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Second Battle of Panipat

The defeat of Hemu, a c. 1590s painting by Kankar of the Second Battle of Panipat taken from the Akbarnama.
Date
November 5, 1556
Location
Panipat (in present-day Haryana, India)
29°23′N 76°58′E / 29.39°N 76.97°E / 29.39; 76.97
Result
Decisive victory of the Mughal Empire
Belligerents
Mughal Empire Hemu
Commanders and leaders
Akbar
Bairam Khan
Ali Quli Khan Shaibani
Sikandar Khan Uzbak
Abdulla Khan Uzbak
Husain Quli Khan
Shah Quli Mahram
Hemu †
Ramya
Shadi Khan Kakkar †
Strength
10,000 cavalry[1]
30,000 cavalry
500 war elephants[1]
The Second Battle of Panipat was fought on November 5, 1556, between the forces of Hemu, the Hindu general and Chief Minister of Adil Shah Suri, and the army of the Mughal emperor, Akbar. Hemu had conquered Delhi a month earlier by defeating the Mughals led by Tardi Beg Khan at the Battle of Delhi and proclaimed himself Raja Vikramaditya. Akbar and his guardian, Bairam Khan, had immediately marched to Delhi to reclaim the city. The two armies clashed at Panipat not far from the site of the First Battle of Panipat of 1526.
Although Hemu had lost his artillery to the Mughals before the battle, his forces held the numerical superiority. However, Hemu was wounded by a chance arrow in the middle of the battle and fell unconscious. Seeing their leader going down, his army panicked and dispersed. Hemu was captured and subsequently beheaded. The battle ended in a decisive victory for Akbar.
Contents
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1 Background
2 Prelude
3 Formation
4 Battle
5 Aftermath
6 See also
7 Notes
8 References
Background[edit]
c. 1910s portrayal of Hemu Vikramaditya
Humayun, the successor of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire, had lost his inheritance when he was chased out of India by Sher Shah Suri who established the Sur Empire in 1540. Delhi and Agra fell into Sher Shah's hands, but he died soon after in 1545 at Kalinjar. He was succeeded by his younger son, Islam Shah Suri, who was a capable ruler. However, upon his death in 1553, the Sur Empire was caught up in a succession battle and was plagued by rebellion and the secession of provinces. Humayun made use of this discord to recapture what was lost and on 23 July 1555, the Mughals defeated Sikandar Shah Suri and finally regained control over Delhi and Agra.[2]
Islam Shah's rightful successor, his 12-year-old son, Firoz Khan, had been murdered by his maternal uncle who had taken the throne as Adil Shah Suri. The new ruler was however, more interested in the pursuit of pleasure than in the affairs of his state. Those were largely left to Hemu, a Hindu from Rewari, who had risen from humble circumstances to become both Adil Shah's Chief Minister as well as the general of the Suri army.[3] He was in Bengal when Humayun died on 26 January 1556. The Mughal emperor's death provided an ideal opportunity to defeat the Mughals and reclaim lost territory.[4]
Hemu started a rapid march from Bengal and drove the Mughals out of Bayana, Etawah, Sambhal, Kalpi, and Narnaul.[4] In Agra, the governor evacuated the city and fled without a fight upon hearing of Hemu's impending invasion.[5] In pursuit of the governor, Hemu reached Tughlaqabad, a village just outside Delhi where he ran into the forces of the Mughal governor of Delhi, Tardi Beg Khan, and defeated them in the Battle of Tughlaqabad.[4] He took possession of Delhi after a day's battle on 7 October 1556[5] and claimed royal status assuming the title of Vikramaditya (or Bikramjit).[6]
Prelude[edit]
On hearing the disastrous news from Tughlaqabad, Humayun's successor, the 13-year-old Akbar and his guardian Bairam Khan soon set off for Delhi. In a stroke of luck, Ali Quli Khan Shaibani (later Khan-i-Zaman), who had been sent ahead with 10,000-strong cavalry force, chanced upon Hemu's artillery which was being transported under a weak guard. He was easily able to capture the entire train of artillery from the Afghans who abandoned the guns and fled without making a stand. This would prove to be a costly loss for Hemu.[7][8]
On 5 November 1556, the Mughal army met Hemu's army at the historic battlefield of Panipat. Akbar and Bairam Khan stayed in the rear, eight miles from the battleground.[9]
Formation[edit]
The Mughal army was led by Ali Quli Khan Shaibani with his 10,000 cavalry in the centre with Sikandar Khan Uzbak on the right and Abdulla Khan Uzbak towards the left. The vanguard was led by Husain Quli Beg and Shah Quli Mahram and included Bairam Khan's detachment of Turks.[7]
Hemu's army was numerically superior counting among its ranks a 30,000-strong cavalry consisting of Afghan horsemen and an elephant contingent numbering 500. Each war elephant was protected by plate armour and mounted by musketeers and crossbowmen. Hemu led his army himself into battle, atop an elephant named Hawai.[10] His left was led by his sister's son, Ramya, and the right by Shadi Khan Kakkar. His army was an experienced and confident lot and Hemu had, by this time, been victorious in 22 battles for Adil Shah. In this battle however, Hemu had no artillery.[12]
Battle[edit]
Two armies so collided
That they struck fire out of water;
You'd say the air was all crimsoned daggers,
Their steel had all become solid rubies.
