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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 Francis Hutcheson (excerpt)
Francis Hutcheson (August 8, 1694 – August 8, 1746) was a philosopher born in Ireland to a family of Scottish Presbyterians who became one of the founding fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment. Beginnings He is thought to have been born at Drumalig, in the parish of Saintfield, County Down, Ireland.
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Biography of Marie Gabrielle Éléonore de Bourbon (excerpt)
Marie Anne Éléonore de Bourbon (Marie Anne Éléonore Gabrielle; 22 December 1690 – 30 August 1760) was a daughter of Louis de Bourbon. She was the Abbess of Saint-Antoine-des-Champs, an abbey in the Villejuif suburb of Paris. Biography Marie Anne Éléonore was born at the Palace of Versailles to the Duke and Duchess of Bourbon. ![]()
Biography of Paul de Vivie (excerpt)
Paul de Vivie, who wrote as Vélocio (April 29, 1853 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)– February 27, 1930), was publisher of Le Cycliste, an early champion of derailleur gears, and father of French bicycle touring and randonneuring. Background De Vivie was born at Pernes-les-Fontaines, France. ![]()
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Sioux City is a city in Woodbury and Plymouth counties in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 85,791 in the 2020 census, which makes it the fourth-largest city in Iowa. The bulk of the city is in Woodbury County, of which it is the county seat, though a small portion is in Plymouth County. ![]()
Biography of Coquelin cadet (excerpt)
Ernest Alexandre Honoré Coquelin (16 May 1848 (birth time source: Lescaut) – 8 February 1909) was a French actor and author. Also called Coquelin cadet, to distinguish him from his brother, he was born at Boulogne, and entered the Conservatoire in 1864. ![]()
Biography of Jeanne d'Albret (excerpt)
Jeanne d'Albret (16 November 1528 (birth time source: page 7 of "Queen of Navarre, Jeanne d’Albret: 1528-1572’" published in 1968 by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in Cambridge, Mass, author Nancy Lyman Roelker, email on 11/25/2014). – 9 June 1572), also known as Jeanne III or Joan III, was the queen regnant of Navarre from 1555 to 1572.
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Biography of Daniel Frohman (excerpt)
Daniel Frohman (August 22, 1851 - December 26, 1940) was a Jewish American theatrical producer and manager, and an early film producer. Frohman was born in Sandusky, Ohio. In his younger days he worked as a clerk at the New York Tribune, and while there witnessed the fatal shooting of the reporter Albert Deane Richardson by Daniel McFarland on November 25, 1869, and was a witness at McFarland's murder trial. ![]()
Biography of Fannie Farmer (excerpt)
Fannie Merritt Farmer (23 March 1857 - 15 January 1915) was an American culinary expert whose Boston Cooking-School Cook Book became a widely used culinary text. Biography Farmer was born in Medford, Massachusetts, USA, to Mary Watson Merritt and John Franklin Farmer, an editor and printer.
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Biography of David Belasco (excerpt)
David Belasco (July 25, 1853 – May 14, 1931) was an American playwright, impresario, director and theatrical producer. Born in San Francisco, California, where his Sephardic Jewish parents had moved from London, England during the Gold Rush, he began working in a San Francisco theatre doing a variety of routine jobs such as call boy and script copier.
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Biography of Olive Schreiner (excerpt)
Olive Schreiner (24 March 1855 - December 11, 1920), was a South African author, pacifist and political activist. She is best known for her novel The Story of an African Farm, which has been acclaimed for the manner it tackled the issues of its day, ranging from agnosticism to the treatment of women.
