title: Samuel Dickey Gordon

abstract: Samuel Dickey Gordon was a prolific author and evangelical lay minister active in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Philadelphia, he served as assistant secretary of the Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in 1884-86 and then became state secretary for the YMCA in Ohio, serving from 1886 to 1895. He is perhaps best known for his series of books "Quiet Talks on...", published from 1903 onwards, which have their own unique style very much different to that of other writers of the day.

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# Samuel Dickey Gordon

**Samuel Dickey Gordon** (August 12, 1859 – June 1936) was a prolific author and evangelical lay minister active in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Born in Philadelphia, he served as assistant secretary of the Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in 1884-86 and then became state secretary for the YMCA in Ohio, serving from 1886 to 1895.

He is perhaps best known for his series of books "Quiet Talks on ...", published from 1903 onwards, which have their own unique style very much different to that of other writers of the day.

## Works

* Quiet Talks on Power (1903)
* Quiet Talks on Prayer (1904)
* Quiet Talks about Jesus (1906)
* Quiet Talks on Service (1906)
* Quiet Talks on Personal Problems (1907)
* Quiet Talks with World Winners (1908)
* Quiet Talks on Home Ideals (1909), written in conjunction with Mary Kilgore Gordon, "in response to letters received asking for helpful literature on the subject of home life".
* Quiet Talks about the Tempter (1910)
* Quiet Talks with Workers (1910)
* Prayer Changes Things (1910)
* Quiet Talks about Calvary (1911)
* Quiet Talks about Our Lord's Return (1912)
* Quiet Talks on Following the Christ (1913)
* Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation (1914)
* Quiet Talks on John's Gospel (1915)
* Quiet Talks about the Babe of Bethlehem (1915)
* Quiet Talks with Those Who Weep (1915)
* Quiet Talks on Life After Death (1920)
* Quiet Talks about the Healing Christ (1924)
* Quiet talks about simple essentials and the present world outlook (1924)
* Quiet talks on the crisis and after (1926)
* Quiet Talks on How to Pray (1929)
* Quiet talks on the Bible story (1930)
* Quiet talks on difficult questions (1931)
* In the Quiet Corner (1932)
* Quiet talks on the new order of things (1933)
* Quiet talks with eager youth (1935)


title: Samuel Burke

abstract: Samuel Burke is a business and technology correspondent who has anchored programs on both CNN International and CNN en Español. He is host of the CNN series "Suddenly Family - DNA Discoveries with Samuel Burke." He's also hosted the program iReport in English and the Cyber Café daily on the Spanish-language morning program CafeCNN. Previously, he served as producer for war correspondent Christiane Amanpour. In 2014, he won an Outstanding Entertainment Program Emmy Award for his reports on the technology show CLIX. In 2016, he won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Morning Program for his role hosting Café CNN.

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# Samuel Burke

**Samuel Burke** (born 1985/1986) is a business and technology correspondent who has anchored programs on both CNN International and CNN en Español. He is host of the CNN series "Suddenly Family - DNA Discoveries with Samuel Burke." He's also hosted the program iReport in English and the Cyber Café daily on the Spanish-language morning program CafeCNN. Previously, he served as producer for war correspondent Christiane Amanpour. In 2014, he won an Outstanding Entertainment Program Emmy Award for his reports on the technology show CLIX. In 2016, he won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Morning Program for his role hosting Café CNN.

## Early life and education

Samuel Burke was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona to a Greek Sephardic Jewish family. He learned to speak Spanish at a young age, travelling to Mexico frequently as a child and spending summers in Mexico at a language college as a teenager. Burke attended Phoenix's North High School and in 2003 he was a member of the United States House of Representatives Page Program after he was nominated by Congressman Ed Pastor.

Burke attended the Arizona State University, graduating with a BA in Spanish. Samuel Burke then went to graduate studies at the university, graduating from a master's degree in journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. While pursuing his graduate studies there, Burke worked as the teaching assistant to former CNN anchor Aaron Brown. Since his 2009 graduation, Burke has returned several times to give seminars for current students attending the school. He is a member of the Cronkite School National Board of Advisors.

## Journalism

Burke was a co-anchor for the Spanish college news program *Cronkite Newswatch* in 2008 through 2009, which was broadcast on PBS and Telefutura, and was produced at the Walter Cronkite School. While attending graduate studies, Burke held an internship with CNN, working for the television program *Anderson Cooper 360°*. He also wrote for the *Jewish News of Greater Phoenix*. His first job out of college was as Christiane Amanpour's digital producer for the CNN show *Amanpour*. Initially there were no jobs available on the show, so he had decided to potentially take a job as a security guard at the CNN headquarters in New York City, work the nightshift, and volunteer for CNN programming during the day. Just before the start of the show, however, he was offered a temporary job with Amanpour, which turned into a full-time position.

