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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 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 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 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.
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 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 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 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 Vicente Segura (excerpt)
General Vicente Segura Martínez was a Mexican military officer and bullfighter who participated in the Mexican Revolution.Born in Pachuca, Hidalgo, on December 12, 1883, he inherited a large fortune and built a bullring in his hometown. On January 27, 1907, he received his bullfighting alternative from Antonio Fuentes Zurita, with Ricardo Torres Reina "Bombita" as witness. ![]()
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).
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Biography of Maximilian Bircher-Benner (excerpt)
Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner (22 August 1867 – 24 January 1939), was a Swiss physician, significantly influenced nutrition science by promoting raw food vegetarianism and muesli.His time of birth comes from his niece. After experiencing health benefits from eating raw apples during a bout of jaundice, he conducted further experiments with raw foods, ultimately advocating for their nutritional superiority.
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Biography of Antoni Kuzniarski (excerpt)
Antoni Kuźniarski (born May 10, 1868, in Latowicz, died December 26, 1945, there) was a Polish social activist, bibliophile, librarian, carpenter by profession, smallholder farmer, co-founder and treasurer of the Consumers' Cooperative, co-founder of the Volunteer Fire Department in Latowicz, member of the Church Building Committee in Latowicz from 1899 to 1911, and founder of the first library in the Latowicz municipality.
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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 Jo Spier (excerpt)
Joseph Eduard Adolf Spier (26 June 1900 – 21 May 1978) was a popular Dutch artist and illustrator. Born in Zutphen, he worked for De Telegraaf from 1924 to 1939, creating humorous illustrations about daily life. During World War II, he was arrested for satirical depictions of Hitler and interned at Westerbork, then Theresienstadt with his family.
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Biography of Jürgen Fehling (excerpt)
Jürgen Karl Geibel Fehling (born March 1, 1885, in Lübeck; died June 14, 1968, in Hamburg) was a German theater director and actor. Coming from a prestigious family in Lübeck, he initially studied theology and law before turning to theater in 1909.
Biography of Sandie Lindsay (excerpt)
Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, born on May 14, 1879, in Glasgow, died on March 18, 1952, was a distinguished Scottish academic and peer. Starting his career as a fellow in moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, Lindsay also worked at the University of Manchester before joining Balliol College, Oxford, where he became master.
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Biography of Georges Victor-Hugo (excerpt)
Georges Victor-Hugo, born Georges Charles Victor Léopold Hugo on August 16, 1868, in Brussels, was a French painter and skipper who died on February 5, 1925, in Paris. The son of Charles Hugo and grandson of Victor Hugo, he was raised by his grandfather after his father's death when he was 3 years old.
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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 Leopoldo Méndez (excerpt)
Leopoldo Méndez (June 30, 1902 – February 8, 1969) was one of Mexico's most important graphic artists and one of that country's most important artists from the 20th century. Méndez's work mostly focused on engraving for illustrations and other print work generally connected to his political and social activism.
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Biography of Lucía Sánchez Saornil (excerpt)
Lucía Sánchez Saornil (13 December 1895 – 2 June 1970), was a Spanish poet and anarcha-feminist activist, best known for co-founding the Mujeres Libres organisation together with Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón. Born into a working-class Madrilenian family, she taught herself from an early age and began writing poems for the burgeoning Futurist and Ultraist movements.
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Biography of Juan Negrín (excerpt)
Juan Negrín López (3 February 1892 – 12 November 1956) was a Spanish physician and politician who served as prime minister of the Second Spanish Republic.He was a leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Spanish: Partido Socialista Obrero Español, PSOE) and of the left-leaning Popular Front government during the Spanish Civil War.
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Biography of Arnold Zadikow (excerpt)
Arnold Zadikow (27 March 1884, Kolberg – 8 March 1943, Theresienstadt ghetto) was a German-Jewish modernist sculptor and medalist. A student of Heinrich Waderé, he created portrait busts, gravestones, and plaques, often using biblical themes. His major work, a statue of David, was displayed at the Berlin Jewish Museum in 1933 but was lost during World War II.
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Biography of Katherine Anne Porter (excerpt)
Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in America that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim.
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Biography of Jan Zabinski (excerpt)
Jan Żabiński (8 April 1897 – 26 July 1974) and his wife Antonina Żabińska (née Erdman) (1908–1971) were a Polish couple from Warsaw, recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations for their heroic rescue of Jews during the Holocaust in Poland.
