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Horoscopes with Admetos in AquariusYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Admetos in Aquarius. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Edouard Michelin (excerpt)
Édouard Michelin (June 23, 1859 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)–1940) was a French industrialist. He was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Édouard was co-director of the Michelin company, along with his brother André. In 1889, he improved greatly on the design of the pneumatic tyre for bicycles, making them easier to repair. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Larousse (excerpt)
Pierre Athanase Larousse (October 23, 1817 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives) - January 3, 1875) was a French grammarian and lexicographer born in Toucy. At the age of sixteen he won a scholarship at the teaching school in Versailles. Four years later, he returned to Toucy to teach in a primary school, but became frustrated by the archaic and rigid teaching methods.
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Biography of Paul Signac (excerpt)
Paul Signac (November 11, 1863 (birth time source: Arno Müller) - August 15, 1935) was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style. Paul Victor Jules Signac was born in Paris on November 11, 1863 He started his career in architecture, but he abandoned this at the age of 18 to pursue a career as a painter. ![]()
Biography of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (excerpt)
Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy (Italian: Vittorio Emanuele II; March 14, 1820 – January 9, 1878) was the King of Piedmont, Savoy, and Sardinia from 1849 to 1861. On February 18, 1861, he assumed the title King of Italy to become the first king of a united Italy, a title he held until his death in 1878. ![]()
Biography of René Goblet (excerpt)
French politician, Prime Minister of France for a period in 1886-1887. He helped found a Liberal journal, Le Progrès de la Somme. ![]()
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Georgetown is the capital and largest city of Guyana. It is situated in Demerara-Mahaica, region 4, on the Atlantic Ocean coast, at the mouth of the Demerara River. It is nicknamed the "Garden City of the Caribbean." It is the retail and administrative and financial services centre of the country, and the city accounts for a large portion of Guyana's GDP.
Biography of Marie-Azélie Guérin Martin (excerpt)
Blessed Marie-Azélie "Zélie" Martin née Guérin (23 December 1831 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 28 August 1877) was a French laywoman and the mother of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux. Her husband was Blessed Louis Martin. Life Early life Marie-Azélie Guérin was born in Saint-Denis-sur-Sarthon, Orne, France and was the second daughter of Isidore Guérin and Louise-Jeanne Macé. ![]()
Biography of John Dewey (excerpt)
John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. He, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophical school of Pragmatism. ![]()
Biography of Robert Koch (excerpt)
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (December 11, 1843 – May 27, 1910) was a German physician. He became famous for isolating Bacillus anthracis (1877), the tuberculosis bacillus (1882) and the vibrio cholera (1883) and for his development of Koch's postulates. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his tuberculosis findings in 1905. ![]()
Biography of Louis Riel (excerpt)
Louis Riel (22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies. He led two resistance movements against the Canadian government and its first post-Confederation Prime Minister, Sir John A.
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Biography of John Ruskin (excerpt)
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic, sage writer, and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Ruskin's essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. ![]()
Biography of Christian Felix Klein (excerpt)
Felix Christian Klein (April 25, 1849 – June 22, 1925) was a German mathematician, known for his work in group theory, function theory, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the connections between geometry and group theory. His 1872 Erlangen Program, classifying geometries by their underlying symmetry groups, was a hugely influential synthesis of much of the mathematics of the day.
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Biography of Rosa Bonheur (excerpt)
Rosa Bonheur, née Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, (b. Bordeaux, France, March 16, 1822 – d. Thomery (By), France, May 25, 1899) was a French animalière and realist artist. As a painter she became famous primarily for two chief works: Ploughing in the Nivernais (in French Le labourage nivernais, le sombrage ), which was first exhibited at the Salon of 1848, and is now in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris depicts a team of oxen ploughing a field while attended by peasants set against a vast pastoral landscape; and, The Horse Fair (in French Le marché aux chevaux ), which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 (finished in 1855) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City. ![]()
Biography of René Bazin (excerpt)
René François Nicolas Marie Bazin (December 26, 1853 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – July 20, 1932) was a French novelist. Born at Angers, he studied law in Paris, and on his return to Angers became professor of law in the Catholic university there. ![]()
Biography of Théodore Ballu (excerpt)
Théodore Ballu (born in Paris on 8 June 1817 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in Paris on 22 May 1885) was a French architect. He entered the École royale des beaux-arts de Paris in 1835 and was the pupil of Louis-Hippolyte Lebas.
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Biography of Léon Boëllmann (excerpt)
Léon Boëllmann (September 9, 1862, Ensisheim in the Alsace – October 11, 1897, Paris) was a French composer. His compositions include works for organ, piano, chamber music, songs, and church chorales. Boëllmann was an early musical talent and was accepted in 1871—9 years old—at the Ecole Niedermeyer in Paris.
