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Horoscopes 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. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Rama V (excerpt)
King Chulalongkorn the Great or Rama V (royal name: Phra Chula Chomklao Chaoyuhua; Thai: พระบาทสมเด็จพระจุลจอมเกล้าเจ้าอยู่หัว) (September 20, 1853 – October 23, 1910) was the fifth king of the Chakri dynasty of Thailand. He is regarded as one of the greatest kings of Siam. ![]()
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Lincoln is the capital city of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County. The city covers 96.194 square miles (249.141 km2) with a population of 289,102 in 2019. It is the second-most populous city in Nebraska and the 68th-largest in the United States. ![]()
Biography of Wolfgang Abendroth (excerpt)
Wolfgang Abendroth (2 May 1906 - 15 September 1985) was a socialist German jurist and political scientist. Abendroth was an important contributor to the constitutional foundation of postwar West Germany. He briefly held a professorship in law in East Germany. As he was opposed to Stalinism, he left for West Germany, where he was appointed professor in political science at Marburg in 1950. ![]()
Biography of Norma Talmadge (excerpt)
Norma Talmadge (May 2, 1894 – December 24, 1957) was one of the greatest film stars of the silent era. A major box office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 20s, when she ranked among the most popular idols of the American screen.
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Biography of Gustav Stresemann (excerpt)
Gustav Stresemann (May 10, 1878 – October 3, 1929) was a German liberal politician and statesman who served as Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic. He was co-laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926. Stresemann's politics defy easy categorization. ![]()
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Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo (Congo Republic). Constituting the financial and administrative centre of the country, it is located on the north side of the Congo River, opposite Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo).
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Biography of André Berthomieu (excerpt)
André Berthomieu (1903-1960) was a French screenwriter and film director. Selected filmography Director An Ideal Woman (1934) The Girl in the Taxi (1937) The Train for Venice (1938) The Woman of Monte Carlo (1938)
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Biography of Otto Abetz (excerpt)
Otto Abetz (May 26, 1903 – May 5, 1958) was the German ambassador to Vichy France during World War II. Early years Abetz was born in Schwetzingen. He matriculated in Karlsruhe, where he became an art teacher at a girls' school. He was interested in French culture at an early age. ![]()
Biography of Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (excerpt)
Ernst Rüdiger Camillo Starhemberg (Eferding, 10 May 1899 (birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut) – Schruns, 15 March 1956; His Serene Highness Ernst Rüdiger Camillo 6. Fürst von Starhemberg until the 1919 abolition of nobility) was an Austrian nationalist and conservative politician prior to World War II, a leader of the Heimwehr and later of the Christian Social Party/Fatherland's Front. ![]()
Biography of Rémy Roure (excerpt)
Rémy Roure, born on October 1885 in Arcens (birth time source: Lescaut), died on November 8, 1966 in Paris, was a French journalist, author, and a member of the French Resistance. Bibliography (extract) L'Alsace minée ou De l'autonomisme alsacien, Paris, 1929
Biography of Henri Selva (excerpt)
Arthur Herrmann Vlès, best known as Henri Selva, born in Antony June 8, 1861 and died in Paris in July 1944, was a French astrologer, scientist and author. His main works is Traité théorique et pratique d'astrologie généthliaque (Paris, Chamuel, 1900). ![]()
Biography of Stanford White (excerpt)
Stanford White (November 9, 1853, New York – June 25, 1906) was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms. He designed a long series of houses for the rich and the very rich, and various public, institutional, and religious buildings, some of which can be found to this day in places like Sea Gate, Brooklyn. ![]()
Biography of Lillian Russell (excerpt)
Lillian Russell (December 4, 1861 – June 6, 1922) was an American actress and singer. Born Helen Louise Leonard in Clinton, Iowa, Lillian Russell became one of the most famous actresses and singers of the late 19th century and early 20th century, known for her beauty and style, as well as for her voice and stage presence. ![]()
Biography of Aristide Maillol (excerpt)
Aristide Maillol (December 8, 1861–September 27, 1944) was a French Catalan sculptor and painter. Maillol was born in Banyuls-sur-Mer, Roussillon. He decided at an early age to become a painter, and moved to Paris in 1881 to study art. After several applications, his enrollment in the École des Beaux-Arts was accepted in 1885, and he studied there under Jean-Léon Gérôme and Alexandre Cabanel. ![]()
Biography of Amédée Gordini (excerpt)
Amédée Gordini (June 23, 1899 – May 25, 1979) was an Italian-born race car driver and sports car manufacturer in France. Gordini was born in Bazzano, Province of Bologna in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. He was a young boy when he became fascinated with automobiles and racing. ![]()
Biography of Nancy Mitford (excerpt)
Nancy Freeman-Mitford, CBE (28 November 1904, London - 30 June 1973, Versailles), styled The Hon. Nancy Mitford before her marriage and The Hon. Mrs Rodd thereafter, was an English novelist and biographer, one of the "Bright Young Things" on the London social scene in the inter-war years.
