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Barcelona is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the Province of Barcelona and is home to around 4.
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Anna Haining Bates, born Anna Haining Swan (August 6, 1846 – August 5, 1888), was a Canadian from Mill Brook, New Annan, (near present-day Tatamagouche), Colchester County, Nova Scotia, famed for her great height, believed to be 2.27 m (7' 5½") at the peak of her stature.
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`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.
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Nicolas Camille Flammarion (February 26, 1842 – June 3, 1925) was a French astronomer and author. He was usually credited as Camille Flammarion He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels, and several works about spiritualism and related topics.
Biography of Émile Fabry (excerpt)
Émile Bartelemy Fabry, born in Verviers December 31, 1865 and died in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre (Bruxelles) in 1966, was a Belgian painter of Symbolism movement. Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. Works (extracts)
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Léopold Courouble, born in February 3 1861 in Brussels, Belgium was a Belgian writer. Works (in French) (extracts) Mes Pandectes Notre langue Profils blancs et Frimousses noires La Famille Kaekebroeck Pauline Platbrood Les Noces d'or.
Biography of François Bertrand (excerpt)
François Bertrand, born October 29, 1823 in Voisey and died in 1850 in Paris (suicide), was a French military and necrophiliac, called the Vampire of Montparnasse. The Werewolf of Paris (movie) by Guy Endore was written about his story.
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Émile-Auguste Chartier, commonly known as Alain (Mortagne-au-Perche, March 3, 1868 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) - Le Vésinet, June 2, 1951) was a French philosopher, journalist and pacifist. Alain entered lycée d'Alençon in 1881 and studied there for five years.
Biography of Franz Lehár (excerpt)
Franz Lehár (30 April 1870 – 24 October 1948) was an Austrian composer of Hungarian descent, mainly known for his operettas. Lehár was born in Komárno (Hungarian: Komárom then in Austria-Hungary, now Slovakia) as the eldest son of a bandmaster in the Austro-Hungarian army.
Biography of Francis Planté (excerpt)
Francis Planté (March 2, 1839, in St. Avit – December 19, 1934) was a French pianist famed as one of the first ever recording artists. He studied piano under Antoine Marmontel, his career beginning at the young age of 7 in Paris.
Biography of Armand Fallières (excerpt)
Clément Armand Fallières (November 6, 1841 – June 22, 1931) was a French politician, president of the French republic from 1906 to 1913. He was born at Mézin in the département of Lot-et-Garonne, France, where his father was clerk of the peace.
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Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz (July 8, 1867 – April 22, 1945) was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate, expressed most famously through the graphic means of drawing, etching, lithography, and woodcut, embraced the victims of poverty, hunger, and war.
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Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a 19th-century American author who wrote approximately 135 dime novels. Many of his works have been described as rags to riches stories, illustrating how down-and-out boys might be able to achieve the American Dream of wealth and success through hard work, courage, determination, and concern for others.
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Giosuè Carducci (pseudonym: Enotrio Romano) (July 27, 1835 – February 16, 1907) was an Italian poet, oft reckoned one of Italy's greatest; also, a teacher. He was very influential and was regarded as the unofficial national poet of modern Italy. In 1906 he became the first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Dr Walter Gorn Old (1864-1929) was a notable 19th century mystic and astrologer, better known as Sepharial. An eminent English Theosophist, Sepharial was a well-known and respected astrologer in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries and wrote numerous books, some of which (particularly those on numerology) are still highly regarded today.
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Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea, (21 November 1852 — 15 December 1909) was an influential Spanish composer and guitarist. His time of birth comes from the biography "Francisco Tárrega Eixea: Tagebuch und Briefe - diario y cartas" by Francisco Tárrega Eixea (2012).
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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.
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Victor Emmanuel III (Italian: Vittorio Emanuele III; 11 November 1869 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, News report) – 28 December 1947) was a member of the House of Savoy and King of Italy (29 July 1900 – 9 May 1946). In addition, he was Emperor of Ethiopia (1936–43) and King of Albania (1939–43).