Following his work with Christiane Amanpour, Burke was tapped to become the anchor for the CNN en Español program *Europa Hoy* from 2010 to 2011, a program based in London that was broadcast in both Latin America and North America. In 2011 he then became the anchor of the daily *Cyber Café* on CafeCNN. He also reports a nightly segment for the business news show *CNN Dinero* and a weekly segment on the technology news show *CLIX*. In addition Burke reports about technology on CNN International, appears on *World Business Today*, and reports on privacy and security on social media for the CNN U.S. news network. Burke is a CNN.com contributor; he once wrote a daily column on a range of international affairs, mainly in the Middle East.

In 2021, he became the host of the CNN series "Suddenly Family - DNA Discoveries with Samuel Burke" after discovering via an at-home DNA test that he isn't related to the Burke family. When his Jewish family learned they're also part of a Mormon Pioneer family, Burke began documenting his family and people around the world whose lives have been upended by at-home DNA testing.

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## InfoBox

| Samuel Burke | |
| --- | --- |
| Samuel Burke at the 2015 Philadelphia train crash site | |
| Born | 1985 or 1986 (age 38–39) |
| Alma mater | The Cronkite School |
| Occupation(s) | CNN reporter and anchor (2009–present) |
| Years active | 2009–present |


title: Samuel Burtis Baker

abstract: Samuel Burtis Baker, commonly known as Burt Baker, was an American artist and teacher, best known for his portrait paintings.

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# Samuel Burtis Baker

**Samuel Burtis Baker** (September 29, 1882 - March 10, 1967), commonly known as **Burt Baker**, was an American artist and teacher, best known for his portrait paintings.

## Early life and education

Baker was born in South Boston, Massachusetts, to Samuel Burtis and Jennie Morgan Brine Baker. He graduated from The English High School in Boston in 1901 as president of his class, and as winner of the Lawrence Prize for Drawing. He studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston from 1901 to 1906, under Joseph DeCamp and Ernest Lee Major. After graduating, he continued his studies in Mystic, Connecticut, with Charles Harold Davis, and Belmont, Massachusetts, with Edward H. Barnard, focusing on landscape painting.

## Career

### Painting

Baker opened his own studio in Boston in 1910. His early work consisted primarily of portraits of society women, educators and musicians, including a 1910 painting of his former teacher Ernest Lee Major, which was exhibited in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, later joining the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Following a 1910 exhibition of 10 of his portraits at Copley Gallery in Boston, he was commissioned to do portraits for the Harvard University Law School, the Massachusetts and New Hampshire state legislatures, and others. In 1916, he moved into Fenway Studios, where many of Boston's leading artists worked. Best known as a portrait artist, he would expand his range around this time to include figure painting, landscape, cityscape and still life. During World War I, he designed American Red Cross and Liberty Loan posters for the US government.

After moving to Washington, D.C., in 1921, Baker regularly exhibited with the Arts Club of Washington and the Society of Washington Artists. He was elected to the Guild of Boston Artists in 1925. A *Boston Globe* review of a 1925 solo show at the Guild of Boston Artists Gallery praised the Guild for recognizing Baker as one of the foremost painters in the US.

*Interior with Figure* (1920) is considered to be Baker's most famous work. In it, a woman in profile holds up a small hand mirror, silhouetted against a curtained window. It won the Corcoran Gallery of Art's William A. Clark Prize in 1921, and was awarded a silver medal at the Corcoran's Biennial Exhibition of 1921. It made its New York debut in the National Academy Museum and School's winter exhibition in 1923. The Corcoran Gallery of Art purchased the painting in 1936.

Baker's portrait of opera singer Lillian Nordica in costume as Brunhilde from *Ring of the Nibelung* was his longest-running portrait work, begun in 1910 and finally completed in 1948. It was hung at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, and later donated to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Several of Baker's paintings were loaned to The White House for display in Harry S. Truman's private living quarters from May 1945 to October 1946.

### Teaching

Baker taught drawing and design at the Rindge School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1918 to 1921. In 1921, he moved to Washington, D.C., to teach at the School of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, where he taught life drawing, composition and drawing from antiquity. He was vice principal there from 1926 until he retired in 1935. From 1925 to 1936, he was also an adjunct professor at the College of Fine Arts at George Washington University, teaching drawing and painting.

