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Horoscopes with Cupido in TaurusYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Cupido in Taurus. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Edouard Detaille (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille (October 5, 1848 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives) - December 23, 1912), was a French Academic painter and military artist noted for his precision and realistic detail. Detaille was a student of Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier. He served in the French Army in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 and became the official painter of the battles. ![]()
Biography of Friedrich Meinecke (excerpt)
Friedrich Meinecke (October 30, 1862 – February 6, 1954) was a liberal German historian, probably the most famous German historian of his generation. As a representative of an older tradition still writing after World War II, he was an important figure to the end of his life. ![]()
Biography of Alfred Harmsworth (excerpt)
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (July 15, 1865 (source for his time of birth: David Hamblin)–August 14,1922) rose from childhood poverty to become a powerful British newspaper and publishing magnate, famed for buying stolid, unprofitable newspapers and transforming them to make them lively and entertaining for the mass market. ![]()
Biography of Alfred Werner (excerpt)
Alfred Werner (December 12, 1866 - November 15, 1919) was a Swiss chemist who was a professor at the University of Zurich. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1913 for proposing the octahedral configuration of transition metal complexes. Werner developed the basis for modern coordination chemistry.
Biography of Alfred Fripp (excerpt)
Sir Alfred Downing Fripp (12 September 1865 - 1930) was a surgeon at Guy's Hospital, London. He was born in Blandford, the son of the artist Alfred Downing Fripp. His godfather was royal tutor John Neale Dalton. After studying at the Merchant Taylors' School in London, he took up medicine, and during the Boer War he worked in South Africa as chief medical officer of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital, Deelfontein. ![]()
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San Marino, officially the Republic of San Marino (Italian: Repubblica di San Marino; Romagnol: Ripóbblica d' San Marein), also known as the Most Serene Republic of San Marino (Italian: Serenissima Repubblica di San Marino), is a small state (and a European microstate) in Southern Europe enclaved by Italy.
Biography of Lewis Weston (excerpt)
Lewis Weston, born on December 27, 1862 in Burrows, Indiana, died on September 23, 1945, was an American astrologer and author; ![]()
Biography of John George Bartholomew (excerpt)
John George Bartholomew or J.G. Bartholomew (1860-1920) was a Scottish cartographer and geographer. As a holder of a royal warrant, he used the title "Cartographer to the King." He was the son of John Bartholomew, and the grandson of the founder of John Bartholomew and Son Ltd.
Biography of Jeanne Maillot (excerpt)
Jeanne Maillot, born on April 28, 1860 in Lille and died on July 16, 1940, was a figure in the French political world. She was the wife of Henri de Gaulle, the father of Charles de Gaulle, and the mother of Charles de Gaulle. ![]()
Biography of Paul Bourget (excerpt)
Paul Charles Joseph Bourget (September 2, 1852 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – December 25, 1935), was a French novelist and critic. Biography He was born in Amiens in the Somme département of Picardie, France. His father, a professor of mathematics, was later appointed to a post in the college at Clermont-Ferrand, where Bourget received his early education. ![]()
Biography of François Guiguet (excerpt)
François Guiguet, born on January 8, 1860 in Corbelin, Isère (birth time source: Astrotheme, Didier Excoffon, birth certificate, Etat Civil de la Mairie de Corbelin, email), died on September 3, 1937 in Corbelin, Isère, was a French portrait painter. Works Jeune Fille faisant du crochet, musée d'Orsay, Paris
Biography of James Caird (excerpt)
Sir James Caird of Glenfarquhar, Baronet (2 January 1864 – 27 September 1954) was a shipowner and the principal donor in creating the National Maritime Museum, London. Early life and education The eldest son of James Caird, a lawyer, and his wife, Mary Ann Hutcheson, James Caird was born in Glasgow, Scotland, educated at Glasgow Academy, and then in 1878 joined a firm of East India merchants, William Graham & Co. ![]()
Biography of Luther Burbank (excerpt)
Luther Burbank (7 March 1849 – 11 April 1926) was an American botanist, horticulturist and a pioneer in agricultural science. He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank's varied creations included fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables.
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Biography of Jean Béraud (excerpt)
ean Béraud (January 12, 1849 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives from the Quai d'Orsay) – October 4, 1935) was a French Impressionist painter and commercial artist noted for his paintings of Parisian life during the Belle Époque. Biography Béraud was born in Saint Petersburg.
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Biography of Charles August Lindbergh (excerpt)
Charles August Lindbergh Sr. (January 20, 1859 – May 24, 1924) was a United States Congressman from Minnesota's 6th congressional district from 1907 to 1917. He opposed both American entry into World War I, and the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. He was the father of famous aviator Charles Lindbergh. ![]()
Biography of Marguerite Audoux (excerpt)
Marguerite Audoux (July 7, 1863 at Sancoins, Cher – January 31, 1937 at Saint-Raphaël, Var) was a French novelist. Marguerite Donquichote, who took her mother's name, Audoux, in 1895, was orphaned by age three, following the death of her mother and abandonment by her father.
