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Biography of Jessie Redmon Fauset (excerpt)
Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her literary work helped sculpt African-American literature in the 1920s as she focused on portraying a true image of African-American life and history.
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Biography of Olga Petit (excerpt)
Olga Petit or Sophie Balachowsky-Petit (16 March 1870 – 1966) was a Russian-born, French lawyer. She is noted as the first woman to take the legal oath in France. She is also known for assisting Russian emigres settling in the country after the Russian Revolution.
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Biography of Curt Sachs (excerpt)
Curt Sachs, born June 29, 1881, and died February 5, 1959, was a German musicologist and a founder of modern organology, the study of musical instruments. He co-created the Hornbostel–Sachs system with Erich von Hornbostel. Born in Berlin, Sachs studied music but earned a doctorate in art history.
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Biography of Maria Blondeau (excerpt)
Maria Blondeau, born Émélie Blondeau 4 June 1873 in La Neuvillette (Marne) and died on May 1, 18911 in Fourmies, was a worker in a cotton mill, considered the most emblematic figure of the deaths of the Fourmies shooting in 1891.
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Biography of Ethel Ayres Purdie (excerpt)
Ethel Ayres Purdie (née Ayres) (2 October 1874 – 26 March 1923) was a chartered accountant and suffragist. She specialised in counselling women and women's suffragist organisations. She was active in the Women's Tax Resistance League which argued that no vote meant no tax. ![]()
Biography of Ivan Shmelyov (excerpt)
Ivan Sergeyevich Shmelyov (Russian: Иван Сергеевич Шмелёв, also spelled Shmelev, Chmeliov, and Chmelov) (3 October (O.S. 21 September) 1873 – 24 June 1950) was a Russian émigré writer best known for his full-blooded idyllic recreations of the pre-revolutionary past spent in the merchant district of Moscow.
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Biography of André Heuzé (excerpt)
André Heuzé, or sometimes André Heuse, (5 December 1880, in Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines –16 August 1942 in Paris) was a French movie director, screenwriter and playwright. Selected filmography Actor 1923 : La Rue du pavé d'amour by André Hugon 1928 : Little Devil May Care as André Bucaille
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Biography of Léonie Yahne (excerpt)
Léonie Yahne (born Eugénie Léonie Jahn on August 8, 1867 in Versailles, and died on April 26, 1950 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris) was a French actress of the Belle Époque, known today through the works of Toulouse-Lautrec. In a 1899 newspaper article, she was described as one of the most beautiful and famous Parisian actresses. ![]()
Biography of Vicki Baum (excerpt)
Hedwig "Vicki" Baum was an Austrian writer, famous for her novel "Menschen im Hotel" ("People at a Hotel"), which became a hit film and musical. Born in Vienna into a Jewish family, Baum faced the early loss of her mother and lived under a tyrannical father.
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Biography of Anne W. Armstrong (excerpt)
Anne Wetzell Armstrong (September 20, 1872 – March 17, 1958) was an American novelist and businesswoman, active primarily in the first half of the 20th century. She is best known for her novel, This Day and Time, an account of life in a rural Appalachian community.
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Biography of Concha Espina (excerpt)
María de la Concepción Jesusa Basilisa Rodríguez-Espina y García-Tagle, short form Concha Espina, 15 April 1869 in Santander – 19 May 1955 in Madrid), was a Spanish writer. She was nominated for a Nobel prize in literature 25 times in 28 years.
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Biography of Sophia Hayden (excerpt)
Sophia Hayden (October 17, 1868 – February 3, 1953) was an American architect and first female graduate of the four-year program in architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Career World's Columbian Exposition She is best known for designing The Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, when she was just 21.
Biography of Jean Bouyssonie (excerpt)
Canon Jean Bouyssonie, born August 31, 1877 in Brive-la-Gaillarde in the department of Corrèze in France and died August 13, 1965 in the same city, is a French Catholic priest, canon and prehistorian who became interested in the remains. of the departments of Lot and Corrèze.
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Biography of Marthe Niel (excerpt)
Marthe Niel (29 December 1878 – 18 November 1928) was a French aviator, becoming the second woman in the world to earn an aeroplane pilot's licence on 19 September 1910. Early life Niel was born Marie-Ange Denieul in Le Cannée, a hamlet in the commune of Paimpont, Ille-et-Vilaine.