### Death and legacy

Baker died at his home in Washington, D.C., on March 10, 1967. He was successful during his lifetime, but had fallen into obscurity by the time of his death, in part because he was two decades younger than many of the other Boston painters with whom he was linked, and also because his representational style of painting had fallen out of fashion.

Baker had a daughter, Alden Baker, born in 1928, who went on to become an impressionist artist.

In 1993, a quarter-century after his death, the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts, held a solo show of 30 Baker paintings, in tandem with the exhibition *A Century of Talent: Unknown Artists of the Boston Art Club*, which also included a Baker painting.

## Selected exhibitions

## InfoBox

| Samuel Burtis Baker | |
| --- | --- |
| Baker c. 1915. | |
| Born | (1882-09-29)September 29, 1882
Boston, MA |
| Died | March 10, 1967(1967-03-10) (aged 84)
Washington, DC |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Massachusetts Normal Art School |
| Known for | Oil painting, portrait painting, landscape painting, still life |
| Movement | Boston School |
| Spouse | Kathleen Cates (second wife) |


title: Sami Jo

abstract: Sami Jo is an American former singer. She is best known for her 1974 single "Tell Me a Lie", which peaked at No. 21 on the Pop Top 40 that same year. The song also peaked at number 43 in Australia. Sami Jo was raised in a religious family in Batesville, AR. She began singing on local radio at age 3 and was also a local beauty queen during high school. When she was 19 she moved to Dallas, where she acquired the nickname "Sam" from a roommate, which eventually turned into "Sami Jo". Her early career was guided by Atlanta music legend Sonny Limbo. He connected Sami Jo with Rick Hall in Muscle Shoals, AL, where she recorded two singles that failed to chart. Sonny then got her a deal with MGM South, which led to Sami Jo's first hit, "Tell Me A Lie". In addition to reaching #21 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, it also reached #14 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart. Her follow-up single, "It Could Have Been Me", also did well, reaching #46 pop and #31 easy listening. Her first album, also entitled It Could Have Been Me, peaked at #33 on the U.S. Country Albums chart. Despite this early success, Sami Jo did not achieve another major hit on either the pop or the country charts. In 1975, after MGM South was folded into its parent label, MGM Records, Sami Jo charted one record at #62 on Billboard's Top Country Singles chart. When MGM Records was merged into Polydor Records, Sami Jo continued recording for the new label, achieving two minor country hits in 1976, working with Jimmy Bowen as her producer. After these two singles, Sami Jo was dropped by her label. She was signed to Elektra/Asylum's country division in 1981 by its president, her former producer Jimmy Bowen. Even though her recordings were produced by Bowen, neither of her two charting singles cracked the top 70 on the country chart. In 1983, Elektra stopped recording country music and transferred the artists it recorded in the genre to Warner Bros. Records. She worked with producer Jim Ed Norman on a remake of Brenda Lee's "Emotions", but Warner Bros. recalled the single soon after sending promo singles to radio stations. She also recorded some tracks for the Southern Tracks label, but none charted. After her music career ended, Sami Jo managed two stores in Tulsa, OK. She has a son, Tony, and a grandson, Maximus. Sami Jo Cole Website: http://www.samijocole.com/index.html "Tell Me a Lie" was later covered in 1983 by recording artist Janie Fricke, who turned the song into a No. 1 Country hit.

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# Sami Jo

**Sami Jo** (born **Jane Annette Jobe** on May 9, 1947 in Batesville, Arkansas) is an American former singer. She is best known for her 1974 single "Tell Me a Lie", which peaked at No. 21 on the Pop Top 40 that same year. The song also peaked at number 43 in Australia.

Sami Jo was raised in a religious family in Batesville, AR. She began singing on local radio at age 3 and was also a local beauty queen during high school. When she was 19 she moved to Dallas, where she acquired the nickname "Sam" from a roommate, which eventually turned into "Sami Jo".

Her early career was guided by Atlanta music legend Sonny Limbo. He connected Sami Jo with Rick Hall in Muscle Shoals, AL, where she recorded two singles that failed to chart. Sonny then got her a deal with MGM South, which led to Sami Jo's first hit, "Tell Me A Lie". In addition to reaching #21 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, it also reached #14 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart. Her follow-up single, "It Could Have Been Me", also did well, reaching #46 pop and #31 easy listening. Her first album, also entitled *It Could Have Been Me*, peaked at #33 on the U.S. Country Albums chart.

Despite this early success, Sami Jo did not achieve another major hit on either the pop or the country charts. In 1975, after MGM South was folded into its parent label, MGM Records, Sami Jo charted one record ("I'll Believe Anything You Say") at #62 on Billboard's Top Country Singles chart. When MGM Records was merged into Polydor Records, Sami Jo continued recording for the new label, achieving two minor country hits ("God Loves Us" and "Take Me To Heaven") in 1976, working with Jimmy Bowen as her producer.

