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Quebec is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario and the bodies of water James Bay and Hudson Bay; to the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay; to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador; and to the south by the province of New Brunswick and the U.
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Biography of Alfred Jarry (excerpt)
Alfred Jarry (September 8, 1873 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – November 1, 1907) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side.
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Biography of Cyrano de Bergerac (excerpt)
Cyrano Hercule Savinien de Bergerac (6 March 1619 (birth time source: Lescaut) – 28 July 1655) was a French dramatist and duellist born in Paris, who is now best remembered for the many works of fiction which have been woven around his life story, most notably the play by Edmond Rostand which bears his name (see Cyrano de Bergerac (play)). ![]()
Biography of Ambroise Vollard (excerpt)
Ambroise Vollard (3 July 1866, Saint-Denis, La Réunion (birth time source: Emmanuel Le Bret, Didier Geslain, civil registrar, and also in the biography of Jean Pierre Morel "C'était Ambroise Vollard" Editions Fayard 2007) – 21 July 1939 in Versailles, France) is regarded as one of the most important dealers in French contemporary art at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Biography of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (excerpt)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies (March 27, 1886 -August 17, 1969) was a German architect. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, along with Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture.
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Biography of Alexander Fleming (excerpt)
Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. Fleming published many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known achievements are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1922 and isolation of the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum in 1945, for which he shared a Nobel Prize with Florey and Chain.
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Biography of Arnold Schoenberg (excerpt)
Arnold Schoenberg (the anglicized form of Schönberg — Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he left Germany and re-converted to Judaism in 1933), (September 13, 1874 – July 13, 1951) was an Austrian and later American composer. Many of Schoenberg's works are associated with the expressionist movements in early 20th-century German poetry and art, and he was among the first composers to embrace atonal motivic development.
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Biography of Emiliano Zapata (excerpt)
Emiliano Zapata Salazar (8 August 1879 – 10 April 1919) became a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920, the main leader of the peasant revolution in the Mexican state of Morelos, and the inspiration of the agrarian movement called Zapatismo.
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Biography of Karen Blixen (excerpt)
Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (April 17, 1885 – September 7, 1962), née Karen Dinesen, was a Danish author also known under her pen name Isak Dinesen. Blixen wrote works both in Danish and in English. She is best known, at least in English, for Out of Africa, her account of living in Kenya, and one of her stories, Babette's Feast, both of which have been adapted into highly acclaimed motion pictures.
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Biography of Chiang Kai-shek (excerpt)
Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 – April 5, 1975) was the Chinese military and political leader who assumed the leadership of the Kuomintang (KMT) after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925. He led the national government of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 to his death in 1975. ![]()
Biography of Fernand Léger (excerpt)
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. Léger was born in the Argentan, Orne, Basse-Normandie, where his father raised cattle. He apprenticed with an architect from 1897-1899 before moving in 1900 to Paris, where he supported himself as an architectural draftsman.
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Biography of Bela Lugosi (excerpt)
Béla Lugosi (October 20, 1882 – August 16, 1956), was a Hungarian actor best known for his portrayal of Count Dracula in the American Broadway stage production (1927), and subsequent film (1931), of Bram Stoker's classic vampire story. Early life Lugosi, the youngest of four children, was born as Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó in Lugos, Hungary, at the time part of Austria-Hungary (now Lugoj, Romania), to Paula de Vojnich and István Blasko, a banker.
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Biography of Léon Blum (excerpt)
Leon Blum (9 April 1872–30 March 1950), French politician, was the Prime Minister of France three times: from 1936 to 1937, for one month in 1938, and from December 1946 to January 1947. Childhood and education Blum was born in Jewish Paris, where he attended the Lycée Henri IV.
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Biography of Sacha Guitry (excerpt)
Sacha Guitry (February 21, 1885 – July 24, 1957) was a French film actor, director, screenwriter and playwright. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, he was the son of Lucien Germain Guitry (1860–1925), a major Parisian stage actor who spent nine years at the Michel Theater, in St. ![]()
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The invention of the telephone is the culmination of work done by many individuals, the history of which involves a collection of claims and counterclaims. The development of the modern electrical telephone involved an array of lawsuits founded upon the patent claims of several individuals and numerous companies.
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Biography of Edgard Varèse (excerpt)
Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States. The record label Varèse Sarabande Records is named after the composer. Varèse's music features an emphasis on timbre and rhythm.
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Biography of Swami Sivananda (excerpt)
Swami Sivananda Saraswati (Sep 8, 1887—Jul 14, 1963), was a Hindu spiritual leader and a well known proponent of Yoga and Vedanta. Sivananda was born Kuppuswami in Tamil Nadu. He studied medicine and served in Malaya as a physician for several years before taking up monasticism. ![]()
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Calgary (/ˈkælɡri/ (About this soundlisten)) is a city in the western Canadian province of Alberta. It is situated at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, about 80 km (50 mi) east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies, roughly 299 km (186 mi) south of the provincial capital of Edmonton and approximately 240 km (150 mi) north of the Canada–United States border. ![]()
Biography of Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (excerpt)
tanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (February 24, 1885 (birth time source: PTA, birth certificate)– September 18, 1939) more commonly known as "Witkacy" was a Polish playwright, novelist, painter, photographer and philosopher. Life Born in Warsaw, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz was the son of painter, architect and art critic Stanisław Witkiewicz.
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Biography of Nicolas Fouquet (excerpt)
Nicolas Fouquet, marquis de Belle-Isle, viscomte de Melun et Vaux (January 24, 1615 — March 23, 1680) was the Superintendent of Finances in France under Louis XIV. Born in Paris, he belonged to an influential family of the noblesse de robe, and after some preliminary schooling with the Jesuits, at the age of thirteen was admitted as avocat at the Parlement of Paris.
