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Biography of Raoul Ponchon (excerpt)
Raoul Ponchon, born December 30, 1848 in Napoléon-Vendée (now La Roche-sur-Yon), died December 3, 1937 in Paris, was a French writer, poet, and painter. Selected works * La Muse au cabaret, Fasquelle 1920, publié de son vivant. Réédition chez Cyral en 1925 (600 ex.
Biography of Jacobus Cornelius Kapteijn (excerpt)
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteijn, born January 19, 1851 in Barneveld, died June 18, 1922 in Amsterdam, was a Dutch astronomer.
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Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte, Charlottetown was an unincorporated town until it was incorporated as a city in 1855. It was the site of the famous Charlottetown Conference in 1864, the first gathering of Canadian and Maritime statesmen to discuss the proposed Maritime Union.
Biography of Arnold Dolmetsch (excerpt)
(Eugène) Arnold Dolmetsch (24 February 1858 - 28 February 1940), was a French-born musician and instrument maker who spent much of his working life in England and established an instrument-making workshop in Haslemere, Surrey. He was a leading figure in the 20th century revival of interest in Early Music.
Biography of Lucien Guitry (excerpt)
Lucien Germain Guitry (13 December 1860 – 1 June 1925) was a French actor and comedian, the father of Sacha Guitry. Lucien Guitry was born in Paris. In 1885 he was appearing in Saint Petersburg, where he lived for a few years, at the French Theatre (or Mikhaylovsky Theatre.
Biography of Bernard Zweers (excerpt)
Bernard Zweers (born Bernardus Josephus Wilhelmus Zweers) (Amsterdam, May 18, 1854 - December 9, 1924) was a Dutch composer and music teacher. Life Bernard Zweers was born in 1854 as the son of an Amsterdam book- and music shopkeeper. Although his father was an amateur singer, he strongly disapproved of his son’s musical interests, expecting him to follow him in the family business.
Biography of Jules Jouy (excerpt)
Jules Théodore Louis Jouy, best known as Jules Jouy, born on April 27, 1855 in Paris, died on March 17, 1897, was a French poet, artist, and singer.
Biography of William K.L. Dickson (excerpt)
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a French-Anglo-Scottish photographer, director, screenwriter, actor and inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employ of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince). Dickson was born on 3 August 1860 in Le Minihic-sur-Rance, Brittany, France.
Biography of Alexandre Millerand (excerpt)
Alexandre Millerand (February 10, 1859 - April 7, 1943) was a French socialist politician. He was President of France from September 23, 1920 to June 11, 1924 and Prime Minister of France January 20 to September 23, 1920. His participation in Waldeck-Rousseau's cabinet at the turn of the century, alongside the marquis de Galliffet who had directed the repression of the 1871 Paris Commune, sparked a debate in the French socialist movement and in the Second International about the participation of socialists in "bourgeois governments".
Biography of Andrew Pringle-Pattison (excerpt)
Andrew Seth (December 20, 1856, Edinburgh (source for his time of birth: Paul Wright) – 1931, The Haining, Selkirkshire), who changed his name to Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison to fulfill the terms of a bequest, was a Scottish philosopher. Seth's twin enemies were English Empiricism and the Anglo variant of Hegelianism.
Biography of Georges Colomb (excerpt)
Georges Colomb, best known as Christophe, born May 25, 1856 in Lure, (Haute-Saône)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died January 3, 1945 in Nyons, was a French comics artist and author.
Biography of Gilbert Dalleu (excerpt)
Gilbert Dalleu, born on March 5, 1861 in Saint-Pons (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), died on March 1, 1931, was a French actor. Filmography (extracts) 1928 La passion de Jeanne d'Arc Jean Lemaître (uncredited) 1926 La terre qui meurt 1924 Les mystères de Paris Le Maître d'école 1924 L'arriviste
Biography of Jeanne d'Albret (excerpt)
Jeanne d'Albret (16 November 1528 (birth time source: page 7 of "Queen of Navarre, Jeanne d’Albret: 1528-1572’" published in 1968 by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in Cambridge, Mass, author Nancy Lyman Roelker, email on 11/25/2014). – 9 June 1572), also known as Jeanne III or Joan III, was the queen regnant of Navarre from 1555 to 1572.
