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Biography of Henri de Régnier (excerpt)
Henri François Joseph de Régnier (December 28, 1864 - May 23, 1936) was a French symbolist poet considered one of the foremost of France during the early 20th century. He was born at Honfleur (Calvados) on the 28th of December 1864, and was educated in Paris for the law.
Biography of Arthur James Balfour (excerpt)
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC (25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930) was a British Conservative politician and statesman. He authored the tough Perpetual Crimes Act (1887) (or Coercion Act) aimed at the prevention of boycotting, intimidation, unlawful assembly in Ireland during the Irish Land War, and was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905, a time when his party and government became divided over the issue of tariff reform.
Biography of Édouard Goursat (excerpt)
Édouard Jean-Baptiste Goursat (21 May 1858 – 25 November 1936) was a French mathematician, now remembered principally as an expositor for his Cours d'analyse mathématique, which appeared in the first decade of the twentieth century. It set a standard for the high-level teaching of mathematical analysis, especially complex analysis.
Biography of Aimé Morot (excerpt)
Aimé Morot (June 16, 1850 (source for his time of birth: Lescaut)–1913) was a French painter. Morot was born in Nancy, where he studied under a drawing master named Thierry. He later attended the atelier of Alexandre Cabanel in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, but left after only two weeks to continue his studies independently.
Biography of Léopold Bellan (excerpt)
Léopold Bellan, born on September 20, 1857 in Méré (birth time source: Michel Martinet, on-line archives), died on January 4, 1936 in Paris, was a French industrialist, journalist, and politician. He was born with a clubfoot.
Biography of Moina Mathers (excerpt)
Moina Mathers, born as Mina Bergson (February 28, 1865-July 25, 1928) was an artist and occultist at the turn of the 19th century. She was the sister of French philosopher Henri Bergson, the first man of Jewish descent to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927.
Biography of Eugène Cosserat (excerpt)
Eugène-Maurice-Pierre Cosserat (4 March 1866 (source for his time of birth: Gauquelin Vol 2/2632) – 31 May 1931) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Born in Amiens, he studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1883 to 1888. He was on Science faculty of Toulouse University from 1889 and director of its observatory from 1908, a position he held for the rest of his life.
Biography of Dorothy Dix (excerpt)
Dorothy Dix (November 18, 1861 – December 16, 1951), was the pseudonym of U.S. journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer. As the forerunner of today's popular advice columnists, Dorothy Dix was America's highest paid and most widely read female journalist at the time of her death.
Biography of Abel Faivre (excerpt)
Jules-Abel Faivre, born March 30, 1867 in Lyon and died in 1945 in Nice, was a French painter, caricaturist and illustrator.
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Kansas is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native Americans who lived along its banks.
Biography of Alexandre Georges (excerpt)
Alexandre George, born February 25, 1850 in Arras, died January 18, 1938 in Paris, was a French composer and organist. Works (extract, in French) Daphnis et Chloé (1883), Le Printemps (1888), Charlotte Corday (6 mars 1901), Miarka (Opéra-Comique : 7 novembre 1905) - sans doute son plus grand opéra ; repris et réduit à 3 actes pour l'Opéra (1925) - le public est séduit par l'étrange mélancolie de cette partition,
Biography of Clarence Darrow (excerpt)
Clarence Seward Darrow (April 18, 1857 Farmdale, Ohio - March 13, 1938 Chicago) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Bobby Franks (1924) and defending John T.
Biography of Marie Emile Fayolle (excerpt)
Marie Émile Fayolle (Le Puy, France, 14 May 1852 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 27 August 1928) was a Marshal of France. Fayolle studied at the École polytechnique, where he graduated with the class of 1873. During his career he served in the artillery.
Biography of Emma Borden (excerpt)
Emma Borden, born March 1, 1851 (birth time source: Charlotte Tuton) and died June 12, 1927, is the sister of Lizzie Borden. Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was a New England spinster who was the central figure in the hatchet murders of her father and stepmother on August 4, 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts in the United States.
Biography of Maurice Maeterlinck (excerpt)
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard, Count Maeterlinck (August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist writing in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life.
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Yuma (Cocopah: Yuum) is a city in and the county seat of Yuma County, Arizona, United States. The city's population was 93,064 at the 2010 census, up from the 2000 census population of 77,515. Yuma is the principal city of the Yuma, Arizona, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which consists of Yuma County.
Biography of David Yule (excerpt)
Sir David Yule (1858-1928) was a British businessman. Though born in Edinburgh, Scotland, he spent most of his life in India. David Yule joined Andrew Yule and Company Ltd., which was begun by his uncle, Andrew. His uncle, George Yule, was a president of the Indian National Congress.
Biography of Giovanni Pascoli (excerpt)
Giovanni Pascoli (December 31, 1855—April 6, 1912) was an Italian poet and classical scholar. Pascoli was born at San Mauro di Romagna (rechristened "San Mauro Pascoli" after his death), into a wealthy family. He had a tragic childhood, struck by the murder of his father and the early deaths of his mother, sister and two brothers, and the subsequent economical decline of the family.