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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Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière (also given as Jean-Joseph-Alexandre Falguière, or in short Alexandre Falguière) (7 September 1831 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), Toulouse - 20 April 1900, Paris) was a French sculptor and painter. He was born in Toulouse. A pupil of the École des Beaux-Arts, he won the Prix de Rome in 1859; he was awarded the medal of honor at the Paris Salon in 1868 and was appointed officer of the Légion d'honneur in 1878.
Biography of Pope Pius X (excerpt)
Pope St. Pius X (Latin: Pius PP. X) (June 2, 1835—August 20, 1914), born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, was the 257th Catholic Roman Pontiff, reigning from 1903 to 1914, succeeding Pope Leo XIII (1878–1903). He was the first Pope since Pope Pius V (1566–72) to be canonized.
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Jean Frédéric Bazille (Montpellier, 6 dicembre 1841 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – Beaune-la-Rolande, 28 novembre 1870) è stato un pittore francese. Proveniente da una famiglia protestante agiata, si reca a Parigi a studiare medicina, facoltà che abbandona presto per dedicarsi, con la disapprovazione dei genitori, alla pittura, influenzato dalla pittura di Eugene Delacroix.
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Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (May 6, 1868, Paris – April 15, 1927,) was a French journalist, detective, and novelist. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.
Biography of Neville Chamberlain (excerpt)
Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. Chamberlain's legacy is marked by his appeasement policy regarding his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding part of Czechoslovakia to German dictator Adolf Hitler.
Biography of Léo Baekeland (excerpt)
Leo Hendrik Baekeland (Gent, November 14, 1863 - February 23, 1944) was a Belgian chemist who invented Velox photographic paper (1893) and Bakelite (1907), an inexpensive, nonflammable, versatile, and popular plastic. Career Born in Gent, Belgium, Baekeland was the son of a cobbler and a maid.
Biography of O. Henry (excerpt)
O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910). O. Henry short stories are known for wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. Early life Porter was born on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Théodore Aubanel (Occitan: Teodòr Aubanèu) (March 26, 1829 in Avignon – November 2, 1886 in Avignon) was a Provencal poet. He was born in Avignon in a family of painters. Aubanel started writing poetry in French but quickly switched to Provençal, due to the influence of Joseph Roumanille.
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Catulle Mendès (21 May 1841 – 8 February 1909) was a French poet and man of letters. Of Jewish extraction, he was born in Bordeaux. He early established himself in Paris, attaining speedy notoriety by the publication in the Revue fantaisiste (1861) of his Roman d'une nuit, for which he was condemned to a month's imprisonment and a fine of 500 francs.
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Düsseldorf, often Dusseldorf in English sources, is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state and the seventh-largest city in Germany, with a population of 617,280. It is located at the confluence of two rivers: the Rhine and the Düssel, a small tributary.
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Eugène Boudin (July 12, 1824 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – August 8, 1898) was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores.
Biography of Edouard Michelin (excerpt)
Édouard Michelin (June 23, 1859 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)–1940) was a French industrialist. He was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Édouard was co-director of the Michelin company, along with his brother André. In 1889, he improved greatly on the design of the pneumatic tyre for bicycles, making them easier to repair.
Biography of Gustav Meyrink (excerpt)
Gustav Meyrink (January 19, 1868 – December 4, 1932) was an Austrian author, storyteller, dramatist, translator, banker and Buddhist, most famous for his novel The Golem. Childhood Gustav Meyrink was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria). He was the illegitimate son of Baron Karl von Varnbüler von und zu Hemmingen and actress Maria Wilhelmina Adelheyd Meier.
Biography of Auguste Escoffier (excerpt)
Georges Auguste Escoffier (28 October 1846 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 12 February 1935) was a French chef, restaurateur and culinary writer who popularized and updated traditional French cooking methods. He is a near-legendary figure among chefs and gourmets, and was one of the most important leaders in the development of modern French cuisine.
Biography of Eugène Atget (excerpt)
Eugène Atget (12 February 1857 (birth time source: Didier Geslain); 4 August 1927) was a French photographer noted for his photographs documenting the architecture and street scenes of Paris. Personal life Born outside the French city of Bordeaux, he was orphaned at seven and raised by his uncle.
