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Biography of Miguel Primo de Rivera (excerpt)
Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2. Marqués de Estella (Jerez de la Frontera, January 8, 1870 - Paris, March 16, 1930) was a Spanish dictator, aristocrat, and a military official who was appointed Prime Minister by the King and who for seven years (1923-1930) was a dictator, ending the turno system of alternating parties.
Biography of Max Reger (excerpt)
Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (March 19, 1873 – May 11, 1916) was a German composer, organist, pianist and teacher. Life Born in Brand, Bavaria, Reger studied music in Munich and Wiesbaden with Hugo Riemann. From September 1901 he settled in Munich, where he obtained concert offers and where his rapid rise to fame began.
Biography of Jakob Wassermann (excerpt)
Jakob Wassermann (March 10, 1873 - January 1, 1934) was a Jewish-German writer and novelist. Life Born in Fürth, Wassermann was the son of a shopkeeper and lost his mother at an early age. He showed literary interest early and published various pieces in small newspapers.
Biography of Oskar Schmitz (excerpt)
Oskar Schmitz, born April 16, 1873 in Bad Homburg, died December 18, 1931, was a German author and astrologer.
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Kansas City, abbreviated as "KCK", is the third-largest city in the State of Kansas, the county seat of Wyandotte County, and the third-largest city of the Kansas City metropolitan area. The city formed as a streetcar suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, after which it is named.
Biography of Harvey Firestone (excerpt)
Harvey Samuel Firestone (December 20, 1868 – February 7, 1938) was the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, one of the first global makers of automobile tires and an important contributor to North American economic growth during the 20th century.
Biography of Angelus Silesius (excerpt)
Angelus Silesius (baptised December 25, 1624, January 3, 1625 (Gregorian calendar) (birth time source: André Barbault) – July 9, 1677) was a German mystic and poet. Life Silesius was born in Breslau (Wrocław), Silesia. His givenname was Johann Scheffler, but he is generally known by the pseudonym Angelus Silesius (meaning Silesian messenger), under which he published his poems and which marks the country of his birth, Silesia.
Biography of Barnes Wallis (excerpt)
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, CBE FRS, RDI, FRAeS (26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979), was an English scientist, engineer and inventor. He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the RAF in Operation Chastise (the "Dambusters" raid) to attack the Möhne, Sorpe, and Eder dams in the Ruhr area in May 1943, during World War II.
Biography of James Finlayson (excerpt)
James Henderson "Jimmy" Finlayson (August 27, 1887 – October 9, 1953) was a Scottish-American actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Bald, with a fake moustache, Finlayson had many trademark comic mannerisms and is famous for his squinting, outraged, "double take and fade away" head reaction, and characteristic expression "d'ooooooh.
Biography of Hugh Dowding (excerpt)
Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswell Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding , (24 April 1882 - 15 February 1970) was a British officer in the Royal Air Force. He was the commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. Early life
Biography of Ethel Barrymore (excerpt)
Ethel Barrymore (August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an Academy Award-winning American actress and a member of the famous Barrymore family. Early life Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew.
Biography of Gustave Garrigou (excerpt)
Cyprien Gustave Garrigou (b. 24 September 1884, Vabres-l'Abbaye, France (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), d. 23 January 1963, Paris) was one of the best professional racing cyclists of his era. He rode the Tour de France eight times and won once.
Biography of Walter Chrysler (excerpt)
Walter Percy Chrysler (April 2, 1875 – August 18, 1940) was an American automobile pioneer. He was born in Wamego, Kansas and grew up in Ellis, Kansas. From 1905-1906, Chrysler worked for the Fort Worth and Denver Railway in Childress, a West Texas city considered the "Gateway to the Texas Panhandle.
Biography of René Benjamin (excerpt)
René Benjamin (20 March 1885 in Paris, France (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 4 October 1948 in Tours, France) was a French author and journalist. In 1915, he received the Prix Goncourt for his novel Gaspard. In 1938, he became the first Goncourt laureate to be appointed a member of the Académie Goncourt, the jury that decides the winner of the prize.
Biography of Georges Dufrénoy (excerpt)
Georges Dufrénoy (June 20, 1870 (birth time source: Lescaut) – December 9, 1943) was a French post-Impressionist painter associated with Fauvism. Biography He was born in Thiais, France. His family lived at 2 Place des Vosges in Paris in a historic 17th century building in which he lived all his life.
Biography of John Foster Dulles (excerpt)
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world.
Biography of Gabrielle Fontan (excerpt)
Gabrielle Fontan (16 April 1873 in Bordeaux – 8 September 1959) was a French film actress. She appeared in 125 films between 1927 and 1959. Selected filmography Partie de campagne (1936) Sylvie et le fantôme (1946)
Biography of Robinson Jeffers (excerpt)
John Robinson Jeffers (January 10, 1887–January 20, 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in classic narrative and epic form, but today he is also known for his short verse, and considered an icon of the environmental movement.
