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Biography of Anton Bruckner (excerpt)
Anton Bruckner (4 September 1824 – 11 October 1896) was an Austrian composer known primarily for his symphonies, masses, and motets. His symphonies are often considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, complex polyphony, and considerable length.
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Biography of Wilhelm Röntgen (excerpt)
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (March 27, 1845 – February 10, 1923) was a German physicist, of the University of Würzburg, who, on November 8, 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as x-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
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Biography of Peter Paul Rubens (excerpt)
Peter Paul Rubens (June 29, 1577 – May 30, 1640) was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish and European painter, and a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality. He is well-known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. ![]()
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The date is March 1 (gregorian calendar), or February 19 (julian calendar). Rio de Janeiro (/ˈriːoʊ di ʒəˈnɛəroʊ, -deɪ ʒə-, -də dʒə-/; Portuguese pronunciation: ; River of January), or simply Rio, is the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas. ![]()
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The United Provinces of the Netherlands, or United Provinces (officially the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands), commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a federal republic which existed from 1588 (during the Dutch Revolt) to 1795 (the Batavian Revolution).
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Biography of Gustave Doré (excerpt)
Paul Gustave Doré (January 6, 1832 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – January 23, 1883) was a French artist, engraver, and illustrator. Doré worked primarily with wood engraving and steel engraving. Life Doré was born in Strasbourg and his first illustrated story was published at the age of fifteen. ![]()
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Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It stands on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of southern Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (NCR).
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Biography of Odilon Redon (excerpt)
Odilon Redon (April 22, 1840 – July 6, 1916) was a Symbolist painter and printmaker, born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France. Redon started drawing as a young child, and at the age of 10 he was awarded a drawing prize at school. At age 15, he began formal study in drawing but on the insistence of his father he switched to architecture.
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Biography of Edward VII of the United Kingdom (excerpt)
Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death on 6 May 1910. He was the first British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, which was renamed the House of Windsor by his son, George V. ![]()
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Auckland (Māori: Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The most populous urban area in the country, Auckland has an urban population of about 1,470,100 (June 2020). It is located in the Auckland Region—the area governed by Auckland Council—which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, resulting in a total population of 1,717,500.
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Biography of Auguste Frédéric Bartholdi (excerpt)
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (August 2, 1834 – October 4, 1904) was a French sculptor. He is also known as Amilcar Hasenfratz. Born in Colmar, Alsace, when his father died two years later, he went to Paris to further his studies in architecture as well as painting.
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Biography of Berthe Morisot (excerpt)
Berthe Morisot (January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. In 1864, she exhibited for the first time in the highly esteemed Salon de Paris.
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Biography of Louisa May Alcott (excerpt)
Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, published in 1868. This novel is loosely based on her childhood experiences with her three sisters. Childhood and Early works
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Biography of Petrarch (excerpt)
Francesco Petrarca (July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374), known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar, poet, and one of the earliest Renaissance humanists. Petrarch is often popularly called the "father of humanism". Based on Petrarch's works, and to a lesser extent those of Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio, Pietro Bembo in the 16th century created the model for the modern Italian language, later endorsed by the Accademia della Crusca.
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Biography of John Wilkes Booth (excerpt)
John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American actor from Maryland, who fatally shot President of the United States Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. Lincoln died the next day from a single gunshot wound to the head – the first American president to be assassinated. ![]()
Biography of Jules Ferry (excerpt)
Jules François Camille Ferry (April 5, 1832 – March 17, 1893) was a French statesman. Born in Saint-Dié, in the Vosges département, France, he studied law, and was called to the bar at Paris, but soon went into politics, contributing to various newspapers, particularly to Le Temps.
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Biography of Henry James (writer) (excerpt)
Henry James, O.M. (April 15, 1843(1843-04-15) – February 28, 1916), son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born British author. He is one of the founders and leaders of a school of realism in fiction; the fine art of his writing has led many academics to consider him the greatest master of the novel and novella form. ![]()
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Galveston is a coastal resort city and port off the Southeast Texas coast on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas. The community of 209.3 square miles (542 km2), with a population of 47,743 in 2010, is the county seat of surrounding Galveston County and second-largest municipality in the county.
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Biography of Abdul Hamid II (excerpt)
Abdülhamid II (Ottoman Turkish: عبد الحميد ثانی `Abdü’l-Ḥamīd-i sânî, Turkish: İkinci Abdülhamit) (September 21, 1842 – February 10, 1918) was the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire. He ruled from August 31, 1876 until he was deposed on April 27, 1909.
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Biography of Karl Benz (excerpt)
Karl Friedrich Benz, for whom an alternate French spelling of Carl is used occasionally, (November 25, 1844, Karlsruhe, Germany – April 4, 1929, Ladenburg, Germany) was a German engine designer and mechanical engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Poubelle (excerpt)
Eugène Poubelle (April 15, 1831 Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - July 16, 1907) was a French lawyer, administrator and diplomat. ![]()
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Melbourne is the capital and most-populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania. Its name refers to an urban agglomeration of 9,993 km2 (3,858 sq mi), comprising a metropolitan area with 31 municipalities, and is also a common name for its city centre.
