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Biography of Cecil John Rhodes (excerpt)
Cecil John Rhodes, PC (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was an English-born businessman, mining magnate, and politician in South Africa. He was the founder of the diamond company De Beers, which today markets 40% of the world's rough diamonds and at one time marketed 90%.
Biography of Thomas H. Burgoyne (excerpt)
Thomas H. Burgoyne, born April 14, 1855 in Lancaster, was an American writer, occulist, astrologer, mystic and clairvoyant.
Biography of Olney H. Richmond (excerpt)
Olney H. Richmond,, born February 22, 1844, was an American mystic. Richmond founded the Temple of the Stars and wrote several metaphysical books.
Biography of John Philip Sousa (excerpt)
John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known particularly for American military and patriotic marches. Because of his mastery of march composition and resultant prominence, he is known as "The March King".
Biography of Jefferson Davis (excerpt)
Jefferson Finis Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history, 1861 to 1865, during the American Civil War. A West Point graduate, Davis fought in the Mexican-American War as a colonel of a volunteer regiment, and was the United States Secretary of War under Franklin Pierce.
Biography of Wilhelm Trübner (excerpt)
Wilhelm Trübner (February 3, 1851 – December 21, 1917) was a German realist painter of the circle of Wilhelm Leibl. Trübner was born in Heidelberg and had early training as a goldsmith. In 1867 he met classicist painter Anselm Feuerbach who encouraged him to study painting, and he began studies in Karlsruhe under Fedor Dietz.
Biography of René Panhard (excerpt)
Louis François René Panhard (27 May 1841, Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 16 July 1908 La Bourboule, dept. Puy-de-Dôme) was a French engineer, merchant and a pioneer of the automobile industry in France. Having graduated from École Centrale Paris, he was employed by Jean-Louis Périn in a firm that produced wood-working machines, where Panhard met Émile Levassor.
Biography of Eugène Ysaÿe (excerpt)
Eugène Ysaÿe (July 16, 1858, Liege – May 12, 1931) was a Belgian violinist, composer and conductor. His brother was pianist and composer Théo Ysaÿe (1865–1918). He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein mentioned, "tzar".
Biography of Anna Haining Bates (excerpt)
Anna Haining Bates, born Anna Haining Swan (August 6, 1846 – August 5, 1888), was a Canadian from Mill Brook, New Annan, (near present-day Tatamagouche), Colchester County, Nova Scotia, famed for her great height, believed to be 2.27 m (7' 5½") at the peak of her stature.
Biography of Abdul Baha (excerpt)
`Abdu'l-Bahá (Arabic: عبد البهاء) (23 May 1844 - 28 November 1921), born `Abbás Effendí, was the son of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith. In 1892, `Abdu'l-Bahá was appointed in his father's will to be his successor and head of the Bahá'í Faith.
Biography of Bedrich Smetana (excerpt)
Bedřich Smetana (pronounced (help·info); 2 March 1824 - 12 May 1884) was a Czech composer. He is best known for his symphonic poem Vltava (better known as The Moldau), the second in a cycle of six which he entitled Má vlast ("My Country"), and for his opera The Bartered Bride.
Biography of Camille Flammarion (excerpt)
Nicolas Camille Flammarion (February 26, 1842 – June 3, 1925) was a French astronomer and author. He was usually credited as Camille Flammarion He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels, and several works about spiritualism and related topics.
Biography of Alexander II of Russia (excerpt)
Alexander (Aleksandr) II Nikolaevich (Russian: Александр II Николаевич) (Moscow, 29 April 1818 – 13 March 1881 in St. Petersburg) was the Emperor of the Russian Empire and Tsar of Russia from 3 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881. He was also the Grand Duke of Finland and King of Poland until 1867 when it was annexed into the Russian Empire.
Biography of François Bertrand (excerpt)
François Bertrand, born October 29, 1823 in Voisey and died in 1850 in Paris (suicide), was a French military and necrophiliac, called the Vampire of Montparnasse. The Werewolf of Paris (movie) by Guy Endore was written about his story.
Biography of Jean-Marie Le Bris (excerpt)
Jean-Marie Le Bris (1817 - 1872) was a French aviator, born in Concarneau, Brittany, who accomplished a glider flight in December 1856. A sailor and sea captain, Jean-Marie Le Bris sailed around the world observing the flight of the Albatross bird. Although he sailed around the world, his true ambition was to fly.
Biography of Jules Grévy (excerpt)
François Judith Paul Grévy (15 August 1807 – 9 September 1891), known as Jules Grévy (French pronunciation: ), was a French lawyer and politician who served as President of France from 1879 to 1887, and was one of the leaders of the Moderate Republican faction.
Biography of Francis Planté (excerpt)
Francis Planté (March 2, 1839, in St. Avit – December 19, 1934) was a French pianist famed as one of the first ever recording artists. He studied piano under Antoine Marmontel, his career beginning at the young age of 7 in Paris.
