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Rochester is a city founded in 1854 in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Olmsted County located on the Zumbro River's south fork in Southeast Minnesota. It is Minnesota's third-largest city and the largest city located outside the Minneapolis-St.
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Georges Eekhoud (May 27, 1854, Antwerp, Belgium – May 29, 1927, Schaerbeek) was a Belgian novelist of Flemish descent, but writing in French. Eekhoud was a regionalist best known for his ability to represent scenes from rural and urban daily life. He tended to portray the dark side of human desire and write about social outcasts and the working classes.
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Jean Louis Barthou (25 August 1862 – 9 October 1934) was a French politician of the Third Republic. Early years He was born in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, and served as Deputy from that constituency. He was an authority on trade union history and law.
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Charles Le Goffic (July 14, 1863 in Lannion (birth time source: email and http://sallevirtuelle.cotesdarmor.fr/EC/ecx/consult.aspx.image=090025478950888) - February 12, 1932 in Lannion) was a French poet, novelist and historian whose influence was especially strong in his native Brittany. He was a member of the Académie française.
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John Hazelrigg, born June 20, 1860 in Hazelrigg, Indiana, died in October 1941, was an American astrologer and author.
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Louis de Rougemont (12 November 1847 – 9 June 1921) was a would-be explorer who claimed to have had adventures in Australasia. "De Rougemont" was born Henri Louis Grin in 1847 in Suchy, Switzerland. He left home at the age of sixteen.
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Major Jean-Baptiste Marchand (November 22, 1863 – January 13, 1934) was a French military officer and explorer in Africa. Marchand was born in Thoissey, Ain and attended l’Ecole militaire de Saint-Maixent. He participated in the French conquest of Senegal and was severely wounded in 1889 at the capture of Diena by the French.
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Thomas Callender, born April 9, 1855 in Glasgow, was a Scottish businessman and entrepreneur.
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Édouard Estaunié (Dijon, France, February 4, 1862 - Paris, February 1, 1942) was a French novelist. Estaunié trained as a scientist and engineer before turning to the novel in 1891. In 1904, he devised the word "telecommunication". He was elected to the Académie française in 1923.
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Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (January 7, 1852 – 1929) was one of the leading French artists of the academic school. He was born in Paris, the son of a tailor, and was raised by his grandfather after his father emigrated to Brazil. Later he added his grandfather’s name, Bouveret, to his own.
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Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932), born Isabella Augusta Persse, was an Irish dramatist and folklorist. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies.
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Charles Chamberland (March 12, 1851 – May 2, 1908) was a French microbiologist from Chilly-le-Vignoble in the department of Jura who worked with Louis Pasteur. In 1884 he developed a type of filtration known today as the Chamberland filter or Chamberland-Pasteur filter, consisting of an unglazed porcelain bar.
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Rachilde was the nom de plume of Marguerite Vallette-Eymery, a French author who was born February 11, 1860 in Château-l'Évêque near Périgueux, Périgord, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire and died on April 4, 1953. She is considered to be a pioneer of anti-realistic drama and a participant in the Decadent movement.
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San Luis Potosí, commonly called SLP or simply San Luis, is the capital and the most populous city of the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí. It is the municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of San Luis Potosí. The city lies at an elevation of 1,864 metres (6,115 feet).
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Richard Harding Davis (18 April 1864—11 April 1916) was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. Davis, a managing editor of Harper's Weekly, was one of the world's leading war correspondents at the time of the Second Boer War in South Africa.
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Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (August 18, 1849, Paris – January 10, 1895, Cannes) was a French violinist and Romantic composer. Biography Benjamin Godard was a student of Henri Vieuxtemps. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1863 where he studied under Vieuxtemps (violin) and Henri Reber (harmony) and accompanied Vieuxtemps twice to Germany.
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Ludwig Pastor, later Ludwig von Pastor, Freiherr von Campersfelden (31 January 1854 – 30 September 1928), was a German historian and a diplomat for Austria. He became one of the most important Roman Catholic historians of his time and is most notable for his History of the Popes.
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Jean Massart, born March 7, 1865 in Etterbeek, Brussels, and died August 16, 1925 in Houx, was a Belgian botanist and author. Publications (extract) * Parasitisme organique et parasitisme social (Paris, 1893), avec Émile Vandervelde (1866-1938). * La Récapitulation et l'innovation en embryologie (Gand, 1894).
