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Biography of Georges Eugène Haussmann (excerpt)
Georges-Eugène Haussmann (March 27, 1809 – January 11, 1891), who called himself Baron Haussmann, was a French civic planner whose name is associated with the rebuilding of Paris. He was born in Paris to a Protestant family from Alsace. Life The son of Nicolas Valentin Haussmann, a negociant, he was born in Paris and educated at the College Henri IV and subsequently studied law, attending simultaneously the classes at the Paris conservatory of music, for he was a good musician.
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Melbourne is the capital and most-populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania. Its name refers to an urban agglomeration of 9,993 km2 (3,858 sq mi), comprising a metropolitan area with 31 municipalities, and is also a common name for its city centre.
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Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It occupies a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Chile covers an area of 756,096 square kilometres (291,930 sq mi) and has a population of 17.
Biography of Comte de Lautréamont (excerpt)
Comte de Lautréamont (French IPA: ) was the pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (April 4, 1846 – November 24, 1870), a French poet whose only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence on modern literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists.
Biography of Père Joseph Damien (excerpt)
Father Damien, also Blessed Damien of Molokai and born Joseph de Veuster (January 3, 1840 – April 15, 1889), was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious order.
Biography of William Howard Taft (excerpt)
William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 (birth time source: Frances McEvoy) – March 8, 1930) was an American politician, the twenty-seventh President of the United States, the tenth Chief Justice of the United States, a leader of the progressive conservative wing of the Republican Party in the early 20th century, a pioneer in international arbitration and staunch advocate of world peace verging on pacifism, and scion of a leading political family, the Tafts, of Ohio.
Biography of Charles Webster Leadbeater (excerpt)
C.W. Leadbeater (Feb 16, 1854 England-1934 Perth, Western Australia), English clergyman and theosophical author, contributed to world thought mostly through his work as an alleged clairvoyant. Early life Although some sources state that he was born in 1847, his biographer has uncovered sufficient documentation that he was actually born in 1854.
Biography of Jules Vallès (excerpt)
Jules Vallès (11 June 1832 – 14 February 1885) was a French journalist and author. Jules Vallès by Gustave CourbetVallès was born in Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire. His father was a supervisor of studies (pion), later a teacher, and not very faithful to Jules' mother.
Biography of Bérenger Saunière (excerpt)
François Bérenger Saunière (April 11, 1852 - Januaray 22, 1917) was a priest in the French village of Rennes-le-Château, in the Aude region, officially from 1885 to 1909 (when he was transferred to another village by his bishop, that he declined and subsequently resigned) and after 1909, until his death in 1917, in the role of Free Priest (a priest working independently without a parish).
Biography of Juliette Drouet (excerpt)
Juliette Drouet, born Julienne Gauvain (Fougères, April 10, 1806 - Paris, 1883) was the mistress of Victor Hugo. Orphaned from her mother a few months after birth, and her father the following year, she was raised by her uncle, René Drouet. She was educated in Paris in a religious boarding school.
Biography of Victor Noir (excerpt)
Victor Noir, (July 30, 1848 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)– January 10, 1870), was a French journalist. Born Yvan Salmon at Attigny, Vosges, he went to Paris where he became a popular journalist for the newspaper "La Marseillaise" where he adopted the name Victor Noir as his pseudonym.
Biography of James Ensor (excerpt)
James Ensor (April 13, 1860 - November 19, 1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for almost his entire life. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX. Ensor's father was of English extraction, and his mother was Flemish.
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Like the rest of Central America, Costa Rica never fought for independence from Spain. On 15 September 1821, after the final Spanish defeat in the Mexican War of Independence (1810–21), the authorities in Guatemala declared the independence of all of Central America.
Biography of Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (excerpt)
Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (November 2, 1808 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – April 23, 1889), was a French novelist and short story writer. He specialised in mystery tales that explored hidden motivation and hinted at evil without ever crossing the line into the supernatural.
Biography of P. T. Barnum (excerpt)
Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, businessman, and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. His successes may have made him the first "show business" millionaire.
Biography of George Eliot (excerpt)
Mary Ann (Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological perspicacity.
