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Horoscopes with Poseidon in LeoYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Poseidon in Leo. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Alfred Russell Wallace (excerpt)
Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He is best known for independently proposing a theory of natural selection which prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory.
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Biography of Édouard Dujardin (excerpt)
Édouard Dujardin (November 10, 1861–1949) was a French writer, one of the early pioneers of the literary technique stream of consciousness, exemplified in his 1888 novel Les Lauriers sont coupés. Édouard Émile Louis Dujardin was born in France near Blois, and was the only child of Alphonse Dujardin, a sea captain. ![]()
Biography of Paul Arène (excerpt)
Paul-Auguste Arène, born 26 June 1843 in Arezzo in Italy and died 17 December 1896 in Antibes, was a Provençal poet and French writer. The son of Adolphe, a clockmaker, and Reine, a cap presser, he studied in Marseille, then in Vannes.
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Biography of Benoît-Constant Coquelin (excerpt)
Benoît-Constant Coquelin (23 January 1841 – 27 January 1909), known as Coquelin aîné, was a French actor, "one of the greatest theatrical figures of the age." Biography Coquelin was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais. He was originally intended to follow his father's trade of baker (he was once called "un boulanger manqué" by a hostile critic), but his love of acting led him to the Conservatoire, where he entered Régnier's class in 1859. ![]()
Biography of Hector Malot (excerpt)
Hector Malot (May 20, 1830 - July 17, 1907) was a French writer born in La Bouille, close to Rouen. He studied law in Rouen and Paris, but eventually literature became his passion. He worked as a dramatic critic for Lloyd Francais and as a literary critic for L'Opinion Nationale. ![]()
Biography of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (excerpt)
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Alfred Ernest Albert; 6 August 1844 – 30 July 1900) was the third Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha reigning between 1893 and 1900. He was also a member of the British Royal Family, the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. ![]()
Biography of André Hubert Dumont (excerpt)
André Hubert Dumont (February 15, 1809–February 28, 1857) was a Belgian geologist. Dumont was born at Liège. His first work was a masterly Mémoire on the geology of the province of Liege published in 1832. A few years later he became professor of mineralogy and geology and afterwards rector in the University of Liege. ![]()
Biography of James Young Simpson (excerpt)
Sir James Young Simpson (7 June 1811 – 6 May 1870) was a Scottish doctor and an important figure in the history of medicine. Simpson discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform and successfully introduced it for general medical use. Early life James Simpson was born in Bathgate, West Lothian the youngest of eight children, Thomas, John, Alexander, David, George (died young), George and a sister Mary. ![]()
Biography of Emile Claus (excerpt)
Emile Claus (September 27, 1849–June 14, 1924) was a Belgian painter. Emile Claus was born on September 27, 1849 inLendelede . Later he studied at the Academy of Antwerp. Under the influence of Claude Monet, he developed a style that has been characterized as luminism.
Biography of Frans de Cort (excerpt)
Frans Jozef de Cort (Antwerp, 21 June 1834- Elsene, 18 January 1878) was a Flemish writer. Professionally he was, first a clerk, editor, bookkeeper for a shipping company, and in 1861 a secretary at the military court. Together with Jan Theodoor van Rijswijck, he published the journal De Grondwet since 1857. ![]()
Biography of Clarence Darrow (excerpt)
Clarence Seward Darrow (April 18, 1857 Farmdale, Ohio - March 13, 1938 Chicago) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Bobby Franks (1924) and defending John T. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Cosserat (excerpt)
Eugène-Maurice-Pierre Cosserat (4 March 1866 (source for his time of birth: Gauquelin Vol 2/2632) – 31 May 1931) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Born in Amiens, he studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1883 to 1888. He was on Science faculty of Toulouse University from 1889 and director of its observatory from 1908, a position he held for the rest of his life. ![]()
Biography of Alexandre Dumas Fils (excerpt)
Alexandre Dumas, fils (French for son, similar to Junior in English) (July 27, 1824 – November 27, 1895) was the son of Alexandre Dumas, père, who followed in his father's footsteps becoming a celebrated writer, author and playwright. Alexandre Dumas, fils was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794 – 1868), a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas.
