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Hôpital Temporaire D'Arc-en-Barrois
Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois was an emergency evacuation hospital serving the 3rd Army Corps (France), French 3rd Army Corps during World War I. It was organised and staffed by British volunteers and served French soldiers. History Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois was a voluntary civilian British hospital unit established in the Château d'Arc-en-Barrois, Haute-Marne, France, for the aid of wounded French soldiers in the Great War. Founded in January 1915 under approval of the Anglo-French Hospital Committee of the British Red Cross Society, London, the hospital of 110 beds was conducted under military command of the French army's French Defence Health service, Service de Santé. The hospital's first military casualties arrived on 27 January 1915 from the Forest of Argonne, Argonne Forest battlefront. In February 1915 the regional Service de Santé requested an expansion of hospital services and a convalescent hospital was established in the vacant village hospice build ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Château D'Arc-en-Barrois
Château d'Arc-en-Barrois is a château in Haute-Marne, France. History The present château was built on the site of a castle that was destroyed in 1793 during the French Revolution. The Arc-en-Barrois area belonged in 1622 to Nicolas de L'Hospital, Duke of Vitry; it was bought in 1679 from his son by Count Morstein who ceded it in 1693 to Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse, whose son Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, inherited the estate. After the Revolution, in 1814 the estate was restored to the Duke of Penthièvre's daughter, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Marie-Adélaïde de Bourbon, who in 1769 had married Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. Their daughter Princess Adélaïde of Orléans inherited the estate and built the present château on the site of the old castle. In her will she left it to her godson, François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville. During World War I the château became the Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois, an emergency evacuation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Georgiana Kemp
Emily Georgiana Kemp (1860–1939) was a British adventurer, artist and writer. She was awarded the Grande Médaille de Vermeil by the French Geographical Society for her 1921 work ''Chinese Mettle''. Biography Kemp was born in Rochdale to parents George Tawke Kemp and Emily Kelsall. She had four older sisters and a younger brother, George. The family were devout Baptists and wealthy middle class industrialists; her father and maternal grandfather Henry Kelsall ran a textile manufacturing firm. Kemp was of the first students at Somerville College, Oxford. She continued her studies at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. She travelled in China, Korea, India, Central Asia and the Amazon, sketching, painting and writing, sometimes travelling with May Meiklejon MacDougall. The focus of her works was the education and welfare of women and their role in religion. In 1914, Kemp organised and supported trained nurses who travelled to France in January 1915 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Strong
The second season of ''Adventure Time'', an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward, premiered on Cartoon Network on October 11, 2010, and concluded on May 2, 2011, and was produced by Frederator Studios and Cartoon Network Studios. The season follows the adventures of Finn, a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and size at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, where they interact with the other main characters of the show: Princess Bubblegum, The Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, and BMO. After the first, the second season of ''Adventure Time'' was quickly ordered by Cartoon Network. However, the beginning of the series debuted under production constraints, and "It Came from the Nightosphere" aired after just barely being finished. The season was storyboarded and written by Adam Muto, Rebecca Sugar, Kent Osborne, Somvilay Xayaphone, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Adams (illustrator)
Frank Adams (1871–1944) was a British illustrator and landscape artist. By the 1900s, Adams was an established picture book illustrator, his style influenced by members of the London Sketch Club, especially Cecil Aldin and John Hassall. He worked frequently with Blackie & Son Ltd. He exhibited watercolours and drawings at Walker's Gallery, London, 1923–1935. During World War I, Adams was one of the British artists who volunteered to look after wounded French soldiers at the Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois. Publications Children's books * ''The Frank Adams Book of Nursery Rhymes'' * ''Old Time Jingles'' (Blackie & Son Ltd) * ''Old Time Rhymes'' (Blackie & Son Ltd) * ''The Story of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog'' (Blackie & Son Ltd) * ''The Beautiful Book of Nursery Rhymes, Stories and Pictures'' (Blackie & Son Ltd)Page images available at childrensbooksonline.org * ''The Frog He Would A-Wooing Go'' (1900) * ''Three Old Favourites: the story of Jack Sprat, Tom the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert William Fisher
Herbert William Fisher (30 July 1826 – 17 January 1903) was a British historian, best known for his book ''Considerations on the Origin of the American War'' (1865). Life He was born at Poulshot, Wiltshire, the eldest son of Rev. William Fisher"The Prince of Wales" Times [London, England] 13 August 1859: p.9. The Times Digital Archive. (1799–1874), rector of Poulshot from 1823 to his death, Canon of Salisbury Cathedral from 1834, and his wife Elizabeth Cookson (c.1803–1851). He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford"Oxford University Election" Times [London, England] 29 June 1859: p.8. The Times Digital Archive. and became a tutor in 1851. He was tutor to the future Edward VII of the United Kingdom, King Edward VII in 1859. Called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1855, Fisher served as private secretary to Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne. In 1862 he became private secretary to the Prince of Wales,"Court Circular" Times [London, England] 9 March 1863: p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Fisher (architect)
