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Horoscopes with Poseidon in VirgoYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Poseidon in Virgo. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Thérèse Pierre (excerpt)
Thérèse Pierre (5 November 1908 – 26 October 1943) was a French resistance fighter. She died after she was tortured by the German Gestapo. Resistance fighter At Carhaix, at the beginning of 1942, she met a Finistere Resistance official, the future Lieutenant-Colonel Pascal.
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Biography of Juana Bormann (excerpt)
Juana Bormann (or Johanna Borman; 10 September 1893 – 13 December 1945) was a German prison guard at several Nazi concentration camps from 1938, and was executed as a war criminal at Hamelin, Lower Saxony, Germany, after a court trial in 1945.
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Biography of Forrest Tucker (excerpt)
Forrest Meredith Tucker (February 12, 1919 – October 25, 1986) was an American actor in both movies and television who appeared in nearly a hundred films. Tucker worked as a vaudeville straight man at the age of fifteen. A mentor provided funds and contacts for a trip to California, where party hostess Cobina Wright persuaded guest Wesley Ruggles to give Tucker a screen test because of Tucker's photogenic good looks, thick wavy hair and height of six feet, four inches (according to IMDb).
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Biography of René Mouchotte (excerpt)
Commandant René Mouchotte DFC (21 August 1914 – 27 August 1943) was a World War II pilot of the French Air Force, who escaped from Vichy French–controlled Oran to join the Free French forces. Serving with RAF Fighter Command, he rose to command a fighter wing before being shot down and killed on 27 August 1943.
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Biography of Armel Guerne (excerpt)
Armel Guerne, born in Morges (Switzerland) on April 1, 1911 and died in Marmande (Lot-et-Garonne) on October 9, 1980, is a French-language poet and translator, of a Swiss father and a French mother. During World War II, he was a member of the Prosper-PHYSICIAN network of the British secret service Special Operations Executive, alongside Francis Suttill "Prosper", the head of the network.
Biography of André Chotin (excerpt)
André Roger Chotin alias André E. Chotin, born January 26, 1892 in the 10th arrondissement of Paris and died January 10, 1954 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, is a French decorator, artistic director and director of cinema. He made his debut as an actor in Jacques Copeau's theatrical company, with which he played several plays at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in 1917 and 1918. ![]()
Biography of Margaret St. Clair (excerpt)
Margaret St. Clair (17 February 1911 – 22 November 1995) was an American fantasy and science fiction writer, who also wrote under the pseudonyms Idris Seabright and Wilton Hazzard. She was especially prolific in the 1950s, producing such acclaimed and much-reprinted stories as "The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles" (1951), "Brightness Falls from the Air" (1951), "An Egg a Month from All Over" (1952), and "Horrer Howce" (1956).
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Biography of María Zambrano (excerpt)
María Zambrano Alarcón (22 April 1904 – 6 February 1991) was a Spanish essayist and philosopher associated with the Generation of '36 movement. Her extensive work between the civic engagement and the poetic reflection started to be recognised in Spain over the last quarter of the 20th century after living many years in exile.
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Biography of André Mornet (excerpt)
Constant Victor André Mornet, born January 5, 1870 in La Châtre and died July 22, 1955 in Nohant-Vic, is a French magistrate. Both collaborator and resistance from 1943, he was the prosecutor for the trials of Pierre Laval and Philippe Pétain at the time of his release, which led to their death sentences, that of Pétain being commuted to life imprisonment because of his age.
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Biography of Gudrun Pausewang (excerpt)
Gudrun Pausewang (3 March 1928 – 23 January 2020), less commonly known by her married name, Gudrun Wilcke, was a German author of children's and young adult literature. She was known for books such as The Last Children of Schewenborn and Die Wolke (translated as Fall-Out) which were made part of German school canons.
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Biography of Atal Bihari Vajpayee (excerpt)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (25 December 1924 - 16 August 2018) was an Indian politician who served as Prime Minister three times. Concerning his time of birth, there are several conflicting sources. A founding member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he was the first non-Congress Prime Minister to complete a full term.
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Biography of Kathryn McGuire (excerpt)
Kathryn McGuire (December 6, 1903 – October 10, 1978) was an American dancer and actress. Career While studying at the Hollywood High School, as well as her dancing, McGuire participated in a program exhibition at the Maryland Hotel in Pasadena. She was seen by Thomas H.
