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Biography of Paul Villard (excerpt)
Paul Ulrich Villard (1860 – 13 January 1934) was a French chemist and physicist, born near Lyon, France. He discovered gamma rays in 1900 while studying uranium. At this time he was working in the chemistry department of the École Normale in rue d'Ulm, Paris. ![]()
Biography of Rama V (excerpt)
King Chulalongkorn the Great or Rama V (royal name: Phra Chula Chomklao Chaoyuhua; Thai: พระบาทสมเด็จพระจุลจอมเกล้าเจ้าอยู่หัว) (September 20, 1853 – October 23, 1910) was the fifth king of the Chakri dynasty of Thailand. He is regarded as one of the greatest kings of Siam. ![]()
Biography of Édouard-Alfred Martel (excerpt)
Édouard-Alfred Martel (1 July 1859, Pontoise, Val-d'Oise (birth time source: Astrotheme, Didier Excoffon, birth certificate n° 69) – 3 June 1938, Montbrison), the 'father of modern speleology', was a world pioneer of cave exploration, study, and documentation. Martel explored thousands of caves in his native France and many other countries, popularised the pursuit of cave exploration, introduced the concept of speleology as a distinct area of study, maintained an extensive archive, and in 1895 founded Société de Spéléologie, the first organisation devoted to cave science in the world. ![]()
Biography of Franz von Stuck (excerpt)
Franz Stuck (February 23, 1863 - August 30, 1928) was a German Symbolist/Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver, and architect. He is considered by some to be one of the artistic inspirations to German Fascism. Life and Career Stuck was born at Tettenweis, in Bavaria. ![]()
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Lincoln is the capital city of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County. The city covers 96.194 square miles (249.141 km2) with a population of 289,102 in 2019. It is the second-most populous city in Nebraska and the 68th-largest in the United States. ![]()
Biography of James Whitcomb Riley (excerpt)
James Whitcomb Riley (October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916) was an American writer and poet. Known as the "Hoosier Poet", "National Poet" and the "Children's Poet," he started his career in 1875 writing newspaper verse in Indiana dialect for the Indianapolis Journal. ![]()
Biography of Henri Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay (excerpt)
Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay (30 January 1831 (source for his time of birth: Geslain, Lescaut) – 30 June 1913), French politician and journalist, was born in Paris. Life His father was a Legitimist noble who, as Edmond Rochefort, was well known as a writer of vaudevilles; his mother's views were republican. ![]()
Biography of Stanford White (excerpt)
Stanford White (November 9, 1853, New York – June 25, 1906) was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms. He designed a long series of houses for the rich and the very rich, and various public, institutional, and religious buildings, some of which can be found to this day in places like Sea Gate, Brooklyn.
Biography of Henri Selva (excerpt)
Arthur Herrmann Vlès, best known as Henri Selva, born in Antony June 8, 1861 and died in Paris in July 1944, was a French astrologer, scientist and author. His main works is Traité théorique et pratique d'astrologie généthliaque (Paris, Chamuel, 1900). ![]()
Biography of Lillian Russell (excerpt)
Lillian Russell (December 4, 1861 – June 6, 1922) was an American actress and singer. Born Helen Louise Leonard in Clinton, Iowa, Lillian Russell became one of the most famous actresses and singers of the late 19th century and early 20th century, known for her beauty and style, as well as for her voice and stage presence. ![]()
Biography of Aristide Maillol (excerpt)
Aristide Maillol (December 8, 1861–September 27, 1944) was a French Catalan sculptor and painter. Maillol was born in Banyuls-sur-Mer, Roussillon. He decided at an early age to become a painter, and moved to Paris in 1881 to study art. After several applications, his enrollment in the École des Beaux-Arts was accepted in 1885, and he studied there under Jean-Léon Gérôme and Alexandre Cabanel. ![]()
Biography of Emmanuel Chabrier (excerpt)
Emmanuel Alexis Chabrier (January 18, 1841 – September 13, 1894) was a French Romantic composer from the Auvergne region of central France and was born in Ambert in 1841. The region of France from whence he came was traditionally useful in providing Parisians with cheese, cabbage and men to mend the boiler. ![]()