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Biography of Herbert Weichmann (excerpt)
Herbert Weichmann (born February 23, 1896, in Landsberg, Silesia, now Gorzów Śląski, Poland, and died October 9, 1983, in Hamburg) was a German lawyer and politician from the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as the First Mayor of Hamburg from 1965 to 1971 and as President of the Bundesrat from 1968 to 1969.
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Biography of Hedwig Bleibtreu (excerpt)
Hedwig Bleibtreu (23 December 1868 – 24 January 1958) was an Austrian film actress. She appeared in more than thirty films from 1919 to 1952.Bleibtreu is perhaps best known to international audiences as Alida Valli's furious landlady in The Third Man (1949). ![]()
Biography of Adolf Hölzel (excerpt)
Adolf Richard Hölzel (13 May 1853 – 17 October 1934) was a German painter known for transitioning from Realism to Modern styles, including Abstractionism.Born in Olmütz, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and Munich. Hölzel co-founded the Dachauer Malschule, influencing European art students with his novel teaching methods.
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Biography of Friedrich Fichter (excerpt)
Friedrich Fichter (6 July 1869 – 1952) was a professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Basel.His main field of interest was electrochemistry.He initiated the founding of the scientific journal Helvetica Chimica Acta. Life Fichter was born on the July 6th, 1869 and attended the University of Basel from 1888 to 1890 and then the University of Strasbourg.
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Biography of Emmanuel Leclainche (excerpt)
Auguste-Louis-Emmanuel Leclainche, born on August 29, 1861, in Piney (Aube) and died on November 26, 1953, in Paris, was a French veterinarian and microbiologist, internationally renowned for his scientific achievements in veterinary medicine, as well as for his major role in organizing veterinary education and French veterinary services.
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Biography of Theodore M. Burton (excerpt)
Theodore Moyle Burton, born on March 27, 1907, in Salt Lake City and died on December 22, 1989, was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a key leader of the church's Genealogical Department in the 1960s.
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Biography of Ernst Sorge (excerpt)
Ernst Sorge (* February 25, 1899, in Vieselbach; † April 28, 1946, in Arnstadt, Thuringia) was a German glaciologist, polar explorer, and geoscientist.He made significant contributions to glaciology with his glacier observations at the Eismitte station in Greenland. Sorge grew up in Berlin and studied geography and sciences before becoming a teacher.
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Biography of Jehan-Rictus (excerpt)
Gabriel Randon de Saint-Amand, initially Gabriel Randon, who took the pseudonym Jehan Rictus (Jehan-Rictus with a hyphen from 1922), was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer on September 21, 1867, and died in Paris on November 6, 1933. He was a French poet, famous for his works composed in the language of the common people of Paris of his time.
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Biography of Teodoro Picado Michalski (excerpt)
Teodoro Picado Michalski (10 January 1900 – 1 June 1960) was the president of Costa Rica for four years (1944 to 1948).
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Biography of Achille Campanile (excerpt)
Achille Campanile (28 September 1899 – 4 January 1977) was an Italian writer, playwright, journalist and television critic known for his surreal humour and word play. His father was one of the editors of the newspaper La Tribuna. Always a prolific contributor to newspapers and periodicals, Campanile wrote for the newspapers La Tribuna, L'Idea Nazionale and the satirical magazine Il Travaso delle idee.
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Biography of Auguste Champetier de Ribes (excerpt)
Jean Jules Marie Auguste Champetier de Ribes, born on July 30, 1882, in Antony and died on March 6, 1947, in Paris, was a French statesman. He served as a minister under the Third Republic and president of the Council of the Republic under the Fourth Republic.
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Biography of Robert Smyth McColl (excerpt)
Robert Smyth McColl (13 April 1876 – 25 November 1959) was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre forward. Playing career McColl started his career with junior club Benmore in 1892 and moved to Queen's Park in 1894.He represented the Scottish League in 1901.
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Biography of Walter Heitz (excerpt)
Walter Heitz (8 December 1878 – 9 February 1944) was a German general (Generaloberst) in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He served as President of the Reich Military Court and commanded part of the 6th Army in the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Biography of Winifred Cullis (excerpt)
Winifred Cullis (June 2, 1875 - November 13, 1956) was a British physiologist and the first woman to hold a chair at a medical school in the UK. Born in Gloucester, she studied at Cambridge and earned a doctorate in science from the University of London in 1908.