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Biography of Cassandre (painter) (excerpt)
Adolphe Mouron Cassandre (January 24, 1901 – June 17, 1968) was an influential Ukrainian-French painter, commercial poster artist, and typeface designer. Born Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron in Kharkov, Ukraine, to French parents, as a young man, Cassandre moved to Paris, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and at the Académie Julian. ![]()
Biography of Ottorino Respighi (excerpt)
Ottorino Respighi (July 9, 1879 - April 18, 1936) was an Italian composer, musicologist and conductor. He is best known for his orchestral Roman trilogy: Fontane di Roma - "Fountains of Rome"; Pini di Roma - "Pines of Rome"; and Feste Romane - "Roman Festivals". ![]()
Biography of William Soutar (excerpt)
William Soutar was a Scottish poet, born April 28, 1898. He served in the navy in World War I, and afterwards studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he encountered the work of Hugh McDiarmid. This led to a radical alteration in his work, and he became a leading poet of the Scottish Literary Renaissance. ![]()
Biography of Marie Bashkirtseff (excerpt)
Marie Bashkirtseff (Мария Константиновна Башкирцева; November 12, 1858 (November 24, Gregorian calendar) — October 31, 1884) was a Ukrainian-born Russian diarist, painter and sculptor. Born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva in Gavrontsy near Poltava, to a wealthy noble family, she grew up abroad, traveling with her mother across most of Europe. ![]()
Biography of Edith Cavell (excerpt)
Edith Louisa Cavell (December 4, 1865–October 12, 1915) was a British World War I nurse and humanitarian. She is celebrated for helping hundreds of Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium. Her subsequent execution received significant sympathetic press coverage worldwide. “Patriotism is not enough…” Her strong religious belief propelled Cavell to help all those who needed help - whether a member of the German forces or the Allied forces. ![]()
Biography of Paul Winter (excerpt)
Paul Winter (February 6, 1906 in Ribeauvillé – February 23, 1992) was a French athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw. He competed for a France in the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, California, in the discus throw where he won the bronze medal. ![]()
Biography of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (excerpt)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (August 15, 1875–September 1, 1912) was a black, English composer who achieved such success he was called "The Black Mahler." History Coleridge-Taylor was born in Holborn, London, to a Sierra Leonean (Krio) father, Daniel Peter Hughes Taylor, and an English mother, Alice Hare Martin.
Biography of Isabelle Pagan (excerpt)
Isabelle Pagan, born December 12, 1867 in Dairsie, Scotland, died in 1960, was a Scottish astrologer, theosophist, lecturer and writer. ![]()
Biography of Harvey Firestone (excerpt)
Harvey Samuel Firestone (December 20, 1868 – February 7, 1938) was the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, one of the first global makers of automobile tires and an important contributor to North American economic growth during the 20th century.
Biography of Gianna Pederzini (excerpt)
Gianna Pederzini (February 10, 1900, Avio near Trento - March 12, 1988, Rome) was an Italian mezzo-soprano. Pederzini studied in Naples with Fernando de Lucia, and made her stage debut in Messina, as Preziosilla, in 1923. She sang widely in Italy, notably as Mignon and Carmen, and made her debut at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, as Adalgisa, in 1928, and at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, in 1930.
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Biography of Henri Jeanson (excerpt)
Henri Jeanson, (b. 6 March 1900, Paris - d. 6 November 1970, Équemauville) was a French writer and journalist. He was a "satrap" in the "College of Pataphysics". As a journalist before World War II Jeanson was born on the 6th of March in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Henri Queuille (excerpt)
Henri Queuille (French pronunciation: ; 31 March 1884 in Neuvic, Corrèze - 15 June 1970) was a French Radical politician prominent in the Third and Fourth Republics. After World War II, he served three times as Prime Minister. He was the son of a noblewoman, twice a descendant of King Jean de Brienne of Jerusalem. ![]()
Biography of Hugh Dowding (excerpt)
Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswell Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding , (24 April 1882 - 15 February 1970) was a British officer in the Royal Air Force. He was the commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. Early life ![]()
Biography of René Dumesnil (excerpt)
René, Alphonse, Adolphe Dumesnil, born on June 19, 1879 in Rouen (birth time source: Lescaut), died on December 24, 1967 in Paris, was a French physician, critic, author, and musicologist. Publications (extracts) Le Rythme musical — 1921 ; 2e éd.
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Biography of Hans-Georg Gadamer (excerpt)
Hans-Georg Gadamer (German pronunciation: ; February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode). Life Gadamer was born in Marburg, Hesse-Nassau, as the son of a pharmaceutical chemist who later also served as the rector of the university there.
Biography of Thomas Ring (excerpt)
Thomas Ring, born November 28, 1892 in Nürnberg, died August 24, 1983, was a German author, astrologer, philosopher, artist and painter. ![]()
Biography of Max Reger (excerpt)
Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (March 19, 1873 – May 11, 1916) was a German composer, organist, pianist and teacher. Life Born in Brand, Bavaria, Reger studied music in Munich and Wiesbaden with Hugo Riemann. From September 1901 he settled in Munich, where he obtained concert offers and where his rapid rise to fame began.
