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birth charts with Apollon in CancerYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Apollon in Cancer. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. in ![]()
Biography of Louis Emile Bertin (excerpt)
Louis-Émile Bertin (March 23,1840-1924) was a French naval engineer, one of the foremost of his time, and a proponent of the "Jeune École" philosophy of using light, but powerfully armed warships instead of large battleships. Early life Bertin was born in Nancy, France in 1840.
Biography of Bret Harte (excerpt)
Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1839 – May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. Life and career He was born in Albany, New York, as Francis Brett Hart.He was named after his great-grandfather Francis Brett, and his family name was Hart.
Biography of Charles Barlet (excerpt)
Albert Fauch, best known as Charles Barlet or sometimes François Charles Barlet or F.-Ch. Barlet, born October 12, 1838 in Paris, died October 29, 1909 in Paris, was a French occulist and theosopher. His work is close to Papus and Max Théon.
Biography of Charles Fabry (excerpt)
Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry (11 June 1867, Marseille – 11 December 1945, Paris) was a French physicist. He and Henri Buisson discovered the ozone layer in 1913. In optics, he discovered an explanation for the phenomenon of interference fringes. Together with his colleague Alfred Pérot he invented the Fabry-Perot interferometer.
Biography of Anton Rubinstein (excerpt)
Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein (November 28, 1829 – November 20, 1894) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos. He also founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, which, together with Moscow Conservatory founded by his brother Nikolai Rubinstein, helped establish a reputation for musical skill among the subjects of the czar of Russia.
Biography of Charles August Lindbergh (excerpt)
Charles August Lindbergh Sr. (January 20, 1859 – May 24, 1924) was a United States Congressman from Minnesota's 6th congressional district from 1907 to 1917. He opposed both American entry into World War I, and the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. He was the father of famous aviator Charles Lindbergh.
Biography of Daniel Burnham (excerpt)
Daniel Hudson Burnham, FAIA (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban planner. He was the Director of Works for the World's Columbian Exposition and designed several famous buildings, including the Flatiron Building in New York City and Union Station in Washington D.C.
Biography of Pierre Duhem (excerpt)
Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (10 June 1861 – 14 September 1916) was a French physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science, best known for his writings on the indeterminacy of experimental criteria and on scientific development in the Middle Ages. Duhem also made major contributions to the science of his day, particularly in the fields of hydrodynamics, elasticity, and thermodynamics.
Biography of Charles Herbais de Thun (excerpt)
Charles Herbais de Thun, born October 12, 1862 in Beaurieux, died in 1946, was a French biographor, author and astrologer.
Biography of Jean-Paul Laurens (excerpt)
Jean-Paul Laurens (1838 – 1921), was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style. Born in Fourquevaux (not Fourqueux), he was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexandre Bida.Strongly anti-clerical and republican, his work was often on historical and religious themes, through which he sought to convey a message of opposition to monarchical and clerical oppression.
Biography of Jean Dampt (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Auguste Dampt (January, 2, 1854 - September 26, 1945) was a French sculptor, medalist, and jeweler. Born in Venarey-les-Laumes as the son of a cabinetmaker, Dampt studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, then in 1874 under the leadership of François Jouffroy and Paul Dubois at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris .
Biography of Gustave Charpentier (excerpt)
Gustave Charpentier (June 25, 1860 – February 18, 1956) was a French composer, best known for his opera Louise. He was born in Dieuze, the son of a baker, and after studying at the conservatoire in Lille entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1881.
Biography of Louis-Paul Cailletet (excerpt)
Louis-Paul Cailletet (21 September 1832 – 5 January 1913) was a French physicist and inventor. Life and work Cailletet was born in Châtillon-sur-Seine, Côte-d'Or.Educated in Paris, Cailletet returned to Chatillon to manage his father's ironworks.In an effort to determine the cause of accidents that occurred while tempering incompletely forged iron, Cailletet found that heating the iron put it in a highly unstable state, with gases dissolved in it.
Biography of Mathilde Blind (excerpt)
Mathilde Blind (21 March 1841 - 1896) (born Mathilde Cohen), was a poet. She was born at Mannheim, Germany, but settled in London about 1849, adopting the surname of her stepfather, Karl Blind. She published several books of poetry, including The Prophecy of St.
Biography of Francis Thompson (excerpt)
Francis Thompson (16 December 1859 – 13 November 1907) was an English poet and ascetic.After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, but in menial work, became addicted to opium, and was a street vagrant for years.A married couple read his poetry and rescued him, publishing his first book, Poems in 1893.
Biography of N.G. Winner (excerpt)
N.G. Winner, born on July 16, 1869 in Monticella, Iowa, was an American dwarf, a circus artist with the Ringling Brothers Circus.
Biography of Lucien Lacaze (excerpt)
Marie-Jean-Lucien Lacaze (22 June 1860 Pierrefonds, Oise — 23 March 1955 Paris) was a French admiral, minister of Marine, préfet maritime and académicien. Lacaze was born in Pierrefonds, Oise to a physician of Réunion, where he spent his youth. He studied in France with the Jesuits, and joined the École Navale in 1879.
