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Horoscopes with Neptune in PiscesYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Neptune in Pisces. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of William Thomas Stead (excerpt)
William Thomas Stead (5 July 1849 - 15 April 1912) was an English journalist. He was born in Darlington, the son of a Congregational minister. Early journalism He attended Silcoates School in Wakefield, but was early apprenticed in a merchant's office at Newcastle-on-Tyne.
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Biography of James Mark Baldwin (excerpt)
James Mark Baldwin (January 12, 1861 – November 8, 1934) was an American philosopher and psychologist who was educated at Princeton under the supervision of Scottish philosopher James McCosh and who was one of the founders of the Department of Psychology at the university.
Biography of John Hazelrigg (excerpt)
John Hazelrigg, born June 20, 1860 in Hazelrigg, Indiana, died in October 1941, was an American astrologer and author.
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Biography of Charles-Jean-Baptiste Fleuriau de Morville (excerpt)
Charles Jean-Baptiste Fleuriau, comte de Morville (30 October 1686, Paris - 2 February 1732) was a French statesman. Son of Joseph Fleuriau d'Armenonville, he was ambassador to Holland, then Secretary of State for the Navy from 28 February 1722 to 16 August 1723. ![]()
Biography of Antoine Bourdelle (excerpt)
Antoine Bourdelle (October 30, 1861, Montauban (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 1, 1929), originally Émile Antoine Bourdelle, was a French sculptor and teacher. Career Antoine Bourdelle (pronounceed an-twahn boor-dell) was born at Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne. He left school at the age of 13 to work as a wood carver in his father's cabinet making shop. ![]()
Biography of Charles Chamberland (excerpt)
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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Cedar Rapids is the second-largest city in Iowa, United States and is the county seat of Linn County. The city lies on both banks of the Cedar River, 20 miles (32 km) north of Iowa City and 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Des Moines, the state's capital and largest city.
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Biography of Alfred Deakin (excerpt)
Alfred Deakin (3 August 1856 in Melbourne, Australia – 7 October 1919), Australian politician, was a leader of the movement for Australian federation and later second Prime Minister of Australia. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Deakin was a major contributor to the establishment of liberal reforms in the colony of Victoria, including the protection of rights at work.
Biography of Horatio Bottomley (excerpt)
Horatio William Bottomley (23 March 1860 – 26 May 1933) was a British financier, swindler, journalist, newspaper proprietor, populist politician and Member of Parliament (MP). Early life Horatio Bottomley was born in Birmingham on 23 March 1860. He was orphaned at the age of 4 and spent 14 years growing up in an orphanage. ![]()
Biography of Henri La Fontaine (excerpt)
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). ![]()
Biography of Georges Eekhoud (excerpt)
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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Biography of Joseph von Mering (excerpt)
Josef, Baron von Mering (born February 28, 1849, in Cologne - died January 5, 1908, at Halle an der Saale, Germany) was a German physician. Working at the University of Strasbourg, Mering was the first person to discover (in conjunction with Oskar Minkowski) that one of the pancreatic functions is the production of insulin, a hormone which controls blood sugar levels. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Estaunie (excerpt)
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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Biography of Jean-Joseph Weerts (excerpt)
Jean-Joseph Weerts, born May 1st, 1947 in Roubaix, is a French painter.
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Biography of Charles Van Lerberghe (excerpt)
Charles van Lerberghe (21 October 1861 at Ghent, Belgium, died 26 October 1907 in Brussels) was a Flemish (Belgian) symbolist poet writing in French. ![]()
Biography of Francesco Geminiani (excerpt)
Francesco Saverio Geminiani (5 December 1687 – 17 September 1762) was an Italian violinist, composer, and music theorist. Geminiani was born at Lucca. He received lessons in music from Alessandro Scarlatti, and studied the violin under Carlo Ambrogio Lonati in Milan and afterwards under Arcangelo Corelli. ![]()
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 Marguerite Rachilde (excerpt)
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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Biography of Caran d'Ache (cartoonist) (excerpt)
Caran d'Ache was the pseudonym of the 19th century French satirist and political cartoonist Emmanuel Poiré. "Caran d'Ache" comes from the Russian word karandash (карандаш), meaning pencil (of Turkic origin; "kara dash" meaning black stone). While his first work glorified the Napoleonic era, he went on to create "stories without words" and as a contributor to newspapers such as the Lundi du Figaro, he is sometimes hailed as one of the precursors of comic strips.
Biography of Éphrem-A. Brisebois (excerpt)
Inspector Éphrem-A. Brisebois (7 March 1850 – 13 February 1890) was a politician, soldier, and police officer with the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) of Canada. He was born 7 March 1850 at South Durham, Canada East, now Durham-Sud, Quebec. Early career Brisebois showed himself to be an excellent student and was fluently bilingual in English and French.