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Biography of Lucien Descaves (excerpt)
Lucien Descaves (18 March 1861, Paris - 6 September 1949) was a French novelist and journalist. A disciple of Joris-Karl Huysmans and the Goncourt brothers his novels Le Calvaire d'Héloïse Pajadou (1883) and Une vieille rate (1883) followed strongly the naturalism movement. ![]()
Biography of Maurice Hamy (excerpt)
Maurice Théodore Adolphe Hamy, born October 31, 1861 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, died April 9, 1936, was a French astronomer. He was President of Bureau des Longitudes, a French scientific institution, founded by decree of June 25, 1795 and charged with the improvement of nautical navigation, standardisation of time-keeping, geodesy and astronomical observation. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Marc Nattier (excerpt)
Jean-Marc Nattier (March 17, 1685 - 1766), French painter, was born in Paris, the son of Marc Nattier, a portrait painter, and of Marie Courtois, a miniaturist. He received his first instruction from his father, and having applied himself to copying pictures at the Luxembourg Gallery, he refused to proceed to the French Academy in Rome, though he had taken the first prize at the Paris Academy at the age of fifteen. ![]()
Biography of August Bier (excerpt)
August Karl Gustav Bier (24 November 1861 – 12 March 1949) was German surgeon and the pioneer of spinal anaesthesia. After professorships in Greifswald and Bonn, Bier became a professor at the Charité in Berlin. Bier's breakthrough in spinal anaesthesia was made in 1898 when he performed the first planned spinal anaesthetic on a series of 6 patients for lower extremity surgery.
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Biography of Henri Moissan (excerpt)
Ferdinand Frederick Henri Moissan (September 28, 1852, Paris – February 20, 1907) was a French chemist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds. Biography The family Moissan originated from Toulouse and moved to Paris, where Moissan was born September 28, 1852, the son of a lesser officer of the eastern railway company and a seamstress.
Biography of David Cope (excerpt)
David Cope (also known as Zariel), born September 3, 1848 in Birmingham, died July 14, 1934 in Melbourne, was a British and Australian astrologer, author, and musician. ![]()
Biography of Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin (excerpt)
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Ph.D, LL.D. (9 October 1858 – 12 March 1935; Serbian Cyrillic: Михајло Идворски Пупин), also known as Michael I. Pupin, was a Serbian-American physicist and physical chemist. Pupin is best known for his numerous patents, including a means of greatly extending the range of long-distance telephone communication by placing loading coils (of wire) at predetermined intervals along the transmitting wire (known as "pupinization"). ![]()
Biography of Aristide Bruant (excerpt)
Aristide Bruant (6 May 1851 – 10 February 1925) was a French cabaret singer, comedian, and nightclub owner. He is best known as the man in the red scarf and black cape featured on certain famous posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. ![]()
Biography of Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon (excerpt)
Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon (Louise Élisabeth; 22 November 1693–27 May 1775) was a daughter of Louis III de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, and his wife, Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Légitimée de France, a legitimised daughter of Louis XIV of France and Madame de Montespan. ![]()
Biography of Maurice Hewlett (excerpt)
Maurice Henry Hewlett (January 22, 1861-1923), was an English historical novelist, poet and essayist. He was born at London and raised at Weybridge, the eldest son of Henry Gay Hewlett, of Shaw Hall, Addington, Kent. He was educated at the London International College, Spring Grove, Isleworth, and was called to the bar in 1891. ![]()
Biography of Samuel Rutherford Crockett (excerpt)
Samuel Rutherford Crockett (24 September 1859 – 16 April 1914) was a Scottish novelist, born at Duchrae, Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire, the illegitimate grandson of a farmer. He was raised on his grandfather's Galloway farm, and graduated from Edinburgh University during 1879. After some years of travel he became in 1886 minister of Penicuik.
