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Biography of Lino Vaccari (excerpt)
Lino Vaccari, born on August 23, 1873 in Crespano del Grappa and died in Rome in 1951, was an Italian botanist known for his alpine flora studies and educational contributions. He earned a doctorate in natural sciences from the University of Padua and taught in various secondary schools before becoming a headmaster, school inspector, and professor of botany in Rome and Florence.
Biography of Marc-Adolphe Guégan (excerpt)
Marc-Adolphe Guégan (25 January 1891 – 6 November 1959) was a French journalist and poet, a pioneer of haiku in the French language. He lived on the Île d’Yeu in the Atlantic, drawing inspiration from its landscapes. A close friend of Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe (known as Marcel Moore), he collaborated with them on two books.
Biography of Dan Wickenden (excerpt)
Leonard Daniel Wickenden, an American author and editor, was born on March 24, 1913, in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, to English parents, and grew up in Long Island. He graduated from Amherst College in 1935 and began publishing stories in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
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Biography of Ernst Karchow (excerpt)
Ernst Günther Karchow (*23 September 1892 in Berlin; †7 October 1953 in Berlin) was a German actor, director, theater manager, and radio actor. The son of merchant and actor Albert Rudolph Karchow, he studied at Max Reinhardt's drama school in Berlin.He began his career at the Deutschen Theater and in Vienna before serving as a soldier in World War I (1914–1918).
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Biography of Jacques-Paul Bonjean (excerpt)
Jacques-Paul Bonjean (born April 3, 1899, in Paris 15ᵉ, died November 18, 1990, in Paris 8ᵉ) was a French art dealer, antique dealer, and collector. In 1927, he co-founded La Maison des quatre chemins with Maurice Sachs, publishing luxury editions of works by Max Jacob and Jean Cocteau, and later opened galleries with Pierre Colle and Christian Dior.
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Biography of Christian Caillard (excerpt)
Hugues Christian Caillard (July 26, 1899 – September 18, 1985) was a French painter known for his poetic style and lifelong attachment to his studio in Paris’s 9th arrondissement. A grandson of Catulle Mendès and Augusta Holmès, he turned from science to art after World War I.
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Biography of Elinor Wylie (excerpt)
Elinor Wylie (September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928) was an American poet and writer, renowned in the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Somerville, New Jersey, she grew up in Washington in a prominent family: her grandfather was the Governor of Pennsylvania, and her father was the U.S.
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Biography of Carlos Pellicer (excerpt)
Carlos Pellicer Cámara (January 16, 1897, Villahermosa – February 16, 1977) was a modernist Mexican poet renowned for his depictions of nature and a sensual energy shared with Octavio Paz. His time of birth comes from the biography "Mirando el río de aquellas tardes: estudio sobre Carlos Pellicer" by Samuel Gordon, ICT, Government of the State of Tabasco, 1990.
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Biography of Ed Walker (American veteran) (excerpt)
Edgar Walker (August 28, 1917 – October 28, 2011) was an American World War II veteran, businessman, publisher, and writer.He was a member of "Castner's Cutthroats," an elite reconnaissance unit in the Aleutian Islands. Born in San Juan Bautista, California, he enlisted in the Army in 1937 and developed a passion for Alaska, where he joined Castner's Cutthroats.
Biography of James Lewin (excerpt)
James Lewin (October 28, 1887 – December 31, 1937) was a German-Jewish psychiatrist and physician. Born in Berlin, he studied medicine and philosophy at the University of Berlin, earning his PhD in 1912. He specialized in psychiatry, working in Kiel and Leipzig.
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Biography of Wolfgang Friedmann (excerpt)
Wolfgang Gaston Friedmann (25 January 1907 – 20 September 1972) was a German American legal scholar.Specializing in international law, he was a faculty member at Columbia Law School. Born in Berlin, Friedmann finished his studies of law at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1930.
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Biography of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (excerpt)
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (31 July 1884 – 2 February 1945) was a German conservative politician, monarchist, executive, economist, civil servant and opponent of the Nazi regime.He opposed anti-Jewish policies while he held office and was opposed to the Holocaust. Had the 20 July plot to overthrow Hitler's dictatorship in 1944 succeeded, Goerdeler would have served as the Chancellor of the new government.