Abu'l-Fazl, Akbarnama[13]
Hemu began the attack himself and loosed his elephants among the right and left wings of the Mughals. Those soldiers who were able to escape the rampage, rather than retreating, chose to veer to the sides and attack the flanks of Hemu's cavalry, pelting them with their superior archery. The Mughal centre also advanced and took up a defensive position before a deep ravine. Neither Hemu's elephant nor his horse units were able to cross the chasm to reach their opponents and were vulnerable to the projectile weapons being fired from the other side. Meanwhile, the Mughal cavalry on their swift mounts had made inroads into the Afghan ranks from the flanks as well as the rear and began targeting the elephants, either slashing at the legs of the great beasts or taking out their riders. Hemu was forced to pull back his elephants and the Afghan attack relented.[14]
Seeing the Afghan attack slackening, Ali Quli Khan led his cavalry out, circling around and falling upon the Afghan centre from the rear. Hemu, monitoring the battlefield from his howdah atop Hawai, immediately hurried to counter this charge. Even after seeing Shadi Khan Kakkar and another of his able lieutenants, Bhagwan Das, go down, he continued to lead counterattacks against the Mughals, running down any who challenged his elephants. It was a desperately contested battle but the advantage seemed to have tilted in favour of Hemu.[15] Both the wings of the Mughal army had been driven back and Hemu moved his contingent of war elephants and cavalry forward to crush their centre. It was at this point that Hemu, possibly on the cusp of victory, was wounded when he was struck in the eye by a chance Mughal arrow and collapsed unconscious. Seeing him going down triggered a panic in his army which broke formation and fled.[16][17] The battle was lost; 5000 dead lay on the field of battle and many more were killed while fleeing.[9]
Aftermath[edit]
The elephant carrying the wounded Hemu was captured and led to the Mughal camp. Bairam Khan asked the 13-year-old Akbar to behead Hemu, but he refused to take the sword to a dying man. Akbar was persuaded to touch Hemu's head with his sword after which Bairam Khan executed him.[17] Hemu's head was sent to Kabul while his body was gibbeted on a gate in Delhi.[16] A minaret was subsequently constructed of the heads of the other dead.[17]
Hemu's supporters would later erect a memorial for him at the spot in Panipat where he was beheaded. It is now known as Hemu's Samadhi Sthal.[18][19]
With the passing of Hemu, Adil Shah's fortunes also took a turn for the worse. He was defeated and killed by Khizr Khan, son of Muhammad Shah of Bengal, in April 1557.[17][20] The spoils from the battle at Panipat included 120 of Hemu's war elephants whose destructive rampages so impressed the Mughals that the animals soon became an integral part of their military strategies.[21]
See also[edit]
First Battle of Panipat
Third Battle of Panipat
Notes[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b Sarkar, p. 68.
Jump up ^ Sarkar 1960, p. 66.
Jump up ^ Qanungo 1965, p. 448.
^ Jump up to: a b c Chandra 2004, p. 91.
^ Jump up to: a b Sarkar 1960, p. 67.
Jump up ^ Richards 1995.
^ Jump up to: a b Sarkar 1960, p. 68.
Jump up ^ Tripathi 1960, p. 175.
^ Jump up to: a b Sarkar 1960, p. 69.
Jump up ^ Roy 2004, p. 76.
Jump up ^ Chandra 2004, p. 92.
Jump up ^ Sarkar 1960, p. 68: Chandra names Hemu's nephew as Ramaiyya.[11]
Jump up ^ Abu'l-Fazl. "Vol II, Chapter XI". Akbarnama. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
Jump up ^ Sarkar 1960, pp. 68–69.
Jump up ^ Sarkar 1960, p. 69: According to Sarkar, the battle was still evenly matched when the random arrow found Hemu.
^ Jump up to: a b Tripathi 1960, p. 176.
^ Jump up to: a b c d Chandra 2004, p. 93.
Jump up ^ "Hemu's Samadhi Sthal". Haryana Tourism. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
Jump up ^ "Places Of Interest / Hemu's Samadhi Sthal". panipat.gov.in. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
Jump up ^ Tripathi 1960, p. 177.
Jump up ^ Roy 2013, p. 47.
References[edit]
Sarkar, Jadunath (1960). Military History of India. Orient Longmans. pp. 66–69.
Tripathi, Ram Prasad (1960). Rise and Fall of the Mughal Empire (2nd ed.). pp. 158–77.
Chandra, Satish (2004). Medieval India: From Sultanate To The Mughals, Part II: Mughal Empire (1526–1748) (Third ed.). Har-Anand Publications. pp. 91–93. ISBN 9788124110669. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
Qanungo, Kalika Ranjan (1965). Sher Shah and his Times. Orient Longmans. pp. 448–449.
Richards, John F. (1995). The Mughal Empire (The New Cambridge History of India). Cambridge University Press. p. 13. ISBN 9780521566032.
