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Biography of Pierre Louÿs (excerpt)
Pierre Louÿs (December 10, 1870 - June 6, 1925) was a French poet and Romantic writer, most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings. He is known as a writer who "expressed pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection." ![]()
Biography of Louise Abbéma (excerpt)
Louise Abbéma (30 October 1853 (and not 1858, as commonly said); 1927) was a French painter and designer, born in Etampes. Abbéma began painting in her early teens, and studied under such notables of the period as Charles Joshua Chaplin, Jean-Jacques Henner and Carolus-Duran.
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Biography of Pope Benedict XV (excerpt)
Pope Benedict XV (Latin: Benedictus PP. XV), (Italian: Benedetto XV), (November 21, 1854 – January 22, 1922), born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa, reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from September 3, 1914 to January 22, 1922; he succeeded Pope Pius X (1903–14).
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Biography of Maurice Leblanc (excerpt)
Maurice-Marie-Émile Leblanc (11 December 1864 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Freyssinet (excerpt)
Eugène Freyssinet (13 July 1879 – 8 June 1962) was a French structural and civil engineer.He was the major pioneer of prestressed concrete. Freyssinet was born in at Objat, Corrèze, France.He worked in the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, France where he designed several bridges until the First World War intervened.
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Biography of Pablo Casals (excerpt)
Pau Casals i Defilló (December 29, 1876 – October 22, 1973), best known during his professional career as Pablo Casals, was a Spanish Catalan cellist and later conductor. He made many recordings throughout his career, of solo, chamber, and orchestral music, also as conductor, but Casals is perhaps best remembered for the recording of the Bach: Cello Suites he made from 1936 to 1939. ![]()
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The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. The Underground has its origins in the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground passenger railway. ![]()
Biography of Léon Delacroix (excerpt)
Léon Frédéric Gustave Delacroix (27 December 1867, Bruxelles - 15 October 1929, Baden-Baden) was a Belgian statesman.Before entering politics, he wad a renowned lawyer, and served as president of the Belgian Court of Cassation from 1917 to 1918.In the context of reconstruction after World War I, he was appointed Prime Minister and served from 1918 to 1920.
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Biography of Proclus (excerpt)
Proclus Lycaeus (February 8, 412 – April 17, 485), surnamed "The Successor" or "diadochos" (Greek Πρόκλος ὁ Διάδοχος Próklos ho Diádokhos), was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major Greek philosophers (see Damascius).He set forth one of the most elaborate, complex, and fully developed Neoplatonic systems. ![]()
Biography of Arturo Toscanini (excerpt)
Arturo Toscanini (pronounced ) (March 25, 1867 (birth time source: Lois Rodden) – January 16, 1957) was an Italian musician.He was considered by many critics, fellow musicians, and much of the classical listening audience to have been one of the greatest conductors of all time.
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Biography of P. D. Ouspensky (excerpt)
Peter D. Ouspensky (March 5 (OS), 1878, Moscow (March 17 NS (Gregorian calendar) - October 2, 1947, Lyne Place, Surrey, England), (Pyotr Demianovich Ouspenskii, also Uspenskii or Uspensky) was a Russian philosopher who invoked geometry in his discussions of psychology and higher dimensions of existence.
Biography of Ka'Iulani, Princess of Hawaii (excerpt)
Victoria Kawekiu Lunalilo Kalaninuiahilapalapa Kaʻiulani Cleghorn, Crown Princess of Hawaii (October 16, 1875 – March 6, 1899) was heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi and held the title of crown princess.Kaʻiulani became known throughout the world for her intelligence, beauty and determination.
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Biography of Paul Claudel (excerpt)
Paul Claudel (August 6, 1868 birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – February 23, 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholic faith. ![]()
Biography of Pauline Musters (excerpt)
Pauline Musters or Princess Paulina (February 26, 1876 in Ossendrech - March 1, 1895 in New York) is, at 2 ft (61cm), recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest woman ever recorded. Born in The Netherlands, she died in New York City. References Guinness Book of Records 2005 ISBN 0-85112-192-6 ![]()
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British Columbia (BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.In the 2016 Census, the province's recorded population was 4,648,055, making it Canada's third-most populous province.The capital of British Columbia is Victoria, the fifteenth-largest metropolitan region in Canada, named for Queen Victoria, who ruled the British Empire during the creation of the original British colonies in Canada. ![]()
Biography of Léon-Paul Fargue (excerpt)
Léon-Paul Fargue (March 4, 1876 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - November 24, 1947) was a French poet and essayist. He was born in Paris, France.As a poet he was noted for his poetry of atmosphere and detail.His work spanned numerous literary movements. ![]()
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New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia and 17,000 km (11,000 mi) from Metropolitan France.The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Chesterfield Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of Pines, and a few remote islets.
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Biography of Robert Baden-Powell (excerpt)
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB (22 February 1857 in Oxford – 8 January 1941), also known as B-P, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, and founder of the Scout Movement. After having been educated at Charterhouse School, Baden-Powell served in the British Army from 1876 until 1910 in India and Africa.