After these two singles, Sami Jo was dropped by her label. She was signed to Elektra/Asylum's country division in 1981 by its president, her former producer Jimmy Bowen. Even though her recordings were produced by Bowen, neither of her two charting singles ("One Love Over Easy" and a remake of Eddie Rabbitt's "I Can't Help Myself") cracked the top 70 on the country chart. In 1983, Elektra stopped recording country music and transferred the artists it recorded in the genre (including Sami Jo) to Warner Bros. Records. She worked with producer Jim Ed Norman (best known for his work with Anne Murray) on a remake of Brenda Lee's "Emotions", but Warner Bros. recalled the single soon after sending promo singles to radio stations. She also recorded some tracks for the Southern Tracks label, but none charted.

After her music career ended, Sami Jo managed two stores in Tulsa, OK.

She has a son, Tony, and a grandson, Maximus.

Sami Jo Cole Website: http://www.samijocole.com/index.html

"Tell Me a Lie" was later covered in 1983 by recording artist Janie Fricke, who turned the song into a No. 1 Country hit.

## Additional information

In-depth interview with Sami Jo: http://www.hollywoodstarletbarbarapayton.com/samijo/index.html

Sami Jo Cole website: http://www.samijocole.com/index.html

## Discography

* *It Could Have Been Me* (MGM South, S3G 703, 1974)
* *Sami Jo* (MGM South, M3G 4998, 1975)

1. Joel Whitburn, *The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits*. 7th edn, 2000
2. Kent, David (1993). *Australian Chart Book 1970–1992* (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 264. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
3. John O'Dowd, *Sami Jo: Lady With The Powerhouse Voice*. website article at http://www.hollywoodstarletbarbarapayton.com/samijo/index.html, 2006
4. John O'Dowd, *Sami Jo: Lady With The Powerhouse Voice*. website article at http://www.hollywoodstarletbarbarapayton.com/samijo/index.html, 2006
5. Joel Whitburn, *Top Adult Contemporary 1961-1993*. 1994
6. Sami Jo at Allmusic.com
7. Joel Whitburn, *Top Country Singles". 4th edn, 1998*
8. John O'Dowd, *Sami Jo: Lady With The Powerhouse Voice*. website article at http://www.hollywoodstarletbarbarapayton.com/samijo/index.html, 2006
9. John O'Dowd, *Sami Jo: Lady With The Powerhouse Voice*. website article at http://www.hollywoodstarletbarbarapayton.com/samijo/index.html, 2006
10. John O'Dowd, *Sami Jo: Lady With The Powerhouse Voice*. website article at http://www.hollywoodstarletbarbarapayton.com/samijo/index.html, 2006


title: Sami Kehela

abstract: Sami R. Kehela, sometimes spelled Sammy Kehela, is a Canadian contract bridge player. A member of the Halls of Fame of both the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) and the Canadian Bridge Federation, he and his long-time partner, the late Eric Murray, are considered two of the best Canadian players in the history of the game. Between 1966 and 1974, Kehela and Murray placed second in three Bermuda Bowls as one of three pairs comprising the North America teams. Unique among world players, they represented their country as a partnership in all of the first six quadrennial World Team Olympiads, from Turin in 1960 to Valkenburg in 1980. Together they won the Life Master Men's Pairs, the Life Master Pairs, the Vanderbilt, and the Spingold Trophy three times. Kehela and Murray were also runners-up in the 1969 Blue Ribbon Pairs. It was said that the key to their successful partnership was that each thought the other the better player. Kehela lives with his wife in Toronto (2007). He is a "semi-retired bridge writer and teacher", as former editor of The Ontario Kibitzer and columnist for the monthly Toronto Life. Kehela and Murray were both inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2001.

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# Sami Kehela

**Sami R. Kehela** (born 1934), sometimes spelled **Sammy Kehela**, is a Canadian contract bridge player. A member of the Halls of Fame of both the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) and the Canadian Bridge Federation, he and his long-time partner, the late Eric Murray, are considered two of the best Canadian players in the history of the game.

Between 1966 and 1974, Kehela and Murray placed second in three Bermuda Bowls as one of three pairs comprising the North America teams. Unique among world players, they represented their country as a partnership in all of the first six quadrennial World Team Olympiads, from Turin in 1960 to Valkenburg in 1980. Together they won the Life Master Men's Pairs, the Life Master Pairs, the Vanderbilt, and the Spingold Trophy three times. Kehela and Murray were also runners-up in the 1969 Blue Ribbon Pairs. It was said that the key to their successful partnership was that each thought the other the better player.