Biography of Ramón Gómez de la Serna (excerpt)
Ramón Gómez de la Serna Puig (July 3, 1888, Madrid - January 13, 1963, Buenos Aires) was a Spanish writer, dramatist and avant-garde agitator. He strongly influenced surrealist film maker Luis Buñuel. Ramón Gómez de la Serna was especially known for "Greguerías" - a short form of poetry that roughly corresponds to the one-liner in comedy.
Biography of Gabriela Mistral (excerpt)
Gabriela Mistral (April 7, 1889 — January 10, 1957) was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945.
Biography of Emil Jannings (excerpt)
Emil Jannings (July 23, 1884 in Rorschach – January 3, 1950) was a Swiss-born German actor and the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor. Early life He was christened Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz in Rorschach, Switzerland, the son of a German mother and an American father.
Biography of Edmond Sée (excerpt)
Edmond Sée, born on March 21, 1875 in Bayonne (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1959, was a French journalist, playwright, and author.
Biography of Evalyn Walsh McLean (excerpt)
Evalyn Walsh McLean (August 1, 1886 in Denver, Colorado – April 24. 1947 in Washington, D.C.) was an American mining heiress and socialite who was famous for being the last private owner of the 45-carat Hope Diamond as well as another famous diamond, the 94-carat Star of the East.
Biography of Howard L. Cornell (excerpt)
Howard L. Cornell, born July 23, 1872 in Hartsville en Pennsylvania, died February 13, 1939 in Los Angeles (heart failure), was an American author, teacher and astrologer.
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Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo (Congo Republic). Constituting the financial and administrative centre of the country, it is located on the north side of the Congo River, opposite Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo).
Biography of Grazia Deledda (excerpt)
Grazia Deledda (September 28, 1871 (2:00 AM Cagliari time) - August 15, 1936) was an Italian writer whose works won her a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. Born in Nuoro, Sardinia, into a bourgeois family, she attended elementary school and then was educated by a private tutor (a guest of one of her relatives) and moved on to study literature on her own.
Biography of Hans Geiger (excerpt)
Johannes (Hans) Wilhelm (Gengar) Geiger (September 30, 1882 – September 24, 1945) was a German physicist. He is perhaps best known as the co-inventor of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger-Marsden experiment which discovered the Atomic nucleus. Geiger was born at Neustadt-an-der-Haardt, Germany.
Biography of Philippe Gaubert (excerpt)
Philippe Gaubert (July 5, 1879 – July 8, 1941) was a French musician who was a distinguished performer on the flute, a respected conductor, and a composer, primarily for the flute. Gaubert was born in Cahors in Southwest France. He became one of the most prominent French musicians between the two World Wars.
Biography of Jesse L. Lasky (excerpt)
Jesse Louis Lasky, Sr. (September 13, 1880 – January 13, 1958) was a pioneer Hollywood film producer, a key founder of Paramount Pictures with Adolph Zukor, and father of screenwriter Jesse Lasky Jr. Born in San Francisco, California, he worked at a variety of jobs but began his entertainment career as a vaudeville performer that eventually led to the motion picture business.
Biography of Paolo Abbate (excerpt)
Paolo Abbate, born April 12, 1884 in Villarosa, Sicily (at 1:00 am, time of Palermo), died in 1973, was an internationally renowned sculptor, museum curator of the Torrington Museum of Art, and also a teacher and author.
Biography of Alexandre Stavisky (excerpt)
Serge Alexandre Stavisky (November 20, 1886 – January 8, 1934) was a French financier and embezzler whose actions created a political scandal that became known as the Stavisky Affair. Career Stavisky tried various professions, working as a café singer, as a nightclub manager, as a worker in a soup factory, and as the operator of a gambling den.
Biography of Albert Londres (excerpt)
Albert Londres (ovember 1, 1884 - May 16, 1932) was a French journalist and writer. One of the inventors of investigative journalism, he criticized abuses of colonialism such as forced labour. Albert Londres gave his name to a journalism prize for French journalists.
Biography of Marjorie Merriweather Post (excerpt)
Marjorie Merriweather Post a.k.a. Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies May (March 15, 1887 – September 12, 1973) was a leading American socialite and the founder of General Foods, Inc. She was 27 when her father died, and she became the owner of the rapidly growing Postum Cereal Company later becoming the wealthiest woman in America when her fortune reached approximately USD$250 million, more than 1 billion of today's dollars.
Biography of Howard Jones (excerpt)
Howard Harding Jones (August 23, 1885 – July 27, 1941) was an American college football coach at Syracuse (1908), Yale (1909, 1913), Ohio State (1910), Iowa (1916–23), Duke (1924), and Southern California (1925–40). Background Born in Excello, Ohio (now a part of Middletown), Jones played three seasons for Yale from 1905–1907.
