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Siôn Rhydderch
Sion is a name used in Wales and in other nations. Welsh name Siôn () or Sion is a Welsh form of the English given name John, pronounced in English similarly to the Irish name Seán. Notable people with the Welsh name include: People with the surname *Eleri Siôn (born 1971), Welsh radio and television presenter *Llywelyn Siôn (1540–c. 1615), Welsh-language poet *Sawnder Sion (16th century), Welsh poet People with the given name *Siôn ap Hywel (fl. c. 1490–1532), Welsh-language poet *Sion Bebb (born 1968), Welsh golfer *Sion Blythe (1781–1835), American pastor *Sion Record Bostick (1819–1902), American soldier *Siôn Bradford (1706–1785), Welsh-language poet * Sion Brinn (born 1973), Jamaican swimmer and coach *Siôn Cent (c. 1400–1435/40), Welsh-language poet * Siôn Ceri (fl. early 16th century), Welsh-language poet *Sion Jones (born 1979), Welsh cyclist *Sion Russell Jones (born 1986), Welsh singer and songwriter *Sion Morris (born 1977), Welsh cricketer *Siôn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John (name)
John (; ') is a common male given name in the English language of Hebrew origin. The name is the English form of ''Iohannes'' and ''Ioannes'', which are the Latin forms of the Greek name Ioannis (Ιωάννης), originally borne by Hellenized Jews transliterating the Hebrew name ''Yochanan'' (), the contracted form of the longer name (), meaning "Yahweh is Gracious" or "Yahweh is Merciful". There are numerous forms of the name in different languages; these were formerly often simply translated as "John" in English, but are increasingly left in their native forms (see sidebar). It is among the most commonly given names in Anglophone, Arabic, European, Latin American, Persian and Turkish countries. Traditionally in the Anglosphere, it was the most common, although it has not been since the latter half of the 20th century. John owes its unique popularity to two highly revered saints, John the Baptist (forerunner of Jesus Christ) and the apostle John (traditionally considered the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sion Hart Rogers
Sion Hart Rogers (September 30, 1825 – August 14, 1874) was a U.S. Congressman and Attorney General of North Carolina. Biography Born near Raleigh, North Carolina in 1825, Rogers attended common schools in Wake County and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 1846. After studying law, he was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced practice in Raleigh. As a Whig, he was elected to the 33rd United States Congress in 1852 and served one two-year term (March 4, 1853 - March 3, 1855), declining a renomination in 1854. Rogers served solicitor of the Raleigh district of the superior court. During the American Civil War, he served in the Confederate States Army as a lieutenant in the Fourteenth Regiment of North Carolina State Troops in 1861; was commissioned colonel of the Forty-seventh North Carolina Infantry April 8, 1862, and resigned January 5, 1863, upon being elected attorney general of the State of North Carolina. Rogers served as North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ion Theodorescu-Sion
Ion Theodorescu-Sion (; also known as Ioan Theodorescu-Sion or Teodorescu-Sion; January 2, 1882 – March 31, 1939) was a Romanian painter and draftsman, known for his contributions to modern art and especially for his traditionalist, primitivist, handicraft-inspired and Christian painting. Trained in academic art, initially an Impressionist, he dabbled in various modern styles in the years before World War I. Theodorescu-Sion's palette was interchangeably post-Impressionist, Divisionist, Realist, Symbolist, Synthetist, Fauve or Cubist, but his creation had one major ideological focus: depicting peasant life in its natural setting. In time, Sion contributed to the generational goal of creating a specifically Romanian modern art, located at the intersection of folk tradition, primitivist tendencies borrowed from the West, and 20th-century agrarian politics. Initially scandalized by Theodorescu-Sion's experiments, public opinion accepted his tamer style of the mid to late 1910s. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sion's Minimax Theorem
