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Biography of Henry George (excerpt)
Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American writer, politician and political economist, who was the most influential proponent of the land value tax, also known as the "Single Tax" on land.He inspired the philosophy and economic ideology known as Georgism, which is that everyone owns what they create, but that everything found in nature, most importantly land, belongs equally to all humanity. ![]()
Biography of Charles Garnier (excerpt)
Charles Garnier (6 November 1825 in Paris 5e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) - 3 August 1898) was a French architect, designer of the Palais Garnier and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Education Student of Louis-Hippolyte Lebas at the École royale des Beaux-Arts de Paris beginning in 1842, he obtained the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1848.
Biography of Louis-Philippe de Brabant (excerpt)
Louis-Philippe, born July 24, 1833 in Bruxelles and died May 4, 1834, was the first son of Leopold I.Leopold I (Leopold George Christian Frederick (in German Leopold Georg Christian Friedrich) Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, later Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony) (16 December 1790 – 10 December 1865) was from 21 July 1831 the first King of the Belgians. ![]()
Biography of Fulgence Bienvenue (excerpt)
Fulgence Bienvenüe (January 27, 1852 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives) – August 3, 1936) was a French civil engineer, best known for his role in the construction of the Paris Métro. A native of Uzel in Brittany, he graduated as a civil engineer in 1872.
Biography of Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton (excerpt)
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (May 25, 1803–January 18, 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician.Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and the infamous incipit "It was a dark and stormy night." Despite his popularity in his heyday, today his name is known as a byword for bad writing. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Pulitzer (excerpt)
Joseph Pulitzer (English pronunciation: /ˈpʊlɨtsɚ/ PULL-itser; April 10, 1847–October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and (along with William Randolph Hearst) for originating yellow journalism. Pulitzer was born in Makó, Hungary, the son of Jewish parents Philip Pulitzer, a grain merchant, and Elize Berger.
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Biography of Edmond Laguerre (excerpt)
Edmond Nicolas Laguerre (April 9, 1834, Bar-le-Duc – August 14, 1886, Bar-le-Duc) was a French mathematician, a member of the Académie française (1885). His main works were in the areas of geometry and complex analysis. He also investigated orthogonal polynomials (see Laguerre polynomials). ![]()
Biography of François Ponsard (excerpt)
François Ponsard (1 June 1814 – 7 July 1867), was a French dramatist, poet and author and was a member of the Académie française. Biography He was born at Vienne, Isère in 1814 and trained as a lawyer. Literary career His first literary work was a translation of Manfred (1837). ![]()
Biography of Emile Levassor (excerpt)
Émile Levassor (21 January 1843, Marolles-en-Hurepoix (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 14 April 1897, Paris) was a French engineer and a pioneer of the automobile industry and car racing in France. Graduated at École Centrale Paris, he started his career in 1872 in a company that produced wood-working machines, where he met René Panhard.
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Biography of Joseph Liouville (excerpt)
Joseph Liouville (March 24, 1809 – September 8, 1882) was a French mathematician. Liouville graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1827.After some years as an assistant at various institutions including the Ecole Centrale Paris, he was appointed as professor at the École Polytechnique in 1838.
