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Biography of David Livingstone (excerpt)
David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 4 May 1873) was a Scottish Presbyterian pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and explorer in central Africa. He was the first European to see Victoria Falls, which he named in honour of the reigning monarch.
Biography of Auguste Escoffier (excerpt)
Georges Auguste Escoffier (28 October 1846 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 12 February 1935) was a French chef, restaurateur and culinary writer who popularized and updated traditional French cooking methods. He is a near-legendary figure among chefs and gourmets, and was one of the most important leaders in the development of modern French cuisine.
Biography of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (excerpt)
Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy (Italian: Vittorio Emanuele II; March 14, 1820 – January 9, 1878) was the King of Piedmont, Savoy, and Sardinia from 1849 to 1861. On February 18, 1861, he assumed the title King of Italy to become the first king of a united Italy, a title he held until his death in 1878.
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Memphis is a city along the Mississippi River in southwestern Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. Its 2019 estimated population was 651,073, making it Tennessee's second-most populous city behind Nashville, the nation's 28th-largest, and the largest city proper situated along the Mississippi River.
Biography of Pedro II of Brazil (excerpt)
Pedro II, (December 2, 1825 – December 5, 1891) was the second and last Emperor of Brazil. His name in full was Pedro de Alcântara João Carlos Leopoldo Salvador Bibiano Francisco Xavier de Paula Leocádio Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga de Bragança e Habsburgo, By the Grace of God and Unanimous Acclamation of the People, Constitutional Emperor and Perpetual Defender of Brazil.
Biography of Mariano José de Larra (excerpt)
Mariano José de Larra (24 March 1809 - 13 February 1837) was a Spanish romanticist writer noted for satire and perhaps the best prose writer of 19th-century Spain. He was born in Madrid; his father served as a regimental doctor in the French army, and, as an afrancesado, was compelled to leave the Peninsula with his family in 1812.
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Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its northwest, Guinea to its north, Côte d'Ivoire to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean to its south-southwest. It has a population of around 5 million and covers an area of 111,369 square kilometers (43,000 sq mi).
Biography of Pierre Larousse (excerpt)
Pierre Athanase Larousse (October 23, 1817 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives) - January 3, 1875) was a French grammarian and lexicographer born in Toucy. At the age of sixteen he won a scholarship at the teaching school in Versailles. Four years later, he returned to Toucy to teach in a primary school, but became frustrated by the archaic and rigid teaching methods.
Biography of Louis Riel (excerpt)
Louis Riel (22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies. He led two resistance movements against the Canadian government and its first post-Confederation Prime Minister, Sir John A.
Biography of René Goblet (excerpt)
French politician, Prime Minister of France for a period in 1886-1887. He helped found a Liberal journal, Le Progrès de la Somme.
Biography of François Coppée (excerpt)
François Edouard Joachim Coppée (January 26, 1842 – May 23, 1908), was a French poet and novelist. He was born in Paris to a civil servant. After attending the Lycée Saint-Louis he became a clerk in the ministry of war, and won public favour as a poet of the Parnassian school.
Biography of Jules Méline (excerpt)
Félix Jules Méline (French pronunciation: ; 20 May 1838 – 21 December 1925) was a French statesman, prime minister from 1896 to 1898. Méline was born at Remiremont. Having taken up law as his profession, he was chosen a deputy in 1872, and in 1879 he was for a short time under-secretary to the minister of the interior.
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Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered by Tennessee to the north; Georgia to the east; Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south; and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area and the 24th-most populous of the U.
Biography of John, King of England (excerpt)
John (24 December 1167 (birth time source: Martin Harvey) – 19 October 1216) reigned as King of England from 6 April 1199, until his death. He succeeded to the throne as the younger brother of King Richard I (known in later times as "Richard the Lionheart").
Biography of Alexander Borodin (excerpt)
Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (Russian: Александр Порфирьевич Бородин, Aleksandr Porfir'evič Borodin) (31 October/12 November 1833 (birth time source: Penfield, conflicting sources) – 15 February/27 February 1887) was a Russian composer of Georgian parentage who made his living as a notable chemist. He was a member of the group of composers called The Five (or "The Mighty Handful"), who were dedicated to producing a specifically Russian kind of art music .
Biography of William Morris (excerpt)
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. Born at Walthamstow near London, Morris was educated at Oxford University, where he met his life-long friend and collaborator, the artist Edward Burne-Jones.
Biography of Joris-Karl Huysmans (excerpt)
Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (February 5, 1848 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – May 12, 1907) was a French novelist who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans; he is most famous for the novel À rebours (Against Nature). His style is remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, wide-ranging vocabulary, wealth of detailed and sensuous description, and biting, satirical wit.