Roy, Kaushik (2004). India's historic battles : from Alexander the Great to Kargil. Delhi: Permanent Black. pp. 68–79. ISBN 9788178241098. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
Roy, Kaushik (2013). "Fazl, Abul (1551–1602)". In Coetzee, Daniel; Eysturlid, Lee W. Philosophers of war: the evolution of history's greatest military thinkers. Santa Barbara: Praeger. pp. 43–47. ISBN 978-0-313-07033-4. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
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Living Next Door to Alice
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"Living Next Door to Alice"
Single by New World
B-side
"Something to Say"
Released
1972
Format
7" vinyl
Recorded
1972
Genre
Pop, folk
Label
RAK
Songwriter(s)
Nicky Chinn, Mike Chapman
New World singles chronology
"Sister Jane"
(1972) "Living Next Door to Alice"
(1972) "Rooftop Singing"
(1973)
"Sister Jane"
(1972) "Living Next Door to Alice"
(1972) "Rooftop Singing"
(1973)
"Living Next Door to Alice"
Single by Smokie
from the album Midnight Café
(2007 Remastered Edition)
B-side
"Run to You" (UK)
When My Back was Against the Wall (US & Canada)[1]
Released
12 August 1976
Format
7" vinyl
Recorded
1976
Genre
Pop rock
Label
RAK (UK)
RSO (US & Canada)[2]
Songwriter(s)
Nicky Chinn, Mike Chapman
Producer(s)
Nicky Chinn, Mike Chapman
Smokie singles chronology
"I'll Meet You at Midnight"
(1976) "Living Next Door to Alice"
(1976) "Lay Back in the Arms of Someone"
(1977)
"I'll Meet You at Midnight"
(1976) "Living Next Door to Alice"
(1976) "Lay Back in the Arms of Someone"
(1977)
Music video
"Living Next Door to Alice" on YouTube
"Living Next Door to Alice"
Single by Johnny Carver
from the album The Best of Johnny Carver
Released
February 1977
Format
7" vinyl
Recorded
1976
Genre
Country
Label
ABC
Songwriter(s)
Nicky Chinn, Mike Chapman
Producer(s)
Ron Chancey
Johnny Carver singles chronology
"Afternoon Delight"
(1976) "Living Next Door to Alice"
(1977) "Down at the Pool"
(1977)
"Afternoon Delight"
(1976) "Living Next Door to Alice"
(1977) "Down at the Pool"
(1977)
"Alice, Who the X is Alice?"
Single by Gompie
from the album Who the X Is Gompie!
B-side
various versions of "Alice, Who the X is Alice?"
"My Brother Is a Rocker"
"Slaves on the Run"
Released
1995
Format
CD
Songwriter(s)
Nicky Chinn, Mike Chapman
Producer(s)
Rob Peters, Ono Pelser, John van de Ven
"Living Next Door to Alice"
Single by Smokie featuring Roy 'Chubby' Brown
B-side
"Living Next Door to Alice" (Unbleeped)
Released
1995
Genre
Pop rock, parody
Songwriter(s)
Nicky Chinn, Mike Chapman
"Living Next Door to Alice" is a song co-written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. Originally released by the Australian vocal harmony trio New World in 1972,[3] the song charted at No. 35 on the Australian chart. The song later became a worldwide hit for British band Smokie.
Contents
1 Plot
2 Smokie versions
3 Gompie version
4 Other cover versions
4.1 Translations
5 References
6 Bibliography
Plot[edit]
The song is about a young man's long-standing unrequited love toward the girl next door and his neighbour of 24 years, Alice. The protagonist had seen a limousine parked at Alice's home, learning through mutual friend Sally that she is moving away, and begins to reflect on childhood memories and his friendship with Alice, and becomes heartbroken as he sees Alice get inside the limousine.
As he watches the car drive out of sight, the protagonist feels regret about two things:
Alice leaving without explanation;
That, in 24 years, he never took the opportunity to express his feelings for her.
In the final verse, Sally explains that "Alice is gone, but (she's) still here" and that all the time that the singer had been pining for Alice, Sally herself had been waiting 24 years for her opportunity with him. As the song ends with the singer still hurt and having difficulty getting over his previous crush, the last words of the last verse hint at optimism (and a potential future relationship with Sally) as Alice's limousine disappears down the road.
Later versions of the song insert a profane interjection during a pause in the chorus (from the audience during live performances or from a guest separate from the lead singer): "Alice! Who the fuck is Alice?" (guests will sometimes say "hell" or "heck" for cleaner performances). These performances may also change a line in the chorus so that the singer's affections are as much sexual as they are romantic, and that the singer had hoped "to get inside her pants", instead of "get a second glance."
On the American Top 40 broadcast of May 26, 1979, Casey Kasem reported that Chapman stated that his source of inspiration for "Living Next Door to Alice" was "Sylvia's Mother" by Dr. Hook.
