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Without a doubt one of the best trips away of my life so far, first proper outing with the girlfriend :). it's hard to capture just how perfect a place Edinburgh is but I really like this panoramic shot taken from the castle. it was my favourite weather cold, but sunny. in the harsh sunlight you can see all the details of the buildings.
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Red Panda ... baby
Ailurus fulgens
Whether the red panda is more closely related to the giant panda or the raccoon has puzzled scientists for years. Made for a life in the trees, the red panda travels through the canopy with ease. Not only is the panda a great climber, it is also an amazing jumper, clearing distances up to five feet. Hair on the bottom of its feet keeps the panda from slipping on branches.
Red pandas spend up to 13 hours a day foraging for bamboo, eating only the youngest, most tender leaves.
Pandas have a small, thumb-like bone that sticks out from the wrist that helps them grasp bamboo shoots.
A thick, furry tail that wraps around its body protects the panda from the chilly weather.
Fact File
Where to see them: Next to Spaulding Children's Zoo
Length: 1.5 to 2 ft
Weight: 6.5 to 14 lbs
Lifespan: Up to 14 yrs
Habitat: Mountain forest
Diet: Primarily bamboo shoots and leaves; some roots, fruit, grasses, acorns, lichens, small animals
Risk Status: Species at Risk (IUCN—Endangered)
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I think the baby's name is Lindy but not for sure on this. Either way she is a cutie!
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Mars without the Jet Stream
EDGE-11 @ F/20
Flea3 (color) USB3 @ 104 FPS
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I still have some equipment issues but with a smile. the Mars canyon clearly visible through the lower center right of this shot. not bad for the size acope at F/20,To the left you see a small brown spot below
the large red aeria, that is Olymups Mon, below that and closer to Bottom are
three spots the lower is Arsia Mon and above that is Pauonis Mon then Asciaeus
Mon. Valles Marineris stems from Arsia Mon and runs through the collered
streak which breaks out to a second and just beyond the smaller darker spot is
the end of the Canyon.
Above Olymups Mon is a red areia called Alba Patera inbetween them is the
Acheron Fossae and around Olymups Mon is Olymups Rupes.
In monotheism, God is conceived of as the Supreme Being and principal object of faith.[3] The concept of God as described by most theologians includes the attributes of omniscience (infinite knowledge), omnipotence (unlimited power), omnipresence (present everywhere), divine simplicity, and as having an eternal and necessary existence. Many theologians also describe God as being omnibenevolent (perfectly good), and all loving.
God is most often held to be non-corporeal,[3] and to be without any human biological sex,[4][5] yet the concept of God actively creating the universe (as opposed to passively)[6] has caused many religions to describe God using masculine terminology, using such terms as "Him" or "Father". Furthermore, some religions (such as Judaism) attribute only a purely grammatical "gender" to God.[7]
In theism, God is the creator and sustainer of the universe, while in deism, God is the creator, but not the sustainer, of the universe. In pantheism, God is the universe itself. In atheism, God is not believed to exist, while God is deemed unknown or unknowable within the context of agnosticism. God has also been conceived as being incorporeal (immaterial), a personal being, the source of all moral obligation, and the "greatest conceivable existent".[3] Many notable philosophers have developed arguments for and against the existence of God.[8]
There are many names for God, and different names are attached to different cultural ideas about God's identity and attributes. In the ancient Egyptian era of Atenism, possibly the earliest recorded monotheistic religion, this deity was called Aten,[9] premised on being the one "true" Supreme Being and Creator of the Universe.[10] In the Hebrew Bible and Judaism, "He Who Is", "I Am that I Am", and the tetragrammaton YHWH (Hebrew: יהוה, which means: "I am who I am"; "He Who Exists") are used as names of God, while Yahweh and Jehovah are sometimes used in Christianity as vocalizations of YHWH. In the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, God, consubstantial in three persons, is called the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In Judaism, it is common to refer to God by the titular names Elohim or Adonai, the latter of which is believed by some scholars to descend from the Egyptian Aten.[11][12][13][14][15] In Islam, the name Allah, "Al-El", or "Al-Elah" ("the God") is used, while Muslims also have a multitude of titular names for God. In Hinduism, Brahman is often considered a monistic deity.[16] Other religions have names for God, for instance, Baha in the Bahá'í Faith,[17] Waheguru in Sikhism,[18] and Ahura Mazda in Zoroastrianism.[19]
The many different conceptions of God, and competing claims as to God's characteristics, aims, and actions, have led to the development of ideas of omnitheism, pandeism,[20][21] or a perennial philosophy, which postulates that there is one underlying theological truth, of which all religions express a partial understanding, and as to which "the devout in the various great world religions are in fact worshipping that one God, but through different, overlapping concepts or mental images of Him."[22]
Contents [hide]
1Etymology and usage
2General conceptions
2.1Oneness
2.2Theism, deism and pantheism
2.3Other concepts
3Non-theistic views
3.1Agnosticism and atheism
3.2Anthropomorphism
4Existence
5Specific attributes
5.1Names
5.2Gender
5.3Relationship with creation
6Depiction
6.1Zoroastrianism
6.2Islam
6.3Judaism
6.4Christianity
7Theological approaches
8Distribution of belief
9See also
9.1In specific religions
10References
11Further reading
12External links
Etymology and usage
The Mesha Stele bears the earliest known reference (840 BCE) to the Israelite God Yahweh.
Main article: God (word)
The earliest written form of the Germanic word God (always, in this usage, capitalized[23]) comes from the 6th-century Christian Codex Argenteus. The English word itself is derived from the Proto-Germanic * ǥuđan. The reconstructed Proto-Indo-European form * ǵhu-tó-m was likely based on the root * ǵhau(ə)-, which meant either "to call" or "to invoke".[24] The Germanic words for God were originally neuter—applying to both genders—but during the process of the Christianization of the Germanic peoples from their indigenous Germanic paganism, the words became a masculine syntactic form.[25]
The word 'Allah' in Arabic calligraphy
In the English language, the capitalized form of God continues to represent a distinction between monotheistic "God" and "gods" in polytheism.[26][27] The English word God and its counterparts in other languages are normally used for any and all conceptions and, in spite of significant differences between religions, the term remains an English translation common to all. The same holds for Hebrew El, but in Judaism, God is also given a proper name, the tetragrammaton YHWH, in origin possibly the name of an Edomite or Midianite deity, Yahweh. In many translations of the Bible, when the word LORD is in all capitals, it signifies that the word represents the tetragrammaton.[28]
Allāh (Arabic: الله) is the Arabic term with no plural used by Muslims and Arabic speaking Christians and Jews meaning "The God" (with a capital G), while "ʾilāh" (Arabic: إله) is the term used for a deity or a god in general.[29][30][31] God may also be given a proper name in monotheistic currents of Hinduism which emphasize the personal nature of God, with early references to his name as Krishna-Vasudeva in Bhagavata or later Vishnu and Hari.[32]
Ahura Mazda is the name for God used in Zoroastrianism. "Mazda", or rather the Avestan stem-form Mazdā-, nominative Mazdå, reflects Proto-Iranian *Mazdāh (female). It is generally taken to be the proper name of the spirit, and like its Sanskrit cognate medhā, means "intelligence" or "wisdom". Both the Avestan and Sanskrit words reflect Proto-Indo-Iranian *mazdhā-, from Proto-Indo-European mn̩sdʰeh1, literally meaning "placing (dʰeh1) one's mind (*mn̩-s)", hence "wise".[33]
Waheguru (Punjabi: vāhigurū) is a term most often used in Sikhism to refer to God. It means "Wonderful Teacher" in the Punjabi language. Vāhi (a Middle Persian borrowing) means "wonderful" and guru (Sanskrit: guru) is a term denoting "teacher". Waheguru is also described by some as an experience of ecstasy which is beyond all descriptions. The most common usage of the word "Waheguru" is in the greeting Sikhs use with each other:
Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh
Wonderful Lord's Khalsa, Victory is to the Wonderful Lord.
Baha, the "greatest" name for God in the Baha'i faith, is Arabic for "All-Glorious".
General conceptions
Main article: Conceptions of God
There is no clear consensus on the nature or even the existence of God.[34] The Abrahamic conceptions of God include the monotheistic definition of God in Judaism, the trinitarian view of Christians, and the Islamic concept of God. The dharmic religions differ in their view of the divine: views of God in Hinduism vary by region, sect, and caste, ranging from monotheistic to polytheistic. Divinity was recognized by the historical Buddha, particularly Śakra and Brahma. However, other sentient beings, including gods, can at best only play a supportive role in one's personal path to salvation. Conceptions of God in the latter developments of the Mahayana tradition give a more prominent place to notions of the divine.[citation needed]
Oneness
Main articles: Monotheism and Henotheism
The Trinity is the belief that God is composed of The Father, The Son (embodied metaphysically in the physical realm by Jesus), and The Holy Spirit.