Biography of William Delbert Gann (excerpt)
William Delbert Gann (June 6, 1878 – June, 1955), also W. D. Gann, was a trader recognized not only for his trading abilities, but also for his financial market forecasts. The accuracy of his forecasts is still the subject of substantial debate.
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Biography of William Somerset Maugham (excerpt)
William Somerset Maugham, CH (January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and theatre writer. He was one of the most popular authors of his era, and reputedly the highest paid of his profession during the 1930s.
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Biography of Guglielmo Marconi (excerpt)
Guglielmo Marconi (25 April 1874 - 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor of mixed Italian and Irish ethnicity, best known for his development of a radiotelegraph system, which served as the foundation for the establishment of numerous affiliated companies worldwide.
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Biography of Cléo de Mérode (excerpt)
Cléo de Mérode, born September 27, 1875 - died October 17, 1966, was a French dancer of the Belle Époque. Born Cléopatra Diane de Mérode in Paris, France, she was the daughter of the Austrian landscape painter. Karl Freiherr von Merode (1853-1909).
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Biography of Blaise Cendrars (excerpt)
Frédéric Louis Sauser (September 1, 1887 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – January 21, 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized French in 1916. Life He was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland and at age 15, he left home to work for a jewel merchant that provided him with the opportunity to travel.
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Biography of Arthur Rubinstein (excerpt)
Arthur Rubinstein KBE OSE GOSE (Polish: Artur Rubinstein; 28 January 1887 (gregorian calendar) – 20 December 1982) was a Polish-American classical pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time. He received international acclaim for his performances of the music written by a variety of composers and many regard him as the greatest Chopin interpreter of his time.
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Biography of Gaston Bachelard (excerpt)
Gaston Bachelard (June 27, 1884 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 16, 1962) was a French philosopher and poet who rose to some of the most prestigious positions in the French academy. His most important work is in poetics and the philosophy of science.
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Biography of Pancho Villa (excerpt)
Doroteo Arango Arámbula (June 5, 1878 (birth time source: accuracy in question) – July 23, 1923), better known as Francisco or "Pancho" Villa, was a Mexican Revolutionary general. As commander of the División del Norte (Division of the North), he was the veritable caudillo of the Northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, which, due to its size, mineral wealth and proximity to the United States, made him a major player in Revolutionary military and politics.
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Biography of Ezra Pound (excerpt)
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972) was an American expatriate poet and critic who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in early-to mid- 20th century poetry. He was the driving force behind several Modernist movements, notably Imagism and Vorticism. ![]()
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Flagstaff is a city in, and the county seat of, Coconino County in northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States. In 2019, the city's estimated population was 75,038. Flagstaff's combined metropolitan area has an estimated population of 139,097. Flagstaff lies near the southwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau and within the San Francisco volcanic field, along the western side of the largest contiguous ponderosa pine forest in the continental United States. ![]()
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Budapest is the capital and the most populous city of Hungary, and the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits. The city has an estimated population of 1,752,286 over a land area of about 525 square kilometres (203 square miles).
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Biography of Elisabeth of Bavaria (1876-1965) (excerpt)
Elisabeth, Queen of Belgium (born Elisabeth Gabriele Valérie Marie, Duchess in Bavaria) (July 25, 1876 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield) – November 23, 1965), was the queen consort of Albert I of Belgium and was the mother of Leopold III of Belgium.
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Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas (excerpt)
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945) was a poet, a translator and a prose writer, better known as the intimate friend and lover of the writer Oscar Wilde. Much of his early poetry was Uranian in theme, though he tended, later in life, to distance himself from both Wilde's influence and his own role as a Uranian poet.
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Biography of Bela Bartok (excerpt)
Béla Viktor János Bartók (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music. He is considered one of the greatest composers of the 20th century and was also one of the founders of the field of ethnomusicology, the study and ethnography of folk music. ![]()
Biography of Peter Kürten (excerpt)
Peter Kürten May 26, 1883-July 2, 1931 was a German serial killer dubbed The Vampire of Düsseldorf by the contemporary media. He committed a series of sex crimes, assaults and murders against adults and children, most notoriously from February to November 1929 in Düsseldorf. ![]()
Biography of Giovanni Agnelli (excerpt)
Giovanni Agnelli (August 13, 1866 - December 16, 1945) was an Italian entepreneur, who founded Fiat car manufacturing in 1899. Early life Son of Edoardo Agnelli and Aniceta Frisetti, born in Villar Perosa, a small town near Pinerolo, Italy, still the main home and burial place of the Agnelli family.
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Biography of Georges Braque (excerpt)
Georges Braque (May 13, 1882 (birth time source: Steinbrecher, acte de naissance) – August 31, 1963) was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art movement known as cubism. Youth Georges Braque was born in France.
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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 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. ![]()
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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. ![]()
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. ![]()
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Salem is a historic coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts located in the North Shore region. Continuous settlement by Europeans began in 1626 and Salem would become one of the most significant seaports in early American history. Salem is a residential and tourist area that is home to the House of Seven Gables, Salem State University, Pioneer Village, the Salem Maritime National Historic Site, Salem Willows Park, and the Peabody Essex Museum.
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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.
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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 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. ![]()
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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 Wilhelm Furtwängler (excerpt)
Wilhelm Furtwängler (January 25, 1886 – November 30, 1954) was a German conductor and composer. Furtwängler was born in Berlin into a prominent family. His father Adolf was an archaeologist, his mother a painter. Most of his childhood was spent in Munich, where his father taught at the university. |
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