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Biography of Jules Ferry (excerpt)
Jules François Camille Ferry (April 5, 1832 – March 17, 1893) was a French statesman. Born in Saint-Dié, in the Vosges département, France, he studied law, and was called to the bar at Paris, but soon went into politics, contributing to various newspapers, particularly to Le Temps.
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Biography of Henry James (writer) (excerpt)
Henry James, O.M. (April 15, 1843(1843-04-15) – February 28, 1916), son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born British author. He is one of the founders and leaders of a school of realism in fiction; the fine art of his writing has led many academics to consider him the greatest master of the novel and novella form. ![]()
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Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish: República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It has a territorial extension of 916,445 km2 (353,841 sq mi), and the population of Venezuela was estimated at 28 million in 2019.
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Biography of Louis Braille (excerpt)
Louis Braille (January 4, 1809 – January 6, 1852) was the inventor of braille, a world-wide system used by blind and visually impaired people for reading and writing. Braille is read by passing the fingers over characters made up of an arrangement of one to six embossed points. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Labiche (excerpt)
Eugène Marin Labiche (May 6, 1815 - January 23, 1888), was a French dramatist. He was born into a bourgeois family. He read for the bar, but found literature more attractive, and he was barely twenty when he contributed to the Chérubin magazine a short story, entitled, in the cavalier style of the period, Les plus belles sont les plus fausses.
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Biography of Giuseppe Garibaldi (excerpt)
Giuseppe Garibaldi (July 4, 1807 – June 2, 1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento. He is considered the Italian national hero. He personally led many of the military campaigns that brought about the formation of a unified Italy.
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Biography of Jacques Offenbach (excerpt)
Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a French composer and cellist of the Romantic era with German-Jewish descent and one of the originators of the operetta form. He was one of the most influential composers of popular music in Europe in the 19th century, and many of his works remain in the repertory. ![]()
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Galveston is a coastal resort city and port off the Southeast Texas coast on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas. The community of 209.3 square miles (542 km2), with a population of 47,743 in 2010, is the county seat of surrounding Galveston County and second-largest municipality in the county.
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Biography of Abdul Hamid II (excerpt)
Abdülhamid II (Ottoman Turkish: عبد الحميد ثانی `Abdü’l-Ḥamīd-i sânî, Turkish: İkinci Abdülhamit) (September 21, 1842 – February 10, 1918) was the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire. He ruled from August 31, 1876 until he was deposed on April 27, 1909.
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Biography of Karl Benz (excerpt)
Karl Friedrich Benz, for whom an alternate French spelling of Carl is used occasionally, (November 25, 1844, Karlsruhe, Germany – April 4, 1929, Ladenburg, Germany) was a German engine designer and mechanical engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile.
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Biography of Baha'u'llah (Bahá'í Faith) (excerpt)
Bahá'u'lláh (ba-haa-ol-laa Arabic: بهاء الله "Glory of God") (November 12, 1817 (birth time source: Rudhyar from Bahai literature, "sunrise") - May 29, 1892), born Mírzá Ḥusayn-`Alí Nuri (Persian: میرزا حسینعلی نوری), was the founder of the Bahá'í Faith. He claimed to fulfill the Bábí prophecy of "He whom God shall make manifest", but in a broader sense he also claimed to be the "supreme Manifestation of God".
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Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne (excerpt)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. He was born as Nathaniel Hathorne in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. Later, he would change his name to "Hawthorne", adding a "w" to dissociate from relatives including John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Poubelle (excerpt)
Eugène Poubelle (April 15, 1831 Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - July 16, 1907) was a French lawyer, administrator and diplomat. ![]()
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Melbourne is the capital and most-populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania. Its name refers to an urban agglomeration of 9,993 km2 (3,858 sq mi), comprising a metropolitan area with 31 municipalities, and is also a common name for its city centre.
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Biography of Henri Rousseau (excerpt)
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (May 21, 1844 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – September 2, 1910) was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naive or Primitive manner. He is also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer) after his place of employment.
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Biography of Paul von Hindenburg (excerpt)
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, known universally as Paul von Hindenburg) (October 2, 1847 (birth time source: André Barbault, Sy Scholfield, birth certificate) – August 2, 1934) was a German field marshal and statesman. who commanded the Imperial German Army during the second half of World War I before later being elected President of the Weimar Republic in 1925.
