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Biography of Prince George, Duke of Kent (excerpt)
The Prince George, Duke of Kent (George Edward Alexander Edmund; 20 December 1902 - 25 August 1942) was a member of the British Royal Family, the fourth son of George V and Mary of Teck. He held the title of Duke of Kent from 1934 until his death in 1942.
Biography of Sylvester Matushka (excerpt)
Szilveszter Matuska (January 29, 1892 – disappeared c. 1945) was a Hungarian mass murderer and mechanical engineer who made two successful and at least two unsuccessful attempts to derail passenger trains in Hungary, Germany and Austria in 1930 and 1931. He was born in Csantavér (now Čantavir, Serbia).
Biography of Friedrich Murnau (excerpt)
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, better known as F. W. Murnau (December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931), was one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era. A figure in the expressionist movement in German cinema during the 1920s, some of Murnau's films from the silent era have been lost, but most still survive.
Biography of François Darlan (excerpt)
François Darlan (7 August 1881 – 24 December 1942) was a French naval officer.Darlan rose through the French Navy, ultimately becoming Admiral of the Fleet, and was a major figure of the Vichy France regime during World War II. Darlan was born in Nérac, Lot-et-Garonne, graduating from the École Navale in 1902.
Biography of Robert Musil (excerpt)
Robert Musil born Robert Edler von Musil (November 6, 1880, Klagenfurt, Austria (birth time source: Steinbrecher, birth certificate) – April 15, 1942, Geneva, Switzerland) was an Austrian writer. His unfinished long novel The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften) is generally considered to be one of the most important modernist novels.
Biography of Jean Lurçat (excerpt)
Jean Lurçat (July 1, 1892 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - January 6, 1966) was a French painter and tapestry designer.He was known for his surrealist landscapes influenced from his travels in Spain and the Sahara.One of his lithographs is titled "Bacchus" and is currently on display in San Francisco.
Biography of Antoine Guérini (excerpt)
Antoine Guérini (1902 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate)-1967), was one of the most powerful gangsters of France in the 40s.
Biography of Selma Lagerlof (excerpt)
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (20 November 1858–16 March 1940) was a Swedish author and the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Known internationally for Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (a story for children, in the most common translation The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, but the literal translation would be "Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey Through Sweden"), she was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1909 "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings."
Biography of Imre Nagy (excerpt)
Imre Nagy (June 7, 1896 – June 16, 1958) was a Hungarian politician, appointed Prime Minister of Hungary on two occasions. Nagy's second term ended when his non-Soviet-backed government was brought down by Soviet invasion in the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956, resulting in Nagy's execution on charges of treason two years later.
Biography of Thomas Wolfe (excerpt)
Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 in Asheville, North Carolina, – September 15, 1938) was an acclaimed American novelist of the early 20th century. Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works and novel fragments.He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodical, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing.
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Harare formerly Salisbury until 1982) is the capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe.The city proper has an area of 960.6 km2 (371 mi2) and a population 2,123,132 in the 2012 census and an estimated 3,120,917 in its metropolitan area in 2019.
Biography of Princess Louise of Orléans (excerpt)
Princess Louise Françoise Marie Laure of Orléans (born 24 February 1882 in Cannes, France ; died 18 April 1958 in Seville, Spain ) was a Princess of the Two-Sicilies and maternal grandmother of King Juan Carlos I of Spain. Louise was the youngest daughter of Philippe of Orléans (1838-1894), Count of Paris and claimant to the French throne as "Philippe VII".
Biography of Louis Hémon (excerpt)
Louis Hémon (12 October 1880 – 8 July 1913), was a francophone writer best known for his novel Maria Chapdelaine. He was born in Brest, France.In Paris, where he resided with his family, he was enrolled in the Montaigne and Louis-le-Grand secondary schools.
Biography of Bill W. (excerpt)
William Griffith Wilson (26 November 1895 – 24 January 1971), also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W., was the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), a fellowship of self-help groups dedicated to helping alcoholics achieve sobriety. According to the AA Twelfth tradition of anonymity, Wilson was and still is commonly known as "Bill W." or just "Bill." He largely preferred this form of his name over the more formal non-AA version, thus this article will use that form.
Biography of Noël-Noël (excerpt)
Noël-Noël (9 August 1897 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 5 October 1989) was a French actor and screenwriter. He appeared in 45 films between 1931 and 1966. Filmography (extracts) 1930 : La Prison en folie, de Henry Wulschleger – Rôle : Yves Larsac
Biography of O. Henry (excerpt)
O.Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910).O.Henry short stories are known for wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. Early life Porter was born on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Biography of Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (excerpt)
The Princess Beatrice (also Princess Henry of Battenberg; Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore; 14 April 1857 - 26 October 1944) was a member of the British Royal Family, the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria, famous for editing the journals and diaries of Queen Victoria after her death.