Biography of Catherine Thompson (excerpt)
Catherine Thompson, born April 10, 1858 in London and died in December 1934, was a British astrologer and author. ![]()
Biography of Ferruccio Busoni (excerpt)
Ferruccio Busoni (April 1, 1866 – July 27, 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, teacher of piano and composition, writer on musical questions, and conductor. Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Ferruccio Busoni was born in Empoli in Tuscany, the only child of two professional musicians: his Italian/German mother a pianist, his Italian father a clarinetist. ![]()
Biography of Albert Maignan (excerpt)
Albert Pierre René Maignan, born October 14, 1845 in Beaumont-sur-Sarthe (birth time source: Didier Geslain) and died September 29, 1908 in Saint-Prix, was a French painter and illustrator. Bibliography Dominique Mallet, Albert Maignan et son oeuvre. Conférence au Mans le 14 novembre 1912. ![]()
Biography of Havelock Ellis (excerpt)
Henry Havelock Ellis (February 2, 1859 - July 8, 1939) was a British sexologist, physician, and social reformer. Early life Ellis, son of Edward Peppen Ellis and Susannah Mary Wheatley, was born at Croydon, then a small town south of London. His father was a sea captain, his mother the daughter of a sea captain, and many other relatives lived on or near the sea. ![]()
Biography of Venustiano Carranza (excerpt)
Venustiano Carranza Garza (December 29, 1859 – May 21, 1920) was one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution. He ultimately became President of Mexico following the overthrow of the dictatorial Huerta regime in the summer of 1914 and during his administration the current constitution of Mexico was drafted. ![]()
Biography of Louis Bertrand (novelist) (excerpt)
Louis Bertrand (20 March 1866, Spincourt, Meuse – 6 December 1941, Cap d'Antibes) was a French novelist, historian and essayist. He was the third member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1925. ![]()
Biography of Jules Garnier (excerpt)
Jules Garnier, born January 22, 1847, died in 1889, was a French impressionist painter. ![]()
Biography of Oskar Hertwig (excerpt)
Oscar Hertwig (April 21, 1849, Friedberg, Hesse - October 25, 1922, Berlin) was a German zoologist and professor, who also wrote about the theory of evolution circa 1916, over 55 years after Charles Darwin's book The Origin of Species. He was the older brother of zoologist-professor Richard Hertwig (1850-1937).
Biography of Carl Beck (excerpt)
Carl Beck, born April 4, 1856 in Neckargemünd, died June 9, 1911, was a German-American surgeon, physician and author. ![]()
Biography of Billy Sunday (excerpt)
William Ashley "Billy" Sunday (November 19, 1863 – November 6, 1935) was an American athlete and religious figure who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century. ![]()
Biography of Alphonse Bertillon (excerpt)
Alphonse Bertillon (April 22, 1853—February 13, 1914) was a French law enforcement officer and biometrics researcher who created anthropometry, an identification system based on physical measurements (sole sources give April 22, 1853). Anthropometry was the first scientific system police used to identify criminals.
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Biography of Lucien Lacaze (excerpt)
Marie-Jean-Lucien Lacaze (22 June 1860 Pierrefonds, Oise — 23 March 1955 Paris) was a French admiral, minister of Marine, préfet maritime and académicien. Lacaze was born in Pierrefonds, Oise to a physician of Réunion, where he spent his youth. He studied in France with the Jesuits, and joined the École Navale in 1879.
Biography of Junius Massau (excerpt)
Belgian engineer Junius Massau (April 9, 1852–1909) is considered to be the creator of graphical integration. He worked out careful techniques of geometrical calculation accurately to construct the integral curves of differential equations y = f(x) and, more generally, y = f(x, y). ![]()
Biography of Jean Lorrain (excerpt)
Jean Lorrain (August 29, 1855 (birth time source: birth certificate) - June 30, 1906), born Paul Duval, was a French poet and novelist of the Symbolist school. Lorrain was a dedicated disciple of dandyism, and (for the times) openly gay. Lorrain wrote a number of collections of verse, including La forêt bleue (1883) and L'ombre ardente, (1897).
Biography of Emilio de Bono (excerpt)
Emilio De Bono (March 19, 1866 – January 11, 1944) was an Italian general who fought in World War I and fascist activist who helped organize the Italian Fascist Party. In 1943, he participated in the Fascist Grand Council of which toppled Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
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Biography of William Allen White (excerpt)
William Allen White (February 10, 1868 – January 31, 1944) was a renowned American newspaper editor, politician, and author. Between World War I and World War II White became the iconic middle American spokesman for thousands throughout the United States. Life ![]()
Biography of Francis Thompson (excerpt)
Francis Thompson (16 December 1859 – 13 November 1907) was an English poet and ascetic. After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, but in menial work, became addicted to opium, and was a street vagrant for years.
