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Biography of Willem van Konijnenburg (excerpt)
Willem Adriaan van Konijnenburg (The Hague, February 11, 1868 – The Hague, February 28, 1943) was a Dutch visual artist. During the interwar period (1919-1939), he was, alongside Jan Toorop and Jan Sluijters, one of the national figureheads of modern Dutch art.
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Biography of Carles Riba (excerpt)
Carles Riba i Bracons (23 September 1893 – 12 July 1959) was a Catalan poet, writer, and translator of Spanish nationality. Born in Barcelona, he studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. In 1916, he married poet Clementina Arderiu and worked at the School of Librarianship.
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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 John Fox Jr. (excerpt)
John Fox Jr.(December 16, 1862 – July 8, 1919) was an American journalist, novelist, and short story writer.Born in Stony Point, Kentucky, he studied English at Harvard University and became a reporter in New York.After working for the New York Times and the New York Sun, he published his first novel, A Mountain Europa, in 1892.
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Biography of Charles Kiffer (excerpt)
Charles Kiffer, born on June 8, 1902, in Paris and died on January 20, 1992, in the same city, was a French painter, illustrator, sculptor, engraver, and poster artist. He studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1918 and exhibited at various prestigious salons such as the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne.
Biography of Alfonsina Pieri (excerpt)
Alfonsina Pieri (Rome, May 22, 1884 – Milan, January 11, 1959) was an Italian actress active during the silent film era. Wikipedia has January 12, 1880 in error. Coming from a renowned acting family, she performed in several plays, including the 1908 premiere of Gabriele D'Annunzio's La nave, which was a great success.
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Biography of Charles Moureu (excerpt)
François Charles Léon Moureu (19 April 1863, in Mourenx – 13 June 1929, in Biarritz) was a French organic chemist and pharmacist. In 1902 Charles Moureu published Notions fondamentales de chimie organique, translated into English as Fundamental principles of organic chemistry (1921).
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Biography of John Walker (curator) (excerpt)
John Walker III (December 24, 1906 – October 16, 1995) was an American art curator and the second director of the National Gallery of Art, serving from 1956 to 1969. A Harvard graduate in art history in 1930, he co-founded the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art with Philip Johnson and Lincoln Kirstein.
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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 Jean Verne (physician) (excerpt)
Jean Verne, born on October 4, 1890, in Saint-Julien (Jura), and died on November 3, 1982, was a distinguished French physician. He served as a professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Paris and was a member of the Committee on Historical and Scientific Works and the Academy of Medicine.
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Biography of César Vezzani (excerpt)
César Vezzani, born on August 8, 1888, in Bastia and died on November 11, 1951, in Marseille, was a famous tenor of the early 20th century.Originally from Corsica, he was nicknamed "Le Merle Blanc" by critics. Vezzani sang both French opera and Wagnerian roles, with remarkable diction refined with his wife, Agnès Borgo.
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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.
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Biography of Abbé Chaupitre (excerpt)
Jean-Marie-Victor Chaupitre, known as Abbé Chaupitre, born on October 22, 1859, in Gennes-sur-Seiche and died on April 21, 1934, in Naples, was a French Catholic priest and homeopath. Homeopathy, initiated by Hippocrates and developed by Samuel Hahnemann in the early 19th century, gained popularity in France, notably through healings within Napoleon III's circle.
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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 Marian Januszajtis-Zegota (excerpt)
Marian Józef Żegota-Januszajtis (3 April 1889, Częstochowa, Piotrków Governorate - 24 March 1973, Royal Tunbridge Wells) was a Polish military commander and politician. One of the founders of Polish paramilitary pro-independence organizations in Austrian partition, and last commander of the 1st Brigade of Polish Legions.
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Biography of Mabel Forrest (excerpt)
Helena Mabel Checkley Forrest, born on 6 March 1872 near Yandilla, Queensland, was an Australian writer and journalist. She began writing early, but her first book, The Rose of Forgiveness and other Stories, was published only in 1904. Her approximate time of birth comes from one of her poems, "When I Was Born", in which Forrest writes that she was born at night, in the early hours before sunrise.
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Biography of James McBey (excerpt)
James McBey (23 December 1883 – 1 December 1959) was a largely self-taught Scottish artist and etcher whose prints were highly valued during the later stages of the etching revival in the early 20th century. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters by Aberdeen University.
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Biography of John Elsas (excerpt)
John Elsas, born Jonas Mayer on July 6, 1851, in Frankfurt am Main and passing away on June 5, 1935, in the same city, was a German painter. He spent most of his life working as a merchant and stockbroker, only fully dedicating himself to art in 1927, at the age of 76.