Biography of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (excerpt)
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936) was an influential English writer of the early 20th century.His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy, and detective fiction. Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox." He wrote in an off-hand, whimsical prose studded with startling formulations.
Biography of Margaret Sanger (excerpt)
Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, an advocate of negative eugenics, and the founder of the American Birth Control League (which eventually became Planned Parenthood). Initially met with fierce opposition to her ideas, Sanger gradually won some support, both in the public as well as the courts, for a woman's choice to decide how and when, if ever, she will bear children.
Biography of Erich von Stroheim (excerpt)
Erich von Stroheim (September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian star of the silent film age, lauded for his directorial work in which he was a proto-auteur.As an actor, he is noted for his arrogant Teutonic character parts which led him to be described as "not a character actor, but what a character!".
Biography of Maurice Genevoix (excerpt)
Maurice Genevoix was a French author, born on November 29, 1890 at Decize as Maurice-Charles-Louis-Genevoix (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 107).Genevoix spent his childhood in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire.After attending the local school, he studied at the lycée of Orléans and the Lycée Lakanal.
Biography of Violette Leduc (excerpt)
Violette Leduc (April 7, 1907 – May 28, 1972) was a French author. She was born in Arras, Pas de Calais, France, the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl, Berthe.In Valenciennes, the young Violette spent most of her childhood suffering from poor self-esteem, exacerbated by her mother's hostility and overprotectiveness.
Biography of Roger Frison-Roche (excerpt)
Roger Frison-Roche (February 10, 1096 in Paris - December 17, 1999 in Chamonix) is a French writer and explorer. Bibliography (extracts) L'Appel du Hoggar (1937) Premier de cordée (1938) La Grande Crevasse (1948) La Piste oubliée (1950) La Montagne aux écritures (1952)
Biography of Renée Saint-Cyr (excerpt)
Marie-Louise Eugénie Vittore, best known as Renée Saint-Cyr, born November 16, 1904 in Beausoleil (Alpes-Maritimes), died July 11, 2004 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French actress and comedian. Theater 1965 : Gigi de Colette, director Jean-Michel Rouzière, with Muriel Baptiste, Philippe Dehesdin, Paul Guers, Jacqueline Ricard, Renée Saint-Cyr, Alice Tissot, Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris
Biography of Gaston Leroux (excerpt)
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (May 6, 1868, Paris – April 15, 1927,) was a French journalist, detective, and novelist. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.
Biography of Mabel Normand (excerpt)
Mabel Normand (November 10, 1897 - February 23, 1930) was an American film actress, screenwriter, and the most popular screen comedienne of the silent film era. Her later career was marked by several successive scandals, including the murder of director William Desmond Taylor, whom she was with only minutes before he was shot and killed.
Biography of Georges Dumézil (excerpt)
Georges Dumézil (March 4, 1898 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 11, 1986) was a French comparative philologist best known for his analysis of sovereignty and power in Proto-Indo-European religion and society. He is considered one of the major contributors to mythography, in particular for his formulation of the trifunctional hypothesis of social class.
Biography of Hermann Rorschach (excerpt)
Hermann Rorschach (8 November 1884 Zurich - 2 April 1922 Herisau) was a Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, best known for developing a projective test known, from his name, as the Rorschach inkblot test. When he was in high school, Rorschach was called Klecks, or "inkblot," by his friends.
Biography of Roger Désormière (excerpt)
Roger Désormière (September 13, 1898 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - October 25, 1963) was a French conductor. He is well known for having directed the earliest complete recording of Claude Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande. made in Paris during the Nazi occupation.
Biography of Pierre Quéméneur (excerpt)
Pierre Quemeneur, born August 19, 1877 in Commana (Finistère), was a French man, killed in the night of 25/26 May 1923 during a business trip from Brittany to Paris with Seznec. The Seznec Affair was a controversial French court case of 1923-1924.
Biography of Charles Nicolle (excerpt)
Charles Jules Henry Nicolle (September 21, 1866 Rouen - February 28, 1936) was a French bacteriologist who earned the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus. He learned about biology early from his father Eugène Nicolle, a doctor at a Rouen hospital.
Biography of Kathe Kollwitz (excerpt)
Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz (July 8, 1867 – April 22, 1945) was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century.Her empathy for the less fortunate, expressed most famously through the graphic means of drawing, etching, lithography, and woodcut, embraced the victims of poverty, hunger, and war.
Biography of Raymond Radiguet (excerpt)
Raymond Radiguet (June 18, 1903 – December 12, 1923) was a French author. He was born in Saint-Maur, close to Paris, the son of a caricaturist.In 1917 he moved to the city.Soon he would drop out of the Lycée Charlemagne, where he studied, in order to pursue his interests in journalism and literature.