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Biography of Gabriel Hanotaux (excerpt)
Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux, known as Gabriel Hanotaux, (november 19, 1853 – april 11, 1944) was a French statesman and historian. He was born at Beaurevoir in the département of Aisne. He studied history at the École des Chartes, and became maître de conférence in the École des Hautes Études. ![]()
Biography of Daniel Burnham (excerpt)
Daniel Hudson Burnham, FAIA (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban planner. He was the Director of Works for the World's Columbian Exposition and designed several famous buildings, including the Flatiron Building in New York City and Union Station in Washington D. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Duhem (excerpt)
Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (10 June 1861 – 14 September 1916) was a French physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science, best known for his writings on the indeterminacy of experimental criteria and on scientific development in the Middle Ages. Duhem also made major contributions to the science of his day, particularly in the fields of hydrodynamics, elasticity, and thermodynamics.
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Biography of Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant (excerpt)
Paul-Henri-Benjamin Baluet d'Estournelles, baron de Constant de Rébecque (22 November 1852 – 15 May 1924), was a French diplomat and politician, advocate of international arbitration and winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize for Peace. He was born at La Flèche (Sarthe) in the Loire valley to an old aristocratic family which traced its genealogy back to the Crusades; the renowned Revolution-era writer and politician Benjamin Constant was his great-uncle. ![]()
Biography of Emily Greene Balch (excerpt)
Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American academic, writer, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 (the prize that year was shared with John Mott), notably for her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). ![]()
Biography of Peter Chalmers Mitchell (excerpt)
Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell CBE FRS DSc LLD (23 November 1864–1945), zoologist, was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London from 1903 to 1935. During this time he directed the policy of the London Zoo, and created the world's first open zoological park known as Whipsnade Wild Animal Park. ![]()
Biography of Mabel Collins (excerpt)
Mabel Collins (9 September 1851 - 31 March 1927) was a theosophist and author of over 46 books. She was born in London. Works (extract) The Blossom and the Fruit (1888) The Idyll of the White Lotus (1890) Morial the Mahatma (1892) ![]()
Biography of Ellen Terry (excerpt)
Dame Ellen Terry, GBE (27 February 1847 – 21 July 1928) was an English stage actress, who became the leading Shakespearean actress in Britain. Born into a family of actors, Terry began acting as a child in Shakespeare plays, and continuing as a teen, sometimes in London and sometimes on tour. ![]()
Biography of Edward Westermarck (excerpt)
Edvard Alexander Westermarck (20 November 1862 (source not archived) – 3 September 1939) was a Swedish speaking Finnish philosopher and sociologist. Among other subjects, he studied exogamy and the incest taboo. He is known for first noting the Westermarck effect in which infants raised together are unable to form sexual feelings for one another as adults, regardless of their genetic relationship. ![]()
Biography of Constantijn Huygens (excerpt)
Constantijn Huygens (September 4, 1596, The Hague - March 28, 1687, The Hague) was a Dutch poet and composer, Secretary to two Princes, and the father of the scientist Christiaan Huygens. He is often considered a member of what is known as the Muiderkring, a group of leading intellectuals gathered around Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, who met regularly at the castle of Muiden near Amsterdam.
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Biography of Barney Barnato (excerpt)
Barney Barnato (born Barnett Isaacs) (12 June 1852 – 14 June 1897) was a British Randlord, one of the entrepreneurs who gained control of diamond mining, and later gold mining, in South Africa from the 1870s. Background He was born in 1852 in a slum in Whitechapel in the East End of London, and was educated by Moses Angel at the Jews' Free School. ![]()
Biography of Louis Sullivan (excerpt)
Louis Henri Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called the "father of modernism." He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School. ![]()
Biography of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser (excerpt)
Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, born October 1, 1856 in Perth, died in 1930, was a Scottish musician, composer and author. Biography on http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/about/bgallery/Gallery/records/nineteen1/kennedyfr.html Marjory Kennedy was the daughter of the well-known singer David Kennedy who died in while on tour in Ontario, Canada in 1886. ![]()
Biography of Robert Bosch (excerpt)
Robert Bosch (September 23, 1861 - March 12, 1942) was a German industrialist, engineer and inventor, founder of Robert Bosch GmbH. Bosch was born in Langenau/Württ. He was the eleventh of twelve children. His parents came from a class of well-situated farmers from the region. ![]()
Biography of Charles Gravier (excerpt)
Charles Joseph Gravier, born March 4, 1865 in Orléans, died November 15, 1937 in Paris, was a French zoologist. Selected publications 1901 — Méthode de récolte, de fixation et de conservation des invertébrés (arthropodes exceptés) (Paris : Impr. nationale). 1904 — Rapport sur une mission scientifique à la Côte française des Somalis (Paris : Impr.
Biography of Charles Herbais de Thun (excerpt)
Charles Herbais de Thun, born October 12, 1862 in Beaurieux, died in 1946, was a French biographor, author and astrologer. ![]()
Biography of Jean Dampt (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Auguste Dampt (January, 2, 1854 - September 26, 1945) was a French sculptor, medalist, and jeweler. Born in Venarey-les-Laumes as the son of a cabinetmaker, Dampt studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, then in 1874 under the leadership of François Jouffroy and Paul Dubois at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris . |
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