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Biography of Charles d'Orléans de Rothelin (excerpt)
Charles d'Orléans de Rothelin, born August 5, 1691 in Paris, died July 17, 1744, was a French clergyman, author, numismatist and theologist.
Biography of Charles-François Panard (excerpt)
Charles-François Pannard or Charles-François Panard, born November 2, 1689 in Courville-sur-Eure, died June 13, 1765 in Paris, was a French poet and author. Works Le Tour de Carnaval, comédie en 1 acte et en prose, 1731 Les Acteurs déplacés, comédie en 1 acte et en prose, 1737 Les Fêtes sincères et l'heureux retour, comédie en 1 acte en en vers libres, 1744 Pygmalion, opéra-comique en 1 acte, 1744 Roland, opéra-comique en 1 acte, 1744 Le Magasin des modernes, opéra-comique en 1 acte, 1746 L'Impromotu des acteurs, comédie en 1 acte en en vers libres, 1747 Les Tableaux, comédie en 1 acte en en vers libres, 1747
Biography of Yuan Shikai (excerpt)
Yuan Shikai (Chinese: 袁世凱; pinyin: Yuán Shìkǎi; 16 September 1859 – 6 June 1916) was a Chinese military and government official who rose to power during the late Qing dynasty, becoming the Emperor of the Empire of China (1915–1916). He tried to save the dynasty with a number of modernization projects including bureaucratic, fiscal, judicial, educational, and other reforms, despite playing a key part in the failure of the Hundred Days' Reform.
Biography of Léon Hennique (excerpt)
Léon Hennique, born November 4, 1850 in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, died December 25, 1935 in Paris, was a French novelist and playwright. Works Novels * La Dévouée : les héros modernes (1878) Texte en ligne * L'Accident de M.
Biography of Eugène Milon (excerpt)
Eugène Milon, born September 23, 1859 in Loury, died in 1917, was a French carpenter. He was one of the managers who had built the Tour Eiffel in Paris.
Biography of Henry Rider Haggard (excerpt)
Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925), was a prolific writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential to this day.
Biography of Emilia Pardo Bazán (excerpt)
Emilia Pardo Bazán (16 September 1851 – 12 May 1921) (also known as Emilia, countess de Pardo Bazán) was a Spanish author and scholar from Galicia. Life Pardo Bazán was born in A Coruña, a city in the region of Galicia, Spain, and the culture of that area was incorporated into some of her most popular novels, including Los pazos de Ulloa ("The Manors of Ulloa") and its sequel, La madre naturaleza ("Mother Nature").
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The April 2015 Nepal earthquake (also known as the Gorkha earthquake) killed nearly 9,000 people and injured nearly 22,000. It occurred at 11:56 Nepal Standard Time on 25 April 2015, with a magnitude of 7.8Mw or 8.1Ms and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of VIII (Severe).
Biography of Édouard Dujardin (excerpt)
Édouard Dujardin (November 10, 1861–1949) was a French writer, one of the early pioneers of the literary technique stream of consciousness, exemplified in his 1888 novel Les Lauriers sont coupés. Édouard Émile Louis Dujardin was born in France near Blois, and was the only child of Alphonse Dujardin, a sea captain.
Biography of Emile Claus (excerpt)
Emile Claus (September 27, 1849–June 14, 1924) was a Belgian painter. Emile Claus was born on September 27, 1849 inLendelede . Later he studied at the Academy of Antwerp. Under the influence of Claude Monet, he developed a style that has been characterized as luminism.
Biography of Arthur James Balfour (excerpt)
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC (25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930) was a British Conservative politician and statesman. He authored the tough Perpetual Crimes Act (1887) (or Coercion Act) aimed at the prevention of boycotting, intimidation, unlawful assembly in Ireland during the Irish Land War, and was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905, a time when his party and government became divided over the issue of tariff reform.
