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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 Marius Berliet (excerpt)
Marius Berliet, born on January 21, 1866 in Lyon, died on April 17, 1949 in Cannes, was a French engineer and businessman, the founder of Berliet, a French manufacturer of automobiles, buses, trucks and other utility vehicles, based in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France.
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Biography of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (excerpt)
Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia (21 August 1858 - 30 January 1889) was the son and heir of (Kaiser) Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria and (Kaiserin) Empress Elisabeth of Austria. His death, apparently through suicide, along with that of his mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera, at his Mayerling hunting lodge in 1889 made international headlines, fueled international conspiracy rumours and ultimately may have sealed the long-term fate of the Habsburg monarchy.
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Biography of Paul von Hindenburg (excerpt)
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, known universally as Paul von Hindenburg) (October 2, 1847 (birth time source: André Barbault, Sy Scholfield, birth certificate) – August 2, 1934) was a German field marshal and statesman. who commanded the Imperial German Army during the second half of World War I before later being elected President of the Weimar Republic in 1925.
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Biography of Stanislas de Guaita (excerpt)
Stanislas De Guaita (6 April 1861, Tarquimpol, Moselle – 19 December 1897, Tarquimpol) was a French poet based in Paris, an expert on esotericism and European mysticism, and an active member of the Rosicrucian Order. The source for his birth time comes from the site astrologysoftware.
Biography of Fomalhaut (astrologer) (excerpt)
Charles Nicoullaud, born on Mai 3, 1854, in Paris and died on August 20, 1925, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French astrologer, essayist, and anti-Masonic author. He took the pseudonym Fomalhaut, named after this star. The source for his date and time of birth comes from Patrice Guinard, who gets it from Herbais de Thun (1944).
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Biography of Ferdinand de Saussure (excerpt)
Ferdinand de Saussure (pronounced ) (November 26, 1857 – February 22, 1913) was a Geneva-born Swiss linguist whose ideas laid the foundation for many of the significant developments in linguistics in the 20th century. He is widely considered the 'father' of 20th-century linguistics. ![]()
Biography of Constance Markievicz (excerpt)
Constance Georgine Markiewicz, Countess Markiewicz (née Gore-Booth; 4 February 1868 – 15 July 1927), was an Irish Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil politician, revolutionary nationalist and suffragette. She was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, though she did not take her seat and along with the other Sinn Féin TDs formed the first Dáil Éireann. ![]()
Biography of Frederick Winslow Taylor (excerpt)
Frederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856 - March 21, 1915), widely known as F. W. Taylor, was an American mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency. A management consultant in his later years, he is sometimes called "the father of scientific management.
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Biography of Emmeline Pankhurst (excerpt)
Emmeline Pankhurst (15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was one of the founders of the British suffragette movement. It is the name of "Mrs Pankhurst", more than any other, which is associated with the struggle for the enfranchisement of women in the period immediately preceding World War I.
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Biography of Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé (excerpt)
Eugène-Melchior, vicomte de Vogüé (25 February 1848–29 March 1910) was a French diplomat, travel writer, archaeologist, philanthropist and literary critic. Born in Nice, France, he served in the Franco-Prussian War, and at the conclusion of the war entered the diplomatic service of the Third Republic, being appointed successively attaché to the legations in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt, then secretary to the embassy in Saint Petersburg. ![]()
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Łódź, written in English as Lodz, is the third-largest city in Poland and a former industrial centre. Located in the central part of the country, it has a population of 679,941 (2019). It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately 120 kilometres (75 mi) south-west of Warsaw.
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Biography of Henri Bergson (excerpt)
Henri-Louis Bergson (IPA: ; October 18, 1859–January 4, 1941) was a major French philosopher, influential in the first half of the 20th century. Overview Bergson was born in the Rue Lamartine in Paris, not far from the Palais Garnier (the old Paris opera house) in 1859, the year of the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. ![]()
Biography of Le Pétomane (excerpt)
Le Pétomane was the stage name of the French professional farter and entertainer Joseph Pujol (June 1, 1857 - 1945). He was famous for his remarkable control of the abdominal muscles, which enabled him to fart at will. His stage name combines the French verb péter, "to fart" with the -mane, "maniac" suffix, found in words like toxicomane.
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Biography of Comte de Lautréamont (excerpt)
Comte de Lautréamont (French IPA: ) was the pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (April 4, 1846 – November 24, 1870), a French poet whose only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence on modern literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists.
