“Something Went Wrong”

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-26
Author(s):  
Joseph B. Atkins
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Early Years ◽  
The Family ◽  
The City ◽  
Early Formative ◽  
Formative Years

Harry Dean Stanton spent early formative years in West Irvine in central Kentucky, a land explored by Daniel Boone, torn by the Civil War, long dependent on tobacco, textiles, and for a time oil, first carried to markets by flatboats and later by railroad. Sheridan "Shorty" Stanton was a North Carolinian who grew tobacco and operated a barbershop. The much younger Ersel Moberly married him at least in part to get away from her crowded household only to find herself soon in another with three strapping boys and later Shorty's two daughters from an earlier marriage. It would be too much, and she abandoned the family, leaving a nearly lifelong legacy of tension in her relationship with her oldest son, Harry Dean. However, he inherited from her and his father's family a love of music, expressed in his early years in a barbershop quartet that included his brothers. After a disastrous stint down in Shorty's native North Carolina, the family returned to Kentucky, this time to the city of Lexington, where Harry Dean would attend high school and after military service college. By that time, Ersel had left, and Shorty was barbering fulltime.

Johannes Martin Bijvoet, 23 January 1892 - 4 March 1980

1983 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 26-41 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Blast Furnace ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Early Age ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Family ◽  
The City ◽  
Harmonious Family

Johannes Martin Bijvoet* was born on 23 January 1892 in Amsterdam. His father, Willem Frederik Bijvoet, owned a dye factory. His mother was Barendina Margaretha Ruefer. He was the third of four sons in a harmonious family. His eldest brother, Willem Frederik, became a well known gynaecologist; his second brother, Bernard, became a famous architect; and his youngest brother, Frederik, succeeded his father in the management of the dye factory. The family lived in a traditional old house on the banks of one of his beloved Amsterdam’s many canals, the Binnenkant. In addition, they owned a small summer house in the dunes near IJmuiden, which was, in Bijvoet’s own words, ‘unequalled for romantic beauty, but in later years wiped out by the extension of a blast furnace site, so that even at an early age I met with the reverse of industrial blessing’. From 1897 to 1903 young Bijvoet went to the primary school ‘Zeemanshoop’ (sailor’s hope) at the Prins Hendrikkade, and from 1903 to 1908 he attended secondary school, the ‘Eerste vijfjarige HBS’ (literally: first five-year higher civil school) on the Keizersgracht. From these early years, spent in the old centre of the city, dated his lifelong attachment to Amsterdam .

The Honouring of the Legio Chief Physician L. Hortensius Paulinus

Belleten ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 80 (289) ◽  
pp. 719-740
Author(s):  
Abdurrahman Uzunaslan
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
Interesting Aspect ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
Danube Basin ◽  
Marcus Aurelius ◽  
Chief Physician ◽  
The City

An inscription dated to the beginning of the 3rd century AD, and found within the city limits of Antiocheia in 2011, honors the legion Chief Physician L. Hortensius Paulinus, who is believed to have settled in the city following his retirement. According to this inscription, L. Hortensius Paulinus assumed highly important public offices and duties in the city. This person had also served in the legio IV Flavia Felix and Legio II Italica, although the legion with which he first arrived to the East, as well as his exact assignment within these two legions, remain unclear. Possible reasons for his presence in the East might have been the exacerbation of the war between the Roman and Parthia Empires towards the end of the 2nd century AD, or the civil war between Septimius Severus and Pescennius Niger since most of the legions from the Danube Basin and the Balkan Peninsula had sided with Septimius Severus during this civil war, including legio IV Flavia Felix and the Legio II Italica. The chronological order and content of the inscription suggest that L. Hortensius Paulinus had most likely traveled to the East with the legio II Italica due to the civil war; if this was indeed the case, L. Hortensius Paulinus must have arrived to the East in 193/4 AD at the earliest. The fact that the legio II Italica created by Marcus Aurelius was entirely constituted of solders from Northern Italy is strong evidence that L. Hortensius Paulinus and his family were native to this region. Another interesting aspect concerning this document is the fact that it is the first inscription found within Antiocheia mentioning the legions IV Flavia Felix and II Italica. Therefore, this new inscription not only demonstrates the presence of officials belonging to these legions in Antiocheia, but also clarifies a disputed and unclear aspect of the inscription regarding C. Flavonius Paullinus Lollianus published by Byrne-Labarre in 2006. Finally, the new inscriptions found within the city suggest that members of the legio II Italica who participated in civil wars or the Parthian campaign in the East might have settled in Antiocheia at the end of their military service.

The City of Paradise, Regained

Los Romeros ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 27-57
Author(s):  
Walter Aaron Clark
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Franco Regime ◽  
Paradise Regained ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Republic ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The City

In 1919 the family returned to Spain, soon settling in the city of Málaga. Here young Celedonio fell in love with the guitar and devoted himself to study and performance. In 1934 he married Angelita, a voice student at the local conservatory, where he was also studying. But the outside world intruded on his life and career with the outbreak of civil war in 1936, the year in which Celin was born. Celedonio was drafted first into the loyalist and then the nationalist armies but avoided combat. With the defeat of the republic in 1939, the republican Romero family had to adjust to new realities. Celedonio rebooted his career and was soon concertizing all over Spain, at the cost of compromising with the Franco regime. This was necessary given his growing family: Pepe was born in 1944 and Angel, 1946.