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Biography of Aimé Morot (excerpt)
Aimé Morot (June 16, 1850 (source for his time of birth: Lescaut)–1913) was a French painter. Morot was born in Nancy, where he studied under a drawing master named Thierry. He later attended the atelier of Alexandre Cabanel in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, but left after only two weeks to continue his studies independently. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Azam (excerpt)
Étienne Eugène Azam (1822 (source not archived – 1899) was a French surgeon from Bordeaux who is chiefly remembered for his work in psychology, particularly a case involving a female patient he named "Félida X" who seemed to have "alternating personalities", or what Azam referred to as doublement de la vie.
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Biography of Adolphe Le Flô (excerpt)
Adolphe Le Flô, born November 2, 1804 (source not archived) and died in Néchéoat near Morlaix in 1887, was a French military, general, and politician. ![]()
Biography of Théophile-Narcisse Chauvel (excerpt)
Théophile-Narcisse Chauvel, born on April 2, 1831 in Paris, died on January 2010 in Paris, was a French artist, painter, and lithographer. ![]()
Biography of Marie d'Agoult (excerpt)
Marie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny, Vicomtesse de Flavigny (December 31, 1805 - March 5, 1876), was a French author, known also by her married name and title, Marie, Comtesse d'Agoult, and by her pen name, Daniel Stern. She was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, the daughter of Alexander Victor François de Flavigny (1770-1819), a footloose emigré French aristocrat, and his wife Maria-Elisabeth Bethmann (1772-1847), a Jewish German banker's daughter whose family had converted to Catholicism. ![]()
Biography of Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau (excerpt)
Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (February 10, 1810 - January 12, 1892) was a French naturalist. He was born at Berthézène, in the commune of Valleraugue (Gard), the son of a Protestant farmer. He studied medicine at Strasbourg, where he took the double degree of M. ![]()
Biography of Jenny Lind (excerpt)
Johanna Maria Lind (October 6, 1820 – November 2, 1887), better known as Jenny Lind, was a Swedish-born opera singer, often known as the "Swedish Nightingale". She is known for her performances in soprano roles in Sweden and Europe, as well as for an extraordinarily popular tour of America beginning in 1850, and for her philanthropic work. ![]()
Biography of Emma Borden (excerpt)
Emma Borden, born March 1, 1851 (birth time source: Charlotte Tuton) and died June 12, 1927, is the sister of Lizzie Borden. Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was a New England spinster who was the central figure in the hatchet murders of her father and stepmother on August 4, 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts in the United States.
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Biography of José Velarde (excerpt)
José Velarde Yusti, born on November 10, 1848 in Conil de la Frontera, died in 1892 in Madrid, was a Spanish poet. Publications (selection) Poesía (1872) Nuevas poesías (1878) Alegríacuatro partes (La marcha, el holgadero, la fuga,habladurias) ![]()
Biography of Joseph Chamberlain (excerpt)
Joseph Chamberlain (8 July 1836 – 2 July 1914) was an influential British businessman, politician, and statesman. In his early years Chamberlain was a radically minded Liberal Party member, a campaigner for educational reform, and President of the Board of Trade. He later became a Liberal Unionist in alliance with the Conservative Party and was appointed Colonial Secretary. ![]()
Biography of Charles Hermite (excerpt)
Charles Hermite (pronounced ) (December 24, 1822 – January 14, 1901) was a French mathematician who did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra. Hermite polynomials, Hermite normal form, Hermitian operators, and cubic Hermite splines are named in his honor. ![]()
Biography of Henri Fantin-Latour (excerpt)
Henri Fantin-Latour (January 14, 1836 - August 25, 1904) was a French painter and lithographer. Born Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour in Grenoble, Rhône-Alpes, France, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of his friends Parisian artists and writers. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (excerpt)
Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (December 7, 1805 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – June 13, 1871) was a French magician. He is widely considered the father of the modern style of conjuring. Early life and entrance into conjuring Master of magic Robert-Houdin was born Jean Eugène Robert in Blois, France, on 7 December 1805—a day after his autobiography said he was.
