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Horoscopes with Vulcanus in PiscesYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Vulcanus in Pisces. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Joseph Mery (excerpt)
Joseph Méry (21 January 1797 - 17 June 1866) was a French writer and journalist. Méry was born at Marseille. An ardent romanticist, he collaborated with Auguste Barthélemy in many of his satires and wrote a great number of stories, now forgotten. ![]()
Biography of Caroline of Brunswick (excerpt)
Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (Caroline Amelia Elizabeth; later Queen Caroline; 17 May 1768 – 7 August 1821) was the queen consort of George IV of the United Kingdom from 29 January 1820 to her death. Early life Caroline was born on 17 May 1768 at Brunswick (German:Braunschweig) in Germany, daughter of Karl William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Princess Augusta Frederika of Wales, eldest sister of George III. ![]()
Biography of Luigi Cherubini (excerpt)
Luigi Cherubini (September 8 or September 14, 1760 (birth time source: Barbault, E. Sanchez, BC)– March 15, 1842) was an Italian born composer who spent most of his working life in France. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. ![]()
Biography of Anthony Wayne (excerpt)
Anthony Wayne (January 1, 1745 – December 15, 1796) was a United States Army general and statesman. Wayne adopted a military career at the outset of the American Revolutionary War, where his military exploits and fiery personality quickly earned him a promotion to the rank of brigadier general and the sobriquet of "Mad Anthony". ![]()
Biography of John VI of Portugal (excerpt)
John VI, King of Portugal (13 May 1767 – 26 March 1826) KG KGF (Portuguese João, pron. IPA ), the Clement (Port. o Clemente), King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarves (later changing the title to just King of Portugal and Algarves, since Brazil was recognized independent in 1825) was born in Lisbon on 13 May 1767, and received the title of prince of Brazil in 1788. ![]()
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Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay, which provide habitat for much of its flora and fauna. ![]()
Biography of Junius Brutus Booth (excerpt)
Junius Brutus Booth (May 1, 1796–November 30, 1852) was an English actor. He was the father of John Wilkes Booth (the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln), Edwin Booth (an exceptional actor in his own right), and Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. ![]()
Biography of Robert Cross Smith (excerpt)
Robert Cross Smith, born March 19, 1795 in Bristol, died 26, February 1832 at 4:15 PM in London, was a British astrologer, better known as Raphael. He is often confused with Robert Thomas Cross, the second "Raphael". ![]()
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Manchester is a city in Hillsborough County in southern New Hampshire, United States. It is the most populous city in northern New England (the states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont). As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 115,644. ![]()
Biography of Robert Southey (excerpt)
Robert Southey (12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843. Although his fame tends to be eclipsed by that of his contemporaries and friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey's verse enjoys enduring popularity. ![]()
Biography of Thomas Love Peacock (excerpt)
Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 - 23 January 1866) was an English satirist and author. Peacock was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. He wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting — characters at a table discussing and criticizing the philosophical opinions of the day. ![]()
Biography of John C. Calhoun (excerpt)
John Caldwell Calhoun (pronounced /kælˈhuːn/; March 18, 1782 in Abbeville, South Carolina – March 31, 1850) was a leading politician and political theorist from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. A powerful intellect, Calhoun eloquently spoke out on every issue of his day, but often changed positions. ![]()
Biography of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (excerpt)
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (12 January 1746 – 17 February 1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach. He was born on 12 January 1746 in Zürich, Switzerland. His father died when he was young, and he was brought up by his mother. ![]()
Biography of Dietrich Tiedemann (excerpt)
Dietrich Tiedemann (April 3, 1748-1803) was a German philosopher who was a native of Bremervörde. He was a student at the University of Göttingen, and later a professor at Collegium Carolinum in Kassel (from 1776) and at the University of Marburg (from 1786).
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Biography of Christian VII of Denmark (excerpt)
Christian VII (Danish: Christian den Syvende 29 January 1749 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield) – 13 March 1808) was an Oldenburg monarch who ruled as King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig and Holstein from 1766 until his death. ![]()
Biography of Victor Cousin (excerpt)
Victor Cousin (28 November 1792 – 13 January 1867) was a French philosopher. Early life The son of a watchmaker, he was born in Paris, in the Quartier Saint-Antoine. At the age of ten he was sent to the local grammar school, the Lycée Charlemagne, where he studied until he was eighteen.