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Louis Le Cardonnel, also called Brother Anselme, born on February 25, 1862 in Valence (source for his time of birth: Gauquelin, Lescaut), died on May 28, 1936 in Avignon, was a French priest and poet. Works: Poèmes (1904) Carmina Sacra (1912) Du Rhône à l'Arno (1920)
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Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres KP, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCMG, ADC, PC (28 September 1852 - 22 May 1925) was a British officer serving as the first Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in World War I.
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Louis-Charles-Bonaventure-Alfred Bruneau (3 March 1857, in Paris-15 June 1934, in Paris) was a French composer who played a key role in the introduction of realism in French opera. As a youth, Bruneau studied the cello at the Paris Conservatory, and played in the Pasdeloup orchestra.
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Henri Léon Emile Lavedan (9 April 1859 - 30 September 1940), French dramatist and man of letters, was born at Orléans, the son of Hubert Léon Lavedan, a well-known Catholicand liberal journalist. As a writer, Lavedan contributed to various Parisian papers a series of witty tales and dialogues of Parisian life, many of which were collected in volume form.
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Georges Dumas (6 March 1866—12 February 1946) was French doctor and psychologist. His main work is the The Treatise of Psychology (1923-1924, Le Traité de Psychologie). He wrote many articles and leaded the publication in two volumes of the treaty in which the main French psychologists of the time participate.
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Alfred Capus (November 25, 1858 in Aix-en-Provence - November 1, 1922) was a French journalist and playwright, born in Aix-en-Provence and deceased in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Son to a lawyer from Marseille, Alfred Capus went to university in Toulon. After failing several entrance tests for higher-education schools and working as a draughtsman for a while, he went on to become a journalist.
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Antoine Emmanuel Ernest Monis (French pronunciation: ; 23 May 1846 Châteauneuf-sur-Charente (source for his time of birth: Lescaut)– 25 May 1929 Mondouzil) was a French politician of the Third Republic, deputy of Gironde from 1885 to 1889 and then senator of the same department from 1891 to 1920.
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Charles Edwin Anson Markham (April 23, 1852 - March 7, 1940) was an American poet. Life Edwin Markham was born in Oregon City, Oregon and was the youngest of 10 children; his parents divorced shortly after his birth. At the age of four, he moved to Lagoon Valley, an area northeast of San Francisco; there, he lived with his sister and mother.
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Henri La Fontaine, (22 April 1854 – 14 May 1943) was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau from 1907 to 1943 who received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1913. La Fontaine studied law at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel).
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Pierre Jean Octave Callandreau, born September 18, 1852 in Angoulême (source not archived), died February 13, 1904, was a French astronomer, a former student of Polytechnique (X1872).
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Max Elskamp, born on May 5, 1862 in Antwerp, died on December 10, 1931 in Antwerp, was a Belgian symbolic poet (Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century style of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the style had its beginnings with the publication Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil, 1857) by Charles Baudelaire.
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Alexandre Bisson, born April 9, 1848 in Briouze and died January 27, 1912 in Paris, was a French author and screenwriter. Works (extract) Madame X (1981) (TV) (play) "Au théâtre ce soir" (1 episode, 1980) - Feu Toupinel (1980) TV episode (play)
Biography of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (excerpt)
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman who was Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary.
Biography of Pierre Gauthiez (excerpt)
Pierre-Michel Gautiez, born March 28, 1862 in Fontenay-aux-Roses, was a French poet and author.
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Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blythe (September 21, 1849 – March 26, 1905) —stage name Maurice Barrymore — was the patriarch of the Barrymore acting family and great-grandfather of actress Drew Barrymore. Early life Born Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blythe in the Sikh holy city, Amritsar, Punjab or more precisely Fort Agra, India, he was the son of William Edward Blythe, a surveyor for the British East India Company and his wife Matilda Chamberlayne.
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Henri Bremond (31 July 1865 – 17 August 1933) was a French literary scholar, sometime Jesuit, and Catholic philosopher, one of the theological modernists. Biography He was born and educated in Aix-en-Provence. He served his novitiate in England, and took orders in 1892.