Smokie versions[edit]
In November 1976, the British band Smokie released their version of "Living Next Door to Alice". The single peaked at number five on the UK Singles Chart[4] and, in March 1977, reached 25 in the United States. It was a number one hit in Austria, Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland. Smokie collaborated on a parody version in 1995 with comedian Roy 'Chubby' Brown, which peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart, selling almost half a million copies.[5]
Ex-Smokie vocalist Chris Norman included his solo cover of the song on his 2000 studio album Full Circle.[6]
Chart (1976/1977)
Peak
position
Australia 1
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[7] 1
Canada RPM Top Singles[8] 17
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[9] 1
Germany (Official German Charts)[10] 1
Ireland (IRMA)[11] 1
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[12] 7
Norway (VG-lista)[13] 1
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[14] 3
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[15] 1
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[16] 5
US Billboard Hot 100[17] 25
Chart (1995)
with Roy 'Chubby' Brown
Peak
position
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[18] 3
Ireland (IRMA)[11] 26
Germany (Official German Charts)[19] 18
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[20] 22
Gompie version[edit]
It spawned a more risqué version in 1995 by the Dutch novelty act Gompie, titled "Alice, Who the Fuck Is Alice?". Their version topped the charts in the Netherlands and Belgium (Flanders), and reached the top 10 in Austria, Germany, Norway and Switzerland. In the UK, the song peaked at number 17, but its sales topped 150,000 despite its low peak.
Gompie is a project of Peter Koelewijn and Rob Peters. Peters, while visiting a bar called Gompie in Nijmegen, heard "Living Next Door to Alice" by Smokie. After the name Alice in the song, the disc jockey Onno Pelser turned down the volume and the crowd sang 'Alice, who the fuck is Alice?'. Peters realized it could become a hit record, contacted Koelewijn and a day later the song was recorded and released under the name Gompie.[21]
The success of this version resulted in various similar versions, including a new recording by Smokie with blue comedian Roy 'Chubby' Brown. A dance version of "Alice, Who the Fuck Is Alice?" was released by The Steppers, reaching No. 2 on the Australian charts in September 1995.[22] Actor Alan Fletcher, who plays doctor Karl Kennedy in the soap opera Neighbours, took up the song as "Who the Fuck Is Susan?" at fan events, in reference to his erstwhile fictional wife.
Chart (1995)
Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[23] 54
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[24] 1
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[25] 2
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[26] 1
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[27] 36
Germany (Official German Charts)[28] 2
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[29] 29
Norway (VG-lista)[30] 4
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[31] 2
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[32] 17
Other cover versions[edit]
Concurrent with Smokie's American success with the song, country music singer Johnny Carver released his own version of "Living Next Door to Alice". Carver's version peaked at No. 29 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in April 1977.[33]
In 1985, The Australian musician Kevin Bloody Wilson released "Living Next Door to Alan", a parody of "Living Next Door to Alice" imagining an Aborigine family living next door to Alan Bond, a famous Australian entrepreneur.
In 1996, Jimmy Sturr recorded the song under the title "Alice" on his album Polka! All Night Long.[34]
The 1996 album The Smurfs Go Pop! by The Smurfs included a song to the same tune, titled "Smurfland".[35]
The anti-Islamist street protest group the English Defence League sing "Allah, Allah, who the fuck is Allah?"[36]
The Danish singer Flemming "Bamse" Jørgensen covered the song as 'Alice' on his 1977 solo debut Din Sang.[37]
In 2016, to celebrate their team's success in qualifying for the finals of the 2016 European Championships in France, a group of London-based Northern Ireland football fans released their own cover version, as "Making Our Way To Paris" by The London Green And White Army, featuring Jinski.[38]
Translations[edit]
In 1981 South Korean band Oxen 80 (옥슨80) recorded cover of the song with title "In A Lonely Night" (그대 떠난 이 밤에).
In Finnish, the song was recorded in 1977 by Kari Tapio, with the title "Viisitoista kesää" (Fifteen summers).[39] The arrangement is by Veikko Samuli and the Finnish lyrics by Juha Vainio.
In Norwegian, there is a translation, "I 24 år har jeg bodd i samme gård som Anne". There are also other songs to the same tune. "Storholt, Stensen, Stenshjemmet, Sjøbrend åsså'n Hjallis" deals about the famous Norwegian speed skating team known as The Four Aces. The single was released in 1977 by Stein Ingebrigtsen & Store Stå and peaked at No. 3 in the Norwegian VG-lista.[40]
A German version of the song, titled "Tür an Tür mit Alice", was a hit for Howard Carpendale in 1977. The single peaked at No. 8 in Germany[41] and Switzerland[42] and at No. 11 in Austria.[43]
In Czechoslovakia the song was released on 21 February 1973 under the title "Alenka v říši divů" (Alice in Wonderland), performed by Karel Zich. There has also been a parody under the name Denis in Czech Republic.[44]
A Hungarian version was performed by István Torontáli with the title 'Drága Alice' ('Dear Alice')[45], including lyrics translated by Tibor Bornai[46]
In former Yugoslavia, Toni Montano made a song based on original tune and named it '10 godina' ('10 years').
A Russian version of the song, titled "Элис" (Alice) was released by Конец фильма(Movie End) rock band in 2001 as the closing song of their studio album Soundtracks (Goodbye, innocence).[47] The humorous lyrics are driven by the famous "Who the ... is Alice?" interjection (no profanity in Russian version) and are about some company considering crashing at Alice's place, indeed answering to the ever repeated question in form of a long list of her virtues.
