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"Edward Maturin was born in Dublin, Ireland, on 18 June 1812 and died in New York city on 25 May 1881. He was naturalised as an American and worked as a professor of Greek. His fiction and poetry generally dealt with historical themes, while his work as a Gothic novelist often had an Irish background. Life and works The Maturin family was descended from a Huguenot clergyman who fled to Ireland after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Edward's father, Reverend Charles Robert Maturin, was curate of St. Peter's church, Dublin, and well known as a preacher, as well as a poet and Gothic novelist. Born the second son, Edward entered Trinity College, Dublin at the age of 15 and graduated at 20. Immediately afterwards he emigrated to the US in 1832 with letters of introduction from the poet Thomas Moore and other Irish writers. Having studied law under Charles O'Conor, he was called to the bar but later became professor of Greek in the College of South Carolina and applied for American naturalisation in 1837. He married Harriet Lord Gailiard in 1842 and had three children by her. In 1848 he returned to New York, where for upwards of thirty years he filled professorships in Greek, Latin and Belles Lettres. His mastery of Greek was such that he was selected in 1850 by the American Bible Union as one of their revisers and worked on the gospel of St. Mark. Montezuma, doomed hero of Maturin's first novel, from a children’s history book All Edward Maturin's work was written in the U.S. and for the most part concentrated on historical themes or Irish fantasy. His first book contained the interconnected stories of Sejanus and Other Roman Tales (1839) and was dedicated to Washington Irving. They concern incidents during the reigns of the Roman emperors from Tiberius to Nero; self-consciously literary, the dialogue is written in an imitation of Shakespearean English.Available on Google Books This was followed by the two-volume romance, Montezuma, the Last of the Aztecs (1845)The first volume is on Google Books and then two works on Spanish themes. The long series of "Spanish Ballads" that originally appeared in the United States Democratic Revue during 1845 were eventually collected with his other poems in Lyrics of Spain and Erin (1850). They were followed by the romance Benjamin, the Jew of Grenada (1847), a story of the fall of the Moslem empire in Spain. After his move to New York, his prose work became more Gothic. It included The Irish Chieftain, or The Isles of Life and Death (1848) which was later to be dismissed as 'a wild story without foundation in history ... melodramatic, sentimental, extravagant’,Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction [Pt. I] (Dublin 1919) and the two-volume Eva, or the Isles of Life and Death (1848). His later Bianca, a tale of Erin and Italy (1852) was set in more modern times but equally condemned as ‘an outlandish story, full of murders, characters - mostly illegitimate - with terrible secrets, a duel between brothers, banshees, mysterious lady-prophetesses, fee-faw-fum'.Stephen Brown's description. The novel is available on Google Books A final offering was his four-act play Viola (1858). Maturin died in New York City on 25 May 1881. References Works consulted include Appletons Cyclopedia of American Biography and Charles E. Chadman's Cyclopedia of Law. The fullest details concerning Maturin's life are on the Maturin-Johnston Family history site. Category:American male writers Category:1812 births Category:1881 deaths Category:Scholars of Greek language "
"Uprising is a 2012 documentary that traces the origins of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 that began in January 2011. It provides a first hand account of the early stages of revolution and follows various leaders and organizers of the movement. The film is directed and produced by Fredrik Stanton and is being distributed by Zeitgeist Films. Synopsis The documentary begins with coverage of the spontaneous marches against the 30 year oppressive military rule of president Hosni Mubarak. For the first time in history, organizers and activists turned to social media to voice their opinions and organize protests in Tahrir Square. Though initially a peaceful demonstration, the violence of the police charged with putting down the revolution inspired further violence on both sides as protesters continued to demand that Hosni Mubarak step down from the presidency. When the appointment of the former head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate, Omar Suleiman, as Vice-President was not enough to end protests, Mubarak agreed to step down on February 11, 2011. It was decided that the military would rule for six months until elections could be held. While the film only covers the events leading up to and shortly following the end of the Mubarak regime, the revolution in Egypt continues to this day as new challenges are faced. Awards *2012: CINE - Best Documentary Feature *2012: Lone Star Film & Television Awards - Best Documentary Feature *2013: St. Louis International Film Festival - Best Documentary *2013: Canada International Film Festival - Royal Reel Award *2013: Fargo Film Festival - Honorable Mention, Documentary Feature Film *2013: Kansas City FilmFest - Best Documentary Reception Daniel M. Gold of The New York Times stated, "Among the film's virtues is its analysis of the strategies that channeled the unrest... Uprising is a concise commemoration of a new society's birth pains." References External links * Category:2012 films "
"George Atwood Slater (September 2, 1867 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut – February 23, 1937 in Pinehurst, Moore County, North Carolina) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Early life He was the son of Atwood Slater and Julia E. (Scott) Slater. He attended the public schools and Greenwich Academy. Then he studied law, was admitted to the bar in Connecticut in 1888, but enrolled in Columbia Law School the same year. He was admitted to the bar in New York in 1889, and practised in New York City. He finished his law course at Columbia in 1890, but was among 33 alumni of the class of 1890 who received their LL.B. degrees only in 1934. Public service On June 2, 1891, Slater married Eva Elizabeth Sours (died 1950), and continued the practice of law in Port Chester, his wife's hometown. He was Counsel of the Town of Rye from 1900 to 1906, and a Trustee of the Village of Port Chester from 1902 to 1908. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Westchester Co., 4th D.) in 1912. In the Assembly, he was first to make a speech advocating suffrage for women. He was a member of the New York State Senate (24th D.) from 1915 to 1918, sitting in the 138th, 139th, 140th and 141st New York State Legislatures. In November 1918, he was elected Surrogate of Westchester County, and was re-elected in 1924, 1930 and 1936; remaining in office from 1919 until his death in 1937. Slater died on February 23, 1937, in Moore County Hospital in Pinehurst, North Carolina, of appendicitis; and was buried in Rye, New York. Democrat William J. Sheils, whom he had defeated at the election in November 1936, was appointed by Gov. Herbert H. Lehman to fill the vacancy until the end of the year. Sources * WESTCHESTER REPUBLICAN in NYT on November 6, 1918 * HOME OF SURROGATE LISTED FOR TAX SALE in NYT on June 22, 1933 (subscription required) * GEORGE. A. SLATER, SURROGATE, DEAD in NYT on February 24, 1937 (subscription required) * SHEILS IS NAMED FOR SLATER'S POST in NYT on February 28, 1937 (subscription required) * MRS. GEORGE A. SLATER in NYT on February 9, 1950 (subscription required) External links * The George A. Slater papers at the New York State Library Category:1867 births Category:1937 deaths Category:New York (state) state senators Category:New York (state) Republicans Category:People from Port Chester, New York Category:Members of the New York State Assembly Category:Deaths from appendicitis Category:People from Greenwich, Connecticut Category:New York (state) state court judges Category:Columbia Law School alumni "