In mathematics, and in particular game theory, Sion's minimax theorem is a generalization of John von Neumann's minimax theorem, named after Maurice Sion. It states: Let X be a compact convex subset of a linear topological space and Y a convex subset of a linear topological space. If f is a real-valued function on X\times Y with : f(x,\cdot) upper semicontinuous and quasi-concave on Y, \forall x\in X, and : f(\cdot,y) lower semicontinuous and quasi-convex on X, \forall y\in Y then, : \min_\sup_ f(x,y)=\sup_\min_f(x,y). See also *Parthasarathy's theorem *Saddle point In mathematics, a saddle point or minimax point is a point on the surface of the graph of a function where the slopes (derivatives) in orthogonal directions are all zero (a critical point), but which is not a local extremum of the function ... References * * Game theory Mathematical optimization Mathematical theorems {{gametheory-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Sion
Maurice Sion (17 October 1927, Skopje – 17 April 2018, Vancouver) was an American and Canadian mathematician, specializing in measure theory and game theory. He is known for Sion's minimax theorem. Biography Sion received from New York University his B.A. in 1947 and his M.A. in 1948. He received from the University of California, Berkeley in 1951 his Ph.D. under the supervision of Anthony Morse with thesis ''On the existence of functions having given partial derivatives on Whitney's curve''. Sion was a member of the mathematics faculty at U.C. Berkeley until 1960, when he immigrated to Canada with his wife Emilie and his two children born in the U.S.A. (His two younger children were born in Canada.) From 1960 until he retired in 1989, Maurice Sion was a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia. For two academic years from 1957 to 1959 and in the autumn of 1962 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. He wrote several books on mathematics and served for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ioan Sion
Alecu Ioan Sion (September 28, 1890 – November 24, 1942) was a Romanian soldier and a major general in the Land Forces. Born in Pitești, he attended the military high school from Iași and then studied at the military school for artillery and engineers officers in Bucharest from 1909 to 1911. He entered the army as a second lieutenant in 1911. Promoted to lieutenant in 1914, he later took part in World War I, commanding a unit within the 2nd Artillery Regiment. During the Romanian Campaign of 1916, he stood out at the battles of Perșani and Porumbacu, for which he was awarded the Order of the Crown of Romania, Knight class. He was promoted to captain in 1917, and fought in the battles in Moldavia during that summer. After the war, Sion advanced in rank to major in January 1921, and then attended the Higher War School from November 1921 to October 1923. He became a lieutenant colonel in 1931 and a colonel in 1937. He commanded the center for artillery instruction be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gheorghe Sion
Gheorghe Sion (May 22, 1822 – October 1, 1892) was a Moldavian, later Romanian poet, playwright, translator and memoirist. He was born in Mamornița to '' paharnic'' (royal cup-bearer) Ioniță Sion and his wife Eufrosina (''née'' Schina), the daughter of Filiki Eteria member Gheorghe Schina. His uncles included Constantin Sion, author of a semi-fictitious noble genealogy (''Arhondologia Moldovei''); and '' spătar'' Antohi Sion, the rumored author of ''Izvodul lui Clănău'', an outright forgery. After spending two years (1837-1839) at Saint Sava College in Bucharest, the capital of Wallachia, he returned to his native Moldavia. Entering the Iași-based provincial administration, he became a copyist at the Justice Department in 1842, followed by work as a clerk at the Interior Department. He became a wanted man for his participation in the 1848 revolution, and so fled to Austrian-ruled Transylvania. He returned to Iași in 1849, working as bureau chief at the Departme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantin Sion
Constantin Sion, also known as Costandin or Cothi Sion (September 18, 1795 – February 27, 1862), was a Moldavian political conspirator, genealogist, and polemicist. He was born into the lower ranks of the boyar aristocracy, and, though his brothers were able to climb the social ladder, he mostly had petty offices in the provinces. Sion's frustration with this standing, and his resentment toward more successful Greeks, shaped his literary work and his activities as a falsifier of documents, in conjunction with his younger brother Costache. Early on, he fabricated evidence that suggested his family was descended from the Khan Girays of the Crimean Khanate. Constantin experienced an episodic rise in status during the Greek War of Independence, when he supported the Ottoman Empire and had his loyalism rewarded with the title of ''Paharnic''; however, he quickly reverted to the position of a minor copyist for the Moldavian Treasury, in which position he began gathering notes for his g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sion Sono