Biography of Marie Dressler (excerpt)
Marie Dressler (November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934) was an Academy Award-winning Canadian actress. Biography Born Leila Marie Koerber in Cobourg, Ontario to parents Alexander Rudolph Koerber (who was Austrian) and Anna Henderson. The young Dressler was able to hone her talents to make other people laugh, and began her acting career when she was fourteen. ![]()
Biography of Victor Grignard (excerpt)
François Auguste Victor Grignard (May 6, 1871 in Cherbourg (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - December 13, 1935 in Lyon) was a Nobel Prize-winning French chemist. Grignard was the son of a sail maker. After studying mathematics at Lyon he transferred to chemistry, becoming a professor at the University of Nancy in 1910. ![]()
Biography of John Foster Dulles (excerpt)
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world. ![]()
Biography of Georges Dufrénoy (excerpt)
Georges Dufrénoy (June 20, 1870 (birth time source: Lescaut) – December 9, 1943) was a French post-Impressionist painter associated with Fauvism. Biography He was born in Thiais, France. His family lived at 2 Place des Vosges in Paris in a historic 17th century building in which he lived all his life.
Biography of Hubert Josef Urban (excerpt)
Hubert Josef Urban, born June 4, 1904 in Linz, is an Austrian parapsychologist, professor of psychiatry and writer.
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Biography of E.E. Smith (excerpt)
E. E. Smith, also Edward Elmer Smith, Ph.D., E.E. "Doc" Smith, Doc Smith, "Skylark" Smith, and (to family) Ted (May 2, 1890 - August 31, 1965) was a food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and early science fiction author who wrote the Lensman series and the Skylark series, among others. ![]()
Biography of Walter Chrysler (excerpt)
Walter Percy Chrysler (April 2, 1875 – August 18, 1940) was an American automobile pioneer. He was born in Wamego, Kansas and grew up in Ellis, Kansas. From 1905-1906, Chrysler worked for the Fort Worth and Denver Railway in Childress, a West Texas city considered the "Gateway to the Texas Panhandle. ![]()
Biography of Albert Samain (excerpt)
Albert Victor Samain (April 3, 1858 — August 18, 1900) was a French poet and writer of the Symbolist school. Born in Lille, his family were Flemish and had long lived in the town or its suburbs. At the time of the poet's birth, his father, Jean-Baptiste Samain, and his mother, Elisa-Henriette Mouquet, conducted a business in "wines and spirits" at 75 rue de Paris. ![]()
Biography of Jules Bonnot (excerpt)
Jules Bonnot (October 14, 1876 - April 28, 1912) was a French illegalist famous for his involvement in a criminal anarchist organization dubbed "The Bonnot Gang" by the French press. He viewed himself as a professional and avoided bloodshed, preferring to outwit his targets. ![]()
Biography of Hubert Lyautey (excerpt)
Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey (November 17, 1854 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - July 27, 1934) was a French general, the first Resident-General in Morocco from 1912 to 1925 and from 1921 Marshal of France. Early life Lyautey was born at Nancy (Lorraine). ![]()
Biography of Konstantin von Neurath (excerpt)
Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath (2 February 1873 – 14 August 1956) was a German diplomat, Foreign Minister of Germany (1932-1938) and Reichsprotektor (Governor) of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1941). Neurath remained titular Protector until 1943. Early life He was born in Vaihingen an der Enz, Kingdom of Württemberg, the son of minor Swabian nobility. ![]()
Biography of Georges Auric (excerpt)
Georges Auric (February 15, 1899 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – July 23, 1983) was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. He was a child prodigy and at age 15 he had his first compositions published. ![]()
Biography of André Marty (excerpt)
André Marty (6 November 1886 - 23 November 1956) was a leading figure in the French Communist Party, the PCF, for nearly thirty years. He was also a member of the National Assembly, with some interruptions, from 1924 to 1955; Secretary of Comintern from 1935 to 1944; and Political Commissar of the International Brigades in Spain from 1936 to 1938. ![]()
Biography of Hilaire Belloc (excerpt)
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953) was a French-born writer who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. Recent biographies of Belloc have been written by A.
Biography of Marcel Prélot (excerpt)
Marcel Prélot, born October 30, 1898 in Janville ((Eure-et-Loir), died December 26, 1972 in Puget (Var), was a French politician, member of UDR (Union démocratique pour la Ve République).
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Biography of Edmond Sée (excerpt)
Edmond Sée, born on March 21, 1875 in Bayonne (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1959, was a French journalist, playwright, and author.
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Biography of James Finlayson (excerpt)
James Henderson "Jimmy" Finlayson (August 27, 1887 – October 9, 1953) was a Scottish-American actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Bald, with a fake moustache, Finlayson had many trademark comic mannerisms and is famous for his squinting, outraged, "double take and fade away" head reaction, and characteristic expression "d'ooooooh. |
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