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Fairbanks, unlike other larger cities in Alaska, still has separate borough and city governments.The City of Fairbanks was incorporated on November 10, 1903.The city council held a special meeting at the Carlson Center on November 10, 2003 for the express purpose of denoting the centennial of incorporation.
Biography of Frances Yates (excerpt)
Dame Frances Amelia Yates DBE (1899–1981) was a noted British historian.She taught at the Warburg Institute of the University of London for many years. Yates' father, a devout Anglican, was a naval engineer who began working in the shipyards as a teenager & supervised the construction of British warships in the years leading up to World War I.
Biography of Marcel Bich (excerpt)
Marcel Bich (29 July 1914 - 30 May 1994) was the co-founder of Bic, the world's leading producer of ballpoint pens. History In 1945, Bich and his partner, Edouard Buffard, bought an empty factory near Paris, France.Bich’s knowledge of the writing instrument trade, gained while working as a production manager for an ink maker, had them starting with production of fountain pen parts and mechanical lead pencils.
Biography of Christine Gouze-Rénal (excerpt)
Madeleine Gouze, best known as Christine Gouze-Rénal, born December 1914 in Mouchard (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died October 25, 2002 in Paris, was a French producer. She was the wife of French actor Roger Hanin. Filmography (extracts) 1955 : La mariée était trop belle de Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Biography of Andrew Wyeth (excerpt)
Andrew Newell Wyeth (born July 12, 1917) is an American realist painter, and regionalist artist.He is one of the best-known of the 20th century and sometimes referred to as the "Painter of the People" due to his popularity with the American public.
Biography of Douglas Fairbanks (excerpt)
Douglas Fairbanks (May 23, 1883 (birth time source: Nella Webb) – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer, who became noted for his swashbuckling roles in silent movies such as The Mark of Zorro (1920), The Three Musketeers (1921), Robin Hood (1922), The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and The Black Pirate (1926).
Biography of Paul Foster Case (excerpt)
Paul Foster Case (October 3, 1884 – March 2, 1954) was an American occultist of the early 20th Century and author of numerous books on Tarot and Qabalah.Perhaps his greatest contributions to the field of occultism were the lessons he wrote for associate members of Builders of the Adytum.
Biography of Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry (excerpt)
Consuelo, Countess of Saint-Exupéry (born Suncín de Sandoval; April 16, 1901 – May 28, 1979), was a Salvadoran-French writer and artist, married to the French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.Wikipedia incorrectly lists 10 April 1901. Born into a wealthy family in El Salvador, she studied in the United States, Mexico, and France.
Biography of Pierre Quéméneur (excerpt)
Pierre Quemeneur, born August 19, 1877 in Commana (Finistère), was a French man, killed in the night of 25/26 May 1923 during a business trip from Brittany to Paris with Seznec. The Seznec Affair was a controversial French court case of 1923-1924.
Biography of Émile Allais (excerpt)
Émile Allais (born February 25, 1912; died October 17, 2012) was a former champion alpine ski racer from France; he won all three events at the 1937 world championships in Chamonix and the gold in the combined in 1938. Born in Megève, he was a dominant racer in the late 1930s and is considered the first great French alpine skier.
Biography of Wilhelm Keitel (excerpt)
Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel (22 September 1882–16 October 1946) was a German field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall). As head of the High Command of the Armed Forces, he was one of Germany's most senior military leaders during World War II. At the allied court at Nuremberg he was tried, sentenced to death and hanged as a major war criminal.
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Bakersfield is a charter city in Kern County, California, United States.It is the county seat and largest city of Kern County.The city covers about 151 sq mi (390 km2) near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Valley region.
Biography of Léon Vannier (excerpt)
Dr Leon Vannier (October 30, 1880-1963) was one of the major figures in modern French homoeopathy, practising in Paris from 1905 until the year of his death.He founded the journal L'Homoeopathie Francaise in 1912 and was the author of many books, including a substantial materia medica.
Biography of Anna May Wong (excerpt)
Anna May Wong (or Wong Liu Tsong, traditional Chinese: 黃柳霜; pinyin: Huáng Liǔshuāng, January 3, 1905 – February 2, 1961) was an American actress, the first Chinese American movie star, and the first Asian American to become an international star. Her long and varied career spanned film, television, stage, and radio.
Biography of George Cukor (excerpt)
George Dewey Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed What Price Hollywood. (1932), A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Little Women (1933), David Copperfield (1935), Romeo and Juliet (1936) and Camille (1936).
Biography of Roger Désormière (excerpt)
Roger Désormière (September 13, 1898 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - October 25, 1963) was a French conductor. He is well known for having directed the earliest complete recording of Claude Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande. made in Paris during the Nazi occupation.
Biography of Luc Bérimont (excerpt)
André Leclercq, best known as Luc Bérimont, born September 16, 1915 in Magnac-sur-Touvre, Charente (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died in 1983, was a French author and poet. Works (extracts) Poetry Domaine de la nuit (ronéotypé aux Armées et préfacé par le sergent Maurice Fombeure, 1940).