Monotheists hold that there is only one god, and may claim that the one true god is worshiped in different religions under different names. The view that all theists actually worship the same god, whether they know it or not, is especially emphasized in Hinduism[35] and Sikhism.[36] In Christianity, the doctrine of the Trinity describes God as one God in three persons. The Trinity comprises The Father, The Son (embodied metaphysically by Jesus), and The Holy Spirit.[37] Islam's most fundamental concept is tawhid (meaning "oneness" or "uniqueness"). God is described in the Quran as: "Say: He is Allah, the One and Only; Allah, the Eternal, Absolute; He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; And there is none like unto Him."[38][39] Muslims repudiate the Christian doctrine of the Trinity and the divinity of Jesus, comparing it to polytheism. In Islam, God is beyond all comprehension or equal and does not resemble any of his creations in any way. Thus, Muslims are not iconodules, and are not expected to visualize God.[40]
Henotheism is the belief and worship of a single god while accepting the existence or possible existence of other deities.[41]
Theism, deism and pantheism
Main articles: Theism, Deism, and Pantheism
Theism generally holds that God exists realistically, objectively, and independently of human thought; that God created and sustains everything; that God is omnipotent and eternal; and that God is personal and interacting with the universe through, for example, religious experience and the prayers of humans.[42] Theism holds that God is both transcendent and immanent; thus, God is simultaneously infinite and in some way present in the affairs of the world.[43] Not all theists subscribe to all of these propositions, but each usually subscribes to some of them (see, by way of comparison, family resemblance).[42] Catholic theology holds that God is infinitely simple and is not involuntarily subject to time. Most theists hold that God is omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent, although this belief raises questions about God's responsibility for evil and suffering in the world. Some theists ascribe to God a self-conscious or purposeful limiting of omnipotence, omniscience, or benevolence. Open Theism, by contrast, asserts that, due to the nature of time, God's omniscience does not mean the deity can predict the future. Theism is sometimes used to refer in general to any belief in a god or gods, i.e., monotheism or polytheism.[44][45]
"God blessing the seventh day", a watercolor painting depicting God, by William Blake (1757 – 1827)
Deism holds that God is wholly transcendent: God exists, but does not intervene in the world beyond what was necessary to create it.[43] In this view, God is not anthropomorphic, and neither answers prayers nor produces miracles. Common in Deism is a belief that God has no interest in humanity and may not even be aware of humanity. Pandeism and Panendeism, respectively, combine Deism with the Pantheistic or Panentheistic beliefs.[21][46][47] Pandeism is proposed to explain as to Deism why God would create a universe and then abandon it,[48] and as to Pantheism, the origin and purpose of the universe.[48][49]
Pantheism holds that God is the universe and the universe is God, whereas Panentheism holds that God contains, but is not identical to, the Universe.[50] It is also the view of the Liberal Catholic Church; Theosophy; some views of Hinduism except Vaishnavism, which believes in panentheism; Sikhism; some divisions of Neopaganism and Taoism, along with many varying denominations and individuals within denominations. Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism, paints a pantheistic/panentheistic view of God—which has wide acceptance in Hasidic Judaism, particularly from their founder The Baal Shem Tov—but only as an addition to the Jewish view of a personal god, not in the original pantheistic sense that denies or limits persona to God.[citation needed]
Other concepts
Dystheism, which is related to theodicy, is a form of theism which holds that God is either not wholly good or is fully malevolent as a consequence of the problem of evil. One such example comes from Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, in which Ivan Karamazov rejects God on the grounds that he allows children to suffer.[51]
In modern times, some more abstract concepts have been developed, such as process theology and open theism. The contemporaneous French philosopher Michel Henry has however proposed a phenomenological approach and definition of God as phenomenological essence of Life.[52]
God has also been conceived as being incorporeal (immaterial), a personal being, the source of all moral obligation, and the "greatest conceivable existent".[3] These attributes were all supported to varying degrees by the early Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologian philosophers, including Maimonides,[53] Augustine of Hippo,[53] and Al-Ghazali,[8] respectively.
Non-theistic views
See also: Evolutionary origin of religions and Evolutionary psychology of religion
Non-theist views about God also vary. Some non-theists avoid the concept of God, whilst accepting that it is significant to many; other non-theists understand God as a symbol of human values and aspirations. The nineteenth-century English atheist Charles Bradlaugh declared that he refused to say "There is no God", because "the word 'God' is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation";[54] he said more specifically that he disbelieved in the Christian god. Stephen Jay Gould proposed an approach dividing the world of philosophy into what he called "non-overlapping magisteria" (NOMA). In this view, questions of the supernatural, such as those relating to the existence and nature of God, are non-empirical and are the proper domain of theology. The methods of science should then be used to answer any empirical question about the natural world, and theology should be used to answer questions about ultimate meaning and moral value. In this view, the perceived lack of any empirical footprint from the magisterium of the supernatural onto natural events makes science the sole player in the natural world.[55]
Another view, advanced by Richard Dawkins, is that the existence of God is an empirical question, on the grounds that "a universe with a god would be a completely different kind of universe from one without, and it would be a scientific difference."[56] Carl Sagan argued that the doctrine of a Creator of the Universe was difficult to prove or disprove and that the only conceivable scientific discovery that could disprove the existence of a Creator (not necessarily a God) would be the discovery that the universe is infinitely old.[57]
Stephen Hawking and co-author Leonard Mlodinow state in their book, The Grand Design, that it is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God. Both authors claim however, that it is possible to answer these questions purely within the realm of science, and without invoking any divine beings.[58] Neuroscientist Michael Nikoletseas has proposed that questions of the existence of God are no different from questions of natural sciences. Following a biological comparative approach, he concludes that it is highly probable that God exists, and, although not visible, it is possible that we know some of his attributes.[59]
Agnosticism and atheism
Agnosticism is the view that, the truth values of certain claims – especially metaphysical and religious claims such as whether God, the divine or the supernatural exist – are unknown and perhaps unknowable.[60][61][62]
Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities, or a God.[63][64] In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities.[65]
Anthropomorphism
Main article: Anthropomorphism
Pascal Boyer argues that while there is a wide array of supernatural concepts found around the world, in general, supernatural beings tend to behave much like people. The construction of gods and spirits like persons is one of the best known traits of religion. He cites examples from Greek mythology, which is, in his opinion, more like a modern soap opera than other religious systems.[66] Bertrand du Castel and Timothy Jurgensen demonstrate through formalization that Boyer's explanatory model matches physics' epistemology in positing not directly observable entities as intermediaries.[67] Anthropologist Stewart Guthrie contends that people project human features onto non-human aspects of the world because it makes those aspects more familiar. Sigmund Freud also suggested that god concepts are projections of one's father.[68]
Likewise, Émile Durkheim was one of the earliest to suggest that gods represent an extension of human social life to include supernatural beings. In line with this reasoning, psychologist Matt Rossano contends that when humans began living in larger groups, they may have created gods as a means of enforcing morality. In small groups, morality can be enforced by social forces such as gossip or reputation. However, it is much harder to enforce morality using social forces in much larger groups. Rossano indicates that by including ever-watchful gods and spirits, humans discovered an effective strategy for restraining selfishness and building more cooperative groups.[69]
Existence
Main article: Existence of God
St. Thomas Aquinas summed up five main arguments as proofs for God's existence.
Isaac Newton saw the existence of a Creator necessary in the movement of astronomical objects.
Arguments about the existence of God typically include empirical, deductive, and inductive types. Different views include that: "God does not exist" (strong atheism); "God almost certainly does not exist" (de facto atheism); "no one knows whether God exists" (agnosticism[70]);"God exists, but this cannot be proven or disproven" (de facto theism); and that "God exists and this can be proven" (strong theism).[55]
Countless arguments have been proposed to prove the existence of God.[71] Some of the most notable arguments are the Five Ways of Aquinas, the Argument from Desire proposed by C.S. Lewis, and the Ontological Argument formulated both by St. Anselm and René Descartes.[72]
St. Anselm's approach was to define God as, "that than which nothing greater can be conceived". Famed pantheist philosopher Baruch Spinoza would later carry this idea to its extreme: "By God I understand a being absolutely infinite, i.e., a substance consisting of infinite attributes, of which each one expresses an eternal and infinite essence." For Spinoza, the whole of the natural universe is made of one substance, God, or its equivalent, Nature.[73] His proof for the existence of God was a variation of the Ontological argument.[74]
Scientist Isaac Newton saw God as the masterful creator whose existence could not be denied in the face of the grandeur of all creation.[75] Nevertheless, he rejected polymath Leibniz' thesis that God would necessarily make a perfect world which requires no intervention from the creator. In Query 31 of the Opticks, Newton simultaneously made an argument from design and for the necessity of intervention:
For while comets move in very eccentric orbs in all manner of positions, blind fate could never make all the planets move one and the same way in orbs concentric, some inconsiderable irregularities excepted which may have arisen from the mutual actions of comets and planets on one another, and which will be apt to increase, till this system wants a reformation.[76]
St. Thomas believed that the existence of God is self-evident in itself, but not to us. "Therefore I say that this proposition, "God exists", of itself is self-evident, for the predicate is the same as the subject.... Now because we do not know the essence of God, the proposition is not self-evident to us; but needs to be demonstrated by things that are more known to us, though less known in their nature—namely, by effects."[77] St. Thomas believed that the existence of God can be demonstrated. Briefly in the Summa theologiae and more extensively in the Summa contra Gentiles, he considered in great detail five arguments for the existence of God, widely known as the quinque viae (Five Ways).