Biography of Marie Bashkirtseff (excerpt)
Marie Bashkirtseff (Мария Константиновна Башкирцева; November 12, 1858 (November 24, Gregorian calendar) — October 31, 1884) was a Ukrainian-born Russian diarist, painter and sculptor. Born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva in Gavrontsy near Poltava, to a wealthy noble family, she grew up abroad, traveling with her mother across most of Europe. ![]()
Biography of Désiré-Joseph Mercier (excerpt)
Désiré-Félicien-François-Joseph Cardinal Mercier (November 21, 1851—January 23, 1926) was a Belgian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Mechelen from 1906 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1907. Mercier is noted for his staunch resistance to the German occupation of 1914, and is considered to have been the mentor of Leo Cardinal Suenens. ![]()
Biography of Edith Cavell (excerpt)
Edith Louisa Cavell (December 4, 1865–October 12, 1915) was a British World War I nurse and humanitarian. She is celebrated for helping hundreds of Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium. Her subsequent execution received significant sympathetic press coverage worldwide. “Patriotism is not enough…” Her strong religious belief propelled Cavell to help all those who needed help - whether a member of the German forces or the Allied forces. ![]()
Biography of Oscar II of Sweden (excerpt)
Oscar II (21 January 1829 - 8 December 1907), born Oscar Frederik was King of Norway from 1872 until 1905 and King of Sweden from 1872 until his death. The third son of King Oscar I of Sweden and Josephine of Leuchtenberg, he was a descendant of Gustav I of Sweden through his mother.
Biography of Isabelle Pagan (excerpt)
Isabelle Pagan, born December 12, 1867 in Dairsie, Scotland, died in 1960, was a Scottish astrologer, theosophist, lecturer and writer. ![]()
Biography of Harvey Firestone (excerpt)
Harvey Samuel Firestone (December 20, 1868 – February 7, 1938) was the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, one of the first global makers of automobile tires and an important contributor to North American economic growth during the 20th century. ![]()
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The Federal city of Bonn is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About 24 km (15 mi) south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region, Germany's largest metropolitan area, with over 11 million inhabitants. ![]()
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Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra (Catalan: Principat d'Andorra), is a sovereign landlocked microstate on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees, bordered by France to the north and Spain to the south. Believed to have been created by Charlemagne, Andorra was ruled by the count of Urgell until 988, when it was transferred to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Urgell. ![]()
Biography of Victor Grignard (excerpt)
François Auguste Victor Grignard (May 6, 1871 in Cherbourg (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - December 13, 1935 in Lyon) was a Nobel Prize-winning French chemist. Grignard was the son of a sail maker. After studying mathematics at Lyon he transferred to chemistry, becoming a professor at the University of Nancy in 1910. ![]()
Biography of Georges Dufrénoy (excerpt)
Georges Dufrénoy (June 20, 1870 (birth time source: Lescaut) – December 9, 1943) was a French post-Impressionist painter associated with Fauvism. Biography He was born in Thiais, France. His family lived at 2 Place des Vosges in Paris in a historic 17th century building in which he lived all his life.
Biography of Marie Dressler (excerpt)
Marie Dressler (November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934) was an Academy Award-winning Canadian actress. Biography Born Leila Marie Koerber in Cobourg, Ontario to parents Alexander Rudolph Koerber (who was Austrian) and Anna Henderson. The young Dressler was able to hone her talents to make other people laugh, and began her acting career when she was fourteen. ![]()
Biography of Adolf von Baeyer (excerpt)
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (German pronunciation: ; October 31, 1835 - August 20, 1917) was a German chemist who synthesized indigo, and was the 1905 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Born in Berlin, he initially studied mathematics and physics at Berlin University before moving to Heidelberg to study chemistry with Robert Bunsen.
