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Biography of B. H. Liddell Hart Liddell Hart (excerpt)
Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (31 October 1895 – 29 January 1970), commonly known throughout most of his career as Captain B.H.Liddell Hart, was a British soldier, military historian, and military theorist.He wrote a series of military histories that proved influential among strategists. ![]()
Biography of Elettra Pollastrini (excerpt)
Elettra Pollastrini (15 July 1908 – 2 February 1990) was an Italian politician.She was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1946 as one of the first group of women parliamentarians in Italy. Pollastrini was born in Rieti in 1908.Her family moved to La Spezia, where she completed school. ![]()
Biography of Glenn Langan (excerpt)
Glenn Langan (July 8, 1917 – January 26, 1991) was an American character actor on stage and films. Early years Born in Denver, Colorado, Langan was the son of Thomas Langan and Kate Quinn Langan. He attended schools there. His early training in acting came in Denver, where he was stage manager at Elitch's Gardens, handling various behind-the-scenes duties.
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Biography of Adrienne Ames (excerpt)
Adrienne Ames (born Ruth Adrienne McClure; August 3, 1907 – May 31, 1947) was an American film actress. Early in her career she was known as Adrienne Truex. Early years Ames was born in Fort Worth, Texas, one of six children of Samuel Hugh McClure and Flora Parthenia (née Potter) McClure.
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Biography of Eduardo Arolas (excerpt)
Eduardo Arolas (February 24, 1892 – September 29, 1924) was an Argentine tango bandoneon player, leader and composer. Arolas first learned to play the guitar before learning the bandoneon which became his instrument of choice. His nickname was El Tigre del bandoneón (the tiger of the bandoneon).
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Biography of Titta Ruffo (excerpt)
Titta Ruffo (9 June 1877 – 5 July 1953), born as Ruffo Cafiero (double forename) Titta, was an Italian operatic baritone who had a major international singing career. Known as the "Voce del leone" ("voice of the lion"), he was greatly admired, even by rival baritones, such as Giuseppe De Luca, who said of Ruffo: "His was not a voice, it was a miracle" (although not often published is the second part of De Luca's conclusion "which he (Ruffo) bawled away..."), and Victor Maurel, the creator of Verdi's Iago and Falstaff.
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Biography of Georges Wague (excerpt)
Georges Wague, born Georges Marie Valentin Waag on January 14, 1874, in Paris, was a French mime, teacher, and silent film actor. Raised by devout parents, he turned to the arts, studying at the Conservatory of Dramatic Art of Paris. He pioneered "cantomime," a blend of song and mime, and became known for his performances in Pierrot.
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Biography of Corrado Racca (excerpt)
Corrado Racca (November 14, 1889 – May 13, 1950) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Corrado began his career on stage when he moved to Florence in 1908.He later worked alongside other stage actors such as Ruggero Ruggeri, Emma Gramatica and Italia Almirante Manzini.
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Biography of Otto Nagel (excerpt)
Otto Nagel (27 September 1894 – 12 July 1967) was a German painter, graphic designer and long-time head of the Berlin Academy of Arts who was one of the most prolific artists of East Germany. Life Born at Berlin-Wedding, Nagel was the son of a carpenter and social democrat. ![]()
Biography of Hélène Solomon-Langevin (excerpt)
Hélène Solomon-Langevin (25 May 1909 – 16 January 1995) was a French politician.She was elected to the National Assembly in 1945 as one of the first group of French women in parliament. Solomon-Langevin was born in Fontenay-aux-Roses in 1909, the daughter of physicist Paul Langevin.
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Biography of Gabriele Reuter (excerpt)
Gabriele Reuter (8 February 1859 – 16 November 1941) was a German writer. Gabriele Reuter, who was widely read in her lifetime though now is almost forgotten, was known for her novel From a Good Family (Aus guter Familie, 1895), subtitled "the Passion of a Girl", which described a typical young woman of the Wilhelmine era. ![]()
Biography of Anna Hofman-Uddgren (excerpt)
Anna Maria Viktoria Hofman-Uddgren (23 February 1868 – 1 June 1947) née Hammarström; also known as Hoffman and Hofmann, was a Swedish actress, cabaret singer, music hall and revue artist, theatre director, and film director. Until 2016, she was referred to as the first woman to become a film director in Sweden.
