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Horoscopes 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 Avery Brundage (excerpt)
Avery Brundage (September 28, 1887 – May 8, 1975) was the fifth president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), serving from 1952 to 1972. Born in Detroit and raised in Chicago, he overcame a difficult childhood to become a successful engineer and track star.
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Biography of Joan Salvat-Papasseit (excerpt)
Joan Salvat-Papasseit (Barcelona, 16 May 1894 – 7 August 1924) was a Catalan poet, although he also wrote articles, manifestos, and other prose on political and social issues. He primarily wrote in Catalan, although he had an early period of essay-writing in Spanish.
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Biography of Jan Greve (excerpt)
Jan Greve (20 March 1907 – 14 April 1996) was a Norwegian psychiatrist who is best known for having used cannabis and LSD to treat his patients. In 1972 he was sentenced to one year in prison, of which nine months was probation, and his medical licence was revoked for two years.
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Biography of Felix Schlag (excerpt)
Felix Oscar Schlag (September 4, 1891 – March 9, 1974) was a German born American sculptor who was the designer of the United States five cent coin in use from 1938 to 2004. He was born to Karl and Teresa Schlag in Frankfurt, Germany where as a young man, he served in the German army of World War I.
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Biography of André Auffray (excerpt)
André Auffray (born Alexandre Offray; 2 September 1884 – 3 November 1953) was a French racing cyclist. At the 1908 Olympics he won a gold medal in the tandem, together with Maurice Schilles, and a bronze in the 5000 m event; he also competed in the individual sprint and in the 1,980 yard team pursuit.
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Biography of Hugo Sinzheimer (excerpt)
Hugo Sinzheimer (12 April 1875 – 16 September 1945) was a German legal scholar and contributor to the Weimar Constitution, known as a leading proponent of social law. He specialized in labor law, publishing a significant work in 1907. As a member of the Weimar National Assembly, he greatly influenced the labor law section of the constitution, earning the title "father of labor law" in Germany.
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Biography of Artur Dinter (excerpt)
Artur Dinter (Mulhouse, June 27, 1876 – Offenburg, Baden, May 21, 1948) was a German writer, philosopher, and politician. Initially a proponent of scientism, he later became a propagandist for an Aryan Christianity (Geistchristentum), founding a new unitarian German church, the Deutsche Volkskirche.
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Biography of Ludwik Krzywicki (excerpt)
Ludwik Joachim Franciszek Krzywicki (1859-1941) was a Polish Marxist anthropologist, economist, and sociologist, and an early proponent of sociology in Poland. Born into an aristocratic family in Płock, he developed early interests in psychology, philosophy, and natural sciences, influenced by Darwin and others.
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Biography of Ray Corrigan (excerpt)
Ray "Crash" Corrigan (born Raymond Benitz; February 14, 1902 – August 10, 1976) was an American actor most famous for appearing in many B-Western movies (among these the Three Mesquiteers and Range Busters film series). He also was a stuntman and frequently acted as silver screen gorillas using his own gorilla costumes.
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Biography of Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (excerpt)
Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (February 2, 1903 - January 12, 1996) was a renowned Dutch mathematician and historian of mathematics. He studied advanced mathematics at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Göttingen, earning a Ph.D. in algebraic geometry. Influenced by Emmy Noether, he published the influential "Moderne Algebra" at 27.
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Biography of Fanny Moser (scientist) (excerpt)
Fanny Moser, also known as Fanny Hoppe-Moser, (27 May 1872 – 24 February 1953) was a Swiss-German zoologist. Her father Johan-Heinrich Moser was an engineer and built the Moser dam in Schaffhausen. In 1896 Fanny Moser became the first female student to register at the University of Freiburg, where she studied medicine.
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Biography of Dino Grandi (excerpt)
Dino Grandi, Count of Mordano (June 4, 1895 - May 21, 1988), was an Italian politician during the fascist era. Serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Justice, and ambassador to London, he was a key figure under Mussolini. From a Catholic family, Grandi co-founded the Fascist Party in Emilia-Romagna in 1919.
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Biography of Peter van de Kamp (excerpt)
Piet van de Kamp (December 26, 1901 – May 18, 1995), known as Peter van de Kamp in the United States, was a Dutch astronomer who lived in the United States most of his life. He was professor of astronomy at Swarthmore College and director of the college's Sproul Observatory from 1937 until 1972.