Biography of Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (excerpt)
Alexei Petrovich Romanov (Russian: Алексей Петрович) (28 February 1690 – 7 July 1718), was a Russian Tsarevich. He was born in Moscow, the son of Tsar Peter I and his first wife Eudoxia Lopukhina. Childhood The young Alexei was brought up by his mother, who fostered an atmosphere of disdain towards Peter the Great, Alexei's father.
Biography of Édouard Goursat (excerpt)
Édouard Jean-Baptiste Goursat (21 May 1858 – 25 November 1936) was a French mathematician, now remembered principally as an expositor for his Cours d'analyse mathématique, which appeared in the first decade of the twentieth century. It set a standard for the high-level teaching of mathematical analysis, especially complex analysis.
Biography of Aimé Morot (excerpt)
Aimé Morot (June 16, 1850 (source for his time of birth: Lescaut)–1913) was a French painter. Morot was born in Nancy, where he studied under a drawing master named Thierry. He later attended the atelier of Alexandre Cabanel in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, but left after only two weeks to continue his studies independently.
Biography of Léopold Bellan (excerpt)
Léopold Bellan, born on September 20, 1857 in Méré (birth time source: Michel Martinet, on-line archives), died on January 4, 1936 in Paris, was a French industrialist, journalist, and politician. He was born with a clubfoot.
Biography of Louis-Guy de Guérapin de Vauréal (excerpt)
Louis-Guy de Guérapin de Vauréal, born January 3, 1687 in Brienne-la-Vieille and died June 10, 1760, was a French bishop and diplomat.
Biography of Trajan (excerpt)
Trajan (Latin: Marcus Ulpius Nerva Trajanus Augustus; 18 September 53 – 9 August 117), was Roman Emperor from 98 to 117. Born into a non-patrician family in the province of Hispania Baetica, Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor Domitian.
Biography of Dorothy Dix (excerpt)
Dorothy Dix (November 18, 1861 – December 16, 1951), was the pseudonym of U.S. journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer. As the forerunner of today's popular advice columnists, Dorothy Dix was America's highest paid and most widely read female journalist at the time of her death.
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Kansas is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native Americans who lived along its banks.
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On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred inside a Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, United States, during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises. Dressed in tactical clothing, James Eagan Holmes set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with multiple firearms.
Biography of Alexandre Georges (excerpt)
Alexandre George, born February 25, 1850 in Arras, died January 18, 1938 in Paris, was a French composer and organist. Works (extract, in French) Daphnis et Chloé (1883), Le Printemps (1888), Charlotte Corday (6 mars 1901), Miarka (Opéra-Comique : 7 novembre 1905) - sans doute son plus grand opéra ; repris et réduit à 3 actes pour l'Opéra (1925) - le public est séduit par l'étrange mélancolie de cette partition,
Biography of Clarence Darrow (excerpt)
Clarence Seward Darrow (April 18, 1857 Farmdale, Ohio - March 13, 1938 Chicago) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Bobby Franks (1924) and defending John T.
Biography of Marie Emile Fayolle (excerpt)
Marie Émile Fayolle (Le Puy, France, 14 May 1852 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 27 August 1928) was a Marshal of France. Fayolle studied at the École polytechnique, where he graduated with the class of 1873. During his career he served in the artillery.
Biography of Jean Moréas (excerpt)
Jean Moréas (born Ioannis A. Papadiamantopoulos, Ιωάννης Α. Παπαδιαμαντόπουλος; April 15, 1856 - April 30, 1910), was a Greek poet, essayist, and art critic, who wrote mostly in the French language but also in Greek during his youth. Background Moréas was born into a distinguished Athenian family.
Biography of Emma Borden (excerpt)
Emma Borden, born March 1, 1851 (birth time source: Charlotte Tuton) and died June 12, 1927, is the sister of Lizzie Borden. Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was a New England spinster who was the central figure in the hatchet murders of her father and stepmother on August 4, 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts in the United States.
