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The City of Colorado Springs is the Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of El Paso County, Colorado, United States. Colorado Springs is the second most populous city and the most extensive city in the State of Colorado.
Biography of Oliver Hardy (excerpt)
Oliver Hardy (born Norvell Hardy; January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) was an American actor, most remembered for his role in one of the world's most famous double acts, Laurel and Hardy, with his friend Stan Laurel. Name He did not adopt the name "Oliver" until 1914, doing so as a tribute to his father, who had died when Hardy was an infant.
Biography of Werner Heisenberg (excerpt)
Werner Karl Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 – February 1, 1976) was a celebrated German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics and acknowledged to be one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century. Heisenberg was the head of the German nuclear energy project under the Nazi regime, though the nature of this project, and his work in this capacity, has been heavily debated.
Biography of Gypsy Rose Lee (excerpt)
Gypsy Rose Lee (also known as Rose Louise Hovick and Louise Hovick) (b. February 9, 1911/1914 (birth date and time source: conflicting data) – April 26, 1970) was an American actress, burlesque entertainer, and writer whose 1957 memoir, which included a scathing portrait of her domineering mother, was made into the stage musical and film Gypsy.
Biography of Marcel Aymé (excerpt)
Marcel Aymé (March 29, 1902 - October 14, 1967) was a French novelist, children's writer , humour writer and also a movie and theater playwright. Marcel Aymé was born in Joigny, in the Yonne département (Bourgogne). He studied in the Collège de Dole, and worked among other as a journalist in Paris.
Biography of Barbara Hutton (excerpt)
Barbara Woolworth Hutton (November 14, 1912 – May 11, 1979) was an American debutante, socialite, heiress, and philanthropist. She was dubbed the "Poor Little Rich Girl", first when she was given a lavish and expensive debutante ball in 1930, amid the Great Depression, and later due to a notoriously troubled private life.
Biography of Gopi Krishna (excerpt)
Gopi Krishna (1903 - 1984) of India was a yogi, mystic, teacher, social reformer, and writer. His autobiography is known under the title Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man. In the 1970s he founded together with Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker a research foundation "for western sciences and eastern wisdom".
Biography of André Derain (excerpt)
André Derain (June 17, 1880 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – September 8, 1954) was a French painter and an illustrator. Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Île-de-France. He attended the Académie Camillo and studied with Eugène Carrière. At the académie he would become friends with Henri Matisse, alongside whom he was considered one of the leaders of the Fauvism movement.
Biography of Maurice Chevalier (excerpt)
Maurice Chevalier (September 12, 1888 – January 1, 1972) was a Belgian-French actor, singer, and popular entertainer. Chevalier's signature songs included "Louise", "Mimi", and "Valentine." His trademark was a casual straw hat, which he always wore on stage with his tuxedo.
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The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor within New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel.
Biography of Paul Léautaud (excerpt)
Paul Léautaud, born January 18, 1872 in Paris, is a French writer. Selected works 1903 : Le Petit ami 1926 : Le Théâtre de Maurice Boissard : 1907-1923 1928 : Passe-Temps 1942 : Notes retrouvées (Imprimerie de Jacques Haumont, Paris) : « Lundi 25 Août 1941.
Biography of Martine Carol (excerpt)
Martine Carol (May 16, 1920 – February 6, 1967) was a French film actress. Born Marie-Louise Jeanne Nicolle Mourer in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne (France), she studied acting under René Simon (1898-1966), making her stage debut in 1940 and her first motion picture in 1943.
Biography of Robert Delaunay (excerpt)
Robert Delaunay (1885 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)-1941, October 25) was a French artist who used orphism, similar to abstraction and cubism in his work. Delaunay concentrated on orphism, while his later works were more abstract, reminiscent of Paul Klee. His key influence related to bold use of colour, and a clear love of experimentation of both depth and tone.
Biography of Margaret Mead (excerpt)
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901, Philadelphia – November 15, 1978, New York City) was an American cultural anthropologist. Early years Mead was the first of five children, born into a Quaker family, raised near Doylestown, Pennsylvania by her university professor at the University at Pennsylvania father, Edward Sherwood Mead, and social-activist mother, Emily Fogg Mead.
Biography of Enrico Caruso (excerpt)
Enrico Caruso (February 27 (sometimes 25 depending sources), 1873 – August 2, 1921) was an Italian opera singer and one of the most famous tenors in history. Caruso was also the most popular singer in any genre in the first twenty years of the twentieth century and one of the pioneers of recorded music.
Biography of René Clément (excerpt)
René Clément March 18, 1913, Bordeaux – March 17, 1996, Monte Carlo, Monaco) was a French film director and screenwriter. Clément studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. In 1936, he directed his first film, a 20 minute short written and featuring Jacques Tati.
Biography of Ferdinand Marcos (excerpt)
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralín Marcos (September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives (1949-1959) and a member of the Philippine Senate (1959-1965). During World War II he was the leader of the Ang Maharlika guerrilla force in northern Luzon.