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Biography of Nicolas Changarnier (excerpt)
Nicolas Anne Theodule Changarnier (April 26, 1793 – February 14, 1877), French general, was born at Autun, Saône-et-Loire. Educated at St Cyr, he served for a short time in the bodyguard of Louis XVIII, and entered the line as a lieutenant in January 1815. ![]()
Biography of George Rogers Clark (excerpt)
George Rogers Clark (November 19, 1752 – February 13, 1818) was a soldier from Virginia and the highest ranking American military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War. He served as leader of the Kentucky (then part of Virginia) militia throughout much of the war. ![]()
Biography of Gaspare Spontini (excerpt)
Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (14 November 1774 – 24 January 1851) was an Italian opera composer and conductor. Born in Maiolati in the province of Ancona, now Maiolati Spontini, he spent most of his career in Paris and Berlin, but returned to his place of birth at the end of his life. ![]()
Biography of Christiane von Goethe (excerpt)
Christiane von Goethe, born Christiane Vilpius June 1, 1765 in Weimar, died June 6, 1816 in Weimar, was the mistress then then wife of Johann von Goethe. ![]()
Biography of Johann Elert Bode (excerpt)
Johann Elert Bode (January 19, 1747 – November 23, 1826) was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularization of the Titius-Bode law as well as his works to determine the orbit of Uranus, for which he also suggested the name. ![]()
Biography of Dorothy Wordsworth (excerpt)
Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth (December 25, 1771 – January 25, 1855) was an English author, poet and diarist. She was the sister of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and the two were close for all of their lives. Dorothy Wordsworth did not set out to be an author, and her writings comprise a series of letters, diary entries, and short stories. ![]()
Biography of Johann Gottfried Herder (excerpt)
Johann Gottfried von Herder (25 August 1744 – 18 December 1803) was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. He is associated with the periods of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism. Biography Born in Mohrungen (Morąg) in the Kingdom of Prussia, grew up in a poor household, educating himself from his father's Bible and songbook. ![]()
Biography of Louise de Mecklembourg-Strelitz (excerpt)
Luise Auguste Wilhelmine Amalie (Luisa Augusta Wilhelmina Amelia) (March 10, 1776 - July 19, 1810), Queen of Prussia, was born in Hanover, where her father, Karl of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, was field marshal of the household brigade. Her mother was princess Friederike Caroline Luise of Hesse-Darmstadt. ![]()
Biography of Robert Fulton (excerpt)
Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat, the North River Steamboat (also known as Clermont). In 1807, that steamboat traveled on the Hudson River with passengers from New York City to Albany and back again, a round trip of 300 miles (480 km), in 62 hours.
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Biography of Aimable Pelissier (excerpt)
Aimable Jean Jacques Pélissier, 1st Duc de Malakoff (November 6, 1794 - May 22, 1864), was a marshal of France. He was born at Maromme (Seine Inférieure), of a family of prosperous artisans, his father being employed in a powder-magazine. After attending the military college of La Flèche and the special school of St Cyr, he entered the army in 1815 as sub-lieutenant in an artillery regiment. ![]()
Biography of Joseph von Eichendorff (excerpt)
Joseph Karl Benedikt Freiherr von Eichendorff (March 10, 1788 – November 26, 1857) was a German poet and novelist. Life Eichendorff was born in Racibórz, Poland in 1788. His parents were the Prussian officer Adolf Freiherr von Eichendorff and his wife, Karoline Freiin von Kloche, who came from an aristocratic Roman Catholic family. ![]()
Biography of William Cullen Bryant (excerpt)
William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. Life Youth and education Bryant was born on November 3, 1794, in a log cabin near Cummington, Massachusetts; the home of his birth is today marked with a plaque.
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Biography of Anton Diabelli (excerpt)
Anton Diabelli (September 5, 1781 – April 7, 1858) was an Austrian music publisher, editor and composer. Best known in his time as a publisher, he is most familiar today as the composer of the waltz on which Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his set of thirty-three Diabelli Variations.