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Biography of Elizabeth Arden (excerpt)
Elizabeth Arden (December 31, 1878 - October 19, 1966) was a Canadian businesswoman who built a cosmetics empire in the United States. Arden was born Florence Nightingale Graham in Woodbridge, Ontario, where she lived until she was twenty-four years old. In 1909 Florence Nightingale Graham dropped out of nursing school in Toronto. ![]()
Biography of Miklós Horthy (excerpt)
Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya (18 June 1868 – 9 February 1957) was the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary during the interwar years and throughout most of World War II, serving from 1 March 1920 to 15 October 1944. Horthy was styled "His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary" (Hungarian: Ő Főméltósága a Magyar Királyság Kormányzója). ![]()
Biography of Carlo Carrà (excerpt)
Carlo Carrà (February 11, 1881—April 13, 1966) was an Italian painter, a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century.In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number of books concerning art. ![]()
Biography of Romain Rolland (excerpt)
Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – December 30, 1944) was a French writer and dramatist, best known as the author of the novel series Jean-Christophe (1904-12). His first book was published in 1902, when he was already 36 years old.
Biography of Gaston Dominici (excerpt)
Gustave Dominici, born January 22, 1877 in Digne-les-Bains, became famous with "Dominici Affair". The 1952 slaying of a vacationing family in rural France sent shock waves through the country for years. The crime was dubbed "The Dominici Affair" after Gaston Dominici, the French peasant who was jailed for the death of the couple and their 10-year-old daughter. ![]()
Biography of Ferdinand Hodler (excerpt)
Ferdinand Hodler (March 14, 1853 – May 19, 1918) was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the 19th century. Hodler was born in Berne but moved to Geneva at the age of 18 to start a career as a painter.Hodler's early work consisted of landscapes, figure compositions and portraits, treated with a vigorous realism. ![]()
Biography of Felix Dzerzhinsky (excerpt)
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (11 September (O.S.30 August) 1877 – 20 July 1926), nicknamed "Iron Felix", was a Bolshevik revolutionary and official.Born into Polish nobility, from 1917 until his death in 1926 Dzerzhinsky led the first two Soviet state-security organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing a secret police for the post-revolutionary Soviet regime. ![]()
Biography of Paul Deschanel (excerpt)
Paul Eugène Louis Deschanel (February 13, 1855 - April 28, 1922) was a French statesman. He served as President of France from February 18, 1920 to September 21, 1920. Paul Deschanel, the son of Émile Deschanel (1819-1904), professor at the Collège de France and senator, was born at Brussels, where his father was living in exile (1851—1859), owing to his opposition to Napoleon III.
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Biography of Henry II of England (excerpt)
Henry II of England (called "Curtmantle"; 5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189) ruled as King of England (1154–1189), Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Count of Nantes, Lord of Ireland and, at various times, controlled parts of Wales, Scotland and western France.
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Biography of Henry V of England (excerpt)
Henry V (16 September 1386 – 31 August 1422) was one of the most significant English warrior kings of the 15th century. He was born at Monmouth, Wales, in the tower above the gatehouse of Monmouth Castle, and reigned as King of England from 1413 to 1422. ![]()
Biography of Otto Hahn (excerpt)
Otto Hahn (8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) was a German chemist and Nobel laureate who pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry" and the "founder of the atomic age". Hahn served as the last President of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG) in 1946 and as the founding President of the Max Planck Society (MPG) from 1948 to 1960.
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Biography of Hilma af Klint (excerpt)
Hilma af Klint (October 26, 1862 – October 21, 1944) was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings were amongst the first abstract art.A considerable body of her abstract work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky.She belonged to a group called "The Five", a circle of women who shared her belief in the importance of trying to make contact with the so-called "High Masters" – often by way of séances.
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Biography of Knut Hamsun (excerpt)
Knut Hamsun, born Knud Pedersen (August 4, 1859 - February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian author.He was considered by Isaac Bashevis Singer to be the "father of modern literature", and by King Haakon to be Norway's soul.In 1920, the Nobel Committee awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil". ![]()
Biography of Marie Vetsera (excerpt)
Baroness Mary Vetsera (March 19, 1870 – January 30, 1889) was Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria's mistress. She was the daughter of Baron Albin Vetsera, a diplomat in foreign service at the Austrian court, and his wife Baroness Helene Vetsera (née Helene Baltazzi). ![]()
Biography of Marie Noël (excerpt)
Marie Rouget, best known as Marie Noël, born February 16, 1883 in Auxerre, died December 23, 1967 in Auxerre, was a French poet and author. She was a friend of French politician Léon Noël (1888-1987). Works (extracts) Les Chansons et les Heures (1920)
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Biography of Pamela Colman Smith (excerpt)
Pamela Colman Smith (February 16, 1878—September 18, 1951) was an artist, illustrator, and writer.She is best known for designing the Rider-Waite-Smith deck of tarot cards for Arthur Edward Waite. Pamela Colman SmithSmith was born in Pimlico, Middlesex (now London), England the daughter of an American merchant from Brooklyn, Charles Edward Smith and his Jamaican wife Corinne Colman. ![]()
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Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada.It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. The city is named after the nearby Lake Winnipeg; the name comes from the Western Cree words for muddy water. ![]()
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Omaha is the largest city in the U.S.state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County.Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 10 miles (15 km) north of the mouth of the Platte River (also known as the Nebraska River).