Biography of Jean Rudolf von Salis (excerpt)
Jean Rudolf von Salis (12 December 1901 – 14 July 1996) was a Swiss historian. He gained prominence with his weekly "Weltchronik" (English: world chronicle) radio broadcasts from 1940 until 1947. As von Salis never wrote English publications and his works were rarely translated, he is little known outside of the European historical sciences.
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Biography of Harry Liedtke (excerpt)
Harry Liedtke (born October 10, 1882, in Königsberg, Province of East Prussia, German Empire; died April 28, 1945, in Bad Saarow) was a German actor. After his father's death in 1896, Harry Liedtke (the seventh child in a family of twelve) lived in an orphanage.
Biography of Étienne Michelin (excerpt)
Étienne Michelin, born on January 4, 1898 in Clermont-Ferrand and died on August 27, 1932 (at the age of 34) in Saint-Genès-Champanelle (Puy-de-Dôme), the eldest son of Édouard Michelin and father of François Michelin, was co-manager of the Michelin manufacturing company since 1928.
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Biography of Delmer Daves (excerpt)
Delmer Lawrence Daves (July 24, 1904 – August 17, 1977) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer, best known for his Westerns such as "Broken Arrow" (1950), "The Last Wagon" (1956), "3:10 to Yuma" (1957), and "The Hanging Tree" (1959).
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Biography of Herbert von Meister (excerpt)
Herbert Eugen Albert Meister, born on December 26, 1866, in Frankfurt am Main and died on January 2, 1919, in Sindlingen, was a businessman and chemist, the son of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Meister, co-founder of Farbwerke Hoechst. He studied chemistry at the University of Bonn, then in Dresden and Jena, earning his doctorate in 1894.
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Biography of José María Albareda (excerpt)
José María Albareda Herrera (Caspe, 15 April 1902 - 26 February 1966, Madrid) was a Spanish soil scientist and science administrator. From its 1939 creation by Francoist Spain to his 1966 death, he was the secretary general and head of the Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC), the main Spanish scientific institution.
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Biography of Lluís Nicolau d'Olwer (excerpt)
Lluís Nicolau d'Olwer, born in Barcelona on January 20, 1888, and died in Mexico City on December 24, 1961, was a historian, journalist, and Catalanist Spanish politician. Initially a councilor for the municipality of his hometown, he later became a deputy in the Spanish Congress and served as Minister of Economy during the Second Republic (1933). ![]()
Biography of Toti Dal Monte (excerpt)
Antonietta Meneghel (June 27, 1893 – January 26, 1975), better known by her stage name Toti Dal Monte, was a renowned Italian lyric soprano. She is best remembered for her role as Cio-cio-san in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, recorded in 1939 with Beniamino Gigli. ![]()
Biography of Alex Radcliffe (excerpt)
Alex Radcliffe (July 26, 1905 – July 18, 1983) was a baseball player in the Negro leagues.He is widely acknowledged to have been the best third baseman in the history of the Negro American League.He was the brother of Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe.
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Biography of Ettore Bortolotti (excerpt)
Ettore Bortolotti (6 March 1866 – 17 February 1947) was an Italian mathematician. Bortolotti was born in Bologna. He studied mathematics under Salvatore Pincherle and Cesare Arzelà in Bologna. He graduated in mathematics in 1889 at the University of Bologna, under Pincherle. He was appointed as lecturer to the Lyceum of Modica in Sicily in 1891, then studied one year in Paris as a post-graduate, before lecturing at the University of Rome in 1893.
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Biography of William Craigie (excerpt)
Sir William Alexander Craigie (13 August 1867 – 2 September 1957) was a renowned philologist and lexicographer. A University of St Andrews alumnus, he became the third editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and co-edited its 1933 supplement with C. T. Onions.
Biography of Hans Schlossberger (excerpt)
Hans Otto Friedrich Schlossberger (born 22 September 1887 in Alpirsbach, died 27 January 1960 in Stuttgart) was a German physician, who was known for his research in immunology, medical microbiology, epidemiology and antimicrobial chemotherapy, especially on syphilis, typhus, gas gangrene, diphtheria, erysipeloid of Rosenbach, tuberculosis, malaria and leptospirosis. |
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