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Biography of Wilhelm Ostwald (excerpt)
Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (Latvian: Vilhelms Ostvalds; 2 September 1853 (birth time source: Ebertin, birth certificate) – 4 April 1932) was a Baltic German chemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities. ![]()
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Brexit (a portmanteau of "British" and "exit") was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU). Following a June 2016 referendum, in which 52% voted to leave, the UK government formally announced the country's withdrawal in March 2017, beginning the Brexit process. ![]()
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On 26 July 2016, two Islamist terrorists attacked participants in a Mass at a Catholic church in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy, northern France. Wielding knives and wearing fake explosive belts, the men took six people captive and later killed one of them, 85-year-old priest Jacques Hamel, by slitting his throat, and also critically wounded an 86-year-old man. ![]()
Biography of Italo Svevo (excerpt)
Aron Ettore Schmitz (December 19, 1861 – September 13, 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo (Italian: ), was an Italian writer and businessman, known as a novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Life and career Born in Trieste (then in Austrian Empire, after 1867 Austria-Hungary) as Aron Ettore Schmitz to a Jewish family that originated in Germany, Italo Svevo (literally Italian Swabian) wrote the classic novel La Coscienza di Zeno (rendered as Confessions of Zeno, or Zeno's Conscience) and self-published it in 1923.
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Biography of Gilles de la Tourette (excerpt)
Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette (30 October 1857 – 26 May 1904) was a French physician and the eponym of Tourette syndrome, a neurological condition. He was born in "the small town of Saint-Gervais-les-Trois-Clochers, in the district of Châtellerault near the city of Loudun, France", and died in Lausanne, Switzerland. ![]()
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The 2016 Ecuador earthquake occurred on April 16 at 18:58:37 ECT with a moment magnitude of 7.8 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). The very large thrust earthquake was centered approximately 27 km (17 mi) from the towns of Muisne and Pedernales in a sparsely populated part of the country, and 170 km (110 mi) from the capital Quito, where it was felt strongly.
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Biography of Félix Buhot (excerpt)
Félix Hilaire Buhot (July 9, 1847 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, civil registrar) - April 26, 1898) was a French painter and illustrator. Among the most original prints made in France during the last quarter of the nineteenth century are those by Félix Buhot. ![]()
Biography of Charles Alderton (excerpt)
Charles Courtice Alderton (born June 21, 1857 in Brooklyn, New York, died on May 29, 1941) was an American pharmacist, and the creator of the carbonated soft drink Dr Pepper. He attended school in England, studied medicine in Texas, and worked as a pharmacist in Waco, in a shop called "Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store", where he formulated Dr Pepper. ![]()
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A gunman yesterday wounded three people on an international train in Belgium, near the French border. Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel called the shooting a "terrorist attack" and French counterterrorism police are investigating. Two United States Marines on the train heard a weapon being loaded in a bathroom. ![]()
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The Puisseguin accident is a road accident that occurred on October 23, 2015 in Puisseguin, in the north-east of the Gironde in the south-west of France. A coach collides with a semi-trailer truck which has swerved to the left on a bend in a departmental road. ![]()
Biography of Marie Anne de Bourbon (1697-1741) (excerpt)
Marie Anne de Bourbon (Marie Anne; 16 October 1697 – 11 August 1741) was a French noblewoman, the daughter of Louis III, Prince of Condé. Her father was the grandson of le Grand Condé and her mother, Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Nantes, was the eldest surviving daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan.
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Biography of Benjamin Tucker (excerpt)
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (April 17, 1854 – June 22, 1939) was a proponent, in the 19th century, of American individualist anarchism, which he called "unterrified Jeffersonianism," and editor and publisher of the individualist anarchist periodical Liberty. Early life and influences Tucker was born on April 17, 1854 in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
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Biography of John-Antoine Nau (excerpt)
John Antoine Nau (November 19, 1860–March 17, 1918), real name Eugène Léon Édouard Torquet, was a French poet and writer most famous for his novel Enemy Force, which won the first Prix Goncourt in 1903. Life He was born on November 19, 1860, in San Francisco, California and was thus an American citizen. ![]()
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On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$15 billion in property damage, and leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless. ![]()
Biography of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (excerpt)
Sigismund of Luxemburg (14 February 1368 – 9 December 1437) was Prince-elector of Brandenburg from 1378 until 1388 and from 1411 until 1415, King of Hungary and Croatia from 1387, King of Germany from 1411, King of Bohemia from 1419, King of Italy from 1431, and Holy Roman Emperor for four years from 1433 until 1437, the last male member of the House of Luxemburg. ![]()
Biography of Amy Robsart (excerpt)
Amy Dudley (née Robsart) (7 June 1532 – 8 September 1560) was the first wife of Lord Robert Dudley, favourite of Elizabeth I of England. She is primarily known for her death by falling down a flight of stairs, the circumstances of which have often been regarded as suspicious.
