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birth charts with Vulcanus in TaurusYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Vulcanus in Taurus. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt IV (excerpt)
Cornelius Vanderbilt IV (April 30, 1898 – July 7, 1974) was a newspaper publisher, journalist, author, and military officer. He was an outcast of high society, and was disinherited by his parents when he became a newspaper publisher. He desired to live a "normal" life but was burdened by large debt and could not maintain the lifestyle associated with his family's social position to which he had become accustomed.
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Biography of Mathilde Kschessinska (excerpt)
Mathilde-Marie Feliksovna Kschessinska (Polish: Matylda Maria Krzesińska; Russian: Матильда Феликсовна Кшесинская; 31 August (O.S. 19 August) 1872 in Ligovo – 6 December 1971 in Paris; also known as Princess Romanovskaya-Krasinskaya after her marriage) was a Polish/Russian ballerina from the noble family Krzesiński.
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Biography of André Heuzé (excerpt)
André Heuzé, or sometimes André Heuse, (5 December 1880, in Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines –16 August 1942 in Paris) was a French movie director, screenwriter and playwright. Selected filmography Actor 1923 : La Rue du pavé d'amour by André Hugon 1928 : Little Devil May Care as André Bucaille
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Biography of Yvonne Pouzin (excerpt)
Yvonne Pouzin (28 April 1884 – 15 April 1947) was a female doctor and French phthisiatrist. She is known for having been the first female praticien hospitalier in France. In 1923 she married the writer Joseph Malègue whose career she actively supported.
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Biography of Teresa Noce (excerpt)
Teresa Noce (29 July 1900 – 22 January 1980) was an Italian labor leader, activist, journalist and feminist.She served as a parliamentary deputy and advocated broad social legislation benefiting mothers. Teresa Noce was born in Turin, Italy on 29 July 1900 to an unmarried, working-class mother.
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Biography of Vittorio Pozzo (excerpt)
ttorio Pozzo (2 March 1886 in Rome (Wikipedia says Turin) – 21 December 1968 in Turin) was an Italian football player, manager and journalist. The creator of the Metodo tactical formation, Pozzo is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time, and is the only manager to guide a national team to two FIFA World Cup titles as coach, leading the Italy national team to victory in the 1934 and 1938 FIFA World Cups.
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Biography of Dorothea Klumpke (excerpt)
Dorothea Klumpke Roberts (August 9, 1861 in San Francisco – October 5, 1942 in San Francisco) was an American astronomer. She was Director of the Bureau of Measurements at the Paris Observatory and was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.
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Biography of Kate Jordan (excerpt)
Kate Jordan (23 December 1862 – 20 June 1926) was an Irish-American novelist and playwright. Early life and education Kate Jordan was born in Dublin on 23 December 1862.She was the daughter of the academic, Michael James Jordan, and Catherine Jordan (née Mulvey). ![]()
Biography of Alice Duer Miller (excerpt)
Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 – August 22, 1942) was an American writer whose poetry actively influenced political opinion.Her feminist verses influenced political opinion during the American suffrage movement, and her verse novel The White Cliffs influenced political thought during the U.S.'s entry into World War II.
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Biography of Marthe Niel (excerpt)
Marthe Niel (29 December 1878 – 18 November 1928) was a French aviator, becoming the second woman in the world to earn an aeroplane pilot's licence on 19 September 1910. Early life Niel was born Marie-Ange Denieul in Le Cannée, a hamlet in the commune of Paimpont, Ille-et-Vilaine.
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Biography of Félix Decori (excerpt)
Felix Decori, born on March 1, 1860, in Paris and died of a heart attack at the Élysée Palace on October 18, 1915, was a French lawyer and politician. Politics and the Élysée A friend of Raymond Poincaré, he appointed Decori at the very beginning of the war as the civil Secretary-General of the Presidency of the Republic, where he dealt with political and diplomatic matters.
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Biography of Grace Vanderbilt Stevens (excerpt)
Grace Vanderbilt Stevens is an American heiress, born as the sole daughter of Cornelius "Neily" Vanderbilt III (1873–1942) and Grace Graham Wilson Vanderbilt (1870-1953). Her only sibling was an elder brother, Cornelius Vanderbilt IV (1898–1974), who went through seven marriages but did not have any children.
