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Biography of Jean-Antoine Houdon (excerpt)
Jean-Antoine Houdon (March 20, 1741 – July 15, 1828) was a French neoclassical sculptor. Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Enlightenment. Houdon's subjects include Denis Diderot (1771), Benjamin Franklin (1778-09), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1778), Voltaire (1781), Molière (1781), George Washington (1785-88), Thomas Jefferson (1789), Louis XVI (1790), Robert Fulton, 1803-04, and Napoléon Bonaparte (1806).
Biography of Isabella Augusta Gregory (excerpt)
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932), born Isabella Augusta Persse, was an Irish dramatist and folklorist. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies.
Biography of Mary Garden (excerpt)
Mary Garden (20 February 1874 - 3 January 1967), was a Scottish operatic soprano with a substantial career in France and America in the first third of the 20th century. She spent the latter part of her childhood and youth in the United States and eventually became an American citizen, although she lived in France for many years and retired to Scotland.
Biography of Jean Van Houtte (excerpt)
Jean Marie Joseph, Baron Van Houtte (17 March 1907–23 May 1991) was a Belgian politician (source for his time of birth: Gauquelin). Born in Ghent, van Houtte held a doctorate in law and lectured at Ghent University and the University of Liège.
Biography of Charles Chamberland (excerpt)
Charles Chamberland (March 12, 1851 – May 2, 1908) was a French microbiologist from Chilly-le-Vignoble in the department of Jura who worked with Louis Pasteur. In 1884 he developed a type of filtration known today as the Chamberland filter or Chamberland-Pasteur filter, consisting of an unglazed porcelain bar.
Biography of Charlemagne Oscar Guet (excerpt)
Charlemagne-Oscar Guet, born in Meaux February 24, 1801 (source not archived) and died November 29, 1871 in Paris, was a French artist and painter.
Biography of Barry McGuigan (excerpt)
Finbarr Patrick McGuigan MBE (born 28 February 1961), known as Barry McGuigan and nicknamed The Clones Cyclone, is a former Irish professional boxer who became a world featherweight champion. Background McGuigan was born in Clones, Ireland, son of singer Pat McGuigan (died 1987).
Biography of Gerrie Knetemann (excerpt)
Gerrie Knetemann (6 March 1951 in Amsterdam, North Holland – 2 November 2004 in Bergen) was a Dutch road bicycle racer who won the 1978 World Championship. A four-time winner of the Ronde van Nederland, he also rode the Tour de France 11 times between 1974 and 1987, winning 10 stages, a Dutch record equalled only by Jan Raas and Joop Zoetemelk.
Biography of Doug Yule (excerpt)
Douglas Alan Yule (born February 25, 1947 in Boston, Massachusetts (source : http://www.allmusic.com/artist/doug-yule-p140635)) is an American musician and singer, most notable for being a member of The Velvet Underground from 1968 to 1973. Biography Early career Yule began playing with various bands in Boston in the 1960s.
Biography of Adrian Smith (excerpt)
Adrian Frederick "H" Smith (born 27 February 1957) is an English musician, best known as one of the three guitarists in the heavy metal band, Iron Maiden, for whom he regularly writes and, along with bassist Steve Harris, performs backing vocals on some songs.
Biography of Cather MacCallum (excerpt)
Cather MacCallum, born March 10, 1929 in Charles Town, West Virginia, died January 19, 1983, was an American actress.
Biography of Gabriel Dupont (excerpt)
Gabriel Édouard Xavier Dupont, born in Caen March 1, 1878 and died (tuberculosis) in Le Vésinet August 1, 1914, was a French composer. Selected works 1895 Airs de ballet (2) Pavane Aria Piano 1897 Feuillets d'album Valse Fughette
Biography of Joyce Jackson (excerpt)
Joyce Jackson, born February 23, 1954 in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American former racquetball player. Racquetball is a racquet sport played with a hollow rubber ball in an indoor or outdoor court. Earl Riskey developed paddleball in the 1920s. Joe Sobek is credited with inventing racquetball afterward in 1950, adding a stringed racquet to the game to increase velocity and control.