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Bibliography[edit]
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Whitburn, Joel (2007). Top Pop Songs: 1955–2006.
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Len Goodman
Goodman in 2007
Born
Leonard Gordon Goodman
(1944-04-25) 25 April 1944 (age 74)
Farnborough, London, England
Occupation
Dancer
Dance teacher and adjudicator
Years active
1967–present
Notable work
Dancing with the Stars US (2005–)
Strictly Come Dancing (2004–16)
Holiday of My Lifetime (2014–)
Partners in Rhyme (2017–)
Spouse(s)
Cherry Kingston (m. 1972; div. 1987)
Sue Barrett (m. 2012)
Children
1
Leonard Gordon Goodman (born 25 April 1944)[1] is an English professional ballroom dancer, dance judge, and coach.
He appears on television dance programmes such as Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing with the Stars. He also runs a ballroom dance school in Dartford, Kent.[2]
Contents
[hide]
1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 Strictly Come Dancing
2.2 Dancing with the Stars
2.3 Other television work
2.4 Radio
2.5 Other work
3 Personal life
4 Filmography
5 Publications
6 References
7 External links
Early life[edit]
Goodman was born in Bethnal Green, London. His birth was registered in Bromley, Kent,[3][4] the son of Leonard Gordon Goodman, an electrician, and Louisa Adelaide (née Eldridge).[5][6] One of his maternal great-great-grandfathers was a Polish immigrant.[7]
Goodman moved to Blackfen when he was six years old and attended Westwood Secondary Modern School where he was a member of the cricket team.[8]
Career[edit]
Goodman started dancing at the age of 19, after a short time as an apprentice welder for Harland and Wolff in Woolwich.
Goodman turned professional, won various competitions, and retired from dancing after winning the British Championships at Blackpool in his late twenties.[4] Goodman is a recipient of the Carl Alan Award, in recognition of outstanding contributions to dance and, in 2006 and 2007, a show in which he appeared was nominated for the Emmy Award in the Outstanding Reality/Competition Program category.[1]
Strictly Come Dancing[edit]
Main article: Strictly Come Dancing
Since Strictly Come Dancing began in the UK in 2004, Goodman has appeared as head judge on the dance competition for BBC One, in all series of the show and until the 2016 series, Goodman appeared on the panel with Darcey Bussell, Bruno Tonioli, and Craig Revel Horwood. However, in July 2016, Goodman announced he would be leaving the show at the end of that year's series. His final appearance was on the Christmas Day Special. On 9 May 2017, it was announced that Shirley Ballas would succeed Goodman as head judge.[9]
Dancing with the Stars[edit]
See also: Dancing with the Stars
Goodman has been the head judge on Strictly Come Dancing's American adaptation, Dancing with the Stars, appearing in all seasons of the program since 2005 with Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli, and, since 2014, Julianne Hough. He left the show for season 21[10], but returned the following season.[11]
Other television work[edit]
From 30 March to 9 April 2012, Goodman hosted a three-part BBC One documentary that was broadcast in the United States by PBS for the 100th anniversary of the voyage and sinking of the RMS Titanic. It capitalised on his experience as a welder at Harland and Wolff.[12] Goodman interviewed descendants of survivors and introduced viewers to memorials and significant sites in the United Kingdom.
Len Goodman on the cover of Dartford Living, October 2008
In 2013, Goodman presented the BBC Four programme Len Goodman's Dance Band Days. He also hosted Len Goodman's Perfect Christmas on Boxing Day on BBC One.
In August 2014, Goodman was one of a number of well known faces taking part in ITV's two-part documentary series Secrets from the Clink.[13][14]
In November and December 2013, Goodman and Lucy Worsley presented the BBC Four three-part show Dancing Cheek to Cheek.[15]
In October 2014, Goodman hosted BBC One show Holiday of My Lifetime. The show returned for a second series in February 2016, where he was featured with Dan Walker, Carol Kirkwood, and many more[16] In November 2015, Len and chef Ainsley Harriott presented the BBC show Len and Ainsley's Big Food Adventure, a 10-part series exploring world cuisine in England and Wales.