Biography of Louis Sullivan (excerpt)
Louis Henri Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called the "father of modernism." He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School.
Biography of Gabriel Hanotaux (excerpt)
Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux, known as Gabriel Hanotaux, (november 19, 1853 – april 11, 1944) was a French statesman and historian. He was born at Beaurevoir in the département of Aisne.He studied history at the École des Chartes, and became maître de conférence in the École des Hautes Études.
Biography of Barney Barnato (excerpt)
Barney Barnato (born Barnett Isaacs) (12 June 1852 – 14 June 1897) was a British Randlord, one of the entrepreneurs who gained control of diamond mining, and later gold mining, in South Africa from the 1870s. Background He was born in 1852 in a slum in Whitechapel in the East End of London, and was educated by Moses Angel at the Jews' Free School.
Biography of Louis Raemaekers (excerpt)
Louis Raemaekers (April 6, 1869 in Roermond (source: Gauquelin) - July 26, 1956 in Scheveningen) was a Dutch painter and cartoonist for the Amsterdam Telegraaf during World War I, noted for his anti-German stance. He was born in Roermond, Netherlands in 1869 as the son of an ethnically German newspaper editor.
Biography of Frederick Leigh Gardner (excerpt)
Frederick Leigh Gardner, born on March 31, 1857 in London, died on 1930, was a British astrologer and collector of Masonic books.
Biography of Jules Garnier (excerpt)
Jules Garnier, born January 22, 1847, died in 1889, was a French impressionist painter.
Biography of Paul Bert (excerpt)
Paul Bert (October 19, 1833 - November 11, 1886) was a French physiologist and politician. Life He was born at Auxerre (Yonne).He entered the École polytechnique at Paris with the intention of becoming an engineer; then changing his mind, he studied law; and finally, under the influence of the zoologist, Louis Pierre Gratiolet (1815-1865), he took up physiology, becoming one of Claude Bernard's most brilliant pupils.
Biography of Émile Moselly (excerpt)
Émile Chénin - (Moselly) (12 August 1870 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 2 October 1918) was a French novelist.He was born in Paris. Biography He graduated with an Associate of Arts degree in the exams of 1895 (he was then 25 years old).
Biography of Ivo of Kermartin (excerpt)
Saint Ivo of Kermartin (17 October 1253 at Kermartin, a manor near Minihy-Tréguier (Tréguier), Brittany, France - 19 May 1303 at Louannec, Brittany), also known as Erwann (in Breton) and Yves (in French), Yvo, Ives, or Ivo.He is a saint and patron of lawyers and abandoned children.
Biography of Emile Pouvillon (excerpt)
Emile Pouvillon (1840 - 1906), French novelist, was born at Montauban (Tarn et Garonne). He published in 1878 a collection of stories entitled Nouvelles réalistes.Making himself the chronicler of his native province of Quercy, he painted its scenery and its life with great clearness of outline and without exaggeration.
Biography of Horatio Brown (excerpt)
Horatio Robert Forbes Brown (16 February 1854 (birth time source: Ed Steinbrecher) – 19 August 1926) was a Scottish historian and author who specialized in the history of Venice and Italy. Born in Nice, he grew up in Midlothian, Scotland, was educated in England at Clifton and Oxford, and spent most of his life in Venice, publishing several books about the city.
Biography of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser (excerpt)
Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, born October 1, 1856 in Perth, died in 1930, was a Scottish musician, composer and author. Biography on http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/about/bgallery/Gallery/records/nineteen1/kennedyfr.html Marjory Kennedy was the daughter of the well-known singer David Kennedy who died in while on tour in Ontario, Canada in 1886.
Biography of Charles Koechlin (excerpt)
Charles Louis Eugène Koechlin (November 27, 1867–December 31, 1950) was a French composer, teacher and writer on music. Koechlin was born in Paris, and was the youngest child of a large family.His mother’s family came from Alsace and he identified with that region; his maternal grandfather had been the noted philanthropist and textile manufacturer Jean Dollfus, and Koechlin inherited his strongly developed social conscience.
Biography of Peter Chalmers Mitchell (excerpt)
Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell CBE FRS DSc LLD (23 November 1864–1945), zoologist, was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London from 1903 to 1935. During this time he directed the policy of the London Zoo, and created the world's first open zoological park known as Whipsnade Wild Animal Park.
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Liechtenstein, officially the Principality of Liechtenstein (German: Fürstentum Liechtenstein), is a German-speaking, Central European microstate, situated in the Alps between Austria and Switzerland. The principality is a semi-constitutional monarchy headed by the Prince of Liechtenstein; the Prince's extensive powers are equivalent to those of a President in a semi-presidential system like France.