Biography of Albrecht Rodenbach (excerpt)
Albrecht Rodenbach (* 27 October 1856 in Tournai, Belgium; † 23 June 1880 in Roeselare) was a Flemish poet, and a leader in the revival of Flemish literature that occurred in the late 19th Century. He is more noteworthy as a symbol of the Flemish movement, than for his actual activities, since he died at the age of 23.
Biography of Emile Picard (excerpt)
Charles Émile Picard (24 July 1856 - 12 December 1941) was a French mathematician. He was elected the fifteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie Française in 1924. Picard's mathematical papers, textbooks, and many popular writings exhibit an extraordinary range of interests, as well as an impressive mastery of the mathematics of his time.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Daniel-Dupuis (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste, Daniel-Dupuis, born February 15, 1849 in Blois, died November 14, 1899, killed by his wife, was a French painter, sculptor, and engraver.
Biography of Niels Ryberg Finsen (excerpt)
Niels Ryberg Finsen (December 15, 1860 – September 24, 1904) was a Faroese-Danish physician and scientist of Icelandic descent. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1903 "in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has opened a new avenue for medical science.
Biography of Victor Herbert (excerpt)
Victor August Herbert (February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924) was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor who is best known for his many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway. He was prominent among the tin pan alley composers and later a founder of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP).
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The Santiago de Compostela derailment occurred on 24 July 2013, when an Alvia high-speed train traveling from Madrid to Ferrol, in the north-west of Spain, derailed at high speed on a bend about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) outside of the railway station at Santiago de Compostela.
Biography of Louis Racine (excerpt)
Louis Racine (November 6, 1692 - January 29, 1763), was a French poet. The second son of the dramatist Jean Racine, he was born in Paris. Interested in poetry from childhood, he had been dissuaded from trying to make it his career by Boileau on the grounds that the gift never existed in two successive generations.
Biography of Nicolas Pietri (excerpt)
Nicolas Pietri (February 2, 1862, Sartène, Corsica, France) was a French politician, business man and art amateur.
Biography of Paul Harel (excerpt)
Paul Harel, born on May 18, 1854 in Échauffour, died in 1927, was a French poet and innkeeper. Selected publications Sous les pommiers, poésies, 1879 Gousses d'ail et fleurs de serpolet, 1881 Les Vingt-Huit Jours du caporal Ballandard, 1882 Rimes de broche et d’épée, 1883 Aux champs, 1886 Gustave Le Vavasseur, 1888 La Hanterie, 1889 Souvenirs d’auberge, 1894 Gorgeansac.
Biography of Camille Jullian (excerpt)
Camille Jullian (March 15, 1859 - December 12, 1933) was a French historian, philologist, archaeologist and historian of French literature, student of Fustel de Coulanges, whose posthumous work he published. Biography Jullian was born in Marseille. Specialising in Gaul and the Roman epoch, he was notably a student of the École Normale Supérieure, member of the École française de Rome and professor of national antiquities at the Collège de France.
Biography of Yves Delage (excerpt)
Yves Delage (13 May 1854 – 7 October 1920) was a French zoologist known for his work into invertebrate physiology and anatomy. He also discovered the function of the semicircular canals in the inner ear. He is also famous for noting and preparing a speech on the Turin Shroud, arguing in favour of its authenticity.
Biography of Paul Hervieu (excerpt)
Paul Hervieu, full name Paul-Ernest Hervieu (2 November 1857 - 25 October 1915), French dramatist and novelist, was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine. Biography He was called to the bar in 1877, and, after serving some time in the office of the president of the council, he qualified for the diplomatic service, but resigned on his nomination in 1881 to a secretaryship in the French legation in Mexico.