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Biography of Jules Léotard (excerpt)
Jules Léotard (French: ; 1 August 1838 (birth time and date source: Didier Geslain) – 17 August 1870) was a revolutionary French acrobatic performer and aerialist who developed the art of trapeze. He also popularised the one-piece gym wear that now bears his name and inspired the 1867 song "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" sung by George Leybourne. ![]()
Biography of George du Maurier (excerpt)
George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (6 March 1834 – 8 October 1896) was a French-born British cartoonist and author, known for his cartoons in Punch and his novel Trilby.He was the father of actor Gerald du Maurier and grandfather of the writers Angela du Maurier and Dame Daphne du Maurier. ![]()
Biography of August Kekule von Stradonitz (excerpt)
Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (also August Kekulé) (September 7, 1829 – July 13, 1896) was a German organic chemist. One of the most prominent chemists in Europe from the 1850s until his death, especially in the theoretical realm, he was the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure. ![]()
Biography of Holger Drachmann (excerpt)
Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann (October 9, 1846 – January 14, 1908), was a Danish poet and dramatist.He is an outstanding figure of the Modern Break-Through. The son of Dr AG Drachmann, whose family was of German extraction, he was born in Copenhagen. ![]()
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The Instrument of Government (Swedish: 1809 års regeringsform) adopted on 6 June 1809 by the Riksdag of the Estates and King Charles XIII was one of the fundamental laws that made up the constitution of Sweden from 1809 to the end of 1974. ![]()
Biography of Mikhail Glinka (excerpt)
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Гли́нка) (June 1 1804 – February 15 1857), was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition inside his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music. Glinka's compositions were an important influence on future Russian composers, notably the members of The Five, who took Glinka's lead and produced a distinctively Russian kind of classical music. ![]()
Biography of Prince Arthur of Connaught (excerpt)
The Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (Arthur William Patrick Albert; 1 May 1850 – 16 January 1942) was a member of the British Royal Family, a son of Queen Victoria.Arthur served as the Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916. ![]()
Biography of William Quan Judge (excerpt)
William Quan Judge (April 13, 1851 – March 21, 1896) was a mystic, esotericist, and occultist, and one of the founders of the original Theosophical Society.He was born in Dublin, Ireland.When he was 13 years old, his family emigrated to the United States. ![]()
Biography of Albert Lebourg (excerpt)
Albert Lebourg, born February 1, 1849 in Montfort-sur-Risle and died January 6, 1928 in Rouen, was a French painter of Rouen's School. He was a member of Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts of Rouen. Bibliography (extract) Léonce Bénédite, Albert Lebourg, Georges Petit, Paris, 1923
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Biography of Paul Gabriel (excerpt)
Paul Gabriel, born July 5, 1828 in Amsterdam, died August 23, 1903, was a Dutch artist and landscape painter. ![]()
Biography of Filippo Palizzi (excerpt)
Filippo Palizzi, born June 16, 1818 in Vasto and died September 11, 1899 in Rome, is an Italian painter. Works Saint Jean (cathédrale de Vasto). Amedée de Savoie blessé à Custoza en 1866. Al Pascolo con le caprette. (au paturage avec les chevrettes). ![]()
Biography of Henry Morton Stanley (excerpt)
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, GCB, born John Rowlands (June 10, 1840 – May 10, 1904), was a Welsh journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone.Stanley is often remembered for the words uttered to Livingstone upon finding him: "Dr.
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Biography of Jean Aicard (excerpt)
Jean François Victor Aicard (February 4, 1848 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - May 13, 1921) was a French poet, dramatist and novelist. He was born in Toulon. His father, Jean Aicard, was a journalist of some distinction, and the son early began his career in 1867 with Les Jeunes Croyances, followed in 1870 by a one-act play produced at the Marseille theatre. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Lalo (excerpt)
Édouard Victor Antoine Lalo (January 27, 1823 – April 22, 1892) was a French composer of Spanish descent. Born in Lille, he studied first at that city's conservatoire, and then at the Paris Conservatoire under Berlioz's old enemy François Antoine Habeneck.For years, he worked as a viola player (specializing in chamber music) and teacher in Paris before gaining fame as a composer, which eventually arrived when he was in his late forties.
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Biography of Jules Perrot (excerpt)
Jules-Joseph Perrot (18 August 1810 in Lyon, France – 29 August 1892 in Paramé) was a dancer and choreographer who later became Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia. He created some of the most famous ballets of the 19th century including Pas de Quatre, La Esmeralda, Ondine, and Giselle with Jean Coralli.