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Biography of Augusto Leguía (excerpt)
Augusto Bernardino Leguía y Salcedo, born on February 19, 1863, in Lambayeque and died on February 6, 1932, in Lima, was a Peruvian statesman who served as President of the Republic twice: from 1908 to 1912, and then from 1919 to 1930. ![]()
Biography of Tarjei Vesaas (excerpt)
Tarjei Vesaas (20 August 1897 - 15 March 1970) was a renowned Norwegian poet and novelist, considered one of Norway’s most significant 20th-century writers. Born in Vinje, Telemark, to farmer Olav Vesaas and teacher Signe Øygarden, he experienced guilt over not taking over the family farm, a theme reflected in his works.
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Biography of Paul Stroobant (excerpt)
Paul Stroobant, born in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium, in 1868 and passed away in the same town in 1936, was a Belgian astronomer with a doctorate in physical and mathematical sciences. The son of painter François Stroobant, he was passionate about astronomy from an early age and joined the Royal Observatory of Belgium in 1885.
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Biography of Otto Wagener (excerpt)
Otto Wilhelm Heinrich Wagener (29 April 1888 – 9 August 1971) was a German major general and, for a period, Adolf Hitler's economic advisor and confidant. Otto Wagener was a German industrialist's son and military officer. After serving in World War I, he became involved in Freikorps activities and later joined the Nazi Party and the Sturmabteilung (SA) in 1929.
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Biography of Adolphe Zimmern (excerpt)
Adolphe Zimmern, born on September 26, 1871, in Paris, and died on April 12, 1935, at the age of 63, was a French electro-radiologist. He was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris and the Director of the Medical Electrotherapy Institute of Paris.
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Biography of Madge Bellamy (excerpt)
Madge Bellamy (born Margaret Derden Philpott; June 30, 1899 – January 24, 1990) was an American stage and film actress. She was a popular leading lady in the 1920s and early 1930s. Bellamy’s career declined in the sound era and ended following a romantic scandal in the 1940s.
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Biography of Arthur Greiser (excerpt)
Arthur Karl Greiser (22 January 1897 – 21 July 1946) was a Nazi German politician, SS-Obergruppenführer, Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) of the German-occupied territory of Wartheland. He was one of the persons primarily responsible for organizing the Holocaust in occupied Poland and numerous other crimes against humanity.
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Biography of Félix d'Hérelle (excerpt)
Félix d'Hérelle (25 April 1873 – 22 February 1949) was a French microbiologist and co-discoverer of bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria). He experimented with phage therapy and contributed significantly to applied microbiology. Self-taught, d'Hérelle discovered in 1917 that an "invisible antagonist" (bacteriophage) could kill bacteria, which he confirmed through dilution experiments.
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Biography of Jan Tinbergen (excerpt)
Jan Tinbergen (12 April 1903 – 9 June 1994) was a Dutch economist who was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes.
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Biography of Siegfried Oberndorfer (excerpt)
Siegfried Oberndorfer, a Jewish-German physician and cancer researcher, was born on June 24, 1876, in Munich and passed away in 1944 in Istanbul. He studied medicine in Munich and Kiel, becoming a doctor in 1900. After working as a ship's doctor, where he halted a plague outbreak, he returned to Germany in 1902.
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Biography of Käthe Schirmacher (excerpt)
Käthe Schirmacher, born on August 6, 1865, in Danzig (now Gdańsk), was a German writer, journalist, and political activist, notable as a leading advocate for women's rights in the 1890s. The daughter of a wealthy merchant, Schirmacher lost her family fortune early and became one of the first German women to earn a doctorate in Romance studies.
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Biography of André Daven (excerpt)
André Daven (13 March 1899 - 17 November 1981) was a French film producer, actor and director. In the mid-1920s he was the artistic director of the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris when Josephine Baker was hired to appear there. During the German occupation of France during the Second World War he went to the United States where he produced four films.
