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New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) and the South Island (Te Waipounamu)—and more than 700 smaller islands, covering a total area of 268,021 square kilometres (103,500 sq mi).
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Biography of Henri Cartier-Bresson (excerpt)
Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" style that has influenced generations of photographers that followed.
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Biography of Claude Lévi-Strauss (excerpt)
Claude Lévi-Strauss (French pronunciation: ; (Brussels, 28 November 1908 – Paris, 1 November 2009) was a French anthropologist, known as the "father of modern anthropology". Early life, education and career Claude Lévi-Strauss was born to Jewish-French parents who were living in Brussels at the time, as his father, a painter, had taken a contract to paint there.
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Biography of Dora Maar (excerpt)
Dora Maar (November 22, 1907 – July 16, 1997) was a French photographer, poet and painter of Croatian descent, best known for being a lover and muse of Pablo Picasso. Life She was born Henriette Theodora Marković in Paris, France to a Jewish family.
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Biography of Frances Farmer (excerpt)
Frances Elena Farmer (September 19, 1913 – August 1, 1970) was an American actress. Early life, career and marriage Farmer was born in Seattle, Washington, to Ernest Melvin Farmer and Lillian Van Ornum Farmer. In 1931, while attending West Seattle High School, she entered and won $100 in a writing contest sponsored by Scholastic Magazine with her controversial essay God Dies, a precocious attempt to reconcile her wish for, in her words, a "superfather" God with her observations of a chaotic, seemingly Godless, world.
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Biography of Bugsy Siegel (excerpt)
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (February 28, 1906 – June 20, 1947) was an American gangster, popularly thought to be the impetus behind large-scale development of Las Vegas. Early life Benjamin Siegelbaum was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a poor Jewish family from Letychiv, Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire (today's Ukraine).
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Biography of Louise Bourgeois (excerpt)
Louise Bourgeois (25 December 1911 – ; 31 May 2010) was a renowned French-American artist and sculptor, best known for the spider structures, titled Maman. These pieces led to her being nicknamed Spiderwoman. Her career spanned at least seven decades.
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Biography of Akira Kurosawa (excerpt)
Akira Kurosawa (Kyūjitai: 黒澤 明, Shinjitai: 黒沢 明, Kurosawa Akira., 23 March 1910 (birth time source: time rectified by Starkman) – 6 September 1998) was a prominent Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His first credited film (Sugata Sanshiro) was released in 1943; his last (Madadayo) in 1993.
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Biography of Ginger Rogers (excerpt)
Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress and singer. In a film career spanning fifty years she made a total of seventy-three films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre.
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Biography of Bing Crosby (excerpt)
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation.
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Biography of Swami Muktananda (excerpt)
Swami Muktananda (May 16, 1908-October 2, 1982) is the monastic name of an Indian Hindu guru. Muktananda was the founder of Siddha Yoga, a new religious movement. He wrote a number of books, including an autobiography entitled The Play of Consciousness.
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Biography of Hergé (excerpt)
Georges Prosper Remi (May 22, 1907 – March 3, 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. "Hergé" is the French pronunciation of "R.G.", his initials reversed. His best-known and most substantial work is The Adventures of Tintin, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, which left the twenty-fourth Tintin adventure, Tintin and Alph-art, unfinished.
Biography of Madame Soleil (excerpt)
Germaine Soleil (July 18, 1913 in Paris - October 27, 1996 in Paris), best known as Madame Soleil, was a French astrologer and radio host en Europe 1 French channel.
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Biography of Clara Bow (excerpt)
Clara Gordon Bow (July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress and sex symbol, best known for her silent film work in the 1920s. Bow was widely recognized as an archetypal flapper and the original "It Girl". Early life
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Biography of Yehudi Menuhin (excerpt)
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE (April 22, 1916 – March 12, 1999) was an American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. Though born in New York City, New York, he later became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and in 1985, of the United Kingdom.
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Biography of Bob Hope (excerpt)
Bob Hope KBE (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was an English-born entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, in radio, television, movies, and on numerous USO tours for U.S. military personnel. English birth Born Leslie Townes Hope in Eltham, London, England, Hope was the fifth of seven sons.
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Biography of Alessandro Volta (excerpt)
Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (February 18, 1745 - March 5, 1827) was an Italian physicist known especially for the development of the electric battery in 1800. Career In 1774, he became professor of physics in the Como high school. His passion had always been the study of electricity, and while still a young student he had even written a poem in Latin on this fascinating new discovery.