Biography of Eugène Tisserand (agronomist) (excerpt)
Eugène Tisserand, born on May 26, 1830 in Flavigny-sur-Moselle, died in 1925 in Paris, was a French agronomist and author. ![]()
Biography of Albert Lavignac (excerpt)
Albert Lavignac (Paris 22 January 1846 – Paris, 28 May 1916) was a French music scholar, known for his essays on theory, and a minor composer. Lavignac studied with Antoine François Marmontel, François Benoist and Ambroise Thomas at the Conservatoire de Paris where later he taught harmony. ![]()
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Pine Bluff is the tenth-largest city in the state of Arkansas and the county seat of Jefferson County.It is the principal city of the Pine Bluff Metropolitan Statistical Area and part of the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Pine Bluff Combined Statistical Area.
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Biography of Jean Albert Gaudry (excerpt)
Jean Albert Gaudry (September 16, 1827 - November 27, 1908), French geologist and palaeontologist, was born at St Germain-en-Laye, and was educated at the college Stanislas. At the age of twenty-five he made explorations in Cyprus and Greece, residing in the latter country from 1855 to 1860. ![]()
Biography of Emil Kirdorf (excerpt)
Emil Kirdorf (8 April 1847 (source not archived) - 13 July 1938) was a German industrialist, one of the first important employers in the Ruhr industrial sectors. He was personally awarded by Adolf Hitler the Order of the German Eagle, Nazi Germany's highest distinctions, on his 90th birthday in 1937, for his support to the Nazi Party in the late 1920s. ![]()
Biography of Carlo Collodi (excerpt)
Carlo Lorenzini (November 24, 1826 – October 26, 1890), better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi, was an Italian children's writer known for the world-renowned fairy tale novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio. Biography Collodi was born in Florence. During the Wars of Independence in 1848 and 1860 Collodi served as a volunteer with the Tuscan army. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Plateau (excerpt)
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (October 14, 1801 - September 15, 1883) was a Belgian physicist. Born in Brussels, he studied at the University of Liège (Liège), where he graduated as a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences in 1829.In 1835, he was appointed Professor of experimental physics in Ghent University. ![]()
Biography of Luigi Cadorna (excerpt)
Luigi Cadorna (September 4, 1850–December 21, 1928) was an Italian Field Marshal, most famous for being the Commander-in-Chief of the Italian army during the first part of World War I. Born to General Raffaele Cadorna in Verbania Pallanza, Piedmont, after joining the Italian Army in 1868 Cadorna was offered the post of chief of staff for the first time in 1908, which he rejected due to the issue of political control during wartime. ![]()
Biography of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (excerpt)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850–October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet.Her best-known work was Poems of Passion.Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which contains the lines: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone".
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Biography of Paul Gavarni (excerpt)
Paul Gavarni was the nom de plume of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier (January 13, 1804 in Paris – November 24, 1866), a French caricaturist, born in Paris. He began life as an engineer's draughtsman, but soon turned his attention to his proper vocation as a cartoonist. ![]()
Biography of Rama IV of Siam (excerpt)
Phrabat Somdet Phra Pormen Maha Mongkut, Phra Chom Klao Chaoyouhua, or Rama IV (October 19, 1804 - October 1, 1868) was the fourth king of Siam (1851 - 1868) of the Chakri dynasty and one of the most revered monarchs of Siam. ![]()
Biography of Max Bruch (excerpt)
Max Christian Friedrich Bruch (January 6, 1838 – October 2, 1920) also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic composer and conductor who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, one of which is a staple of the violin repertoire. ![]()
Biography of Randolph Churchill (excerpt)
Lord Randolph Churchill, born February 13, 1849 in London, died January 24, 1895 in London, was a British politician (he is not the son of Winston Churchill, with the same name). ![]()
Biography of Evariste Luminais (excerpt)
Evariste Vital Luminais, born October 13, 1821 in Nantes, died in 1896 in Paris, was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Edouard van Beneden (excerpt)