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Biography of Nadezhda Volkova (excerpt)
Nadezhda Volkova (Russian: Надежда Волкова; 20 June 1920 – 26 November 1942) was a courier in an underground Komsomol cell during the Second World War. She was posthumously declared a Hero of the Soviet Union on 8 May 1965, over twenty years after death in the war.
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Biography of Reina Prinsen Geerligs (excerpt)
Reina Prinsen Geerligs (7 October 1922 - 24 November 1943 (age 21)) was an author and a member of the Dutch Resistance during World War II. After the war the literary Reina Prinsen Geerligs Award was created in her memory. Reina Prinsen Geerligs was born in 1922 in Semarang, Dutch East Indies, the daughter of the chemist Johan Prinsen Geerligs and his wife Helen Carolina Zon. ![]()
Biography of Faith Bacon (excerpt)
Faith Bacon (born Frances Yvonne Bacon; July 19, 1910 – September 26, 1956) was an American burlesque dancer and actress. During the height of her career, she was billed as "America's Most Beautiful Dancer". Career Bacon's career in burlesque began in the 1920s in Paris.
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Biography of William Chaney (historian) (excerpt)
William Albert Chaney (December 23, 1922 – March 13, 2013) was an American author and historian of Anglo-Saxon England. Chaney spent his career at Lawrence University, where he taught from 1952 until his death; he held the George McKendree Steele endowed chair in history from 1962 until his official retirement in 1999, and was chair of the history department from 1968 to 1971. ![]()
Biography of Joy Page (excerpt)
Joy Page (born Joy Cerrette Paige; November 9, 1924 – April 18, 2008) was an American actress. She is best known for her role as the Bulgarian refugee Annina Brandel in Casablanca (1942). She was sometimes credited as Joanne Page. Early life
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Biography of Monika Mann (excerpt)
Monika Mann (7 June 1910 – 17 March 1992) was a German author and feature writer. She was born in Munich, Germany, the fourth of six children of the Nobel Prize–winning author Thomas Mann and Katia, née Katharina Pringsheim. She trained as a pianist and her early attempts at a musical career seemed promising, but were not met with success and she instead pursued a career as a writer.
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Biography of Emilia Malessa (excerpt)
Emilia Malessa, née Izdebska (noms de guerre: Marcysia, Miłasza, Maniuta) (born 26 February 1909, in Rostov, died 5 June 1949), was a Polish soldier, member of the Home Army with the rank of Captain, participant in the Warsaw Uprising, member of the underground anti-communist organization Freedom and Independence (WiN), and a "cavalier" of the Order of Virtuti Militari. ![]()
Biography of Mary Greyeyes (excerpt)
Mary Greyeyes Reid (November 14, 1920 – March 31, 2011) was a Canadian World War II servicewoman. A Cree from the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, she was the first First Nations woman to enlist in the Canadian Armed Forces. ![]()
Biography of Édith Clark (excerpt)
Edith Georgette Clark (also known as Edith Boiteux, 5 June 1904 – 16 March 1937) was a French aviator and parachutist. Biography Clark was born in Cuffy, in the Cher region of France, on 5 June 1904. She worked as a typist and became interested in aviation; however, she could not afford the expenses of flying lessons on her salary. ![]()
Biography of Karen Horney (excerpt)
Karen Horney (née Danielsen; 16 September 1885 – 4 December 1952) was a German psychoanalyst who practiced in the United States during her later career. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views. This was particularly true of her theories of sexuality and of the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis.
Biography of Anne-Marie Imbrecq (excerpt)
Anne-Marie Jeanne Imbrecq (18 June 1911 – 28 November 2005) was a nurse, parachutist, and French civil and military aircraft pilot active in Europe and Africa during World War II. Anne-Marie was the daughter of Paris lawyer Joseph Imbrecq who specialized in transport law.
Biography of Joan Hickson (excerpt)
Joan Bogle Hickson, OBE (5 August 1906 – 17 October 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She was known for her role as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the television series Miss Marple. She also narrated a number of Miss Marple stories on audiobooks.
