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Biography of Empress Dowager Cixi (excerpt)
Empress Dowager Cixi (Chinese: 慈禧太后; pinyin: Cíxǐ Tàihòu; Wade-Giles: Tz'u-Hsi T'ai-hou) (November 29, 1835 – November 15, 1908), popularly known in China as the West Dowager Empress (Chinese: 西太后), was from the Manchu Yehe Nara Clan. She was a powerful and charismatic figure who became the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, ruling over China for 48 years from her husband's death in 1861 to her own death in 1908.
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.
Biography of Paul Lacôme d'Estalenx (excerpt)
Paul Lacôme d'Estalenx, born March 3, 1838, Le Houga, died December 12, 1920, Le Houga, was a French musician and composer. Opéra bouffe La Dot mal placée (Livret : Georges Mancel), trois actes (1873) Les Saturnales (Livret : Albin Valabrègue), trois actes (1887)
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.
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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.
Biography of Pierre Louÿs (excerpt)
Pierre Louÿs (December 10, 1870 - June 6, 1925) was a French poet and Romantic writer, most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings. He is known as a writer who "expressed pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection.
Biography of John Muir (excerpt)
John Muir (21 April 1838 – 24 December 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of U.S. wilderness. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California, have been read by millions and are still popular today.
Biography of Alexander III of Russia (excerpt)
Alexander III (10 March 1845 – 1 November 1894) reigned as Emperor of Russia from 14 March 1881 until his death in 1894. Early life Alexander was born at St Petersburg, the second son of Tsar Alexander II by his wife Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) .
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 Claudel (excerpt)
Paul Claudel (August 6, 1868 birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – February 23, 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholic faith.
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.
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.
Biography of Clément Ader (excerpt)
Clément Ader (April 2, 1841 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – March 5, 1925) was a French engineer born in Muret, Haute Garonne remembered primarily for his pioneering work in aviation. The inventor Ader innovated in a number of domains of electrical and mechanical engineering.
Biography of Louise Michel (excerpt)
Louise Michel (1830 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate) - 1905) was a French anarchist, school teacher and medical worker. She sometimes used the pseudonym Clémence and was also known as the red virgin of Montmartre. Louise Michel was born at the Château of Vroncourt (Haute-Marne) on 29 May 1830, the daughter of a serving-maid, Marianne Michel, and the son of the house, Etienne Charles Demahis.
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 Józef Wieniawski (excerpt)
Józef Wieniawski (23 May 1837 in Lublin – 11 November 1912 in Brussels) was a Polish pianist, composer, conductor and teacher. He was born in Lublin, the younger brother of the famous violinist Henryk Wieniawski. After Franz Liszt, he was the first pianist to publicly perform all the études by Chopin.
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.
Biography of Marie Vetsera (excerpt)
Baroness Mary Vetsera (March 19, 1870 – January 30, 1889) was Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria's mistress. She was the daughter of Baron Albin Vetsera, a diplomat in foreign service at the Austrian court, and his wife Baroness Helene Vetsera (née Helene Baltazzi).
Biography of Félix Faure (excerpt)
Félix François Faure (30 January 1841 – 16 February 1899) was President of France from 1895 until his death. Félix François Faure was born in Paris, the son of a small furniture maker. Having started as a tanner and merchant at Le Havre, he acquired considerable wealth, was elected to the National Assembly on 21 August 1881, and took his seat as a member of the Left, interesting himself chiefly in matters concerning economics, railways and the navy.
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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 Miklós Horthy (excerpt)
Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya (18 June 1868 – 9 February 1957) was the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary during the interwar years and throughout most of World War II, serving from 1 March 1920 to 15 October 1944. Horthy was styled "His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary" (Hungarian: Ő Főméltósága a Magyar Királyság Kormányzója).
Biography of Vittorio Orlando (excerpt)
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (May 13, 1860 - December 1, 1952) was an Italian diplomat and political figure. He was born in Palermo, Sicily. His father, a landed gentleman, delayed venturing out to register his son's birth for fear of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1,000 patriots who had just stormed into Sicily on the first leg of their march to build an Italian nation.
