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Biography of Paul Claudel (excerpt)
Paul Claudel (August 6, 1868 birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – February 23, 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholic faith. ![]()
Biography of Paul Lacôme d'Estalenx (excerpt)
Paul Lacôme d'Estalenx, born March 3, 1838, Le Houga, died December 12, 1920, Le Houga, was a French musician and composer. Opéra bouffe La Dot mal placée (Livret : Georges Mancel), trois actes (1873) Les Saturnales (Livret : Albin Valabrègue), trois actes (1887) ![]()
Biography of Hetty Green (excerpt)
Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green (November 21, 1834 – July 3, 1916) was an American businesswoman, remarkable for her frugality during the Gilded Age, as well as for being the first American woman to make a substantial impact on Wall Street.
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Biography of William Bouguereau (excerpt)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (November 30, 1825 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. Bouguereau was born in La Rochelle. A student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he won the Prix de Rome in 1850 and his realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were exhibited at the annual exhibitions of the Paris Salon for his entire working life. ![]()
Biography of Félix Faure (excerpt)
Félix François Faure (30 January 1841 – 16 February 1899) was President of France from 1895 until his death. Félix François Faure was born in Paris, the son of a small furniture maker. Having started as a tanner and merchant at Le Havre, he acquired considerable wealth, was elected to the National Assembly on 21 August 1881, and took his seat as a member of the Left, interesting himself chiefly in matters concerning economics, railways and the navy.
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Biography of Robert Baden-Powell (excerpt)
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB (22 February 1857 in Oxford – 8 January 1941), also known as B-P, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, and founder of the Scout Movement. After having been educated at Charterhouse School, Baden-Powell served in the British Army from 1876 until 1910 in India and Africa. ![]()
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New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia and 17,000 km (11,000 mi) from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Chesterfield Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of Pines, and a few remote islets.
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Biography of Johann Strauss II (excerpt)
Johann Strauss II (in German: Johann Strauß (Sohn), "Johann Strauss (son)"; in English also Johann Strauss the Younger, Johann Strauss Jr., Johann Sebastian Strauss) (October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899) was an Austrian composer known especially for his waltzes, such as On The Beautiful Blue Danube.
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Biography of William McKinley (excerpt)
William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the twenty-fifth President of the United States, and the last veteran of the Civil War to be elected. By the 1880s, this Ohio native was a nationally known Republican leader; his signature issue was high tariffs on imports as a formula for prosperity, as typified by his McKinley Tariff of 1890. ![]()
Biography of Miklós Horthy (excerpt)
Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya (18 June 1868 – 9 February 1957) was the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary during the interwar years and throughout most of World War II, serving from 1 March 1920 to 15 October 1944. Horthy was styled "His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary" (Hungarian: Ő Főméltósága a Magyar Királyság Kormányzója).
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Biography of Rutherford B. Hayes (excerpt)
Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893) was an American politician, lawyer, military leader and the nineteenth President of the United States (1877–1881). Hayes was elected President by one electoral vote after the disputed election of 1876. Early life ![]()
Biography of Romain Rolland (excerpt)
Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – December 30, 1944) was a French writer and dramatist, best known as the author of the novel series Jean-Christophe (1904-12). His first book was published in 1902, when he was already 36 years old. ![]()
Biography of Clément Ader (excerpt)
Clément Ader (April 2, 1841 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – March 5, 1925) was a French engineer born in Muret, Haute Garonne remembered primarily for his pioneering work in aviation. The inventor Ader innovated in a number of domains of electrical and mechanical engineering. ![]()
Biography of Ferdinand Hodler (excerpt)
Ferdinand Hodler (March 14, 1853 – May 19, 1918) was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the 19th century. Hodler was born in Berne but moved to Geneva at the age of 18 to start a career as a painter. Hodler's early work consisted of landscapes, figure compositions and portraits, treated with a vigorous realism. ![]()
Biography of Paul Deschanel (excerpt)
Paul Eugène Louis Deschanel (February 13, 1855 - April 28, 1922) was a French statesman. He served as President of France from February 18, 1920 to September 21, 1920. Paul Deschanel, the son of Émile Deschanel (1819-1904), professor at the Collège de France and senator, was born at Brussels, where his father was living in exile (1851—1859), owing to his opposition to Napoleon III.
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Biography of George Westinghouse (excerpt)
George Westinghouse, Jr (6 October 1846–12 March 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railroad air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry. Westinghouse was one of Thomas Edison's main rivals in the early implementation of the American electricity system.