Biography of Louis Brocq (excerpt)
Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq (February 1, 1856 – December 18, 1928) was a French dermatologist who was born in Laroque-Timbaut, a village in the department of Lot-et-Garonne. He practiced medicine in Paris at the Hospice la Rochefoucauld, the Hôpital Broca, and from 1906 to 1921, the Hôpital Saint-Louis.
Biography of Ronald Ross (excerpt)
Sir Ronald Ross KCB FRS (13 May 1857 – 16 September 1932) was a British doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on malaria. His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of the Anopheles mosquito led to the realization that malaria was transmitted by Anopheles, and laid the foundation for combating the disease.
Biography of John Carteek (excerpt)
John Carteek, born January 22, 1861 in Rockland, Michigan, was an American wrestler.
Biography of Maurice Donnay (excerpt)
Charles Maurice Donnay (Paris, October 12, 1859 - 1945), French dramatist, was born of middle-class parents in Paris. Graduated as an engineer of École Centrale Paris, he left the industrial sector to write. He made his serious debut as a dramatist on the little stage of the Chat Noir with Phryne (1891), a series of Greek scenes.
Biography of Sarah Orne Jewett (excerpt)
Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909) was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for her local color works set in or near South Berwick, Maine, on the border of New Hampshire, which in her day was a declining New England seaport.
Biography of Maurice Blondel (excerpt)
Maurice Blondel (2 November 1861, Dijon (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 4 June 1949, Aix-en-Provence) was a French philosopher. Blondel developed a "philosophy of action” that integrated classical Neoplatonic thought with modern Pragmatism in the context of a Christian philosophy of religion.
Biography of Guillaume Bigourdan (excerpt)
Camille Guillaume Bigourdan (April 6, 1851 – February 28, 1932) was a French astronomer. Bigourdan was born at Sistels, Tarn-et-Garonne. In 1877 he was appointed by Félix Tisserand as assistant astronomer at the Toulouse Observatory, and in 1879 followed Tisserand to the Paris Observatory when the latter became director there.
Biography of Arthur Hannequin (excerpt)
Arthur Hannequin, born October 27, 1856 in Pargny-sur-Saulx (Marne), died July 5, 1905, was a French physicist , professor of philosophy and sciences and author.
Biography of Marshall Pinckney Wilder (excerpt)
Marshall Pinckney Wilder, born September 19, 1859 in New York, died January 10, 1915 in St. Paul, Minnesita, was an American actor and screenwriter.
Biography of Mikhail Chigorin (excerpt)
Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin also (Tchigorin) (12 November 1850, Gatchina, Russia – 25 January 1908, Lublin, Poland) was a leading Russian chess player. He served as a major source of inspiration for the "Soviet school of chess," which dominated the chess world in the middle and latter parts of the 20th century.
Biography of Frederick Warde (excerpt)
Frederick Barkham Warde (23 February 1851, Wardington, Oxfordshire, England - 7 February 1935, Brooklyn, New York) was a Shakesperian actor who moved from Britain to the United States in the late 1800s. In the late 1870s he partnered with actor Maurice Barrymore and the two agreed to tour plays around the United States.
Biography of Jean-Louis Forain (excerpt)
Jean-Louis Forain (October 23, 1852 - July 11, 1931) was a French Impressionist painter, lithographer, watercolorist and etcher. Forain was born in Reims, Marne but at age eight, his family moved to Paris. He began his career working as a caricaturist for several Paris journals but wanting to expand his horizons, enrolled at the École des Beaux Arts, studying under Jean-Léon Gérôme as well as another sculptor/painter, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.
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On 15 April 2019, just before 18:20 CEST, a fire broke out beneath the roof of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral in Paris. By the time the structure fire was extinguished the building's spire had collapsed, most of its roof had been destroyed and its upper walls were severely damaged.