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Biography of Nadia Gallico Spano (excerpt)
Nadia Gallico Spano (2 June 1916 – 19 January 2006) was an Italian politician. She was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1946 as one of the first group of women parliamentarians in Italy. In 1948 she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, which she remained a member of until 1958. ![]()
Biography of Paul Stewart (actor) (excerpt)
Paul Stewart (born Paul Sternberg; March 13, 1908 – February 17, 1986) was an American character actor, director and producer who worked in theatre, radio, films and television.He frequently portrayed cynical and sinister characters throughout his career. A friend and associate of Orson Welles for many years, Stewart helped Welles get his first job in radio and was associate producer of the celebrated radio program "The War of the Worlds", in which he also performed.
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Biography of Beverly Cleary (excerpt)
Beverly Atlee Cleary (née Bunn; April 12, 1916 – March 25, 2021) was an American writer of children's and young adult fiction.One of America's most successful authors, 91 million copies of her books have been sold worldwide since her first book was published in 1950.
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Biography of Elsa Ehrich (excerpt)
Else Lieschen Frida "Elsa" Ehrich (8 March 1914 – 26 October 1948) was a convicted war criminal who served as a Schutzstaffel (SS) guard in Nazi concentration camps, including at Kraków-Płaszów and the Majdanek concentration camp during World War II.She was tried in Lublin, Poland at the Majdanek Trials and sentenced to death for war crimes.
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Biography of Catherine Pozzi (excerpt)
Catherine Pozzi, born July 13, 1882 in Paris and died December 3, 1934 in the same city, is a French poet and woman of letters. Catherine Pozzi, born into an aristocratic and bourgeois family in Paris in the late 19th century, was the daughter of Samuel Pozzi, a renowned surgeon, and Thérèse Loth-Cazalis.
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Biography of Signe Hornborg (excerpt)
Signe Ida Katarina Hornborg (8 November 1862, Turku – 6 December 1916, Helsinki) was a Finnish architect.Upon her reception of her architectural diploma in 1890, she became the first official female architect in the world. A bishop's daughter, she attended the Helsinki Polytechnic Institute from the spring of 1888. ![]()
Biography of George O'Brien (actor) (excerpt)
George O'Brien, born on April 19, 1899, in San Francisco, was a prominent American actor during the silent and early sound film eras. Notable for his role in F.W.Murnau's 1927 film "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans," O'Brien started his career in Hollywood as a cameraman assistant and stuntman. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Tuaillon (excerpt)
Auguste-Ignace Tuaillon, known as Boffy, bornMarch 18, 1873 at Esmoulières and died in November at Paris, is a French dwarf chansonnier. Auguste-Ignace Tuaillon was about five years old when his growth slowed down or stopped.His significant muscular weakness preventing him from taking part in agricultural work, Auguste earned some money by performing from the age of fifteen as a fairground attraction in Luxeuil-les-Bains and Nancy.
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Biography of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (excerpt)
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (born Meta Vaux Warrick; June 9, 1877 – March 18, 1968) was an African-American artist who celebrated Afrocentric themes. At the fore of the Harlem Renaissance, Warrick was known for being a poet, painter, theater designer, and sculptor of the black American experience.
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Biography of Tino Scotti (excerpt)
Tino Scotti, born on September 16, 1905, in Milan and died on October 16, 1984, in Tarquinia, was an Italian actor. He appeared in over 65 films between 1940 and 1984. Tino Scotti began his career as a football player, notably with Inter Milan and other minor clubs, before becoming an actor in variety shows and revues.
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Biography of Thea Tewi (excerpt)
Thea Tewi (June 24, 1902 – July 5, 1999) was a German-born American sculptor and lingerie designer. Initially a prominent lingerie designer in New York during the 1940s, Tewi transitioned to sculpture after 1950.Born Thea Wittner in Berlin, she fled Nazi Germany with her family in 1938, gaining U.S.
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Biography of E. Armand (excerpt)
Émile Armand (March 23 (March 26 for Wikipedia), 1872 – February 19, 1963), pseudonym of Ernest-Lucien Juin Armand, was an influential French individualist anarchist at the beginning of the 20th century and also a dedicated free love/polyamory, intentional community, and pacifist/antimilitarist writer, propagandist and activist.
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Biography of Edith Kiss (excerpt)
Edith Bán Kiss, also Edit, née Rott (21 November 1905 - 27 October 1966) was a Hungarian sculptor and painter. In the autumn of 1944, she was deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in northern Germany and then transferred to the Daimler-Benz factory at Ludwigsfelde where she was forced to work on aircraft engines for the Luftwaffe.