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Biography of Zofia Nalkowska (excerpt)
Zofia Nałkowska (10 November 1884, in Warsaw, Congress Poland – 17 December 1954, in Warsaw) was a Polish prose writer, dramatist, and prolific essayist. She served as the executive member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature (1933–1939) during the interwar period.
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Biography of Bertha De Vriese (excerpt)
Bertha De Vriese (26 September 1877 - 17 March 1958) was a Belgian physician. When she earned her degree as a doctor of medicine at Ghent University, where she was the first woman to conduct research and the first woman physician to graduate from the school.
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Biography of Alfred Machin (excerpt)
Alfred Machin (20 April 1877 – 16 June 1929) was a French actor and film director. He is remembered to have been one of the few French film directors whose films expressed progressive tendencies before World War I. He was also a pioneer of aerial filming.
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Biography of Marie Ventura (excerpt)
Marie Ventura (born Aristida Maria Ventura 14 July 1888 - 3 December 1954) was a Romanian-French actress and theatre director. From 1919 to 1941 she worked at the Comédie-Française. In 1938, she directed Iphigénie by Racine, becoming the first women to direct a play at the Comédie-Française.
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Biography of Vittorio Pozzo (excerpt)
ttorio Pozzo (2 March 1886 in Rome (Wikipedia says Turin) – 21 December 1968 in Turin) was an Italian football player, manager and journalist. The creator of the Metodo tactical formation, Pozzo is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time, and is the only manager to guide a national team to two FIFA World Cup titles as coach, leading the Italy national team to victory in the 1934 and 1938 FIFA World Cups.
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Biography of Consuelo Zavala (excerpt)
Consuelo Zavala Castillo (1874-1956) was a Mexican feminist, teacher, and founder of one of the first secular private schools in Mérida, Mexico. She is credited with establishing the first kindergarten to utilize the Froebel method in Mérida. She was the organizer of the First Feminist Congress in Mexico, authorized by state governor Salvador Alvarado.
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Biography of Pavel Florensky (excerpt)
Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky (also P. A. Florenskiĭ, Florenskii, Florenskij; Russian: Па́вел Алекса́ндрович Флоре́нский; Armenian: Պավել Ֆլորենսկի, romanized: Pavel Florenski; 21 January 1882 – December 8, 1937) was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, polymath, neomartyr and folk saint.
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Biography of Andrejs Upits (excerpt)
Andrejs Upīts (4 December 1877, Skrīveri parish, Russian Empire – 17 November 1970, Riga, Latvian SSR) was a Latvian teacher, poet, short story writer. Career and literary activity Andrejs Upīts, while writing for the newspaper "Mājas viesis" under the pseudonym Andrei Araji in 1892, published his first articles, Parunas, Skrīveros uzrakstītas (Recorded Proverbs of Skrīveri) (No.
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Biography of E. Armand (excerpt)
Émile Armand (March 23 (March 26 for Wikipedia), 1872 – February 19, 1963), pseudonym of Ernest-Lucien Juin Armand, was an influential French individualist anarchist at the beginning of the 20th century and also a dedicated free love/polyamory, intentional community, and pacifist/antimilitarist writer, propagandist and activist.
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Biography of Jane Herveu (excerpt)
Jeanne Aline Herveux, generally known as Jane Herveu, (1885–1955) was a pioneering French aviator who obtained her pilot's licence on 7 December 1910. Life Born on 10 December 1885 in Paris, she was first known as an automobile exhibition driver, performing at the Crystal Palace in London and taking part in car and motorcycle races at various locations in France.
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Biography of Diego Valeri (poet) (excerpt)
Diego Valeri (January 25, 1887, Rome - November 28, 1976) was an Italian poet and literary critic. ![]()
Biography of Nancy Astor (excerpt)
Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH (19 May 1879 – 2 May 1964) was an American-born British politician who was the first woman seated as a Member of Parliament (MP), serving from 1919 to 1945. Astor was born in Danville, Virginia and raised in Greenwood, Virginia.