Biography of Mary Baker Eddy (excerpt)
Mary Baker Eddy (born Mary Morse Baker July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) founded the Church of Christ, Scientist in 1879 and was the author of its fundamental doctrinal textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. She took the name Mary Baker Glover from her first marriage and was also known as Mary Baker Glover Eddy or Mary Baker G.
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Cleveland, officially the City of Cleveland, is a major city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. It is located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. maritime border with Canada and approximately 60 miles (100 kilometers) west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania state border.
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Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. With more than six million residents, it is the 18th-most populous state of the country. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield and Columbia; the capital is Jefferson City.
Biography of Armand Peugeot (excerpt)
Armand Peugeot (June 18, 1849—January 2, 1915) was an industrialist, pioneer of the automobile industry and the founder of the French firm Peugeot. Family Armand Peugeot was born on June 18 1849 in Valentigney (25), in eastern France. He was the son of Émile Peugeot (1815-1874) and Wilhelmine Ehrmann (1818-1893).
Biography of Émile Coué (excerpt)
Émile Coué (February 26, 1857 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – July 2, 1926) was a French psychologist and pharmacist who introduced a method of psychotherapy, healing, and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion. The application of his familiar conscious autosuggestion, "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better" (Tous les jours à tous points de vue je vais de mieux en mieux), is the best known example of what is often called Couéism or the Coué method.
Biography of Pope Pius XI (excerpt)
Pope Pius XI (Latin: Pius PP. XI; Italian: Pio XI; May 31, 1857 – February 10, 1939), born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, reigned as Pope from February 6, 1922 and as sovereign of Vatican City from 1929 until his death on February 10, 1939.
Biography of Facteur Cheval (excerpt)
Ferdinand Cheval (1836 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departmental archives) – 19 August 1924), was a French postman who spent 33 years of his life building an "Ideal Palace" (French Palais idéal) which is regarded as an extraordinary example of naïve art architecture.
Biography of Émile Gallé (excerpt)
Émile Gallé (Nancy, France, 8 May 1846 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – Nancy, 23 September 1904) was a French artist who worked in glass, and is considered to be one of the major forces in the French Art Nouveau movement.
Biography of Sully Prudhomme (excerpt)
René-François-Armand (Sully) Prudhomme (Paris, France, March 16, 1839 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - Châtenay-Malabry, France, September 6, 1907) was a French poet and essayist, winner of the first Nobel Prize in Literature, 1901. Prudhomme originally studied to be an engineer, but was to turn to philosophy and later to poetry.
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Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest region of the United States. Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. state on May 11, 1858, created from the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory. The state is known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes".
Biography of Emile Durkheim (excerpt)
Émile Durkheim (IPA: ; April 15, 1858 – November 15, 1917) was a French sociologist whose contributions were instrumental in the formation of sociology and anthropology. His work and editorship of the first journal of sociology (L'Année Sociologique) helped establish sociology within academia as an accepted social science.
Biography of Anatole France (excerpt)
Anatole France (16 April 1844 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 12 October 1924), born François-Anatole Thibault, was a French author. He was born in Paris, and died in Tours, Indre-et-Loire. The son of a bookseller, he spent most of his life around books.
Biography of Hippolyte Fizeau (excerpt)
Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau (September 23, 1819-1896), French physicist, was born in Paris. His earliest work was concerned with improvements in photographic processes; and then, in association with J. B. L. Foucault, he engaged in a series of investigations on the interference of light and heat.
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Jersey City is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark. It is the seat of Hudson County as well as the county's largest city. The U.S. Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated that the city's population was 262,075 in 2019, ranking as the 80th-most-populous incorporated place in the nation.
Biography of Andrew Johnson (excerpt)
Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865-69), succeeding to the Presidency upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was one of only two U.S. Presidents to be impeached and was narrowly acquitted.
Biography of Benito Juárez (excerpt)
Benito Pablo Juárez García (pronounced ) (March 21, 1806 – July 18, 1872) was a Zapotec Amerindian who served five terms (1858–1861 as interim), (1861–1865), (1865–1867), (1867–1871), and (1871–1872), as President of Mexico. For resisting the French occupation, overthrowing the Empire, and restoring the Republic, as well as for his efforts to modernize the country, Juárez is often regarded as Mexico's greatest and most beloved leader.