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Biography of Luis Alberto Sánchez (excerpt)
Luis Alberto Sánchez (born October 12, 1900 – died February 6, 1994) was a Peruvian lawyer, philosopher, historian, writer, and influential politician. A longtime member of the APRA party, he served as Senator, Second Vice President of Peru (1985–1990), and briefly as Prime Minister under Alan García. ![]()
Biography of Jack Kirby (excerpt)
Jack Kirby, born Jacob Kurtzberg on August 28, 1917, and died on February 6, 1994, was a groundbreaking American comic book artist, hailed as one of the most influential figures in the medium’s history. Raised in New York, he taught himself to draw by copying newspaper cartoon figures.
Biography of Don Ingalls (excerpt)
Donald G. Ingalls (July 29, 1918 – March 10, 2014) was an American screenwriter and television producer. A B-17 pilot during World War II, he later became a test pilot before joining the Los Angeles Police Department, where he met Gene Roddenberry.
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Biography of Henriette Wyeth (excerpt)
Henriette Wyeth Hurd (October 22, 1907 – April 3, 1997) was an American artist known for her portraits and still life paintings. Her time of birth comes from her. The eldest daughter of illustrator N.C. Wyeth, she studied painting under her father and brother Andrew Wyeth at their home studio in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
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Biography of Lorenzo Domínguez (excerpt)
Lorenzo Domínguez (born May 15, 1901, in Santiago, Chile – died March 21, 1963, in Mendoza, Argentina) was a Chilean sculptor known for his unique artistic synthesis of pre-Columbian aesthetics, Rapa Nui art, and European sculpture. After studying in Madrid during the 1920s, he taught in Santiago before settling in Argentina, where he lived and worked in Mendoza and Tucumán.
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Biography of Polly Ann Young (excerpt)
Polly Ann Young, born October 25, 1908, in Denver and died January 21, 1997, in Los Angeles, was an American actress.She was the sister of fellow actresses Loretta Young and Sally Blane. From 1917 to 1941, she appeared in over 40 films, many in minor or uncredited roles.
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Biography of Suzanne Desprès (excerpt)
Suzanne Desprès (18 December 1873 – 29 June 1951) was a French actress who was born at Verdun, Meuse and trained at the Paris Conservatoire, where in 1897 she obtained the first prize for comedy, and the second for tragedy. She then became associated with, and subsequently married, Lugné-Poe, the actor-manager, who had founded a new school of modern drama at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre.
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Biography of Bernard Boutet de Monvel (excerpt)
Bernard Boutet de Monvel (born August 9, 1881 – died October 28, 1949) was a French painter, sculptor, engraver, fashion illustrator, and interior decorator. Initially recognized for his etchings, he later gained renown for his geometric paintings of the 1900s and his Moroccan-inspired works during World War I.
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Biography of Friedrich Sämisch (excerpt)
Friedrich (Fritz) Sämisch (Berlin, September 20, 1896 – Berlin, August 16, 1975) was a German chess grandmaster.He won the first Austrian Championship in Vienna in 1921, though this edition was unofficial.He also finished 3rd in the 1925 Baden-Baden tournament, behind Alexander Alekhine and Akiba Rubinstein.
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Biography of Jorge Basadre (excerpt)
Jorge Alfredo Basadre Grohmann (born February 12, 1903 – died June 29, 1980) was a leading Peruvian historian, best known for his extensive work on the history of Peru’s Republic. He served twice as Minister of Education and directed the National Library of Peru.
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Biography of Nicolette Hennique (excerpt)
Nicolette Hennique (Paris 8th, April 17, 1882 - Paris 16th, April 11, 1956) was a French poet.Daughter of novelist Léon Hennique and Nicolette-Louise Dupont, she was born on Rue de Courcelles in Paris. She contributed to several literary magazines, including L'Ermitage, L'Hémicycle, La Revue blanche, La Revue, and Le Gaulois.
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Biography of Kurt Hirsch (excerpt)
Kurt August Hirsch (12 January 1906 – 4 November 1986) was a German mathematician who moved to England to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews.His research was in group theory.He also worked to reform mathematics education and became a county chess champion.