For the original text of the five proofs, see quinque viae
Motion: Some things undoubtedly move, though cannot cause their own motion. Since there can be no infinite chain of causes of motion, there must be a First Mover not moved by anything else, and this is what everyone understands by God.
Causation: As in the case of motion, nothing can cause itself, and an infinite chain of causation is impossible, so there must be a First Cause, called God.
Existence of necessary and the unnecessary: Our experience includes things certainly existing but apparently unnecessary. Not everything can be unnecessary, for then once there was nothing and there would still be nothing. Therefore, we are compelled to suppose something that exists necessarily, having this necessity only from itself; in fact itself the cause for other things to exist.
Gradation: If we can notice a gradation in things in the sense that some things are more hot, good, etc., there must be a superlative that is the truest and noblest thing, and so most fully existing. This then, we call God (Note: Thomas does not ascribe actual qualities to God Himself).
Ordered tendencies of nature: A direction of actions to an end is noticed in all bodies following natural laws. Anything without awareness tends to a goal under the guidance of one who is aware. This we call God (Note that even when we guide objects, in Thomas's view, the source of all our knowledge comes from God as well).[78]
Alister McGrath, a formerly atheistic scientist and theologian who has been highly critical of Richard Dawkins' version of atheism
Some theologians, such as the scientist and theologian A.E. McGrath, argue that the existence of God is not a question that can be answered using the scientific method.[79][80] Agnostic Stephen Jay Gould argues that science and religion are not in conflict and do not overlap.[81]
Some findings in the fields of cosmology, evolutionary biology and neuroscience are interpreted by some atheists (including Lawrence M. Krauss and Sam Harris) as evidence that God is an imaginary entity only, with no basis in reality.[82][83][84] These atheists claim that a single, omniscient God who is imagined to have created the universe and is particularly attentive to the lives of humans has been imagined, embellished and promulgated in a trans-generational manner.[85] Richard Dawkins interprets such findings not only as a lack of evidence for the material existence of such a God, but as extensive evidence to the contrary.[55] However, his views are opposed by some theologians and scientists including Alister McGrath, who argues that existence of God is compatible with science.[86]
Neuroscientist Michael Nikoletseas has proposed that questions of the existence of God are no different from questions of natural sciences. Following a biological comparative approach, he concludes that it is highly probable that God exists, and, although not visible, it is possible that we know some of his attributes.[59]
Specific attributes
Different religious traditions assign differing (though often similar) attributes and characteristics to God, including expansive powers and abilities, psychological characteristics, gender characteristics, and preferred nomenclature. The assignment of these attributes often differs according to the conceptions of God in the culture from which they arise. For example, attributes of God in Christianity, attributes of God in Islam, and the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy in Judaism share certain similarities arising from their common roots.
Names
Main article: Names of God
99 names of Allah, in Chinese Sini (script)
The word God is "one of the most complex and difficult in the English language." In the Judeo-Christian tradition, "the Bible has been the principal source of the conceptions of God". That the Bible "includes many different images, concepts, and ways of thinking about" God has resulted in perpetual "disagreements about how God is to be conceived and understood".[87]
Throughout the Hebrew and Christian Bibles there are many names for God. One of them is Elohim. Another one is El Shaddai, meaning "God Almighty".[88] A third notable name is El Elyon, which means "The Most High God".[89]
God is described and referred in the Quran and hadith by certain names or attributes, the most common being Al-Rahman, meaning "Most Compassionate" and Al-Rahim, meaning "Most Merciful" (See Names of God in Islam).[90]
Supreme soul
The Brahma Kumaris use the term "Supreme Soul" to refer to God. They see God as incorporeal and eternal, and regard him as a point of living light like human souls, but without a physical body, as he does not enter the cycle of birth, death and rebirth. God is seen as the perfect and constant embodiment of all virtues, powers and values and that He is the unconditionally loving Father of all souls, irrespective of their religion, gender, or culture.[91]
Vaishnavism, a tradition in Hinduism, has list of titles and names of Krishna.
Gender
Main article: Gender of God
The gender of God may be viewed as either a literal or an allegorical aspect of a deity who, in classical western philosophy, transcends bodily form.[92][93] Polytheistic religions commonly attribute to each of the gods a gender, allowing each to interact with any of the others, and perhaps with humans, sexually. In most monotheistic religions, God has no counterpart with which to relate sexually. Thus, in classical western philosophy the gender of this one-and-only deity is most likely to be an analogical statement of how humans and God address, and relate to, each other. Namely, God is seen as begetter of the world and revelation which corresponds to the active (as opposed to the receptive) role in sexual intercourse.[6]
Biblical sources usually refer to God using male words, except Genesis 1:26-27,[94][95] Psalm 123:2-3, and Luke 15:8-10 (female); Hosea 11:3-4, Deuteronomy 32:18, Isaiah 66:13, Isaiah 49:15, Isaiah 42:14, Psalm 131:2 (a mother); Deuteronomy 32:11-12 (a mother eagle); and Matthew 23:37 and Luke 13:34 (a mother hen).
Relationship with creation
See also: Creator deity, Prayer, and Worship
And Elohim Created Adam by William Blake, c.1795
Prayer plays a significant role among many believers. Muslims believe that the purpose of existence is to worship God.[96][97] He is viewed as a personal God and there are no intermediaries, such as clergy, to contact God. Prayer often also includes supplication and asking forgiveness. God is often believed to be forgiving. For example, a hadith states God would replace a sinless people with one who sinned but still asked repentance.[98] Christian theologian Alister McGrath writes that there are good reasons to suggest that a "personal god" is integral to the Christian outlook, but that one has to understand it is an analogy. "To say that God is like a person is to affirm the divine ability and willingness to relate to others. This does not imply that God is human, or located at a specific point in the universe."[99]
Adherents of different religions generally disagree as to how to best worship God and what is God's plan for mankind, if there is one. There are different approaches to reconciling the contradictory claims of monotheistic religions. One view is taken by exclusivists, who believe they are the chosen people or have exclusive access to absolute truth, generally through revelation or encounter with the Divine, which adherents of other religions do not. Another view is religious pluralism. A pluralist typically believes that his religion is the right one, but does not deny the partial truth of other religions. An example of a pluralist view in Christianity is supersessionism, i.e., the belief that one's religion is the fulfillment of previous religions. A third approach is relativistic inclusivism, where everybody is seen as equally right; an example being universalism: the doctrine that salvation is eventually available for everyone. A fourth approach is syncretism, mixing different elements from different religions. An example of syncretism is the New Age movement.
Jews and Christians believe that humans are created in the likeness of God, and are the center, crown and key to God's creation, stewards for God, supreme over everything else God had made (Gen 1:26); for this reason, humans are in Christianity called the "Children of God".[100]
Depiction
God is defined as incorporeal,[3] and invisible from direct sight, and thus cannot be portrayed in a literal visual image.
The respective principles of religions may or may not permit them to use images (which are entirely symbolic) to represent God in art or in worship .
Zoroastrianism
Ahura Mazda (depiction is on the right, with high crown) presents Ardashir I (left) with the ring of kingship. (Relief at Naqsh-e Rustam, 3rd century CE)
During the early Parthian Empire, Ahura Mazda was visually represented for worship. This practice ended during the beginning of the Sassanid empire. Zoroastrian iconoclasm, which can be traced to the end of the Parthian period and the beginning of the Sassanid, eventually put an end to the use of all images of Ahura Mazda in worship. However, Ahura Mazda continued to be symbolized by a dignified male figure, standing or on horseback which is found in Sassanian investiture.[101]
Islam
Further information: God in Islam
Muslims believe that God (Allah) is beyond all comprehension or equal and does not resemble any of His creations in any way. Thus, Muslims are not iconodules, are not expected to visualize God.[40]
Judaism
At least some Jews do not use any image for God, since God is the unimageable Being who cannot be represented in material forms.[102] In some samples of Jewish Art, however, sometimes God, or at least His Intervention, is indicated by a Hand Of God symbol, which represents the bath Kol (literally "daughter of a voice") or Voice of God;[103] this use of the Hand Of God is carried over to Christian Art.
Christianity
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Early Christians believed that the words of the Gospel of John 1:18: "No man has seen God at any time" and numerous other statements were meant to apply not only to God, but to all attempts at the depiction of God.[104]
Use of the symbolic Hand of God in the Ascension from the Drogo Sacramentary, c. 850
However, later on the Hand of God symbol is found several times in the only ancient synagogue with a large surviving decorative scheme, the Dura Europos Synagogue of the mid-3rd century, and was probably adopted into Early Christian art from Jewish art. It was common in Late Antique art in both East and West, and remained the main way of symbolizing the actions or approval of God the Father in the West until about the end of the Romanesque period. It also represents the bath Kol (literally "daughter of a voice") or voice of God,[103] just like in Jewish Art.
In situations, such as the Baptism of Christ, where a specific representation of God the Father was indicated, the Hand of God was used, with increasing freedom from the Carolingian period until the end of the Romanesque. This motif now, since the discovery of the 3rd century Dura Europos synagogue, seems to have been borrowed from Jewish art, and is found in Christian art almost from its beginnings.