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Biography of Mathilde Kschessinska (excerpt)
Mathilde-Marie Feliksovna Kschessinska (Polish: Matylda Maria Krzesińska; Russian: Матильда Феликсовна Кшесинская; 31 August (O.S. 19 August) 1872 in Ligovo – 6 December 1971 in Paris; also known as Princess Romanovskaya-Krasinskaya after her marriage) was a Polish/Russian ballerina from the noble family Krzesiński.
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Biography of Suzanne Grinberg (excerpt)
Suzanne Grinberg ( 25 January 1888 - 5 July 1972) was a pioneering French lawyer, feminist and pacifist. She was one of the women who participated in the Inter-Allied Women's Conference which opened in Paris in February 1919. In 1920, she was vice-president of the Association du Jeune Barreau and secretary of the central committee of the French Union for Women's Suffrage.
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Biography of Elly Ney (excerpt)
Elly Ney (27 September 1882 – 31 March 1968) was a German romantic pianist who specialized in Beethoven, and was especially popular in Germany. Personal life Elly Ney was married twice; first, in 1911, to the Dutch conductor Willem van Hoogstraten. They had one daughter, Eleonore (1918–2007).
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Biography of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (excerpt)
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (born Meta Vaux Warrick; June 9, 1877 – March 18, 1968) was an African-American artist who celebrated Afrocentric themes. At the fore of the Harlem Renaissance, Warrick was known for being a poet, painter, theater designer, and sculptor of the black American experience. ![]()
Biography of Marie Kalff (excerpt)
Marie Kalff, born Johanna Maria Kalff on July 29, 1874, was a Dutch-born actress based in Paris. Born in Amsterdam to a bank director, she spent part of her childhood in Java. Kalff's acting career in Paris spanned from 1904 to 1929, mainly at Théâtre Antoine-Simone Berriau and Théâtre de l'Œuvre.
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Biography of Catherine Pozzi (excerpt)
Catherine Pozzi, born July 13, 1882 in Paris and died December 3, 1934 in the same city, is a French poet and woman of letters. Catherine Pozzi, born into an aristocratic and bourgeois family in Paris in the late 19th century, was the daughter of Samuel Pozzi, a renowned surgeon, and Thérèse Loth-Cazalis. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Tuaillon (excerpt)
Auguste-Ignace Tuaillon, known as Boffy, bornMarch 18, 1873 at Esmoulières and died in November at Paris, is a French dwarf chansonnier. Auguste-Ignace Tuaillon was about five years old when his growth slowed down or stopped. His significant muscular weakness preventing him from taking part in agricultural work, Auguste earned some money by performing from the age of fifteen as a fairground attraction in Luxeuil-les-Bains and Nancy.
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Biography of Marie de Régnier (excerpt)
Marie de Régnier (French: ; 20 December 1875 – 6 February 1963), also known by her maiden name Marie de Heredia or her pen-name Gérard d'Houville, was a French novelist and poet, and closely involved in the artistic circles of early twentieth-century Paris.
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Biography of Titta Ruffo (excerpt)
Titta Ruffo (9 June 1877 – 5 July 1953), born as Ruffo Cafiero (double forename) Titta, was an Italian operatic baritone who had a major international singing career. Known as the "Voce del leone" ("voice of the lion"), he was greatly admired, even by rival baritones, such as Giuseppe De Luca, who said of Ruffo: "His was not a voice, it was a miracle" (although not often published is the second part of De Luca's conclusion "which he (Ruffo) bawled away.
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Biography of Émile Aubrun (excerpt)
Émile Eugène Aubrun, born August 25, 1881 in Brunoy and died November 14, 1967 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, was a French aviation pioneer, who particularly distinguished himself during the 1910 season.
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Biography of Georges Wague (excerpt)
Georges Wague, born Georges Marie Valentin Waag on January 14, 1874, in Paris, was a French mime, teacher, and silent film actor. Raised by devout parents, he turned to the arts, studying at the Conservatory of Dramatic Art of Paris. He pioneered "cantomime," a blend of song and mime, and became known for his performances in Pierrot.
