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Biography of Sam Houston (excerpt)
Samuel Houston, known as Sam Houston (March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863), was a 19th-century American statesman, politician, and soldier. He was born in Timber Ridge in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, of Scots-Irish descent. Houston became a key figure in the history of Texas, and was elected as the first and third President of the Republic of Texas, US Senator for Texas after it joined the United States, and finally as governor of the state.
Biography of James Fenimore Cooper (excerpt)
James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo.
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Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. As of 2010, the population was 139,988, and in 2020, the population was estimated to be at 159,200. The city's estimated population has grown by 1% percent annually since 2010 on average.
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Santa Cruz (Spanish for 'Holy Cross') is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California. As of 2019, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated Santa Cruz's population at 64,608. Situated on the northern edge of Monterey Bay, about 32 mi (51 km) south of San Jose and 75 mi (120 km) south of San Francisco, the city is part of the 12-county San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area.
Biography of Nathan Hale (excerpt)
Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was an officer for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Widely considered America's first spy, he volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission, but was captured by the British. He is best remembered for his speech before being hanged following the Battle of Long Island, in which he reportedly said, "I only regret that I have but one life to give my country.
Biography of Paul I of Russia (excerpt)
Pavel (Paul) I Petrovich of Russia (Russian: Па́вел I Петро́вич; Pavel Petrovich) (October 1 1754 – March 23 1801) was the Emperor of Russia between 1796 and 1801. Childhood Paul was born in the Palace of Empress Elizabeth In St Petersburg.
Biography of Émile Clapeyron (excerpt)
Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (26 janvier 1799 – 28 January 1864) was a French engineer and physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics. Life Born in Paris, Clapeyron studied at the École polytechnique and the École des Mines, before leaving for Saint Petersburg in 1820 to teach at the École des Travaux Publics.
Biography of Paul Barras (excerpt)
Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras (June 30, 1755—January 29, 1829) was a French politician of the French Revolution, and the main executive leader of the Directory regime of 1795 - 1799. Early life Descended from a noble family of Provence, he was born at Fox-Amphoux, in today's Var département.
Biography of Antoine Drouot (excerpt)
Comte Antoine Drouot (January 11, 1774 (birth time source: birth certificate) - March 24, 1847) was one of Napoleon's generals. Born in Nancy, France, the son of a baker, he trained as an artilleryman and took part in the battles of the French Revolution where he rose through the ranks.
Biography of Joseph Mery (excerpt)
Joseph Méry (21 January 1797 - 17 June 1866) was a French writer and journalist. Méry was born at Marseille. An ardent romanticist, he collaborated with Auguste Barthélemy in many of his satires and wrote a great number of stories, now forgotten.
Biography of Lazare Carnot (excerpt)
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Comte Carnot (May 13, 1753 (birth time source: Lescaut)—August 2, 1823), the Organizer of Victory in the French Revolutionary Wars, was a French politician, engineer, and mathematician. Education and early life Born in Nolay, Côte-d'Or, Carnot was educated in Burgundy at the Collčge d’Autun, an artillery and engineering prep school.
Biography of Tiradentes (excerpt)
Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes (November 12, 1746–-April 21, 1792), was a leading member of the Brazilian seditious movement known as the Inconfidęncia Mineira whose aim was to shake of the Portuguese colonial power and create an independent Brazilian republic.
Biography of Bernardo O'Higgins (excerpt)
Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme (1778 or 1776, August 20 – 1842), South American independence leader, was one of the commanders – together with José de San Martín – of the military forces that freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence.
Biography of John James Audubon (excerpt)
John James Audubon (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. He painted, catalogued, and described the birds of North America in a form far superior to what had gone before. In his outsize personality and achievements, he seemed to represent the new American nation of the United States.
Biography of Richard Allen (bishop) (excerpt)
Richard Allen (February 14, 1760 – March 26, 1831) was a minister, educator, writer, and the founder in 1816 of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME), the first independent black denomination in the United States. He opened his first church in 1794 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Biography of Eleuthčre Irénée du Pont de Nemours (excerpt)
Éleuthčre Irénée du Pont de Nemours (24 June 1771 (source not archived) – 31 October 1834), known as Irénée du Pont, or E.I. du Pont, was a French-born Huguenot chemist and industrialist who immigrated to the United States in 1799 and founded the gunpowder manufacturer, E.
Biography of Luigi Cherubini (excerpt)
Luigi Cherubini (September 8 or September 14, 1760 (birth time source: Barbault, E. Sanchez, BC)– March 15, 1842) was an Italian born composer who spent most of his working life in France. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music.