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Biography of James Whale (excerpt)
James Whale (22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957) was an English film director, theatre director, and actor who spent most of his career in Hollywood. He is best known for his horror classics: "Frankenstein" (1931), "The Old Dark House" (1932), "The Invisible Man" (1933), and "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935).
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Biography of Gabriele Münter (excerpt)
Gabriele Helene Henriette Münter (born February 19, 1877, in Berlin, died May 19, 1962, in Murnau am Staffelsee) was a German painter. Alongside Paula Modersohn-Becker, she is considered one of the most renowned representatives of Expressionism in Germany. Additionally, she created an extensive body of drawings, took photographs, and worked in the field of printmaking.
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Biography of Maria Vetulani de Nisau (excerpt)
Maria de Nisau née Vetulani (27 November 1898 – 2 September 1944) was a Polish woman soldier, combatant for Poland's independence, and participant in the Polish-Ukrainian War and World War II. She was the daughter of an engineer, Franciszek Vetulani (1856−1921), and Katarzyna Ipohorska-Lenkiewicz (1868−1915).
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Biography of Maria Dimadi (excerpt)
Maria Dimadi (Greek: Μαρία Δημάδη; 7 May 1907 – 31 August 1944) was a member of the National Liberation Front (EAM) during the Axis occupation of Greece.She acted as a spy for the resistance at the German garrison of Agrinio, providing crucial information on German maneuvers and undermining the Axis war effort.
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Biography of Max Koegel (excerpt)
Otto Max Koegel (16 October 1895 – 27 June 1946) was a Nazi officer who served as a commander at Lichtenburg, Ravensbrück, Majdanek and Flossenbürg concentration camps. In 1946 he was arrested for his role in The Holocaust, but hanged himself in prison before he could stand trial.
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Biography of Ethel Ayres Purdie (excerpt)
Ethel Ayres Purdie (née Ayres) (2 October 1874 – 26 March 1923) was a chartered accountant and suffragist. She specialised in counselling women and women's suffragist organisations. She was active in the Women's Tax Resistance League which argued that no vote meant no tax. ![]()
Biography of Soong Mei-ling (excerpt)
Soong Mei-ling (also spelled Soong May-ling; March 5, 1898 – October 23, 2003), also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Chinese: 蔣介石夫人) or Madame Chiang (Chinese: 蔣夫人), was a Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China, the wife of President Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China.
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Biography of Consuelo Zavala (excerpt)
Consuelo Zavala Castillo (1874-1956) was a Mexican feminist, teacher, and founder of one of the first secular private schools in Mérida, Mexico. She is credited with establishing the first kindergarten to utilize the Froebel method in Mérida. She was the organizer of the First Feminist Congress in Mexico, authorized by state governor Salvador Alvarado.
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Biography of Georgette Vallejo (excerpt)
Georgette Marie Philippart Travers (Paris, 7 January 1908 – Lima, 1984), French writer and poet. She was the wife of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo of international fame, considered by Mario Benedetti to be a "human paradigm", while the American poet-monk Thomas Merton points out that "the project for the translation of his poetry is of an urgent and enormous importance for the entire human race."
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Biography of Carl Oberg (excerpt)
Carl Albrecht Oberg (27 January 1897 – 3 June 1965) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era.He served as Senior SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) in occupied France, from May 1942 to November 1944, during the Second World War, Oberg came to be known as the Butcher of Paris.
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Biography of Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke (excerpt)
Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke (15 October 1859 – 5 November 1927) was an American-born French medical doctor known for her work in neuroanatomy.She was the first female intern to work in a hospital in Paris. From a young age, Klumpke's family was supportive of her medical ambitions, going as far as to move to Paris so she and her sisters Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, Julia Klumpke, and Dorothea Klumpke could follow their pursuits.
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Biography of Andrejs Upits (excerpt)
Andrejs Upīts (4 December 1877, Skrīveri parish, Russian Empire – 17 November 1970, Riga, Latvian SSR) was a Latvian teacher, poet, short story writer. Career and literary activity Andrejs Upīts, while writing for the newspaper "Mājas viesis" under the pseudonym Andrei Araji in 1892, published his first articles, Parunas, Skrīveros uzrakstītas (Recorded Proverbs of Skrīveri) (No.
