet, Christian Vié or François Welgryn. For this new LP, the pop with electro strains music had been largely influenced by Anglo-Saxon bands, such as Muse or Coldplay, that Elias had been listening to.", "score": "1.5301659" }, { "id": "11232655", "title": "Elias Childe", "text": " He was elder brother to the artist James Warren Childe and Henry Langdon Childe who developed the magic lantern. He first exhibited in 1798 at the Royal Academy, when he was living at 29 Compton Street, Soho, with his brother James. He concentrated on landscape, a field in which he was a success. In 1825 he was elected a fellow of the Society of British Artists. Childe exhibited for the last time in 1848, and died in 1849.", "score": "1.4701937" }, { "id": "31147935", "title": "Abigail Child", "text": " video documentary On The Downlow (2007)), is an exploration of bisexuality and an intimate look at a little-viewed underground scene. In 2012, Child completed a feature film, Shape of Error, an imaginary “home movie” based on the diaries of Mary Shelley during her marriage with Percy Shelley. Child is also the author of five books of poetry (published between 1983 and 2012) and a book of critical writings: This Is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics of Film (2005). A collection of writings by various authors on Is This What You Were Born For?, including a DVD of the film series, was published in 2011.", "score": "1.4487791" }, { "id": "32003653", "title": "Childe Cycle", "text": " The Childe Cycle is an unfinished series of science fiction novels by Canadian writer Gordon R. Dickson. The name Childe Cycle is an allusion to \"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came\", a poem by Robert Browning, which provided considerable inspiration for elements in Dickson's magnum opus. The series is sometimes referred to as the Dorsai series, as the Dorsai people are central to the series. The related short stories and novellas all center on the Dorsai, primarily members of the Graeme and Morgan families. While, on the face of it, the Childe Cycle is a science fiction series, it is also an allegory. In addition to the six science fiction novels of the Cycle, Dickson had also planned three historical novels and three novels taking place in the present ", "score": "1.4454637" }, { "id": "15685334", "title": "Schlafes Bruder", "text": " The protagonist, Johannes Elias Alder, called Elias, is born in a small mountain village in Vorarlberg. He is a gifted musician, training his voice and able to imitate all villagers. Peter, his cousin of about the same age, is fascinated by him. Elias secretly practises the organ at night, with Peter assisting him. When the boys are twelve years old, Peter, who is abused by his father, sets fire to his parents' farm on Christmas Day. Elias, who discovers the flames first, rescues Peter's sister Elsbeth. More than half the village burns down during the fire. Elias doesn't tell anyone that Peter was the perpetrator of the fire, for love of his only friend. Elias grows up to a good-looking and ambitious young man. After the organist and teacher ", "score": "1.4416432" }, { "id": "32743052", "title": "Tore Elias Hoel", "text": " Tore Elias Hoel (born 14 December 1953 in Harstad, Norway) is a Norwegian poet, author and children's author.", "score": "1.4415343" }, { "id": "8981638", "title": "Utopia (Child novel)", "text": " Utopia (ISBN: 0-385-50668-6) is the first solo novel by Lincoln Child published in 2002. It is set in a futuristic amusement park called Utopia, a park that relies heavily on holographics and robotics. Dr. Andrew Warne, the man who designed the program that runs the park's robots, is called in to help fix a problem. But when he gets there, he finds out that the park is being held hostage by a mysterious man known as John Doe.", "score": "1.4354367" }, { "id": "31147934", "title": "Abigail Child", "text": " St. Petersburg. In the 21st century, Child's film and video has explored history, memory, and cultural experiences—the politics of place and identity. Digital works like Cake + Steak (2004) and The Future Is Behind You (2005) investigate the awkward drama of the everyday, often utilizing found material to examine the past. Mirror World (2006) is a multi-screen installation that incorporates parts of Child's “foreign film” series to explore narrative excess. Key works include Surface Noise (2000), Dark Dark (2001), Where The Girls Are (2002), Cake and Steak (2004), The Future Is Behind You (2004), To and No Fro (2005), and Mirror World (2006). Her ", "score": "1.4168305" }, { "id": "10636895", "title": "Elias (band)", "text": " Elias is a Swedish rock band formed in 2004-2005 and consisting of Fredrik Andersson, Pascal Bjerrehus, Jens Magnusson and Christoffer Olsson. They were signed to various record labels, including Pama Records, Rivendale Records and Universal Music. Shine, their debut album, released in June 2006 and produced by Peps Persson, followed their initial 2005 hit single \"Sayonara\". However it was \"Who's da Man\", featuring 7-year-old singer Frans Jeppsson-Wall, that catapulted the band to great fame when the song became the biggest summer hit of 2006 in Sweden. They also produced the record. They repeated the accomplishment with \"Fotbollsfest\", another collaboration with Frans, that again reached #1 in Sweden.", "score": "1.4160104" }, { "id": "2805236", "title": "Harald Kidde", "text": " Harald Henrik Sager Kidde (14 August 1878 in Vejle – 23 November 1918 in Copenhagen) was a Danish writer and brother of the politician Aage Kidde. He is best known for the novel Helten (The Hero), which is one of the key novels in Danish literature. Kidde died of Spanish flu in 1918. He was only 40 years old at the time. There is an extensive Kidde-archive at Vejle Town Archive.", "score": "1.4124277" }, { "id": "8803996", "title": "Childe (surname)", "text": "Elias Childe, English painter ; Henry Langdon Childe, English entertainer ; James Warren Childe, English painter ; Vere Gordon Childe, Australian philologist and archaeologist ; Wilfred Rowland Childe, British poet and critic Childe Hassam ; Childe or Tartaglia, a fictional character from Genshin Impact Childe can be a surname. Notable people with the surname include: As a given name it may refer to: ", "score": "1.4118783" }, { "id": "3868706", "title": "In a Better World", "text": " from cancer, and Christian blames his father for lying to him that she would get well, and that, in a late stage of her disease, he \"wanted\" her to die. Elias is bullied at school, until he is defended by Christian, who assaults the main bully and threatens him with a knife. Christian gives Elias the knife, and both boys lie to the police, and their parents, about the incident. When Anton separates his younger son from another child, while they are fighting at a playground, the father of the other child, a mechanic, tells Anton not to touch his child and slaps Anton ", "score": "1.4103682" }, { "id": "11353454", "title": "John Reppion", "text": "\"The Childe of Hale\" (Fortean Times No. 187, September 2004) ; \"Suspension of Disbelief: The Great Yarmouth Bridge Disaster of 1845\" (The Anomalist No. 13, 2007) ", "score": "1.4058344" }, { "id": "3009025", "title": "Jonathan Elias", "text": " Elias was born in New York City in 1956. He started playing piano at the age of six, and was composing his own music by twelve, inspired in part by Broadway musicals. He liked rock music, but also admired Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. He attended the Eastman School of Music with aspirations of becoming a classical composer and conductor, and then Bennington College in Vermont in 1976. While still in school, he cut his teeth doing the music for movie trailers, most notably Alien, and later scored the trailers for Blade Runner, Gandhi, and Back to the Future. He went on to work on numerous movie soundtracks, starting with Children of the Corn and including Tuff Turf, Parents, Chaplin, and more.", "score": "1.4021899" }, { "id": "12466952", "title": "Elias Uzamukunda", "text": " Elias Uzamukunda (born 15 May 1991) is a Rwandan professional footballer who last played as a striker for Avoine OCC. In his home country of Rwanda, he is known as \"Baby\".", "score": "1.4016364" }, { "id": "10636896", "title": "Elias (band)", "text": "2006: Shine ", "score": "1.3982921" }, { "id": "6211162", "title": "Tim Wynne-Jones", "text": " Tim Wynne-Jones, (born 12 August 1948) is an English–Canadian author of children's literature, including picture books and novels for children and young adults, novels for adults, radio dramas, songs for the CBC/Jim Henson production Fraggle Rock, as well as a children's musical and an opera libretto. For his contribution as a children's writer he was Canada's nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2012.", "score": "1.3899343" } ]