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Nassau is the capital and largest city of the Bahamas. With a population of 274,400 as of 2016, or just over 70% of the entire population of the Bahamas (≈391,000), Nassau is commonly defined as a primate city, dwarfing all other towns in the country.
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Yuma (Cocopah: Yuum) is a city in and the county seat of Yuma County, Arizona, United States. The city's population was 93,064 at the 2010 census, up from the 2000 census population of 77,515. Yuma is the principal city of the Yuma, Arizona, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which consists of Yuma County.
Biography of David Yule (excerpt)
Sir David Yule (1858-1928) was a British businessman. Though born in Edinburgh, Scotland, he spent most of his life in India. David Yule joined Andrew Yule and Company Ltd., which was begun by his uncle, Andrew. His uncle, George Yule, was a president of the Indian National Congress.
Biography of John I of Portugal (excerpt)
Joao I (Portugues: João, Lisbon, 11 April 1357 – Lisbon, 14 August 1433), called the Good (sometimes the Great) or of Happy Memory, was the tenth King of Portugal and the Algarve and the first to use the title Lord of Ceuta.
Biography of Giovanni Pascoli (excerpt)
Giovanni Pascoli (December 31, 1855—April 6, 1912) was an Italian poet and classical scholar. Pascoli was born at San Mauro di Romagna (rechristened "San Mauro Pascoli" after his death), into a wealthy family. He had a tragic childhood, struck by the murder of his father and the early deaths of his mother, sister and two brothers, and the subsequent economical decline of the family.
Biography of Abel Hermant (excerpt)
Abel Hermant (3 February 1861 - 29 September 1950) was a French novelist, playwright, essayist and writer, and member of the Académie Française. Herman was born in Paris, the son of an architect. He received a degree from the École Normale Supérieure in 1880, and published his first volume of verse in 1883, The Contempt.
Biography of Ernest Chausson (excerpt)
Amédée-Ernest Chausson (January 20, 1855 – June 10, 1899) was a French romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish. Life Ernest Chausson was born in Paris into a prosperous bourgeois family. His father made his fortune assisting Baron Haussmann in the redevelopment of Paris in the 1850s .
Biography of Svante Arrhenius (excerpt)
Svante August Arrhenius (19 February 1859 – 2 October 1927) was a Swedish scientist, originally a physicist, but often referred to as a chemist, and one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. The Arrhenius equation, lunar crater Arrhenius and the Arrhenius Labs at Stockholm University are named after him.
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The 2011 Joplin tornado was a devastating EF5-rated multiple-vortex tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, United States, on the evening of Sunday, May 22, 2011. It was part of a larger late-May tornado outbreak and reached a maximum width of nearly one mile (1.
Biography of Max Klinger (excerpt)
Max Klinger (February 18, 1857 - July 5, 1920) was a German Symbolist painter, sculptor and printmaker. Klinger was born in Leipzig and studied in Karlsruhe. An admirer of the etchings of Menzel and Goya, he shortly became a skilled and imaginative engraver in his own right.
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The city of Oaxaca de Juárez, or Oaxaca City or simply Oaxaca (Valley Zapotec: Ndua), is the capital and largest city of the eponymous Mexican state Oaxaca. It is the municipal seat for the surrounding Municipality of Oaxaca. It is in the Centro District in the Central Valleys region of the state, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre at the base of the Cerro del Fortín, extending to the banks of the Atoyac River.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Troppmann (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Troppmann, born October 5, 1849, is a French murderer. He killed a whole family (the father, a pregnant mother and six children, from 17 to 2 years old) in 1869. Nobody knows why. He was executed on the 19th of January 1870 in Paris.
Biography of Herbert Kitchener (excerpt)
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC 24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) was an Irish-born senior British Army officer and colonial administrator. Kitchener won notoriety for his imperial campaigns, especially his scorched earth policy against the Boers, his expansion of Lord Roberts' internment camps during the Second Boer War and his central role in the early part of the First World War.