Biography of Armand Fallières (excerpt)
Clément Armand Fallières (November 6, 1841 – June 22, 1931) was a French politician, president of the French republic from 1906 to 1913. He was born at Mézin in the département of Lot-et-Garonne, France, where his father was clerk of the peace.
Biography of Pierre Proudhon (excerpt)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (pronounced /ˈpruːd ɒn/ in British English, in French) (January 15, 1809 – January 19, 1865) was a French mutualist political philosopher of the socialist tradition. He was the first individual to call himself an "anarchist" and is considered among the first anarchist thinkers.
Biography of Horatio Alger (excerpt)
Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a 19th-century American author who wrote approximately 135 dime novels. Many of his works have been described as rags to riches stories, illustrating how down-and-out boys might be able to achieve the American Dream of wealth and success through hard work, courage, determination, and concern for others.
Biography of Franklin Pierce (excerpt)
Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) was an American politician and the fourteenth President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. To date, he is the only president from New Hampshire. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface" (a Northerner with Southern sympathies) who served in the U.
Biography of Giosuè Carducci (excerpt)
Giosuè Carducci (pseudonym: Enotrio Romano) (July 27, 1835 – February 16, 1907) was an Italian poet, oft reckoned one of Italy's greatest; also, a teacher. He was very influential and was regarded as the unofficial national poet of modern Italy. In 1906 he became the first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Biography of Johann Strauss I (excerpt)
Johann Strauss I (German: Johann Strauß) born in Vienna, (March 14, 1804 – September 25, 1849) was an Austrian Romantic composer known particularly for his waltzes and for popularizing it alongside Josef Lanner thereby (without intention) setting the foundations for his sons to carry on his musical dynasty.
Biography of Francisco Tárrega (excerpt)
Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea, (21 November 1852 — 15 December 1909) was an influential Spanish composer and guitarist. His time of birth comes from the biography "Francisco Tárrega Eixea: Tagebuch und Briefe - diario y cartas" by Francisco Tárrega Eixea (2012).
Biography of Alexandra of Denmark (excerpt)
Alexandra of Denmark (Alexandra Carolina Marie Charlotte Louise Julia; 1 December 1844 – 20 November 1925) was Queen Consort to Edward VII of the United Kingdom and thus Empress of India during her husband's reign, 1901 to 1910. Her family had been relatively obscure until her father was chosen with the consent of the great powers to succeed his distant cousin to the Danish throne.
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El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador (Spanish: República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador.
Biography of Jean-François Gigoux (excerpt)
Jean-François Gigoux, born January 6, 1806 in Besançon, died in 1894, was a French artist, portrait painter and lithographer.
Biography of Elisée Reclus (excerpt)
Élisée Reclus (March 15, 1830 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – July 4, 1905), also known as Jean Jacques Élisée Reclus, was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist. He produced his 19-volume masterwork over a period of nearly 20 years: La Nouvelle Géographic universelle, la terre et les hommes (1875 – 1894).
Biography of Alexandre Falguière (excerpt)
Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière (also given as Jean-Joseph-Alexandre Falguière, or in short Alexandre Falguière) (7 September 1831 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), Toulouse - 20 April 1900, Paris) was a French sculptor and painter. He was born in Toulouse. A pupil of the École des Beaux-Arts, he won the Prix de Rome in 1859; he was awarded the medal of honor at the Paris Salon in 1868 and was appointed officer of the Légion d'honneur in 1878.
Biography of Pope Pius X (excerpt)
Pope St. Pius X (Latin: Pius PP. X) (June 2, 1835—August 20, 1914), born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, was the 257th Catholic Roman Pontiff, reigning from 1903 to 1914, succeeding Pope Leo XIII (1878–1903). He was the first Pope since Pope Pius V (1566–72) to be canonized.
Biography of Frédéric Bazille (excerpt)
Jean Frédéric Bazille (Montpellier, 6 dicembre 1841 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – Beaune-la-Rolande, 28 novembre 1870) è stato un pittore francese. Proveniente da una famiglia protestante agiata, si reca a Parigi a studiare medicina, facoltà che abbandona presto per dedicarsi, con la disapprovazione dei genitori, alla pittura, influenzato dalla pittura di Eugene Delacroix.
Biography of Adolphe Sax (excerpt)
Antoine-Joseph 'Adolphe' Sax (November 6, 1814 – February 3, 1894) was a Belgian musical instrument designer and musician (clarinetist), best known for inventing the saxophone. Adolphe Sax was born in Dinant in Wallonia, Belgium. His father, Charles-Joseph Sax, was an instrument designer himself, who made several changes to the design of the horn.
Biography of Théodore Aubanel (excerpt)
Théodore Aubanel (Occitan: Teodòr Aubanèu) (March 26, 1829 in Avignon – November 2, 1886 in Avignon) was a Provencal poet. He was born in Avignon in a family of painters. Aubanel started writing poetry in French but quickly switched to Provençal, due to the influence of Joseph Roumanille.