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Biography of Ethelbert Talbot (excerpt)
Ethelbert Talbot (October 9, 1848–February 27, 1928) was the fifteenth presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. He is credited with inspiring Pierre de Coubertin to coin the phrase, "The important thing in the Olympic Games is not so much the winning but taking part, for the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. ![]()
Biography of Sara Roosevelt (excerpt)
Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt (September 21, 1854 – September 7, 1941) was the second wife of James Roosevelt I (from 1880), the mother of President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her only child, and subsequently the mother-in-law of Eleanor Roosevelt. ![]()
Biography of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (excerpt)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (15 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was an English aristocrat and writer. Lady Mary is today chiefly remembered for her letters, particularly her letters from Turkey, as wife to the British ambassador, which have been described by Billie Melman as “the very first example of a secular work by a woman about the Muslim Orient”. ![]()
Biography of Jane Toppan (excerpt)
Jane Toppan (born Honora Kelley; March 31, 1854 – August 17, 1938), nicknamed Jolly Jane, was an American serial killer who is known to have committed twelve murders in Massachusetts between 1895 and 1901; she confessed to a total of thirty-one murders. ![]()
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The 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes (Japanese: 熊本地震 (2016年) Hepburn: Kumamoto jishin 2016-nen.) are a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that occurred at 01:25 JST on April 16, 2016, near Kumamoto, the capital city of Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan, at a depth of about 10 kilometres (6. ![]()
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The former President of Cuba, Fidel Castro died of natural causes at 22:29 (CST) in the evening of 25 November 2016. His brother, current President Raúl Castro, made an announcement about his death on state television. Most reactions contained praise for Castro's achievements or statements about positive binational relations with Cuba, while other reactions contained more neutral condolences.
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Biography of Charles Debierre (excerpt)
Charles Debierre, born on October 31, 1853 in Ételfay (Somme) (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 8), died on March 8, 1932 in Lillie (Nord), was a French politician, and also the Grand Maître of Grand Orient de France, the largest of several Masonic organizations in France and the oldest in Continental Europe.
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Biography of Gustave Lanson (excerpt)
Gustave Lanson (August 5, 1857 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – December 15, 1934) was a French historian and literary critic. He taught at the Sorbonne in Paris. Biography Lanson was a major figure in the reformation of the French university system at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as a dominant force in French literary criticism until well after his death. ![]()
Biography of Emma Calvé (excerpt)
Emma Calvé, born Rosa Emma Calvet (15 August 1858 (birth time source: birth certificate), was a French operatic soprano. Calvé was probably the most famous French female opera singer of the Belle Époque. Hers was an international career, and she sang regularly at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, and the Royal Opera House, London. ![]()
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On 22 May 2017, an Islamist extremist suicide bomber detonated a shrapnel-laden homemade bomb as people were leaving the Manchester Arena following a concert by American singer Ariana Grande. Twenty-three people died, including the attacker, and 1,017 were injured, some of them children.
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Biography of Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (excerpt)
Wenceslaus (also Wenceslas; Czech: Václav; German: Wenzel, nicknamed der Faule ("the Idle"); 26 February 1361 – 16 August 1419) was, by inheritance, King of Bohemia (as Wenceslaus IV) from 1363 and by election, German King (formally King of the Romans) from 1376.
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Biography of Georges Corneau (excerpt)
Georges Corneau, born on March 3, 1855 in Charleville-Mézières (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 41), died in 1934, was a French journalist and politician. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France in 1910-1912, 1913, 1918 and 1919. ![]()
Biography of Oldfield Thomas (excerpt)
(Michael Rogers) Oldfield Thomas FRS FZS (February 21, 1858 in Millbrook, Bedfordshire – June 16, 1929) was a British zoologist. Thomas worked at the Natural History Museum on mammals, describing about 2,000 new species and subspecies for the first time. He was appointed to the Museum Secretary's office in 1876, transferring to the Zoological Department in 1878. ![]()
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On 24 September 2015, an event described as a "crush and stampede" caused deaths estimated at well over 2000 pilgrims, suffocated or crushed during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mina, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, making it the deadliest Hajj disaster in history. ![]()
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On 3 June 2017, a terrorist vehicle-ramming and stabbing took place in London, England. A van was deliberately driven into pedestrians on London Bridge, and then crashed on the south bank of the River Thames. Its three occupants then ran to the nearby Borough Market area and began stabbing people in and around restaurants and pubs.
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Biography of Samuel Richardson (excerpt)
Samuel Richardson (19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an 18th-century English writer and printer. He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753). ![]()
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On February 14, 2018, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz opened fire on students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people and injuring 17 others. Cruz, a former student at the school, fled the scene on foot by blending in with other students, and was arrested without incident about an hour later in nearby Coral Springs.
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Biography of Anders Zorn (excerpt)
Anders Leonard Zorn (18 February 1860 – 22 August 1920) was one of Sweden's foremost artists. He obtained international success as a painter, sculptor, and etcher. Among Zorn's portrait subjects were King Oscar II of Sweden, and three American Presidents, Grover Cleveland, William H.