Biography of Félix Tisserand (excerpt)
François Félix Tisserand (January 13, 1845 - October 20, 1896) was a French astronomer. Tisserand was born at Nuits-Saint-Georges, Côte d'Or. In 1863 he entered the Ecole Normale Superieure, and on leaving he went for a month as professor at the lycee at Metz.
Biography of William Crookes (excerpt)
Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS (17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919) was an English chemist and physicist. Sir William attended the Royal College of Chemistry, in London, and worked on spectroscopy. In 1861, Crookes discovered a previously unknown element with a bright green emission line in its spectrum and named the element thallium, from the Greek thallos, a green shoot.
Biography of Alfred Tennyson (excerpt)
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and remains one of the most popular English poets. Much of his verse was based on classical mythological themes, although In Memoriam was written to commemorate his best friend Arthur Hallam, a fellow poet and classmate at Trinity College, Cambridge, who was engaged to Tennyson's sister, but died from a cerebral hemorrhage before they were married.
Biography of Frédéric Mistral (excerpt)
Frédéric Mistral (September 8, 1830 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – March 25, 1914) was a French poet who led the 19th century revival of Occitan (Provençal) language and literature. He was a key figure in the literary félibrige movement. He shared the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 for his contributions in literature and philology.
Biography of Jean-Léon Gérôme (excerpt)
Jean-Léon Gérôme (May 11, 1824 – January 10, 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits and other subjects, bringing the Academic painting tradition to an artistic climax.
Biography of Christian Felix Klein (excerpt)
Felix Christian Klein (April 25, 1849 – June 22, 1925) was a German mathematician, known for his work in group theory, function theory, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the connections between geometry and group theory. His 1872 Erlangen Program, classifying geometries by their underlying symmetry groups, was a hugely influential synthesis of much of the mathematics of the day.
Biography of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (excerpt)
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, (14 December 1824 – 24 October 1898), was a French painter, who became the president and co-founder of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and whose work influenced many other artists. The Poor FishermanWikimedia Commons has media related to:
Biography of Ivan Turgenev (excerpt)
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Russian: Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́нев IPA: ) (November 9 1818 – September 3 1883) was a Russian novelist and playwright. His novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction. Life Turgenev was born into a wealthy landed family in Oryol, Russia, on October 28, 1818.
Biography of Marie-Azélie Guérin Martin (excerpt)
Blessed Marie-Azélie "Zélie" Martin née Guérin (23 December 1831 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 28 August 1877) was a French laywoman and the mother of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux. Her husband was Blessed Louis Martin. Life Early life Marie-Azélie Guérin was born in Saint-Denis-sur-Sarthon, Orne, France and was the second daughter of Isidore Guérin and Louise-Jeanne Macé.
Biography of Napoléon Reber (excerpt)
Napoléon Henri Reber (October 21, 1807, Mulhouse, Alsace – November 24, 1880, Paris) was a French composer. He studied with Anton Reicha and Jean François Lesueur, wrote chamber music, and set to music the new poems of the best French poets. He became professor of harmony at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1851 and succeeded Fromental Halévy as professor of composition in 1862, was inspector of the branch conservatories from 1871, and was elected to George Onslow's chair in the Academie Française in 1853.
Biography of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (excerpt)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (May 12, 1828 – April 09, 1882) was an English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator. Early life The son of émigré Italian scholar Gabriel Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti, D.G. Rossetti was born in London, England and originally named Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti.
Biography of Théophile Roussel (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Victor Théophile Roussel or Théophile Roussel, born July 28, 1816 in Albaret-Sainte-Marie, Lozère, died September 27, 1903 in Albaret-Sainte-Marie, Lozère, was a French psysician, author and politician.
Biography of Théodore Ballu (excerpt)
Théodore Ballu (born in Paris on 8 June 1817 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in Paris on 22 May 1885) was a French architect. He entered the École royale des beaux-arts de Paris in 1835 and was the pupil of Louis-Hippolyte Lebas.
Biography of Victoria Woodhull (excerpt)
Victoria Claflin Woodhull (September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927) was an American suffragist who was publicized in Gilded Age newspapers as a leader of the American woman's suffrage movement in the 19th century. She became a colorful and notorious symbol for women's rights, free love, and labor reforms.
Biography of Robert Koch (excerpt)
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (December 11, 1843 – May 27, 1910) was a German physician. He became famous for isolating Bacillus anthracis (1877), the tuberculosis bacillus (1882) and the vibrio cholera (1883) and for his development of Koch's postulates. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his tuberculosis findings in 1905.