The use of religious images in general continued to increase up to the end of the 7th century, to the point that in 695, upon assuming the throne, Byzantine emperor Justinian II put an image of Christ on the obverse side of his gold coins, resulting in a rift which ended the use of Byzantine coin types in the Islamic world.[105] However, the increase in religious imagery did not include depictions of God the Father. For instance, while the eighty second canon of the Council of Trullo in 692 did not specifically condemn images of The Father, it suggested that icons of Christ were preferred over Old Testament shadows and figures.[106]
The beginning of the 8th century witnessed the suppression and destruction of religious icons as the period of Byzantine iconoclasm (literally image-breaking) started. Emperor Leo III (717–741), suppressed the use of icons by imperial edict of the Byzantine Empire, presumably due to a military loss which he attributed to the undue veneration of icons.[107] The edict (which was issued without consulting the Church) forbade the veneration of religious images but did not apply to other forms of art, including the image of the emperor, or religious symbols such as the cross.[108] Theological arguments against icons then began to appear with iconoclasts arguing that icons could not represent both the divine and the human natures of Jesus at the same time. In this atmosphere, no public depictions of God the Father were even attempted and such depictions only began to appear two centuries later.
The Second Council of Nicaea in 787 effectively ended the first period of Byzantine iconoclasm and restored the honouring of icons and holy images in general.[109] However, this did not immediately translate into large scale depictions of God the Father. Even supporters of the use of icons in the 8th century, such as Saint John of Damascus, drew a distinction between images of God the Father and those of Christ.
In his treatise On the Divine Images John of Damascus wrote: "In former times, God who is without form or body, could never be depicted. But now when God is seen in the flesh conversing with men, I make an image of the God whom I see".[110] The implication here is that insofar as God the Father or the Spirit did not become man, visible and tangible, images and portrait icons can not be depicted. So what was true for the whole Trinity before Christ remains true for the Father and the Spirit but not for the Word. John of Damascus wrote:[111]
"If we attempt to make an image of the invisible God, this would be sinful indeed. It is impossible to portray one who is without body:invisible, uncircumscribed and without form."
Around 790 Charlemagne ordered a set of four books that became known as the Libri Carolini (i.e. "Charles' books") to refute what his court mistakenly understood to be the iconoclast decrees of the Byzantine Second Council of Nicaea regarding sacred images. Although not well known during the Middle Ages, these books describe the key elements of the Catholic theological position on sacred images. To the Western Church, images were just objects made by craftsmen, to be utilized for stimulating the senses of the faithful, and to be respected for the sake of the subject represented, not in themselves. The Council of Constantinople (869) (considered ecumenical by the Western Church, but not the Eastern Church) reaffirmed the decisions of the Second Council of Nicaea and helped stamp out any remaining coals of iconoclasm. Specifically, its third canon required the image of Christ to have veneration equal with that of a Gospel book:[112]
We decree that the sacred image of our Lord Jesus Christ, the liberator and Savior of all people, must be venerated with the same honor as is given the book of the holy Gospels. For as through the language of the words contained in this book all can reach salvation, so, due to the action which these images exercise by their colors, all wise and simple alike, can derive profit from them.
But images of God the Father were not directly addressed in Constantinople in 869. A list of permitted icons was enumerated at this Council, but symbols of God the Father were not among them.[113] However, the general acceptance of icons and holy images began to create an atmosphere in which God the Father could be symbolized.
Prior to the 10th century no attempt was made to use a human to symbolize God the Father in Western art.[104] Yet, Western art eventually required some way to illustrate the presence of the Father, so through successive representations a set of artistic styles for symbolizing the Father using a man gradually emerged around the 10th century AD. A rationale for the use of a human is the belief that God created the soul of Man in the image of His own (thus allowing Human to transcend the other animals).
It appears that when early artists designed to represent God the Father, fear and awe restrained them from a usage of the whole human figure. Typically only a small part would be used as the image, usually the hand, or sometimes the face, but rarely a whole human. In many images, the figure of the Son supplants the Father, so a smaller portion of the person of the Father is depicted.[114]
By the 12th century depictions of God the Father had started to appear in French illuminated manuscripts, which as a less public form could often be more adventurous in their iconography, and in stained glass church windows in England. Initially the head or bust was usually shown in some form of frame of clouds in the top of the picture space, where the Hand of God had formerly appeared; the Baptism of Christ on the famous baptismal font in Liège of Rainer of Huy is an example from 1118 (a Hand of God is used in another scene). Gradually the amount of the human symbol shown can increase to a half-length figure, then a full-length, usually enthroned, as in Giotto's fresco of c. 1305 in Padua.[115] In the 14th century the Naples Bible carried a depiction of God the Father in the Burning bush. By the early 15th century, the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry has a considerable number of symbols, including an elderly but tall and elegant full-length figure walking in the Garden of Eden, which show a considerable diversity of apparent ages and dress. The "Gates of Paradise" of the Florence Baptistry by Lorenzo Ghiberti, begun in 1425 use a similar tall full-length symbol for the Father. The Rohan Book of Hours of about 1430 also included depictions of God the Father in half-length human form, which were now becoming standard, and the Hand of God becoming rarer. At the same period other works, like the large Genesis altarpiece by the Hamburg painter Meister Bertram, continued to use the old depiction of Christ as Logos in Genesis scenes. In the 15th century there was a brief fashion for depicting all three persons of the Trinity as similar or identical figures with the usual appearance of Christ.
In an early Venetian school Coronation of the Virgin by Giovanni d'Alemagna and Antonio Vivarini, (c. 1443) The Father is depicted using the symbol consistently used by other artists later, namely a patriarch, with benign, yet powerful countenance and with long white hair and a beard, a depiction largely derived from, and justified by, the near-physical, but still figurative, description of the Ancient of Days.[116]
. ...the Ancient of Days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. (Daniel 7:9)
Usage of two Hands of God"(relatively unusual) and the Holy Spirit as a dove in Baptism of Christ, by Verrocchio, 1472
In the Annunciation by Benvenuto di Giovanni in 1470, God the Father is portrayed in the red robe and a hat that resembles that of a Cardinal. However, even in the later part of the 15th century, the symbolic representation of the Father and the Holy Spirit as "hands and dove" continued, e.g. in Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ in 1472.[117]
God the Father with His Right Hand Raised in Blessing, with a triangular halo representing the Trinity, Girolamo dai Libri c. 1555
In Renaissance paintings of the adoration of the Trinity, God may be depicted in two ways, either with emphasis on The Father, or the three elements of the Trinity. The most usual depiction of the Trinity in Renaissance art depicts God the Father using an old man, usually with a long beard and patriarchal in appearance, sometimes with a triangular halo (as a reference to the Trinity), or with a papal crown, specially in Northern Renaissance painting. In these depictions The Father may hold a globe or book (to symbolize God's knowledge and as a reference to how knowledge is deemed divine). He is behind and above Christ on the Cross in the Throne of Mercy iconography. A dove, the symbol of the Holy Spirit may hover above. Various people from different classes of society, e.g. kings, popes or martyrs may be present in the picture. In a Trinitarian Pietà, God the Father is often symbolized using a man wearing a papal dress and a papal crown, supporting the dead Christ in his arms. They are depicted as floating in heaven with angels who carry the instruments of the Passion.[118]
Representations of God the Father and the Trinity were attacked both by Protestants and within Catholicism, by the Jansenist and Baianist movements as well as more orthodox theologians. As with other attacks on Catholic imagery, this had the effect both of reducing Church support for the less central depictions, and strengthening it for the core ones. In the Western Church, the pressure to restrain religious imagery resulted in the highly influential decrees of the final session of the Council of Trent in 1563. The Council of Trent decrees confirmed the traditional Catholic doctrine that images only represented the person depicted, and that veneration to them was paid to the person, not the image.[119]
Artistic depictions of God the Father were uncontroversial in Catholic art thereafter, but less common depictions of the Trinity were condemned. In 1745 Pope Benedict XIV explicitly supported the Throne of Mercy depiction, referring to the "Ancient of Days", but in 1786 it was still necessary for Pope Pius VI to issue a papal bull condemning the decision of an Italian church council to remove all images of the Trinity from churches.[120]
The famous The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo, c.1512
God the Father is symbolized in several Genesis scenes in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, most famously The Creation of Adam (whose image of near touching hands of God and Adam is iconic of humanity, being a reminder that Man is created in the Image and Likeness of God (Gen 1:26)).God the Father is depicted as a powerful figure, floating in the clouds in Titian's Assumption of the Virgin in the Frari of Venice, long admired as a masterpiece of High Renaissance art.[121] The Church of the Gesù in Rome includes a number of 16th century depictions of God the Father. In some of these paintings the Trinity is still alluded to in terms of three angels, but Giovanni Battista Fiammeri also depicted God the Father as a man riding on a cloud, above the scenes.[122]
In both the Last Judgment and the Coronation of the Virgin paintings by Rubens he depicted God the Father using the image that by then had become widely accepted, a bearded patriarchal figure above the fray. In the 17th century, the two Spanish artists Velázquez (whose father-in-law Francisco Pacheco was in charge of the approval of new images for the Inquisition) and Murillo both depicted God the Father using a patriarchal figure with a white beard in a purple robe.