Biography of Julevno (astrologer) (excerpt)
Julevno, born March 16, 1845 in Vannes, died in 1915, was a French professional astrologer, author and translator. He had translated the works of Ptolémée and Thomas Burgoyne. ![]()
Biography of Hubert Lyautey (excerpt)
Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey (November 17, 1854 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - July 27, 1934) was a French general, the first Resident-General in Morocco from 1912 to 1925 and from 1921 Marshal of France. Early life Lyautey was born at Nancy (Lorraine). ![]()
Biography of Albert Samain (excerpt)
Albert Victor Samain (April 3, 1858 — August 18, 1900) was a French poet and writer of the Symbolist school. Born in Lille, his family were Flemish and had long lived in the town or its suburbs. At the time of the poet's birth, his father, Jean-Baptiste Samain, and his mother, Elisa-Henriette Mouquet, conducted a business in "wines and spirits" at 75 rue de Paris. ![]()
Biography of Hilaire Belloc (excerpt)
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953) was a French-born writer who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. Recent biographies of Belloc have been written by A.
Biography of Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann (excerpt)
Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann, born in Trieste, July 15, 1853 and died in 1883, was a German soprano opera singer, the daugther of German singer A. Kindermann. ![]()
Biography of Booth Tarkington (excerpt)
Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. Biography Booth Tarkington was born Newton Booth Tarkington in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was the son of John S. ![]()
Biography of J. P. Morgan Jr. (excerpt)
John Pierpont Morgan, Jr. (September 7, 1867 — September 9, 1943) was an American philanthropist. He was born in Chicago and graduated from Harvard in 1886, where he was a member of Delta Phi and Delta Kappa Epsilon. He was the son of banking tycoon, J. ![]()
Biography of George McClellan (excerpt)
George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was a major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly (November 1861 to March 1862) as the general-in-chief of the Union Army. ![]()
Biography of Simon Newcomb (excerpt)
Simon Newcomb (March 12, 1835 – July 11, 1909) was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician. Though he had little conventional schooling, he made important contributions to timekeeping as well as writing on economics, statistics and authoring a science fiction novel. The life of Newcomb ![]()
Biography of Auguste Vaillant (excerpt)
Auguste Vaillant (December 27 1861 in Mézières, France (in Ardennes, not sur Seine) - February 3, 1894) was a French anarchist, most famous for his bomb attack on the French Chamber of Deputies in 1893. The government's reaction to this attack was the passing of the infamous repressive Lois scélérates. ![]()
Biography of Hugo de Vries (excerpt)
Hugo Marie de Vries (Feb 16, 1848, Haarlem - May 21, 1935, Lunteren) was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity in the 1890s, and for developing a mutation theory of evolution. ![]()
Biography of John Martin-Harvey (excerpt)
John Martin Harvey (22 June 1863 – 14 May 1944), known after his knighthood in 1921 as Sir John Martin-Harvey, was a romantic actor of the English theatre. Born at Bath Street, Wivenhoe in the English county of Essex, he was the son of John Harvey, a yacht-designer and shipbuilder, and Margaret Diana Mary Goyder. ![]()
Biography of Giovanni Segantini (excerpt)
Giovanni Segantini (January 15, 1858 - September 28, 1899) was an Italian painter. He was born at Arco in Trentino. His mother, who died in 1863, came from an old mountain family. His father, a commoner, left for Milan, to seek his fortune with another son, leaving Segantini behind. ![]()
Biography of Miguel Primo de Rivera (excerpt)
Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2. Marqués de Estella (Jerez de la Frontera, January 8, 1870 - Paris, March 16, 1930) was a Spanish dictator, aristocrat, and a military official who was appointed Prime Minister by the King and who for seven years (1923-1930) was a dictator, ending the turno system of alternating parties. ![]()
Biography of Georges Sorel (excerpt)
Georges Eugène Sorel (2 November, 1847 in Cherbourg (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 29 August, 1922 in Boulogne-sur-Seine) was a French philosopher and theorist of revolutionary syndicalism. His notion of the power of myth in people's lives inspired Marxists and Fascists, it is, together with his defense of violence, the contribution for which he is most often remembered. ![]()
Biography of Paul Doumer (excerpt)
Paul Doumer (March 22, 1857 – May 7, 1932) was the President of France from June 13, 1931 until his assassination. Born in Aurillac, in the Cantal département, in France. He was Governor-General of French Indochina from 1897 to 1902. After returning from French Indochina, Doumer served as President of the Chamber of Deputies (a post equivalent to the speaker of parliament) from 1902 to 1905. ![]()
Biography of Marshall Field (excerpt)
Marshall Field (August 18, 1834 – January 16, 1906) was founder of Marshall Field and Company, the Chicago-based department stores. Life and career Marshall Field was born on a farm in Conway, Massachusetts, the son of John Field IV and wife Fidelia Nash.