Biography of Auguste Rateau (excerpt)
Auguste Camille Edmond Rateau, born October 13, 1863 in Royan, died January 13, 1930 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a famous French engineer. Awards Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur Membre de l'Académie des sciences (1918) Books Considérations sur les turbo-machines (1892)
Biography of Ernest Chausson (excerpt)
Amédée-Ernest Chausson (January 20, 1855 – June 10, 1899) was a French romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish. Life Ernest Chausson was born in Paris into a prosperous bourgeois family. His father made his fortune assisting Baron Haussmann in the redevelopment of Paris in the 1850s .
Biography of Abel Hermant (excerpt)
Abel Hermant (3 February 1861 - 29 September 1950) was a French novelist, playwright, essayist and writer, and member of the Académie Française. Herman was born in Paris, the son of an architect. He received a degree from the École Normale Supérieure in 1880, and published his first volume of verse in 1883, The Contempt.
Biography of Hugo Becker (excerpt)
Hugo Becker (born Jean Otto Eric Hugo Becker) (February 13, 1863 – July 30, 1941) was a prominent German cellist, cello teacher, and composer. He studied at a young age with Alfredo Piatti, and later Friedrich Grützmacher in Dresden. He was born in 1863 in Strasbourg; his father Jean Becker was a famous violinist.
Biography of Max Klinger (excerpt)
Max Klinger (February 18, 1857 - July 5, 1920) was a German Symbolist painter, sculptor and printmaker. Klinger was born in Leipzig and studied in Karlsruhe. An admirer of the etchings of Menzel and Goya, he shortly became a skilled and imaginative engraver in his own right.
Biography of Antonin Mercié (excerpt)
Marius Jean Antonin Mercié (October 30, 1845 - December 13, 1916), French sculptor and painter, was born in Toulouse. He entered the École des Beaux Arts, Paris, and studied under Alexandre Falguière and François Jouffroy, and in 1868 gained the Grand Prix de Rome.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Troppmann (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Troppmann, born October 5, 1849, is a French murderer. He killed a whole family (the father, a pregnant mother and six children, from 17 to 2 years old) in 1869. Nobody knows why. He was executed on the 19th of January 1870 in Paris.
Biography of Herbert Kitchener (excerpt)
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC 24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) was an Irish-born senior British Army officer and colonial administrator. Kitchener won notoriety for his imperial campaigns, especially his scorched earth policy against the Boers, his expansion of Lord Roberts' internment camps during the Second Boer War and his central role in the early part of the First World War.
Biography of Antoine Béclère (excerpt)
Antoine Béclère (March 17, 1856 Paris (source not archived) - 1939), virologist, immunologist, was a pioneer in radiology. In 1897 he create the first laboratory of radiology in Paris. References (extract) Pallardy, G; Mabille, J P (1999), "Antoine Béclère (1856-1939). In memory of Antoinette Béclère, the admirable guardian of her father's works", Journal de radiologie 80 (6): 600-3, 1999 Jun, PMID:10417897, http://www.
Biography of Anna Kingsford (excerpt)
Anna Bonus Kingsford (b. September 16, 1846 in Essex - d. February 22, 1888 in London) was one of the first female English physicians, after Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Kingsford participated in the Theosophical movement England and was best known as an advocate of women's rights, anti-vivisection and vegetarianism.
Biography of Marie Henri Andoyer (excerpt)
Marie Henri Andoyer, born October 1, 1862 in Paris and died June 12, 1929, member of Académie des sciences June 30, 1919, was a French astronomer.
Biography of Robert de Montesquiou (excerpt)
Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, comte de Montesquiou-Fezensac (March 19, 1855, Paris - December 11, 1921, Menton), was a French Symbolist poet, art collector and dandy. With many homosexual friends, he is reputed to have been the inspiration both for des Esseintes in Joris-Karl Huysmans' À rebours and, most famously, for Baron de Charlus in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu.
Biography of Jules Lemaître (excerpt)
François Élie Jules Lemaître (27 April 1853 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 4 August 1914), was a French critic and dramatist. He was born at Vennecy (Loiret). He became a professor at the university of Grenoble, but was already well known for his literary criticism, and in 1884 he resigned his position to devote his time to literature.
Biography of Ravachol (excerpt)
François Claudius Koeningstein, known as Ravachol, (1859-1892), was a French anarchist best known for terrorism. He was born 14 October 1859 at Saint-Chamond (Loire) and died guillotined 11 July 1892 at Montbrison. Son of a Dutch father (Jean Adam Koeningstein) and a French mother (Marie Ravachol), he adopted his mother's maiden name after the father abandoned the family when he was only 8 years old.