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Biography of Hartzell Spence (excerpt)
John Hartzell Spence (February 15, 1908 – May 9, 2001) was an American writer and founding editor of Yank, the Army Weekly, a weekly magazine published by the United States military during World War II. He is credited with coining the term "pinup".
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Biography of Maria Martins (artist) (excerpt)
Maria Martins (born Maria de Lourdes Alves; 7 August 1894 – 27 March 1973) was a Brazilian visual artist who was particularly well known for her modern sculptures. Martins had an affair with the artist Marcel Duchamp, which lasted for several years from 1946 onwards, ending with her departure for Brazil in 1951 and with his 1954 marriage to his second wife Alexina Duchamp.
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Biography of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (excerpt)
Margarete "Grete" Lihotzky (born 23 January 1897 in the Margareten district of Vienna, Austria-Hungary – 18 January 2000) was an Austrian architect and a communist activist in the Austrian resistance to Nazism. She is mostly remembered today for designing what is known as the Frankfurt kitchen.
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Biography of Alexander Hall (excerpt)
Alexander Hall (January 11, 1894 – July 30, 1968) was an American film director, film editor and theatre actor. Biography Hall acted in the theatre from the age of 4 through 1914, when he began to work in silent movies.Following his military service in World War I, he returned to Hollywood and pursued a career in film production.
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Biography of Marten Toonder (excerpt)
Marten Toonder (2 May 1912 – 27 July 2005) was a Dutch comic strip creator, born in Rotterdam.He was probably the most successful comic artist in the Netherlands and had a great influence on the Dutch language by introducing new words and expressions.
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Biography of Eduardo Mallea (excerpt)
Eduardo Mallea (14 August 1903 in Bahía Blanca – 12 November 1982 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine essayist, cultural critic, writer and diplomat.In 1931 he became editor of the literary magazine of La Nación. Eduardo Mallea began studying law, which he abandoned in 1926 to devote himself to literature.
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Biography of Arne Johnson (excerpt)
Arne Johnson (3 May 1907, Oslo – 12 July 1994, Oslo) was a Norwegian designer, illustrator, stamp artist and painter. He studied at the SHKS in Oslo and undertook study trips to Paris in 1930, to Berlin in 1932-1933, to London in 1934-1935, to Portugal and Italy in 1938 and to East Africa in 1972.
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Biography of Rahel Sanzara (excerpt)
Rahel Sanzara (also Sansara; pseudonym for Johanna Bleschke) (9 February 1894 – 8 February 1936) was a German dancer, actress and novelist. Johanna Bleschke was the oldest of a town musician's four children.After graduating from a school for 'higher daughters', she went into an apprenticeship as a bookbinder in Blankenburg.
Biography of Alex Mandrès (excerpt)
Alex Mandrès, born on June 19, 1877, in Elbeuf and died on April 24, 1947, in Ris-Orangis, was a silent film actor. He is notably known for his role in the 1928 movie "Le mystère de la tour Eiffel."
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Biography of Martín Adán (excerpt)
Martín Adán, pseudonym of Rafael de la Fuente Benavides, was a renowned Peruvian poet born on October 27, 1908, in Lima. Known for his profound and hermetic poetry, Adán faced alcoholism and financial struggles, with much of his later life spent in sanitariums.
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Biography of Leonarda Cianciulli (excerpt)
Leonarda Cianciulli (18 April 1893 – 15 October 1970), also known as the Soap-Maker of Correggio, was an Italian serial killer who murdered three women in Correggio between 1939 and 1940, transforming their bodies into soap and teacakes. Born in Montella, Avellino, she faced a troubled youth, including two suicide attempts. ![]()
Biography of Jeanne Bérangère (excerpt)
Jeanne Bérangère (born Françoise Marie Charlotte Béraud; 9 June 1864 – 19 November 1928) was a French stage and film actress whose career spanned nearly forty years on the stage and in films during the silent film era. Film career Following her appearance in La peur, Bérangère was placed under contract by brothers Emile and Charles Pathé for their film production company Pathé where she appeared in approximately twenty films between 1910 and 1913, including one of the first film portrayals of Cleopatra (Cléopâtre, 1910) and several films directed by Albert Capellani, before signing with the Éclair Film Company.
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Biography of Marjorie Grene (excerpt)
Marjorie Glicksman Grene (December 13, 1910 - March 16, 2009) was an American philosopher who focused on existentialism and the philosophy of science, particularly biology. She taught at the University of California at Davis from 1965 to 1978 and was an Honorary University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech from 1988 until her death.