Biography of Caroline of Brunswick (excerpt)
Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (Caroline Amelia Elizabeth; later Queen Caroline; 17 May 1768 – 7 August 1821) was the queen consort of George IV of the United Kingdom from 29 January 1820 to her death. Early life Caroline was born on 17 May 1768 at Brunswick (German:Braunschweig) in Germany, daughter of Karl William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Princess Augusta Frederika of Wales, eldest sister of George III.
Biography of Anthony Wayne (excerpt)
Anthony Wayne (January 1, 1745 – December 15, 1796) was a United States Army general and statesman. Wayne adopted a military career at the outset of the American Revolutionary War, where his military exploits and fiery personality quickly earned him a promotion to the rank of brigadier general and the sobriquet of "Mad Anthony".
Biography of Thomas Carlyle (excerpt)
Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, whose work was highly influential during the Victorian era. Coming from a strict Calvinist family, Carlyle was expected by his parents to become a preacher, but while at the University of Edinburgh, he lost his Christian faith.
Biography of John Henry Newman (excerpt)
John Henry Newman, D.D., C.O. (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890), also referred to as Cardinal Newman and Blessed John Henry Newman, was an important figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s.
Biography of John VI of Portugal (excerpt)
John VI, King of Portugal (13 May 1767 – 26 March 1826) KG KGF (Portuguese Joăo, pron. IPA ), the Clement (Port. o Clemente), King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarves (later changing the title to just King of Portugal and Algarves, since Brazil was recognized independent in 1825) was born in Lisbon on 13 May 1767, and received the title of prince of Brazil in 1788.
Biography of Robert Southey (excerpt)
Robert Southey (12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843. Although his fame tends to be eclipsed by that of his contemporaries and friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey's verse enjoys enduring popularity.
Biography of John Marshall (excerpt)
John Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was an American statesman and jurist who shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a center of power. Marshall was Chief Justice of the United States, serving from February 4, 1801, until his death in 1835.
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Nuremberg in the local East Franconian dialect: Närmberch, is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest city in Germany. On the Pegnitz River (from its confluence with the Rednitz in Fürth onwards: Regnitz, a tributary of the River Main) and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it lies in the Bavarian administrative region of Middle Franconia, and is the largest city and the unofficial capital of Franconia.
Biography of Dietrich Tiedemann (excerpt)
Dietrich Tiedemann (April 3, 1748-1803) was a German philosopher who was a native of Bremervörde. He was a student at the University of Göttingen, and later a professor at Collegium Carolinum in Kassel (from 1776) and at the University of Marburg (from 1786).
Biography of Thomas Love Peacock (excerpt)
Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 - 23 January 1866) was an English satirist and author. Peacock was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. He wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting — characters at a table discussing and criticizing the philosophical opinions of the day.
Biography of Victor Cousin (excerpt)
Victor Cousin (28 November 1792 – 13 January 1867) was a French philosopher. Early life The son of a watchmaker, he was born in Paris, in the Quartier Saint-Antoine. At the age of ten he was sent to the local grammar school, the Lycée Charlemagne, where he studied until he was eighteen.
Biography of Junius Brutus Booth (excerpt)
Junius Brutus Booth (May 1, 1796–November 30, 1852) was an English actor. He was the father of John Wilkes Booth (the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln), Edwin Booth (an exceptional actor in his own right), and Junius Brutus Booth, Jr.
Biography of Nicolas Changarnier (excerpt)
Nicolas Anne Theodule Changarnier (April 26, 1793 – February 14, 1877), French general, was born at Autun, Saône-et-Loire. Educated at St Cyr, he served for a short time in the bodyguard of Louis XVIII, and entered the line as a lieutenant in January 1815.
Biography of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (excerpt)
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (12 January 1746 – 17 February 1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach. He was born on 12 January 1746 in Zürich, Switzerland. His father died when he was young, and he was brought up by his mother.
Biography of Robert Cross Smith (excerpt)
Robert Cross Smith, born March 19, 1795 in Bristol, died 26, February 1832 at 4:15 PM in London, was a British astrologer, better known as Raphael. He is often confused with Robert Thomas Cross, the second "Raphael".
Biography of John C. Calhoun (excerpt)
John Caldwell Calhoun (pronounced /kćlˈhuːn/; March 18, 1782 in Abbeville, South Carolina – March 31, 1850) was a leading politician and political theorist from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. A powerful intellect, Calhoun eloquently spoke out on every issue of his day, but often changed positions.