Biography of Léo Joannon (excerpt)
Léo Joannon (born Léon Gabriel Paul Joannon August 21, 1904 (birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut, original source unknown) - died March 28, 1969) was a French writer and film director. Born in Aix-en-Provence, Joannon was originally a law student who became a novelist and journalist before entering the film industry in the 1920s as a cameraman.
Biography of Norbert Elias (excerpt)
Norbert Elias (June 22, 1897 — August 1, 1990) was a German sociologist of Jewish descent, who later became a British citizen. Elias was born on June 22, 1897 in Breslau (Wrocław) in Silesia to Hermann and Sophie Elias.His father was a businessman in the textile industry and his mother, as usual at the time, a housewife.
Biography of Marcel Déat (excerpt)
Marcel Déat (March 7, 1894, Guérigny—January 5, 1955, near Turin, Italy) was a French Socialist until 1933, when he initiated a spin-off from the SFIO along with other Neosocialists.He then founded the Collaborationist Rassemblement national populaire (RNP, National Popular Rally) during the Vichy regime.
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Fairbanks, unlike other larger cities in Alaska, still has separate borough and city governments.The City of Fairbanks was incorporated on November 10, 1903.The city council held a special meeting at the Carlson Center on November 10, 2003 for the express purpose of denoting the centennial of incorporation.
Biography of Léon Vannier (excerpt)
Dr Leon Vannier (October 30, 1880-1963) was one of the major figures in modern French homoeopathy, practising in Paris from 1905 until the year of his death.He founded the journal L'Homoeopathie Francaise in 1912 and was the author of many books, including a substantial materia medica.
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Bakersfield is a charter city in Kern County, California, United States.It is the county seat and largest city of Kern County.The city covers about 151 sq mi (390 km2) near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Valley region.
Biography of Léonce Perret (excerpt)
Léonce Perret (March 14, 1880 – August 14, 1935) was a prolific and innovative French film actor, director and producer. He also worked as a stage actor and director. Often described as avant-garde for his unorthodox directing methods, Léonce Perret introduced innovative camera, lighting and film scoring techniques to French cinema.
Biography of Paul Foster Case (excerpt)
Paul Foster Case (October 3, 1884 – March 2, 1954) was an American occultist of the early 20th Century and author of numerous books on Tarot and Qabalah.Perhaps his greatest contributions to the field of occultism were the lessons he wrote for associate members of Builders of the Adytum.
Biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay (excerpt)
Edna St.Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her time of birth comes directly from her own words, noted in her personal diary, which was published and made available for the first time in 2022, on page 52.
Biography of Frances Yates (excerpt)
Dame Frances Amelia Yates DBE (1899–1981) was a noted British historian.She taught at the Warburg Institute of the University of London for many years. Yates' father, a devout Anglican, was a naval engineer who began working in the shipyards as a teenager & supervised the construction of British warships in the years leading up to World War I.
Biography of Olga Solbelli (excerpt)
Olga Solbelli (11 May 1898 – 8 September 1976) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 85 films between 1939 and 1967. She was born in Verghereto and died in Bologna. Filmography (extracts) 1967 Assalto al tesoro di stato Madame Angot 1966 Les colts de la violence
Biography of José de Almada Negreiros (excerpt)
José Sobral de Almada Negreiros (São Tomé e Príncipe, São Tomé, Mé-Zóchi District, Trindade, Roça Saudade, April 7, 1893- Lisbon, Hospital de São Luís dos Franceses, June 15, 1970) was a Portuguese painter, poet and writer. He was born in the then colony of São Tomé e Príncipe, the son of a Portuguese farmer António Lobo de Almada Negreiros and a quarter-black and three quarters-Portuguese mother Elvira Freire Sobral.
Biography of Wilhelm Keitel (excerpt)
Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel (22 September 1882–16 October 1946) was a German field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall). As head of the High Command of the Armed Forces, he was one of Germany's most senior military leaders during World War II. At the allied court at Nuremberg he was tried, sentenced to death and hanged as a major war criminal.
Biography of George Cukor (excerpt)
George Dewey Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed What Price Hollywood. (1932), A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Little Women (1933), David Copperfield (1935), Romeo and Juliet (1936) and Camille (1936).
Biography of Douglas Fairbanks (excerpt)
Douglas Fairbanks (May 23, 1883 (birth time source: Nella Webb) – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer, who became noted for his swashbuckling roles in silent movies such as The Mark of Zorro (1920), The Three Musketeers (1921), Robin Hood (1922), The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and The Black Pirate (1926).
Biography of Friedrich Paulus (excerpt)
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus (23 September 1890 – 1 February 1957) was an officer in the German military from 1910 to 1943, attaining the rank of Generalfeldmarschall during World War II.He is most known for commanding the Sixth Army's assault on Stalingrad during Operation Blue in 1942.
Biography of Juan Gris (excerpt)
José Victoriano González-Pérez (March 23, 1887 – May 11, 1927), better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life. His works are closely connected to the emergence of an innovative artistic genre—Cubism. |
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