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Biography of Marie-Elisabeth Lüders (excerpt)
Marie-Elisabeth Lüders (June 25, 1878 – March 23, 1966) was a German politician and women's rights activist. Lüders was born in Berlin as the descendant of the 18th century agricultural reformer Philipp Ernst Lüders. Her father was a senior Prussian civil servant.
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Biography of Elena Fortún (excerpt)
María de la Encarnación Gertrudis Jacoba Aragoneses y de Urquijo (November 18, 1886, Madrid – May 8, 1952, Madrid) was a Spanish author of children's literature known by her pen name Elena Fortún. She gained fame with her series starting with "Celia, lo que dice" (1929), which became classics of Spanish literature.
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Biography of Jeanne Provost (excerpt)
Jeanne Provost (28 November 1887 – 24 November 1980) was a French stage and film actress. She was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1907 to 1912. In 1928 she appeared in the original cast of Marcel Pagnol's play Topaze. Selected filmography
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Biography of Gustav Waldau (excerpt)
Gustav Waldau (27 February 1871 – 25 May 1958) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1915 and 1955. Life and Work Born Gustav Freiherr von Rummel joined the Bavarian Cadet Corps at age 14. He was promoted to officer in the Infantry-Leib-Regiment.
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Biography of Jeanne Matthey (excerpt)
Jeanne-Marie Matthey-Jonais (25 January 1886 – 24 November 1980) was a French tennis player. She competed during the first two decades of the 20th century. Matthey won the French Open Women's Singles Championship four times in succession from 1909 to 1912, but lost the 1913 final to Marguerite Broquedis.
Biography of Jeanne-Marie Petitjean de La Rosière (excerpt)
Delly is the joint pen name of a brother and a sister, Jeanne-Marie Petitjean de La Rosière, born in Avignon on September 13, 1875, and Frédéric Petitjean de La Rosière, born in Vannes on September 6, 1876, authors of popular romance novels.
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Biography of Marcel Rouff (excerpt)
Marcel Rouff (May 4,1877 in Geneva – February 3, 1936 in Paris) was a prolific novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, historian, and gastronomic writer. With Curnonsky (Maurice Edmond Sailland) he wrote the multi-volume work La France gastronomique, guide des merveilles culinaires et des bonnes auberges françaises (Gastronomic France: Guide to the culinary marvels and the good inns of France).
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Biography of Hermann Struck (excerpt)
Hermann Struck (6 March 1876 – 11 January 1944) was a German Jewish artist known for his etchings. Hermann Struck (Chaim Aaron ben David) was born in Berlin. He studied at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. In 1904, he joined the modern art movement known as the Berlin Secession. ![]()
Biography of Janis Jaunsudrabins (excerpt)
Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš (August 25, 1877 in Nereta – August 25, 1962 in Körbecke) was a Latvian writer and painter and one of the most popular authors of the first Republic of Latvia between the two world wars. Between 1886–1892 he attended school in Nereta.
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Biography of Alice Hamilton (excerpt)
Alice Hamilton (February 27, 1869 – September 22, 1970) was an American physician, research scientist, and author. She was a leading expert in the field of occupational health, laid the foundation for health and safety protections, and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology.
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Biography of Jaime Sabartes (excerpt)
Jaume Sabartés i Gual (Catalan: Jaume Sabartés i Gual, Spanish: Jaime Sabartés y Gual, born in Barcelona, 10 June 1881 - died in Paris, 12 February 1968), was a Catalan Spanish artist, poet and writer. He was a close friend of Pablo Picasso and later became his secretary/administrator. ![]()
Biography of Anne Bosworth Focke (excerpt)
Anne Lucy Bosworth Focke (September 29, 1868 – May 15, 1907) was an American mathematician who became the first mathematics professor at what is now the University of Rhode Island, and later became the first female doctoral student of David Hilbert.
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Biography of Amado Nervo (excerpt)
Amado Nervo (August 27, 1870 – May 24, 1919) also known as Juan Crisóstomo Ruiz de Nervo, was a Mexican poet, journalist and educator. He also acted as Mexican Ambassador to Argentina and Uruguay. His poetry was known for its use of metaphor and reference to mysticism, presenting both love and religion, as well as Christianity and Hinduism. |
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