Biography of Jean Bouyssonie (excerpt)
Canon Jean Bouyssonie, born August 31, 1877 in Brive-la-Gaillarde in the department of Corrèze in France and died August 13, 1965 in the same city, is a French Catholic priest, canon and prehistorian who became interested in the remains. of the departments of Lot and Corrèze.
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Biography of Marie Ventura (excerpt)
Marie Ventura (born Aristida Maria Ventura 14 July 1888 - 3 December 1954) was a Romanian-French actress and theatre director. From 1919 to 1941 she worked at the Comédie-Française. In 1938, she directed Iphigénie by Racine, becoming the first women to direct a play at the Comédie-Française.
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Biography of Maisie Renault (excerpt)
Maisie Renault (13 December 1907 – 7 April 2003) was a French Resistance fighter, a member of the Confrérie Notre-Dame network, she was arrested in 1942 and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1944. Awards Renault received the Legion of Honor, the Croix de Guerre and the Resistance medal.
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Biography of Alfred Machin (excerpt)
Alfred Machin (20 April 1877 – 16 June 1929) was a French actor and film director.He is remembered to have been one of the few French film directors whose films expressed progressive tendencies before World War I.He was also a pioneer of aerial filming.
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Biography of Marie de Régnier (excerpt)
Marie de Régnier (French: ; 20 December 1875 – 6 February 1963), also known by her maiden name Marie de Heredia or her pen-name Gérard d'Houville, was a French novelist and poet, and closely involved in the artistic circles of early twentieth-century Paris.
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Biography of Julien Blanc (writer) (excerpt)
Julien Blanc is a French writer born on April 11, 1908, in Paris and died on July 16, 1951, in the same city. Orphaned at a young age, he was raised in various juvenile institutions and led a tumultuous youth marked by instability and delinquency.
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Biography of Corinne Griffith (excerpt)
Corinne Griffith, born Griffin, was an American film actress, producer, author, and businesswoman, known as "The Orchid Lady of the Screen." A leading beauty of the silent film era, she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role in "The Divine Lady" (1929).
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Biography of Karl Wolff (excerpt)
Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff (13 May 1900 – 17 July 1984) was a German SS functionary who served as Chief of Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS (Heinrich Himmler) and an SS liaison to Adolf Hitler during World War II. He ended the war as the Supreme SS and Police Leader in occupied Italy and helped arrange for the early surrender of Axis forces in that theatre, effectively ending the war there several days sooner than in the rest of Europe.
Biography of Georges Baptizet (excerpt)
Georges Baptizet, born April 10, 1908 in Moussey and died May 9, 1974 in Besançon, was a French aviator, fighter pilot and patrol leader.
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Biography of Anna Brigadere (excerpt)
Anna Brigadere (October 1, 1861 (Gregorian calendar) in Tērvete – June 25, 1933 in Tērvete) was a writer, playwright and poet from Latvia. Her first story was published in 1896.In 1897, she turned her focus exclusively to literary work, and her first book Vecā Karlīne/Old Karlīna was published.
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Biography of Ariadna Scriabina (excerpt)
Ariadna Aleksandrovna Scriabina (Russian: Ариадна Александровна Скрябина; also Sarah Knut, née Ariadna Alexandrovna Schletzer, pseudonym Régine; 26 October 1905 – 22 July 1944) was a Russian poet and activist of the French Resistance, who co-founded the Zionist resistance group Armée Juive.
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Biography of Berthe Weill (excerpt)
Berthe Weill (Paris 1865 – 1951): 11 was a French art dealer who played a vital role in the creation of the market for twentieth-century art with the manifestation of the Parisian Avant-Garde. Although she is much less known than her well-established competitors like Ambroise Vollard, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and Paul Rosenberg, she may be credited with producing the first sales in Paris for Pablo Picasso: 26 and Henri Matisse: 26 and with providing Amedeo Modigliani with the only solo exhibition in his lifetime (see poster advertising the exhibition).
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Biography of Amado Nervo (excerpt)
Amado Nervo (August 27, 1870 – May 24, 1919) also known as Juan Crisóstomo Ruiz de Nervo, was a Mexican poet, journalist and educator.He also acted as Mexican Ambassador to Argentina and Uruguay. His poetry was known for its use of metaphor and reference to mysticism, presenting both love and religion, as well as Christianity and Hinduism.