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Biography of Jean-Baptiste Morin de Villefranche (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Morin (February 23, 1583—November 6, 1656), also known by his Latin pseudonym as Morinus, was a French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer. Born in Villefranche, Yonne, in the Beaujolais, he began studying philosophy at Aix-en-Provence at the age of 16. He studied medicine at Avignon in 1611 and received his medical degree two years later.
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Biography of Julia Child (excerpt)
Julia Child (born Julia Carolyn McWilliams August 15, 1912 – August 13, 2004) was an American cook, author, and television personality, who introduced French cuisine and cooking techniques to the American mainstream, through her many cookbooks and television programs. Her most famous works are the 1961 cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and, showcasing her sui generis television persona, the series The French Chef, which premiered in 1963.
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Biography of Carlo Ponti (excerpt)
Carlo Ponti (December 11, 1912 – January 9, 2007) was an Italian film producer with over 140 production credits. Career Ponti was born in Magenta, Italy and studied law at the University of Milan. He joined his father's law firm in Milan and became involved in the film business through negotiating contracts.
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Biography of Albert Speer (excerpt)
Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, commonly known as Albert Speer (March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981), was an architect, author and high-ranking Nazi German government official, sometimes called "the first architect of the Third Reich". His two bestselling autobiographical works, Inside the Third Reich and Spandau: the Secret Diaries detailed his often close personal relationship with German dictator Adolf Hitler, have allowed readers and historians an unequalled personal view inside the workings of the Third Reich.
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Biography of Antoine Lavoisier (excerpt)
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (August 26, 1743 – May 8, 1794) the "father of modern chemistry," was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry, finance, biology, and economics. He stated the first version of the law of conservation of mass, co-discovered, recognized and named oxygen (1778), as well as hydrogen, disproved the phlogiston theory, introduced the metric system, wrote the first extensive list of elements, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature.
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Biography of Ian Fleming (excerpt)
Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was a British author, journalist and Second World War Navy Commander. Fleming is best remembered for creating the character of James Bond and chronicling his adventures in twelve novels and nine short stories.
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Biography of Luchino Visconti (excerpt)
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Duke of Modrone (November 2, 1906 - March 17, 1976) was an Italian theatre and cinema director and writer, best known for films such as The Leopard (1963). He died in Rome of a stroke at the age of 69.
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Biography of Joseph Losey (excerpt)
Joseph Walton Losey (January 14, 1909, La Crosse, Wisconsin – June 22, 1984, London) was an American theater and film director. After studying in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey returned to the United States, eventually making his way to Hollywood. While in Hollywood, Losey co-directed the original U.
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Biography of Madame du Barry (excerpt)
Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry (Marie-Jeanne, Comtesse du Barry) (August 19, 1743 - December 8, 1793) was a French courtesan who became the mistress of Louis XV of France and is one of the most famous victims of the Reign of Terror.
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Biography of Louise Brooks (excerpt)
Louise Brooks (14 November 1906 – 8 August 1985) was an American dancer, showgirl, and silent film actress. She became, at the end of her life, a writer and critic of the silent film era. Early life Born Mary Louise Brooks in Cherryvale, Kansas, she was a daughter of a lawyer who was usually too busy with his practice to discipline his children, and an artistic mother who determined any "squalling brats" she produced could take care of themselves.
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Biography of Charles Trenet (excerpt)
Charles Trenet (May 18, 1913, Narbonne, France (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 184) – February 19, 2001, Créteil, France) was a French singer and songwriter, most famous for his recordings from the late 1930s through the mid-1950s, though his career continued through the 1990s.
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Biography of Wernher von Braun (excerpt)
Dr. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977) was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States. The German scientist, who led Germany's rocket development program (V-2) before and during World War II, entered the United States at the end of the war through the then-secret Operation Paperclip. ![]()
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Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south; Iran to the west; Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to the north; and China to the northeast.
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Biography of Georges Simenon (excerpt)
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (February 13, 1903–September 4, 1989) was a Belgian writer who wrote in French. Early life and education Georges Simenon was born at 26 rue Léopold (now number 24) in Ličge to Désiré Simenon and his wife Henriette. Désiré Simenon worked in an accounting office at an insurance company and had married Henriette in April 1902. ![]()
Biography of Claude Pompidou (excerpt)
Claude Jacqueline Pompidou (13 November 1912 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 3 July 2007) was the wife of President of France Georges Pompidou. She was a philanthropist and a patron of modern art, especially through the Centre Georges Pompidou. Life before politics ![]()
Biography of James J. Braddock (excerpt)
James Walter "Cinderella Man" Braddock (June 7, 1905 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, from "James J. Braddock's Life Story," Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic.), 7 Aug 1935, p. 12) – November 29, 1974) was an American boxer who was the world heavyweight champion from 1935–37.