Biography of Marion Barry (excerpt)
Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. (March 6, 1936 – November 23, 2014) was American Democratic politician who is currently serving as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia, representing DC's Ward 8. Barry served as the second elected mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991, and again as the fourth mayor from 1995 to 1999.
Biography of Don Abney (excerpt)
Don Abney (b. John Donald Abney, Mar. 10, 1923, Baltimore, Maryland - d. Jan. 20, 2000, Los Angeles, California) was an American jazz pianist. Abney studied piano and french horn at the Manhattan School of Music, and he played the latter in an Army band during military service.
Biography of Buck Williams (excerpt)
Charles Linwood Williams (born March 8, 1960 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina), better known as "Buck", is a retired American professional basketball player and current assistant coach for the Portland Trail Blazers. He was well known for his rebounding ability and trademark goggles.
Biography of Alexei Kovalev (excerpt)
Alexei "Alex" Vyacheslavovich Kovalev (Russian: Алексей Вячеславович Ковалёв, Aleksey Vyacheslavovich Kovalyov; born February 24, 1973) is a Russian professional ice hockey right winger and alternate captain with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has previously played for the New York Rangers, with whom he was originally drafted and has won a Stanley Cup in 1994.
Biography of Lee Hart (excerpt)
Lee Hart, born on February 20, 1936 in Ottawa, Kansas, is an American political wife and businesswoman, the wife of Senator Gary Hart. In 1987, rumors began circulating nearly immediately that Gary Hart was having an extramarital affair. In an interview that appeared in the New York Times on May 3, 1987, Hart responded to the rumors by daring the press corps: "Follow me around.
Biography of Burgess Abernethy (excerpt)
Burgess Abernethy, born on February 21, 1987 in Gold Coast, Queensland, is an Australian actor and screenwriter. Filmography (actor) (selection) 2013/III Mirrors (Short) (post-production) 2011 Crownies (TV Series) Brent Smith - Episode #1.7 (2011) ... Brent Smith 2010 Dance Academy (TV Series)
Biography of Tyler Hamilton (excerpt)
Tyler Hamilton (born March 1, 1972, Salem, Massachusetts) is a former American professional road bicycle racer and Olympic gold medalist, whose career and reputation were repeatedly marred by doping scandals. He counts a 2008 U.S. National Championship and a gold medal from the 2004 Olympic games among his palmarès.
Biography of Robert Morane (excerpt)
Robert Morane, born March 10, 1886 in Paris, died August 28, 1968, was a French aviator, businessman, and engineer.
Biography of Antoine-Henri Jomini (excerpt)
Antoine-Henri, baron Jomini (March 6, 1779 – March 24, 1869) was a general in the French and later in the Russian service, and one of the most celebrated writers on the Napoleonic art of war. According to the historian John Shy, Jomini "deserves the dubious title of founder of modern strategy.
Biography of Robert Gossett (excerpt)
Robert Gossett (born March 3, 1954) is an American television, theater, and film actor. Gossett landed his first professional job after he graduated from high school in a production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He went on to act in the Broadway production of Lloyd Richard's of Fences, Hal Scott's A Raisin in the Sun and Donald McKayle's The Last Minstrel Show.
Biography of Lauritz Melchior (excerpt)
Lauritz Melchior (March 20, 1890 – March 18, 1973) was a Danish and later American opera singer. He was the pre-eminent Wagnerian tenor of the late 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, and has since come to be considered the quintessence of his voice type.