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Biography of Moina Mathers (excerpt)
Moina Mathers, born as Mina Bergson (February 28, 1865-July 25, 1928) was an artist and occultist at the turn of the 19th century. She was the sister of French philosopher Henri Bergson, the first man of Jewish descent to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927. ![]()
Biography of Henri Maréchal (excerpt)
Henri Maréchal, born January 22, 1842 in Paris, died May 12, 1924 in Paris, was a French musician, composer and poet. ![]()
Biography of Ernst Haeckel (excerpt)
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 (birth time source: Thomas Ring, vol 3) – August 9, 1919), also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including phylum, phylogeny, ecology and the kingdom Protista.
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Biography of Herbert Kitchener (excerpt)
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC 24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) was an Irish-born senior British Army officer and colonial administrator. Kitchener won notoriety for his imperial campaigns, especially his scorched earth policy against the Boers, his expansion of Lord Roberts' internment camps during the Second Boer War and his central role in the early part of the First World War.
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Biography of Maurice Maeterlinck (excerpt)
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard, Count Maeterlinck (August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist writing in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. ![]()
Biography of Dorothy Dix (excerpt)
Dorothy Dix (November 18, 1861 – December 16, 1951), was the pseudonym of U.S. journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer. As the forerunner of today's popular advice columnists, Dorothy Dix was America's highest paid and most widely read female journalist at the time of her death.
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Biography of Algernon Charles Swinburne (excerpt)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909) was a Victorian era English poet. His poetry was highly controversial in its day, much of it containing recurring themes of sadomasochism, death-wish, lesbianism and irreligion. Swinburne was born in London, and raised on the Isle of Wight, and at Capheaton Hall, near Wallington, Northumberland. ![]()
Biography of Alexandre Georges (excerpt)
Alexandre George, born February 25, 1850 in Arras, died January 18, 1938 in Paris, was a French composer and organist. Works (extract, in French) Daphnis et Chloé (1883), Le Printemps (1888), Charlotte Corday (6 mars 1901), Miarka (Opéra-Comique : 7 novembre 1905) - sans doute son plus grand opéra ; repris et réduit à 3 actes pour l'Opéra (1925) - le public est séduit par l'étrange mélancolie de cette partition, ![]()
Biography of John Galsworthy (excerpt)
John Galsworthy OM (pronounced /ˈɡɔːlzwɜrði/; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906—1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. ![]()
Biography of Enrique Granados (excerpt)
Pantaléon Enrique Costanzo Granados y Campiña (July 27, 1867 – March 24, 1916) was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music. His music is in a uniquely Spanish style and, as such, representative of musical nationalism. Enrique Granados was also a talented painter in the style of Francisco Goya. ![]()
Biography of Marie Emile Fayolle (excerpt)
Marie Émile Fayolle (Le Puy, France, 14 May 1852 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 27 August 1928) was a Marshal of France. Fayolle studied at the École polytechnique, where he graduated with the class of 1873. During his career he served in the artillery.