Kehela lives with his wife in Toronto (2007). He is a "semi-retired bridge writer and teacher" (perhaps 2001), as former editor of *The Ontario Kibitzer* and columnist for the monthly *Toronto Life*.

Kehela and Murray were both inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2001.

## Bridge accomplishments

### Honours

* ACBL Hall of Fame, 2001
* Canadian Bridge Federation Hall of Fame, 2010

### Wins

### Runners-up

## Further reading


title: San Joaquín, Corozal

abstract: San Joaquín is a village in the Corozal District of Belize. It is one of the largest villages in Corozal. The town was formed as a result of Mestizos migrating to escape the 1847–1901 Caste War of Yucatán.

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# San Joaquín, Corozal

**San Joaquín** is a village in the Corozal District of Belize. It is one of the largest villages in Corozal. The town was formed as a result of Mestizos migrating to escape the 1847–1901 Caste War of Yucatán.

## Demographics

At the time of the 2010 census, San Joaquín had a population of 1,470. Of those, 94.9% were Mestizo, 2.3% Mixed, 0.9% East Indian, 0.7% Creole, 0.5% Yucatec Maya, 0.3% Asian, 0.2% Mennonite, 0.1% Caucasian and 0.1% Garifuna.

In terms of languages spoken (multiple answers allowed), 98.5% spoke Spanish, 65.3% English, 4.1% Creole, 0.7% Yucatec Maya, 0.4% Mandarin or Cantonese, 0.1% Garifuna, 0.1% German and 0.1% Ketchi Maya; 0.1% could not speak.

18°20′N 88°26′W / 18.333°N 88.433°W / 18.333; -88.433

## InfoBox

| San Joaquín | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| San Joaquín | |
| Coordinates: 18°20′N 88°26′W / 18.333°N 88.433°W / 18.333; -88.433 | |
| Country | Belize |
| District | Corozal District |
| Constituency | Corozal South East |
| Named for | San Joaquín |
| Government | |
| Type | Village Council |
| Chairman | Florencio Javier Martinez |
| Population (1470) | |
| Total | 2,010 |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central) |


title: Samuel W. Martien

abstract: Samuel Winter Martien was a wealthy cotton planter who served as a Democrat from 1906 to 1920 in the Louisiana House of Representatives from his adopted Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana. At the time, each Louisiana parish regardless of population had at least one representative. That advantage was lost completely to rural parishes in 1972, when both legislative chambers came into full compliance with the United States Supreme Court decision Reynolds v. Sims, which requires that each state legislative district be nearly equal in population. In recent census reports, Tensas Parish, which is majority African American, has been the smallest parish in the state in population, and the numbers continue to decline. Robert H. Snyder of St. Joseph, who had been the lieutenant governor from 1896 to 1900, died in 1906 while serving as House Speaker. Martien first won a special election to choose a successor to Snyder and then secured full terms in 1908, 1912, and 1916.

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# Samuel W. Martien

**Samuel Winter Martien** (November 12, 1854 – May 31, 1946) was a wealthy cotton planter who served as a Democrat from 1906 to 1920 in the Louisiana House of Representatives from his adopted Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana.

At the time, each Louisiana parish regardless of population had at least one representative. That advantage was lost completely to rural parishes in 1972, when both legislative chambers came into full compliance with the United States Supreme Court decision *Reynolds v. Sims*, which requires that each state legislative district be nearly equal in population. In recent census reports, Tensas Parish, which is majority African American, has been the smallest parish in the state in population, and the numbers continue to decline.

Robert H. Snyder of St. Joseph, who had been the lieutenant governor from 1896 to 1900, died in 1906 while serving as House Speaker. Martien (pronounced MAR TEEN) first won a special election to choose a successor to Snyder and then secured full terms in 1908, 1912, and 1916.

## Large family

Martien was born in Massachusetts to Jacob Martien (1824-1904) and the former Mary J. Bigham McMachlin (1829-1909). Jacob and Mary moved from near Boston to Louisiana after the American Civil War. Early in 1885, Samuel Martien married Ella Jane Hopkins in Acadia Parish in South Louisiana. At some point thereafter, all the Martiens relocated to the cotton-rich country about Waterproof in southern Tensas Parish near the boundary with Concordia Parish. Samuel and Ella had two children who died early in life, infant daughter Ella (1888-1889) and son Harold B. Martien (1897-1900). Martien had four surviving daughters, Mrs. Edgar Funkhouser of Roanoke, Virginia, Mrs. Paul Caldwell of Dinuba, California, and Mrs. Wilma C. Gibson and Mary Louise Martien, both of Waterproof. There were four sons too, William J. Martien (1886-1938), Norman Hopkins Martien, Sr. (1893-1958), Carey Martien of Crowley, Louisiana, and Winter Martien (1905-1994).