Biography of Marcel Bigeard (excerpt)
Marcel "Bruno" Bigeard (14 February 1916 (birth time source: Barbault, birth certificate) – 18 June 2010) was a French military officer who fought in World War II, Indochina and Algeria. He was one of the commanders in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and is thought by many to have been a dominating influence on French 'unconventional' warfare thinking from that time onwards.
Biography of Pierre Mendès France (excerpt)
Pierre Mendès France (11 January 1907 - 18 October 1982), French politician, was born in Paris, into a family of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin (Mendes de França). Third Republic and World War II He was educated at the University of Paris, graduating with a doctorate in law and becoming the youngest member of the Paris Bar association in 1928.
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The City of Aspen is the Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. Its population was 6,658 at the 2010 United States Census. It is in a remote area of the Rocky Mountains' Sawatch Range and Elk Mountains, along the Roaring Fork River at an elevation just below 8,000 feet (2,400 m) above sea level on the Western Slope, 11 miles (18 km) west of the Continental Divide.
Biography of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (excerpt)
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (Olga Nikolaevna Romanova) (Tsarskoe Selo, Russia, November 15 1895 – July 17, 1918) (after 1900, Olga's birthday was celebrated on the 16th of November) was the eldest daughter of the last autocratic ruler of the Russian Empire, Emperor Nicholas II, and of Empress Alexandra of Russia.
Biography of Magda Goebbels (excerpt)
Johanna Maria Magdalena "Magda" Goebbels (11 November 1901 – 1 May 1945) was the wife of Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. A prominent member of the Nazi party, she was a close ally and political supporter of Adolf Hitler. As Berlin was being overrun by the Red Army at the end of World War II, she murdered her six children with Goebbels and then committed suicide.
Biography of Danny Kaye (excerpt)
Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; January 18, 1911 (birth time source: Gar Osten quotes Kaye's widow by phone, AFA DX., a 1938 ship's passenger list as well as the social security death index give 1911 as his birth year) – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian, musician, and philanthropist.
Biography of Balthus (excerpt)
Balthazar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 in Paris – February 18, 2001) was an esteemed Polish/French modern artist whose work was ultimately anti-modern. Life and work Style and themes Balthus' style is primarily classical and academic. Though his technique and compositions were inspired by pre-renaissance painters, there are also eerie intimations reminiscent of contemporary surrealists like de Chirico.
Biography of John Cage (excerpt)
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer. He was a pioneer of chance music, non-standard use of musical instruments, and electronic music. He is perhaps best known for his 1952 composition 4'33", whose three movements are performed without a single note being played.
Biography of Rémy Chauvin (excerpt)
Remy Chauvin (October 10, 1913 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)–December 8, 2009) at Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines, Haut-Rhin, was a biologist and entomologist, and a French Honorary Professor Emeritus at the Sorbonne, PhD, senior research fellow since 1946. Chauvin was also known for defending the rights of animals and for being interested in such topics as parapsychology, life after death, psychics, clairvoyance and the phenomenon of UFOs.
Biography of Francisco Xavier (excerpt)
Chico Xavier was a popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement. In his life he wrote more than 400 books in a process known as Automatic writing. He was born in 1910 and died in 2002. Biography Francisco Cândido Xavier (April 2, 1910 - June 30, 2002), was the most popular and prolific medium in 20th century Brazil's Spiritism movement.
Biography of Golda Meir (excerpt)
Golda Meir (Hebrew: גולדה מאיר, Arabic: جولدا مائير, born Golda Mabovitch, May 3, 1898 (14 May gregorian calendar) - December 8, 1978, known as Golda Myerson from 1917-1956) was the fourth prime minister of the State of Israel. Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister .
Biography of Susan Hayward (excerpt)
Susan Hayward (June 30, 1917 – March 14, 1975) was an Academy Award-winning American actress. Early life Hayward was born Edythe Marrenner in Brooklyn, New York to Walter Marrenner and Ellen Pearson. Her maternal grandparents were from Sweden. She began her career as a photographer's model.
Biography of Robert Frost (excerpt)
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work frequently used themes from rural life in New England, using the setting to examine complex social and philosophical themes. A popular and often-quoted poet, Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes.
Biography of Edgar P. Jacobs (excerpt)
Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs, (30 March 1904 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate) - 20 February 1987), better known under his pen name Edgar P. Jacobs, was a Belgian comic book creator (writer and artist), born in Brussels, Belgium. He was one of the founding fathers of the European comics movement, through his collaborations with Hergé and the graphic novel series that made him famous, Blake and Mortimer.
Biography of Carl Orff (excerpt)
Carl Orff (July 10, 1895 – March 29, 1982) was a 20th-century German composer, most famous for Carmina Burana (1937). He was also successful and influential in the field of music education. Life Orff was born in Munich, Germany and came from a Bavarian family that was very active in the German military.
Biography of Etty Hillesum (excerpt)
Ester "Etty" Hillesum (January 15, 1914 in Middelburg, The Netherlands (birth time source: Astro-Kring, birth certificate) — November 30, 1943 in Auschwitz, Poland) was a young Jewish writer whose letters and diaries, kept between 1941 and 1943 describe life under Nazi rule in Amsterdam during the the German occupation of World War II.