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Biography of Henri Rousseau (excerpt)
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (May 21, 1844 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – September 2, 1910) was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naive or Primitive manner. He is also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer) after his place of employment.
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Biography of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (excerpt)
Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (27 January 1836 — 9 March 1895) was an Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown at his time for his stories of Galician life and romantic novels. The term masochism is derived from his name. During his life, Sacher-Masoch was well-known as a man of letters, who was seen by some as a potential successor to Goethe and was often compared to Turgenev.
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Biography of Marie de' Medici (excerpt)
Marie de' Medici (April 26, 1575 – July 3, 1642), born as Maria de' Medici, was queen consort of France under the French name Marie de Médicis. She was the second wife of King Henry IV of France, of the Bourbon branch of the kings of France. ![]()
Biography of Albrecht Von Wallenstein (excerpt)
Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein (also Waldstein; Czech: Albrecht Václav Eusebius z Valdštejna; September 24, 1583 – February 25, 1634) was a Bohemian soldier and politician who gave his services (an army of 30,000 to 100,000 men) during the Danish Period of the Thirty Years' War to Ferdinand II for no charge except the right to plunder the territories that he conquered. ![]()
Biography of Porfirio Díaz (excerpt)
José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori (14 September 1830 – 2 July 1915) was a Mexican-American War volunteer, French Intervention hero, and President of Mexico. He ruled from 1876 to 1880 and from 1884 to 1911. Early years Porfirio Díaz was born September 14, 1830, in La Borcelana, Mexico.
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Biography of George Armstrong Custer (excerpt)
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. At the start of the Civil War, Custer was a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and his class's graduation was accelerated so that they could enter the war.
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Biography of Wilhelm Wundt (excerpt)
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (August 16, 1832 – August 31, 1920) was a German physiologist and psychologist. Generally acknowledged as a founder of experimental psychology and cognitive psychology, he is less commonly recognized as a founding figure of social psychology; the later years of Wundt's life were spent working on Völkerpsychologie, which he understood as a study into the social basis of higher mental functioning. ![]()
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Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main, is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 763,380 inhabitants as of December 31, 2019 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. On the River Main (a tributary of the Rhine), it forms a continuous conurbation with the neighboring city of Offenbach am Main and its urban area has a population of 2.
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Biography of Modest Mussorgsky (excerpt)
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (Russian: Моде́ст Петро́вич Му́соргский, Modest Petrovič Musorgskij, French: Modeste Moussorgsky) (March 9/21, 1839 – March 16/28, 1881), one of the Russian composers known as the Five, was an innovator of Russian music. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.
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Biography of Buffalo Bill (excerpt)
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory (now the American state of Iowa), near Le Claire. He was one of the most colorful figures of the Old West, and mostly famous for the shows he organized with cowboy themes.
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Biography of Gustave Moreau (excerpt)
Gustave Moreau (April 6, 1826 – April 18, 1898) was a French Symbolist painter. He was born and died in Paris. Moreau's main focus was the illustration of biblical and mythological figures. As a painter of literary ideas rather than visual images, he appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolist writers and artists, who saw him as a precursor to their movement.
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Biography of Alphonse Daudet (excerpt)
Alphonse Daudet (May 13, 1840 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – December 17, 1897) was a French novelist. He was the father of Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet. Early life Alphonse Daudet was born in Nîmes, France. His family, on both sides, belonged to the bourgeoisie. ![]()
Biography of Henryk Wieniawski (excerpt)
Henryk Wieniawski (; 10 July 1835 – 31 March 1880) was a Polish violinist and composer. Life Henryk Wieniawski was born in Lublin, Congress Poland. His father, Tobiasz Pietruszka (Wolf Helman), was the son of a Jewish barber named Herschel Meyer Helman, from the Jewish Lublin neighbourhood of Wieniawa, when barbers were also practising dentists, healers, and bloodletters.
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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. ![]()
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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. ![]()
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 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 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 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.
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Biography of Remus (excerpt)
Remus(c. 771 BC (birth date source: Maurice Wemyss. It is one hypothesis among others. This date and time of birth are not reliable) —c. 717 BC) and Remus (c. 771 BC—c. 753 BC) (birth time source: Lois Rodden) are the traditional founders of Rome, appearing in Roman mythology as the twin sons of the priestess Rhea Silvia, fathered by the god of war, Mars.
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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. ![]()
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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 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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Nantes is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, 50 km (31 mi) from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth-largest in France, with a population of 309,346 in Nantes and a metropolitan area of nearly 973,000 inhabitants (2017). With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms one of the main north-western French metropolitan agglomerations.
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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.
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Biography of Edward III of England (excerpt)
Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377) was one of the most successful English monarchs of the Middle Ages. Restoring royal authority after the disastrous reign of his father, Edward II, Edward III went on to transform the Kingdom of England into the most efficient military power in Europe.
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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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