The Ancient of Days (1794) Watercolor etching by William Blake
While representations of God the Father were growing in Italy, Spain, Germany and the Low Countries, there was resistance elsewhere in Europe, even during the 17th century. In 1632 most members of the Star Chamber court in England (except the Archbishop of York) condemned the use of the images of the Trinity in church windows, and some considered them illegal.[123] Later in the 17th century Sir Thomas Browne wrote that he considered the representation of God the Father using an old man "a dangerous act" that might lead to Egyptian symbolism.[124] In 1847, Charles Winston was still critical of such images as a "Romish trend" (a term used to refer to Roman Catholics) that he considered best avoided in England.[125]
In 1667 the 43rd chapter of the Great Moscow Council specifically included a ban on a number of symbolic depictions of God the Father and the Holy Spirit, which then also resulted in a whole range of other icons being placed on the forbidden list,[126][127] mostly affecting Western-style depictions which had been gaining ground in Orthodox icons. The Council also declared that the person of the Trinity who was the "Ancient of Days" was Christ, as Logos, not God the Father. However some icons continued to be produced in Russia, as well as Greece, Romania, and other Orthodox countries.
Theological approaches
Theologians and philosophers have attributed to God such characteristics as omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, perfect goodness, divine simplicity, and eternal and necessary existence. God has been described as incorporeal, a personal being, the source of all moral obligation, and the greatest conceivable being existent.[3] These attributes were all claimed to varying degrees by the early Jewish, Christian and Muslim scholars, including Maimonides,[53] St Augustine,[53] and Al-Ghazali.[128]
Many philosophers developed arguments for the existence of God,[8] while attempting to comprehend the precise implications of God's attributes. Reconciling some of those attributes generated important philosophical problems and debates. For example, God's omniscience may seem to imply that God knows how free agents will choose to act. If God does know this, their ostensible free will might be illusory, or foreknowledge does not imply predestination, and if God does not know it, God may not be omniscient.[129]
However, if by its essential nature, free will is not predetermined, then the effect of its will can never be perfectly predicted by anyone, regardless of intelligence and knowledge. Although knowledge of the options presented to that will, combined with perfectly infinite intelligence, could be said to provide God with omniscience if omniscience is defined as knowledge or understanding of all that is.
The last centuries of philosophy have seen vigorous questions regarding the arguments for God's existence raised by such philosophers as Immanuel Kant, David Hume and Antony Flew, although Kant held that the argument from morality was valid. The theist response has been either to contend, as does Alvin Plantinga, that faith is "properly basic", or to take, as does Richard Swinburne, the evidentialist position.[130] Some theists agree that only some of the arguments for God's existence are compelling, but argue that faith is not a product of reason, but requires risk. There would be no risk, they say, if the arguments for God's existence were as solid as the laws of logic, a position summed up by Pascal as "the heart has reasons of which reason does not know."[131] A recent theory using concepts from physics and neurophysiology proposes that God can be conceptualized within the theory of integrative level.[132]
Many religious believers allow for the existence of other, less powerful spiritual beings such as angels, saints, jinn, demons, and devas.[133][134][135][136][137]
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No, I can't go all day today without posting a cat picture (pictures). I thought I could, but changed my mind. Shadow is just so adorable that I have to share these pictures of him enjoying life in his new home.
I was going to post other pictures with this one, but though they uploaded I can't add them to this picture. I will post them tomorrow I guess. Also, I cannot look at more than the one most recent picture of my contacts. Flickr will not let me access the rest of the photo streams. How odd! Good thing I did most of my catching up earlier today.
Shaw Memorial
•Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
•American, 1848-1907
•1900
•Patinated Plaster
•Dimensions:
oOverall (Without Armature or Pedestal): 368.9 × 524.5 × 86.4 cm (145¼ × 206½ × 34 in.)
oOverall (With Armature & Pedestal): 419.1 × 524.5 × 109.2 cm (165 × 206½ × 43 in.)
•U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire
•X.15233
•On View
Overview
Commissioned from the celebrated American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens in the early 1880s and dedicated as a monument in 1897, the Shaw Memorial has been acclaimed as the greatest American sculpture of the 19th century. The memorial commemorates the valiant efforts of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the men of the 54th Massachusetts, the first Civil War regiment of African Americans enlisted in the North.
The 54th Massachusetts Regiment
The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was raised shortly after Lincoln’s issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. Recruits came from many states, encouraged by such African American leaders as the great orator Frederick Douglass, whose own sons joined the 54th. The unit was commanded by 25-year-old Robert Gould Shaw, the Harvard-educated son of dedicated white abolitionists.
On the evening of July 18, 1863, the 54th Massachusetts led the assault upon the nearly impenetrable earthworks of Fort Wagner, which guarded access to the port of Charleston, South Carolina. Shaw, at the front of the charge, was one of the first to die. Of the approximately 600 men of the 54th who participated, nearly 300 were captured, declared missing, or died from wounds they received that day. The steadfastness and bravery of the 54th were widely reported, providing a powerful rallying point for African Americans who had longed for the chance to fight for the emancipation of their race. By the end of the war, African Americans composed 10 percent of the Union forces, contributing crucial manpower to the final victory of the North.
The Sculptor
Augustus Saint-Gaudens was born in Dublin in 1848 and raised in New York, where he was apprenticed to a cameo-cutter at the age of 13. After a period of study in Paris in the 1860s, he began his career in Rome with several commissions for sculpted portraits. In post-Civil War America, the unprecedented interest in creating public monuments to the nation’s heroes brought Saint-Gaudens many commissions. The sculptor’s ability to combine startling naturalism with lofty allegory made his work eminently suited to such endeavors. The Shaw Memorial, first imagined by the artist as a traditional equestrian monument to a single heroic figure, evolved into a more original and challenging project as the artist added a narrative relief to commemorate the troops as well as their leader. Although the sculptor’s contract called for the work to be completed in two years, it took Saint-Gaudens more than a decade to complete the monument, which kept evolving and growing in complexity, becoming as he said, “a labor of love.”
Even as the Shaw Memorial was being cast in bronze before its unveiling on Boston Common in May 1897, Saint-Gaudens was working on yet another version of the subject. This slightly different design, cast in plaster (and exhibited here), reflects subtle changes that the sculptor made as he refined the sculpture into his final vision prior to its exhibition in Paris in 1898 and 1900. In 1901, the plaster traveled to the Pan-American Exposition and was purchased the following year by the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy (later the Albright-Knox Art Gallery). Presented by that museum to the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in 1949, it was exhibited there for several decades. As part of an extensive conservation and casting project, this plaster version of Saint-Gaudens’ timeless masterpiece came to the National Gallery of Art on long-term loan in 1997.
Exhibition History
•1997—Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998.
•2013—Tell It with Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Shaw Memorial, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2013 - 2014, no. 65.
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Hijaz is without a doubt one of the best kept secrets of the Belgian world music scene. The quartet weaves a tangible dialogue between oud (the Arab lute) and piano, bridging divides between Arab music and jazz. That duality is reflected in their name, Hijaz,. In their fourth and most recent album ’Nahadin’, Hijaz take a major step forward or, at least, into some other dimension. They have been experimenting, composing and recording new pieces, flouting all rules and formal standards to arrive at a real symbiosis of cultures. They are taking a high dive into the music: no verses, choruses or bridges, choosing to explore the organic quality of the music, at the point where it acquires the fluidity of water. For the release of their album, they have invited Tunisian singer Abir Nasraoui as their guest. She also sings on the new album.
- Niko Deman: piano
- Chryster Aerts: percussion
- Rui Salgado: double bass
- Moufadhel Adhoum: oud
+ guest Abir Nasraoui: vocals
Without his shack and all alone..... sigh ....... maybe next year........ if only he got a nibble....
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Without a doubt, these compact vans are one of the most popular cars in Indonesia. This is a picture of my hotels tour van, which I spent a lot of time in running around Bali just recently.
We also get these here in Australia, but not like this! Ours are very basic, 'stripped out' little vans that only sell to small business around the city and come with black front and rear bumpers, not even wheel covers and are only sold in white, black or silver!! Very basic!!
This version however, was very comfortable and had seating for 7!!
Burlaeus, Gualtherus: Expositio in artem veterem Porphyrii et Aristotelis (without text). Edited by Simon Alexandrinus. Venice: Christophorus Arnoldus, [not after 1476]. Page of text (a2r) with ownership inscription of Como, Dominicans, S. Johannes, in the lower margin: “Iste liber est [conventus] s[an]cti Joh[ann]is de Como ord[in]is p[rae]dica[torum]”. Sp Coll BD9-d.9 (item 1).
The KOM League
Flash Report
For week of
June 19—25, 2016
Opening salvo:
Most weeks start with nothing to write about. This week was no exception. Then, someone will call or e-mail me with a question or obituary and the verbiage commences. Thus, without reader input I’d have nothing to share for everything I ever knew, for a fact or have fabricated, has already been shared in the 22- years of writing about the KOM league.