Biography of Gabriel Celaya (excerpt)
Rafael Gabriel Juan Múgica Celaya Leceta Cendoya, best known as Gabriel Celaya, born March 18, 1911 in Hernani, died April 18, 1991 in Madrid, was a Spanish poet and author. Works 1935 : Marea del silencio (name Rafael Múgica) 1936 : La soledad cerrada (Price Bécquer) 1946 : Tentativas 1947 : Movimientos elementales et Tranquilamente hablando 1948 : Objetos poéticos 1949 : Las cosas como son, sous le nom de Juan de Leceta, Se parece al amor, et El principio sin fin 1950 : Deriva 1951 : Las cartas boca arriba et El arte como lenguaje et traduction de poèmes de Paul Éluard
Biography of Pope Clement XIII (excerpt)
Pope Clement XIII ( He became pope on 6 July 1758. In the same year the Rezzonico family were celebrating Ludovico Rezzonico's marriage into the powerful Savorgnan family. The son of the man who bought the unfinished palace on the Grand Canal (now Ca' Rezzonico) and finished its construction, Carlo the pontiff was notorious for his rampant nepotism.
Biography of Paul Le Flem (excerpt)
Paul Le Flem (March 18, 1881 - July 31, 1984) was a French composer and musician. Born in Alençon, Le Flem studied at the Schola Cantorum under Vincent d'Indy and Albert Roussel, later teaching at the same establishment, where his pupils included Erik Satie and André Jolivet.
Biography of Brigitte Douay (excerpt)
Brigitte Douay (born 24 February 1947 in Paris) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. She is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the Committee on Budgets.
Biography of Jonathan Weinstein (excerpt)
Jonathan Weinstein, born March 9, 1977 in Boston, Massachusetts, is a math champion. He had a perfect score at the International Mathematical Olympiad in Hong Kong in 1994.
Biography of Henri Duveyrier (excerpt)
Henri Duveyrier (28 February 1840 – 25 April 1892) was a French explorer of the Sahara born in Paris. In 1857 and 1858, he spent some months in London, where he met Heinrich Barth, then preparing the narrative of his travels in the western Sudan.
Biography of Michel Albert (excerpt)
Michel Albert is a French economist. He was born 25 February 1930 at Fontenay-le-Comte (Vendee)(birth certificate n° 16, Astrotheme) and is the Permanent Secretary of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques since 1 January 2005. Michel Albert graduated from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris and is an alumnus of the École Nationale d'Administration.
Biography of Frédéric Péchenard (excerpt)
Frédéric Péchenard (born on 12 March 1957 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 969) is a French police officer and high civil servant with the Ministry of the Interior. He has served as General Director of the French National Police from 11 June 2007 to May 2012.
Biography of Jean Massart (excerpt)
Jean Massart, born March 7, 1865 in Etterbeek, Brussels, and died August 16, 1925 in Houx, was a Belgian botanist and author. Publications (extract) * Parasitisme organique et parasitisme social (Paris, 1893), avec Émile Vandervelde (1866-1938). * La Récapitulation et l'innovation en embryologie (Gand, 1894).
Biography of Frank Borman (excerpt)
Frank Frederick Borman, II (born March 14, 1928) is a retired NASA astronaut and engineer, best remembered as the Commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon, making him, along with fellow crew mates Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, the first of only 24 humans to do so.
Biography of Ann Curtis (swimmer) (excerpt)
Ann Curtis (born March 6, 1926 in San Francisco) is a former competitive swimmer and Olympic Gold Medal winner for the United States. She was coached by Charlie Sava and was a member of the San Francisco Crystal Plunge team. Curtis participated in London’s 1948 Olympic Games winning the gold medal in the 400 m freestyle.
Biography of Norman Hogg (excerpt)
Norman Hogg, Baron Hogg of Cumbernauld FSA Scot. (12 March 1938 – 8 October 2008) was a Scottish Labour politician. Educated at Ruthrieston Secondary School in Aberdeen, he worked for Aberdeen Town Council from 1953-67 and then as a District Officer for NALGO from 1967 to 1979.