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Biography of Barron Patterson McCune (excerpt)
Barron Patterson McCune (February 19, 1915 – September 10, 2008) was a U.S. federal judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He earned a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1938, practiced privately, and served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1948.
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Biography of Werner von Rheinbaben (excerpt)
Werner Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Rheinbaben (19 November 1878 – 14 January 1975) was a German diplomat and author. Rheinbaben was born in Schmiedeberg, Silesia.He was a naval attaché to Rome during 1911–1913.He later wrote of the 1914 July Crisis that it was Wilhelm von Stumm who downplayed the possibility of British intervention and strongly advised the Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg to act quickly.
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Biography of Jean Tilho (excerpt)
Jean Auguste Marie Tilho (May 1, 1875, Domme – April 8, 1956, Paris) was a French officer and explorer. Graduating from Saint-Cyr in 1895, he joined the Colonial Infantry and took part in border delineation missions in Africa. Between 1903 and 1907, he explored French Niger and reached Lake Chad.
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Biography of Tex Beneke (excerpt)
Tex Beneke (born Gordon Lee Beneke, February 12, 1914 – died May 30, 2000) was an American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader best known for his work with Glenn Miller. He performed the sax solo on In the Mood and sang on Chattanooga Choo Choo, iconic hits of the big band era.
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Biography of José Diez Canseco Pereyra (excerpt)
José Diez-Canseco Pereyra (born October 6, 1904 in Lima – died March 4, 1949) was a Peruvian writer and journalist, regarded as a pioneer of urban realism in Peruvian literature. He began publishing under a pseudonym as a teenager and gained recognition in local and national literary circles.
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Biography of Siegfried Sassoon (excerpt)
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry described the horrors of the trenches and satirized the jingoistic patriotism that he believed fueled the war.
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Biography of Robert Jentzsch (excerpt)
Robert Georg Adolf Alfred Jentzsch (November 4, 1890 – March 21, 1918) was a German mathematician and poet. Born in Königsberg, he was the youngest of four children.His father, Alfred Jentzsch, was a prominent geologist, and his mother, Clara Falkson, was the daughter of a Jewish physician.
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Biography of Eric Ledermann (excerpt)
Eric Kurt Ledermann (16 May 1908 – 7 May 2005) was a German psychiatrist, homeopath, naturopath, and philosopher. Born in Berlin to Jewish parents, he earned his medical degree from the University of Freiburg in 1932.Influenced by Alfred Adler and Jan Smuts, he embraced a vitalist philosophy.
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Biography of Dorothy West (novelist) (excerpt)
Dorothy West (June 2, 1907 – August 16, 1998) was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and magazine editor associated with the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s that celebrated black art, literature, and music. She was one of the few Black women writers to be published in major literary magazines in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Biography of Joseph J. Katz (excerpt)
Joseph J. Katz (April 19, 1912, Detroit – January 28, 2008, Chicago) was a chemist at Argonne National Laboratory. His groundbreaking research on photosynthesis earned him membership in the US National Academy of Sciences. He was the son of Jewish immigrants from Czarist Russia, neither of whom had formal schooling.
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Biography of Émile Decré (excerpt)
Émile Decré (28 July 1897 – 17 February 1973) was a French businessman and heir to the Decré department stores, founded by his grandfather Jules-César Decré.During World War I, he helped manage the family business alongside his brother. In 1930, he oversaw the renovation of the stores with architect Henri Sauvage and founded the Nantes chapter of the Christian Employers’ Confederation.
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Biography of Rudolf Kaesbach (excerpt)
Rudolf Kaesbach, born on July 22, 1873, in Gladbach and died on December 4, 1955, in Berlin, was a German sculptor. He studied in Hanau, Paris, and Brussels, and ran his own casting workshop in Düsseldorf. From 1904, he worked in Berlin and gained recognition with life-size marble sculptures.
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Biography of Leroy Edwards (excerpt)
Leroy Harry Edwards (April 11, 1914 – August 25, 1971), nicknamed "Cowboy" and "Lefty", was one of the greatest basketball players of his era. He was an NCAA All-American at the University of Kentucky and also one of the most lauded professional players in the United States' National Basketball League's history.
