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Cuba gained formal independence from the U.S. on May 20, 1902, as the Republic of Cuba. Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba (Spanish: República de Cuba (About this soundlisten)), is a country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.
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Biography of E. E. Cummings (excerpt)
Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), popularly known as E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, and playwright. His body of work encompasses more than 900 poems, several plays and essays, numerous drawings, sketches, and paintings, as well as two novels.
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Biography of Victor Vasarely (excerpt)
Victor Vasarely (9 April 1908, Pécs - 15 March 1997, Paris) was a French Hungarian-born artist often acclaimed as the father of Op-art. Working as a graphic artist in the 1930s he created what is considered the first Op-art piece — Zebra, consisting of curving black and white stripes, indicating the direction his work would take.
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Biography of Claudette Colbert (excerpt)
Claudette Colbert (September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996) was an Academy Award-winning French-American actress for It Happened One Night. She was popular leading lady in Hollywood films, particularly during the 1930s and 1940s. Almost all her titles were American movies. In 1999, she was ranked 12th by the American Film Institute in their list Greatest Female Stars of All Time.
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Biography of John von Neumann (excerpt)
John von Neumann (December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. He had perhaps the widest coverage of any mathematician of his time, integrating pure and applied sciences and making major contributions to many fields, including mathematics, physics, economics, computing, and statistics.
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Biography of Magda Goebbels (excerpt)
Johanna Maria Magdalena "Magda" Goebbels (11 November 1901 – 1 May 1945) was the wife of Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. A prominent member of the Nazi party, she was a close ally and political supporter of Adolf Hitler. As Berlin was being overrun by the Red Army at the end of World War II, she murdered her six children with Goebbels and then committed suicide. ![]()
Biography of Lúcia dos Santos (excerpt)
Lúcia de Jesus dos Santos, O.C.D. (March 22, 1907 (birth time source: Filipe Ferreira, birth certificate) – February 13, 2005), also known as Lúcia of Fátima and by her religious name Sister Maria Lúcia of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart, was a Portuguese Catholic Carmelite nun and one of the three children, including her cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto, who claimed to witness Marian apparitions in Fátima in 1917. ![]()
Biography of Barbara Hutton (excerpt)
Barbara Woolworth Hutton (November 14, 1912 – May 11, 1979) was an American debutante, socialite, heiress, and philanthropist. She was dubbed the "Poor Little Rich Girl", first when she was given a lavish and expensive debutante ball in 1930, amid the Great Depression, and later due to a notoriously troubled private life.
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Biography of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (excerpt)
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (Olga Nikolaevna Romanova) (Tsarskoe Selo, Russia, November 15 1895 – July 17, 1918) (after 1900, Olga's birthday was celebrated on the 16th of November) was the eldest daughter of the last autocratic ruler of the Russian Empire, Emperor Nicholas II, and of Empress Alexandra of Russia.
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Biography of Golda Meir (excerpt)
Golda Meir (Hebrew: גולדה מאיר, Arabic: جولدا مائير, born Golda Mabovitch, May 3, 1898 (14 May gregorian calendar) - December 8, 1978, known as Golda Myerson from 1917-1956) was the fourth prime minister of the State of Israel. Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister .
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Biography of Oliver Hardy (excerpt)
Oliver Hardy (born Norvell Hardy; January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) was an American actor, most remembered for his role in one of the world's most famous double acts, Laurel and Hardy, with his friend Stan Laurel. Name He did not adopt the name "Oliver" until 1914, doing so as a tribute to his father, who had died when Hardy was an infant.
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Biography of Maurice Chevalier (excerpt)
Maurice Chevalier (September 12, 1888 – January 1, 1972) was a Belgian-French actor, singer, and popular entertainer. Chevalier's signature songs included "Louise", "Mimi", and "Valentine." His trademark was a casual straw hat, which he always wore on stage with his tuxedo. ![]()
Biography of Witold Lutoslawski (excerpt)
Witold Lutosławski (January 25, 1913 – February 7, 1994) was one of the major European composers of the 20th century, and one of the pre-eminent Polish musicians during his last three decades. During his lifetime, Lutosławski earned many international awards and prizes, including the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest honour. ![]()
Biography of Hanka Ordonówna (excerpt)
Hanka Ordonówna (born Maria Anna Pietruszyńska; September 25, 1902 in Warsaw – September 7, 1950 in Beirut) also known as 'Ordonka', was a Polish singer, dancer and actress. She began her career at the age of 16 in the Warsaw cabaret Sfinks and then the theater Wesoły Ul in Lublin under the stage name "Anna Ordon.
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Biography of Margaret Mead (excerpt)
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901, Philadelphia – November 15, 1978, New York City) was an American cultural anthropologist. Early years Mead was the first of five children, born into a Quaker family, raised near Doylestown, Pennsylvania by her university professor at the University at Pennsylvania father, Edward Sherwood Mead, and social-activist mother, Emily Fogg Mead.
