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Biography of Lodewijk Mortelmans (excerpt)
Lodewijk Mortelmans (born 5 February 1868, Antwerp; died 24 June 1952, Antwerp) was a Belgian composer and conductor of Flemish ancestry. He was from a family of five children born to Isabella and Charles Mortelmans. Mortelmans' father was a printer, and his elder brother, Frans, was a painter. ![]()
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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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 Pierre Mac Orlan (excerpt)
Pierre Mac Orlan, sometimes written MacOrlan, (born Pierre Dumarchey, February 26, 1882 – June 27, 1970) was a French novelist and songwriter. His novel Quai des Brumes was the source for Marcel Carné's 1938 film of the same name, starring Jean Gabin. ![]()
Biography of Charles-Louis Philippe (excerpt)
Charles-Louis Philippe, French novelist, was born in Cérilly, Allier, Auvergne, on 4 August 1874 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), and died in Paris on 21 December 1909. Life Son of a village clogmaker, Charles-Louis Philippe rose from his modest background first to Secondary education via a grant, then to the world of letters.
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Biography of John Boyd Orr (excerpt)
John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, CH, DSO, MC, FRS (September 23, 1880–June 25, 1971), also known as Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a Scottish teacher, doctor, biologist and politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition and his work as the first Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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Biography of William Green (excerpt)
William Green (March 3, 1873 – November 21, 1952) was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952. The son of Welsh immigrant coal miners from Coshocton, Ohio, he was elected secretary of the United Mine Workers of America in 1891.
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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.
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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 Richard Harding Davis (excerpt)
Richard Harding Davis (18 April 1864—11 April 1916) was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War.Davis, a managing editor of Harper's Weekly, was one of the world's leading war correspondents at the time of the Second Boer War in South Africa.
Biography of Ruggero Lupi (excerpt)
Ruggero Lupi, born October 13, 1882 in Ferrara, died July 1, 1933 in Milan, was an Italian actor. Filmography (extract) Straniera, La (1930) .... Il signor Clarkson Ciclone, Il (1916) Ritorno, Il (1914)
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Biography of Lieven Gevaert (excerpt)
Lieven Gevaert (Antwerp, 28 May 1868 – The Hague, 2 February 1935) was a Flemish industrialist.His father died when he was only three years old.He started his career in the company he founded together with his mother in 1889, which produced photographic paper according to traditional methods.
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Biography of Joseph Hislop (excerpt)
Joseph Hislop (b. Edinburgh, 5 April 1884; d. Sweden, 6 May 1977) was a Scottish tenor singer notable both in opera and oratorio, who had an international career and was one of the fine and really outstanding British singers of his generation. ![]()
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) ![]()
Biography of Tony Garnier (excerpt)
Tony Garnier (August 13, 1869 Lyon – January 19, 1948, Roquefort-la-Bédoule, France) was a noted architect and city planner.He was most active in his hometown of Lyon. Garnier is considered the forerunner of 20th century French architects.In 1901, after extensive study of sociological and architectural problems, he began to formulate an elaborate solution to the perceived issues concerning urban design.
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.
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Biography of Hermann Staudinger (excerpt)
Hermann Staudinger (23 March 1881 – 8 September 1965) was a German chemist who demonstrated the existence of macromolecules which he characterized as polymers. For this work he received the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is also known for his discovery of ketenes and of the Staudinger reaction. ![]()
Biography of Julian Aguirre (excerpt)
Julian Aguirre, born January 28, 1868 in Buenos Aires, died in 1924, was a Brazilian musician, guitarist and composer.
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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.
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Biography of Max Elskamp (excerpt)
Max Elskamp, born on May 5, 1862 in Antwerp, died on December 10, 1931 in Antwerp, was a Belgian symbolic poet (Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century style of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts.In literature, the style had its beginnings with the publication Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil, 1857) by Charles Baudelaire.). ![]()
Biography of Bernard Lazare (excerpt)
Bernard Lazare (15 June 1865 — 1 September 1903) was a French Jewish literary critic, political journalist, polemicist, and anarchist.He was also among the first Dreyfusards. Youth He was born Lazare Marcus Manassé Bernard (he later switched his first name and last name) in Nîmes on 15 June 1865, the eldest of four sons of Jonas Bernard and Douce Noémie Rouget.