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Biography of Leopoldo Valentini (excerpt)
Leopoldo Valentini, born in Rome on March 4, 1907, and died in the same city on January 26, 1983, was an Italian actor. Leopoldo Valentini began his career in review theater, establishing himself as a high-quality actor both in mimetic and dramatic roles.
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Biography of Ingeborg Waern Bugge (excerpt)
Ingeborg Wærn Bugge (5 March 1899 – 26 January 1991) was a Swedish architect.She was one of the first formally educated female architects in Sweden.She designed residential buildings and schools, and worked on renovation projects for churches. Work In 1929, she started her own architectural firm with another alumna from the Royal Institute of Technology, Kjerstin Göransson-Ljungman .
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Biography of Santiago Labarca (excerpt)
Santiago Labarca Labarca (Chillán, March 1, 1893 – 1968) was a Chilean civil engineer and politician. He served as a deputy for Santiago across three terms, and later as Minister of Education and Finance of Chile. Born to Santiago Labarca Walton and Josefina Labarca Ojeda, he married Berta Vergara Varas in 1921, and they had three children.
Biography of Geneviève Lefevre-Seillier (excerpt)
Geneviève Estelle Lefevre-Sellier, name sometimes indicated as Lefevre-Sellier and Lefebvre-Sellier, born March 5, 1911 in Juvignies in Oise and died May 24, 2012 in Liancourt-Saint-Pierre, was a French soldier of the Second World War. Geneviève Lefevre-Sellier, a name sometimes referred to as Lefevre-Sellier and Lefebvre-Sellier in military history books, was part of the first female corps of the Air Force created by Charles Tillon in the winter of 1944-1945 and followed the course organized in Châteauroux.
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Biography of Jean Milhau (painter) (excerpt)
Jean Louis Édouard Milhau is a French painter of the 20th century, born on December 21, 1902, in Mèze (Hérault) and died in Châtenay-Malabry (Hauts-de-Seine) on May 7, 1985.
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Biography of Paula Hertwig (excerpt)
Paula Hertwig (11 October 1889 – 31 March 1983) was a German biologist and politician.Her research focused on radiation health effects.Hertwig was the first woman to habilitate at the then Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin (now Humboldt University of Berlin) in the field of zoology.
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Biography of Gertrud Luckner (excerpt)
Gertrud Luckner (born Jane Hartmann; 26 September 1900 – 31 August 1995) was a Christian social worker involved in the German resistance to Nazism. A member of the banned German Catholic Peace Movement, she organised food packages for Jews deported to Poland, and travelled Germany giving assistance to Jewish families.
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Biography of Marie Reynoard (excerpt)
Marie Reynoard, born in Bastia (Haute-Corse) on October 28, 1897, and died in Ravensbrück (Germany) on January 30, 1945, was a heroine of the Grenoble Resistance during the Second World War. Biography A brilliant student, she joined the prestigious École normale supérieure de jeunes filles (Sèvres); in 1921, she taught in Cahors and then in Marseilles, before being appointed in 1936 to the Lycée Stendhal in Grenoble.
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Biography of Giuseppe Saragat (excerpt)
Giuseppe Saragat (19 September 1898 – 11 June 1988) was an Italian politician who served as the president of Italy from 1964 to 1971. Political career Following the dissolution of the PSU in 1930, Saragat joined the Italian Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Italiano, PSI).
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Biography of Trygve Klingenberg (excerpt)
Trygve Olavssøn Klingenberg (born 18 February 1900, died 12 January 1987) was a Norwegian architect.He was the brother of the architect Ørn Klingenberg, with whom he also worked in partnership. Education and work After graduating in art in 1917, Klingenberg briefly attended the War College before studying at the architecture department at NTH in 1918–22.
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Biography of Jacques Vaché (excerpt)
Jacques Vaché (7 September 1895 – 6 January 1919) was a friend of André Breton, an artist and author. Vaché was one of the chief inspirations behind the Surrealist movement. As Breton said: "En littérature, je me suis successivement épris de Rimbaud, de Jarry, d'Apollinaire, de Nouveau, de Lautréamont, mais c'est à Jacques Vaché que je dois le plus"
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Biography of Ossi Oswalda (excerpt)
Ossi Oswalda, born Oswalda Amalie Anna Stäglich on February 2, 1898, and passed away on March 7, 1947, was a German actress famous for her roles in silent films, many directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Her characters were often eccentric, spoiled, and child-like, earning her the nickname 'The German Mary Pickford'. |
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