Biography of Catulle Mendès (excerpt)
Catulle Mendès (21 May 1841 – 8 February 1909) was a French poet and man of letters. Of Jewish extraction, he was born in Bordeaux. He early established himself in Paris, attaining speedy notoriety by the publication in the Revue fantaisiste (1861) of his Roman d'une nuit, for which he was condemned to a month's imprisonment and a fine of 500 francs.
Biography of Louis Clément Faller (excerpt)
Louis Clément Faller, born on June 1, 1819 in Habsheim, near Mulhouse (birth time source: Lescaut), died on February 27, 1901 in Paris (suicide), was a French painter.
Biography of Eugène Boudin (excerpt)
Eugène Boudin (July 12, 1824 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – August 8, 1898) was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores.
Biography of Théophile-Jules Pelouze (excerpt)
Théophile-Jules Pelouze (also known as Jules Pelouze, Théophile Pelouze, Theo Pelouze, or TJ Pelouze, February 26, 1807 - 1867) was a French chemist. He was born at Valognes, and died in Paris. His father, Edmond Pelouze, was an industrial chemist and the author of several technical handbooks.
Biography of Edouard Michelin (excerpt)
Édouard Michelin (June 23, 1859 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)–1940) was a French industrialist. He was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Édouard was co-director of the Michelin company, along with his brother André. In 1889, he improved greatly on the design of the pneumatic tyre for bicycles, making them easier to repair.
Biography of David Livingstone (excerpt)
David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 4 May 1873) was a Scottish Presbyterian pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and explorer in central Africa. He was the first European to see Victoria Falls, which he named in honour of the reigning monarch.
Biography of Auguste Escoffier (excerpt)
Georges Auguste Escoffier (28 October 1846 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 12 February 1935) was a French chef, restaurateur and culinary writer who popularized and updated traditional French cooking methods. He is a near-legendary figure among chefs and gourmets, and was one of the most important leaders in the development of modern French cuisine.
Biography of Eugène Atget (excerpt)
Eugène Atget (12 February 1857 (birth time source: Didier Geslain); 4 August 1927) was a French photographer noted for his photographs documenting the architecture and street scenes of Paris. Personal life Born outside the French city of Bordeaux, he was orphaned at seven and raised by his uncle.
Biography of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (excerpt)
Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy (Italian: Vittorio Emanuele II; March 14, 1820 – January 9, 1878) was the King of Piedmont, Savoy, and Sardinia from 1849 to 1861. On February 18, 1861, he assumed the title King of Italy to become the first king of a united Italy, a title he held until his death in 1878.
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Memphis is a city along the Mississippi River in southwestern Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. Its 2019 estimated population was 651,073, making it Tennessee's second-most populous city behind Nashville, the nation's 28th-largest, and the largest city proper situated along the Mississippi River.
Biography of Pedro II of Brazil (excerpt)
Pedro II, (December 2, 1825 – December 5, 1891) was the second and last Emperor of Brazil. His name in full was Pedro de Alcântara João Carlos Leopoldo Salvador Bibiano Francisco Xavier de Paula Leocádio Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga de Bragança e Habsburgo, By the Grace of God and Unanimous Acclamation of the People, Constitutional Emperor and Perpetual Defender of Brazil.
Biography of Mariano José de Larra (excerpt)
Mariano José de Larra (24 March 1809 - 13 February 1837) was a Spanish romanticist writer noted for satire and perhaps the best prose writer of 19th-century Spain. He was born in Madrid; his father served as a regimental doctor in the French army, and, as an afrancesado, was compelled to leave the Peninsula with his family in 1812.
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Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its northwest, Guinea to its north, Côte d'Ivoire to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean to its south-southwest. It has a population of around 5 million and covers an area of 111,369 square kilometers (43,000 sq mi).
Biography of Pierre Larousse (excerpt)
Pierre Athanase Larousse (October 23, 1817 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives) - January 3, 1875) was a French grammarian and lexicographer born in Toucy. At the age of sixteen he won a scholarship at the teaching school in Versailles. Four years later, he returned to Toucy to teach in a primary school, but became frustrated by the archaic and rigid teaching methods.
Biography of Louis Riel (excerpt)
Louis Riel (22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies. He led two resistance movements against the Canadian government and its first post-Confederation Prime Minister, Sir John A.
Biography of René Goblet (excerpt)
French politician, Prime Minister of France for a period in 1886-1887. He helped found a Liberal journal, Le Progrès de la Somme.
Biography of François Coppée (excerpt)
François Edouard Joachim Coppée (January 26, 1842 – May 23, 1908), was a French poet and novelist. He was born in Paris to a civil servant. After attending the Lycée Saint-Louis he became a clerk in the ministry of war, and won public favour as a poet of the Parnassian school. |
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