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Biography of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (excerpt)
Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (27 January 1836 — 9 March 1895) was an Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown at his time for his stories of Galician life and romantic novels. The term masochism is derived from his name. During his life, Sacher-Masoch was well-known as a man of letters, who was seen by some as a potential successor to Goethe and was often compared to Turgenev. ![]()
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Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It occupies a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Chile covers an area of 756,096 square kilometres (291,930 sq mi) and has a population of 17. ![]()
Biography of François Delsarte (excerpt)
François Alexandre Nicolas Chéri Delsarte (November 19, 1811, Solesmes—July 20, 1871, Paris) was a French-American musician, born in Solesmes, France. He was a pupil of the Conservatoire, was for a time tenor singer in the Opéra Comique, composed a few melodies, and wrote several romances, but is chiefly known as a teacher in singing and declamation. ![]()
Biography of Porfirio Díaz (excerpt)
José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori (14 September 1830 – 2 July 1915) was a Mexican-American War volunteer, French Intervention hero, and President of Mexico. He ruled from 1876 to 1880 and from 1884 to 1911. Early years Porfirio Díaz was born September 14, 1830, in La Borcelana, Mexico.
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Biography of George Armstrong Custer (excerpt)
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. At the start of the Civil War, Custer was a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and his class's graduation was accelerated so that they could enter the war.
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Biography of Wilhelm Wundt (excerpt)
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (August 16, 1832 – August 31, 1920) was a German physiologist and psychologist. Generally acknowledged as a founder of experimental psychology and cognitive psychology, he is less commonly recognized as a founding figure of social psychology; the later years of Wundt's life were spent working on Völkerpsychologie, which he understood as a study into the social basis of higher mental functioning.
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Biography of Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé (excerpt)
Eugène-Melchior, vicomte de Vogüé (25 February 1848–29 March 1910) was a French diplomat, travel writer, archaeologist, philanthropist and literary critic. Born in Nice, France, he served in the Franco-Prussian War, and at the conclusion of the war entered the diplomatic service of the Third Republic, being appointed successively attaché to the legations in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt, then secretary to the embassy in Saint Petersburg.
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Biography of Modest Mussorgsky (excerpt)
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (Russian: Моде́ст Петро́вич Му́соргский, Modest Petrovič Musorgskij, French: Modeste Moussorgsky) (March 9/21, 1839 – March 16/28, 1881), one of the Russian composers known as the Five, was an innovator of Russian music. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.
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Biography of Buffalo Bill (excerpt)
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory (now the American state of Iowa), near Le Claire. He was one of the most colorful figures of the Old West, and mostly famous for the shows he organized with cowboy themes.
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Biography of Honoré Daumier (excerpt)
Honoré Daumier (February 26, 1808 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – February 10, 1879), was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, sculptor, and one of the most gifted and prolific draftsmen of his time. Early life Born in Marseille, Daumier showed in his youth an irresistible inclination towards the artistic profession, which his father vainly tried to check by placing him first with a huissier, and later, with a bookseller.
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Biography of Philip II of France (excerpt)
Philip II Augustus (French: Philippe Auguste) (21 August 1165 – 14 July 1223) was the King of France from 1180 until his death. A member of the House of Capet, Philip Augustus was born at Gonesse in the Val-d'Oise, the son of Louis VII and his third wife, Adela of Champagne.
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Biography of Gustave Moreau (excerpt)
Gustave Moreau (April 6, 1826 – April 18, 1898) was a French Symbolist painter. He was born and died in Paris. Moreau's main focus was the illustration of biblical and mythological figures. As a painter of literary ideas rather than visual images, he appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolist writers and artists, who saw him as a precursor to their movement. ![]()
Biography of Comtesse de Ségur (excerpt)
Sophie Feodorovna Rostopchine, Comtesse de Ségur (August 1, 1799, Saint Petersburg - February 9, 1874, Paris) was a French writer of Russian birth. She is most well-known today for her novel Les Malheurs de Sophie ("Sophie's Misfortunes"). Her family was originally from Mongolia.
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Biography of Alphonse Daudet (excerpt)
Alphonse Daudet (May 13, 1840 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – December 17, 1897) was a French novelist. He was the father of Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet. Early life Alphonse Daudet was born in Nîmes, France. His family, on both sides, belonged to the bourgeoisie. ![]()
Biography of Henryk Wieniawski (excerpt)
Henryk Wieniawski (; 10 July 1835 – 31 March 1880) was a Polish violinist and composer. Life Henryk Wieniawski was born in Lublin, Congress Poland. His father, Tobiasz Pietruszka (Wolf Helman), was the son of a Jewish barber named Herschel Meyer Helman, from the Jewish Lublin neighbourhood of Wieniawa, when barbers were also practising dentists, healers, and bloodletters.
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Biography of Comte de Lautréamont (excerpt)
Comte de Lautréamont (French IPA: ) was the pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (April 4, 1846 – November 24, 1870), a French poet whose only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence on modern literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists.