Biography of Robert the Bruce (excerpt)
Robert I, King of Scots (11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329) usually known in modern English as Robert the Bruce (Mediaeval Gaelic:Roibert a Briuis; modern Scottish Gaelic: Raibeart Bruis; Norman French: Robert de Brus or Robert de Bruys; ) was King of the Scots from 1306 until his death in 1329.
Biography of Charles Nicolle (excerpt)
Charles Jules Henry Nicolle (September 21, 1866 Rouen - February 28, 1936) was a French bacteriologist who earned the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus. He learned about biology early from his father Eugène Nicolle, a doctor at a Rouen hospital.
Biography of Edouard Vuillard (excerpt)
Jean-Édouard Vuillard (November 12, 1868 - June 21, 1940) was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Nabis. Jean-Édouard Vuillard, the son of a retired captain, spent his youth at Cuiseaux (Saône-et-Loire); in 1878 his family moved to Paris in modest circumstances.
Biography of Pedro II of Brazil (excerpt)
Pedro II, (December 2, 1825 – December 5, 1891) was the second and last Emperor of Brazil. His name in full was Pedro de Alcântara João Carlos Leopoldo Salvador Bibiano Francisco Xavier de Paula Leocádio Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga de Bragança e Habsburgo, By the Grace of God and Unanimous Acclamation of the People, Constitutional Emperor and Perpetual Defender of Brazil.
Biography of Aristide Briand (excerpt)
Aristide Briand (28 March 1862 – 7 March 1932) was a French statesman who served several terms as Prime Minister of France and won the Nobel Peace Prize. Early life He was born in Nantes, Brittany of a bourgeois family. He attended the Nantes Lycée, where, in 1877, he developed a close friendship with Jules Verne.
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Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its northwest, Guinea to its north, Côte d'Ivoire to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean to its south-southwest. It has a population of around 5 million and covers an area of 111,369 square kilometers (43,000 sq mi).
Biography of Miguel de Unamuno (excerpt)
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864–December 31, 1936) was an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher from Spain. Miguel de Unamuno was born in the medieval centre of Bilbao, Basque Country, the son of Félix de Unamuno and Salomé Jugo.
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Louis Riel (22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies. He led two resistance movements against the Canadian government and its first post-Confederation Prime Minister, Sir John A.
Biography of René Goblet (excerpt)
French politician, Prime Minister of France for a period in 1886-1887. He helped found a Liberal journal, Le Progrès de la Somme.
Biography of François Coppée (excerpt)
François Edouard Joachim Coppée (January 26, 1842 – May 23, 1908), was a French poet and novelist. He was born in Paris to a civil servant. After attending the Lycée Saint-Louis he became a clerk in the ministry of war, and won public favour as a poet of the Parnassian school.
Biography of Jules Méline (excerpt)
Félix Jules Méline (French pronunciation: ; 20 May 1838 – 21 December 1925) was a French statesman, prime minister from 1896 to 1898. Méline was born at Remiremont. Having taken up law as his profession, he was chosen a deputy in 1872, and in 1879 he was for a short time under-secretary to the minister of the interior.
Biography of Selma Lagerlof (excerpt)
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (20 November 1858–16 March 1940) was a Swedish author and the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Known internationally for Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (a story for children, in the most common translation The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, but the literal translation would be "Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey Through Sweden"), she was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1909 "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings.
Biography of John Dewey (excerpt)
John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. He, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophical school of Pragmatism.
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Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (Russian: Александр Порфирьевич Бородин, Aleksandr Porfir'evič Borodin) (31 October/12 November 1833 (birth time source: Penfield, conflicting sources) – 15 February/27 February 1887) was a Russian composer of Georgian parentage who made his living as a notable chemist. He was a member of the group of composers called The Five (or "The Mighty Handful"), who were dedicated to producing a specifically Russian kind of art music .
Biography of William Morris (excerpt)
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. Born at Walthamstow near London, Morris was educated at Oxford University, where he met his life-long friend and collaborator, the artist Edward Burne-Jones.
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Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (February 5, 1848 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – May 12, 1907) was a French novelist who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans; he is most famous for the novel À rebours (Against Nature). His style is remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, wide-ranging vocabulary, wealth of detailed and sensuous description, and biting, satirical wit. |
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