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Biography of Shmuel Sambursky (excerpt)
Shmuel Sambursky, also known as Samuel Sambursky (30 October 1900 - 18 May 1990), was a German, Palestinian, and Israeli physicist, professor, and author.His time of birth comes from him, it was written in the diary of his father. Born in Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad in Russia), in 1900, he migrated to Palestine in 1924 after studying in Germany.
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Biography of Erich Pommer (excerpt)
Erich Pommer, born on June 20, 1889, in Hildesheim and died on May 8, 1966, in Los Angeles, was a German film producer and screenwriter who became an American citizen. He is known for producing "The Blue Angel" and co-writing "Metropolis". Growing up in a Jewish family, he moved to Berlin in 1905 and began his career in film with Gaumont before moving to Éclair.
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Biography of Hermann Seeger (excerpt)
Hermann Seeger (15 October 1857 – 23 February 1945) was a German genre and landscape painter.Seeger was also known as a talented engraver. Hermann Seeger was born at Halberstadt.At the age of 18, he moved to Halle to study philosophy, but eventually, Seeger turned to art and enrolled at the Berlin Academy.
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Biography of Lenore Ulric (excerpt)
Lenore Ulric (born Lenore Ulrich; July 21, 1892 in New Ulm, Minnesota – December 30, 1970 in Orangeburg, New York) was a star of the Broadway theatre as well as Hollywood films of the silent-film and early sound era. Discovered in 1913 by theater director David Belasco, who would go on to manage her stage career, she was noted for portraying fiery, hot-blooded women of the vamp type.
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Biography of William Bridges (general) (excerpt)
Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges, KCB, CMG (18 February 1861 – 18 May 1915) was a senior Australian Army officer who was instrumental in establishing the Royal Military College, Duntroon and who served as the first Australian Chief of the General Staff.
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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 Marieluise Flesser (excerpt)
Marieluise Fleißer (November 22, 1901 – February 2, 1974) was a German writer and playwright associated with the aesthetic movement of New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit). Early Life Born in Ingolstadt, she studied literature, philosophy, and theater in Munich, where she befriended Lion Feuchtwanger and Bertolt Brecht.
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Biography of Marie Baum (excerpt)
Marie Baum (23 March 1874 – 8 August 1964), was a German politician of the German Democratic Party (DDP) and social activist and author. She was one of the first female members of the Weimar National Assembly. She was a pioneer within German welfare and workers security.
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Biography of Gustavo Arce Correa (excerpt)
Gustavo Arce Correa (19 February 1881 - 1966) was a Mexican lawyer, military officer, and politician, born in Tizimín, Yucatán, and died in Mexico City. He collaborated with General Salvador Alvarado during the revolutionary administration that Alvarado led in Yucatán starting in 1915, when Venustiano Carranza sent him to southeastern Mexico in command of a faction of the Constitutionalist Army.
Biography of Elfriede Kaiser-Nebgen (excerpt)
Elfriede Kaiser-Nebgen (11 April 1890 – 22 October 1983) was a German social scientist and labor activist involved in Christian trade unions (CTU) and similar organizations. She took part in the German resistance to Nazism before and during World War II.
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Biography of Jetty Cantor (excerpt)
Jetty Cantor, born Henriëtte Frank (The Hague, May 16, 1903 - Hilversum, April 23, 1992), was a Jewish Dutch violinist, singer, and actress. With her mother working as an actress in Germany, Cantor spent part of her youth there, debuting on radio and recording her first albums, which brought her instant success.
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Biography of Christine Teusch (excerpt)
Christine Teusch (11 October 1888, Cologne, Rhine Province – 24 October 1968) was a German politician of the Zentrumspartei ("Centre Party") and the Christian Democratic Union. From 1947 to 1954 Teusch was Minister of Education of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, having been the first female minister in German history.
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Biography of Abel Herzberg (excerpt)
Abel Jacob Herzberg (born September 17, 1893, in Amsterdam, died May 19, 1989, in the same city) was a Dutch lawyer, writer, playwright, and poet. The son of Russian Jews, he became a naturalized Dutch citizen in 1918. After studying law in Amsterdam, he worked as a lawyer and prosecutor.
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Biography of Lissy Arna (excerpt)
Lissy Arna (born Liesbeth Helene Erna Arndt on December 20, 1900, in Berlin, died January 22, 1964, in West Berlin) was a German actress. She appeared in over 60 films between 1915 and 1962, first in German silent films, and later in American films starting in 1930.
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Biography of Mario Calvino (excerpt)
Mario Calvino (Sanremo, March 26, 1875 – Sanremo, October 25, 1951) was an Italian agronomist and botanist, husband of naturalist Eva Mameli, and father of writer Italo Calvino and geologist Floriano. After graduating in agricultural sciences from Pisa in 1899, he promoted floriculture in the Imperia region.
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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.
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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 Enrique Flores Magón (excerpt)
Enrique Flores Magón (April 13, 1877 – October 28, 1954) was a Mexican journalist and politician associated with the Mexican Liberal Party and anarchism. His name is often linked with that of his elder brother, Ricardo Flores Magón, and the political philosophy they promoted, magonismo.