Grandson Norman Hopkins Martien, Jr. (1926-2012), a Waterproof native, was a graduate in chemical engineering of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston and an engineering project manager for Kaiser Aluminum in Gramercy, Louisiana. At the time of his death, he had been residing for many years in Denham Springs near Baton Rouge. The junior Martien's mother was the former Mabel Rowan, a native of Newellton in northern Tensas Parish.

In 1946, the year that his grandfather died, the junior Martien married Rosemary Louise Chennault (1928-2013), the youngest daughter of Lieutenant General Claire Chennault of the Flying Tigers by Chennault's first marriage to the former Nell Thompson of Waterproof. She was born in San Antonio, Texas, where Chennault was then stationed. Norman and Rosemary, who was reared in Waterproof, had three children, Nell Calloway (named for her grandmother), James Martien, and Norman Martien, III. Rosemary was a secretary and office manager at Prudential Insurance in Monroe for nearly thirty years. Rosemary later married the late Jim Simrall; Norman, Jr., subsequently wed Helen S. Martien and acquired a stepson. Nell Martien Calloway is a great-granddaughter of Samuel Winter Martien and a granddaughter of General Chennault; she is the director of the Chennault Aviation and Military Museum at the Monroe Regional Airport in Monroe, Louisiana

Among other extended Martien descendants is Winter H. Martien, a great-grandson who resides in Natchez, Mississippi. Another great-grandson, Samuel Winter Martien (born c. 1946), resides in Pineville in Rapides Parish, Louisiana.

## Death at 91

Martien, who was Episcopalian, died at the age of ninety-one, some twenty-six years after the passing of his wife. He spent his last years in Roanoke, Virginia, where he lived there with a daughter. Martien, his wife, and children are interred at Natchez City Cemetery in Natchez, Mississippi.

Other Tensas Parish contemporary legislators:

## InfoBox

| Samuel Winter Martien | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Louisiana State Representative for Tensas Parish | |
| **In office**
1906–1920 | |
| Preceded by | Robert H. Snyder |
| Succeeded by | Louis T. Hunter |
|  | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1854-11-12)November 12, 1854
Massachusetts, USA |
| Died | May 31, 1946(1946-05-31) (aged 91)
Roanoke, Virginia |
| Resting place | Natchez City Cemetery in Natchez, Mississippi |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Spouse | Ella Jane Hopkins Martien (married 1885-1920, her death) |
| Children | Ten children
Two died in childhood. |
| Residence(s) | Waterproof, Tensas Parish
Louisiana, USA |
| Occupation | Cotton planter |
|  | |


title: Samuel W. Lewis

abstract: Samuel Winfield Lewis was an American diplomat. During a lengthy career with the United States Department of State, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1975–1977), U.S. ambassador to Israel (1977–1985) and Director of Policy Planning (1993–1994). As ambassador to Israel, Lewis played a major part in brokering the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt. He also headed the United States Institute of Peace from 1987 through 1993.

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# Samuel W. Lewis

**Samuel Winfield Lewis** (October 1, 1930 – March 10, 2014) was an American diplomat. During a lengthy career with the United States Department of State, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1975–1977), U.S. ambassador to Israel (1977–1985) and Director of Policy Planning (1993–1994). As ambassador to Israel, Lewis played a major part in brokering the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt. He also headed the United States Institute of Peace from 1987 through 1993.

## Early life and education

Born in Houston, Texas, Lewis received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1952 and an M.A. from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in 1954. Lewis initially intended on enlisting in the military, but failed his physical exam because of a bad knee.

## Career

Lewis joined the United States Foreign Service in 1954 and served as consular officer at Naples. From 1955 to 1959, he was a political officer and acting principal officer in Florence. From 1959 to 1961, he was officer in charge of Italian Affairs in the State Department. From 1961 to 1962, Lewis served as Special Assistant to the United States Under Secretary of State.

In 1963 and 1964, he was a visiting fellow at Princeton University. He served as Deputy Assistant Director for Technical Cooperation at the United States Agency for International Development in Rio de Janeiro, on detail, and in 1966 he was executive assistant to the Ambassador in Rio de Janeiro. In 1966 Lewis received the Meritorious Honor Award and USAID Meritorious Honor Award.

In 1967 and 1968, Lewis was Assistant Director for Development in the Office of Brazilian Affairs at USAID, and in 1968, he became Deputy Director of that office. In 1968 and 1969, he was a senior staff member on the United States National Security Council.