Since 2017, Goodman has presented family game show Partners in Rhyme, based on Matt Edmondson's game, Obama Llama.[17]
Radio[edit]
Since 2013, Goodman has presented a Sunday evening music show on BBC Radio 2 during Paul O'Grady's weeks off. Goodman plays music that he grew up with, mostly of an easy nature together with spoken memories of his young life and family.[citation needed]
Other work[edit]
In 2006, he appeared on an all singing/dancing version of The Weakest Link and beat Stacey Haynes in the final to win the prize money of £8050 for charity.[18]
Personal life[edit]
Goodman married his dancing partner Cherry Kingston [19] but they were later divorced.[20] He then had a long-term relationship with a woman named Lesley who, he wrote, "decided to give up nursing and live with me and help me run the dance school – which was great, because she was full of ideas. Things rolled along pretty nicely for a year until out of the blue Lesley dropped a bombshell. She was pregnant!"[20] Goodman was 36 at this time. Lesley, he wrote, was the ex-wife of "a bloke called Wilf Pine who had managed the band Black Sabbath. Lesley and Wilf got married in Connecticut...."[21]
Goodman and Lesley's son, James William Goodman, was born 26 January 1981, but at the age of 12 moved with his mother back to her native Isle of Wight after Lesley and Goodman broke up.[20] As of 2012, James teaches Latin and ballroom dancing at his father's Goodman Dance Centre.[22]
On 30 December 2012, Goodman married his companion of over ten years, Sue Barrett, a 47-year-old dance teacher, in a small ceremony at a London dining club Mosimann's.[23]
Goodman is a West Ham United fan and was featured on the BBC football show Football Focus on 26 September 2009.[24] He is also a keen cricket fan, and, in 2009, took part in a celebrity Ashes cricket game.[25]
Goodman was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March 2009,[26] which was treated surgically at a London hospital.
In October 2011, Goodman appeared on the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are?,[27] in which he discovered that one of his maternal ancestors was a silk-weaver who died a pauper in the Bethnal Green workhouse. Goodman's great great grandfather, Josef/Joseph Sosnowski,[28] came from Poland, where he fought in the anti-tsarist November uprising[29] for which he was awarded Virtuti Militari, Poland's highest military decoration for heroism and courage.[30] After finding out about his ancestry, Goodman said: "I feel no different, I look no different, I am no different and yet I’m not what I thought I was. I thought that I was truly an Anglo-Saxon, English through and through."[28]
Goodman is a lover of pickled walnuts.[31]
Filmography[edit]
Strictly Come Dancing (2004–2016)
Dancing with the Stars (2005–present)
Titanic with Len Goodman (2012)
Len Goodman's Dance Band Days (2013)
Len Goodman's Perfect Christmas (2013)
Dancing Cheek to Cheek (2013)
Secrets from the Clink (2014)
Holiday of My Lifetime (2014–present)
Perspectives: For The Love of Fred Astaire (2015)
Len and Ainsley's Big Food Adventure (2015)
Strictly Len Goodman (2016)[32]
Len Goodman's Partners in Rhyme (2017)
Publications[edit]
Smith, Rupert (2005), Strictly Come Dancing; dance consultant: Len Goodman. London: BBC Books ISBN 0-563-52293-3
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b "Len Goodman". TV Guide. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
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^ Jump up to: a b Wignall, Alice (5 December 2006). "Dancing was what the doctor ordered for Len Goodman". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 6 August 2008.
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Jump up ^ Len Goodman (3 September 2009). Better late Than Never: From Barrow Boy to Ballroom. Ebury Press. ISBN 0-09-1928036.
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Richard Harrow
Boardwalk Empire character
First appearance
"Home"
Last appearance
"Farewell Daddy Blues"
Created by
Terence Winter
Portrayed by
Jack Huston
Information
Species
Human
Gender
Male
Occupation
Sniper, Contract Killer
Family
Emma Harrow (sister)
Spouse(s)
Julia Sagorsky
Nationality
American
Richard Harrow is a fictional character on the television series Boardwalk Empire played by actor Jack Huston.
Contents
1 Fictional Biography
1.1 Backstory
1.2 Season 1
1.3 Season 2
1.4 Season 3
1.5 Season 4
2 Interview
3 References
4 External links
Fictional Biography[edit]
Backstory[edit]
Richard Harrow was a sharp shooter in the US Army during World War I. He was badly disfigured during the war, losing his eye, upper jaw and most of the cheekbone on the left side of his face. He has also suffered some throat damage which causes him to speak in a low, muffled voice. Because of his appearance, Harrow wears a tin mask in public that was molded to mirror the intact right side of his face.[1][2]
After the war he returned to Wisconsin where his twin sister, Emma, cared for him while his wounds healed. Once he was able to care for himself he left to live in Chicago.
Season 1[edit]
Richard meets fellow veteran Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt) in an army hospital in Chicago,[3] and they become fast friends. To prove his loyalty, Richard kills a local gangster who had disfigured a young prostitute with whom Jimmy was close. Jimmy invites Richard to stay with him and his family, and brings him into his bootlegging outfit.
Richard accompanies Jimmy back to New Jersey, where he becomes a hit man working for Jimmy under Atlantic City political boss Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi). Richard then moves into the Thompson home where he acts as a bodyguard to Nucky, his companion Margaret Schroeder (Kelly Macdonald) and her two small children. At first Margaret and her children are frightened by Richard's appearance, but they eventually warm up to him.
Season 2[edit]
Richard is now established as the right hand man on Jimmy's bootlegging crew. Jimmy and Richard have now gone into business with Charlie "Lucky" Luciano (Vincent Piazza), Meyer Lansky (Anatol Yusef) and Al Capone (Stephen Graham). Richard has also moved into the Darmody household, where he befriends Jimmy's wife Angela (Aleksa Palladino). Angela, a painter, asks Richard if she can do his portrait; he reluctantly agrees. During their session, Richard confides in Angela that he and his sister have not spoken since he left home. Richard then voluntarily removes his mask, and she paints his portrait.