Biography of Edith Wilson (excerpt)
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (October 15, 1872 – December 28, 1961), second wife of Woodrow Wilson, was First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921. She has been labeled "the Secret President" and "the first woman to run the government" for the role she played when her husband suffered prolonged and disabling illness.
Biography of André Citroën (excerpt)
André-Gustave Citroën (February 5, 1878 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - July 3, 1935) was a French Jewish entrepreneur of Dutch and Polish descent. He is remembered chiefly for the make of car named after him, but also for his invention of double helical gears.
Biography of François Mauriac (excerpt)
François Mauriac (October 11, 1885 (birth time source: birth certificate, Didier Geslain) – September 1, 1970) was a French author, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is acknowledged to be one of the greatest Roman Catholic writers of the 20th century.
Biography of Francis Picabia (excerpt)
Francis-Marie Martinez Picabia (January 22, 1879 (birth time source: Archives de Paris, Cedra, birth certificate) - November 30, 1953) was a well-known painter and poet born of a French mother and a Spanish-Cuban father who was an attaché at the Cuban legation in Paris, France.
Biography of Roberto Assagioli (excerpt)
Roberto Assagioli (Venice, February 27, 1888 (birth time source: Bordoni, birth certificate) - Capolona d'Arezzo, August 23, 1974) was an Italian psychiatrist who was the founder of the psychological movement known as Psychosynthesis. "Only the development of his inner powers can offset the dangers inherent in man's losing control of the tremendous natural forces at his disposal and becoming the victim of his own achievements.
Biography of Anna Pavlova (excerpt)
Anna Pavlovna Pavlova (Russian: А́нна Па́вловна Па́влова) (12 February 1881 –23 January 1931) was a famous Russian ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th century. Her name along with that of Nijinsky is synonymous with the art of ballet.
Biography of Madeleine Vionnet (excerpt)
Madeleine Vionnet (June 22, 1876 - March 2, 1975) was a French fashion designer. Called the "Queen of the bias cut" and "the architect among dressmakers," Vionnet is best-known today for her elegant Grecian-style dresses and for introducing the bias cut to the fashion world.
Biography of Taisen Deshimaru (excerpt)
Taisen Deshimaru (birth name: Yasuo Deshimaru) (1914-1982) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher. Born in the Saga Prefecture of Kyushu, Deshimaru was raised by his grandfather, a former Samurai before the Meiji Revolution, and by his mother, a devout follower of the Jodo Shinshu sect of Buddhism.
Biography of Lal Bahadur Shashtri (excerpt)
Lal Bahadur Shastri (Hindi लालबहादुर शास्त्री) (October 2, 1904 - January 11, 1966) was the second Prime Minister of independent India and a significant figure in the Indian independence movement. Early life and freedom struggle Lal Bahadur was born in the year 1904 in Mughalsarai, Uttar Pradesh as Lal Bahadur Srivastava.
Biography of Egon Schiele (excerpt)
Egon Schiele (June 12, 1890 – October 31, 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. Schiele's work is noted for its intensity, and the many self-portraits the artist produced.
Biography of Robert Taylor (excerpt)
Robert Taylor (August 5, 1911 (birth time source: from the biography "Robert Taylor," from Jane Wayne) – June 8, 1969), was an American actor. Early life Born Spangler Arlington Brugh in Filley, Nebraska, he was the son of Andrew Brugh, a farmer turned doctor, and Ruth Brugh.
Biography of Edmund Hillary (excerpt)
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE (born 20 July 1919) is a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. On 29 May 1953 he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.
Biography of Tamerlane (excerpt)
Timur (Chagatai Turkic: تیمور - Tēmōr, "iron") (April 9, 1336 birth time source: Marc Penfield) – 19 February 1405), among his other names, he is commonly called as Tamerlane. He was a 14th century Turco-Mongol conqueror of much of western and central Asia, and founder of the Timurid Empire and Timurid dynasty (1370–1405) in Central Asia, which survived until 1857.
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Cuba gained formal independence from the U.S. on May 20, 1902, as the Republic of Cuba. Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba (Spanish: República de Cuba (About this soundlisten)), is a country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.
Biography of Doris Duke (excerpt)
Doris Duke (November 22, 1912 – October 28, 1993) was an American heiress and philanthropist. Early Life Born in New York City, Doris Duke was the only child of tobacco and electric energy tycoon James Buchanan Duke and his second wife, Southern aristocrat Nanaline Holt Inman.
Biography of Guy de Rothschild (excerpt)
Baron Guy Édouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild (May 21, 1909 – June 12, 2007) was a French banker and member of the Rothschild family. He chaired the bank Rothschild Frères from 1967 to 1979, when it was nationalized by the French government, and maintained possessions in other French and foreign companies including Imerys.
Biography of Renée Adorée (excerpt)
Renée Adorée (September 30, 1897 – October 5, 1933) was a French actress, who had appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s. Early life Born Jeanne de La Fonte in Hamburg, Germanye, she was the daughter of circus artists and who, by age five, was performing in the circus with her parents. |
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