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Biography of Hugo Becker (excerpt)
Hugo Becker (born Jean Otto Eric Hugo Becker) (February 13, 1863 – July 30, 1941) was a prominent German cellist, cello teacher, and composer. He studied at a young age with Alfredo Piatti, and later Friedrich Grützmacher in Dresden. He was born in 1863 in Strasbourg; his father Jean Becker was a famous violinist. ![]()
Biography of Alfred Grévin (excerpt)
Alfred Grévin (28 January 1827 – 1892) was a 19th century caricaturist, best known during his lifetime for his caricature silhouettes of contemporary Parisian women. He was also a sculptor, cartoonist, and designed costumes and sets for popular theater. He founded with journalist Arthur Meyer the Musée Grévin, a waxwork museum. ![]()
Biography of Émile Paladilhe (excerpt)
Émile Paladilhe (3 June 1844 (birth time source: Lescaut) - 6 January 1926) was a French composer of the late romantic period. Biography Émile Paladilhe was born in Montpellier. He was a musical child prodigy, and moved from his home in the south of France to Paris to begin his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris at age 10. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Doudart de Lagrée (excerpt)
Ernest Marc Louis de Gonzague Doudart de Lagrée (March 31, 1823 - March 12, 1868) was the leader of the French Mekong Expedition of 1866-1868. He was born in Saint-Vincent-de-Mercuze near Grenoble, France, and graduated from the École Polytechnique. He joined the navy and served in the Crimean War, then took up a post in Indochina in the hope that the climate would help his chronically ulcerated throat. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Carrière (excerpt)
Eugène Anatole Carrière (January 16, 1849 (source: Lescaut) – March 27, 1906) was a French Symbolist artist of the Fin de siècle period. His work is best known for its brown monochrome palette. He was a close friend of the sculptor Rodin and his work influenced Matisse and Picasso. ![]()
Biography of Oswald Achenbach (excerpt)
Oswald Achenbach (2 February 1827 - 1 February 1905) was a German landscape painter. Born in Düsseldorf, he received his art education from his brother, Andreas Achenbach. His landscapes generally dwell on the rich and glowing effects of color which drew him to the Bay of Naples and the neighborhood of Rome. ![]()
Biography of Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (excerpt)
The Princess Louise (born Louise Caroline Alberta, also known as Marchioness of Lorne and Duchess of Argyll by marriage; 18 March 1848 – 3 December 1939) was a member of the British Royal Family, the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Biography of Leo Delibes (excerpt)
(Clément Philibert) Léo Delibes (February 21, 1836 – January 16, 1891) was a French composer of Romantic music. He was born in Saint-Germain-du-Val, France. Delibes was born in 1836, the son of a mailman and a musical mother, but also the grandson of an opera singer. ![]()
Biography of François-Louis Français (excerpt)
François Louis Français (November 17, 1814 - 1897), French painter, was born at Plombières-les-bains (Vosges), and, on attaining the age of fifteen, was placed as office-boy with a bookseller. After a few years of hard struggle, during which he made a precarious living by drawing on stone and designing woodcut vignettes for book illustration, he studied painting under Gigoux, and subsequently under Corot, whose influence remained decisive upon Français's style of landscape painting. ![]()
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Yuma (Cocopah: Yuum) is a city in and the county seat of Yuma County, Arizona, United States. The city's population was 93,064 at the 2010 census, up from the 2000 census population of 77,515. Yuma is the principal city of the Yuma, Arizona, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which consists of Yuma County. ![]()
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Boise is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho and is the county seat of Ada County. On the Boise River in southwestern Idaho, it is 41 miles (66 km) east of the Oregon border and 110 miles (177 km) north of the Nevada border. ![]()
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Olympia is the capital of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat and the second largest city of Thurston County. It is located 60 miles (100 km) southwest of Seattle, the state's most populous city, and is a cultural center of the southern Puget Sound region. ![]()
Biography of Giovanni Pascoli (excerpt)
Giovanni Pascoli (December 31, 1855—April 6, 1912) was an Italian poet and classical scholar. Pascoli was born at San Mauro di Romagna (rechristened "San Mauro Pascoli" after his death), into a wealthy family. He had a tragic childhood, struck by the murder of his father and the early deaths of his mother, sister and two brothers, and the subsequent economical decline of the family. |
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