Biography of Émile Erckmann (excerpt)
Émile Erckmann, born on May 21, 1822 (source: birth certificate)) in Phalsbourg (Meurthe, Moselle), died on March 14, 1899, was a French writer.
Biography of Mary Cassatt (excerpt)
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt (pronounced ca-SAHT) often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.
Biography of Jules Dupré (excerpt)
Jules Dupré (April 5, 1811 - October 6, 1889), French painter, was one of the chief members of the Barbizon school of landscape painters. If Corot stands for the lyric and Rousseau for the epic aspect of the poetry of nature, Dupré is the exponent of her tragic and dramatic aspects.
Biography of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (excerpt)
The Princess Alice (Alice Maud Mary; 25 April 1843 – 14 December 1878) was a member of the British Royal Family, the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria. As the consort of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse she was The Grand Duchess of Hesse.
Biography of Joseph Joffre (excerpt)
Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre (12 January 1852 - 3 January 1931) was a Catalan French general who was Commander-in-Chief of the French Army between 1914 and 1916 during the First World War. He is most known for regrouping the retreating allied armies to defeat the Germans at the strategically decisive First Battle of the Marne in 1914.
Biography of Francis Galton (excerpt)
Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. (February 16, 1822 – January 17, 1911), half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician. He was knighted in 1909. Galton had a prolific intellect, and produced over 340 papers and books throughout his lifetime.
Biography of Eugène Sue (excerpt)
Joseph Marie Eugène Sue (January 20, 1804 – August 3, 1857) was a French novelist He was born in Paris, the son of a distinguished surgeon in Napoleon's army, and is said to have had the Empress Joséphine for godmother. Sue himself acted as surgeon both in the Spanish campaign undertaken by France in 1823 and at the Battle of Navarino (1828).
Biography of Eugène Peugeot (excerpt)
Eugène Peugeot, born August 1, 1844 in Besançon, was a French industrialist and engineer, member of famous family Peugeot.
Biography of William Hamilton (excerpt)
Sir William Rowan Hamilton (August 4, 1805 – September 2, 1865) was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made important contributions to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra. His discovery of quaternions is perhaps his best known investigation. Hamilton's work was also significant in the later development of quantum mechanics.
Biography of John Ruskin (excerpt)
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic, sage writer, and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Ruskin's essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
Biography of Émile Faguet (excerpt)
Auguste Émile Faguet (French pronunciation: ; 17 December 1847, La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 7 June 1916, Paris) was a French author and literary critic. Faguet was born at La Roche-sur-Yon, and educated at the École normale supérieure in Paris.
Biography of Charles Goodyear (excerpt)
Charles Goodyear (December 29, 1800 – July 1, 1860) was the first American to vulcanize rubber, a process which he discovered in 1839 and patented on June 15, 1844. Although Goodyear is often credited with its invention, modern evidence has proven that the Mesoamericans used stabilized rubber for balls and other objects as early as 1600 BC.
Biography of René Caillié (excerpt)
Auguste René Caillié (19 November 1799 – 17 May 1838) was a French explorer and the first European to return alive from the town of Timbuktu. Caillié had been preceded at Timbuktu by a British officer, Major Gordon Laing, who was murdered in September 1826 on leaving the city.
Biography of Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre (excerpt)
Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre (26, March 1842 - 1909) was a French occultist who adapted the works of Fabre d'Olivet and, in turn, had his ideas adapted by Papus. He coined the term Synarchy - the association of everyone with everyone else.
Biography of Félicien Rops (excerpt)
Félicien Rops (July 7, 1833 - August 23, 1898) was a Belgian artist, and printmaker in etching and aquatint. Rops was born in Namur in 1833, and was educated at the University of Brussels. Rops's forte was drawing more than painting in oils; he first won fame as a caricaturist.
Biography of Rosa Bonheur (excerpt)
Rosa Bonheur, née Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, (b. Bordeaux, France, March 16, 1822 – d. Thomery (By), France, May 25, 1899) was a French animalière and realist artist. As a painter she became famous primarily for two chief works: Ploughing in the Nivernais (in French Le labourage nivernais, le sombrage ), which was first exhibited at the Salon of 1848, and is now in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris depicts a team of oxen ploughing a field while attended by peasants set against a vast pastoral landscape; and, The Horse Fair (in French Le marché aux chevaux ), which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 (finished in 1855) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City.
Biography of Raphaël VI (excerpt)
Raphaël VI or Robert C. Cross, born May 15, 1850, died in 1923, was a British astrologer, writer, and editor.
Biography of Léon Riesener (excerpt)
Léon Riesener, born Louis Antoine Léon Riesener January 21, 1808 in Paris, died May 25, 1878 in Paris, is a French romantic painter. |
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