In 1969, Lewis was Special Assistant for Policy Planning in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, and in 1970 and 1971, he was special assistant to the Director General of the Foreign Service.

From 1971 to 1974, Lewis was Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of the United States, Kabul. He was Deputy Director of the Policy Planning staff from 1974 until 1975, when he became Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs.

### Israel and Camp David Accords

From 1977 to 1985, Lewis served as Ambassador to Israel under Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, the second longest tenure of any US Ambassador to Israel. As ambassador, Lewis had a major role in negotiating the Camp David peace talks in 1978 that resulted in a historic treaty between Egypt and Israel.

The Camp David Accords were signed September 17, 1978, and within months, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. A formal treaty between Egypt and Israel was announced the next year, calling for Israel to withdraw its forces from the Sinai Peninsula and placing limits on Egypt's military presence in the region.

## Later life

In 2004, Lewis was among 27 retired diplomats and military commanders who publicly stated that the George W. Bush Administration did not understand the world and was unable to handle "in either style or substance" the responsibilities of global leadership. On June 16, 2004, the Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change issued a statement against the Iraq War.

Lewis was a frequent guest commentator on Middle Eastern issues for television and radio. In 2009, he featured in a documentary directed by Harry Hunkele called *Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace*. *Back Door Channels* takes its name from the role unofficial back channels of communication, often through third-party countries and private businessmen, played in securing peace between Israel and Egypt. The film included interviews with many original participants in the historic first peace process between the governments, including former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and other world leaders.

In 2011 the United States Institute of Peace dedicated the Samuel W. Lewis Hall.

Lewis sat on the U.S. Advisory Council of the Israel Policy Forum, and was involved in the J Street project. He was also an active board member of the American Academy of Diplomacy.

## Personal life

Lewis and his wife, Sallie Lewis (née Smoot) were married for over 60 years. The couple had two children. Lewis died of lung cancer in McLean, Virginia, on March 10, 2014, at the age of 83.

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## InfoBox

| Samuel Lewis | |
| --- | --- |
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| 17th Director of Policy Planning | |
| **In office**
March 21, 1993  January 21, 1994 | |
| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Dennis B. Ross |
| Succeeded by | James Steinberg |
| United States Ambassador to Israel | |
| **In office**
May 25, 1977  May 31, 1985 | |
| President | Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by | Malcolm Toon |
| Succeeded by | Thomas R. Pickering |
| 11th Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs | |
| **In office**
December 24, 1975  April 13, 1977 | |
| President | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | William B. Buffum |
| Succeeded by | Charles W. Maynes |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | Samuel Winfield Lewis
(1930-10-01)October 1, 1930
Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | March 10, 2014(2014-03-10) (aged 83)
McLean, Virginia, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Yale University (BA)
Johns Hopkins University (MA) |
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title: Samuel Green House

abstract: The Samuel Green House is a historic house located at 264 East 200 South in Pleasant Grove, Utah.

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# Samuel Green House

The **Samuel Green House** is a historic house located at 264 East 200 South in Pleasant Grove, Utah.

## Description and history

It is "a two-story soft-rock vernacular house with a hall-parlor plan and a gable roof," built in about 1870. The house has a symmetrical three-bay facade with a central door flanked by 6/6 double-hung windows. It has a front porch that was added on in 1985, which was the only visible alteration to the house at the time of its designation as a landmark.

It was built with a doorway on the second level, which would have led out onto a second story porch, which never happened.

It was home of Samuel Green and his wife Pamelo Wishaw. Samuel was 21 in 1852 when he immigrated from England with his father, William Henry Green. Samuel and Pamelo married in 1858, and had sixteen children, including twins twice, although only half grew to maturity. They build this soft-rock house around 1870, near the southeast corner of the wall of Pleasant Grove's former, abandoned fort.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It was part of a study of Pleasant Grove-area buildings built of soft-rock, 13 of which were nominated for listing.

## InfoBox

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| Samuel Green House | |
| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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| Location | 264 East 200 South,<br>Pleasant Grove, Utah |
| Coordinates | 40°21′40″N 111°44′7″W / 40.36111°N 111.73528°W / 40.36111; -111.73528 |
| Area | 0.3 acres (0.12 ha) |
| Built | c. 1870 |
| MPS | Pleasant Grove Soft-Rock Buildings TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 87000827 |
| Added to NRHP | June 9, 1987 |


title: Samuel H. Fisher

abstract: Samuel Herbert Fisher was an American attorney and print historian. He was a member of the Acorn Club, to which he was elected in 1933. Fisher was a fellow of the Yale Corporation (1920–1935) and chaired the Connecticut Tercentenary Commission. He received honorary degrees from Yale University, Colgate University, and Wesleyan University.

text:
# Samuel H. Fisher

**Samuel Herbert Fisher** (May 26, 1867 – 1957) was an American attorney and print historian. He was a member of the Acorn Club, to which he was elected in 1933. Fisher was a fellow of the Yale Corporation (1920–1935) and chaired the Connecticut Tercentenary Commission. He received honorary degrees from Yale University, Colgate University, and Wesleyan University.