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Biography of William Howard Taft (excerpt)
William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 (birth time source: Frances McEvoy) – March 8, 1930) was an American politician, the twenty-seventh President of the United States, the tenth Chief Justice of the United States, a leader of the progressive conservative wing of the Republican Party in the early 20th century, a pioneer in international arbitration and staunch advocate of world peace verging on pacifism, and scion of a leading political family, the Tafts, of Ohio. ![]()
Biography of Jagadish Chandra Bose (excerpt)
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (Bengali: জগদীশ চন্দ্র বসু Jôgdish Chôndro Boshu) (November 30, 1858 – November 23, 1937) was a Bengali physicist and science fiction writer, who pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics, made extremely significant contributions to plant science, and laid the foundations of experimental science in the Indian subcontinent. ![]()
Biography of Raymond Poincaré (excerpt)
Raymond Poincaré (August 20, 1860 – October 15, 1934) was a French conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of France on five separate occasions and as President of France from 1913 to 1920. Born in Bar-le-Duc, Meuse, France, the son of Nicolas Antonin Hélène Poincaré, a distinguished civil servant and meteorologist.
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Biography of Bérenger Saunière (excerpt)
François Bérenger Saunière (April 11, 1852 - Januaray 22, 1917) was a priest in the French village of Rennes-le-Château, in the Aude region, officially from 1885 to 1909 (when he was transferred to another village by his bishop, that he declined and subsequently resigned) and after 1909, until his death in 1917, in the role of Free Priest (a priest working independently without a parish).
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Biography of Charles Webster Leadbeater (excerpt)
C.W. Leadbeater (Feb 16, 1854 England-1934 Perth, Western Australia), English clergyman and theosophical author, contributed to world thought mostly through his work as an alleged clairvoyant. Early life Although some sources state that he was born in 1847, his biographer has uncovered sufficient documentation that he was actually born in 1854.
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Biography of Georges Méliès (excerpt)
Georges Méliès (December 8, 1861 – January 21, 1938), full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema. He was born in Paris, where his family manufactured shoes. He was very innovative in the use of special effects. ![]()
Biography of Victor Noir (excerpt)
Victor Noir, (July 30, 1848 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)– January 10, 1870), was a French journalist. Born Yvan Salmon at Attigny, Vosges, he went to Paris where he became a popular journalist for the newspaper "La Marseillaise" where he adopted the name Victor Noir as his pseudonym. ![]()
Biography of Séraphine Louis (excerpt)
Séraphine Louis, known as "Séraphine de Senlis" ("Séraphine of Senlis") (1864–1942), was a French painter in the naïve style. Self-taught, she was inspired by her religious faith and by stained-glass church windows and other religious art. The intensity of her images, both in color and in replicative designs, are sometimes interpreted as a reflection of her own psyche, walking a tightrope between ecstasy and mental illness. ![]()
Biography of Jane Addams (excerpt)
Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was a founder of the U.S. Settlement House movement, and the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Born in Cedarville, Illinois, Jane Addams was the eighth of nine children born into a prosperous miller family.
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Biography of Jean Sibelius (excerpt)
Johan Julius Christian "Jean" / "Janne" Sibelius December 8, 1865 – September 20, 1957) was a Finnish composer of classical music and one of the most notable composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. ![]()
Biography of François Gény (excerpt)
François Gény (1861–1959) was a French jurist and professor of law at the University of Nancy, who introduced the notion of "free scientific research" to the interpretation of positive law. His advocacy of judicial discretion in the interpretation of statutory law had an important influence across Europe.
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Biography of Émile Coué (excerpt)
Émile Coué (February 26, 1857 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – July 2, 1926) was a French psychologist and pharmacist who introduced a method of psychotherapy, healing, and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion. The application of his familiar conscious autosuggestion, "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better" (Tous les jours à tous points de vue je vais de mieux en mieux), is the best known example of what is often called Couéism or the Coué method. ![]()
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Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest region of the United States. Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. state on May 11, 1858, created from the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory. The state is known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes".
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Biography of James Ensor (excerpt)
James Ensor (April 13, 1860 - November 19, 1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for almost his entire life. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX. Ensor's father was of English extraction, and his mother was Flemish.
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Biography of Emile Durkheim (excerpt)
Émile Durkheim (IPA: ; April 15, 1858 – November 15, 1917) was a French sociologist whose contributions were instrumental in the formation of sociology and anthropology. His work and editorship of the first journal of sociology (L'Année Sociologique) helped establish sociology within academia as an accepted social science. ![]()
Biography of Armand Peugeot (excerpt)
Armand Peugeot (June 18, 1849—January 2, 1915) was an industrialist, pioneer of the automobile industry and the founder of the French firm Peugeot. Family Armand Peugeot was born on June 18 1849 in Valentigney (25), in eastern France. He was the son of Émile Peugeot (1815-1874) and Wilhelmine Ehrmann (1818-1893).
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Biography of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (excerpt)
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Albert Victor Christian Edward; 8 January 1864 – 14 January 1892) was a member of the British Royal Family, as the eldest son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) and Alexandra of Denmark.