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Biography of Tristan Corbière (excerpt)
Tristan Corbière (July 18, 1845 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – March 1, 1875), born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean, near Morlaix in Brittany, where he lived most of his life and where he died. ![]()
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The source comes from legendsofamerica.com when John Sutter first arrived on August 13, 1839. Some other sources give August 12. Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat and largest city of Sacramento County. Located at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers in Northern California's Sacramento Valley, Sacramento's estimated 2019 population of 513,625 makes it the sixth-largest city in California and the ninth-largest capital in the United States. ![]()
Biography of Léon Gambetta (excerpt)
Léon Gambetta (April 2, 1838, Cahors - December 31, 1882, Paris) was a French statesman prominent after the Franco-Prussian War. Youth and education He is said to have inherited his vigour and eloquence from his father, a Genoese grocer who had married a Frenchwoman named Massabie. ![]()
Biography of Alexandre Cabanel (excerpt)
Alexandre Cabanel (28 September 1823–23 January 1889) was a French painter. Cabanel was born in Montpellier, Hérault. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well-known as a portrait painter. According to Diccionario Enciclopedico Salvat, Cabanel is the best representative of the L'art pompier and Napoleon III's preferred painter.
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Biography of Knut Hamsun (excerpt)
Knut Hamsun, born Knud Pedersen (August 4, 1859 - February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian author. He was considered by Isaac Bashevis Singer to be the "father of modern literature", and by King Haakon to be Norway's soul. In 1920, the Nobel Committee awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil". ![]()
Biography of Marie Vetsera (excerpt)
Baroness Mary Vetsera (March 19, 1870 – January 30, 1889) was Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria's mistress. She was the daughter of Baron Albin Vetsera, a diplomat in foreign service at the Austrian court, and his wife Baroness Helene Vetsera (née Helene Baltazzi).
Biography of Crazy Horse (Sioux chief) (excerpt)
Crazy Horse ( literally "His-Horse-is-Crazy") (December 4, 1842 (source: Penfield) – September 5, 1877) was a respected war leader of the Oglala Lakota, who fought against the U.S. federal government in an effort to preserve the traditions and values of the Lakota way of life.
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Biography of Stonewall Jackson (excerpt)
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 20, 1824 – May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and probably the most well-known Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee. His military career includes the Valley Campaign of 1862 and his service as a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. ![]()
Biography of Gustave Caillebotte (excerpt)
Gustave Caillebotte (August 19, 1848 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – February 21, 1894), was a French painter, member and patron of the group of artists known as Impressionists, stamp collector, and yacht engineer. Gustave Caillebotte was born on August 19, 1848 to an upper-class Parisian family.
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Biography of Wild Bill Hickok (excerpt)
James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a figure in the American Old West. His skills as a gunfighter and scout, along with his reputation as a lawman, provided the basis for his fame, although some of his exploits are fictionalized. ![]()
Biography of Józef Wieniawski (excerpt)
Józef Wieniawski (23 May 1837 in Lublin – 11 November 1912 in Brussels) was a Polish pianist, composer, conductor and teacher. He was born in Lublin, the younger brother of the famous violinist Henryk Wieniawski. After Franz Liszt, he was the first pianist to publicly perform all the études by Chopin. ![]()
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Rockford is a U.S. city in Winnebago County, Illinois, located in the far northern part of the state. Situated on the banks of the Rock River, Rockford is the county seat of Winnebago County (a small portion of the city is located in Ogle County). ![]()
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Omaha is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 10 miles (15 km) north of the mouth of the Platte River (also known as the Nebraska River).
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Biography of Léon Bloy (excerpt)
Léon Bloy (Périgueux, July 11, 1846 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - Bourg-la-Reine, November 3, 1917) was a French novelist, essayist, pamphleteer and poet. His works reflect a deepening devotion to the Roman Catholic Church and most generally a tremendous craving for the Absolute. ![]()
Biography of Vittorio Orlando (excerpt)
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (May 13, 1860 - December 1, 1952) was an Italian diplomat and political figure. He was born in Palermo, Sicily. His father, a landed gentleman, delayed venturing out to register his son's birth for fear of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1,000 patriots who had just stormed into Sicily on the first leg of their march to build an Italian nation. ![]()
Biography of Maurice Barrès (excerpt)
Maurice Barrès (19 August 1862 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 4 December 1923) was a French novelist, journalist, an anti-semite nationalist politician and agitator. Leaning towards the far-left in his youth as a Boulangist deputy, he progressively developed a theory close to Romantic nationalism and shifted to the right during the Dreyfus Affair, leading the Anti-Dreyfusards alongside Charles Maurras.
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Biography of Luigi Pirandello (excerpt)
Luigi Pirandello (June 28, 1867 – December 10, 1936), an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934. Pirandello was born into an upper-class family in a village with the curious name of Kaos (Chaos), a poor suburb of Girgenti (Agrigento, a town in southern Sicily). ![]()
Biography of Léon Gaumont (excerpt)
Léon Gaumont (May 10, 1864 – August 9, 1946) was a French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry. Léon Ernest Gaumont, born Semblancay/Indre & Loire was gifted with a mechanical mind which led him to employment manufacturing precision instruments.