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Biography of Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (excerpt)
The Princess Beatrice (also Princess Henry of Battenberg; Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore; 14 April 1857 - 26 October 1944) was a member of the British Royal Family, the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria, famous for editing the journals and diaries of Queen Victoria after her death.
Biography of Anthony Gildès (excerpt)
Anthony Gildès, born Anatole Gleizes, August, 13, 1856 in Metz, Moselle (birth time source: Michaël Mandl, birth certificate), and died October 6, 1941 in Paris, was a French actor and comedian. Filmography (extract) * 1916 : Le Droit à la vie d'Abel Gance
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Biography of Theodor Herzl (excerpt)
Theodor Herzl (Hebrew: בנימין זאב הרצל (Binyamin Ze'ev Herzl)) (May 2, 1860–July 3, 1904) was a Hungarian Jewish journalist who was the father of modern political Zionism. Herzl was born in Pest, the Kingdom of Hungary (today the eastern half of Budapest, then a separate city) to a Jewish family originally from Zemun, the Kingdom of Hungary (today in Serbia).
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Biography of Théophile Roussel (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Victor Théophile Roussel or Théophile Roussel, born July 28, 1816 in Albaret-Sainte-Marie, Lozère, died September 27, 1903 in Albaret-Sainte-Marie, Lozère, was a French psysician, author and politician. ![]()
Biography of René Ghil (excerpt)
René Ghilbert, best known as René Ghil, born September 27, 1862 in Tourcoing and died September 15, 1925 in Niort, was a French poet, author and symbolist. Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. ![]()
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Portsmouth is a port city primarily built on Portsea Island in the county of Hampshire, South East England. It is also known colloquially as Pompey, a nickname shared with HMNB Portsmouth and the Portsmouth Football Club. It is the United Kingdom's only island city.
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Biography of Paul Painlevé (excerpt)
Paul Painlevé (5 December 1863 – 29 October 1933) was a French mathematician and politician. He served twice as Prime Minister of the Third Republic: 12 September – 13 November 1917 and 17 April – 22 November 1925. Biography Early life Painlevé was born in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Robert Peary (excerpt)
Robert Edwin Peary (May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer who claimed to have been the first person, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole -- a claim that has subsequently attracted much criticism. ![]()
Biography of Victoria Woodhull (excerpt)
Victoria Claflin Woodhull (September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927) was an American suffragist who was publicized in Gilded Age newspapers as a leader of the American woman's suffrage movement in the 19th century. She became a colorful and notorious symbol for women's rights, free love, and labor reforms. ![]()
Biography of Francis Galton (excerpt)
Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. (February 16, 1822 – January 17, 1911), half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician. He was knighted in 1909. Galton had a prolific intellect, and produced over 340 papers and books throughout his lifetime. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (excerpt)
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, (14 December 1824 – 24 October 1898), was a French painter, who became the president and co-founder of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and whose work influenced many other artists. The Poor FishermanWikimedia Commons has media related to: ![]()
Biography of William Crookes (excerpt)
Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS (17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919) was an English chemist and physicist. Sir William attended the Royal College of Chemistry, in London, and worked on spectroscopy. In 1861, Crookes discovered a previously unknown element with a bright green emission line in its spectrum and named the element thallium, from the Greek thallos, a green shoot. ![]()
Biography of Emile Verhaeren (excerpt)
Emile Verhaeren (Sint-Amands May 21, 1855 – Rouen November 27, 1916) was a Belgian poet who wrote in the French language, and one of the chief founders of the school of Symbolism. He was born in a Flemish, but French-speaking, middle-class family. ![]()
Biography of Charlotte of Belgium (excerpt)
Charlotte of Belgium (Princess Marie Charlotte Amélie Augustine Victoire Clémentine Léopoldine of Belgium), (June 7, 1840–January 19, 1927) as Charlotte (or Carlota), Empress of Mexico was the consort of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico. Princess of Belgium The only daughter of Léopold I, King of the Belgians (1790–1865) by his second wife, Louise-Marie, Princess of France (1812–1850), Charlotte was born at Laeken Palace in Brussels, Belgium.