Biography of Jerome K. Jerome (excerpt)
Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat. Jerome was born in Caldmore, Walsall, England, where there is now a museum in his honour, and was brought up in poverty in London.
Biography of Antoine Béclère (excerpt)
Antoine Béclère (March 17, 1856 Paris (source not archived) - 1939), virologist, immunologist, was a pioneer in radiology. In 1897 he create the first laboratory of radiology in Paris. References (extract) Pallardy, G; Mabille, J P (1999), "Antoine Béclère (1856-1939). In memory of Antoinette Béclère, the admirable guardian of her father's works", Journal de radiologie 80 (6): 600-3, 1999 Jun, PMID:10417897, http://www.
Biography of Robert de Montesquiou (excerpt)
Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, comte de Montesquiou-Fezensac (March 19, 1855, Paris - December 11, 1921, Menton), was a French Symbolist poet, art collector and dandy. With many homosexual friends, he is reputed to have been the inspiration both for des Esseintes in Joris-Karl Huysmans' À rebours and, most famously, for Baron de Charlus in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu.
Biography of Pierre de Ségur (excerpt)
Pierre, marquis de Ségur (Paris, 13 February 1853 — Poissy, 13 August 1916) was a French writer and historian, elected a member of the Académie française in 1907. The eldest son of Anatole, marquis de Ségur, and of Cécile Cuvelier, he was thus the grandson of Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Ségur.
Biography of Karl Pearson (excerpt)
Karl Pearson FRS (27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was an influential English mathematician who has been credited for establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. In 1911 he founded the world's first university statistics department at University College London. He was a proponent of eugenics, and a protégé and biographer of Sir Francis Galton.
Biography of Jules Lemaître (excerpt)
François Élie Jules Lemaître (27 April 1853 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 4 August 1914), was a French critic and dramatist. He was born at Vennecy (Loiret). He became a professor at the university of Grenoble, but was already well known for his literary criticism, and in 1884 he resigned his position to devote his time to literature.
Biography of Ravachol (excerpt)
François Claudius Koeningstein, known as Ravachol, (1859-1892), was a French anarchist best known for terrorism. He was born 14 October 1859 at Saint-Chamond (Loire) and died guillotined 11 July 1892 at Montbrison. Son of a Dutch father (Jean Adam Koeningstein) and a French mother (Marie Ravachol), he adopted his mother's maiden name after the father abandoned the family when he was only 8 years old.
Biography of Germain Nouveau (excerpt)
Germain Nouveau born and died in Pourrières, Var, in France (31 July 1851 - 4 April 1920), was a French poet, associated with the symbolist movement. He was a friend of Rimbaud and Verlaine. In 1874 he traveled to London with Rimbaud.
Biography of Eugène Carrière (excerpt)
Eugène Anatole Carrière (January 16, 1849 (source: Lescaut) – March 27, 1906) was a French Symbolist artist of the Fin de siècle period. His work is best known for its brown monochrome palette. He was a close friend of the sculptor Rodin and his work influenced Matisse and Picasso.
Biography of William Hogarth (excerpt)
William Hogarth (10 November, 1697 – 26 October, 1764) was a major English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from excellent realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".
Biography of Giuseppe Tartini (excerpt)
Giuseppe Tartini (April 8, 1692 – February 26, 1770) was an Italian composer and violinist. Tartini was born in Piran, a town on the peninsula of Istria, in the Republic of Venice (now in Slovenia) to Gianantonio - native of Florence - and Caterina Zangrando, a descendant of one of the oldest aristocratic Piranian families.
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down on 17 July 2014 while flying over eastern Ukraine. All 283 passengers and 15 crew were killed. Contact with the aircraft, a Boeing 777-200ER, was lost when it was about 50 km (31 mi) from the Ukraine–Russia border, and wreckage of the aircraft fell near Hrabove in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, 40 km (25 mi) from the border. |
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