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Biography of Martin Niemöller (excerpt)
Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (January 14, 1892 – March 6, 1984) was a prominent German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor. He is best known as the author of the poem First they came. Although he was a national conservative and initially a supporter of Adolf Hitler, he became one of the founders of the Confessing Church, which opposed the nazification of German Protestant churches.
Biography of Jascha Heifetz (excerpt)
Jascha Heifetz (IPA: ) was a Jewish violin virtuoso born in Lithuania (February 2 1901 – December 10, 1987) who was one of the most pre-eminent violinists of the 20th century. Early life Heifetz was born of Jewish descent in Vilnius, Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire.
Biography of René Fonck (excerpt)
René Paul Fonck (26 March 1894 – 18 June 1953) was a French aviator who ended the Great War as the top Allied fighter ace. His 75 (72 solo and three shared and a further 52 'probable' victories) victories also ranked him second only to Manfred von Richthofen, (80 planes confirmed shot down) as the top ace of the conflict.
Biography of Fritz Lang (excerpt)
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 (birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut) – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German-American film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the BFI.
Biography of Knut Hamsun (excerpt)
Knut Hamsun, born Knud Pedersen (August 4, 1859 - February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian author. He was considered by Isaac Bashevis Singer to be the "father of modern literature", and by King Haakon to be Norway's soul. In 1920, the Nobel Committee awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil".
Biography of Charles Laughton (excerpt)
Charles Laughton (1 July 1899–15 December 1962) was an English Academy Award-winning stage and film actor, screenwriter, producer and one-time director. He became an American citizen in 1950. While best known for his historical roles in films, he started his career as a remarkable stage actor.
Biography of Marie Noël (excerpt)
Marie Rouget, best known as Marie Noël, born February 16, 1883 in Auxerre, died December 23, 1967 in Auxerre, was a French poet and author. She was a friend of French politician Léon Noël (1888-1987). Works (extracts) Les Chansons et les Heures (1920)
Biography of Brassaï (excerpt)
Brassaï (pseudonym of Gyula Halász) (9 September 1899 (birth time source: Romanian National Archive - Brasov, exatract at http://www.astrotheme.fr/images/Brassai_time_of_birth.jpg – 8 July 1984) was a Hungarian photographer, sculptor, author, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century.
Biography of Rafael Trujillo (excerpt)
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina (October 24, 1891 – May 30, 1961) ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961. Officially, he was president only from 1930 to 1938 and again from 1942 to 1952, ruling for the rest of the time as an unelected military Dictator.
Biography of Jacob Levy Moreno (excerpt)
Dr. Jacob Levy Moreno (born Bucharest, Romania, May 18, 1889; died New York, USA, May 14, 1974) was a leading psychiatrist, theorist and educator. During his lifetime Dr. Moreno was recognized at Harvard University as one of the greatest social scientists in the world.
Biography of Julien Green (excerpt)
Julian Hartridge Green, or Julien Green (September 6, 1900 – August 13, 1998), was a French born American author of several novels including Léviathan and Each in His Own Darkness. He wrote primarily in French, but was not a French citizen.
Biography of Isabelle Eberhardt (excerpt)
Isabelle Eberhardt (17 February 1877–21 October 1904) was an explorer and writer who lived and travelled extensively in North Africa. For the time she was an extremely liberated (but troubled) individual who rejected conventional European morality in favour of her own path and that of Islam.
Biography of Lon Chaney (excerpt)
Lon Chaney (April 1, 1883 (birth time source: Lois Rodden) – August 26, 1930), nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema.
Biography of Fritz Perls (excerpt)
Friedrich (Frederick) Salomon Perls (July 8 1893, Berlin – March 14, 1970, Chicago), better known as Fritz Perls, was a noted German-born psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He coined the term 'Gestalt Therapy' for the approach to therapy he developed with his wife Laura Perls from the 1940s, and he became associated with the Esalen Institute in California in 1964.
Biography of Ansel Adams (excerpt)
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West. His studio, which is owned by the Adams family, is the “Ansel Adams Gallery.” Life Childhood Adams was born in the Western Addition of San Francisco, California to distinctly upper-class parents Charles and Olive Adams.
Biography of Mère Denis (excerpt)
Jeanne Marie Le Calvé better known as La Mère Denis, born November 9, 1893 (birth time source: Dr Roger Fix, birth certificate n° 65)), has done a lot of French spot advertising for Vedette washing machines. Her most famous words were "Ch'est ben vrai cha".
Biography of Ruth Gordon (excerpt)
Ruth Gordon Jones (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985), better known as Ruth Gordon, was an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, and Emmy Award-winning American actress and writer. She was perhaps best known for her films roles such as the oversolicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby and the eccentric life-loving Maude in Harold and Maude.