Biography of Hector-Germain Guimard (excerpt)
Hector Germain Guimard was born on march 10, 1867 in Lyon (France). From 1882 to 1885 he visits the Ecole des Art Decoratifs in Paris and continues his study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, where he graduates in 1889. ![]()
Biography of Émile Gallé (excerpt)
Émile Gallé (Nancy, France, 8 May 1846 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – Nancy, 23 September 1904) was a French artist who worked in glass, and is considered to be one of the major forces in the French Art Nouveau movement. ![]()
Biography of Pope Pius XI (excerpt)
Pope Pius XI (Latin: Pius PP. XI; Italian: Pio XI; May 31, 1857 – February 10, 1939), born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, reigned as Pope from February 6, 1922 and as sovereign of Vatican City from 1929 until his death on February 10, 1939. ![]()
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Tunis is the capital and largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as "Grand Tunis", has about 2,700,000 inhabitants. As of 2020, it is the fourth-largest city in the Maghreb region (after Casablanca and Algiers and Tripoli) and the sixteenth-largest in the Arab world. ![]()
Biography of Jules Renard (excerpt)
Pierre-Jules Renard or Jules Renard (February 22, 1864- May 22, 1910) was a French author and member of the Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works Poil de Carotte (Carrot hair) (1894) and Les Histoires Naturelles (Natural Histories) (1896). Among his other works are Le Plaisir de rompre (The Pleasure of Breaking) (1898) and Huit jours à la campagne (Eight Days in the Countryside) (1906).
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Biography of Alfred Dreyfus (excerpt)
Alfred Dreyfus (9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French artillery officer of Jewish background whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most sensational political dramas in modern French history, still known as the Dreyfus Affair. ![]()
Biography of Henri Becquerel (excerpt)
Antoine Henri Becquerel (December 15, 1852 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate)– August 25, 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the discoverers of radioactivity. Early days Becquerel was born in Paris into a family which, including him and his son Jean, produced four generations of scientists. ![]()
Biography of Louise Abbéma (excerpt)
Louise Abbéma (30 October 1853 (and not 1858, as commonly said); 1927) was a French painter and designer, born in Etampes. Abbéma began painting in her early teens, and studied under such notables of the period as Charles Joshua Chaplin, Jean-Jacques Henner and Carolus-Duran.
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Biography of Maurice Leblanc (excerpt)
Maurice-Marie-Émile Leblanc (11 December 1864 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes. ![]()
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The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. The Underground has its origins in the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground passenger railway.
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Biography of Pope Benedict XV (excerpt)
Pope Benedict XV (Latin: Benedictus PP. XV), (Italian: Benedetto XV), (November 21, 1854 – January 22, 1922), born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa, reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from September 3, 1914 to January 22, 1922; he succeeded Pope Pius X (1903–14). ![]()
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Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly 350 square miles (910 km2) into three other counties: Denton, Parker, and Wise. ![]()
Biography of Arturo Toscanini (excerpt)
Arturo Toscanini (pronounced ) (March 25, 1867 (birth time source: Lois Rodden) – January 16, 1957) was an Italian musician. He was considered by many critics, fellow musicians, and much of the classical listening audience to have been one of the greatest conductors of all time.
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Biography of Robert Baden-Powell (excerpt)
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB (22 February 1857 in Oxford – 8 January 1941), also known as B-P, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, and founder of the Scout Movement. After having been educated at Charterhouse School, Baden-Powell served in the British Army from 1876 until 1910 in India and Africa. ![]()
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New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia and 17,000 km (11,000 mi) from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Chesterfield Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of Pines, and a few remote islets. ![]()
Biography of Romain Rolland (excerpt)
Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – December 30, 1944) was a French writer and dramatist, best known as the author of the novel series Jean-Christophe (1904-12). His first book was published in 1902, when he was already 36 years old. ![]()
Biography of Ferdinand Hodler (excerpt)
Ferdinand Hodler (March 14, 1853 – May 19, 1918) was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the 19th century. Hodler was born in Berne but moved to Geneva at the age of 18 to start a career as a painter. Hodler's early work consisted of landscapes, figure compositions and portraits, treated with a vigorous realism. ![]()
Biography of Paul Deschanel (excerpt)
Paul Eugène Louis Deschanel (February 13, 1855 - April 28, 1922) was a French statesman. He served as President of France from February 18, 1920 to September 21, 1920. Paul Deschanel, the son of Émile Deschanel (1819-1904), professor at the Collège de France and senator, was born at Brussels, where his father was living in exile (1851—1859), owing to his opposition to Napoleon III.
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Biography of George Westinghouse (excerpt)
George Westinghouse, Jr (6 October 1846–12 March 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railroad air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry. Westinghouse was one of Thomas Edison's main rivals in the early implementation of the American electricity system. |
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