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Biography of Kyle Rote (excerpt)
William Kyle Rote, Sr. (October 27, 1928 – August 15, 2002) was an American professional football player who was a running back and wide receiver for eleven years in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants. He was an All-American running back for the SMU Mustangs and was the first overall selection of the 1951 NFL draft.
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Biography of Ida Veldhuyzen van Zanten (excerpt)
Ida Laura Veldhuyzen van Zanten (22 June 1911 – 19 October 2000) was a Dutch pilot and social worker who was a member of the Dutch resistance during the Second World War and a pilot in the British Air Transport Auxiliary.
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Biography of Helen Wagner (excerpt)
Helen Losee Wagner (September 3, 1918 – May 1, 2010) was an American actress. Born in Lubbock, Texas, she is best known for her role as Nancy Hughes McClosky on the soap opera As the World Turns. After appearing in the soap opera for some 50 years, at the time of her death she was the longest serving actor on an American soap opera.
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Biography of Walkiria Terradura (excerpt)
Walkiria Terradura (born 9 January 1924) is an Italian anti-fascist partisan who was awarded the Silver Medal of Military Valour. One of five children of committed antifascist lawyer Gustavo Terradura and his wife Laura, Terradura witnessed her father's harassment and imprisonment several times during her youth.
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Biography of Yvonne Jourjon (excerpt)
Yvonne Jourjon (September 13, 1899 - September 1985) was a pioneering French pilot and flight instructor; she was the first woman flight instructor in France. Life Jourjon initially learned parachuting, and received her parachuting certificate in 1924. In 1932, she joined the Union of Civil Pilots of France and in the following year earned her pilot licence.
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Biography of Ellen Osiier (excerpt)
Ellen Osiier (13 August 1890 – 6 September 1962) was a Danish foil fencer. Osiier was born in Hjørring, Nordjylland, Denmark. The 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris was the first Olympic Games to feature women's fencing. Osiier, then 33, won the gold medal and went undefeated in the 16 matches she fenced in the event.
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Biography of Carla Capponi (excerpt)
Carla Capponi aka The Little English Girl (7 December 1918 – 24 November 2000) was an Italian partisan and politician who received the Gold Medal of Military Valour for her participation in the Italian resistance movement. Italian resistance Around the time of the German occupation of Italy (1939-1945), she joined the Italian Communist Party and began her involvement in the resistance.
Biography of Yves Carbon (excerpt)
Yves Carbon, born April 3, 1911 in Lembeye, died October 25, 1949 (air crash at age 38), was a French aviator.
Biography of Germaine L'Herbier-Montagnon (excerpt)
Germaine L'Herbier-Montagnon, born June 13, 1895 in Tournon (today Tournon-sur-Rhône), and died in this same city on July 29, 1986, was an IPSA pilot nurse - acronym referring to the Amicale nurse-pilots and air first-aiders created in the 1930s with the mission of "practical training of nurses, with a view to their assignment to the Health Services and annexes of the Air Force" - which, after the defeat of June 1940, created on his own initiative and directed the Mission for the search for the dead and missing of the Air Force.
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Biography of Lucien Choury (excerpt)
Lucien Choury (26 March 1898 – 6 May 1987) was a French cyclist. He won the gold medal in Men's tandem along with Jean Cugnot at the 1924 Summer Olympics. ![]()
Biography of Nadejda Troïan (excerpt)
Nadezhda Viktorovna Troyan (Belarusian: Надзея Віктараўна Траян, Nadzieja Viktaraŭna Trajan; Russian: Надежда Викторовна Троян; 24 October 1921 – 7 September 2011) was a Soviet Belarusian intelligence officer who also served as a nurse in a partisan unit. She is most known for her role in the assassination of Wilhelm Kube, for which she and her fellow co-conspirators were honored with the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 29 October 1943.
Biography of Georges Bergé (excerpt)
Georges Bergé (Belmont, January 3, 1909 - Mimizan, September 15, 1997) is a French soldier, Companion of the Liberation. Rallying the Free French forces in 1940, he set up a company of French paratroopers with whom he carried out the first clandestine missions on occupied French territory. ![]()
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The Fusillade de Fourmies is an event which happened on 1 May 1891 in Fourmies, in the French Nord department. This day, the troop fired on a peaceful demonstration of workers claiming "C'est les huit heures qu'il nous faut !" (it's the eight-hour day we need), killing nine people and injuring 35 others. ![]()
Biography of Antonie Pfülf (excerpt)
Antonie "Toni" Pfülf (14 December 1877 – 8 June 1933) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). An advocate of equal rights for women, she was a member of the Reichstag from 1920 to 1933 and one of the most prominent women in her party.