Biography of Richard James Morrison (excerpt)
Richard James Morrison (15 June 1795 – 5 April 1874) was an English astrologer, commonly known by his pseudonym Zadkiel. Morrison served in the Royal Navy, but resigned with the rank of lieutenant in 1829. He then devoted himself to the study of astrology, and in 1831 issued The Herald of Astrology, subsequently known as Zadkiel's Almanac. ![]()
Biography of Gouverneur Morris (excerpt)
Gouverneur Morris (January 30, 1752 – November 6, 1816) was an American statesman and a native of New York who represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He was also an author of large sections of the Constitution of the United States and one of its "signers". ![]()
Biography of William Bligh (excerpt)
Vice Admiral William Bligh FRS RN (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. A notorious mutiny occurred during his command of HMS Bounty in 1789; Bligh and his loyal men made a remarkable voyage to Timor, after being set adrift by the mutineers in the Bounty's launch. ![]()
Biography of Caroline Bonaparte (excerpt)
Maria Annunziata Carolina (Marie Annonciade Caroline) Murat (née Bonaparte) (25 March 1782 (birth time source: André Barbault, on his website) – 18 May 1839), better known as Caroline Bonaparte, was the seventh surviving child and third surviving daughter of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino, and a younger sister of Napoleon I of France. ![]()
Biography of Daniel Webster (excerpt)
Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 (source for his time of birth: Lescaut) – October 24, 1852) was a leading American statesman and senator from Massachusetts during the period leading up to the Civil War. He first rose to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests. ![]()
Biography of Thomas Taylor (excerpt)
Thomas Taylor (15 May 1758 - 1 November 1835) was an English translator and Neoplatonist, the first to translate into English the complete works of Aristotle and of Plato, as well as the Orphic fragments. Biography Born in London, Taylor was educated at St. ![]()
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Monterey (Spanish: Monterrey; Ohlone: Aacistak) is a city located in Monterey County on the southern edge of Monterey Bay on the U.S. state of California's Central Coast. Founded on June 3, 1770, it functioned as the capital of Alta California under both Spain (1804 to 1821) and Mexico (1822 to 1836). ![]()
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Portsmouth is an independent city in Virginia southwest and across the Elizabeth River from Norfolk. As of the 2010 census, the population was 95,535. It is part of the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. The Norfolk Naval Shipyard and Naval Medical Center Portsmouth are historic and active U. ![]()
Biography of Ludwig Tieck (excerpt)
Johann Ludwig Tieck (May 31, 1773 – April 28, 1853) was a German poet, translator, editor, novelist, and critic, who was part of the Romantic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Early life Tieck was born in Berlin, the son of a rope-maker. ![]()
Biography of Dominique Vandamme (excerpt)
General Dominique-Joseph René Vandamme (Cassel, 5 November 1770 - Cassel, 15 July 1830) was a French military officer, who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. He was a brutal and violent soldier, renowned for insubordination and looting. Napoleon once said to him, "If I had two of you, the only solution would be to have one hang the other. ![]()
Biography of Arnaud Berquin (excerpt)
Arnaud Berquin (25 September 1747 in Bordeaux — 21 December 1791 in Paris) was a French children's author and playwright. His most famous work was L'Ami des Enfans (1782-3) which was first translated into English, albeit bowdlerised, by Mary Stockdale and published in London in 1783-4 by Mary's father John Stockdale. ![]()
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The City of Hamilton, in Pembroke Parish, is the territorial capital of the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda. It is the territory's financial centre and a major port and tourist destination. Its population of 854 (2016) is one of the smallest of any capital city. ![]()
Biography of Henry John Temple (excerpt)
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865) was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. Popularly nicknamed "Pam", he was in government office almost continuously from 1807 until his death in 1865, beginning his parliamentary career as a Tory and concluding it as a Liberal. ![]()
Biography of Angelo Mai (excerpt)
Angelo Mai (March 7, 1782–September 8, 1854) was an Italian Cardinal and philologist. He won a European reputation for publishing for the first time a series of previously unknown ancient texts. These he was able to discover and publish, first while in charge of the Ambrosian library in Milan and then in the same role at the Vatican Library. ![]()
Biography of Roger B. Taney (excerpt)
Roger Brooke Taney (pronounced /ˈtɔːni/ TAW-nee; March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864. He was the first Roman Catholic to hold that office or sit on the Supreme Court of the United States. ![]()
Biography of Francois Joseph Talma (excerpt)
François Joseph Talma (January 15, 1763 - 1826) was a French actor. He was born in Paris. His father, a dentist, moved to London, gave him a good English education. He returned to Paris, where for a year and a half he practised dentistry. ![]()
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Harrisburg is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and the county seat of Dauphin County. With a population of 49,395, it is the 10th most populous city in the Commonwealth (or 13th most populous area if including townships and boroughs). ![]()
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Bennington is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, in the United States. It is one of two shire towns (county seats) of the county, the other being Manchester. The population is 15,764, as of the 2010 US Census. Bennington is the most populous town in southern Vermont, the third-largest town in Vermont (after Essex and Colchester) and the sixth-largest municipality in the state including the cities of Burlington, Rutland, and South Burlington. ![]()
Biography of James Stirling (Royal Navy officer) (excerpt)
Admiral Sir James Stirling RN (28 January 1791–23 April 1865) was a British marine officer and colonial administrator. He was the first Governor of Western Australia (1828–38) and on his own initiative signed Britain's first limited treaty with Japan in 1854. ![]()
Biography of Franz Grillparzer (excerpt)
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (15 January 1791 – 21 January 1872) was an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas. Early life Franz Grillparzer was born in Vienna, Austria. His father, E.J. Grillparzer, was a severe pedant and a staunch upholder of the liberal traditions of the reign of Joseph II, and was an advocate of some standing. ![]()
Biography of Achille Etna Michallon (excerpt)
Achille-Etna Michallon (October 22, 1796-1822) was a French painter, the son of French sculptor Claude Michallon (1751-1799). He won Prix de Rome in 1817. |
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