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Biography of Cesare Battisti (excerpt)
Cesare Battisti was an Austrian politician who became a prominent Italian Irrendentist at the start of the First World War. He was born on 4 February 1875 in Trento, an Italian-speaking city which at the time was part of Austria-Hungary.A journalist by profession Battisti won office both municipally and in his home province, Trentino, and was then elected to the Austrian Reichsrat in 1911 as a Socialist representative. Disgruntled by Austro-Hungarian attitudes to minorities in their empire Battisti agreed to construct a military guide for the Italians to Austrian provinces that bordered Italy. ![]()
Biography of Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (excerpt)
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, in Denmark always called Johannes V. Jensen, (20 January 1873 – 25 November 1950) was a Danish author, often considered the first great Danish writer of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944. One of his sisters, Thit Jensen, was also a well-known writer and a very vocal, and occasionally controversial, early feminist. ![]()
Biography of Ugo Cavallero (excerpt)
Ugo Cavallero (September 20, 1880 – September 13, 1943) was an Italian military commander before and during World War II. Biography Born in Casale Monferrato, Piedmont, Cavallero had a privileged childhood as a member of the Italian nobility.After attending military school, Cavallero was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1900. ![]()
Biography of Antoinette Bourignon (excerpt)
Antoinette Bourignon de la Porte (January 13, 1616 - October 30, 1680) was a Flemish mystic.From an early age she was under the influence of religion, which took in course of time a mystical turn. Antoinette, belonging to a rich catholic family, was born at Lille with a facial deformity. ![]()
Biography of Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (excerpt)
Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (Amsterdam, June 6, 1868 - Auschwitz, ca.February 11, 1944) was a graphic artist active in the years before the Second World War.His pupils included the now renowned Mauritis Cornelis Escher (1898-1972).In the postwar years, de Mequita was largely forgotten.
Biography of Gaston Rullier (excerpt)
Gaston Rullier, born on May 19, 1882 in Libourne (source for his time of birth: Lescaut), died on October 16, 1972 in Bagnolet, Seinte-Saint-Denis, was a French actor and screenwriter. Filmography (extract) Actor (6 titles) 1953 Une fille dans le soleil Le curé 1947 Plume la poule ![]()
Biography of Adolf Loos (excerpt)
Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was a Moravian-born Austrian architect.He was influential in European Modern architecture, in his essay Ornament and Crime he repudiated the florid style of the Vienna Secession, the Austrian version of Art Nouveau.
Biography of George Matthew Adams (excerpt)
George Matthew Adams (August 23, 1878 - October 29, 1962) was a newspaper columnist and founder of the George Matthew Adams Newspaper Service, which syndicated comic strips and columns to newspapers for five decades. His own writings were circulated widely to The Gettysburg Times and many other newspapers.
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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 Norman Lindsay (excerpt)
Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) was a renowned Australian artist and writer. Lindsay was born in Creswick, Victoria. He was a prolific artist, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist and scale modeler, as well as being a highly talented boxer.
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Biography of Vittorio Ambrosio (excerpt)
Vittorio Ambrosio (July 28, 1879 – November 19, 1958) was an Italian general who served in the Italo-Turkish War, World War I, and World War II. During the latter conflict, Ambrosio served an instrumental role in the fall of Mussolini and the eventual Italian renunciation of its alliance with Germany.
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Biography of Hans Luther (excerpt)
Hans Luther (10 March 1879 – 11 May 1962) was a German politician and Chancellor of Germany. Biography Born in Berlin, Luther started in politics in 1907 by becoming the town councillor in Magdeburg.He continued on becoming secretary of the German Städtetag in 1913 and then mayor of Essen in 1918.
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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 Louis Le Cardonnel (excerpt)
Louis Le Cardonnel, also called Brother Anselme, born on February 25, 1862 in Valence (source for his time of birth: Gauquelin, Lescaut), died on May 28, 1936 in Avignon, was a French priest and poet. Works: Poèmes (1904) Carmina Sacra (1912) Du Rhône à l'Arno (1920) ![]()
Biography of George M. Cohan (excerpt)
George Michael Cohan (pronounced "Coe-han") (July 3, 1878–November 5, 1942), known professionally as George M. Cohan, was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and producer. Known as "the man who owned Broadway" in the decade before World War I, he is considered the father of American musical comedy.