Biography of Henri Becquerel (excerpt)
Antoine Henri Becquerel (December 15, 1852 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate)– August 25, 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the discoverers of radioactivity. Early days Becquerel was born in Paris into a family which, including him and his son Jean, produced four generations of scientists.
Biography of Victoria, Princess Royal (excerpt)
Victoria of the United Kingdom (Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise) 21 November 1840 – 5 August 1901) was the eldest child and daughter of Queen Victoria and her consort Albert. She was created Princess Royal of the United Kingdom in 1841. She became German Empress and Queen of Prussia by marriage to German Emperor Frederick III.
Biography of César Franck (excerpt)
César Franck (December 10, 1822 – November 8, 1890), a composer, organist and music teacher of Belgian and German origin who lived in France, was one of the great figures in classical music in the second half of the 19th century.
Biography of Alexis de Tocqueville (excerpt)
Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (July 29, 1805 birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – April 16, 1859) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes: 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856).
Biography of Camillo Cavour (excerpt)
Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio Benso, Conte di Cavour, Conte di Isolabella e Leri (August 10, 1810 – June 7, 1861) was a leading figure in the movement toward Italian unification. He was the founder of the original Italian Liberal Party and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, a position he maintained (except for a six-month resignation) throughout the Second Italian War of Independence and Garibaldi's campaigns to unite Italy.
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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Tunis is the capital and largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as "Grand Tunis", has about 2,700,000 inhabitants. As of 2020, it is the fourth-largest city in the Maghreb region (after Casablanca and Algiers and Tripoli) and the sixteenth-largest in the Arab world.
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Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador (Spanish: República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: Ikwadur Ripuwlika; Shuar: Ekuatur Nunka), is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.
Biography of Grover Cleveland (excerpt)
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908), the twenty-second and twenty-fourth President of the United States, was the only President to serve non-consecutive terms (1885–1889 and 1893–1897). He was defeated for reelection in 1888 by Benjamin Harrison, against whom he ran again in 1892 and won a second term.
Biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (excerpt)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861) was one of the most respected poets of the Victorian era. Elizabeth spent her youth at Hope End near Great Malvern, England. The Barrett family had amassed a considerable fortune from the Jamaican sugar plantations inherited by her father, Edward Moulton Barrett, who was born there.
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).
Biography of Empress Dowager Cixi (excerpt)
Empress Dowager Cixi (Chinese: 慈禧太后; pinyin: Cíxǐ Tàihòu; Wade-Giles: Tz'u-Hsi T'ai-hou) (November 29, 1835 – November 15, 1908), popularly known in China as the West Dowager Empress (Chinese: 西太后), was from the Manchu Yehe Nara Clan. She was a powerful and charismatic figure who became the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, ruling over China for 48 years from her husband's death in 1861 to her own death in 1908.
Biography of Paul Lacôme d'Estalenx (excerpt)
Paul Lacôme d'Estalenx, born March 3, 1838, Le Houga, died December 12, 1920, Le Houga, was a French musician and composer. Opéra bouffe La Dot mal placée (Livret : Georges Mancel), trois actes (1873) Les Saturnales (Livret : Albin Valabrègue), trois actes (1887)
Biography of William Bouguereau (excerpt)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (November 30, 1825 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. Bouguereau was born in La Rochelle. A student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he won the Prix de Rome in 1850 and his realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were exhibited at the annual exhibitions of the Paris Salon for his entire working life.
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 John Muir (excerpt)
John Muir (21 April 1838 – 24 December 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of U.S. wilderness. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California, have been read by millions and are still popular today.
Biography of Lola Montez (excerpt)
Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Countess of Landsfeld (17 February 1821 – 17 January 1861), better known by the stage name Lola Montez (/moʊnˈtɛz/), was an Irish dancer and actress who became famous as a Spanish dancer, courtesan, and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who made her Gräfin von Landsfeld (Countess of Landsfeld).
Biography of Alexander III of Russia (excerpt)
Alexander III (10 March 1845 – 1 November 1894) reigned as Emperor of Russia from 14 March 1881 until his death in 1894. Early life Alexander was born at St Petersburg, the second son of Tsar Alexander II by his wife Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) . |
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