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Biography of Père Joseph Damien (excerpt)
Father Damien, also Blessed Damien of Molokai and born Joseph de Veuster (January 3, 1840 – April 15, 1889), was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious order. ![]()
Biography of Jagadish Chandra Bose (excerpt)
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (Bengali: জগদীশ চন্দ্র বসু Jôgdish Chôndro Boshu) (November 30, 1858 – November 23, 1937) was a Bengali physicist and science fiction writer, who pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics, made extremely significant contributions to plant science, and laid the foundations of experimental science in the Indian subcontinent. ![]()
Biography of Raymond Poincaré (excerpt)
Raymond Poincaré (August 20, 1860 – October 15, 1934) was a French conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of France on five separate occasions and as President of France from 1913 to 1920. Born in Bar-le-Duc, Meuse, France, the son of Nicolas Antonin Hélène Poincaré, a distinguished civil servant and meteorologist.
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Biography of Bérenger Saunière (excerpt)
François Bérenger Saunière (April 11, 1852 - Januaray 22, 1917) was a priest in the French village of Rennes-le-Château, in the Aude region, officially from 1885 to 1909 (when he was transferred to another village by his bishop, that he declined and subsequently resigned) and after 1909, until his death in 1917, in the role of Free Priest (a priest working independently without a parish). ![]()
Biography of Jules Vallès (excerpt)
Jules Vallès (11 June 1832 – 14 February 1885) was a French journalist and author. Jules Vallès by Gustave CourbetVallès was born in Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire. His father was a supervisor of studies (pion), later a teacher, and not very faithful to Jules' mother.
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Biography of Edmond Rostand (excerpt)
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (April 1, 1868 - December 2, 1918) was a French poet and dramatist. Rostand is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays provided an alternative to the naturalistic theatre popular during the late 19th century. ![]()
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Jersey City is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark. It is the seat of Hudson County as well as the county's largest city. The U.S. Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated that the city's population was 262,075 in 2019, ranking as the 80th-most-populous incorporated place in the nation.
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Biography of Charles Webster Leadbeater (excerpt)
C.W. Leadbeater (Feb 16, 1854 England-1934 Perth, Western Australia), English clergyman and theosophical author, contributed to world thought mostly through his work as an alleged clairvoyant. Early life Although some sources state that he was born in 1847, his biographer has uncovered sufficient documentation that he was actually born in 1854.
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Biography of Georges Méliès (excerpt)
Georges Méliès (December 8, 1861 – January 21, 1938), full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema. He was born in Paris, where his family manufactured shoes. He was very innovative in the use of special effects. ![]()
Biography of Victor Noir (excerpt)
Victor Noir, (July 30, 1848 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)– January 10, 1870), was a French journalist. Born Yvan Salmon at Attigny, Vosges, he went to Paris where he became a popular journalist for the newspaper "La Marseillaise" where he adopted the name Victor Noir as his pseudonym. ![]()
Biography of Séraphine Louis (excerpt)
Séraphine Louis, known as "Séraphine de Senlis" ("Séraphine of Senlis") (1864–1942), was a French painter in the naïve style. Self-taught, she was inspired by her religious faith and by stained-glass church windows and other religious art. The intensity of her images, both in color and in replicative designs, are sometimes interpreted as a reflection of her own psyche, walking a tightrope between ecstasy and mental illness. ![]()
Biography of Charles Maurras (excerpt)
Charles Maurras (April 20, 1868 Martigues Bouches-du-Rhône France (for his time of birth, André Barbault had indicated 2:00 earlier, but Didier Geslain checked, it's 10:00) – November 16, 1952) was a French author, poet, and critic. He was a leader and principal thinker of the reactionary Action Française, a political movement that was monarchist, anti-parliamentarist, and counter-revolutionary, and is the main intellectual influence of National Catholicism and integral nationalism . ![]()
Biography of Jane Addams (excerpt)
Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was a founder of the U.S. Settlement House movement, and the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Born in Cedarville, Illinois, Jane Addams was the eighth of nine children born into a prosperous miller family. ![]()
Biography of Mary of Teck (excerpt)
Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953) was the Queen Consort of George V, and Empress of India. Before her husband's accession, she was successively Duchess of York, Duchess of Cornwall and Princess of Wales.
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Biography of Jean Sibelius (excerpt)
Johan Julius Christian "Jean" / "Janne" Sibelius December 8, 1865 – September 20, 1957) was a Finnish composer of classical music and one of the most notable composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. ![]()
Biography of François Gény (excerpt)
François Gény (1861–1959) was a French jurist and professor of law at the University of Nancy, who introduced the notion of "free scientific research" to the interpretation of positive law. His advocacy of judicial discretion in the interpretation of statutory law had an important influence across Europe.