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Biography of Josef Bican (excerpt)
osef "Pepi" Bican (25 September 1913 – 12 December 2001) was an Austrian-Czech professional footballer who played as a striker. He is the second-most prolific goalscorer in official matches in recorded history according to Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF), with over 950 goals scored in 624 matches.
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Biography of Elena Varzi (excerpt)
Elena Varzi (21 December 1926 – 1 September 2014) was an Italian film actress. Life and career Born in Rome, in spite of a non-professional acting background, Varzi made her film debut in a leading role, as the Sicilian Maria Antonia in Renato Castellani's neorealist post-war comedy-drama It's Forever Springtime. ![]()
Biography of René Schickele (excerpt)
René Schickele (4 August 1883 – 31 January 1940) was a German-French writer, essayist and translator. Schickele was born in Obernai, Alsace, the son of a German vineyard owner and police officer and a French mother. He studied literature, history, science and philosophy in Strasbourg, Munich, Paris and Berlin.
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Biography of Paul Marion (politician) (excerpt)
Paul Jules André Marion (27 June 1899, Asnières-sur-Seine – 2 March 1954) was a French Communist and subsequently far right journalist and political activist. He served as the French Minister of Information from 1941 to 1944. Early years Marion joined the French Communist Party in 1922 and wrote for L'Humanité as well as being elected to the party's central committee in 1926.
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Biography of Boris Taslitzky (excerpt)
Boris Taslitzky, sometimes Boris Tazlitsky (September 30, 1911 – December 9, 2005), was a French painter with left-wing sympathies, best known for his figurative depictions of some difficult moments in the history of the twentieth century. His work is considered as representative of Socialist realism in art in France.
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Biography of Jean Dinh Van (excerpt)
Jean Dinh Van, born September 11, 1927 in Boulogne-Billancourt and died July 3, 2022 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French jeweler. Considered one of the most creative French jewelers of the 1960s by the professional press, Jean Dinh Van reawakened the world of jewellery, still dominated at the time by a jewelery tradition of finery, worn with the outfits of great couturiers for exceptional occasions.
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Biography of Nancy Marchand (excerpt)
Nancy Lou Marchand (June 19, 1928 – June 18, 2000) was an American actress. She began her career in theater in 1951. Marchand was renowned for her roles as patrician newspaper publisher Margaret Pynchon on Lou Grant, winning four Emmy Awards as Best Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series, and as matriarch Livia Soprano, mother of Tony Soprano on the HBO series The Sopranos, which earned her a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, as well as two Emmy Award nominations.
Biography of René Ben Chemoul (excerpt)
René Ben Chemoul was a French wrestler, born January 8, 1925 in Paris and died September 17, 2010 in Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse. Adored by the crowd, he was nicknamed "the Tiger of Wrestling" and was one of the great stars of French wrestling from the 1950s to the 1970s.
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Biography of Émilie Tillion (excerpt)
Émilie Tillion (née Cussac; 20 February 1876 – 2 March 1945) was a French writer and art critic. Tillion is known for her work on the popular "Les Guides Bleus" and as a member of French Resistance during the Second World War.
Biography of Yvette Grollet-Briand (excerpt)
Yvette Grollet-Briand, born October 7, 1925 in Carhaix-Plouguer and died January 20, 2020 in Brest, was a French soldier of the Second World War, pilot in the female squadron created by the Minister of Air Charles Tillon in 1944-1946.
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Biography of Bessie Schonberg (excerpt)
Bessie Schonberg (December 27, 1906 – May 14, 1997) was a highly influential dancer, choreographer and teacher of the 20th century. She was at the center of contemporary modern dance from her beginning at Bennington College up until her death in 1997. ![]()
Biography of Patrick O'Neal (actor) (excerpt)
Patrick Wisdom O'Neal (September 26, 1927 – September 9, 1994) was an American actor and restaurateur. Early life O'Neal was born in Ocala, Florida, to Martha and Coke Wisdom O'Neal. He attended the Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville, Georgia, and Ocala High School. |
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