Edouard Joseph Marie Van Beneden (Leuven, 5 March 1846 – Liège, 28 April 1910), son of Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden, was a Belgian embryologist, cytologist and marine biologist.He was professor of zoology at the University of Liège.He contributed to cytogenetics by his works on the roundworm Ascaris. ![]()
Biography of Charles Wagner (excerpt)
Charles Wagner (4 January 1852 Château-Salins (source: Lescaut) – 12 May 1918) was a French reformed pastor whose inspirational writings were influential in shaping reformed theology. Biography At the age of 14, he was sent to Paris to school; was graduated at the Sorbonne in 1869; and studied theology at Strassburg and Göttingen. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Laffitte (excerpt)
Pierre Laffitte (February 21, 1823 - January 4, 1903) was a French positivist. Laffitte was born at Béguey (Gironde).Residing at Paris as a teacher of mathematics, he became a disciple of Auguste Comte, who appointed him his literary executor.On the schism of the Positivist body which followed Comte's death, he was recognized as head of the section which accepted the full Comtian doctrine; the other section adhered to Émile Littré, who rejected the religion of humanity as inconsistent with the materialism of Comte's earlier period. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Jacques Henner (excerpt)
Jean-Jacques Henner (March 5, 1829 - 1905) was a French painter, noted for his use of sfumato in painting religious subjects and nudes. Henner was born at Bernwiller (Alsace).At first a pupil of Drolling and Picot, he entered the École des Beaux Arts in 1848, and took the Prix de Rome with a painting of "Adam and Eve finding the Body of Abel" (1858). ![]()
Biography of Ernest Lavisse (excerpt)
Ernest Lavisse (December 17, 1842 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - August 18, 1922) was a French historian. He was born at Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache, Aisne.In 1865 he obtained a fellowship in history, and in 1875 became a doctor of letters; he was appointed maître de conférence (1876) at the école normale supérieure, succeeding Fustel de Coulanges, and then professor of modern history at the Sorbonne (1888), in the place of Henri Wallon. ![]()
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Southampton is a city and port in Hampshire, South East England.It is located at the end of a coastal inlet from the Solent, approximately 70 miles (110 km) south-west of London and 15 miles (24 km) west of Portsmouth.A major port, and close to the New Forest, it lies at the northernmost point of Southampton Water, at the confluence of the River Test and Itchen, with the River Hamble joining to the south.
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Biography of Edmond About (excerpt)
Edmond François Valentin About (14 February 1828 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 16 January 1885), was a French novelist, publicist and journalist. Life He was born at Dieuze, in the Moselle département in the Lorraine region of France.In 1848 he entered the École Normale, taking second place in the annual competition for admission in which Hippolyte Taine came first. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Schure (excerpt)
Eduard (Edouard) Schuré (Strasbourg, January 21, 1841 – April 7, 1929), French philosopher, poet, writer, musical critic and publicist of esoteric literature.He is known by being the author of "The Great Initiated" (1889) in which he describes the path followed by some of the ancient philosophers in search for profound esoteric knowledge, so often called the "initiation", as describing the process of becoming a mystic master or spiritual healer." Many notable and historical figures are constantly referred in the writings of Schuré, for instance, Rama, Hermes, Socrates, Jesus, Orpheus. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Bichat (excerpt)
Ernest Bichat, born September 17,1845 in Luneville, died in 1905 in Nancy, was a French physicist, teacher and researcher. ![]()
Biography of Russell Sage (excerpt)
Russell Sage (4 August 1816 - 22 July 1906) was a financier and politician from New York, United States. Sage was born at Verona in Oneida County, New York.He received a public school education and worked as a farm hand until he was 15, when he became an errand boy in a grocery conducted by his brother, Henry R.
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Biography of Charles Cros (excerpt)
Charles Cros (October 1, 1842 - August 9, 1888) was a French poet and inventor. He was born in Fabrezan, Aude, France. Cros was a well-regarded poet and humorous writer. He developed various improved methods of photography including an early color photo process. He also invented improvements in telegraph technology. |
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