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Biography of José Canalejas (excerpt)
José Canalejas Méndez, born on July 31, 1854, in Ferrol and died on November 12, 1912, in Madrid, was a Spanish lawyer and regenerationist statesman. His time of his birth comes from a biography that is no longer available online. He served as Minister of Public Works, Justice, Economy and Budget, and Agriculture, Industry, Commerce, and Public Works during the regency of Queen Maria Christina.
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Biography of Heinrich Ferdinand von Österreich-Toskana (excerpt)
Heinrich Ferdinand von Österreich-Toskana (13 February 1878 – 21 May 1969) was an Austrian Archduke from the Habsburg-Lothringen-Toskana line, a military officer, painter, and photographer. He served as an officer until the end of World War I, after which he retired to Salzburg to pursue his artistic interests.
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Biography of Stefan Wiechecki (excerpt)
Stefan Wiechecki, known by his pen name Wiech (10 August 1896 – 26 July 1979), was a Polish writer and journalist, best known for his humorous feuilletons that depicted the everyday life of Warsaw and highlighted the city's dialect. Born on 10 August 1896, he began as a court reporter in interwar Poland, capturing the unique personalities of Warsaw's poorer districts.
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Biography of Irène Bordoni (excerpt)
Irène Charlotte Bordoni, born on January 16, 1889 in Paris and died on March 19, 1953 in New York, was a French actress and singer. She began her career at the Variétés Theater in Paris, before emigrating to the United States in 1907.
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Biography of Louis de Vries (actor) (excerpt)
Louis de Vries, born Levi de Vries, (Amsterdam, October 18, 1871 - Nice, March 10, 1940) was a Dutch actor. De Vries came from a background of Jewish diamond workers. His parents were Samuel de Vries and Saartje Philip Peper, both of whom were deaf-mute.
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Biography of Hermann Abert (excerpt)
Hermann Abert (25 March 1871 – 13 August 1927) was a German historian of music. Life Abert was born in Stuttgart, the son of Johann Josef Abert (1832–1915), the Hofkapellmeister of that city. From 1890 to 1896 he studied classical philology at the Universities of Tübingen, Berlin and Leipzig. ![]()
Biography of Alejandro Freundt Rosell (excerpt)
Alejandro Freundt Rosell (Lima, February 22, 1895 - August 24, 1970) was a Peruvian magistrate, diplomat, university professor, and politician. He presided over the Superior Court of Piura and served as Minister of Justice and Worship under the government of Manuel Odría (1952-1955).
Biography of François Coulet (excerpt)
François Coulet, born on January 16, 1906, in Montpellier and died on June 11, 1984, in Paris at the age of 78, was a diplomat who joined General de Gaulle and the Free French Forces in June 1940. Appointed as the Commissioner of the Republic, he was stationed in Bayeux in June 1944.
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Biography of Francisco Vales Villamarín (excerpt)
Francisco Vales Villamarín (Betanzos, La Coruña, 7 May 1891 - id., 25 August 1982) was a Spanish historian and professor, serving as the perpetual secretary of the Real Academia Gallega and the official chronicler of Betanzos. He studied in Santiago de Compostela and became a teacher in La Coruña until his retirement in 1961.
Biography of Ricardo Flórez (painter) (excerpt)
Ricardo Flórez Gutiérrez de Quintanilla, born on May 7, 1893, in Lima, Peru, and died on October 20, 1983, in Tomayquichua, was a distinguished Peruvian painter. After studying at the National School of Fine Arts in Lima under Teófilo Castillo and Daniel Hernández, he began his career as a professor there.
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Biography of William Steinberg (excerpt)
William Steinberg (born Hans Wilhelm Steinberg) was a German conductor born on August 1, 1899, in Cologne and died on May 16, 1978, in New York. After studying under Hermann Abendroth, he became Otto Klemperer's assistant at the Cologne Opera in 1924.
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Biography of Gabriellino D'Annunzio (excerpt)
Gabriele Maria "Gabriellino" D'Annunzio (10 April 1886 – 8 December 1945) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He was the son of the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio. He adapted the 1921 film The Ship from a novel by his father.
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Biography of Nunzio Filogamo (excerpt)
Nunzio Filogamo (20 September 1902 – 24 January 2002) was an Italian television and radio presenter, actor and singer. Life and career Born in Palermo, Filogamo moved to Turin at a young age, then he studied law at the Sorbonne University and at the Turin University, where he graduated.