Biography of André Chevrillon (excerpt)
André Chevrillon (May 3, 1864 (birth time source: Lescaut)–July 9, 1957) was a French writer, a nephew of Taine, who chose England and the Orient as objects of study. Chevrillon was born at Ruelle (Charente), and educated at the University College School (London), the École Alsacienne (Paris), the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and the University of Paris.
Biography of Germain Nouveau (excerpt)
Germain Nouveau born and died in Pourrières, Var, in France (31 July 1851 - 4 April 1920), was a French poet, associated with the symbolist movement. He was a friend of Rimbaud and Verlaine. In 1874 he traveled to London with Rimbaud.
Biography of Eugène Carrière (excerpt)
Eugène Anatole Carrière (January 16, 1849 (source: Lescaut) – March 27, 1906) was a French Symbolist artist of the Fin de siècle period. His work is best known for its brown monochrome palette. He was a close friend of the sculptor Rodin and his work influenced Matisse and Picasso.
Biography of Nellie Melba (excerpt)
Dame Nellie Melba, GBE (19 May 1861 – 23 February 1931), born Helen Porter Mitchell, legendary Australian opera soprano and probably the most famous of all sopranos, was the first Australian to achieve international recognition in the form. She and Dame May Whitty both became the first entertainers to become a DBE in 1918.
Biography of Paul Choisnard (excerpt)
Paul Choisnard, born February 13, 1867 in Tours, was a French astrologer and author. He was one of the pioneers of statistical astrology.
Biography of Paul Adam (excerpt)
Paul Adam (December 7, 1862 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – January 2, 1920) was a French novelist. Adam wrote a series of historical novels that dealt with the period of the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath; the first installment in the series, La Force, appeared in 1899.
Biography of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (excerpt)
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (28 August 7 September, Gregorian calendar) 1592 – 23 August 1628) (surname pronounced /ˈvɪlɚz/ ("villers")) was the favourite, claimed by some to be the lover of King James I of England, and one of the most rewarded royal courtiers in all history.
Biography of Gerhart Hauptmann (excerpt)
Gerhart Hauptmann (November 15, 1862—June 6, 1946) was a German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912. He was the son of a hotel-keeper. From the village school of his native place he passed to the Realschule in Breslau, and was then sent to learn agriculture on his uncle's farm at Jauer.
Biography of Emile Male (excerpt)
Émile Mâle (June 2, 1862 - October 6, 1954) was a French art historian, one of the first to study medieval, mostly sacral French art and the influence of eastern European iconography thereon. He was a member of the Académie Française, and a director of the Académie de France à Rome.
Biography of Étienne Clémentel (excerpt)
Étienne Clémentel, born March 29, 1864 in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme)(source not archived), and died December 25, 1936 in Prompsat (Puy-de-Dôme), was a French politician of the third Republic of France.
Biography of Elinor Glyn (excerpt)
Elinor Glyn (October 17, 1864 - September 23, 1943), born Elinor Sutherland, was a British novelist and scriptwriter who pioneered mass-market women's erotic fiction. She coined the use of It as a euphemism for sex appeal. Elinor Glyn was born in Saint Saviour, Jersey, Channel Islands.
Biography of Adolphe Retté (excerpt)
Adolphe Retté (born July, 25, 1863 in Paris, France, died December 8, 1930) was a French poet and writer.
Biography of Felix Adler (excerpt)
Felix Adler (August 13, 1851–April 24, 1933) was a Jewish rationalist intellectual, popular lecturer, religious leader and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement. Chronology He was born in Alzey, Germany, the son of a rabbi, Samuel Adler. The family immigrated to the United States from Germany when Felix was six years of age on the occasion of his father's receiving an appointment as head rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in New York.
Biography of Friedrich Spee (excerpt)
Friedrich Spee (Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld) (Kaiserswerth, February 25, 1591 - Trier, August 7, 1635) was a German Jesuit and poet, most noted as an opponent of trials for witchcraft. Spee was the first person in his time who spoke strongly and with arguments against torture in general.
Biography of Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (excerpt)
The Princess Louise (born Louise Caroline Alberta, also known as Marchioness of Lorne and Duchess of Argyll by marriage; 18 March 1848 – 3 December 1939) was a member of the British Royal Family, the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Biography of James Whitcomb Riley (excerpt)
James Whitcomb Riley (October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916) was an American writer and poet. Known as the "Hoosier Poet", "National Poet" and the "Children's Poet," he started his career in 1875 writing newspaper verse in Indiana dialect for the Indianapolis Journal.
Biography of Jules Laforgue (excerpt)
Jules Laforgue (Montevideo, 16 August 1860 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Jany Bessière, birth certificate) – Paris, 20 August 1887) was a French symbolist poet. Life His parents, Charles-Benoît Laforgue and Pauline Lacollay, met in Uruguay where his father worked first as a teacher and then a bank employee.
Biography of Gerard Hopkins (excerpt)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889), was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose 20th-century fame established him posthumously among the leading Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in prosody (especially sprung rhythm) and his use of imagery established him as a daring innovator in a period of largely traditional verse. |
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