Biography of Jean Ajalbert (excerpt)
Jean Ajalbert, born on June 10, 1863 in Clichy-la-Garenne (birth time source: Gauquelin, birth time source), died in 1947 in Cahors, was a French writer, art critic, and lawyer. Publications: Sur le vif. Vers impressionnistes. Lettre-préface de Robert Caze. ![]()
Biography of William Gibbs McAdoo (excerpt)
William Gibbs McAdoo, Jr. (October 31, 1863 – February 1, 1941) was an American lawyer and political leader who served as a U.S. Senator, United States Secretary of the Treasury and director of the United States Railroad Administration (USRA). By virtue of his position as Secretary of the Treasury, in August 1914, he also served as the first Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. ![]()
Biography of Johannes van der Waals (excerpt)
Johannes Diderik van der Waals (23 November 1837 – 8 March 1923) was a Dutch physicist and thermodynamicist famous for his work on an equation of state for gases and liquids. Early years Van der Waals was born in Leiden, Netherlands, to Jacobus van der Waals and Elisabeth van den Burg. ![]()
Biography of Charles Garnier (excerpt)
Charles Garnier (6 November 1825 in Paris 5e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) - 3 August 1898) was a French architect, designer of the Palais Garnier and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Education Student of Louis-Hippolyte Lebas at the École royale des Beaux-Arts de Paris beginning in 1842, he obtained the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1848.
Biography of Emile Noirot (excerpt)
Émile Noirot, born June 5, 1853 in Roanne, died in 1924 in Le Bourzat, was a French painter.
Biography of Louis-Philippe de Brabant (excerpt)
Louis-Philippe, born July 24, 1833 in Bruxelles and died May 4, 1834, was the first son of Leopold I. Leopold I (Leopold George Christian Frederick (in German Leopold Georg Christian Friedrich) Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, later Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony) (16 December 1790 – 10 December 1865) was from 21 July 1831 the first King of the Belgians. ![]()
Biography of Emile Levassor (excerpt)
Émile Levassor (21 January 1843, Marolles-en-Hurepoix (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 14 April 1897, Paris) was a French engineer and a pioneer of the automobile industry and car racing in France. Graduated at École Centrale Paris, he started his career in 1872 in a company that produced wood-working machines, where he met René Panhard. ![]()
Biography of Henry George (excerpt)
Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American writer, politician and political economist, who was the most influential proponent of the land value tax, also known as the "Single Tax" on land. He inspired the philosophy and economic ideology known as Georgism, which is that everyone owns what they create, but that everything found in nature, most importantly land, belongs equally to all humanity. ![]()
Biography of Flinders Petrie (excerpt)
Professor Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS (3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942), known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated at many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt, such as Naukratis, Tanis, Abydos and Amarna. |
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