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Biography of Carry Nation (excerpt)
Carry Nation, born November 25, 1846 in Little Hickman, Kentucky and died June 9, 1911, was an American social activist.
Biography of Venustiano Carranza (excerpt)
Venustiano Carranza Garza (December 29, 1859 – May 21, 1920) was one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution. He ultimately became President of Mexico following the overthrow of the dictatorial Huerta regime in the summer of 1914 and during his administration the current constitution of Mexico was drafted.
Biography of Marguerite Audoux (excerpt)
Marguerite Audoux (July 7, 1863 at Sancoins, Cher – January 31, 1937 at Saint-Raphaël, Var) was a French novelist. Marguerite Donquichote, who took her mother's name, Audoux, in 1895, was orphaned by age three, following the death of her mother and abandonment by her father.
Biography of Charles de Freycinet (excerpt)
Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet (French pronunciation: ; 14 November 1828 – 14 May 1923) was a French statesman and Prime Minister during the Third Republic; he belonged to the Opportunist Republicans faction. He was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences, and in 1890, the fourteen member to occupy seat the Académie française.
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Reading is a historic market town in Berkshire, England, in the Thames Valley at the confluence of the River Thames and Kennet. It is on the Great Western Main Line railway and the M4 motorway, 40 miles (64 km) east of Swindon, 25 miles (40 km) south of Oxford, 40 miles (64 km) west of London, 15 miles (24 km) north of Basingstoke, 13 miles (21 km) southwest of Maidenhead and 15 miles (24 km) east of Newbury.
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.
Biography of Marthe Mellot (excerpt)
Marthe Mellot (February 16, 1870 in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire (Nièvre)- August 13, 1947 in Paris) was a French film actress. Selected filmography Les Misérables (1934) The Last Billionaire (1934) Justin de Marseille (1935) Land Without Stars (1946)
Biography of Ellen Terry (excerpt)
Dame Ellen Terry, GBE (27 February 1847 – 21 July 1928) was an English stage actress, who became the leading Shakespearean actress in Britain. Born into a family of actors, Terry began acting as a child in Shakespeare plays, and continuing as a teen, sometimes in London and sometimes on tour.
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 Jules Lachelier (excerpt)
Jules Lachelier, born May 27, 1832 in Fontainebleau, died January 26, 1918 in Paris, was a French philosopher and author. Publications * Du fondement de l'induction suivi de Psychologie et Métaphysique et de Notes sur le pari de Pascal, Paris, Alcan, 1924.
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 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 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 Emily Greene Balch (excerpt)
Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American academic, writer, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 (the prize that year was shared with John Mott), notably for her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
Biography of Guido Verbeck (excerpt)
Guido Herman Fridolin Verbeck (or Verbeek) (23 January 1830 – 10 May 1898) was a Dutch political advisor, educator, and missionary active in Bakumatsu and Meiji period Japan. He was one of the most important o-yatoi gaikokujin (foreign advisors) serving the Meiji government and contributed to many major government decisions during the early years of the reign of Emperor Meiji.
Biography of Frederick III, German Emperor (excerpt)
Frederick III (Frederick William Nicholas Charles, German: Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Karl; October 18, 1831 – June 15, 1888), (German: Friedrich III., Deutscher Kaiser und König von Preußen) was German Emperor and King of Prussia, ruling for 99 days until his death in 1888.
Biography of Richard von Krafft-Ebing (excerpt)
Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (August 14, 1840 – December 22, 1902) was an Austro-German sexologist and psychiatrist. He wrote Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), a famous series of cases studies of sexual perversity. The book remains well-known for his coinage of the term masochism using the name of a contemporary writer, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose partially autobiographical novel Venus in Furs tells of the protagonist's desire to be whipped and enslaved by a beautiful woman.
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.
Biography of Bessie Leo (excerpt)
Bessie Leo, born April 5, 1858 in Salisbury, was a British astrologer and editor, the wife of Allan Leo.
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 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 Chauncey Depew (excerpt)
Chauncey Mitchell Depew (April 23, 1834 – April 5, 1928) was an attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad interests, president of the New York Central Railroad System, and a United States Senator from New York from 1899 to 1911. Biography He was born on April 23, 1834.
Biography of Joseph Gurney Cannon (excerpt)
Joseph Gurney Cannon (May 7, 1836 – November 12, 1926) was a United States politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party. Cannon served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911, and historians generally consider him to be the most dominant Speaker in United States history, with such control over the House that he could often control debate.
Biography of Eugene Zimmerman (excerpt)
Eugene Zimmerman, cartoonist, was born on May 25 (Wikipedia gives May 23), 1862 and died on March 26, 1935. Known by his famous signature "Zim," he was born in Basel, Switzerland. He early lost his mother and was sent to live with relatives in Alsace.
Biography of Charles Gravier (excerpt)
Charles Joseph Gravier, born March 4, 1865 in Orléans, died November 15, 1937 in Paris, was a French zoologist. Selected publications 1901 — Méthode de récolte, de fixation et de conservation des invertébrés (arthropodes exceptés) (Paris : Impr. nationale). 1904 — Rapport sur une mission scientifique à la Côte française des Somalis (Paris : Impr.
Biography of Edouard Alexandre Sain (excerpt)
Edouard Alexandre Sain, born on May 13, 1830 in Cluny, Saône-et-Loire (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1910, was a French painter.