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Biography of Marion Dönhoff (excerpt)
Marion Hedda Ilse Gräfin von Dönhoff (December 2, 1909 – March 11, 2002) was a German journalist and publisher who resisted Nazism alongside Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. Born into Prussian nobility, she grew up in Friedrichstein Palace, which was destroyed by the Red Army in 1945.
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Biography of Wolfgang Gurlitt (excerpt)
Wolfgang Gurlitt (February 15, 1888 – March 26, 1965) was a German art dealer, museum director, and publisher whose collection included Nazi-looted artworks. The grandson of painter Louis Gurlitt and son of art dealer Fritz Gurlitt, he took over the Fritz Gurlitt Gallery in 1907.
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Biography of Gisèle Freund (excerpt)
Gisèle Freund (born Gisela Freund; 19 December 1908 – 31 March 2000) was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist, famous for her documentary photography and portraits of writers and artists.Her best-known book, Photographie et société (1974), is a expanded edition of her seminal 1936 dissertation.
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Biography of Robert Busnel (excerpt)
Robert Busnel (14 September 1914 – 15 March 1991) was a French professional basketball player, coach, and administrator.Standing 1.92 m tall, he played as a power forward. Busnel was made an Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1989 and awarded the Olympic Order by the IOC in 1990.
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Biography of Gottfried von Bismarck-Schönhausen (excerpt)
Count Gottfried von Bismarck-Schönhausen (9 March 1901 – 14 September 1949) was a German politician and a conspirator in the 20 July 1944 plot. Born in Berlin, he was the grandson of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.A member of the Nazi Party, he was elected to the Reichstag in 1933 and served as Kreisleiter in Rügen until 1934. ![]()
Biography of George Butterworth (excerpt)
George Butterworth, born on July 12, 1885, in London, died on August 5, 1916, in Pozières.He was a British composer known for his simple, lyrical style. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he worked with Ralph Vaughan Williams and helped collect English folk songs.
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Biography of Georges Lepape (excerpt)
Georges Lepape (26 June 1887 – 15 February 1971) was a French fashion illustrator, poster artist, engraver, and designer, closely associated with the Art Deco movement. A student at the Académie Humbert, he gained early fame in 1911 with Les Choses de Paul Poiret, considered his masterpiece.
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Biography of Ulrich Rauscher (excerpt)
Ulrich Karl Paul Rauscher (June 26, 1884 – December 18, 1930) was a German journalist, writer, and diplomat. After studying law, he became a correspondent for Frankfurter Zeitung in Strasbourg and Berlin, and collaborated with Die Schaubühne.He was among the first to recognize cinema's potential as a propaganda tool.
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Biography of Tess Slesinger (excerpt)
Theresa "Tess" Slesinger (July 16, 1905 – February 21, 1945) was an American writer and screenwriter, active in New York’s intellectual scene. Born in New York to a Jewish family of Hungarian descent, she was educated at Ethical Culture Fieldston School, Swarthmore College, and Columbia Journalism School.
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Biography of Luigi Sturzo (excerpt)
Luigi Sturzo (26 November 1871 – 8 August 1959) was an Italian Catholic priest and politician, considered one of the fathers of Christian democracy. In 1919, he co-founded the Italian People's Party (PPI) but was forced into exile in 1924 due to fascism.
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Biography of Peggy Ahern (excerpt)
Peggy Ahern (March 9, 1917 – October 24, 2012) was an American actress best known for appearing in eight Our Gang films between 1924 and 1927. Born in Douglas, Arizona, she moved to Culver City in 1921 and made her film debut at age six in The Call of the Wild (1923), followed by roles in several 1920s productions.
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Biography of Miguel A. Catalán (excerpt)
Miguel Antonio Catalán y Sañudo (9 October 1894 – 11 November 1957) was a Spanish spectroscopist born in Zaragoza. He earned his chemistry degree there and completed his doctorate in Madrid in 1917 on spectrochemistry. His time of birth comes from the journal Cuadernos de Aragón, Issues 14-17 (1981).
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Biography of Edith Klatt (excerpt)
Edith Klatt, born Edith Mischke on January 24, 1895 in Berlin and died on December 14, 1971 in Ribnitz-Damgarten, was a German physician and writer. Daughter of socialist journalist Karl Mischke, she spent her childhood in Japan and traveled through India and Siberia, sparking an early interest in ethnography. |
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