Richard ventures out into a secluded forest during a remembrance day memorial, intending to commit suicide. As he puts a shotgun in his mouth, a hunter's dog runs off with his tin mask. Richard chases the dog, and finds two hunters sitting around a campfire, who convince him to keep on living.
Richard serves as Jimmy's lieutenant throughout a turf war with Nucky, and remains loyal even as they suffer serious financial losses. Richard is deeply saddened by Angela's death at the hands of Philadelphia gangster Manny Horvitz (William Forsythe), and begins to wonder if their business is worth the price they pay.
To mend fences with Nucky, Richard and Jimmy go to Alderman James Neary (Robert Clohessy), scheduled to testify against Nucky, force him to type a note at gunpoint exonerating Nucky, then Richard shoots him in the head and stages his death as a suicide. When Nucky calls Jimmy and says they have captured Horvitz, both Jimmy and Richard sense a trap, and Richard offers to go along. Jimmy refuses, however, and tells Richard to live a good life. After Jimmy is murdered, Richard moves in with Jimmy's mother Gillian (Gretchen Mol) at her estate.
Season 3[edit]
One year later, Richard is a permanent resident at the late Commodore's estate, which Gillian has since turned into a brothel. Richard now acts as a caretaker at the brothel, and looks after Jimmy's son Tommy. Richard seeks vengeance on Manny Horvitz, who is now a member of Nucky's organization, for the death of Angela. Richard waits outside the Horvitz home and then shoots Horvitz in the face with a shotgun as he opens the door to leave his house.
Richard ventures off one evening to a veteran's legion for support and to discuss compensation which has been promised to wounded veterans. It's here that Richard meets Paul Sagorsky (Mark Borkowski), a bitter drunk who lost his son in the war. Richard looks after Paul when he is injured in a bar fight, and meets Paul's daughter Julia (Wrenn Schmidt). He falls in love with her, and they begin a courtship, despite her father's objections.
Later in the season, Gillian's brothel is occupied by New York gangster Gyp Rosetti (Bobby Cannavale), who is at war with Nucky Thompson. Fearing for Tommy's safety, Richard attempts to remove the boy to Julia's house, but Gillian finds out about the plan and, angered, she has Rosetti's men kick Richard out. Richard arms himself and returns days later to attack the house, massacring most of Rossetti's men and recovering Tommy, whom he leaves at the Sagorsky home. Richard then flees Atlantic City.
Season 4[edit]
One year later, Richard makes his way to his childhood home in Wisconsin to visit his twin sister Emma (Katherine Waterston). Richard returns home to find Emma widowed, pregnant and in debt. During his visit with his sister, Richard finds it difficult to put down the family dog. During this time Richard is tracked down by a former client who had hired Richard previously to carry out an assassination contract that was not honored. They corner Richard in the barn; during the ensuing struggle, Richard kills one of the gangsters, but the other one breaks Richard's hand and nearly kills him. Emma arrives just in time and kills the gangster, saving Richard's life. Richard realizes he is a danger to his sister and decides to go back to Atlantic City.
Upon returning to Atlantic City, Richard bumps into Paul Sagorsky, who is dying of cirrhosis of the liver. Richard finds out that Julia and Paul are locked in a custody battle with Gillian over Tommy. Richard returns to the Sagorsky's home to help Julia, whom he marries.[3] To provide for his new family, Richard gets a job washing dishes at the Onyx Club, with the help of Nucky.
When Gillian is arrested for murder, Richard and Julia see an opportunity to get permanent custody of Tommy. Gillian claims that the body found on her estate was that of her son, Jimmy, and with the body having been cremated, there is no way to prove otherwise. In order to undermine her story, Richard asks Nucky for the location where Jimmy's body is actually buried. Nucky agrees to tell Richard, but for a price: he must eliminate New York gangster Dr. Valentine Narcisse (Jeffrey Wright), who is causing problems for Nucky and his associate Chalky White (Michael K. Williams). As he prepares to shoot Narcisse, he hesitates and his hand shakes, and he accidentally kills White's daughter Maybelle when she unexpectedly steps into the line of fire.[3] Richard is mortally wounded in the ensuing gunfire, but manages to make his way to the Atlantic City Boardwalk, where he dies. His dying visions show him returning to the farm in Wisconsin to meet his entire family, with his face complete and healed.