Biography of Paul Reclus (excerpt)
Jean Jacques Paul Reclus (Orthez, March 7, 1847 (birth time source: Gauquelin, Lescaut)) – Paris, 29 July 1914) was a French physician specializing in surgery. The Reclus' disease is named after him. He was the son of Jacques Reclus and brother of Elijah Elisha Onesimus and Armand Reclus.
Biography of Mabel Collins (excerpt)
Mabel Collins (9 September 1851 - 31 March 1927) was a theosophist and author of over 46 books. She was born in London. Works (extract) The Blossom and the Fruit (1888) The Idyll of the White Lotus (1890) Morial the Mahatma (1892)
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 Carrie Jacobs-Bond (excerpt)
Carrie Minetta Jacobs-Bond (August 11, 1862 (birth time source: original source unknown) – December 28, 1946) was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter who composed some 175 pieces of popular sheet music from the 1890s through the early 1940s. She is perhaps best remembered for writing the parlor song "I Love You Truly", becoming the first woman to sell one million copies of a song.
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 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 Camille Chevillard (excerpt)
Camille Chevillard (14 October 1859 – 30 May 1923) was a French composer and conductor. He was born in Paris, France. He led the Lamoureux Orchestra in the premieres of Debussy's Nocturnes (1900 and 1901) and La mer (1905). He was the son-in-law of conductor Charles Lamoureux.
Biography of Lawrence Alma-Tadema (excerpt)
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (pronounced /ˈælmə ˈtædɪmə/), OM, RA (8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912) was one of the most renowned painters of late nineteenth-century Britain. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there.
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 Madame Davia (excerpt)
Madame Davia, born October 25, 1861 in Savoie, France, died January 2, 1884, was a French psychic and medium.
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 Jean Richepin (excerpt)
Jean Richepin (English pronunciation: /ˈʒɑːn riːʃˈpæn/; 4 February 1849 - 12 December 1926), French poet, novelist and dramatist, the son of an army doctor, was born at Medea (Algeria). At school and at the École Normale Supérieure he gave evidence of brilliant, if somewhat undisciplined, powers, for which he found physical vent in different directions—first as a franc-tireur in the Franco-German War, and afterwards as actor, sailor and stevedore--and an intellectual outlet in the writing of poems, plays and novels which vividly reflected his erratic but unmistakable talent.
Biography of Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant (excerpt)
Paul-Henri-Benjamin Baluet d'Estournelles, baron de Constant de Rébecque (22 November 1852 – 15 May 1924), was a French diplomat and politician, advocate of international arbitration and winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize for Peace. He was born at La Flèche (Sarthe) in the Loire valley to an old aristocratic family which traced its genealogy back to the Crusades; the renowned Revolution-era writer and politician Benjamin Constant was his great-uncle.
Biography of Gabriel Montoya (excerpt)
Gabriel Montoya, born October 20, 1868 in Alès, died in 1914, was a French composer, poet, author and physician. He was very famous in French cabaret Le Chat noir in Montmartre, Paris. Songs and poetry collections (extract) - La chanson du macchabée (musique de Gaston Maquis)
Biography of Maarten Maartens (excerpt)
Maarten Maartens, pen name of Jozua Marius Willem van der Poorten Schwartz (Amsterdam, 15 August 1858 - Doorn, 3 August 1915), was a Dutch writer, who wrote in English. He was quite well known at the end of the Nineteenth and the beginning of the Twentieth Century, in both the UK and the US, but he was soon forgotten after his death.
Biography of William Ker (excerpt)
William Ker, born August 30, 1855 in Glasgow and died July 17, 1932 (mountain accident), was a Scottis poet, writer and professor of poetry.
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 Hans Vaihinger (excerpt)
Hans Vaihinger (September 25, 1852 – December 18, 1933) was a German philosopher, best known as a Kant scholar and for his Philosophie des Als Ob (Philosophy of As If), published in 1911, but written more than thirty years earlier. Vaihinger was born in Nehren, Germany, near Tübingen, and raised in what he himself described as a "very religious milieu".
Biography of Robert Bosch (excerpt)
Robert Bosch (September 23, 1861 - March 12, 1942) was a German industrialist, engineer and inventor, founder of Robert Bosch GmbH. Bosch was born in Langenau/Württ. He was the eleventh of twelve children. His parents came from a class of well-situated farmers from the region.
Biography of Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (excerpt)
Princess Alexandra Amalie of Bavaria (26 August 1826 – 21 September 1875) was a member of the House of Wittelsbach and devoted her life to literature. Early life Alexandra was born in Schloss Johannisburg in Aschaffenburg, the eighth child and fifth daughter of King Ludwig I of Bavaria and of his wife Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
Biography of Jules de Trooz (excerpt)
Jules Henri Ghislain Marie, Baron de Trooz (21 February 1857 – 31 December 1907) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician. De Trooz was born in Leuven, and had studied philosophy before entering politics. He represented Leuven in the Belgian Chamber of People's Representatives from 1899 onwards, serving as Education and Interior minister.
Biography of Charles XV of Sweden (excerpt)
Karl XV (Karl Ludvig Eugen) (May 3, 1826 – September 18, 1872) was King of Sweden and Norway (where he was known as Karl IV) from 1859 until his death. He was born in Stockholm Palace and dubbed Duke of Skåne at birth.
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 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. |
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