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Biography of Maurice Tourneur (excerpt)
Maurice Tourneur (February 2, 1876 – August 4, 1961) was an important international film director and screenwriter. Life Born Maurice Thomas in Paris 17e, France, his father was a jeweler.As a young man, Maurice Thomas first trained as a graphic designer and a magazine illustrator but was soon drawn to the theater.
Biography of Thomas Callender (excerpt)
Thomas Callender, born April 9, 1855 in Glasgow, was a Scottish businessman and entrepreneur.
Biography of Karl Baisch (excerpt)
Karl Baisch, born January 28, 1869 in Gaildorf, died January 8, 1943 in Stuttgart, was a German physician, gynecologist, researcher, and author.
Biography of Malcolm McAlpine (excerpt)
Sir Malcolm McAlpine, born June 19, 1877 in Hamilton, was a British businessman, the director and chairman of Sir Robert Mc Alpine and Sons. ![]()
Biography of Mack Sennett (excerpt)
Mack Sennett (January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-born American director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film.During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy".His short "Wrestling Swordfish" was awarded the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1932 and he earned an Academy Honorary Award in 1937. Early life Born as Mikall (or Michael) Sinnott in Danville, Quebec, Canada, the son of Irish Catholic immigrant farmers. ![]()
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. ![]()
Biography of Tullio Levi-Civita (excerpt)
Tullio Levi-Civita (March 29, 1873 — December 29, 1941) (pronounced /'levi ˈʧivita/) was an Italian mathematician, most famous for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity but who also made significant contributions in other areas. ![]()
Biography of Leonora Christina Ulfeldt (excerpt)
Leonora Christina, Countess Ulfeldt, née Countess Leonora Christina Christiansdatter af Slesvig og Holsten (8 July 1621 – 16 March 1698), was the daughter of King Christian IV of Denmark and wife of Steward of the Realm–cum–traitor Count Corfitz Ulfeldt. Renowned in Denmark since the 19th century for her posthumously published autobiography, Jammersminde, written secretly during two decades of solitary confinement in a royal dungeon, her intimate version of the major events she witnessed in Europe's history, interwoven with ruminations on her woes as a political prisoner, still commands popular interest, scholarly respect, and has virtually become the stuff of legend as retold and enlivened in Danish literature and art.
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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. ![]()
Biography of Sydney Greenstreet (excerpt)
Sydney Hughes Greenstreet (27 December 1879 – 18 January 1954) was an English actor.He is best known for his Warner Bros.films with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre, which include The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Casablanca (1942). Life and career Greenstreet was born in Sandwich, Kent, England, the son of Ann (née Baker) and John Jack Greenstreet, a leather merchant, and had seven siblings. ![]()
Biography of Jacinto Benavente (excerpt)
Jacinto Benavente y Martínez (August 12, 1866 – July 14, 1954) was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century.He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922. Born in Madrid, the son of a celebrated pediatrician, he returned drama to reality by way of social criticism: declamatory verse giving way to prose, melodrama to comedy, formula to experience, impulsive action to dialogue and the play of minds. ![]()
Biography of Hester Dowden (excerpt)
Hester Dowden, born May 3, 1868 in Dublin, died in 1949, was a professional medium whose psychic development was marked by the successive appearance of five spirit personalities: "Peter," "Eyen," "Astor," "Shamar," and "Johannes." She was later known for her experiments in automatic writing. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Marchand (excerpt)
Major Jean-Baptiste Marchand (November 22, 1863 – January 13, 1934) was a French military officer and explorer in Africa. Marchand was born in Thoissey, Ain and attended l’Ecole militaire de Saint-Maixent.He participated in the French conquest of Senegal and was severely wounded in 1889 at the capture of Diena by the French. ![]()
Biography of Henry Coley (excerpt)
Henry Coley, born October 18 (October 28, Gregorian calendar), 1633 and died in 1695, was a British mathematician, author and astrologer. |
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