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Biography of Ludwig Ganghofer (excerpt)
Ludwig Ganghofer (July 7, 1855 - July 24, 1920) was a German writer who became famous for his homeland novels. Biography Born in Kaufbeuren, he graduated from a gymnasium in 1873 and subsequently worked as a fitter in Augsburg engine works. In 1875, he entered Munich Polytechnic as a student of mechanical engineering, but eventually changed his major to history of literature and philosophy, which subjects he studied in Munich, Berlin and Leipzig. ![]()
Biography of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (excerpt)
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (17 September 1857 – 19 September 1935) was an Imperial Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory. Along with his followers the German Hermann Oberth and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is considered to be one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics. ![]()
Biography of Margaret of Parma (excerpt)
Margaret, Duchess of Parma (28 December 1522 – 18 January 1586) governor of the Netherlands from 1559 to 1567, was the illegitimate daughter of Charles V. Her mother, Johanna Maria van der Gheynst, a servant of Charles de Lalaing, Seigneur de Montigny, was a Fleming. ![]()
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Bradford is the second-largest city in West Yorkshire, England. It forms the core of the City of Bradford metropolitan borough, which also includes the towns of Keighley, Shipley, Bingley and Ilkley, and borders the City of Leeds and Calderdale to the east and south respectively as well as the counties of Lancashire and North Yorkshire. ![]()
Biography of Francois-Henry Laperrine (excerpt)
Marie-Joseph-François-Henry Laperrine (1860 - 1920) was French general who served during World War. ![]()
Biography of Katherine Tingley (excerpt)
Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley (July 6, 1847 - July 11, 1929) was a social worker and prominent Theosophist. She led the American Section of the Theosophical Society after W. Q. Judge. She founded and led the Theosophical community Lomaland in Point Loma, California. ![]()
Biography of Bramwell Booth (excerpt)
Bramwell Booth, CH (8 March 1856 (birth time source: Lois Rodden) – 16 June 1929) was the first Chief of Staff (1881–1912) and the second General of The Salvation Army (1912–1929), succeeding his father, William Booth. Biography Born as William Bramwell Booth in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, the oldest child born to William Booth and Catherine Mumford, he had two brothers and five sisters, including Evangeline Booth, Catherine Booth-Clibborn, Emma Booth and Ballington Booth.
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Biography of Robert Planquette (excerpt)
Jean Robert Planquette (31 July 1848 – 28 January 1903) was a French composer of songs and operettas. Several of Planquette's operettas were extraordinarily successful in Britain, including Les cloches de Corneville (1878), the length of whose initial London run broke all records for any piece of musical theatre up to that time, and Rip Van Winkle (1882), which earned international fame.
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Biography of Joseph Reinach (excerpt)
Joseph Reinach (September 30, 1856 – April 18, 1921) was a French author and politician. He was born in Paris. His two brothers Salomon and Theodore would become well-known in the field of archaeology. After studying at the Lycée Condorcet he was called to the bar in 1887.
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Biography of Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon (excerpt)
Louis Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Bourbon, Prince de Condé (Louis Henri Joseph; 18 August 1692 – 27 January 1740) was head of the Bourbon-Condé cadet branch of the France's reigning House of Bourbon from 1710 to his death, and served as prime minister to his kinsman Louis XV from 1723 to 1726.
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Biography of Gustave Kahn (excerpt)
Gustave Kahn (December 21, 1859 – September 5, 1936) was a French Symbolist poet and art critic. Kahn was born in Metz. He claimed to have invented the term vers libre, or free verse; he was in any case one of the first European exponents of the form; he wrote rhymed verse as well. ![]()
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The Boston Marathon bombing was a domestic terrorist attack that took place during the annual Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. Two terrorists, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, planted two homemade pressure cooker bombs, which detonated 14 seconds and 210 yards (190 m) apart at 2:49 p. ![]()
Biography of Elisabeth Farnese (excerpt)
Elisabeth Farnese (Italian: Elisabetta Farnese, Spanish: Isabel de Farnesio; 25 October 1692 – 11 July 1766), the daughter of Odoardo Farnese and Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg, was Queen consort of Spain who exerted great influence over Spain's foreign policy. Biography Parma Elisabeth was born at the Palazzo della Pilotta in Parma, the capital of a duchy which had been ruled by her family for over two centuries. ![]()
Biography of Lucien Guitry (excerpt)