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Biography of Leo von König (excerpt)
Leo Freiherr von König (28 February 1871 - 19 April 1944) was a German painter and a member of the Berlin Secession. He was the eldest son of Götz von König, a cavalry general, and Baroness Hertha von Cramm. He studied at the Prussian Academy of Art and later at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1889 to 1897.
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Biography of Gaston Chérau (excerpt)
Gaston Chérau (6 November 1872 – 20 April 1937) was a French man of letters and journalist. The son of an industrialist, Gaston Chérau died in Boston during a lecture tour. A journalist and chronicler, he regularly gave the press his impressions of travel.
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Biography of José Iturbi (excerpt)
José Iturbi Báguena (Valencia, 28 November 1895 – Los Angeles, 28 June 1980) was a Spanish conductor, pianist, harpsichordist, and actor, appearing in several MGM musical films, including Thousands Cheer (1943) and Anchors Aweigh (1945). His approximate time of birth comes from the online biography at joseiturbi.com, which states that he was born in the evening.
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Biography of Giuseppe Prezzolini (excerpt)
Giuseppe Prezzolini (27 January 1882 – 14 July 1982) was an Italian literary critic, journalist, editor and writer.He later became an American citizen. Prezzolini was born in Perugia in January 1882, to Tuscan parents from Siena, Luigi and Emilia Pianigiani.In 1903 he founded together with Giovanni Papini the literary journal Leonardo.
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Biography of Henri van Booven (excerpt)
Hendrik Cornelis Alexander (Henri) van Booven (7 July 1877 in Haarlem – 31 January 1964 in The Hague) was a Dutch writer and journalist. His most successful work was the novel Tropenwee (Tropical agony, 1904), a thinly veiled autobiographical literary report of a mission to Congo in 1898, somewhat similar to Heart of Darkness.
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Biography of Hans Kramers (excerpt)
Hendrik Anthony Kramers was a Dutch theoretical physicist (December 17, 1894, in Rotterdam – April 24, 1952, in Oegstgeest). Hendrik Kramers studied mathematics and physics at Leiden University.After earning his master’s degree in 1916, he intended to complete his PhD under the supervision of Max Born at the University of Göttingen.
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Biography of Giotto Dainelli (excerpt)
Giotto Dainelli Dolfi (May 19, 1878 - November 16, 1968) was an Italian geographer, geologist, paleontologist, traveler, and writer. Born in Florence, he was the son of General Luigi and Virginia Mari. After studying natural sciences in Florence, he began teaching at the university in 1903.
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Biography of Anatole Chauffard (excerpt)
Anatole Marie Émile Chauffard (* 22 August 1855 in Avignon; † 1 November 1932 in Paris) was an internationally renowned French physician, professor of clinical medicine at the Paris Faculty of Medicine, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
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Biography of Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville (excerpt)
Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville, born on February 8, 1856, in Rouen and died on February 17, 1901, at the Château de Montgrimont in Fontaine-le-Bourg (Seine-Inférieure), was a French industrialist and inventor, a pioneer of the automobile, and the founder of Automobile Delamare-Deboutteville.
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Biography of Hugh Lofting (excerpt)
Hugh John Lofting (14 January 1886 – 26 September 1947) was an English American writer and civil engineer, best known for creating the beloved children's character Doctor Dolittle. The character, a physician who could talk to animals, originated from illustrated letters Lofting sent to his children during World War I while he served in the British Army. ![]()
Biography of Eugen Neutert (excerpt)
Eugen Eduard Neutert (March 18, 1905 – September 9, 1943) was a German communist resistance fighter against Nazism. Born in Berlin, he emigrated to Brazil in 1923, returning to Germany in 1926. A member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), he lost his job as an electrician in 1928 and became a masseur.
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Biography of Jacques Allard (military) (excerpt)
Jacques Allard, born on November 16, 1903 in Grainville-Ymauville, was a French officer who participated in the wars in Indochina and Algeria. After graduating from Saint-Cyr, he pursued a career in the Army of Africa. He served as a second lieutenant during the Rif War and was promoted to colonel in 1946.
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Biography of Coba Ritsema (excerpt)
Jacoba Johanna (Coba) Ritsema (27 June 1876, Haarlem – 13 December 1961, Amsterdam) was a Dutch portrait painter.Born into an artistic family, she studied drawing in Haarlem and later at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam from 1893 to 1897. She was taught by renowned artists like August Allebé and Thérèse Schwartze. ![]()
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The Orsini affair comprised the diplomatic, political and legal consequences of the "Orsini attempt" (French: attentat d'Orsini): the attempt made on 14 January 1858 by Felice Orsini, with other Italian nationalists and backed by English radicals, to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris. |
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