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Horoscopes with Pluto in AquariusYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Pluto in Aquarius. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. in
Biography of Jacques-François Gallay (excerpt)
Jacques-François Gallay (8 December 1795 – 18 October 1864) was a French horn player, academic and composer of music for the instrument. His Méthode for the natural horn was published in 1845. Gallay was born in Perpignan, in the south of France, in 1795; his father was an amateur horn player.
Biography of Jacques Arago (excerpt)
Jacques Étienne Victor Arago (6 March 1790 – 27 November 1855) was a French writer, artist and explorer, author of a Voyage Round the World. Jacques was born in Estagel, Pyrénées-Orientales. He was the brother of François Arago (1786–1853), a scientist and politician, the most famous of the six Arago brothers.
Biography of Zulma Carraud (excerpt)
Zulma Carraud (24 March 1796 – 24 April 1889) was a French author. She is best known for her children's books and textbooks particularly La Petite Jeanne ou le devoir and Maurice ou le travail. After moving to Nohant, Carraud volunteered as a country doctor and as a teacher at a rural school from 1852 until 1868.
Biography of Gesche Gottfried (excerpt)
Gesche Margarethe Gottfried, born Gesche Margarethe Timm (6 March 1785 - 21 April 1831), was a serial killer who murdered 15 people by arsenic poisoning in Bremen and Hanover, Germany, between 1813 and 1827. She was the last person to be publicly executed in the city of Bremen.
Biography of Geert Adriaans Boomgaard (excerpt)
Geert Adriaans Boomgaard (21 September 1788; baptized 23 September 1788 – 3 February 1899) was a Dutch supercentenarian. He is generally accepted by scholars as the first validated supercentenarian case on record (as of 21 September, 1898) Since there is evidence that he served as a soldier in Napoleon Bonaparte's "Grande Armée", in the 33rd Light Infantry Division, Boomgaard might in fact have been the oldest military veteran ever for several decades.
Biography of Lydia Sigourney (excerpt)
Lydia Huntley Sigourney (September 1, 1791 – June 10, 1865), née Lydia Howard Huntley, was an American poet during the early and mid 19th century. She was commonly known as the "Sweet Singer of Hartford". Most of her works were published with just her married name Mrs.
Biography of Wilhelmine Reichard (excerpt)
Johanne Wilhelmine Siegmundine Reichard (née Schmidt) (2 April 1788, Braunschweig, Germany – 23 February 1848, Döhlen, Germany) was the first German female balloonist. On 16 April 1811 Wilhelmine Reichard made her first solo flight, starting in Berlin. She reached a height of over 5,000 metres (16,000 ft) and landed safely in Genshagen, 33.
Biography of John William Polidori (excerpt)
John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was an English writer and physician. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. His most successful work was the short story "The Vampyre" (1819), the first published modern vampire story.
Biography of Maria Quitéria (excerpt)
Maria Quitéria (27 July 1792 – 21 August 1853) was a Brazilian lieutenant and national heroine. She served in the Brazilian War of Independence in 1822–23 dressed as a man. She was promoted to cadet and Lieutenant and decorated with the Imperial order.
Biography of Henri Savigny (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Henri Savigny, born April 10, 1793, died January 27, 1843, was a surgeon and doctor aboard La Méduse. When the ship sank (July 2, 1816), he was one of the 3 officers who volunteered to take their place on the raft among 152 castaways.
Biography of George Grote (excerpt)
George Grote (17 November 1794 – 18 June 1871) was an English political radical and classical historian. He is now best known for his major work, the voluminous History of Greece. He is said, in some estimations, to have been a man of strong character and self-control, unfailing courtesy and unswerving devotion to what he considered the best interests of the nation.
Biography of Henry Cavendish (excerpt)
Sir Henry Cavendish (1550–1616) was the eldest son of the Tudor courtier William Cavendish, and Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (c. 1527–1608), known as "Bess of Hardwick". He served in the Netherlands as a captain in 1578, and was the MP for Derbyshire five times, but did not participate greatly in politics.
Biography of George Catlin (excerpt)
George Catlin (July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872) was an American adventurer, lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West. Traveling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin wrote about and painted portraits that depicted the life of the Plains Indians.
Biography of Gaspard Théodore Mollien (excerpt)
Gaspard Théodore Mollien (29 August 1796, Paris – 28 June 1872, Nice) was a French diplomat and explorer. In July 1816, as a passenger aboard the Medusa en route to Saint-Louis, Senegal, he became shipwrecked to the south of Cap Blanc. He survived the ordeal, and eventually made his way to Gorée Island, where he worked as a hospital manager.