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Biography of Gustav Landauer (excerpt)
Gustav Landauer (7 April 1870 – 2 May 1919) was one of the leading theorists on anarchism in Germany at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. He was an advocate of social anarchism. As an avowed pacifist, Landauer advocated the principle of "non-violent non-cooperation" in the tradition of Étienne de La Boétie and Leo Tolstoy.
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Biography of William Randolph Hearst Jr. (excerpt)
William Randolph Hearst Jr. (January 27, 1908 – May 14, 1993) was an American businessman, newspaper publisher and member of the wealthy Hearst family. He was the second son of the publisher William Randolph Hearst. He became editor-in-chief of Hearst Newspapers after the death of his father in 1951.
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Biography of Józef Retinger (excerpt)
Józef Hieronim Retinger (April 17, 1888 – June 12, 1960) was a Polish politician, scholar, and international political activist. A brilliant student in Paris and London, he befriended Joseph Conrad. During World War I, he actively supported Polish independence in Austria-Hungary and Russia.
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Biography of Henri Lafont (excerpt)
Henri Chamberlin, known as Henri Lafont, born in the 13th arrondissement of Paris on April 22, 1902, and executed by firing squad at Fort de Montrouge in Arcueil on December 26, 1944, was a career criminal and a French collaborator who, during World War II, served as the head of the French Gestapo (the "Carlingue") under German occupation.
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Biography of Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa (excerpt)
Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa (16 December 1875, British Ceylon – 18 June 1953, United States) was a Ceylonese author, occultist, freemason and theosophist. The fourth president of the Theosophical Society, Jinarajadasa was one of the world's foremost Theosophical authors, having published more than 50 books and more than 1600 articles in periodicals during his life.
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Biography of Maurice Ewing (excerpt)
William Maurice "Doc" Ewing (May 12, 1906 – May 4, 1974) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer. Ewing has been described as a pioneering geophysicist who worked on the research of seismic reflection and refraction in ocean basins, ocean bottom photography, submarine sound transmission (including the SOFAR channel), deep sea core samples of the ocean bottom, theory and observation of earthquake surface waves, fluidity of the Earth's core, generation and propagation of microseisms, submarine explosion seismology, marine gravity surveys, bathymetry and sedimentation, natural radioactivity of ocean waters and sediments, study of abyssal plains and submarine canyons.
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Biography of Pilar de Zubiaurre (excerpt)
Pilar de Zubiaurre (Garai, Basque Country (Spain), July 24, 1884 – Mexico City, Mexico, June 24, 1970) was a Basque intellectual, writer, pianist, and art dealer and manager who lived in exile in Mexico for more than thirty years as a consequence of the Spanish Civil War.
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Biography of Francesco Camusso (excerpt)
Francesco Camusso (9 March 1908 – 23 June 1995) was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. His time of birth comes from him. Camusso was born in Cumiana, Piedmont, and is ranked among the best Italian climbers ever. In his second year as professional, he won the 1931 Giro d'Italia.
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Biography of Carmen Montoriol (excerpt)
Carme Monturiol i Puig (25 June 1892 – 26 July 1966) was a Spanish writer, translator, storyteller, poet, and playwright from Barcelona. Born into a bourgeois family with intellectual and artistic influences, she grew up with a fascination for theater and music, becoming a concert pianist at 20.
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Biography of Ernst David Bergmann (excerpt)
Ernst David Bergmann (October 18, 1903 – April 6, 1975) was an Israeli nuclear scientist and chemist, often considered the father of the Israeli nuclear program. Born in Germany, he studied chemistry at the University of Berlin and earned his Ph.D. in 1927.
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Biography of Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1895) (excerpt)
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (11 March 1895 – 16 November 1903) was the only daughter of Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Named after her great-grandmother, she was nicknamed "Ella." Her life was tragically cut short at the age of eight, during a stay with her aunt, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.
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Biography of Pierre-Louis Flouquet (excerpt)
Pierre-Louis Flouquet, born in the 6th arrondissement of Paris on February 21, 1900, and died in Dilbeek on October 25, 1967, was a Belgian abstract painter and poet. Settled in Brussels from 1910, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts during World War I. |
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