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Biography of Anna d'Este (excerpt)
Anna d'Este (16 November 1531 – 17 May 1607) was an important princess with considerable influence at the court of France and a central figure in the French Wars of Religion. In her first marriage she was Duchess of Aumale, then of Guise, in her second marriage Duchess of Nemours and Genevois.
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Biography of Henri Boutet (excerpt)
Henri Boutet (March 24, 1851 Sainte-Hermine, Vendée (birth date and time source: Didier Geslain) - 9 June 1919 Paris), "le Petit Maître au corset", was a French Belle Époque artist whose work focused on the genre "La Parisienne". He candidly depicted women ranging from ordinary shop assistants to elegant ladies, managing to portray their common qualities of coquettishness and femininity. ![]()
Biography of Melvil Dewey (excerpt)
Melville Louis Kossuth (Melvil) Dewey (December 10, 1851 – December 26, 1931) was an American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, and a founder of the Lake Placid Club. Education and personal life Dewey was born in Adams Center, New York, the fifth and last child of Joel and Eliza Greene Dewey.
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Biography of Raoul Dandurand (excerpt)
Raoul Dandurand, PC (November 4, 1861 – March 11, 1942) was a Canadian politician and longtime organizer in Quebec for the Liberal Party of Canada. Biography Dandurand graduated from the Faculty of Law at Université Laval, and worked as a corporate lawyer in Quebec. ![]()
Biography of Clara Zetkin (excerpt)
Clara Zetkin (née Eißner, 5 July 1857 – 20 June 1933) was a German Marxist theorist, activist, and advocate for women's rights. Until 1917, she was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany, then she joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and its far-left wing, the Spartacist League; this later became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), which she represented in the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1933. ![]()
Biography of Arthur Mille (excerpt)
Arthur Mille, born on July 30, 1854 in Beaupréau (Maine-et-Loire) (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n°47), died on November 15, 1942 in Lyon, was a French politician and businessman. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (1922-1925). ![]()
Biography of Francesco Maria Veracini (excerpt)
Francesco Maria Veracini (1 February 1690 (birth time source: Wikipedia: "Francesco Maria Veracini was born at about 8:00am on 1 February 1690 in the family house on the via Palazzuolo, parish of San Salvatore, Ognissanti, Florence (Hill 1979, 7).") – 31 October 1768) was an Italian composer and violinist, perhaps best known for his sets of violin sonatas. ![]()
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Ponte Morandi (English: Morandi Bridge), officially Viadotto Polcevera (English: Polcevera Viaduct), was a road viaduct in Genoa (Italy), constructed between 1963 and 1967 along Italy's A10 motorway over the river Polcevera, from which it derived its official name. The bridge was widely called "Ponte Morandi" after its structural designer, the noted engineer Riccardo Morandi.
Biography of Marcel Deslignières (excerpt)
Marcel Deslignières, born on May 15, 1847 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on July 29, 1914 in Saint-Ouen-l'Aumôn, is a French architect, painter, and watercolourist.
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Biography of Frans Van Leemputten (excerpt)
Frans Van Leemputten or Frans van Leemputten (Leuven, 29 December 1850 (birth time source: Gauquelin, Vol. 4, acte de naissance) – Antwerp, 26 November 1914) was a Belgian Realist painter who specialized in landscape paintings of the Campine and Brabantine regions in Belgium as well as scenes with villagers and animals. ![]()
Biography of Ion Luca Caragiale (excerpt)
Ion Luca Caragiale (commonly referred to as I. L. Caragiale; February 13 1852 – 9 June 1912) was a Wallachian, later Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist. Leaving behind an important cultural legacy, he is considered one of the greatest playwrights in Romanian language and literature, as well as one of its most important writers and a leading representative of local humor. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Janet (excerpt)
Pierre Marie Félix Janet (30 May 1859 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 24 February 1947) was a pioneering French psychologist, philosopher and psychotherapist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory. He is ranked alongside William James and Wilhelm Wundt as one of the founding fathers of psychology. ![]()
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At 1:50 PM EET on 24 November 2017, the al-Rawda mosque was attacked by roughly 40 gunmen during Friday prayers. The mosque is located in the village of Al-Rawda east of the town of Bir al-Abed in Egypt's North Sinai Governorate. ![]()
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On 11 December 2018, at 19:50, a suspected terrorist attack occurred in Strasbourg, France, when a man opened fire at the Christkindelsmärik. By 07:00, the next day, three people had died, while 13 were wounded, eight severely. At 12:00, six of the wounded were in critical states, fighting for their lives. ![]()
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The Christchurch mosque shootings occurred at Al Noor Mosque and the Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, commencing at 13:40 on 15 March 2019 NZDT (00:40 UTC). At least 49 people have been killed in the shootings. Police found two car bombs, which the authorities disarmed. ![]()
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The 2017 Chiapas earthquake struck at 23:49 CDT on 7 September (local time; 04:49 on the 8th UTC) in the Gulf of Tehuantepec off the southern coast of Mexico, near state of Chiapas, approximately 87 kilometres (54 mi) southwest of Pijijiapan (alternately, 101 kilometres (63 mi) south-southwest of Tres Picos), with a Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). |
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