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Biography of Maxim Gorky (excerpt)
Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (In Russian Алексей Максимович Пешков) (March 26, 1868 (Gregorian calendar) – June 18, 1936), better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Soviet/Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist.
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Biography of Anatole France (excerpt)
Anatole France (16 April 1844 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 12 October 1924), born François-Anatole Thibault, was a French author. He was born in Paris, and died in Tours, Indre-et-Loire. The son of a bookseller, he spent most of his life around books.
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Biography of Émile Coué (excerpt)
Émile Coué (February 26, 1857 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – July 2, 1926) was a French psychologist and pharmacist who introduced a method of psychotherapy, healing, and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion. The application of his familiar conscious autosuggestion, "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better" (Tous les jours à tous points de vue je vais de mieux en mieux), is the best known example of what is often called Couéism or the Coué method. ![]()
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Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest region of the United States. Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. state on May 11, 1858, created from the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory. The state is known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes".
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Biography of James Ensor (excerpt)
James Ensor (April 13, 1860 - November 19, 1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for almost his entire life. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX. Ensor's father was of English extraction, and his mother was Flemish.
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Biography of Victoria, Princess Royal (excerpt)
Victoria of the United Kingdom (Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise) 21 November 1840 – 5 August 1901) was the eldest child and daughter of Queen Victoria and her consort Albert. She was created Princess Royal of the United Kingdom in 1841. She became German Empress and Queen of Prussia by marriage to German Emperor Frederick III.
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Biography of Emile Durkheim (excerpt)
Émile Durkheim (IPA: ; April 15, 1858 – November 15, 1917) was a French sociologist whose contributions were instrumental in the formation of sociology and anthropology. His work and editorship of the first journal of sociology (L'Année Sociologique) helped establish sociology within academia as an accepted social science.
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Biography of Grover Cleveland (excerpt)
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908), the twenty-second and twenty-fourth President of the United States, was the only President to serve non-consecutive terms (1885–1889 and 1893–1897). He was defeated for reelection in 1888 by Benjamin Harrison, against whom he ran again in 1892 and won a second term. ![]()
Biography of Armand Peugeot (excerpt)
Armand Peugeot (June 18, 1849—January 2, 1915) was an industrialist, pioneer of the automobile industry and the founder of the French firm Peugeot. Family Armand Peugeot was born on June 18 1849 in Valentigney (25), in eastern France. He was the son of Émile Peugeot (1815-1874) and Wilhelmine Ehrmann (1818-1893).
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Biography of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (excerpt)
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Albert Victor Christian Edward; 8 January 1864 – 14 January 1892) was a member of the British Royal Family, as the eldest son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) and Alexandra of Denmark.
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Biography of Emma Goldman (excerpt)
Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches. She was lionized as a free-thinking "rebel woman" by admirers, and derided as an advocate of politically-motivated murder and violent revolution by her critics.
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Biography of Facteur Cheval (excerpt)
Ferdinand Cheval (1836 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departmental archives) – 19 August 1924), was a French postman who spent 33 years of his life building an "Ideal Palace" (French Palais idéal) which is regarded as an extraordinary example of naïve art architecture.
Biography of Hector-Germain Guimard (excerpt)
Hector Germain Guimard was born on march 10, 1867 in Lyon (France). From 1882 to 1885 he visits the Ecole des Art Decoratifs in Paris and continues his study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, where he graduates in 1889. ![]()
Biography of Émile Gallé (excerpt)
Émile Gallé (Nancy, France, 8 May 1846 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – Nancy, 23 September 1904) was a French artist who worked in glass, and is considered to be one of the major forces in the French Art Nouveau movement. ![]()
Biography of Pope Pius XI (excerpt)
Pope Pius XI (Latin: Pius PP. XI; Italian: Pio XI; May 31, 1857 – February 10, 1939), born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, reigned as Pope from February 6, 1922 and as sovereign of Vatican City from 1929 until his death on February 10, 1939. ![]()
Biography of Sully Prudhomme (excerpt)
René-François-Armand (Sully) Prudhomme (Paris, France, March 16, 1839 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - Châtenay-Malabry, France, September 6, 1907) was a French poet and essayist, winner of the first Nobel Prize in Literature, 1901. Prudhomme originally studied to be an engineer, but was to turn to philosophy and later to poetry. ![]()
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Tunis is the capital and largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as "Grand Tunis", has about 2,700,000 inhabitants. As of 2020, it is the fourth-largest city in the Maghreb region (after Casablanca and Algiers and Tripoli) and the sixteenth-largest in the Arab world.