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Biography of Lillian Hellman (excerpt)
Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, prose writer, memoirist and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway, as well as her communist sympathies and political activism.She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–1952.
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Biography of Helena Grossówna (excerpt)
Helena Grossówna (25 November 1904, Thorn, German Empire – 1 July 1994, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish actress and dancer, who starred in several popular Polish films during the interwar period.She worked as a waitress during the German occupation of Poland, and at the same time, she served as an officer (lieutenant) in the Polish underground.
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Biography of Margaret Deland (excerpt)
Margaret Deland (born Margaretta Wade Campbell; February 23, 1857 – January 13, 1945) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She also wrote an autobiography in two volumes. She generally is considered part of the literary realism movement. Critical response
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Biography of Hilde Radusch (excerpt)
Hilde Radusch (6 November 1903 – 2 August 1994) was a German political activist (KPD, SPD) who became involved in anti-fascist resistance.As the 20th century progressed, she became increasingly prominent as a feminist and lesbian activist. Throughout her life Radusch kept a diary.
Biography of Roger Mompezat (excerpt)
Roger Georges Mompezat was born in Bordeaux on April 3, 1899 and died on March 21, 1958 in Toulouse. With Henri Sevenet, member of S.O.E (F), he founded the Corps franc de la Montagne Noire. From the start of the war, he took an active part in the Resistance and was a member of several resistance networks.
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Biography of B. H. Liddell Hart Liddell Hart (excerpt)
Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (31 October 1895 – 29 January 1970), commonly known throughout most of his career as Captain B.H.Liddell Hart, was a British soldier, military historian, and military theorist.He wrote a series of military histories that proved influential among strategists.
Biography of Juvencio Valle (excerpt)
Juvencio Valle, also known by the pseudonym Gilberto Concha Riffo (November 6, 1900 – February 12, 1999), was a noted Chilean poet. He is a recipient of the Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile, a National Prize awarded to poets of high reputation.
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Biography of Hoyt Vandenberg (excerpt)
Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg (January 24, 1899 – April 2, 1954) was a United States Air Force general.He served as the second Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and the second Director of Central Intelligence. During World War II, Vandenberg was the commanding general of the Ninth Air Force, a tactical air force in England and in France, supporting the Army, from August 1944 until V-E Day.
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Biography of Suzanne Grinberg (excerpt)
Suzanne Grinberg ( 25 January 1888 - 5 July 1972) was a pioneering French lawyer, feminist and pacifist. She was one of the women who participated in the Inter-Allied Women's Conference which opened in Paris in February 1919. In 1920, she was vice-president of the Association du Jeune Barreau and secretary of the central committee of the French Union for Women's Suffrage.
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Biography of Max Born (excerpt)
Max Born (December 11, 1882 in Breslau, German Empire (now Wrocław) – January 5, 1970 in Göttingen, West Germany) was a German physicist and mathematician. A remarkable theoretical physicist, he is best known for his major contribution to quantum physics. He was the first to interpret the square of the modulus of the wave function as the probability density of presence.
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Biography of Martha Sharp (excerpt)
Martha Ingham Dickie Sharp Cogan (April 25, 1905 – December 6, 1999) was an American Unitarian who was involved in humanitarian and social justice work with her first husband, a Unitarian minister, Waitstill Sharp, and others of her denomination, and so helped hundreds of Jews to escape Nazi persecution, through relocation and other efforts.
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Biography of Otto Nagel (excerpt)
Otto Nagel (27 September 1894 – 12 July 1967) was a German painter, graphic designer and long-time head of the Berlin Academy of Arts who was one of the most prolific artists of East Germany. Life Born at Berlin-Wedding, Nagel was the son of a carpenter and social democrat.
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Biography of Titta Ruffo (excerpt)
Titta Ruffo (9 June 1877 – 5 July 1953), born as Ruffo Cafiero (double forename) Titta, was an Italian operatic baritone who had a major international singing career. Known as the "Voce del leone" ("voice of the lion"), he was greatly admired, even by rival baritones, such as Giuseppe De Luca, who said of Ruffo: "His was not a voice, it was a miracle" (although not often published is the second part of De Luca's conclusion "which he (Ruffo) bawled away..."), and Victor Maurel, the creator of Verdi's Iago and Falstaff. |
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