Biography of George Rogers Clark (excerpt)
George Rogers Clark (November 19, 1752 – February 13, 1818) was a soldier from Virginia and the highest ranking American military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War. He served as leader of the Kentucky (then part of Virginia) militia throughout much of the war.
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Manchester is a city in Hillsborough County in southern New Hampshire, United States. It is the most populous city in northern New England (the states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont). As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 115,644.
Biography of Gaspare Spontini (excerpt)
Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (14 November 1774 – 24 January 1851) was an Italian opera composer and conductor. Born in Maiolati in the province of Ancona, now Maiolati Spontini, he spent most of his career in Paris and Berlin, but returned to his place of birth at the end of his life.
Biography of Johann Elert Bode (excerpt)
Johann Elert Bode (January 19, 1747 – November 23, 1826) was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularization of the Titius-Bode law as well as his works to determine the orbit of Uranus, for which he also suggested the name.
Biography of Louise de Mecklembourg-Strelitz (excerpt)
Luise Auguste Wilhelmine Amalie (Luisa Augusta Wilhelmina Amelia) (March 10, 1776 - July 19, 1810), Queen of Prussia, was born in Hanover, where her father, Karl of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, was field marshal of the household brigade. Her mother was princess Friederike Caroline Luise of Hesse-Darmstadt.
Biography of Christian VII of Denmark (excerpt)
Christian VII (Danish: Christian den Syvende 29 January 1749 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield) – 13 March 1808) was an Oldenburg monarch who ruled as King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig and Holstein from 1766 until his death.
Biography of Aimable Pelissier (excerpt)
Aimable Jean Jacques Pélissier, 1st Duc de Malakoff (November 6, 1794 - May 22, 1864), was a marshal of France. He was born at Maromme (Seine Inférieure), of a family of prosperous artisans, his father being employed in a powder-magazine. After attending the military college of La Flčche and the special school of St Cyr, he entered the army in 1815 as sub-lieutenant in an artillery regiment.
Biography of Dorothy Wordsworth (excerpt)
Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth (December 25, 1771 – January 25, 1855) was an English author, poet and diarist. She was the sister of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and the two were close for all of their lives. Dorothy Wordsworth did not set out to be an author, and her writings comprise a series of letters, diary entries, and short stories.
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Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay, which provide habitat for much of its flora and fauna.
Biography of William Cullen Bryant (excerpt)
William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. Life Youth and education Bryant was born on November 3, 1794, in a log cabin near Cummington, Massachusetts; the home of his birth is today marked with a plaque.
Biography of Joseph von Eichendorff (excerpt)
Joseph Karl Benedikt Freiherr von Eichendorff (March 10, 1788 – November 26, 1857) was a German poet and novelist. Life Eichendorff was born in Racibórz, Poland in 1788. His parents were the Prussian officer Adolf Freiherr von Eichendorff and his wife, Karoline Freiin von Kloche, who came from an aristocratic Roman Catholic family.
Biography of Christiane von Goethe (excerpt)
Christiane von Goethe, born Christiane Vilpius June 1, 1765 in Weimar, died June 6, 1816 in Weimar, was the mistress then then wife of Johann von Goethe.
Biography of Daniel Webster (excerpt)
Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 (source for his time of birth: Lescaut) – October 24, 1852) was a leading American statesman and senator from Massachusetts during the period leading up to the Civil War. He first rose to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests.
Biography of Robert Fulton (excerpt)
Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat, the North River Steamboat (also known as Clermont). In 1807, that steamboat traveled on the Hudson River with passengers from New York City to Albany and back again, a round trip of 300 miles (480 km), in 62 hours.
Biography of Johann Gottfried Herder (excerpt)
Johann Gottfried von Herder (25 August 1744 – 18 December 1803) was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. He is associated with the periods of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism. Biography Born in Mohrungen (Morąg) in the Kingdom of Prussia, grew up in a poor household, educating himself from his father's Bible and songbook.
Biography of Gouverneur Morris (excerpt)
Gouverneur Morris (January 30, 1752 – November 6, 1816) was an American statesman and a native of New York who represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He was also an author of large sections of the Constitution of the United States and one of its "signers".
Biography of Charles Albert of Sardinia (excerpt)
Charles Albert (Italian: Carlo Alberto) (October 2, 1798 (source not archived) – July 28, 1849) was the King of Sardinia from 1831 to 1849. He succeeded his distant cousin Charles Felix, and his name is bound with the first Italian statute and the First War of Independence (1848–1849). |
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