Lucien Germain Guitry (13 December 1860 – 1 June 1925) was a French actor and comedian, the father of Sacha Guitry. Lucien Guitry was born in Paris. In 1885 he was appearing in Saint Petersburg, where he lived for a few years, at the French Theatre (or Mikhaylovsky Theatre. ![]()
Biography of Georges Leygues (excerpt)
Georges Leygues (French pronunciation: ; 26 October 1857 – 2 September 1933) was a French politician of the Third Republic. During his time as Minister of Marine he worked with the navy's chief of staff Henri Salaun in unsuccessful attempts to gain naval re-armament priority for government funding over army rearmament such as the Maginot Line. ![]()
Biography of E. Nesbit (excerpt)
Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet whose children's works were published under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of which have been adapted for film and television. ![]()
Biography of Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (excerpt)
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (19 January 1851 – 18 June 1922) was a Dutch astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way. He found that the apparent movement of stars was not randomly distributed but had two preferential directions: the two star streams. ![]()
Biography of Verner von Heidenstam (excerpt)
Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (July 6, 1859 – May 20, 1940) was a Swedish poet and novellist, a laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1916. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1912. Most of his works are passionate depictions of the Swedish character, Swedish life and traditions, often from a clearly patriotic point of view. ![]()
Biography of Joseph François Dupleix (excerpt)
Joseph-François, Marquis Dupleix (1 January 1697 – 10 November 1763) was governor general of the French establishment in India, and the rival of Robert Clive. Biography Dupleix was born in Landrecies, France. His father, François Dupleix, a wealthy fermier général, wished to bring him up as a merchant, and, in order to distract him from his taste for science, sent him on a voyage to India in 1715 on one of the French East India Company's vessels. ![]()
Biography of Alessandro Moreschi (excerpt)
Alessandro Moreschi (November 11, 1858 - April 21, 1922) was the most famous castrato singer of the late 19th century, and the only castrato of the classic bel canto tradition to make solo sound recordings. Life Alessandro Moreschi was born into a large Roman Catholic family in the town of Monte Compatri, near Frascati. ![]()
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Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte, Charlottetown was an unincorporated town until it was incorporated as a city in 1855. It was the site of the famous Charlottetown Conference in 1864, the first gathering of Canadian and Maritime statesmen to discuss the proposed Maritime Union.
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Biography of Ferdinand Brunetiere (excerpt)
Ferdinand Brunetière (18 July 1849 – 9 December 1906) was a French writer and critic. Biography Early years Brunetière was born in Toulon, Var, Provence. After school at Marseille, he studied in Paris at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. Desiring a teaching career, he entered for examination at the École Normale Supérieure, but failed, and the outbreak of war in 1870 prevented him trying again. ![]()
Biography of Fernand Foureau (excerpt)
Fernand Foureau, born October 17, 1950 in Saint-Barbant (Haute-Vienne) and died in 1914, was a French engineer and explorer. He made several notable expeditions across the Sahara.
Biography of J. P. MacGillivray (excerpt)
J. P. MacGillivray, born May 30, 1856 in Kintore, Scotland, was a Scottish artist and sculptor.
Biography of James Guthrie (excerpt)
Sir James Guthrie (June 10, 1859 – September 6, 1930) was a Scottish painter. He was best known in his own lifetime for his portraiture, although today he is more generally as a painter of Scottish Realism. Born in Greenock, Guthrie, the son of a clergyman, originally enrolled at Glasgow University to study law, but abandoned this in favour of painting in 1877.
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Biography of Raoul Ponchon (excerpt)
Raoul Ponchon, born December 30, 1848 in Napoléon-Vendée (now La Roche-sur-Yon), died December 3, 1937 in Paris, was a French writer, poet, and painter. Selected works * La Muse au cabaret, Fasquelle 1920, publié de son vivant. Réédition chez Cyral en 1925 (600 ex.
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Biography of Horatio Brown (excerpt)
Horatio Robert Forbes Brown (16 February 1854 (birth time source: Ed Steinbrecher) – 19 August 1926) was a Scottish historian and author who specialized in the history of Venice and Italy. Born in Nice, he grew up in Midlothian, Scotland, was educated in England at Clifton and Oxford, and spent most of his life in Venice, publishing several books about the city.
Biography of F.W. Lacey (excerpt)
F.W. Lacey, born March 26, 1854 in Berkhamsted, died December 11, 1932 in Arundel, was a British astrologer and auther.
Biography of Philip Bourke Marston (excerpt)
Philip Bourke Marston (13 August 1850 – 13 February 1887) was an English poet. He was born in London. His father, John Westland Marston (1819-1890), wrote verse dramas, and was a friend of Dickens, Macready and Charles Kean. Philip's godparents were Philip James Bailey and Dinah Mulock. |
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