Edmund Montagu Prinsep Fisher (13 January 1872 – 31 March 1918) was a British architect, the son of historian Herbert William Fisher. He died following service in France during World War I. Biography Fisher was born on 13 January 1872 in Onslow Square, Kensington, Middlesex, England, the sixth of the eleven children of Herbert William Fisher (1826–1903) and his wife Mary Louisa (née Jackson) (1841–1916). His siblings included: H. A. L. Fisher, historian and Minister of Education; Admiral Sir William Wordsworth Fisher, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet; Florence Henrietta, Lady Darwin, playwright and wife of Sir Francis Darwin (son of Charles Darwin); and Adeline Vaughan Williams, wife of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. He was educated at Haileybury and trained as an architect in the office of Basil Champneys in London. His distinctive architectural style showed a "singular talent for making his houses appear to grow out of the ground as natural p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prosthetic
In medicine, a prosthesis (: prostheses; from ), or a prosthetic implant, is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, which may be lost through physical trauma, disease, or a condition present at birth (Congenital, congenital disorder). Prostheses may restore the normal functions of the missing body part, or may perform a cosmetic function. A person who has undergone an amputation is sometimes referred to as an Amputation, amputee, however, this term may be offensive. Rehabilitation for someone with an amputation is primarily coordinated by a Physical medicine and rehabilitation, physiatrist as part of an inter-disciplinary team consisting of physiatrists, prosthetists, nurses, physical therapists, and occupational therapists. Prostheses can be created by hand or with computer-aided design (CAD), a software interface that helps creators design and analyze the creation with computer-generated Technical drawing, 2-D and 3D computer graphics, 3-D graphics as well as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Emmet De Glehn
Jane Erin Emmet de Glehn (born Jane Erin Emmet; 1873 - 20 February 1961) was an American figure and portrait painter. Early life Born in New Rochelle, New York, she was the youngest daughter of ten siblings. Her great-great-uncle Robert Emmet was a notable Irish nationalist who was hanged in 1803 for high treason by the British court for his attempt to implement an Irish rebellion. Lydia Field Emmet's great-grandfather Thomas Addis Emmet, Robert's older brother, emigrated to the United States after Robert's execution. Thomas Addis Emmet would later become the New York State Attorney General. His daughter Elizabeth Emmet (b.1794), Jane's great-aunt, would study portraiture under the direction of a steamboat designer and portrait artist named Thomas Fulton. Both her older sisters Rosina Emmet Sherwood and Lydia Field Emmet would also become successful artists, as well as their first cousin Ellen Emmet "Bay" Rand. Emmet de Glehn's brother, William Le Roy Emmet, was an accompli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfrid De Glehn
Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn (sometimes 'Wilfried') (1870 – 11 May 1951) was an Impressionist Great Britain, British painter, elected to the Royal Academy in 1932. Biography De Glehn's father was Alexander de Glenn of Sydenham, London, himself the son of Robert von Glehn, a Baltic states, Baltic baron with estates near Tallinn in Estonia, who had become a naturalised British subject following his marriage to a Scottish woman. Wilfrid's mother was French. Louise Creighton, a women's rights activist and author, and Alfred de Glehn, a French steam locomotive designer, were Alexander's sister and brother. Wilfried von Glehn (he changed his name in May 1917) was born in Sydenham, London, Sydenham, south-east London. After schooling at Brighton College with his brother Louis, he studied art briefly at the Royal Academy Schools in South Kensington before going on to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where for a time he lived with his French cousin, the artist Lucien Monod ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence Binyon
Robert Laurence Binyon, Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, CH (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. Born in Lancaster, Lancashire, Lancaster, England, his parents were Frederick Binyon, a clergyman, and Mary Dockray. He studied at St Paul's School, London and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1891. He worked for the British Museum from 1893 until his retirement in 1933. In 1904 he married the historian Cicely Margaret Powell, with whom he had three daughters, including the artist Nicolete Gray. Moved by the casualties of the British Expeditionary Force (World War I), British Expeditionary Force in 1914, Binyon wrote his most famous work "For the Fallen", which is often recited at Remembrance Sunday services in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and South Africa. In 1915, he volunteered as a hospital orderly in France and afterwards worked in England, helping to take care of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Masefield
John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967, during which time he lived at Burcot, Oxfordshire, near Abingdon-on-Thames. Among his best known works are the children's novels ''The Midnight Folk'' and ''The Box of Delights'', and the poems "The Everlasting Mercy" and "Sea-Fever". Shortly after his death his house (Burcote Brook) burned down and was later replaced by a Cheshire Home named after him. Biography Early life Masefield was born in Ledbury in Herefordshire to George Masefield, a solicitor, and his wife Caroline (née Parker). He was baptised in the Church at Preston Cross, just outside Ledbury. His mother died giving birth to his sister when Masefield was six, and he went to live with his aunt. His father died soon afterwards, following a mental breakdown.David Gervais.Masefield, John Edward, in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Tonks
Henry Tonks, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, FRCS (9 April 1862 – 8 January 1937) was a British surgeon and later draughtsman and painter of figure subjects, chiefly interiors, and a Caricature, caricaturist. He became an influential art teacher. He was one of the first British artists to be influenced by the French Impressionists; he exhibited with the New English Art Club, and was an associate of many of the more progressive artists of late Victorian Britain, including James McNeill Whistler, Walter Sickert, John Singer Sargent and George Clausen. Early life and career as a surgeon Tonks was born in Solihull. His family owned a brass foundry in Birmingham. He was educated briefly at Bloxham School, followed by Clifton College in Bristol, and then studied medicine at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton (1882–85) and the London Hospital in Whitechapel (1885–88). He became a house surgeon at the London Hospital in 1886, under Sir Sir Frederick Treves, 1s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