Biography of Pierre Angénieux (excerpt)
Pierre Angénieux (Saint-Héand, 14 July 1907 in Saint-Héand (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, Saint-Héand archives on-line) - 26 June 1998) was a French engineer and optician, one of the inventors of the modern zoom lenses, and famous for introducing the Angénieux retrofocus.
Biography of José de Almada Negreiros (excerpt)
José Sobral de Almada Negreiros (São Tomé e Príncipe, São Tomé, Mé-Zóchi District, Trindade, Roça Saudade, April 7, 1893- Lisbon, Hospital de São Luís dos Franceses, June 15, 1970) was a Portuguese painter, poet and writer. He was born in the then colony of São Tomé e Príncipe, the son of a Portuguese farmer António Lobo de Almada Negreiros and a quarter-black and three quarters-Portuguese mother Elvira Freire Sobral.
Biography of Léonce Perret (excerpt)
Léonce Perret (March 14, 1880 – August 14, 1935) was a prolific and innovative French film actor, director and producer. He also worked as a stage actor and director. Often described as avant-garde for his unorthodox directing methods, Léonce Perret introduced innovative camera, lighting and film scoring techniques to French cinema.
Biography of Friedrich Paulus (excerpt)
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus (23 September 1890 – 1 February 1957) was an officer in the German military from 1910 to 1943, attaining the rank of Generalfeldmarschall during World War II.He is most known for commanding the Sixth Army's assault on Stalingrad during Operation Blue in 1942.
Biography of John Jacob Astor IV (excerpt)
John Jacob Astor IV (July 13, 1864 – April 15, 1912) was an American millionaire businessman, real estate builder, inventor, writer, a member of the prominent Astor family, and a lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War. He died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 14, 1912.
Biography of Juscelino Kubitschek (excerpt)
Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira (JK) (September 12, 1902 – August 22, 1976) was a prominent Brazilian politician who was President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961. He was born in Diamantina, Minas Gerais, and died in 1976. His term was marked by relative economic prosperity and political stability, being most known by the construction of a new capital, Brasília.
Biography of Jeanette MacDonald (excerpt)
Jeanette MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow) and Nelson Eddy (Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie, and Maytime).
Biography of Cecil B. de Mille (excerpt)
Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was a successful Academy Award-winning American filmmaker in the first half of the 20th century, known for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies. Biography Early life DeMille was born while his parents, Henry Churchill deMille (1853–1893), a dramatist and lay reader in the Episcopal Church from Washington, North Carolina, and Matilda Beatrice Samuel (1853–1923), who was born to a Sephardic Jewish family in England but converted to her husband's faith, were vacationing in Ashfield, Massachusetts.
Biography of Roger Peyrefitte (excerpt)
Roger Peyrefitte (August 17, 1907 – November 5, 2000) was a French diplomat and writer.Born in Castres to a wealthy family, Peyrefitte went to Jesuit and Lazarist boarding schools and then studied language and literature in Toulouse.After graduating first of his year from Ecole des Sciences Politiques in 1930, he worked as an embassy secretary in Athens between 1933 and 1938.
Biography of Samuel Barber (excerpt)
Samuel Osborne Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is among his most popular compositions and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music.
Biography of Olga Solbelli (excerpt)
Olga Solbelli (11 May 1898 – 8 September 1976) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 85 films between 1939 and 1967. She was born in Verghereto and died in Bologna. Filmography (extracts) 1967 Assalto al tesoro di stato Madame Angot 1966 Les colts de la violence
Biography of Juan Gris (excerpt)
José Victoriano González-Pérez (March 23, 1887 – May 11, 1927), better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life. His works are closely connected to the emergence of an innovative artistic genre—Cubism.
Biography of John Dewey (excerpt)
John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world.He, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophical school of Pragmatism.
Biography of Bruce King (Zolar) (excerpt)
Bruce King, born on July 22, 1897 in Chicago, Illinois, was an American astrologer and columnist. He was known as Zolar.
Biography of Roland Dorgelès (excerpt)
Roland Dorgelès (born June 15, 1885 in Amiens (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – died March 18, 1973 in Paris), was a French novelist and member of the Académie Goncourt. Born Roland Lecavelé (he adopted the pen name Dorgelès to commemorate visits to the spa town of Argelès), he spent his childhood in Paris.
Biography of Eva Pierrakos (excerpt)
Eva Broch Pierrakos (1915–1979) nee Wassermann was born in the Austrian capital Vienna.She had a gift for automatic writing.She later worked with and married the founder of Core Energetics, John C.Pierrakos. Early life and education The daughter of novelist Jakob Wassermann, she grew up among the intellectual elite of Vienna.
Biography of Inayat Khan (excerpt)
Hazrat Inayat Khan (July 5, 1882 (Madras time is applied) – February 5, 1927) was the founder of Universal Sufism and the Sufi Order International.He initially came to the West as a representative of several traditions of classical Indian music, having received the title Tansen from the Nizam of Hyderabad.