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Biography of Karl Jaspers (excerpt)
Karl Theodor Jaspers (February 23, 1883 – February 26, 1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy. Jaspers was born in Oldenburg in 1883 to a mother from a local farming community, and a jurist father.
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Biography of Nikos Kazantzakis (excerpt)
Nikos Kazantzakis (Greek: Νίκος Καζαντζάκης) (February 18, 1883, Heraklion, Crete, Ottoman Empire (March 2 in Gregorian calendar) - October 26, 1957, Freiburg, Germany) was arguably the most important and most translated Greek writer and philosopher of the 20th century. Yet he did not become well known globally until the 1964 release of the Michael Cacoyannis film Zorba the Greek, based on Kazantzakis' novel whose English translation has the same title. Crete, when Kazantzakis was born, was still under Ottoman rule, and had experienced repeated uprisings in attempting to achieve independence from the Ottoman empire and to unite with Greece. In 1902, Kazantzakis began the study of law at the University of Athens, then went to Paris in 1907 to study philosophy, where he studied under Henri Bergson.
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Biography of John Barrymore (excerpt)
John Sidney Blyth Barrymore (February 14, 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 29, 1942 in Los Angeles, California), was an American actor. He gained fame as a stage actor, lauded for his portrayals of Hamlet and Richard III, and is frequently called the greatest actor of his generation. ![]()
Biography of Isoroku Yamamoto (excerpt)
Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Japanese: 山本五十六, Yamamoto Isoroku.) (4 April 1884 – 18 April 1943) was Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II, graduate of Imperial Japanese Naval Academy and an alumnus of U.S. Naval War College and Harvard University (1919–1921). ![]()
Biography of Isabelle Eberhardt (excerpt)
Isabelle Eberhardt (17 February 1877–21 October 1904) was an explorer and writer who lived and travelled extensively in North Africa.For the time she was an extremely liberated (but troubled) individual who rejected conventional European morality in favour of her own path and that of Islam.
Biography of Gino Severini (excerpt)
Gino Severini (April 7, 1883 (birth time source: Gauquelin, 6:30 AM Rome time)) – February 26, 1966), was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement. At an early stage in his artwork, he was exposed to Impressionist ideas.
Biography of Maimonides (excerpt)
Moses ben Maimon,(1135–1204), commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the acronym Rambam was a medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. His time of birth comes from the biography Macrison and Hubler, "Trial and Triumph."
Biography of Orville Wright (excerpt)
The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two Americans who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight on 17 December 1903.
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Biography of Lon Chaney (excerpt)
Lon Chaney (April 1, 1883 (birth time source: Lois Rodden) – August 26, 1930), nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films.He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema. ![]()
Biography of Georges de la Fouchardière (excerpt)
Georges de la Fouchardière, born February 1, 1874 in Châtellerault, died in 1946, was a French journalist and author. Bibliography (extracts) Le Diable dans le Bénitier. Montaigne. Hors-d'Œuvre..Payot&Cie 1919 L'Affaire Peau-de-Balle (La Machine à galoper). Librairie des lettres, 1919. Petit guide du parfait parieur aux courses Editions du siècle 1923 ![]()
Biography of Vittorio Orlando (excerpt)
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (May 13, 1860 - December 1, 1952) was an Italian diplomat and political figure. He was born in Palermo, Sicily. His father, a landed gentleman, delayed venturing out to register his son's birth for fear of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1,000 patriots who had just stormed into Sicily on the first leg of their march to build an Italian nation. ![]()
Biography of Maurice Barrès (excerpt)
Maurice Barrès (19 August 1862 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 4 December 1923) was a French novelist, journalist, an anti-semite nationalist politician and agitator. Leaning towards the far-left in his youth as a Boulangist deputy, he progressively developed a theory close to Romantic nationalism and shifted to the right during the Dreyfus Affair, leading the Anti-Dreyfusards alongside Charles Maurras.
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Biography of Howard Carter (excerpt)
Howard Carter (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist, noted as a primary discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun. In 1891, at the age of 17, Carter, a talented young artist, was sent out to Egypt by the Egypt Exploration Fund to assist Percy Newberry in the excavation and recording of Middle Kingdom tombs at Beni Hassan. ![]()
Biography of Haakon VII of Norway (excerpt)
Haakon VII (Prince Carl of Denmark, born Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel) (August 3, 1872 – September 21, 1957), was the first king of Norway after the 1905 dissolution of the personal union with Sweden. As one of the few elected monarchs, Haakon quickly won the respect and affection of his people and played a pivotal role in uniting the Norwegian nation in its resistance of the attack and five-year-long Nazi occupation during World War II. |
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