Biography of Elemir Bourges (excerpt)
Élémir Bourges (March 26, 1852 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - November 13, 1925) was a French novelist. A winner of the Goncourt Prize, he was also a member of the Académie Goncourt. Bourges, who accused the Naturalists of having "belittled and deformed man", was closely linked with the Decadent and Symbolist modes in literature.
Biography of David Dunbar Buick (excerpt)
David Dunbar Buick, born September 17, 1854 in Arbroath and died March 5, 1929, was a Scottish-born American inventor best known for founding the Buick Motor Company. He was born in Arbroath, Angus, Scotland moving to Detroit, Michigan at the age of two when his parents emigrated to the United States.
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Culiacán, officially Culiacán Rosales, is a city in northwestern Mexico that is the capital of and the largest city in Sinaloa and in the Culiacán Municipality. It was founded on September 29, 1531 by the Spanish conquerors Lázaro de Cebreros and Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán under the name of Villa de San Miguel, which referred to its patron saint, Michael the Archangel.
Biography of Samuel Rousseau (excerpt)
Samuel-Alexandre Rousseau, born on June 18, 1853 in Neuve-Maison, died on October 1, 1904 in Paris, was a French musician and composer. Selected works (fr) Judith, cantate, 1876 La fille de Jephté, cantate, 1878 Dianora, opéra-comique en un acte, créé en 1879
Biography of Hendrik Berlage (excerpt)
Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Amsterdam, February 21, 1856 — The Hague August 12, 1934, was a prominent Dutch architect. Overview Berlage studied architecture under Gottfried Semper at the Zurich Institute of Technology during the 1870s after which he travelled extensively through Europe. In the 1880s he formed a Partnership in the Netherlands with Theodore Sanders which produced a mixture of practical and utopian projects.
Biography of George W. Lippert (excerpt)
George W. Lippert, born May 9, 1849 in Aschaffenburg, was a German carpenter, wood carver and three-legged man.
Biography of Pierre Puiseux (excerpt)
Pierre Henri Puiseux (July 20, 1855 – September 28, 1928) was a French astronomer. Born in Paris, son of Victor Puiseux, he was educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure before starting work as an astronomer at the Paris Observatory in 1885. He worked on the aberration of light, asteroids, lunar dynamics and, in collaboration with Maurice Loewy, the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project.
Biography of Alfred Loisy (excerpt)
Alfred Firmin Loisy (28 February 1857 – 1 June 1940) was a French Roman Catholic priest, professor and theologian who became the intellectual standard bearer for Biblical Modernism in the Roman Catholic Church. He was a critic of traditional views of the biblical creation myth, and argued that biblical criticism could be applied to interpreting scripture.
Biography of Karl Gjellerup (excerpt)
Karl Gjellerup (June 2, 1857 – October 13, 1919) was a Danish poet and novelist who together with his compatriot Henrik Pontoppidan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1917. He belonged to the Modern Break-Through. He occasionally used the pseudonym Epigonos.
Biography of Georges de Porto-Riche (excerpt)
Georges de Porto-Riche (May 20, 1849 in Bordeaux, Gironde – September 5, 1930 in Paris) was a French dramatist and novelist. At the age of twenty, his pieces in verse began to be produced at the Parisian theatres; he also wrote some books of verse which met with a favorable reception, but these early works were not reprinted.
Biography of Alfred Boucher (excerpt)
A French sculptor, Alfred Boucher (September 23, 1850 – 1934), mentor to Camille Claudel and friend of Auguste Rodin. Born in Bouy-sur-Ovin (Nogent-sur-Seine), he was the son of a farmhand who became the gardener of the sculptor Chantalle van Zanten, who, after recognizing Boucher's talent, opened his studio to him.
Biography of Frank B. Kellogg (excerpt)
Frank Billings Kellogg (December 22, 1856 – December 21, 1937) was an American lawyer, politician and statesman who served in the U.S. Senate and as U.S. Secretary of State. He co-authored the Kellogg-Briand Pact, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1929. |
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