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Biography of Stan Laurel (excerpt)
Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; June 16, 1890 – February 23, 1965) was an English comic actor, writer and director, famous as part of the comedy double-act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th century until post-World War II.
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Biography of Pierre Mendès France (excerpt)
Pierre Mendès France (11 January 1907 - 18 October 1982), French politician, was born in Paris, into a family of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin (Mendes de França). Third Republic and World War II He was educated at the University of Paris, graduating with a doctorate in law and becoming the youngest member of the Paris Bar association in 1928.
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Biography of Claus von Stauffenberg (excerpt)
Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer and one of the leading figures of the failed July 20 Plot of 1944 to kill German dictator Adolf Hitler and seize power in Germany.
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Biography of Katherine Mansfield (excerpt)
Kathleen Mansfield Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction who wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield was born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp into a socially prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand.
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Biography of Mahalia Jackson (excerpt)
Mahalia Jackson (October 26, 1911 – January 27, 1972) was an American Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, widely regarded as the best in the history of the genre and is the first "Queen of Gospel Music". Mahalia Jackson became one of the most influential gospel singers in the world.
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Biography of Danny Kaye (excerpt)
Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; January 18, 1911 (birth time source: Gar Osten quotes Kaye's widow by phone, AFA DX., a 1938 ship's passenger list as well as the social security death index give 1911 as his birth year) – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian, musician, and philanthropist. ![]()
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The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor within New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel.
Biography of Johann Pachelbel (excerpt)
Johann Pachelbel (pronounced /ˈpækəlbɛl/, German IPA: , , or ) (September 1, 1653 – March 3, 1706) was a German Baroque composer, organist and teacher who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most important composers of the middle Baroque era. ![]()
Biography of Paul Delvaux (excerpt)
Paul Delvaux (September 23, 1897 – July 20, 1994) was a Belgian painter, famous for his surrealist paintings with female nudes. Delvaux was born in Antheit in the Belgian province of Liège, the son of a lawyer. The young Delvaux took music lessons, studied Greek and Latin, and absorbed the fiction of Jules Verne and the poetry of Homer. ![]()
Biography of Marcel Aymé (excerpt)
Marcel Aymé (March 29, 1902 - October 14, 1967) was a French novelist, children's writer , humour writer and also a movie and theater playwright. Marcel Aymé was born in Joigny, in the Yonne département (Bourgogne). He studied in the Collège de Dole, and worked among other as a journalist in Paris. ![]()
Biography of René Clément (excerpt)
René Clément March 18, 1913, Bordeaux – March 17, 1996, Monte Carlo, Monaco) was a French film director and screenwriter. Clément studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. In 1936, he directed his first film, a 20 minute short written and featuring Jacques Tati.
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Biography of John Huston (excerpt)
thJohn Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director and actor. He was known for directing the films, The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), The African Queen (1951), The Misfits (1960), and The Man Who Would Be King (1975).
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Biography of Elsa Schiaparelli (excerpt)
Elsa Schiaparelli (10 September 1890 – 13 November 1973) was an influential Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, she dominated fashion between the two World Wars. Starting with knitwear, her designs were heavily influenced by Surrealists like her collaborator Salvador Dalí.
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Biography of John Cage (excerpt)
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer. He was a pioneer of chance music, non-standard use of musical instruments, and electronic music. He is perhaps best known for his 1952 composition 4'33", whose three movements are performed without a single note being played.
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Biography of Francisco Xavier (excerpt)
Chico Xavier was a popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement. In his life he wrote more than 400 books in a process known as Automatic writing. He was born in 1910 and died in 2002. Biography Francisco Cândido Xavier (April 2, 1910 - June 30, 2002), was the most popular and prolific medium in 20th century Brazil's Spiritism movement.
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Biography of Robert Taylor (excerpt)
Robert Taylor (August 5, 1911 (birth time source: from the biography "Robert Taylor," from Jane Wayne) – June 8, 1969), was an American actor. Early life Born Spangler Arlington Brugh in Filley, Nebraska, he was the son of Andrew Brugh, a farmer turned doctor, and Ruth Brugh.
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Biography of Edward Hopper (excerpt)
Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. In both his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life. ![]()
Biography of Aram Khatchaturian (excerpt)
Aram Khachaturian (June 6, 1903–May 1, 1978) was a Soviet-Armenian composer whose works were often influenced by Armenian folk music. Life Aram Khachaturian was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, Imperial Russia to a poor Armenian family. In his youth, he was fascinated by the music he heard around him, but at first he did not study music or learn to read it.
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Biography of Gopi Krishna (excerpt)
Gopi Krishna (1903 - 1984) of India was a yogi, mystic, teacher, social reformer, and writer. His autobiography is known under the title Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man. In the 1970s he founded together with Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker a research foundation "for western sciences and eastern wisdom".
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Biography of Kurt Gödel (excerpt)
Kurt Gödel (IPA: ) (April 28, 1906 Brno (Brünn), Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) – January 14, 1978 Princeton, New Jersey) was an Austrian American mathematician and philosopher. One of the most significant logicians of all time, Gödel's work has had immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century, a time when many, such as Bertrand Russell, A.