Biography of Panaït Istrati (excerpt)
Panait Istrati (Romanian pronunciation: ; sometimes rendered as Panaït Istrati; August 10, 1884 – April 18, 1935) was a Romanian writer of French and Romanian expression, nicknamed The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans. Istrati was first noted for the depiction of one homosexual character in his work.
Biography of Gemma Galgani (excerpt)
Saint Gemma Galgani (born March 12, 1878 in Camigliano, Campania, Italy, died April 11, 1903) is a Catholic saint who was canonized by Pope Pius XII on May 2, 1940. She was the daughter of a poor pharmacist and suffered throughout her life with ill health.
Biography of Manuel de Falla (excerpt)
Manuel de Falla y Matheu (November 23, 1876 – November 14, 1946) was a Spanish composer of classical music. Manuel de Falla was born in Cádiz.His early teacher in music was his mother; at the age of 9 he was introduced to his first piano professor.
Biography of André Martinet (excerpt)
André Martinet (Saint-Alban-des-Villards, 12 April 1908 - Châtenay-Malabry, 16 July 1999) was a French linguist, influential by his work on structural linguistics.His wife, Jeanne Martinet, is a recognized semiotician. Martinet agregated in English and received his doctorate after submitting, as is traditional in France, two theses: La Gémination consonantique d'origine expressive dans les langues germaniques and La Phonologie du mot en danois.
Biography of Rita Levi-Montalcini (excerpt)
Rita Levi-Montalcini (22 April 1909 (birth time source: Gauquelin, birth certificate) – 30 December 2012), Knight Grand Cross, was an Italian neurologist who, together with colleague Stanley Cohen, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF).
Biography of René Cassin (excerpt)
René Samuel Cassin (5 October 1887, Bayonne – 20 February 1976, Paris) was a French jurist, law professor and judge.A French soldier in World War I, he later went on to form the Union Fédérale, a leftist, pacifist Veterans organisation.He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968 for his work in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948.
Biography of Roger Garaudy (excerpt)
Roger Garaudy, later Ragaa Garaudy (French: ; 17 July 1913 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 13 June 2012) was a French philosopher, French resistance fighter and a prominent communist author. He converted to Islam in 1982. His books and ideas have been deemed Holocaust denial.
Biography of Ted Williams (excerpt)
Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002) also nicknamed The Kid, the Splendid Splinter, Teddy Ballgame and The Thumper, was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball.He played 19 seasons, twice interrupted by military service as a Marine Corps pilot, with the Boston Red Sox.
Biography of Léo Baekeland (excerpt)
Leo Hendrik Baekeland (Gent, November 14, 1863 - February 23, 1944) was a Belgian chemist who invented Velox photographic paper (1893) and Bakelite (1907), an inexpensive, nonflammable, versatile, and popular plastic. Career Born in Gent, Belgium, Baekeland was the son of a cobbler and a maid.
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Bordeaux is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France. The municipality (commune) of Bordeaux proper has a population of 257,804 (2019).Bordeaux is the centre of Bordeaux Métropole that has a population of 796,273 (2019), the fifth-largest in France after Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Lille with its immediate suburbs and closest satellite towns.
Biography of Marie Bell (excerpt)
Marie-Jeanne Bellon, best known as Marie Bell, born December 23, 1900 in Bordeaux, died August 15, 1985, was a French actress. Filmography (extracts) 1924 : Paris 1928 : La Valse de l'adieu 1928 : Madame Récamier 1929 : Figaro 1930 : L'Homme qui assassina : Lady Falkland
Biography of André Maurois (excerpt)
André Maurois, born Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog, (July 26, 1885 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 9, 1967) was a French author and man of letters. "André Maurois" was a pen name that became his legal name in 1947.
Biography of Manolete (excerpt)
Manuel Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez (July 4, 1917 in Córdoba, Spain (birth time source: Starkman, Bordoni) - August 28, 1947 in Linares, Spain), better known as Manolete, was a famous Spanish bullfighter. He rose to prominence shortly after the Spanish Civil War and is considered by some to be the greatest bullfighter of all time.
Biography of Miguel de Unamuno (excerpt)
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864–December 31, 1936) was an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher from Spain. Miguel de Unamuno was born in the medieval centre of Bilbao, Basque Country, the son of Félix de Unamuno and Salomé Jugo.
Biography of Evelyn Waugh (excerpt)
Arthur Evelyn St.John Waugh (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer, best known for such darkly humorous and satirical novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Scoop, A Handful of Dust, and The Loved One, as well as for serious works, such as Brideshead Revisited and the Sword of Honour trilogy, that convey his conservative and Catholic opinions.
Biography of Gustav Meyrink (excerpt)
Gustav Meyrink (January 19, 1868 – December 4, 1932) was an Austrian author, storyteller, dramatist, translator, banker and Buddhist, most famous for his novel The Golem. Childhood Gustav Meyrink was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria).He was the illegitimate son of Baron Karl von Varnbüler von und zu Hemmingen and actress Maria Wilhelmina Adelheyd Meier. |
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