Biography of Sarah Josepha Hale (excerpt)
Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (October 24, 1788 – April 30, 1879) was an American writer, activist, and editor of Godey's Lady's Book. She was the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Hale famously campaigned for the creation of the American holiday known as Thanksgiving, and for the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument.
Biography of Catharine Sedgwick (excerpt)
Catharine Maria Sedgwick (December 28, 1789 – July 31, 1867) was an American novelist of what is sometimes referred to as "domestic fiction". With her work much in demand, from the 1820s to the 1850s, Sedgwick made a good living writing short stories for a variety of periodicals.
Biography of Therese Albertine Luise Robinson (excerpt)
Therese Albertine Luise von Jakob Robinson (26 January 1797 – 13 April 1870) was a German-American author, linguist and translator, and second wife of biblical scholar Edward Robinson. She published under the pseudonym Talvj, an acronym derived from the initials of her birth name.
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On 2 June 2023, three trains collided near the city of Balasore, in the state of Odisha in eastern India. Two passenger trains, the 12841 Coromandel Express and the 12864 SMVT Bengaluru–Howrah SF Express, collided with a goods train near the Bahanaga Bazar railway station.
Biography of Joseph Justus Scaliger (excerpt)
Joseph Justus Scaliger (5 August 1540 – 21 January 1609) was a French Calvinist religious leader and scholar, known for expanding the notion of classical history from Greek and Ancient Roman history to include Persian, Babylonian, Jewish and Ancient Egyptian history.
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On 8 June 2023, a man stabbed two adults and four young children in Le Pâquier city park, Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France in a mass stabbing attack. Six people, including four children, were injured, and the assailant was arrested by police shortly after commencing the attack.
Biography of Leonardo Salviati (excerpt)
Lionardo Salviati (1539–1589) was a leading Italian philologist of the sixteenth century. He came from an illustrious Florentine family closely linked with the Medici. Salviati became consul of the Florentine Academy in 1566, and played a key role in the founding of the Accademia della Crusca, with its project of creating a dictionary, which was completed after his death.
Biography of Pierre Rayer (excerpt)
Pierre François Olive Rayer (8 March 1793 – 10 September 1867) was a French physician who was a native of Saint Sylvain. He made important contributions in the fields of pathological anatomy, physiology, comparative pathology and parasitology. He studied medicine at Caen, and afterwards in Paris at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and at the Hôtel-Dieu.
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On April 3, 2024, at 07:58:11 NST (23:58 UTC), a massive 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit near Hualien City, Taiwan, the largest since the 1999 Jiji earthquake. Taiwan, prone to seismic activity, is situated in a convergence zone between the Philippine Sea and Eurasian Plates.
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On March 22, 2024, around 20:00 MSK, a coordinated attack occurred at Crocus City Hall, a music venue in Krasnogorsk, Russia. Gunmen attacked the crowd and used incendiaries, killing 137 and injuring over 154. The Islamic State – Khorasan Province claimed responsibility.
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On March 26, 2024, at 1:28 a.m. EDT (05:28 UTC), the main spans of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, across the Patapsco River between Baltimore and Dundalk in the U.S. state of Maryland, collapsed after the Singapore-flagged container ship Dali struck one of its support pillars.
Biography of Adolphe Crémieux (excerpt)
Isaac-Jacob Adolphe Crémieux (French: ; 30 April 1796 – 10 February 1880) was a French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Justice under the Second Republic (1848) and Government of National Defense (1870–1871). Raised Jewish, he served as president of the Alliance Israélite Universelle (1863–67; 1868–80), secured French citizenship for Algerian Jews under French rule through the Crémieux Decree (1870), and was a staunch defender of the rights of the Jews of France.
Biography of Karl Immermann (excerpt)
Karl Leberecht Immermann (24 April 1796 – 25 August 1840) was a noteworthy German dramatist, novelist, and poet. His time of birth comes from the biography Karl Immermann: Sein Leben und seine Werke, aus Tagebüchern und Briefen an seine Familie zusammengestellt.
Biography of Leopold, Prince of Salerno (excerpt)
Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Michele of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Prince of Salerno (2 July 1790 – 10 March 1851) was a member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and a Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. He married Archduchess Clementina of Austria in 1816, and became the Prince of Salerno.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Gaye de Martignac (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Sylvère Gaye, Viscount of Martignac, born June 20, 1778, in Bordeaux and died April 3, 1832, in Paris, was a French poet, lawyer, and statesman. Initially known for his vaudevillian talents, he swiftly transitioned into a legal and political career. |
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