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Maurice Rollinat (born December 29, 1846 in Châteauroux, France; died October 26, 1903 in Ivry-sur-Seine) was a French poet. Early works His father represented Indre in the National Assembly of 1848, and was a friend of George Sand, whose influence is very marked in young Rollinat's first volume, Dans les brandes (1877), and to whom it was dedicated.
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August Karl Gustav Bier (24 November 1861 – 12 March 1949) was German surgeon and the pioneer of spinal anaesthesia. After professorships in Greifswald and Bonn, Bier became a professor at the Charité in Berlin. Bier's breakthrough in spinal anaesthesia was made in 1898 when he performed the first planned spinal anaesthetic on a series of 6 patients for lower extremity surgery.
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Bloemfontein, also known as Bloem, is the capital city of the Free State Province of South Africa; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals (the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital) and is the seventh largest city in South Africa.
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Lucien Descaves (18 March 1861, Paris - 6 September 1949) was a French novelist and journalist. A disciple of Joris-Karl Huysmans and the Goncourt brothers his novels Le Calvaire d'Héloïse Pajadou (1883) and Une vieille rate (1883) followed strongly the naturalism movement.
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David Belasco (July 25, 1853 – May 14, 1931) was an American playwright, impresario, director and theatrical producer. Born in San Francisco, California, where his Sephardic Jewish parents had moved from London, England during the Gold Rush, he began working in a San Francisco theatre doing a variety of routine jobs such as call boy and script copier.
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Lucien Hillemacher, born on June 10, 1860 in Paris (birth time source: Lescaut), died on June 2, 1909 in Paris, was a French musician and composer, the brother of pianist and composer Paul Hillemacher (1852-1933). Awards: Prix de Rome (1880)
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William Backhouse, born on January 28, 1592 (Gregorian calendar) in Swallowfield, died on May 30, 1662, was a renowned English Rosicrucian philosopher, alchemist, and astrologer, a younger son of Samuel Backhouse. He entered Christ Church, Oxford, in 1610, but left the university without taking a degree.
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Sir William Burrell (July 9, 1861 (source for his time of birth: Paul Wright collection) - March 29, 1958) was a Glaswegian shipping merchant and philanthropist. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1861. He was the third of nine children in a family, which ran a shipping business.
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James Buchanan Brady (12 August 1856 – 13 April 1917), also known as Diamond Jim Brady, was an American businessman, financier, and philanthropist of the Gilded Age. Born in New York City to a modest household, Brady worked his way up from bellboy and messenger.
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Andrew Russell Forsyth (18 June 1858, Glasgow – 2 June 1942, South Kensington) was a Scottish mathematician. Andrew Forsyth studied at Liverpool College and was tutored by Richard Pendlebury before entering Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating senior wrangler in 1881. He was elected a fellow of Trinity and then appointed to the chair of mathematics at the University of Liverpool at the age of 24.
Biography of Ethelbert Nevin (excerpt)
Ethelbert Nevin, born in November 25, 1862, in Edgeworth (PA) was an American musician and composer. He is best known for his song "The Rosary".
Biography of Maurice Hamy (excerpt)
Maurice Théodore Adolphe Hamy, born October 31, 1861 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, died April 9, 1936, was a French astronomer. He was President of Bureau des Longitudes, a French scientific institution, founded by decree of June 25, 1795 and charged with the improvement of nautical navigation, standardisation of time-keeping, geodesy and astronomical observation.
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Bramwell Booth, CH (8 March 1856 (birth time source: Lois Rodden) – 16 June 1929) was the first Chief of Staff (1881–1912) and the second General of The Salvation Army (1912–1929), succeeding his father, William Booth. Biography Born as William Bramwell Booth in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, the oldest child born to William Booth and Catherine Mumford, he had two brothers and five sisters, including Evangeline Booth, Catherine Booth-Clibborn, Emma Booth and Ballington Booth.
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Remy de Gourmont (April 4, 1858, Bazoches-au-Houlme, Orne (birth time source: birth certificate, remydegourmont.org/) - September 27, 1915) was a French Symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars.
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Walthere Spring, born March 6, 1848 in Liège and died in 1911, was a Belgian chemist.
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Sven Anders Hedin (February 19, 1865 – November 26, 1952) was a Swedish explorer, geographer and geopolitician. His achievements include the production of the first detailed maps of vast parts of Pamir, the Taklamakan Desert, Tibet, the ancient Silk Road, and the Himalayas. |
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