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Biography of Egon Schiele (excerpt)
Egon Schiele (June 12, 1890 – October 31, 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. Schiele's work is noted for its intensity, and the many self-portraits the artist produced.
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Biography of Balthus (excerpt)
Balthazar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 in Paris – February 18, 2001) was an esteemed Polish/French modern artist whose work was ultimately anti-modern. Life and work Style and themes Balthus' style is primarily classical and academic. Though his technique and compositions were inspired by pre-renaissance painters, there are also eerie intimations reminiscent of contemporary surrealists like de Chirico.
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Biography of François Mauriac (excerpt)
François Mauriac (October 11, 1885 (birth time source: birth certificate, Didier Geslain) – September 1, 1970) was a French author, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is acknowledged to be one of the greatest Roman Catholic writers of the 20th century. ![]()
Biography of Robert Delaunay (excerpt)
Robert Delaunay (1885 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)-1941, October 25) was a French artist who used orphism, similar to abstraction and cubism in his work. Delaunay concentrated on orphism, while his later works were more abstract, reminiscent of Paul Klee. His key influence related to bold use of colour, and a clear love of experimentation of both depth and tone. ![]()
Biography of Félix Houphouët-Boigny (excerpt)
Félix Houphouët-Boigny (pronounced ) (October 18, 1905 - December 7, 1993) was the first President of Côte d'Ivoire (1960 - 1993) and was previously elected to the French parliament and appointed minister in the government of France several times between 1957 and 1961.
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Biography of Etty Hillesum (excerpt)
Ester "Etty" Hillesum (January 15, 1914 in Middelburg, The Netherlands (birth time source: Astro-Kring, birth certificate) — November 30, 1943 in Auschwitz, Poland) was a young Jewish writer whose letters and diaries, kept between 1941 and 1943 describe life under Nazi rule in Amsterdam during the the German occupation of World War II.
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Biography of Guy de Rothschild (excerpt)
Baron Guy Édouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild (May 21, 1909 – June 12, 2007) was a French banker and member of the Rothschild family. He chaired the bank Rothschild Frères from 1967 to 1979, when it was nationalized by the French government, and maintained possessions in other French and foreign companies including Imerys.
Biography of Dorothy Boyd (excerpt)
Dorothy Boyd (14 April 1907 – 1996) was an English film actress. She appeared in 38 films between 1926 and 1940. She was born in Sanderstead, Surrey, England and died in England. Career Without any previous stage experience, she came to films when she appeared in three short films made in the Phonofilm sound-on-film process, Knee Deep in Daisies (1926), The Sentence of Death (1927), and The Burglar and the Girl (1928).
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Biography of Louis XI of France (excerpt)
Louis XI (July 3, 1423 – August 30, 1483), called the Prudent (French: le Prudent) and the Universal Spider (Old French: l'universelle aragne) or the Spider King, was the King of France from 1461−83. He was the son of Charles VII of France and Mary of Anjou, a member of the House of Valois, grandson of Charles VI and Isabeau de Bavière and one of the most successful kings of France in terms of uniting the country.
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Biography of Alec Guinness (excerpt)
Sir Alec Guinness CH, CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning English actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation. Early life Guinness was born in Marylebone, London, England, possibly as Alec Guinness de Cuffe, although what is written on his birth certificate, reportedly lacking a father's name, is not known.
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Biography of Carl Orff (excerpt)
Carl Orff (July 10, 1895 – March 29, 1982) was a 20th-century German composer, most famous for Carmina Burana (1937). He was also successful and influential in the field of music education. Life Orff was born in Munich, Germany and came from a Bavarian family that was very active in the German military.
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Biography of Osamu Dazai (excerpt)
Osamu Dazai (太宰 治 Dazai Osamu, June 19, 1909 – June 13, 1948) was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun (Shayō) and No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku), are considered modern-day classics in Japan. ![]()
Biography of Wilhelm Furtwängler (excerpt)
Wilhelm Furtwängler (January 25, 1886 – November 30, 1954) was a German conductor and composer. Furtwängler was born in Berlin into a prominent family. His father Adolf was an archaeologist, his mother a painter. Most of his childhood was spent in Munich, where his father taught at the university.
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Biography of Roberto Assagioli (excerpt)
Roberto Assagioli (Venice, February 27, 1888 (birth time source: Bordoni, birth certificate) - Capolona d'Arezzo, August 23, 1974) was an Italian psychiatrist who was the founder of the psychological movement known as Psychosynthesis. "Only the development of his inner powers can offset the dangers inherent in man's losing control of the tremendous natural forces at his disposal and becoming the victim of his own achievements.
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Biography of Doris Duke (excerpt)
Doris Duke (November 22, 1912 – October 28, 1993) was an American heiress and philanthropist. Early Life Born in New York City, Doris Duke was the only child of tobacco and electric energy tycoon James Buchanan Duke and his second wife, Southern aristocrat Nanaline Holt Inman. |
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