Biography of Théo Varlet (excerpt)
Théo Varlet, born March 12, 1878 in Lille and died in 1938, was a French poet, writer and translator. Selected works Poetry 1898. Heures de Rêve, Lille. 1905. Notes et Poèmes, Le Beffroi, Lille. 1906. Notations, Le Beffroi, Lille. 1911. Poèmes choisis, Cassis.
Biography of Renée Falconetti (excerpt)
Renée Jeanne Falconetti (July 21, 1892 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – December 12, 1946), sometimes credited as Maria Falconetti, Marie Falconetti, Renée Maria Falconetti, or, simply, Falconetti, was a French stage and film actress, notable for her role as Joan of Arc in Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 silent film, La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc.
Biography of Fulgencio Batista (excerpt)
General Fulgencio Batista (pronounced or ) y Zaldívar (January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician. Batista was the de facto military leader of Cuba from 1933 to 1940, and thus the eminence grise of Cuban politics for that era, and the de jure President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 after having won election.
Biography of Jean Delville (excerpt)
Jean Delville (January 19, 1867 – 1953) was a Belgian symbolist painter, writer, and occultist. He founded the Salon d’Art Idealiste, which is considered the Belgian equivalent to the Parisian Rose & Cross Salon and the Pre-Raphaelite movement in London. Quotes "Understood in its metaphysical sense, Beauty is one of the manifestations of the Absolute Being.
Biography of Thérèse Dorny (excerpt)
Thérèse, Jeanne Longo-Dorni , best known as Thérèse Dorny, born September 18, 1891 in Paris (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, online archives), died March 14, 1976 in Saint-Tropez (Var), was a French actress and comedian. Filmography 1930 : La Douceur d'aimer de René Hervil
Biography of Gérard Cordonnier (excerpt)
Gérard Cordonnier, born April 19, 1907 in Bailleul, was a French engineer, author and mathematician, Chief of the French Naval Construction Service. He had an interest in telepathy, clairvoyance, levitation and psychokinesis.
Biography of Isoroku Yamamoto (excerpt)
Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Japanese: 山本五十六, Yamamoto Isoroku.) (4 April 1884 – 18 April 1943) was Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II, graduate of Imperial Japanese Naval Academy and an alumnus of U.S. Naval War College and Harvard University (1919–1921).
Biography of Lee Miller (excerpt)
Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller, Lady Penrose (23 April 1907 - 21 July 1977) was an American photographer. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1907, she was a successful fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris where she became an established fashion and fine art photographer.
Biography of Marcel Dassault (excerpt)
Marcel Dassault, born Marcel Bloch, (Paris, 22 January 1892 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 129) - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 17 April 1986) was a French aircraft industrialist. After graduating from the lycée Condorcet, Breguet School and Supaero, he invented a type of aircraft propeller used by the French army during World War I and founded the Société des Avions Marcel Bloch aircraft company.
Biography of Léon Gaumont (excerpt)
Léon Gaumont (May 10, 1864 – August 9, 1946) was a French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry. Léon Ernest Gaumont, born Semblancay/Indre & Loire was gifted with a mechanical mind which led him to employment manufacturing precision instruments.
Biography of Jean Daniélou (excerpt)
Jean Cardinal Daniélou S.J. (14 May 1905–20 May 1974) was a theologian, a historian and a member of the Académie Française. Jean-Guenolé-Marie Daniélou was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine, son of Charles and Madeleine (née Clamorgan). His father was an anticlerical politician, several times minister, and his mother an educator and founder of institutions for women's education.
Biography of Edward I of England (excerpt)
Edward I (17 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), popularly known as Longshanks, the English Justinian, and the Hammer of the Scots (Scottorum malleus), was a Plantagenet King of England who achieved historical fame by conquering large parts of Wales and almost succeeding in doing the same to Scotland.
Biography of Jean-Alban Bergonié (excerpt)
Jean-Alban Bergonié, born October 7, 1857 in Casseneuil, was a French military physician.
Biography of Joseph Vacher (excerpt)
Joseph Vacher (November 16th, 1869, Beaufort, Isère (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - December 31, 1898, Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain) was a French serial killer, sometimes known as The French Ripper or L'éventreur du Sud-Est (The South-East Ripper) due to comparisons to the more famous Jack the Ripper murderer of London, England in 1888.
Biography of Léon Daudet (excerpt)
Léon Daudet (16 November 1867 – 30 June 1942) was a French journalist, writer, an active Orléanist, and a member of the Académie Goncourt. Move to the right Daudet was born in Paris. His father was the novelist Alphonse Daudet and his younger brother, Lucien Daudet, would also become an artist.
Biography of Orville Wright (excerpt)
The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two Americans who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight on 17 December 1903.