Biography of André Marty (excerpt)
André Marty (6 November 1886 - 23 November 1956) was a leading figure in the French Communist Party, the PCF, for nearly thirty years. He was also a member of the National Assembly, with some interruptions, from 1924 to 1955; Secretary of Comintern from 1935 to 1944; and Political Commissar of the International Brigades in Spain from 1936 to 1938.
Biography of Joseph Pinchon (excerpt)
Émile-Joseph Porphyre Pinchon, born April 17, 1871 in Amiens, died in 1953, was a French cartoonist, painter and illustrator. Selected Bibliography (albums only) Bécassine, textes de Caumery (Maurice Lauguereau), Gauthier puis Gauthier-Languereau à partir du 4. L'enfance de Bécassine, 1913
Biography of Samuel Parchment (excerpt)
Samuel Parchment (Ewarton, February 1, 1881) iwas a British astrologer and occultist. He published in 1933 "Astrology, Mundane and Spiritual". He led the San Francisco Center Rosicrucian Fellowship in the 1930's.
Biography of Roger Martin du Gard (excerpt)
Roger Martin du Gard (March 23, 1881 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - August 22, 1958) was a French author and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature. Trained as a paleographer and archivist, Martin du Gard brought to his works a spirit of objectivity and a scrupulous regard for details.
Biography of Emmanuel de Martonne (excerpt)
Emmanuel de Martonne, born in Chabris (Indre), April 1st, 1873 and died in Sceaux July 24, 1955, was a French geographer and author. Works (extract) Recherches sur l'évolution morphologique des Alpes de Transylvanie (Karpates meridionales), Paris, Delagrave, 1906. Traité de géographie physique : Climat, Hydrographie, Relief du sol, Biogéographie, Paris, Armand Colin, 1909 (réédité).
Biography of Christian X of Denmark (excerpt)
Christian X (Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm; 26 September 1870 – 20 April 1947) was King of Denmark from 1912 to 1947, and the only King of Iceland (as Kristján X) between 1918 and 1944. He was a member of the House of Glücksburg, a branch of the House of Oldenburg, and the first monarch since King Frederick VII born into the Danish royal family; both his father and his grandfather were born as princes of a ducal family from Schleswig.
Biography of Ada Muir (excerpt)
Ada Muir, born June 4, 1874 in Birmingham, was a British astrologer, publisher and author. She lived in Vancouver, Canada.
Biography of Georg Schnéevoigt (excerpt)
Georg Schnéevoigt (8 November 1872 – 28 November 1947) was a Finnish conductor and cellist, born in Vyborg, Grand Duchy of Finland, which is now in Russia. Schnéevoigt began his career as a cellist performing throughout Europe in the 1890s. He was principal cellist of the Helsinki Philharmonic from 1896 to 1902.
Biography of Marc Bloch (excerpt)
Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (July 6, 1886 (birth time source: Gauquelin) – June 16, 1944) was a French historian of medieval France in the period between the First and Second World Wars, and a founder of the Annales School. Bloch was shot by the Gestapo during the German occupation of France for his work in the French Resistance.
Biography of Gottfried Feder (excerpt)
Gottfried Feder (27 January 1883 – 24 September 1941) was an economist and one of the early key members of the Nazi party. He was their economic theoretician. Initially, it was his lecture in 1919 that drew Hitler into the party .
Biography of Jerome Kern (excerpt)
Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of popular music. He wrote around 700 songs, including such classics as Ol' Man River, A Fine Romance, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, All the Things You Are and The Way You Look Tonight.
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Leeds is the largest city in the county of West Yorkshire, England. It has an economy with large tourism, financial and commercial sectors. The river Aire flows through the city. Leeds was a small manorial borough in the 13th century, becoming a major centre for the production and trading of wool in the 17th and 18th centuries, then a major mill town during the Industrial Revolution; wool was still the dominant industry, but flax, engineering, iron foundries, printing, and other industries were also important.
Biography of Raissa Maritain (excerpt)
Raïssa Oumansoff Maritain (1883 (source not archived) - 1960) was a Russian-Ukrainian poet and philosopher. She emigrated to France and studied at Sorbona, where she met the young Jacques Maritain, also a philosopher, who she married in 1904. She was raised Jewish but converted to Roman Catholicism with her husband in 1906.
Biography of Jean Patou (excerpt)
Jean Patou (September 27, 1887 (birth time, date, and city source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - March 8, 1936) was a French fashion designer. 1910s - World War I and later In 1912, he opened a small dressmaking salon called "Maison Parry".
Biography of Theodore Dreiser (excerpt)
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency.
Biography of Karl Barth (excerpt)
Karl Barth (May 10, 1886 – December 10, 1968) (pronounced "bart") a Swiss Reformed theologian, was one of the most important Christian thinkers of the 20th century; Pope Pius XII described him as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas. Beginning with his experience as a pastor, he rejected his training in the predominant liberal theology typical of 19th-century Protestantism especially German. |
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