At this time I know some things that will appear in the next issue of this report for I didn’t have room to share them in this epistle. So, if you want to be mentioned in the next issue, get in touch.
Three historical photos of KOM leaguers are referenced in this report.. One had to be selected to place on the Flickr site and the one of the recently deceased Jim Allicotti was the winner: www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/27654549751/
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Bad start to new week:
Early on the morning of June 12th I was copied on a Facebook message from the son of Richard and Molly McCoy. Not having access to that function I immediately went to the KOM database and pulled up the telephone number of the McCoy’s. No one answered the home phone but the call to the cellphone number had me in touch with Dick.
Immediately upon saying “Hello,” Dick knew my voice. I asked him if anything was wrong and there sure was. He said he had just gone through a traumatic experience. He had a biopsy of a large tumor under his left ear and learned that it was malignant. He will enter the hospital on June 13th for surgery. He told me on Sunday, 12th, that the procedure was first estimated to take two to three hours but due to further examination the surgery time was increased to an estimated eight hours.
A conversation ensued about life from youth to its advanced stages. Dick told me that he is nearing his 87th birthday and figured he had escaped some of the diseases that befall others. He said “I thought I was on the downhill side of that.” He mentioned that his mother lived to be 105 and figured he was on his way to equaling her longevity.
McCoy recalled that in his youth, as a Brooklyn Dodger farmhand and big league hopeful, that he thought the sun was wonderful when he could pitch a game in hot places like Ponca City and Ft. Worth. That turned out to be a major contributor to his current condition. As he spoke with his doctor he was asked if he ever chewed tobacco. McCoy said he had a little Beechnut while sitting in the dugout but was never a big user of it.
It’s pretty tough talking to someone like Dick who I’ve known for over 20 years and have been affiliated with him and Molly at wedding anniversaries as well as numerous KOM reunions. Many a morning, in the past couple of decades, I’d receive a call from Dick and it was usually a conversation that went “John, I played baseball with a guy in 1951, can you tell me if he’s still alive and if so, where?” Sometimes the guy had passed on and other times a connection was made for Dick to reunite with an old teammate. I recall the first time he ever asked about finding someone and it happened to be the widow of Pepper Martin. The Martins and McCoys were great friends and Dick has as many tales about Pepper as anyone I ever met.
“Every day is a new experience,” Dick declared. He had already been on the telephone with former teammate Gene Castiglione of the Ponca City Dodgers and a fellow mounds man in the Dodger organization by the name of Jim Melton. He opined that Melton was always on the verge of making it to the big leagues, posting large win totals in the minors.
Most generally I don’t share health conditions of former players in this forum. However, there are many readers who know Dick and Molly and I figured I’d share the news so that they can be in touch with the family.
I’ll keep everyone apprised of McCoy’s condition as it unfolds.
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Death of James Vincent Allicotti—baseball player, educator and screen actor
Last week I was going through my list of living, former KOM leaguers, from whom I hadn’t heard from for some time. One name I looked up was James Vincent Allicotti who played centerfield, in the month of June of 1950 for the Miami, Okla. Eagles. He joined the team on May 28. In 1949 he played for Wausau, in the Wisconsin State as well as Ada, Okla. in the Sooner State league. Aside from Miami, he also played for Ada in a dozen games prior to showing up in Miami. I didn’t find anything but less than a week later he passed away.
Most record books don’t indicate it but Allicotti hit from the right side of the plate. He was a big guy for his era going 6’ 2” and 190 pounds while at Miami. A photo of him in his time at Miami can be seen at this site: www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/27654549751/
During the 1951 season Allicotti played for Spokane, WA in the Western International. He finished his baseball career in 1952 with Yuma, AZ in the Southwest International and Magic Valley (Twin Falls area) of the Pioneer leagues in 1952.
The following is his obituary that was brought to my attention by Jack Morris on June 15.
obits.ocregister.com/obituaries/orangecounty/obituary.asp...
James Vincent Allicotti, "Jim", 85, of Anaheim, CA passed away on Sunday, June 5, 2016. He was born September 22, 1930 in Denver, CO to the late Vincent and Josephine Allicotti. He was an avid golfer and also enjoyed fishing and hunting.
He played professional baseball in the minor leagues for the late Western International Baseball League's Spokane Indians. Between baseball seasons, he was a screen extra in several Hollywood films, and returned to work as an extra for television after retiring from his teaching career.
He earned his Master’s Degree in Health Science from CSU Los Angeles; and Pupil Personnel Services (PPS) Credential from Pepperdine University. He taught Health and Driver's Education for Anaheim Union High School District for 30 years, during which time he also served part-time as a Parks & Recreation Coordinator for City of Anaheim Community Services Department.
Jim is survived by his wife, Diana Allicotti; daughters Gina Allicotti, Sharon Allicotti, Annette Addie, Lola Allicotti; and granddaughters Amanda and Haylie Addie. He is also survived by sisters, Marie Parr and Lorraine Giordano; and was preceded in death by his sister, Mamie Coleman. A Funeral Mass will be held on Wednesday, June 15, 11:00 AM at St. Anthony Claret Catholic Church, 1450 La Palma Ave. Anaheim, CA 92805. Donations in Jim's name may be made to Anaheim Public Library Foundation:
The remnants of the 1950 Miami Eagles
With the passing of James Allicotti, the 40-man Miami roster is now down to these known survivors: George Garrison, Charles Kohs, Gary Plant Hildebrand, Bob Paulausky, Richard Sassi, Charles V. Quartaro, Louis Salreno and Don Fitzgerald. There were two members of that club I never located—Orlando G. “Tex” Simpson and Charles Mann. Simpson was a pitcher from Corpus Christi, Tex. and Mann was a first baseman from Moffett, Okla. . Mann also played for the Iola Indians in 1950. Miami had three managers that year—James Dorn Oglesby, Oren Carroll “Jack” Hodge and Francis Arthur “Pug” Griffin. They are all deceased. Miami had the tragic oddity of having a manager from 1950 and 1951 who later committed suicide. Jim Oglesby took his own life in 1955 and Tommy Warren did so in 1968. Both of the suicides occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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A tough task in fate verification
Had I refrained from using a photo of the 1946 Chanute, Kansas pitching staff I would have saved myself a lot of effort. That photo carried with it an image of “Red” White. On the back of the photo “Red” was identified as Bob White. Well, there was a pitcher in the KOM league by the name of Robert White but he pitched for Miami, OK and not until 1949.
Had I used the 1946 Chanute team photo I would have identified Bob White as William D. White. After Frank Houston asked me about Mr. White and whether he ever lived in Oklahoma City I decided I had better go back to my early 1990’s records. This reference takes you to the 1946 team photo. William “Red” White is the second from the left in the back row: www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/27729119415/
Chanute’s “Red” White had the full name of William Denzil White. He was born on September 2, 1923 in Arcola, MO which is in Dade County with the largest town in that county being Greenfield and the population there has been around 1,000 for decades.
By 1930, Red White’s father, William Barton White, had moved his family to Visalia, California but in 1935 the family was back in Dade County. Death records indicate Red’s mother died in Visalia in 1961 and his dad died in 1966 in Oak Grove, Mo.
William Denzil White graduated from high school (most likely, Greenfield) in 1941 and on 8/21/1942 he joined the U. S. Army. He served there until January 22, 1946 and then returned to Dade County. During the spring of 1946 he made his way to Carthage, MO where the Topeka and Chanute Owls were holding spring training. He made the team as a left-handed pitcher and “went northwest,” to Chanute, when the Carthage Cardinals returned from their spring training in Albany, Georgia. The following photo of Topeka/Chanute players was taken at the motor court just across the street (Route 66) from the Carthage ballpark. . That was one of two motels in Carthage at the time: www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/27729119415/ Ballplayers stayed there while the big brass of those teams stayed at the Drake Hotel or Boots Motor Court. Boots was where Clark Gable stayed when he came to Carthage.
The 1946 season wasn’t the best for the recently discharged soldier as he went 8-15. That season Chanute was the only farm team of the Topeka Owls. In 1947 Miami took the Owl franchise and Chanute played as an independent club. White went back to Chanute for his second season in pro ball but it was not as successful or as long as his first.
Most likely, White played a lot of baseball with and against Floyd “Goat” Wooldridge., who was born at Jerico Springs, in 1928, and lived in Greenfield when he signed with the St Louis Cardinals in 1950. It wasn’t possible to track White to more than two places after his stint in the KOM. He lived in Bellflower, Calif. and died in the same place Floyd Wooldridge was born, Jerico Springs, passing away there on June 14, 1993 and is buried at the Anna-Edna Cemetery.
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A Special story—regarding a former Whiz Kid
The following only proves that by dropping every name of anyone I have ever known, in these reports, yields feedback. A reader in Kansas City sent a clipping with a post-it note attached that read “John, for some reason I seem to remember you referencing this Ben Craig information one time. Am I dreaming?” I informed the writer that he wasn’t dreaming and due to Casebolt keeping his eyes open and maintaining a sharp memory the following is being shared.
www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/steve-rose/a...
By clicking on the aforementioned URL you’ll get a photo.