Biography of Rudolf Höss (excerpt)
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höß (in English commonly Hoess or Höss; November 25, 1901 (birth time and date source: Taeger quotes Hans-Jorg Walter, birth certificate - April 16, 1947) was an SS-Obersturmbannführer and from May 4, 1940 to November 1943 was the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, where the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum estimates more than a million people were killed.
Biography of Eugène Caslant (excerpt)
Eugène Caslant, born December 1, 1865 in Nanteuil-le-Haudouin, died in 1940, was a French engineer of Ecole Polytechnique, author and astrologer.
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Omaha is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 10 miles (15 km) north of the mouth of the Platte River (also known as the Nebraska River).
Biography of Luigi Pirandello (excerpt)
Luigi Pirandello (June 28, 1867 – December 10, 1936), an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934. Pirandello was born into an upper-class family in a village with the curious name of Kaos (Chaos), a poor suburb of Girgenti (Agrigento, a town in southern Sicily).
Biography of Louis Franchet d'Espèrey (excerpt)
Louis Félix Marie François Franchet d'Espérey (Mostaganem, 25 May 1856 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 8 July 1942) was a French general during the First World War. Early life He was born in Mostaganem in what is today Algeria, the son of an officer of cavalry in the Chasseurs d'Afrique.
Biography of Theodor Eicke (excerpt)
Theodor Eicke (October 17, 1892 - February 26, 1943) was a Nazi official, SS-Obergruppenführer, commander of the SS-Division (mot) Totenkopf of the Waffen-SS and one of the key figures in the establishment of concentration camps in Nazi Germany. His Nazi Party number was 114901 and his SS number was 2921.
Biography of Haakon VII of Norway (excerpt)
Haakon VII (Prince Carl of Denmark, born Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel) (August 3, 1872 – September 21, 1957), was the first king of Norway after the 1905 dissolution of the personal union with Sweden. As one of the few elected monarchs, Haakon quickly won the respect and affection of his people and played a pivotal role in uniting the Norwegian nation in its resistance of the attack and five-year-long Nazi occupation during World War II.
Biography of Lucien Laberthonnière (excerpt)
Priest Lucien Laberthonnière, born October 5, 1860 in Chazelet, died October 6, 1932 in Paris, was a French theologist, philosopher, historian and writer. Works (extracts) (fr) Théorie de l'éducation, 1901. Essais de philosophie religieuse, 1903. Le réalisme chrétien et l'idéalisme grec, 1904.
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Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. The city is named after the nearby Lake Winnipeg; the name comes from the Western Cree words for muddy water.
Biography of Peter Lorre (excerpt)
Peter Lorre (June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964), born László Löwenstein, was an Hungarian - born actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner in many American films. He made an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M.
Biography of Sibilla Aleramo (excerpt)
Sibilla Aleramo (14 August 1876 - 13 January 1960) was an Italian author and feminist best known for her autobiographical depictions of life as a woman in late 19th century Italy. Life and career Born Rina Faccio in Alessandria, Piedmont, she was forced to drop out of school at 16 and marry the man who raped her.
Biography of Henri René Lenormand (excerpt)
Henri-René Lenormand (May 3, 1882 - February 16, 1951) was a French playwright. He was born on May 3, 1882 in Paris. His plays, steeped in symbolism, were recognized for their explorations of subconscious motivation, deeply reflecting the influence of the theories of Sigmund Freud.
Biography of Fréhel (singer) (excerpt)
Fréhel (born Marguerite Boulc'h; July 13, 1891 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – February 3, 1951) was a French singer and actress. Born in Paris, France to a poor and dysfunctional Breton family, Marguerite Boulc'h was a child left to a life on the streets in the dark side of Paris.
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Amarillo is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Potter County. It is the 14th-most populous city in Texas and the largest city in the Texas Panhandle. A portion of the city extends into Randall County.
Biography of Léo Campion (excerpt)
Léo Campion, born March 24, 1905 in Paris 18e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died March 6, 1992 in Paris, was a French singer, caricaturist, actor and humorist. Filmography (extracts) 1961 : Le Tracassin ou Les Plaisirs de la ville d'Alex Joffé.
Biography of Charles Boyer (excerpt)
Charles Boyer (August 28, 1899 – August 26, 1978) was a four-time Academy Award-nominated French actor who starred in a number of classic Hollywood films, and made a long successful career. His most famous role was in the 1944 film Gaslight.
Biography of Pierre Dac (excerpt)
André Isaac (August 15, 1893 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - February 9, 1975), better known as Pierre Dac was a French humorist and Resistance leader. He was born in Châlons-sur-Marne. During the German occupation of France in World War II, Pierre Dac was one of the speakers of Radio Londres. |
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