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Rockford is a U.S. city in Winnebago County, Illinois, located in the far northern part of the state. Situated on the banks of the Rock River, Rockford is the county seat of Winnebago County (a small portion of the city is located in Ogle County).
Biography of Tristan Corbière (excerpt)
Tristan Corbière (July 18, 1845 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – March 1, 1875), born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean, near Morlaix in Brittany, where he lived most of his life and where he died.
Biography of Léon Gambetta (excerpt)
Léon Gambetta (April 2, 1838, Cahors - December 31, 1882, Paris) was a French statesman prominent after the Franco-Prussian War. Youth and education He is said to have inherited his vigour and eloquence from his father, a Genoese grocer who had married a Frenchwoman named Massabie.
Biography of Georges de la Fouchardière (excerpt)
Georges de la Fouchardière, born February 1, 1874 in Châtellerault, died in 1946, was a French journalist and author. Bibliography (extracts) Le Diable dans le Bénitier. Montaigne. Hors-d'Œuvre..Payot&Cie 1919 L'Affaire Peau-de-Balle (La Machine à galoper). Librairie des lettres, 1919. Petit guide du parfait parieur aux courses Editions du siècle 1923
Biography of Wild Bill Hickok (excerpt)
James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a figure in the American Old West. His skills as a gunfighter and scout, along with his reputation as a lawman, provided the basis for his fame, although some of his exploits are fictionalized.
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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 Crazy Horse (Sioux chief) (excerpt)
Crazy Horse ( literally "His-Horse-is-Crazy") (December 4, 1842 (source: Penfield) – September 5, 1877) was a respected war leader of the Oglala Lakota, who fought against the U.S. federal government in an effort to preserve the traditions and values of the Lakota way of life.
Biography of Knut Hamsun (excerpt)
Knut Hamsun, born Knud Pedersen (August 4, 1859 - February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian author. He was considered by Isaac Bashevis Singer to be the "father of modern literature", and by King Haakon to be Norway's soul. In 1920, the Nobel Committee awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil".
Biography of William McKinley (excerpt)
William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the twenty-fifth President of the United States, and the last veteran of the Civil War to be elected. By the 1880s, this Ohio native was a nationally known Republican leader; his signature issue was high tariffs on imports as a formula for prosperity, as typified by his McKinley Tariff of 1890.
Biography of Jean Delville (excerpt)
Jean Delville (January 19, 1867 – 1953) was a Belgian symbolist painter, writer, and occultist. He founded the Salon d’Art Idealiste, which is considered the Belgian equivalent to the Parisian Rose & Cross Salon and the Pre-Raphaelite movement in London. Quotes "Understood in its metaphysical sense, Beauty is one of the manifestations of the Absolute Being.
Biography of Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau (excerpt)
Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau (December 2, 1846 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives, birth certificate n°364) - August 20, 1904) was a French statesman. René Waldeck-Rousseau was born in Nantes, France. His father, René Waldec-Rousseau, a barrister at the Nantes bar and a leader of the local republican party, figured in the revolution of 1848 as one of the deputies returned to the Constituent Assembly for Loire Inferieure.
Biography of Joseph Vacher (excerpt)
Joseph Vacher (November 16th, 1869, Beaufort, Isère (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - December 31, 1898, Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain) was a French serial killer, sometimes known as The French Ripper or L'éventreur du Sud-Est (The South-East Ripper) due to comparisons to the more famous Jack the Ripper murderer of London, England in 1888.
Biography of Léon Gaumont (excerpt)
Léon Gaumont (May 10, 1864 – August 9, 1946) was a French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry. Léon Ernest Gaumont, born Semblancay/Indre & Loire was gifted with a mechanical mind which led him to employment manufacturing precision instruments.
Biography of Jean-Alban Bergonié (excerpt)
Jean-Alban Bergonié, born October 7, 1857 in Casseneuil, was a French military physician.