Biography of William Falconer (excerpt)
William Falconer (Edinburgh, UK, February 21 1732–1769) was a Scottish poet. Falconer was the son of a barber in Edinburgh, where he was born, became a sailor, and was thus thoroughly competent to describe the management of the storm-tossed vessel, the career and fate of which are described in his poem, The Shipwreck (1762), a work of genuine, though unequal, talent.
Biography of Christophe Oriol (excerpt)
Christophe Oriol, born on February 28, 1973 in Oullins (birth certificate n° 186, Astrotheme), is a French professional bicycle racer.
Biography of Todd E. Fisher (excerpt)
Todd E. Fisher, born February 24, 1958 in Burbank, California, is an American businessman, the son of Debbie Reynolds and her husband Eddie Fisher.
Biography of Diego Nargiso (excerpt)
Diego Nargiso (born March 15, 1970, in Naples) is a former tennis player from Italy. Having turned professional in 1987, Nargiso represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where he was defeated in the second round by America's eventual runner-up Tim Mayotte.
Biography of Pedro Zamora (excerpt)
Pedro Pablo Zamora (born Pedro Pablo Zamora y Díaz, February 29, 1972–November 11, 1994) was a Cuban-American AIDS educator and television personality. As one of the first openly gay men with AIDS to be portrayed in popular media, Zamora brought international attention to HIV/AIDS and LGBT issues and prejudices through his appearance on MTV's reality television series, The Real World: San Francisco.
Biography of Charles Asselineau (excerpt)
Charles Asselineau, born March 13, 1820 in Paris, died July 25, 1874 in Châtelguyon, was a French writer and art critic. He was a friend of Baudelaire.
Biography of Anna Ewers (excerpt)
Anna Ewers (born March 14, 1993, in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) is a German fashion model. She is featured on the 2015 Pirelli Calendar. Career During spring/summer 2014 Fashion Week (November 2013), she walked 37 fashion shows, including Céline, Balenciaga, Prada and opens Dolce & Gabbana and Alexander Wang.
Biography of Mickey Spillane (excerpt)
Frank Morrison Spillane (March 9, 1918 – July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American author of crime novels, many featuring his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally.
Biography of Jean-Claude Risset (excerpt)
Jean-Claude Risset (March 13, 1938 in Le Puy, France (birth certificate n° 153, Astrotheme)) is a French composer, best known for his pioneering contributions to computer music. He is a former student of André Jolivet and former coworker of Max Mathews at Bell Labs.
Biography of Brian Close (cricketer) (excerpt)
Dennis Brian Close, CBE (24 February 1931 – 13 September 2015) was an English first-class cricketer, the youngest man ever to play Test cricket for England. He was picked to play against New Zealand in July 1949, when he was 18 years old.
Biography of Bernard Prevost (excerpt)
Bernard Prevost, born March 15, 1943 in Lille, is a French civil servant, ambassador of France in DRC Democratic Republic of Congo.
Biography of Pierre Mac Orlan (excerpt)
Pierre Mac Orlan, sometimes written MacOrlan, (born Pierre Dumarchey, February 26, 1882 – June 27, 1970) was a French novelist and songwriter. His novel Quai des Brumes was the source for Marcel Carné's 1938 film of the same name, starring Jean Gabin.
Biography of Ruben Nembhard (excerpt)
Ruben R. Nembhard (born February 20, 1972 (1972-02-20) in The Bronx, New York) is an American professional basketball player, formerly in the NBA. A 6'3" (1.90 m), 208 lb (94 kg) guard, After playing in the Venezuelan LPB for Gaiteros del Zulia, he is now the top scorer in the Colombian league, playing in Bogota for the Piratas de Bogota.
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The St. Francis Dam was a concrete gravity dam built from 1924 to 1926 to serve Los Angeles' growing water needs, that catastrophically failed in 1928 due to a defective soil foundation, claiming the lives of at least 431 people. The collapse of the St. |
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