Biography of Eugène Peugeot (excerpt)
Eugène Peugeot, born August 1, 1844 in Besançon, was a French industrialist and engineer, member of famous family Peugeot. ![]()
Biography of Jules Dupré (excerpt)
Jules Dupré (April 5, 1811 - October 6, 1889), French painter, was one of the chief members of the Barbizon school of landscape painters. If Corot stands for the lyric and Rousseau for the epic aspect of the poetry of nature, Dupré is the exponent of her tragic and dramatic aspects. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Joffre (excerpt)
Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre (12 January 1852 - 3 January 1931) was a Catalan French general who was Commander-in-Chief of the French Army between 1914 and 1916 during the First World War. He is most known for regrouping the retreating allied armies to defeat the Germans at the strategically decisive First Battle of the Marne in 1914. ![]()
Biography of Émile Erckmann (excerpt)
Émile Erckmann, born on May 21, 1822 (source: birth certificate)) in Phalsbourg (Meurthe, Moselle), died on March 14, 1899, was a French writer. ![]()
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Eugene is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest. It is at the southern end of the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, about 50 miles (80 km) east of the Oregon Coast. ![]()
Biography of Léopoldine Hugo (excerpt)
Léopoldine Cécile Marie-Pierre Catherine Hugo, born in Paris 28 August 1824 and died in Villequier on 4 September 1843, was the daughter of novelist, poet and dramatist Victor Hugo and his wife, Adèle Foucher. She married Charles Vacquerie at Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis on 15 February 1843 but they both drowned together only a few months later, when their boat capsized on the Seine in Villequier on 4 September 1843. ![]()
Biography of Edward Smith (excerpt)
Captain Edward John Smith, RD, RNR (27 January 1850 – 15 April 1912) was the captain of the RMS Titanic when it sank in 1912. He and his wife had a daughter named Helen Melville Smith. There is a statue to his legacy in Lichfield, England. ![]()
Biography of Charles Pathé (excerpt)
Charles Pathé (December 26, 1863 – December 26, 1957) was a major French pioneer of the film and recording industries. The son of a butcher shop owner, Charles Pathé was born at Chevry-Cossigny, in the Seine-et-Marne département of France. In 1894, together with his brother Émile, he formed Pathé Records. ![]()
Biography of René Maizeroy (excerpt)
René Maizeroy, born May 2, 1856 in Metz, died in 1918, was a French author. Works (extracts) La Fête (1893) Mauvais mirage (Le) Frisson nouveau (Le) A l'ombre Parvenu La Vraie et l’autre Celle qu’on n’achète pas ![]()
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Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The constitutional capital is Sucre, while the seat of government and executive capital is La Paz. The largest city and principal industrial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the Llanos Orientales (tropical lowlands), a mostly flat region in the east of the country.
Biography of Friedrich Schwickert (excerpt)
Friedrich Schwickert, born September 16, 1857 in Cesky Krumlov and died in 1930, was an Austrian author, naval officer and astrologer. He wrote under the name of Sinbad.
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Biography of Émile Faguet (excerpt)
Auguste Émile Faguet (French pronunciation: ; 17 December 1847, La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 7 June 1916, Paris) was a French author and literary critic. Faguet was born at La Roche-sur-Yon, and educated at the École normale supérieure in Paris.
Biography of Raphaël VI (excerpt)
Raphaël VI or Robert C. Cross, born May 15, 1850, died in 1923, was a British astrologer, writer, and editor. ![]()
Biography of Alexandrine Zola (excerpt)
Alexandrine Zola, born March 23, 1839 in Paris, was the wife of French writer Emile Zola. ![]()
Biography of Félicien Rops (excerpt)
Félicien Rops (July 7, 1833 - August 23, 1898) was a Belgian artist, and printmaker in etching and aquatint. Rops was born in Namur in 1833, and was educated at the University of Brussels. Rops's forte was drawing more than painting in oils; he first won fame as a caricaturist. ![]()
Biography of Sadi Carnot (president) (excerpt)
Marie François Sadi Carnot (August 11, 1837 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – June 25, 1894) was a French statesman, the fourth president of the Third French Republic. He served as the President of France from 1887 until his death. Early life ![]()
Biography of Françoise-Xavière Cabrini (excerpt)
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (July 15, 1850 – December 22, 1917) also called Mother Cabrini, was the first American citizen to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. Early Life She was born in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, Lombardy, the youngest of thirteen children of Agostino Cabrini and Stella Oldini who were farmers.
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Biography of Maurice Paléologue (excerpt)
Maurice Paléologue (13 January 1859—18 November 1944) was a French diplomat, historian, and essayist. Paléologue was born in Paris as the son of Alexandru Paleologu, a Wallachian Romanian revolutionary who had fled to France after attempting to assassinate Prince Gheorghe Bibescu during the 1848 Wallachian revolution; Alexandru was one of three illegitimate children of Elisabeta Văcărescu of the Văcărescu family of boyars - he and his siblings were later adopted by Zoe Văcărescu, Elisabeta's mother, who gave the children her maiden name Paleologu.
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Biography of José Zorilla y Moral (excerpt)
José Zorrilla y Moral (February 21, 1817 - January 23, 1893), was a Spanish Romantic poet and dramatist. He was born in Valladolid to a magistrate in whom Ferdinand VII placed special confidence,. He was educated by the Jesuits at the Real Seminario de Nobles in Madrid, wrote verses when he was twelve, became an enthusiastic admirer of Walter Scott and Chateaubriand, and took part in the school performances of plays by Lope de Vega and Calderón de la Barca. ![]()
Biography of George Eastman (excerpt)
George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of the motion picture film in 1888 by world's first filmmaker, Louis Le Prince, and a decade later by his followers Léon Bouly, Thomas Edison, the Lumière Brothers and Georges Méliès. |
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