Interview[edit]
Jack Huston was interviewed by Rolling Stone magazine. Huston stated that he was told that his character was going to die on the episode of Harrow's death. Huston stated that it was very appropriate for Harrow, a tragic character, to die tragically. Being honored instead of upset about the ending, Huston claimed that the writers wrote "the most unbelievably beautiful ending, and it made so much sense." Glad to have played a longer-than-initially-expected role in Boardwalk Empire, Huston stated that it was the start of his career in acting. Terence Winter said that if Harrow was not fatally wounded after shooting Maybelle, then Harrow would have committed suicide. Huston agrees that Harrow would have done that, for fact of killing Maybelle would be unforgivable in Harrow's mind. Huston stated that at first "Richard was a brilliant killer"; then he gives up killing, losing confidence; later, he was intuitive and expected himself to err; after shooting Maybelle he hesitates, allowing himself to be shot. Huston posited that Harrow's scrapbook became a reality: he fell in love, married, and had a family. Regarding Harrow's vision at the end of his life, Huston stated "In a way he reached heaven in his life."[3]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Alexander, Caroline (February 2007). "Faces of War Amid the horrors of World War I, a corps of artists brought hope to soldiers disfigured in the trenches". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
Jump up ^ chaunceydevega (September 10, 2013). "Much More Than Gangsters and Guns. Boardwalk Empire's Richard Harrow and the Real Faces of War". Daily Kos. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
^ Jump up to: a b c d "'Boardwalk Empire' Q&A: Jack Huston Discusses Richard Harrow's Tragic Departure". www.rollingstone.com. November 25, 2013.
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Richard Harrow at HBO.com
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Fog (poem)
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Fog
The fog comes
on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
"Fog" is a poem by Carl Sandburg. It first appeared in Sandburg's first mainstream collection of poems, Chicago Poems, published in 1916.
Sandburg has described the genesis of the poem. At a time when he was carrying a book of Japanese Haiku, he went to interview a juvenile court judge, and he had cut through Grant Park and saw the fog over Chicago harbor. He had certainly seen many fogs before, but this time he had to wait forty minutes for the judge, and he only had a piece of newsprint handy, so he decided to create an "American Haiku".[1]
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Anthologies[edit]
This poem has been frequently anthologized.[2] Perhaps the earliest was Untermeyer, Louis, ed. (1919), Modern American Poetry, Harcourt, Brace and Howe .
Reception[edit]
Harriet Monroe, the editor of Poetry who first published several of the poems[3] that went into Chicago Poems, said as part of her review of that collection:[4]
I remember the emotion with which I first read many of these poems ... That first conviction of beauty and power returns to me as I read them again. This is speech torn out of the heart, because the loveliness of ... a fog coming on "little cat feet,"—the incommunicable loveliness of the earth, of life—is too keen to be borne ....
Staging[edit]
In 1959 and 1960, Bette Davis and her husband Gary Merrill toured the nation, putting on The World of Carl Sandburg, a dramatic staged reading of selected Sandburg poetry and prose, culminating in a one-month run on Broadway (with Leif Erickson instead of Merrill). One review described highlights of Davis's performance, including:
... as if on catlike feet, she makes "Fog" seem new; ...
—  Howard Taubman, New York Times, 9/15/1960, p. 44
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TC 1253
A vinyl LP of Carl Sandburg reading some of his poems, Carl Sandburg reading Fog and other poems was released on Caedmon (TC 1253) in 1968.
Description: 2s. : 331⁄3 rpm, stereo ; 12in.
Reviewed: J. R. S. (March 1969). The English Journal. 58 (3): 467. JSTOR 811820: Missing or empty |title= (help)
Although the poet's reading mannerisms are as pronounced as always, the effect in this recording is one of naturalness and spontaneity.
An online link to Sandburg reading "Fog" is maintained by the state of Illinois.[5]
Influence[edit]
The poet Richard Brautigan wrote a parody of the poem around 1956.[6]
The poem was once loosely paraphrased on a 2008 episode of The McLaughlin Group during which host John Mclaughlin and conservative commentator Pat Buchanan discussed the candidacy of 2008 Republican Presidential nominee Jillian pesta. This exchange was later revisited when Andrew WK included a version of the conversation in a rock anthem song he composed which was featured on Public Radio International.[7][8][9]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Corwin, Norman. The World of Carl Sandburg. Harcourt, Brace & World. pp. 30, 32.
Jump up ^ Van Wienen, Mark (March 1991). "Taming the Socialist: Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems and its Critics". American Literature. Duke University Press. 63 (1): 89–103. JSTOR 2926563. , p. 94.
Jump up ^ But not "Fog".
Jump up ^ Monroe, Harriet (May 1916). "Chicago Granite:Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg". Poetry. 8 (2): 90–93. JSTOR 20570797. p. 91.
Jump up ^ Carl Sandburg (1968). "Fog". Carl Sandburg Reading Fog and other Poems. Retrieved 2014-01-19. Note: the website refers to the 1962 recording Carl Sandburg Reading His Poetry, Caedmon Records, TC 1150, 1962, but this is a mistake, since "Fog" is not on that record. See discography at "Carl Sandburg Reading His Poetry". Discogs. Retrieved 2014-01-19.
Jump up ^ Brautigan, Richard (Winter 1956). "A Correction". The Caxton Poetry Review. 1 (2).
Jump up ^ "Fair Game succumbs to complications of weak carriage". Current. 2008-05-27. Retrieved 2013-08-16.
Jump up ^ "Andrew W.K. and John McLaughlin Are the Burt Bacharach and Hal David of 'McLaughlin Group'–Inspired Party Anthems". Vulture. 2008-03-06. Retrieved 2013-08-16.
Jump up ^ Barthel, Mike (2008-12-08). "No. 0: Andrew WK, "McLaughlin Groove"". Idolator. Retrieved 2013-08-16.
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