For those without URL capability here is the entire article:
By Steve Rose
Those who don’t know Ben Craig may think his request to throw a portion of his ashes in the air along Metcalf Avenue in Overland Park is a bit odd.
But this 87-year-old civic leader, who has cancer and has been given three months to live, has rational reasons for this unusual request. Metcalf Avenue is the spine of Overland Park — and, by extension all of Johnson County — and that is the community that Ben Craig has poured his soul into. Aside from his family, Ben has dedicated himself to this community above all else. And he has left his indelible mark.
Ben came to Overland Park 52 years ago to become president of Metcalf Bank, a small start-up at 79th Street and Metcalf Avenue. It was also in 1964 that Ben joined the Overland Park Rotary Club, where he holds the distinction of perfect attendance over those 52 years.
Ben brings total commitment to everything, which has made him an icon. He has been involved in so many causes and achieved so many awards that a list of them is literally six pages long.
When Metcalf Avenue’s business development stretched only a few blocks south of 75th Street and the county was strictly a bedroom suburb, Ben saw a fertile community that he thought would someday be far more than simply nice homes, shops and outstanding schools. Johnson County has become a commercial hub, thanks in part to Ben.
Economic development is in Ben’s blood. He founded the Overland Park Chamber of Commerce and has led almost every business organization that exists in the county. He is the only Johnson County banker to serve as president of the Kansas Banker’s Association. You might expect that kind of business involvement from a banker. But although Ben built a thriving, sprawling bank empire, he never solicited business from those he served with or from any government. He kept banking and serving in two separate worlds.
Ben’s clear choice for his most significant life achievement is chairing the campaign committee that championed a $12.9 million bond issue to establish Johnson County Community College. The success of that campaign resulted in the community’s crown jewel, ranked as one of the finest in America. But that was just the beginning of Ben’s involvement there.
Ben was the first chairman of the JCCC Foundation, which has raised tens of millions of dollars over the years toward scholarships for those who couldn’t afford full tuition. He has stayed involved with the college. It should come as no surprise that Ben is leaving a large part of his estate to the college scholarship fund.
Ben has been behind the scenes in local politics. He was always on the lookout for good officeholders. Ben mentored hundreds of candidates over the years. Sometimes he raised funds for their campaigns.
Ben’s true joy, which lights up his face, is the Deanna Rose Farmstead in Overland Park. Not only has Ben been a longtime leader of that organization, he generously built a large, all-brick replica of an old-time bank called “Ben’s Bank” for children to learn about banking.
Throughout most of his life, Ben didn’t take the time for hobbies. But in his ’60s, he took up golf, which became a passion. A natural athlete who once played minor league baseball (on the same team as Mickey Mantle), Ben has religiously played twice a week until recently. He finally shot a hole-in-one four years ago.
Ben is a privately spiritual man. As he tells his life story, Ben assigns much of what has happened to him to his creator. He views the last few months of life as a gift, so that he has the time to get things in order and say goodbye to his family and many friends.
So, one day, if you see ashes flying through the air over Metcalf Avenue, that’s Ben. It will be symbolic. The real Ben is in every nook and cranny of the community he has spent his lifetime serving.
Steve Rose, longtime Johnson County columnist: srose@kc.rr.com
The Epilogue:
After reading Mr. Rose’s great article I shared these comments with him. “A Kansas City reader sent me your excellent article on Ben Craig. As a historian of amateur and professional baseball in Southeast Kansas, Northwest Oklahoma and Southwest Missouri I got to know Ben Craig quite well over the past two decades.
When Ben Craig and Mickey Mantle were teammates they played for Barney Barnett of Baxter Springs, Kansas. Barnett would gather the best athletes from the area each summer. From 1944--1951 Barney managed the team he called ‘The Whiz Kids.’ I've always said that the Whiz Kids turned out to be great successes in their fields of endeavor. Craig was one of the more outstanding in my opinion.
I don't wish to bore you but I witnessed Craig's dealing with a very ill wife and how he fulfilled ‘Till Death Do Us Part’ to the extreme.
One of the stories that stands out in my mind, concerning Craig, was a Baxter Springs game in 1948 with their main rival, the Alba, Missouri Aces. The Aces were blessed by having all the Boyer brothers on the team at one time or another. In 1948 Kenny was on the team and he faced Craig. Craig could throw a ball through a brick wall. In a game Craig threw one so hard Kenny couldn't get out of the way. It hit him upside the temple and he fell like he had been shot. Kenny laid on the ground for quite some time. Craig once told me that he thought he had killed him.
Kenny got over the blow to the head and before the season was over Craig was pitching against Alba once more. When it was Kenny's time to bat he stood so far away from the plate he couldn't hit anything. He just wanted to get his times at bat behind him. Craig said he always felt bad about that incident since he hadn't hit his opponent on purpose. The next year Kenny Boyer signed with the St. Louis Cardinals
Ben Craig had played part one year of professional baseball in the Sooner State league, in 1947. He then returned home and played for the Whiz Kids when Mantle joined them. At that time Ben Craig was the big strapping member of the team and Mantle was one of the runts of the outfit.”
Mr. Rose answered my e-mail and said he would print my comments and take them to Ben Craig since he doesn’t have e-mail. On the other hand, the author of the Craig article does have an e-mail. I ask readers to communicate with an author when they write a story that is even tangentially associated with the KOM league. In this case the author can be contacted at srose@kc.rr.com
Ben Craig had a great deal of influence and contact with future big league stars such as Mickey Mantle and Kenny Boyer but he also had a lot to do with the KOM League Remembered newsletter being funded and going to better homes and gardens for sixteen years. Without people like Ben Craig the KOM communication lines would have faded long before the start of the 21st century.
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Newbill influence continues
My cousin's little grandson who is 12 is in Cooperstown playing in a tournament. His team is now out but Caden hit a home run in one game and played well so he is pretty happy with his performance. Plus, he is really a basketball player. He wanted me to send him some photos of his great uncle playing ball so I did. He wanted to show all his teammates. Then today they went to the museum and went to the records department and had them pull this up. Caden wants to play catch with him and wants to know if you can play catch in heaven. I assured him that you can.
Sometimes unexpected sweet moments sneak into your day! Cindy Newbill—Kansas
Ed comment:
Caden’s great uncle is the late, great Bobby Gene Newbill who played for the 1949 Independence Yankees among other places. It must have been a huge surprise for Caden’s friends to learn his great uncle played on the same team with Mickey Mantle.
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Nothing of insignificance appears in these reports
John: I read all of your interesting reports although I know of very few of the players mentioned, having spent only a few days with Iola in 1950. You mentioned Rich Eichhorst in your latest report who was the only Southeast Missouri State basketball player to have ever played in the NBA. He led the league in scoring his senior season, 1956 I believe. I was a Senior at SEMO State at the same time and knew who he was although I never met him. I was a few years older than him, having been in the Marine Corps and playing parts of 3 years of baseball and then going to SEMO State on the GI Bill.
He, Carl (Pete) Ritter, Ray Ripplemeyer and Elmer Balzer were outstanding players for SEMO State in the early to mid-1950s. I knew Balzer as he had played some pro baseball and I believe Ripplemeyer had done so also, although I never really met him. I know Pete Ritter very well, having gone to the same high school, Advance, although I was several years older than him. Pete was probably the best basketball player to ever come out of SE Missouri with the possible exception of Win Wilfong of the Puxico HS, his small town HS having won 2 straight state championships in the days before the so called “Final four”. Wilfong played a few years in the NBA, scoring about 2000 points. He played a little baseball when he was a high schooler and was a little on the profane side. I pitched a game against the Puxico town team; we were winning, and the Puxico manager asked Wilfong if he would pinch hit. He responded “hell no, if that son of a ----- hit you, he’d kill you”, (the SOB being me). I could throw quite hard at that time and was pretty wild.
Ritter is the all-time leading basketball scorer for SEMO State and to my knowledge the only SEMO player to have had his number retired. He, like Wilfong, was only 6 ft. 2 inches but this didn’t prevent them from being great college scorers. Ritter was drafted by the St. Louis Hawks but injured his knee severely and was never able to play in the NBA. He is now the Mayor of the town of Advance.
Bill Ashcraft
Overland Park, Ks.
Ed comment:
One of the great joys in researching and looking for former KOM league came when I first located Bill Ashcraft. It turned out that he worked with the Drug Enforcement Agency with his former Iola teammate from 1950, Bernard Leroy Coulter. What turned out to come as a greater surprise was that both Coulter and Ashcraft worked for my first cousin, Ernest Hall, who was head of that agency in Kansas City. Over the years Ashcraft shared photos taken at Drug Enforcement conferences and one included that of a very young Joe Arpaio who now is a well-known sheriff in Arizona.
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A trivia contestant:
The answer is three young men in the stands with the lone adult... and, I see the name Del Webb, possibly who these retirement communities are named after. I will check it out. Thanks, John.
Cindy Lange—Palatine, Ill.
