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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 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 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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Biography of Paul Ivano (excerpt)
Paul Ivano was a French cinematographer, born Pavle Ivanišević on May 13, 1900, in Nice, France, and died on April 9, 1984, in Los Angeles — Woodland Hills neighborhood (California). Having spent his entire career in the United States, he was a member of the ASC.
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Biography of Carry van Bruggen (excerpt)
Carry van Bruggen, pen name of Caroline Lea de Haan, was a Dutch writer born in Smilde on January 1, 1881, and died in Laren on November 16, 1932. She also wrote under the pseudonyms Justine Abbing and May. She was the elder sister of Jacob Israël de Haan, a Dutch writer, lawyer, politician, and significus (nl), who was born on December 31 of the same year.
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Biography of Eduard Spranger (excerpt)
Eduard Spranger (27 June 1882 – 17 September 1963) was a German philosopher and psychologist. A student of Wilhelm Dilthey, he was born in Berlin and died in Tübingen. A humanist, he developed a philosophical pedagogy as a counter to the experimental, psychology-oriented theories of his time.
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Biography of Ruth Snyder (excerpt)
May Ruth Snyder (née Brown, March 27, 1895 – January 12, 1928) was an American murderer executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in 1928.Her execution was captured in a widely publicized photograph. Married to Albert Snyder in 1915, she lived an unfulfilled life in their Queens home.
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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 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.
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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 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.
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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 Reidar Bruu (excerpt)
Reidar Bruu (11 September 1903 – 2 November 1989) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. Reidar Bruu was born in Kristiania. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Oslo in 1958, and was re-elected on two occasions. He had previously served in the position of deputy representative during the term 1954–1957.
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Biography of Dolors Aleu i Riera (excerpt)
Dolores Aleu Riera (April 7, 1857, in Barcelona – February 19, 1913) was a Spanish medical doctor.She was the first woman in Spain to be licensed in medicine and the second to earn a Doctor of Medicine degree. An only child, she began reading at age 5 and studied at the University of Barcelona, earning her undergraduate degree in 1874.
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Biography of Annibale Comessatti (excerpt)
Annibale Comessatti (Udine, January 30, 1886 – Padua, September 13, 1945), was an Italian mathematician. Annibale Comessatti studied at the University of Padua with Giuseppe Veronese and Francesco Severi and graduated in 1908. He worked as an assistant to Francesco Severi. He was appointed at the University of Cagliari in 1920, and then at the University of Padua in 1922.
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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 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 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.
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 Harry Northrup (actor) (excerpt)
Henri Stabo Wallace Northrup (born July 31, 1875, in Paris and died July 2, 1936, in Los Angeles, California) was a French-born American actor, known as Harry Northrup (or Harry S.Northrup). After emigrating to the United States, he began his film career in 1911, appearing in six short films, including Vanity Fair by Charles Kent (with Helen Gardner and William V.
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Biography of Alfred Döblin (excerpt)
Bruno Alfred Döblin (10 August 1878 – 26 June 1957) was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).A prolific writer, he is a key figure in German literary modernism. His œuvre spans over fifty years and includes a dozen novels (historical fiction, science fiction, urban themes), plays, radio scripts, philosophical treatises, essays, and letters.
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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 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 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.
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Biography of William McCance (excerpt)
William McCance (6 August 1894 – 19 November 1970) was a Scottish artist, and was second Controller of the Gregynog Press in Powys, mid-Wales. William McCance was the seventh of eight children. After attending Hamilton Academy, McCance entered Glasgow School of Art, studying there 1911–15 and subsequently undertaking a teacher-training course at Glasgow's Kennedy Street school.
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Biography of Georg von Küchler (excerpt)
Georg Carl Wilhelm Friedrich von Küchler (30 May 1881 – 25 May 1968) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War, who was subsequently convicted of war crimes. He commanded the 18th Army and Army Group North during the Soviet-German war of 1941–1945.
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Biography of Leonetto Cappiello (excerpt)
Leonetto Cappiello, born in Livorno on 9 April 1875 and died in Cannes on 2 February 1942, was a versatile Italian artist who became a French citizen in 1930. He is recognized as the modernizer of French posters, following Jules Chéret’s influence.