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Biography of Gerald Ford (excerpt)
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was the 38th President of the United States (1974–1977), and is, to date, the only person to occupy that office who had been elected neither to the presidency nor the vice-presidency.
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Biography of Willem de Kooning (excerpt)
Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter Elaine Fried.
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Biography of René Char (excerpt)
René Char (June 14, 1907 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 74) – February 19, 1988) was a 20th century French poet. Born in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in the Vaucluse departement of France, he died in 1988, in Paris. In 1929 he met André Breton and Paul Éluard and joined the surrealist group but distanced himself gradually from the mid 1930s on.
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Biography of Tennessee Williams (excerpt)
Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), better known by the pseudonym Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. The name "Tennessee" was a name given to him by college friends because of his southern accent and his father's background in Tennessee.
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Biography of Mircea Eliade (excerpt)
Mircea Eliade (March 13 1907 – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day.
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Biography of Klaus Barbie (excerpt)
Klaus Barbie (October 25, 1913 – September 25, 1991) was an SS-Hauptsturmführer, soldier and Gestapo member. He was known as the Butcher of Lyon. Early life Klaus Barbie was born in Bad Godesberg, near Bonn, Germany. Barbie was born to a Roman Catholic family. ![]()
Biography of François Duvalier (excerpt)
Dr. François Duvalier, known as "Papa Doc" (April 14, 1907 (birth time source: Luc de Marre) – April 21, 1971), was the President of Haiti from 1957 and later dictator (President for Life) from 1964 until his death. His rule was marked by autocracy, corruption, and reliance on private armies (see Tonton Macoute) to maintain power.
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Biography of Ray Kroc (excerpt)
Raymond Albert Kroc (October 5, 1902 - January 14, 1984) took over the then small-scale McDonald's Corporation franchise in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world. Kroc was included in the TIME 100 list of the world's most influential builders and titans of industry, and amassed a $500 million fortune during his lifetime.
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Biography of Dr. Seuss (excerpt)
Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts – September 24, 1991) was an American writer and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen name Dr. Seuss. He published over 60 children's books, which were often characterized by imaginative characters, rhyme, and frequent use of trisyllabic meter.
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Biography of Deng Xiaoping (excerpt)
Deng Xiaoping (simplified Chinese: 邓小平; traditional Chinese: 鄧小平; pinyin: Dčng Xiǎopíng; Wade-Giles: Teng Hsiao-p'ing; August 22, 1904 – February 19, 1997) was a prominent Chinese politician and reformer, and the late leader of the Communist Party of China (CCP). Deng never held office as the head of state or the head of government, but served as the de facto leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to the early 1990s.
Biography of Lillian Asplund (excerpt)
Lillian Gertrud Asplund (October 21, 1906 – May 6, 2006) was the last American (Swedish American) survivor of the Titanic disaster. She was thought to be the last Titanic survivor with actual memories of the sinking, as the remaining survivors were less than one year old at the time.
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Biography of B. F. Skinner (excerpt)
Burrhus Frederic "Fred" Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990), Ph.D. was a highly influential American psychologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform and poet. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until retirement in 1974.
Biography of Abraham Maslow (excerpt)
Abraham (Harold) Maslow (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist. He is mostly noted today for his proposal of a hierarchy of human needs and is considered the father of humanistic psychology. Life Born in Brooklyn, New York, Maslow was the first of seven children of Jewish immigrants from Russia. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Boulle (excerpt)
Pierre Boulle (20 February 1912 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 30 January 1994) was a French novelist largely known for his combination of psychology and adventure, most famously in The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963). ![]()
Biography of Lee Krasner (excerpt)
Lee Krasner (October 27, 1908 – June 19, 1984) was an influential American abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century. On October 25, 1945, she married artist Jackson Pollock, who was also influential in the abstract expressionism movement.
Biography of Jeane Dixon (excerpt)
Jeane L. Dixon (January 5, 1904 – January 25, 1997) was one of the best-known American astrologers and psychics of the 20th century, due to her syndicated newspaper astrology column, some well-publicized predictions, and a best-selling biography. Early life Dixon was born as Lydia Emma Pinckert to German immigrants, Gerhart and Emma Pinckert, in Medford, Wisconsin, but raised in Missouri and California.
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Biography of Jean Genet (excerpt)
Jean Genet (December 19, 1910 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – April 15, 1986), was a a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later took to writing. |
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