Sion may refer to * an alternative transliteration of Zion People * Sion (name) or Siôn, a Welsh and other given name and surname, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Shion or Sion, a Japanese given name Places France * Sion, Gers, France * Sion, Saxon-Sion, Meurthe-et-Moselle department, France * Sion-les-Mines, Loire-Atlantique department, France * Sion-sur-l'Océan, Vendee department, France * Mont Sion, namesake of the Priory of Sion India * Sion, Mumbai, India **Sion Causeway **Sion Creek **Sion Hillock Fort **Sion railway station (India) Switzerland * Sion, Switzerland ** Sion District ** Sion Airport ** Sion railway station (Switzerland) ** Roman Catholic Diocese of Sion ** Sion Cathedral Elsewhere * Sion (Asia Minor), a former ancient city and bishopric, and present Latin Catholic titular see in Asian Turkey * Sion, Alberta, Canada * Sion, Czech Republic, a castle * Sion, Netherlands Other uses * Sion (periodical), ''Sion'' (peri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twm Siôn Cati
Twm Siôn Cati (also sometimes spelt Twm Sion Cati, historically Twm Shon Catti or Twm Shon Catty) is a figure in Welsh folklore. Background Tales about him vary on details, but he is usually said to have been born in or very near to Tregaron, in or around 1530, his mother being one Cati Jones of Tregaron. His father was supposed to be Siôn ap Dafydd ap Madog ap Hywel Moetheu of Porth-y-ffin, also near Tregaron. He was an illegitimate son whose mother named him Thomas. The Welsh-language equivalent of Tom is Twm. It was also common practice in rural Wales for children with common names to be nicknamed after their mothers. Thus he became known as Twm Siôn Cati. He was supposedly a Protestant by faith at a time when Mary I of England, a Catholic monarch, ruled and he had to gain an income as best he could, choosing robbery as his trade as his religion had him marked out as a rebel already and his high status meant that he could rely on any advantage or protection from others. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Father Christmas
Father Christmas is the traditional English name for the personification of Christmas. Although now known as a Christmas gift-bringer, and typically considered to be synonymous with Santa Claus, he was originally part of a much older and unrelated English folklore, English folkloric tradition. The recognisably modern figure of the English Father Christmas developed in the late Victorian era, Victorian period, but Christmas had been personified for centuries before then. English personifications of Christmas were first recorded in the 15th century, with Father Christmas himself first appearing in the mid 17th century in the aftermath of the English Civil War. The Puritans, Puritan-controlled English government had legislated to abolish Christmas, considering it papist, and had outlawed its traditional customs. Cavalier, Royalist political pamphleteers, linking the old traditions with their cause, adopted Old Father Christmas as the symbol of 'the good old days' of feasting and g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siôn Tudur
Siôn Tudur (also ''John Tudur'', c. 1522–1602) was a 16th century Welsh language poet. After serving as a yeoman in the courts of Edward VI and Mary, Siôn returned to Wales where he was tutored by Gruffudd Hiraethog Gruffudd Hiraethog (died 1564) was a 16th century Welsh language poet, born in Llangollen, north-east Wales. Gruffudd was one of the foremost poets of the sixteenth century to use the cywydd metre. He was a prolific author and gifted scholar. Tho .... Siôn’s surviving work consists of poems in praise of nobility, poetic rendering of psalms, and his concerns on contemporary Welsh society. References *E. Roberts, Gwaith Siôn Tudur, University of Wales Press, 1981 *D.J. Bowen, ''Gwaith Gruffudd Hiraethog'', University of Wales Press, 1990 1522 births 1602 deaths Welsh-language poets 16th-century Welsh poets Year of birth uncertain {{Wales-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