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Biography of Camille Paul Josso (excerpt)
Camille Paul Josso, born on June 6, 1902, in Nantes and died on October 2, 1986, in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, was a French engraver, painter, and illustrator. An orientalist painter, he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in the 1930s and in Morocco.
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Biography of Walter Göttsch (excerpt)
Leutnant Walter Göttsch HoH, IC (10 June 1896—10 April 1918) was a German World War I flying ace credited with 20 aerial victories. Born in Altour, he joined the German army on 1 July 1915 and was initially assigned to Flieger-Abteilung 33.
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Biography of Erminio Spalla (excerpt)
Erminio Spalla (7 July 1897 – 14 August 1971) was an Italian professional heavyweight boxer, film actor and singer. Spalla studied fine arts in Brera, when in 1910 he saw film footage of the world boxing championships and decided to become a professional boxer.
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Biography of Eric Hoffer (excerpt)
Eric Hoffer (July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983) was an Atheist American philosopher and social critic.A conservative moderate with an atypical working-class background, Hoffer authored ten books over his career and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983.
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Biography of Bernardus Arps (excerpt)
Bernardus Arps was a Dutch painter known for his landscapes, portraits, and especially his still lifes. Born in Culemborg September 1, 1865, he was the son of a printer and studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam and the Polytechnic School in Delft.
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Biography of Édouard-Émile Violet (excerpt)
Édouard-Émile Violet, born on December 8, 1880 in Mâcon and died on January 4, 1955 in Perpignan, was a French actor, director, screenwriter, and producer, primarily active during the 1910s and 1920s. He founded Les Films Lucifer in July 1919, but the company was dissolved by the end of 1922.
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Biography of Marcel Boulestin (excerpt)
Marcel Boulestin, also known as Xavier Marcel Boulestin, was born on April 14, 1877, in Poitiers, and died on September 20, 1943, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.A French chef and writer, he became famous in England and the United States for introducing French cuisine to the English-speaking world.
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Biography of Hans Jantzen (excerpt)
Hans Jantzen (26 April 1881 – 15 February 1967) was a German art historian specializing in Medieval art. Initially studying law, he later turned to art history, archaeology, and philosophy, studying under Heinrich Wölfflin in Berlin and Adolph Goldschmidt in Halle. He earned his PhD in 1908 with a dissertation on architecture in Netherlandish paintings.
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Biography of Johannes Georgi (excerpt)
Johannes Georgi, born on December 14, 1888, in Frankfurt am Main and died on May 24, 1972, in Hamburg, was a German explorer, meteorologist, and glaciologist. He conducted the first in-depth meteorological measurements of the Greenland ice sheet and was the first in Europe to observe the jet stream.
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Biography of Jan van Nijlen (excerpt)
Joannes Joannes-Baptista Maria Ignatius van Nijlen (Antwerp, November 10, 1884 – Vorst, August 14, 1965) was a Flemish civil servant, poet, and essayist. Van Nijlen moved frequently but lived for a long time in Uccle near Brussels. He is widely known for the line "Never board the train without your suitcase of dreams, then you'll find proper accommodation in every city..." from the poem "Message to Travelers," which first appeared in the collection Geheimschrift (1934).
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Biography of Lina Prokofiev (excerpt)
Lina Ivanovna Prokofieva (Russian: Ли́на Ива́новна Проко́фьева), born Carolina Codina Nemísskaia, (20 October 1897 – 3 January 1989) was a Spanish singer and the first wife of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. His time of birth comes from the biography "Sergei Prokofiev: A Soviet Tragedy" by Victor Ilyitch Seroff (Taplinger, 1979).
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Biography of Marcel Gitton (excerpt)
Marcel Gitton, born on April 20, 1903, in Versailles and died on September 5, 1941, in Paris, whose real name was Marcel Giroux, was a French politician. As the third-ranking member of the French Communist Party (SFIC) at the beginning of World War II, he was one of the communist politicians who opposed the party’s official line in 1939-1940 following the German-Soviet Pact.