Ed comment:
No one reported seeing more than three young boys in the grandstand behind the photo of the 1947 Bartlesville Oilers. There were four. I’ll explain. In the center of the Bartlesville dugout was a post supported by two beams that were in a “V” configuration. A little boy is in the photo just above that “V.” If you have deleted that photo here is the access to it. www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/27511893266/
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Comments about last report:
JOHN, WHAT A NICE FEELING E-MAIL. I REALLY ENJOYED READING IT. WALT Babcock—A resident of Cape Cod, Mass.
Another good one John –Jim Skog in Davenport, Iowa
Ed comment:
It was a bit ironic that those were the only two “atta-boys” received regarding the last report and they came within five minutes of the other. To top that Babcock is the person who introduced Skog to the existence of the Flash Reports. Skog is a former military pilot who spent his post military days flying the big birds for United Airlines. Babcock has also spent many days pretty high up himself. He doesn’t fly an airplane, drink or take drugs but he still gets pretty high once in a while over certain antics of our elected and non-elected leaders. I know that he does for I hear from him a “few” times a week.
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A Flash Report extra—a pigs ear
Things go on around my home other than writing Flash Reports. Early this past week I went big game hunting or better stated, the big game came to me. I awoke the morning after setting a trap the previous evening and came face-to-face with a very unhappy raccoon. That fellow is on my Flickr site but most of you wouldn’t go there to see it even if I provided the correct URL. However, my photo recipients had a lot of interest in it for they also have raccoon stories to tell. Here is where they viewed it. www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/26996981274/
I surmised that instead of a trap I should get me a coon dog and a former Tennessee resident who has migrated to Florida sent this tale. “Your neighbors will love a coon dog. I had one that tracked our hogs that swam across the Tennessee River when the water was low and dams had not been built. He would track them and hold them by the ear until I came after hearing the pig squeal.”
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Clips from a May 27, 1947 Iola Register sports page
It isn’t feasible to share entire pages of old newspapers but sometimes I find things that are unique or I learn something I didn’t know about members of the KOM league. I’m including four clips from a late May edition of the Iola Register. Of all the stories I don’t know which one surprised me the most. It comes down to the articles about Jim Hansen and Boyd Bartley. I suppose I spoke as much with Jim Hansen, until the time of his death, as anyone. I knew he played as a fullback for both Nebraska and Iowa during WW II but never did he tell me he played for the Chicago Bears. It would make sense for Ray “Fido” Murphy, Topeka Owls owner, was a scout of the Bears and even had Scooter McLean on his Topeka club in 1946. Murphy signed Hansen to a Topeka contract in 1946. My search of every Chicago Bear roster shows no trace of Hansen having played in a NFL game for them. McLean used to urge his baseball teammates to join the Bears for they could double in one NFL game what they could earn in a month playing Class D or C baseball. For those of you unfamiliar with salaries of the 1946 era the Class D players made between $90 and $125 a month. I have the contracts to prove it. So, playing for the Bears a guy might make as much as $250 a week.
Another surprise was that it took Boyd Bartley until late May of 1947 to get tossed from his first game as a collegiate or professional and when he did he talked his way back into the contest. Read it in this set of clips for these are all quotes from the newspaper. And, newspapers are always correct, right?
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Time Hangs Heavy for Nick Najjar
Time—7:45.
Place—Cubs' dugout.
Nick Najjar —"Rabbit, what time is it?'
Lloyd Ayers — "Quarter of eight."
Najjar —"Tell me when it's eight, will you?"
Ayers—"Yeah."
Five minutes later: Najjar—"Rabbit, what time is it?"'
Ayers—"Ten minutes of."
Najjar—"Thanks."
Najjar to Buck Walz- “We’ll start warming up at eight.
Buck. Walz -"Okay."
At. 7:53: Najjar—"Is it eight' yet, Rabbit?"'
Ayers—"No; seven till."
Najjar—"Thanks."
At- 7:55: Najjar--"Come on Buck, let's warm up.
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Chanute Owls of 1946 became Miami “Wise Birds” of 1947
Miami is scheduled to arrive in town today for its first invasion of the Cub den at Riverside Park. The Oklahoma ball team will appear with only one of its 1946 performers—Outfielder Loren Packard but carries a fair resemblance to the 1946 Chanute Owls, having appropriated Chanurc's sponsor, the Topeka Owls, the Chanute nickname, and two players, Jim Hansen, catcher, and Marty Debish, outfielder. And, incidentally, the Owls come to town from Chanute, where they have just accomplished a feat that may never have been performed in the KOM before—a clean sweep of Chanute at Chanute. They captured a doubleheader there Sunday and added a 12-7 victory last night. Jim "No Hit" Morris, is another individual lending distinction to the Owls.
Garnett, Kansas fans will be here tomorrow night to celebrate the no- hit game pitched by that city's contribution to KOM ball. Morris blanked Carthage 12-0 on opening day of the season. He is tentatively scheduled as the Miami pitcher tomorrow. Miami is the third place team in the KOM, 4 games back of the Cubs. Bill Davis, pitcher with the Topeka Owls last season is the Miami manager. Big Loren Packard, the Owls' clean-up hitter, was the KOM's second heaviest hitter when the latest averages were figured, having hit .379. (Ed note: The photo taken after Morris tossed the non-hitter is the only KOM league photo to ever appear in the Associated Press. Long story, I’ve shared it previously. If curious let me know and I’ll share it with you.)
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Former Iowa and Nebraska fullback had signed with the Chicago Bears
Jim Hansen, the Chicago Bears professional football player, is the catcher who was sidelined at Chanute last fall in favor of Dave Dennis, action that caused an explosion in the Chanute- lola Shaughnessy play-off. He is currently batting .359. John Barley, business manager of the Cubs; said at noon today that tonight's game is definitely "on," unless more rain falls. (Ed note: Barley replaced Lloyd “Rabbit” Ayers as business manager, in 1947, and died the next year.)
Players are coming and going fast In the KOM league now. Independence has received three new outfielders and two pitchers. All clubs, must trim down to 15 by Friday.
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Kicked out of game and talked his way back in
Boyd Bartley, the studious and gentlemanly young man managing the Ponca City Dodgers, has never been expelled from a ball game by an umpire, according to the Ponca City News. His career covers, the University oi Illinois, the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the Montreal Royals. He: was a near victim of Umpire (Seward) Rice of the KOM on a recent night, however, getting a pink slip but having it withdrawn when he convinced Rice there was nobody else to play his second base position. He must have studied law when a student at Illinois.
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I quit
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Ghali apre la performance di Martin Garrix per Milano Rocks, sabato 10 settembre 2022 all’Ippodromo Snai San Siro.
Fru di The Jackal ha il compito di presentare Ghali e con lui sul palco come ospiti ci sono Axell, Tedua, Digital Astro, Pyrex, Baby Gang e Charlie Charles.
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Nel 2020 viene notato proprio da Ghali che, intuendone le grandi potenzialità, decide di inserirlo nella cantera di Sto Records facendogli firmare il suo primo contratto. I suoi primi singoli ufficiali “Preghiera per il blocco” e “Tutto Passa” vengono fin da subito apprezzati dal pubblico che iniziano a conoscere il mondo di Digital Astro. Questo ruota attorno al racconto delle difficoltà che i ragazzi delle nuove generazioni devono affrontare.
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Incontra Dark Side, Tony Effe e Wayne da adolescente a scuola. Inizia a rappare con loro per gioco, finché Sick Luke, figlio di Duke Montana, li convince a fare le cose sul serio confezionando i primi beat. Nasce così Dark Polo Gang, collettivo che inizialmente è addirittura un quintetto, insieme a un altro ragazzo romano, Bangerz.
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Nel 2018 pubblica Street, il suo primo singolo, ma poco dopo viene arrestato e condannato alla detenzione nel carcere minorile Beccaria di Milano, dal quale esce grazie all’intervento di Don Claudio Burgio che lo porta nella propria comunità. Nel 2019 pubblica i singoli Fuck la Pula, Educazione e Cella 1. Ottiene un discreto successo nel 2020 grazie alla collaborazione con la 167 Gang nel singolo Baby Gang e Bimbi Soldato con Sacky. Dopo una lunga serie di singoli, nel 2021 pubblica prima EP1, progetto di 7 brani con le collaborazioni di Il Ghost, Omar, Neima Ezza, Rondodasosa e Escomar. Per fine agosto è previsto Delinquente, il suo primo disco ufficiale pubblicato per Warner Music Italy.
Charlie Charles, pseudonimo di Paolo Alberto Monachetti, è un produttore discografico e disc jockey italiano, ritenuto tra i principali esponenti della scena hip hop e trap italiana degli anni 2010.
Charlie Charles inizia la sua carriera ascoltando e producendo musica elettronica e techno, dedicandosi anche alla composizione di colonne sonore. Dopo diversi cambi di scuola, abbandonò le superiori per dedicarsi solo alla musica, creando a Seguro un proprio studio di registrazione. Intorno allo stesso periodo conosce il rapper Sfera Ebbasta, intraprendendo una collaborazione musicale culminata nel 2015 con l'album in studio XDVR. Il 2015 segna inoltre la collaborazione con Marracash per l'etichetta discografica indipendente Roccia Music, producendo vari brani e album con Ghali, Tedua, Izi, Gué Pequeno e la Dark Polo Gang, oltre a Sfera Ebbasta.
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