The Family Man

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-40
Author(s):  
Rachel Hammersley
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Limited Range ◽  
Early Years ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Connections ◽  
The Relationship

After setting out the limited range of sources available that provide information on Harrington’s life, Chapter 1 explores his family connections and early years. Detail is provided on his immediate family background and the close interaction between him and his siblings as reflected in testamentary evidence. Attention is also paid to the origins of the relationship between the Harrington family and the Stuarts, especially Charles I’s sister Princess Elizabeth, later Queen of Bohemia. The chapter traces Harrington’s early life from his birth in Northamptonshire in 1611 through to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642. It examines, in particular, his education at Trinity College Oxford and the Middle Temple, and his European tour.

No red lines: the question of western military intervention

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Regime Change ◽  
Military Intervention ◽  
Late Summer ◽  
Military Action ◽  
Us Military ◽  
Syrian Civil War ◽  
The Us ◽  
Early Formative ◽  
Formative Years

This chapter analyses the question of western intervention and why no state deployed its military to bring about regime change in Syria. It explores why the Syria conflict attracted so little direct military intervention in its early, formative years, especially by the US. The ‘nonstrike’ of late summer 2013 was something of a watershed in the Syrian civil war. Until that point, some form of military intervention led by the US, modelled on the actions in Libya in 2011, seemed a realistic prospect to many of the key actors and impacted their behaviour. But afterwards, most recognised that US military action against Assad was unlikely. While Obama did eventually authorise direct military action in Syria in September 2014, it was against ISIS, not Assad.

David Graham Lloyd. 20 June 1937 — 30 May 2007

2007 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 203-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spencer C. H. Barrett ◽  
Deborah Charlesworth
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Identical Twin ◽  
Twin Brother ◽  
The Family ◽  
Country Life ◽  
Long Jump

David Graham Lloyd was born on 20 June 1937 at Manaia, Taranaki, New Zealand, slightly ahead of his identical twin brother, Peter. The births caused surprise to the family because twins were not expected. His father was a dairy farmer, and David's early years were immersed in country life and helping on the farm. David's mother died of cancer when he was eight years old and his father brought up the twins, as well as his elder siblings, Judith and Trevor, with the help of their grandparents, who farmed next door. Although the death of their mother was a sad loss, David seems to have had a happy childhood and to have excelled at primary school before moving to boarding school with Peter in 1950. At New Plymouth Boys High School, David was most interested in the sciences and also in sports, for which the school was well known. Although relatively small in stature, he played in the first team at rugby, was a tenacious tackler, and also excelled at sprinting and long jump.

A Child of Destiny or a Nobody without Identity, 1910–1926

Pauli Murray ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Troy R. Saxby
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Sudden Death ◽  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Black Racial Identity ◽  
The Family

This chapter describes Pauli Murray’s childhood. At age three Murray moved from Baltimore to Durham, North Carolina, to live with her maternal relations following her mother’s sudden death. Murray endured another childhood trauma when a white attendant brutally murdered her father while he was confined to Crownsville Asylum for the Negro Insane. Jim Crow segregation created many more hardships and complications for Murray and her maternal family. Murray’s grandmother was descended from slaves and slave owners. Her grandfather fought for the Union in the Civil War. Both grandparents and many of their descendants could pass as white, but still embraced a black racial identity. The family subscribed to black uplift ideology: they prized education and adhered to middle-class values but also demonstrated ‘colorism.’

Autumn 1652

1652 ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 215-258
Author(s):  
David Parrott
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Military Service ◽  
The Other ◽  
High Price ◽  
Louis Xiv ◽  
Outright Rejection ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The City ◽  
Missed Opportunity

The chapter pursues two main narratives. It describes the near destruction of the royalist army commanded by Turenne, blockaded south of Paris by the combined forces of Condé, Lorraine, and allied Spanish troops. Turenne’s success in escaping this trap and freeing his army to disrupt Condé’s positions around Paris precipitated Condé’s October decision to move his forces eastwards to establish himself on the French frontiers. Meanwhile, the last and most extensive phase of negotiations for a settlement between Mazarin and Condé had been unfolding. The exceptionally generous concessions offered to Condé and his party during this phase were overwhelmingly driven by Mazarin’s concern that he would otherwise be consigned to permanent exile, blocked from re-entering France. The failure of the negotiations owed little to notions that Mazarin was playing a game of masterly duplicity, but reflected the outright rejection of Mazarin’s extensive concessions by the queen and many at court and government, who considered them an unacceptably high price for securing a settlement. One consequence was the missed opportunity to prevent Condé’s move into Spanish military service. The other was the erosion of Mazarin’s standing—he was still trapped on the frontiers when Louis XIV and the court moved back into Paris to receive the allegiance of the city and its institutions and to bring the civil war to an end. The price of the failure to secure a settlement was to be paid by both Condé and Mazarin throughout the 1650s.

Television and the City: the Impact of Television in Milan, 1954–1960

1999 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Foot
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Italian Society ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Media ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

The early years of state television in Italy, which began transmission in 1954, have usually been viewed as crucial to the spread of mass culture through Italian society. In addition, these developments have essentially been seen in negative terms by historians and sociologists. This article explores these early years in detail for one, key, urban setting: Milan. Through an examination of the myriad and often hidden effects of television, the research attempts to draw out the contradictory and complicated impact of TV and its relationship with other media, the neighbourhood, the family, the home and daily life. The article also looks at the impact of one important quiz show in the 1950s and concludes with some reflections on the power of the media in the city in the 1990s.

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