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Biography of Laurent Tailhade (excerpt)
Laurent Tailhade (16 April 1854, Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées - 2 November 1919, Combs-la-Ville) was a French satirical poet, anarchist polemicist, essayist, and translator, active in Paris in the 1890s and early 1900s. His most well-known poetry collections, Au Pays du mufle (1891) and Imbéciles et gredins (1900) have retained their insulting wit and verve, which blends the street slang of the outer faubourgs (suburbs) of Paris with the rich language of a broad-ranging culture. ![]()
Biography of Lucien Hillemacher (excerpt)
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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Biography of Benjamin Godard (excerpt)
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. ![]()
Biography of Gustav Falke (excerpt)
Gustav Falke (January 11, 1853 – February 8, 1916) was a German writer. Life Falke was born in Lübeck to merchant Johann Friedrich Christian Falke and his wife Elisabeth Franziska Hoyer. The historians Johannes and Jacob von Falke were his uncles, translator Otto Falke his cousin. ![]()
Biography of John French (excerpt)
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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On 15 April 2019, just before 18:20 CEST, a fire broke out beneath the roof of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral in Paris. By the time the structure fire was extinguished the building's spire had collapsed, most of its roof had been destroyed and its upper walls were severely damaged.
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Biography of Ferdinand Bac (excerpt)
Ferdinand-Sigismond Bach, born August 15, 1859 in Stuttgart, Germany, died November 18, 1952 in Compiègne, France, was a French writer, artist, caricaturist, humorist, illustrator, painter, designer, and lithographer. Works * Les Maîtresses, comprenant 100 dessins en couleurs (1897) * La Comédie féminine, contenant 100 dessins inédits (1899)
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Biography of Alfred Bruneau (excerpt)
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.
Biography of Étienne Lauréault de Foncemagne (excerpt)
Étienne Lauréault de Foncemagne (8 May 1694 à Orléans - 26 September 1779 à Paris) was a French churchman and scholar. Biogaraphy An Oratorian and professor, he was elected to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1722 and to the Académie française in 1736.
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Biography of Edwin Markham (excerpt)
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.
Biography of Dream Kardashian (excerpt)
Dream Kardashian, born November 10, 2016 in Los Angeles, California (source for her time of birth: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate on TMZ.com), is the daughter of Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna. Her aunts are Kylie Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, Casey Jenner, Kendall Jenner and Kourtney Kardashian, and her grandparents Shalana Hunter, Kris Jenner, Robert Kardashian, and Eric Holland.
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Biography of Dogen (excerpt)
Dōgen Zenji (道元禅師; also Dōgen Kigen 道元希玄, or Eihei Dōgen 永平道元, or Koso Joyo Daishi) (19 January 1200 – 22 September 1253) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher born in Uji near Kyōto. He founded the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan after travelling to China and training under Rujing, a master of the Chinese Caodong lineage. ![]()
Biography of Pope Clement XIII (excerpt)
Pope Clement XIII ( He became pope on 6 July 1758. In the same year the Rezzonico family were celebrating Ludovico Rezzonico's marriage into the powerful Savorgnan family. The son of the man who bought the unfinished palace on the Grand Canal (now Ca' Rezzonico) and finished its construction, Carlo the pontiff was notorious for his rampant nepotism. ![]()
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On the evening of October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old man from Mesquite, Nevada, opened fire upon the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. From his 32nd-floor suites in the Mandalay Bay Hotel he fired more than 1,000 bullets, killing 60 people and wounding 411, with the ensuing panic bringing the number of injured to 867.
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Biography of Henri Lavedan (excerpt)
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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Biography of Alexandre Bisson (excerpt)
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 Alfred Capus (excerpt)
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.
Biography of Thomas Callender (excerpt)
Thomas Callender, born April 9, 1855 in Glasgow, was a Scottish businessman and entrepreneur.
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Biography of Jacobus Henricus Van 't Hoff (excerpt)
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (August 30, 1852 – March 1, 1911) was a Dutch physical and organic chemist and the winner of the inaugural Nobel Prize in chemistry. His research on chemical kinetics, chemical equilibrium, osmotic pressure and crystallography is credited to be his major work.
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Biography of Gustave Delory (excerpt)
Gustave Delory, born September 10, 1957 in Lille and died August 17, 1925 in Lille, was a French socialist politician. he was the first Mayor of Lille in 1896. ![]()
Biography of Isabella Augusta Gregory (excerpt)
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. ![]()
Biography of Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (excerpt)
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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Biography of Henrik Pontoppidan (excerpt)
Henrik Pontoppidan (July 24, 1857–August 21, 1943) was a realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for "his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark." Pontoppidan's novels and short stories — informed with a desire for social progress but despairing, later in his life, of its realization — present an unusually comprehensive picture of his country and his epoch. ![]()
Biography of Emil Berliner (excerpt)
Emile Berliner (May 20, 1851 – August 3, 1929) was a German naturalized American inventor. He is best known for developing the disc record gramophone (phonograph in American English). He founded The Berliner Gramophone Company in 1895, The Gramophone Company in London, England, in 1897, Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover, Germany, in 1898 and Berliner Gram-o-phone Company of Canada in Montreal in 1899 (chartered in 1904).
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Biography of Diamond Jim Brady (excerpt)
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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Biography of Andrew Forsyth (excerpt)
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.
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Biography of Octave Callandreau (excerpt)
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).
Biography of Walthere Spring (excerpt)
Walthere Spring, born March 6, 1848 in Liège and died in 1911, was a Belgian chemist.
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Biography of Remy de Gourmont (excerpt)
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. ![]()
Biography of Maurice Barrymore (excerpt)
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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