## Works

* *The Publications of Thomas Collier Printer 1784-1808* (Litchfield: Litchfield Historical Society, 1933)


title: Samukalan, Vezirköprü

abstract: Samukalan is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Vezirköprü, Samsun Province, Turkey. Its population is 526 (2022).

text:
# Samukalan, Vezirköprü

**Samukalan** is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Vezirköprü, Samsun Province, Turkey. Its population is 526 (2022).

## InfoBox

| Samukalan | |
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| Neighbourhood | |
| SamukalanLocation in Turkey | |
| Coordinates: 41°09′N 35°18′E / 41.150°N 35.300°E / 41.150; 35.300 | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Province | Samsun |
| District | Vezirköprü |
| Population (2022) | 526 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (TRT) |


title: San Marcos, Sucre

abstract: San Marcos is a town and municipality located in the Sucre Department, northern Colombia. It is also called "La Perla del San Jorge". There is not Airport in the town.

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# San Marcos, Sucre

**San Marcos** is a town and municipality located in the Sucre Department, northern Colombia. It is also called "La Perla del San Jorge".

There is not Airport in the town.

## Climate

| Climate data for San Marcos (San Marcos Airport), elevation 30 m (98 ft), (1971–2000) | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 32.9
(91.2) | 33.6
(92.5) | 34.2
(93.6) | 33.5
(92.3) | 32.5
(90.5) | 32.3
(90.1) | 32.2
(90.0) | 32.5
(90.5) | 32.1
(89.8) | 31.6
(88.9) | 31.9
(89.4) | 32.5
(90.5) | 32.6
(90.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 28.2
(82.8) | 28.3
(82.9) | 28.6
(83.5) | 28.6
(83.5) | 28.2
(82.8) | 28.0
(82.4) | 28.1
(82.6) | 27.9
(82.2) | 27.9
(82.2) | 27.3
(81.1) | 27.7
(81.9) | 27.8
(82.0) | 28
(82) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 21.9
(71.4) | 22.3
(72.1) | 22.5
(72.5) | 23.0
(73.4) | 23.0
(73.4) | 22.6
(72.7) | 22.4
(72.3) | 22.5
(72.5) | 22.7
(72.9) | 22.4
(72.3) | 22.6
(72.7) | 22.3
(72.1) | 22.5
(72.5) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 7.7
(0.30) | 23.9
(0.94) | 26.9
(1.06) | 121.4
(4.78) | 177.4
(6.98) | 211.0
(8.31) | 217.0
(8.54) | 236.8
(9.32) | 244.1
(9.61) | 239.2
(9.42) | 119.9
(4.72) | 34.5
(1.36) | 1,659.7
(65.34) |
| Average precipitation days | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 14 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 126 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 79 | 76 | 76 | 79 | 81 | 83 | 83 | 84 | 84 | 85 | 85 | 80 | 81 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 241.8 | 186.6 | 192.2 | 147.0 | 161.2 | 162.0 | 204.6 | 207.7 | 174.0 | 145.7 | 183.0 | 213.9 | 2,219.7 |
| Mean daily sunshine hours | 7.8 | 6.6 | 6.2 | 4.9 | 5.2 | 5.4 | 6.6 | 6.7 | 5.8 | 4.7 | 6.1 | 6.9 | 6.1 |
| Source: Instituto de Hidrologia Meteorologia y Estudios Ambientales | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

## References

8°39′40″N 75°08′05″W / 8.66111°N 75.13472°W / 8.66111; -75.13472

## InfoBox

| San Marcos, Sucre | |
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| Municipality and town | |
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| Location of the municipality and town of San Marcos, Sucre in the Sucre Department of Colombia. | |
| Country | Colombia |
| Department | Sucre Department |
| Area | |
| Municipality and town | 970.4 km2 (374.7 sq mi) |
| Urban | 7.06 km2 (2.73 sq mi) |
| Population (2020 est.) | |
| Municipality and town | 60,735 |
| Density | 63/km2 (160/sq mi) |
| Urban | 33,366 |
| Urban density | 4,700/km2 (12,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time) |