Biography of James Rolph (excerpt)
James “Sunny Jim” Rolph, Jr.(August 23, 1869 (birth time source: Nolle) – June 2, 1934) was an American politician and a member of the Republican Party.He was elected to a single term as the 27th governor of California from January 6, 1931 until his death on June 2, 1934 at the height of the Great Depression.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (May 11, 1827(birth time source: Didier Geslain) – October 12, 1875) was a French sculptor and painter. Born in Valenciennes, Nord, son of a mason, his early studies were under François Rude.Carpeaux entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1844 and won the Prix de Rome in 1854, and moving to Rome to find inspiration, he there studied the works of Michelangelo, Donatello and Verrocchio.
Biography of Paul Emile Appell (excerpt)
French mathematician and Rector of the University of Paris.
Biography of Pablo de Sarasate (excerpt)
Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués (10 March 1844 – 20 September 1908) was a Spanish violinist and composer of the Romantic period. Career Pablo Sarasate was born in Pamplona, Spain, the son of an artillery bandmaster.He began studying the violin with his father at the age of five and later took lessons from a local teacher but his musical talent became evident early on and he appeared in his first public concert in La Coruña at the age of eight.
Biography of Roelf Takens (excerpt)
Roelf Takens, born in Obergum, Netherlands, on October 2 in 1862, was a Ductch astrologer better known as "Libra".He published his book "Astrology and Ethics".He was previously a veterinarian doctor for horses and a painter.
Biography of Tomas Masaryk (excerpt)
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (Czech pronunciation: ), sometimes called Thomas Masaryk in English, (7 March 1850 – 14 September 1937) was an Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak politician, sociologist and philosopher, who as an eager advocate of Czechoslovak independence during World War I became the founder and first President of Czechoslovakia, also was Moravian patriot.
Biography of Oskar Hertwig (excerpt)
Oscar Hertwig (April 21, 1849, Friedberg, Hesse - October 25, 1922, Berlin) was a German zoologist and professor, who also wrote about the theory of evolution circa 1916, over 55 years after Charles Darwin's book The Origin of Species. He was the older brother of zoologist-professor Richard Hertwig (1850-1937).
Biography of Junius Massau (excerpt)
Belgian engineer Junius Massau (April 9, 1852–1909) is considered to be the creator of graphical integration.He worked out careful techniques of geometrical calculation accurately to construct the integral curves of differential equations y = f(x) and, more generally, y = f(x, y).
Biography of Edouard Branly (excerpt)
Édouard Eugène Désiré Branly (October 23, 1844 - March 24, 1940) was a French inventor and physicist. He was the physics professor at the Catholic University of Paris. He is primarily known for his early involvement in wireless telegraphy and his invention of the Branly coherer around 1890.
Biography of Pauline Kergomard (excerpt)
Pauline Kergomard, born Marie Pauline Jeanne Reclus April 24, 1838 in Bordeaux (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate), died in 1925 in Saint-Maurice (Val-de-Marne), is a teacher and writer, and the founder of nursery classes in France. Works (extract) Galerie enfantine illustres (1879)
Biography of Leonard Borwick (excerpt)
Leonard Borwick (26 February 1868 – 15 September 1925) was an English concert pianist especially associated with the music of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Early training and debuts Born in Walthamstow, Essex, of a Staffordshire family, Leonard Borwick studied piano under Henry R.
Biography of Umberto I of Italy (excerpt)
Umberto I, King of Italy or Humbert I of Italy (Umberto Ranieri Carlo Emanuele Giovanni Maria Ferdinando Eugenio di Savoia), English: Humbert Ranier Charles Emmanuel John Mary Ferdinand Eugene of Savoy (14 March 1844 – 29 July 1900), nicknamed the Good (in Italian il Buono), was the King of Italy from 9 January 1878 until his death.
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Cedar Rapids is the second-largest city in Iowa, United States and is the county seat of Linn County.The city lies on both banks of the Cedar River, 20 miles (32 km) north of Iowa City and 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Des Moines, the state's capital and largest city.
Biography of John Wesley Powell (excerpt)
John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 - September 23, 1902) was a U.S. soldier, geologist, and explorer of the American West. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers that included the first passage through the Grand Canyon.
Biography of Luisa Tetrazzini (excerpt)
Luisa Tetrazzini (June 28, 1871 - April 28, 1940) was an Italian lyric coloratura soprano. Tetrazzini's voice was remarkable for its phenomenal flexibility, thrust and thrilling tone.She enjoyed a tremendously successful operatic and concert career in Europe and America from the 1890s through to the 1920s.
Biography of Madame Davia (excerpt)
Madame Davia, born October 25, 1861 in Savoie, France, died January 2, 1884, was a French psychic and medium.
Biography of Louis-Antoine Ranvier (excerpt)
Louis-Antoine Ranvier (b.Lyon, France, October 2, 1835; d.Vendranges, France, March 22, 1922, French physician, pathologist, anatomist and histologist, discoverer of the myelin sheath and the nodes of Ranvier, subcellular structure which covers the axons of neurons. Ranvier studied medicine at Lyon, graduating in 1865.
Biography of Eugene Field (excerpt)
Eugene Field, Sr. (September 3, 1850 - November 4, 1895) was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. Field was born in St. Louis, Missouri. After the death of his mother in 1856, he was raised by a cousin, Mary Field French, in Amherst, Massachusetts. |
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