Biography of Eugène Caslant (excerpt)
Eugène Caslant, born December 1, 1865 in Nanteuil-le-Haudouin, died in 1940, was a French engineer of Ecole Polytechnique, author and astrologer. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Vacher (excerpt)
Joseph Vacher (November 16th, 1869, Beaufort, Isère (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - December 31, 1898, Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain) was a French serial killer, sometimes known as The French Ripper or L'éventreur du Sud-Est (The South-East Ripper) due to comparisons to the more famous Jack the Ripper murderer of London, England in 1888. ![]()
Biography of Léon Daudet (excerpt)
Léon Daudet (16 November 1867 – 30 June 1942) was a French journalist, writer, an active Orléanist, and a member of the Académie Goncourt. Move to the right Daudet was born in Paris. His father was the novelist Alphonse Daudet and his younger brother, Lucien Daudet, would also become an artist. ![]()
Biography of Cecil John Rhodes (excerpt)
Cecil John Rhodes, PC (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was an English-born businessman, mining magnate, and politician in South Africa. He was the founder of the diamond company De Beers, which today markets 40% of the world's rough diamonds and at one time marketed 90%. ![]()
Biography of Louis Franchet d'Espèrey (excerpt)
Louis Félix Marie François Franchet d'Espérey (Mostaganem, 25 May 1856 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 8 July 1942) was a French general during the First World War. Early life He was born in Mostaganem in what is today Algeria, the son of an officer of cavalry in the Chasseurs d'Afrique. ![]()
Biography of Alexandra of Denmark (excerpt)
Alexandra of Denmark (Alexandra Carolina Marie Charlotte Louise Julia; 1 December 1844 – 20 November 1925) was Queen Consort to Edward VII of the United Kingdom and thus Empress of India during her husband's reign, 1901 to 1910. Her family had been relatively obscure until her father was chosen with the consent of the great powers to succeed his distant cousin to the Danish throne. ![]()
Biography of Jean Delville (excerpt)
Jean Delville (January 19, 1867 – 1953) was a Belgian symbolist painter, writer, and occultist. He founded the Salon d’Art Idealiste, which is considered the Belgian equivalent to the Parisian Rose & Cross Salon and the Pre-Raphaelite movement in London. Quotes "Understood in its metaphysical sense, Beauty is one of the manifestations of the Absolute Being.
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Biography of Jean-Alban Bergonié (excerpt)
Jean-Alban Bergonié, born October 7, 1857 in Casseneuil, was a French military physician. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau (excerpt)
Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau (December 2, 1846 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives, birth certificate n°364) - August 20, 1904) was a French statesman. René Waldeck-Rousseau was born in Nantes, France. His father, René Waldec-Rousseau, a barrister at the Nantes bar and a leader of the local republican party, figured in the revolution of 1848 as one of the deputies returned to the Constituent Assembly for Loire Inferieure. ![]()
Biography of Abdul Baha (excerpt)
`Abdu'l-Bahá (Arabic: عبد البهاء) (23 May 1844 - 28 November 1921), born `Abbás Effendí, was the son of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith. In 1892, `Abdu'l-Bahá was appointed in his father's will to be his successor and head of the Bahá'í Faith. ![]()
Biography of John Philip Sousa (excerpt)
John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known particularly for American military and patriotic marches. Because of his mastery of march composition and resultant prominence, he is known as "The March King".
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Biography of René Panhard (excerpt)
Louis François René Panhard (27 May 1841, Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 16 July 1908 La Bourboule, dept. Puy-de-Dôme) was a French engineer, merchant and a pioneer of the automobile industry in France. Having graduated from École Centrale Paris, he was employed by Jean-Louis Périn in a firm that produced wood-working machines, where Panhard met Émile Levassor.
Biography of Thomas H. Burgoyne (excerpt)
Thomas H. Burgoyne, born April 14, 1855 in Lancaster, was an American writer, occulist, astrologer, mystic and clairvoyant.
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Biography of Emanuel Lasker (excerpt)
Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess World Chess Champion and grandmaster, mathematician, and philosopher born at Berlinchen in Brandenburg (now Barlinek in Poland). Chess champion In 1894 he became the second World Chess Champion by defeating Steinitz with ten wins, four draws and five losses.
Biography of Lucien Laberthonnière (excerpt)
Priest Lucien Laberthonnière, born October 5, 1860 in Chazelet, died October 6, 1932 in Paris, was a French theologist, philosopher, historian and writer. Works (extracts) (fr) Théorie de l'éducation, 1901. Essais de philosophie religieuse, 1903. Le réalisme chrétien et l'idéalisme grec, 1904. ![]()
Biography of Elisée Reclus (excerpt)
Élisée Reclus (March 15, 1830 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – July 4, 1905), also known as Jean Jacques Élisée Reclus, was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist. He produced his 19-volume masterwork over a period of nearly 20 years: La Nouvelle Géographic universelle, la terre et les hommes (1875 – 1894). |
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