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Biography of Gertrud von Le Fort (excerpt)
Baroness Gertrud von Le Fort, born on October 11, 1876, in Minden, was a German writer. The daughter of a Prussian colonel, she studied at Heidelberg, Marburg, and Berlin, and settled in Bavaria in 1918. Her literary career began in earnest in 1925 when she edited a posthumous work by her mentor, Ernst Troeltsch. ![]()
Biography of Harry Clarke (artist) (excerpt)
Henry Patrick (Harry) Clarke (17 March 1889 – 6 January 1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator, and a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement. His work was influenced by Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and French Symbolism. ![]()
Biography of Menno ter Braak (excerpt)
Menno ter Braak (January 26, 1902 – May 14, 1940) was a Dutch modernist writer, critic, essayist, and journalist. Born in Eibergen, he grew up in Tiel where he excelled as a student. At the University of Amsterdam, he majored in Dutch and History, contributed to the student magazine Propria Cures, and co-founded the Filmliga with Joris Ivens to study animated film.
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Biography of Louis Heijermans (excerpt)
Louis Heijermans (December 22, 1873 – July 22, 1938) was a Dutch social physician dedicated to improving the health of the poor and workers in the early 20th century. Born into a family of eleven children, he was the brother of playwright Herman Heijermans.
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Biography of Friedrich Naumann (excerpt)
Friedrich Naumann (25 March 1860 – 24 August 1919) was a German liberal politician and Protestant parish pastor. In 1896, he founded the National-Social Association that sought to combine liberalism, nationalism and (non-Marxist) socialism with Protestant Christian values, proposing social reform to prevent class struggle.
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Biography of Salvador Seguí (excerpt)
Salvador Seguí Rubinat (born in Lleida on September 23, 1887, and assassinated in Barcelona on March 10, 1923), known as "El Noi del Sucre" ("The Sugar Kid"), was a leading anarcho-syndicalist figure in the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo in Catalonia during the early 20th century.
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Biography of Leonard Springer (excerpt)
Leonard Antony Springer (Amsterdam, January 24, 1855 – Haarlem, September 28, 1940) was a Dutch garden and landscape architect. He was the son of painter Cornelis Springer and initially trained as a nurseryman before making a name as a garden architect.
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Biography of Charles Loupot (excerpt)
Charles Loupot, born in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) on July 20, 1892, and died in Les Arcs-sur-Argens (Var) on October 18, 1962, was a French poster artist and graphic designer. Charles Loupot, whose career spanned from 1916 to 1960, is one of the major creators in the history of posters during the interwar period, alongside Cassandre, Jean Carlu, and Paul Colin.
Biography of Franco Becci (excerpt)
Franco Becci (Rome, December 1, 1888 – Rome, November 5, 1951) was an Italian actor.He began his theater career in 1909 and quickly rose to prominence in Flavio Andò's company. In 1912, he joined companies performing the works of Sem Benelli, working with Gualtiero Tumiati and Arnaldo Ninchi until 1932.
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Biography of Clotilde-Camille Deflandre (excerpt)
Clotilde-Camille Deflandre (born November 21, 1871, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, and died on June 7, 1946, in Paris) was a French physician and scientist, primarily known for her discovery, alongside her mentor Paul Carnot, of hemopoietin (erythropoietin). She also initiated research that led to the development of organ transplantation.
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Biography of Alexandre Arquillière (excerpt)
Alexandre Arquillière was a French actor, born on April 18, 1870, in Boën-sur-Lignon and passed away on January 8, 1953, in Saint-Étienne. Originally a house painter, he later became a student at the Conservatoire.He made his stage debut at the Théâtre Libre in 1888 alongside Firmin Gémier, with whom he maintained a close relationship.
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Biography of Mary Kid (excerpt)
Mary Kid (born Marie Anna Albertine Keul; 3 February 1901 – 29 October 1988) was a German actress. She appeared in more than forty films during the Weimar Republic, but her career came to an end in the early sound era. |
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