David Peel Yates

Lieutenant General Sir David Peel Yates KCB CVO DSO OBE (1911–1978) was a British Army General who reached high office during the 1960s.

Military career

David Peel Yates was commissioned into the South Wales Borderers in 1931. He was deployed on Waziristan operations on the North West Frontier of India in 1937 before becoming Adjutant of 1st Bn the Monmouthshire Regiment in 1939.

He served in World War II initially as Brigade Major of 113th Infantry Brigade in 1940. He then went to the Staff College before becoming Brigade Major of 204th Infantry Brigade in 1941. He served as a General Staff Officer with 4th Division and then at 1st Army Headquarters. He was involved in the fall of Tunis in 1943. He was appointed Commanding Officer of 6th Bn the Lincolnshire Regiment which was deployed to Italy in 1944 before he returned to 4th Division later that year. He was a Brigadier on the General Staff Field Marshal Harold Alexander at Allied Force Headquarters in Italy in 1945.

After the War he became an Instructor at the Joint Services Staff College in 1946 and then Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General at the War Office in 1949. He was an Instructor at the NATO Defence College in Paris between 1951 and 1953 when he became Commanding Officer of 1st Bn South Wales Borderers. He was appointed Commander of 27th Infantry Brigade in Hong Kong in 1955 and Assistant Commandant at the Staff College, Camberley in 1957. He then became Chief of Staff for Eastern Command in 1960 and Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin in 1962. He was General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Eastern Command from 1966 to 1968 when he became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Southern Command:he retired in 1969.

David Peel (musician)

David Peel (born David Michael Rosario) is a New York-based musician who first recorded in the late 1960s with Harold Black, Billy Joe White, George Cori and Larry Adam performing as David Peel and The Lower East Side Band. His raw, acoustic "street rock" with lyrics about marijuana and "bad cops" appealed mostly to hippies.

Biography

In 1968, Peel was contracted by Elektra Records when he was first discovered and recorded two "envelope pushers" for the label. His album Have a Marijuana peaked at 186 on the Billboard Charts.

Peel was rediscovered by John Lennon in 1971 as the early seventies continued its swing towards the youth revolution. Lennon befriended Peel when David was playing with his ragtag hippie band in New York's Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. Lennon produced The Pope Smokes Dope for Peel. This album was banned in many countries and since has been sought after by collectors worldwide.

In the summer of 1970, Peel performed at Washington Square Park along with Ira Gewirtz.

David Peel (actor)

David Peel (19 June 1920 – 4 September 1981) was an English film and television actor.

He was born in London on 19 June 1920. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and was a minor player in a few films. In 1960, he was cast in the starring role of Baron Meinster in Hammer Film Productions The Brides of Dracula. He retired from the film industry following this film and became an estate agent and antiques dealer. He died on 4 September 1981.

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David of Bulgaria

David (Bulgarian: Давид) (died 976) was a Bulgarian noble, brother of Emperor Samuel and eldest son of komes Nicholas. After the disastrous invasion of Rus' armies and the fall of North-eastern Bulgaria under Byzantine occupation in 971, he and his three younger brothers took the lead of the defence of the country. They executed their power together and each of them governed and defended a separate region. He ruled the southern-most parts of the realm from Prespa and Kastoria and was responsible for the defence the dangerous borders with Thessalonica and Thessaly. In 976 he participated in the major assault against the Byzantine Empire but was killed by vagrant Vlachs between Prespa and Kostur.

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Another theory

However, there's also another version about David’s origin. David gains the title "comes" during his service in the Byzantine army which recruited many Armenians from the Eastern region of the empire. The 11th-century historian Stepanos Asoghik wrote that Samuel had one brother, and they were Armenians from the district Derjan. This version is supported by the historians Nicholas Adontz, Jordan Ivanov, and Samuil's Inscription where it’s said that Samuel’s brother is David. Also, the historians Yahya and Al Makin clearly distinguish the race of Samuel and David (the Comitopouli) from the one of Moses and Aaron (the royal race):

David, Chiriquí

David (Spanish pronunciation: [daˈβið]) officially San José de David is a city and corregimiento located in the west of Panama. It is the capital of the province of Chiriquí and has an estimated population of 144,858 inhabitants as confirmed in 2013. It is a relatively affluent city with a firmly established, dominant middle class and a very low unemployment and poverty index. The Pan-American Highway is a popular route to David.

The development of the banking sector, public construction works such as the expansion of the airport and the David-Boquete highway alongside the growth of commercial activity in the city have increased its prominence as one of the fastest growing regions in the country. The city is currently the economic center of the Chiriqui province and produces more than half the gross domestic product of the province, which totals 2.1 billion. It is known for being the third-largest city in the country both in population and by GDP and for being the largest city in Western Panama.

David (Bernini)

David is a life-size marble sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The sculpture was one of many commissions to decorate the villa of Bernini's patron Cardinal Scipione Borghese – where it still resides today, as part of the Galleria Borghese It was completed in the course of seven months from 1623 to 1624.

The subject of the work is the biblical David, about to throw the stone that will bring down Goliath, which will allow David to behead him. Compared to earlier works on the same theme (notably the David of Michelangelo), the sculpture broke new ground in its implied movement and its psychological intensity.

Background

Between 1618 and 1625 Bernini was commissioned to undertake various sculptural work for the villa of one of his patrons, Cardinal Scipione Borghese. In 1623 – only yet 24 years old – he was working on the sculpture of Apollo and Daphne, when, for unknown reasons, he abandoned this project to start work on the David. According to records of payment, Bernini had started on the sculpture by mid–1623, and his contemporary biographer, Filippo Baldinucci, states that he finished it in seven months.