Biography of Léon Daudet (excerpt)
Léon Daudet (16 November 1867 – 30 June 1942) was a French journalist, writer, an active Orléanist, and a member of the Académie Goncourt. Move to the right Daudet was born in Paris. His father was the novelist Alphonse Daudet and his younger brother, Lucien Daudet, would also become an artist.
Biography of Eugène Caslant (excerpt)
Eugène Caslant, born December 1, 1865 in Nanteuil-le-Haudouin, died in 1940, was a French engineer of Ecole Polytechnique, author and astrologer.
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Omaha is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 10 miles (15 km) north of the mouth of the Platte River (also known as the Nebraska River).
Biography of Luigi Pirandello (excerpt)
Luigi Pirandello (June 28, 1867 – December 10, 1936), an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934. Pirandello was born into an upper-class family in a village with the curious name of Kaos (Chaos), a poor suburb of Girgenti (Agrigento, a town in southern Sicily).
Biography of Léon Bloy (excerpt)
Léon Bloy (Périgueux, July 11, 1846 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - Bourg-la-Reine, November 3, 1917) was a French novelist, essayist, pamphleteer and poet. His works reflect a deepening devotion to the Roman Catholic Church and most generally a tremendous craving for the Absolute.
Biography of Orville Wright (excerpt)
The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two Americans who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight on 17 December 1903.
Biography of Haakon VII of Norway (excerpt)
Haakon VII (Prince Carl of Denmark, born Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel) (August 3, 1872 – September 21, 1957), was the first king of Norway after the 1905 dissolution of the personal union with Sweden. As one of the few elected monarchs, Haakon quickly won the respect and affection of his people and played a pivotal role in uniting the Norwegian nation in its resistance of the attack and five-year-long Nazi occupation during World War II.
Biography of Louis Franchet d'Espèrey (excerpt)
Louis Félix Marie François Franchet d'Espérey (Mostaganem, 25 May 1856 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 8 July 1942) was a French general during the First World War. Early life He was born in Mostaganem in what is today Algeria, the son of an officer of cavalry in the Chasseurs d'Afrique.
Biography of Hetty Green (excerpt)
Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green (November 21, 1834 – July 3, 1916) was an American businesswoman, remarkable for her frugality during the Gilded Age, as well as for being the first American woman to make a substantial impact on Wall Street.
Biography of Lucien Laberthonnière (excerpt)
Priest Lucien Laberthonnière, born October 5, 1860 in Chazelet, died October 6, 1932 in Paris, was a French theologist, philosopher, historian and writer. Works (extracts) (fr) Théorie de l'éducation, 1901. Essais de philosophie religieuse, 1903. Le réalisme chrétien et l'idéalisme grec, 1904.
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Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. The city is named after the nearby Lake Winnipeg; the name comes from the Western Cree words for muddy water.
Biography of Gustave Caillebotte (excerpt)
Gustave Caillebotte (August 19, 1848 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – February 21, 1894), was a French painter, member and patron of the group of artists known as Impressionists, stamp collector, and yacht engineer. Gustave Caillebotte was born on August 19, 1848 to an upper-class Parisian family.
Biography of Paul Mounet (excerpt)
(Jean) Paul Mounet (1847-1922) was a French actor, brother of Jean Mounet-Sully. He was born at Bergerac, Dordogne, became a doctor of medicine, and first appeared on the stage in Horace at the Paris Odéon (1880). It was in 1889 that he first played at the Comédie Française, of which he became sociétaire two years later.
Biography of Maurice Barrès (excerpt)
Maurice Barrès (19 August 1862 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 4 December 1923) was a French novelist, journalist, an anti-semite nationalist politician and agitator. Leaning towards the far-left in his youth as a Boulangist deputy, he progressively developed a theory close to Romantic nationalism and shifted to the right during the Dreyfus Affair, leading the Anti-Dreyfusards alongside Charles Maurras. |
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