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Biography of Georges Eugène Haussmann (excerpt)
Georges-Eugène Haussmann (March 27, 1809 – January 11, 1891), who called himself Baron Haussmann, was a French civic planner whose name is associated with the rebuilding of Paris. He was born in Paris to a Protestant family from Alsace. Life The son of Nicolas Valentin Haussmann, a negociant, he was born in Paris and educated at the College Henri IV and subsequently studied law, attending simultaneously the classes at the Paris conservatory of music, for he was a good musician. ![]()
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Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. With more than six million residents, it is the 18th-most populous state of the country. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield and Columbia; the capital is Jefferson City. ![]()
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Like the rest of Central America, Costa Rica never fought for independence from Spain. On 15 September 1821, after the final Spanish defeat in the Mexican War of Independence (1810–21), the authorities in Guatemala declared the independence of all of Central America. ![]()
Biography of Marius Petipa (excerpt)
Marius Ivanovich Petipa (ru. Мариус Иванович Петипа) (born Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa on 11 March 1818 in Marseille, France - died in Gurzuf in the Crimea, Russian Empire, in what is today the Ukraine, on 14 July 1910) - was a ballet dancer, teacher, and choreographer. ![]()
Biography of Ludwik Mieroslawski (excerpt)
Ludwik Adam Mierosławski (January 17, 1814, Nemours, Seine-et-Marne - November 22, 1878) was a Polish general, writer, poet, historian and political activist. Took part in the November Uprising of 1830s, after its fall he emigrated to France, where he taught Slavic history and military theory.
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Biography of Père Joseph Damien (excerpt)
Father Damien, also Blessed Damien of Molokai and born Joseph de Veuster (January 3, 1840 – April 15, 1889), was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious order. ![]()
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Cleveland, officially the City of Cleveland, is a major city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. It is located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. maritime border with Canada and approximately 60 miles (100 kilometers) west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania state border.
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Biography of Bérenger Saunière (excerpt)
François Bérenger Saunière (April 11, 1852 - Januaray 22, 1917) was a priest in the French village of Rennes-le-Château, in the Aude region, officially from 1885 to 1909 (when he was transferred to another village by his bishop, that he declined and subsequently resigned) and after 1909, until his death in 1917, in the role of Free Priest (a priest working independently without a parish). ![]()
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Jersey City is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark. It is the seat of Hudson County as well as the county's largest city. The U.S. Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated that the city's population was 262,075 in 2019, ranking as the 80th-most-populous incorporated place in the nation.
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Biography of Juliette Drouet (excerpt)
Juliette Drouet, born Julienne Gauvain (Fougères, April 10, 1806 - Paris, 1883) was the mistress of Victor Hugo. Orphaned from her mother a few months after birth, and her father the following year, she was raised by her uncle, René Drouet. She was educated in Paris in a religious boarding school. ![]()
Biography of Jules Vallès (excerpt)
Jules Vallès (11 June 1832 – 14 February 1885) was a French journalist and author. Jules Vallès by Gustave CourbetVallès was born in Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire. His father was a supervisor of studies (pion), later a teacher, and not very faithful to Jules' mother.
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Biography of P. T. Barnum (excerpt)
Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, businessman, and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. His successes may have made him the first "show business" millionaire. ![]()
Biography of Victor Noir (excerpt)
Victor Noir, (July 30, 1848 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)– January 10, 1870), was a French journalist. Born Yvan Salmon at Attigny, Vosges, he went to Paris where he became a popular journalist for the newspaper "La Marseillaise" where he adopted the name Victor Noir as his pseudonym.
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Biography of George Eliot (excerpt)
Mary Ann (Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological perspicacity.
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Biography of Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (excerpt)
Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (November 2, 1808 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – April 23, 1889), was a French novelist and short story writer. He specialised in mystery tales that explored hidden motivation and hinted at evil without ever crossing the line into the supernatural.
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Biography of Mary Baker Eddy (excerpt)
Mary Baker Eddy (born Mary Morse Baker July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) founded the Church of Christ, Scientist in 1879 and was the author of its fundamental doctrinal textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. She took the name Mary Baker Glover from her first marriage and was also known as Mary Baker Glover Eddy or Mary Baker G. ![]()
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Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador (Spanish: República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: Ikwadur Ripuwlika; Shuar: Ekuatur Nunka), is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.
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Biography of Pope Leo XIII (excerpt)
Pope Leo XIII (March 2, 1810 (birth time source: birth certificate, Steinbrecher) — July 20, 1903), born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, was the head of the Catholic Church from 20 February 1878 to his death. He was the oldest pope (reigning until the age of 93), and had the third-longest confirmed pontificate, behind those of Pius IX (his immediate predecessor) and John Paul II. |
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