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Biography of César Franck (excerpt)
César Franck (December 10, 1822 – November 8, 1890), a composer, organist and music teacher of Belgian and German origin who lived in France, was one of the great figures in classical music in the second half of the 19th century. ![]()
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Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (Spanish: República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in the southeastern region of South America. It borders Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast, with the Río de la Plata (Silver River) to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. ![]()
Biography of Jules Renard (excerpt)
Pierre-Jules Renard or Jules Renard (February 22, 1864- May 22, 1910) was a French author and member of the Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works Poil de Carotte (Carrot hair) (1894) and Les Histoires Naturelles (Natural Histories) (1896). Among his other works are Le Plaisir de rompre (The Pleasure of Breaking) (1898) and Huit jours à la campagne (Eight Days in the Countryside) (1906). ![]()
Biography of Henri Becquerel (excerpt)
Antoine Henri Becquerel (December 15, 1852 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate)– August 25, 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the discoverers of radioactivity. Early days Becquerel was born in Paris into a family which, including him and his son Jean, produced four generations of scientists.
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Biography of Alfred Dreyfus (excerpt)
Alfred Dreyfus (9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French artillery officer of Jewish background whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most sensational political dramas in modern French history, still known as the Dreyfus Affair.
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Biography of Empress Dowager Cixi (excerpt)
Empress Dowager Cixi (Chinese: 慈禧太后; pinyin: Cíxǐ Tàihòu; Wade-Giles: Tz'u-Hsi T'ai-hou) (November 29, 1835 – November 15, 1908), popularly known in China as the West Dowager Empress (Chinese: 西太后), was from the Manchu Yehe Nara Clan. She was a powerful and charismatic figure who became the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, ruling over China for 48 years from her husband's death in 1861 to her own death in 1908.
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Biography of John Muir (excerpt)
John Muir (21 April 1838 – 24 December 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of U.S. wilderness. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California, have been read by millions and are still popular today. ![]()
Biography of Louise Abbéma (excerpt)
Louise Abbéma (30 October 1853 (and not 1858, as commonly said); 1927) was a French painter and designer, born in Etampes. Abbéma began painting in her early teens, and studied under such notables of the period as Charles Joshua Chaplin, Jean-Jacques Henner and Carolus-Duran.
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Biography of Maurice Leblanc (excerpt)
Maurice-Marie-Émile Leblanc (11 December 1864 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes. ![]()
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The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. The Underground has its origins in the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground passenger railway.
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Biography of James Garfield (excerpt)
James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831–September 19, 1881) was the twentieth President of the United States. He had also served as a major general in the United States Army, and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Garfield was the second U.
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Biography of Pope Benedict XV (excerpt)
Pope Benedict XV (Latin: Benedictus PP. XV), (Italian: Benedetto XV), (November 21, 1854 – January 22, 1922), born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa, reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from September 3, 1914 to January 22, 1922; he succeeded Pope Pius X (1903–14). ![]()
Biography of Léon Delacroix (excerpt)
Léon Frédéric Gustave Delacroix (27 December 1867, Bruxelles - 15 October 1929, Baden-Baden) was a Belgian statesman. Before entering politics, he wad a renowned lawyer, and served as president of the Belgian Court of Cassation from 1917 to 1918. In the context of reconstruction after World War I, he was appointed Prime Minister and served from 1918 to 1920. ![]()
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Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly 350 square miles (910 km2) into three other counties: Denton, Parker, and Wise. ![]()
Biography of Arturo Toscanini (excerpt)
Arturo Toscanini (pronounced ) (March 25, 1867 (birth time source: Lois Rodden) – January 16, 1957) was an Italian musician. He was considered by many critics, fellow musicians, and much of the classical listening audience to have been one of the greatest conductors of all time.
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Biography of Louise Michel (excerpt)
Louise Michel (1830 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate) - 1905) was a French anarchist, school teacher and medical worker. She sometimes used the pseudonym Clémence and was also known as the red virgin of Montmartre. Louise Michel was born at the Château of Vroncourt (Haute-Marne) on 29 May 1830, the daughter of a serving-maid, Marianne Michel, and the son of the house, Etienne Charles Demahis.
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Biography of Alexander III of Russia (excerpt)
Alexander III (10 March 1845 – 1 November 1894) reigned as Emperor of Russia from 14 March 1881 until his death in 1894. Early life Alexander was born at St Petersburg, the second son of Tsar Alexander II by his wife Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) . |
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