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Biography of Evelina Paoli (excerpt)
Evelina Paoli, born Lina Vianello (30 March 1878 – 28 December 1974), was an Italian actress. Born in Florence to a bourgeois family, she began her theatrical career at 18 with Achille Vitti's company and later joined Eleonora Duse's troupe, touring from 1900 to 1902.
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Biography of Dorothy West (novelist) (excerpt)
Dorothy West (June 2, 1907 – August 16, 1998) was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and magazine editor associated with the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s that celebrated black art, literature, and music. She was one of the few Black women writers to be published in major literary magazines in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Biography of Franco Rasetti (excerpt)
Franco Dino Rasetti (August 10, 1901 – December 5, 2001) was an Italian-born (later naturalized American) physicist, paleontologist, and botanist. A collaborator of Enrico Fermi, he contributed to key discoveries about nuclear fission but refused to work on the Manhattan Project for moral reasons.
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Biography of Willem van Hoogstraten (excerpt)
Willem van Hoogstraten was born on March 18, 1884, in Utrecht.A Dutch violinist and conductor, he began studying the violin at eight and continued his training in Cologne and Prague. He started his career conducting at a health resort before leading the Kleefeld Orchestra from 1914 to 1918.
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Biography of Carlos Pellicer (excerpt)
Carlos Pellicer Cámara (January 16, 1897, Villahermosa – February 16, 1977) was a modernist Mexican poet renowned for his depictions of nature and a sensual energy shared with Octavio Paz. His time of birth comes from the biography "Mirando el río de aquellas tardes: estudio sobre Carlos Pellicer" by Samuel Gordon, ICT, Government of the State of Tabasco, 1990.
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Biography of Salvador Novo (excerpt)
Salvador Novo López (July 30, 1904 – January 13, 1974) was a Mexican writer, poet, playwright, translator, and the official chronicler of Mexico City. A member of Los Contemporáneos and the Mexican Academy of Language, he significantly influenced Mexican politics, culture, and society.
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Biography of Warren William (excerpt)
Warren William, born Warren William Krech on December 2, 1894, and died on September 24, 1948, was a Broadway and Hollywood actor, immensely popular during the early 1930s. Nicknamed the "King of Pre-Code," he was the first actor to portray defense attorney Perry Mason on the big screen.
Biography of Don Ingalls (excerpt)
Donald G. Ingalls (July 29, 1918 – March 10, 2014) was an American screenwriter and television producer. A B-17 pilot during World War II, he later became a test pilot before joining the Los Angeles Police Department, where he met Gene Roddenberry.
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Biography of Gisčle Freund (excerpt)
Gisčle Freund (born Gisela Freund; 19 December 1908 – 31 March 2000) was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist, famous for her documentary photography and portraits of writers and artists.Her best-known book, Photographie et société (1974), is a expanded edition of her seminal 1936 dissertation.
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Biography of Ed Walker (American veteran) (excerpt)
Edgar Walker (August 28, 1917 – October 28, 2011) was an American World War II veteran, businessman, publisher, and writer.He was a member of "Castner's Cutthroats," an elite reconnaissance unit in the Aleutian Islands. Born in San Juan Bautista, California, he enlisted in the Army in 1937 and developed a passion for Alaska, where he joined Castner's Cutthroats.
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Biography of Pierre Bourgeois (poet) (excerpt)
Pierre Bourgeois (born December 4, 1898, in Charleroi; died May 25, 1976) was a Belgian poet and filmmaker. The younger brother of architect Victor Bourgeois, he co-edited the 7 Arts magazine from 1922 to 1929.This publication, dedicated to geometric abstraction, aimed to synthesize various arts, including painting, sculpture, literature, and cinema.
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Biography of Emilio Amero (excerpt)
Emilio Amero (May 25, 1901, in Ixtlahuacán del Río, Jalisco – April 12, 1976, in Norman, Oklahoma) was a prominent Mexican artist, illustrator, muralist, and educator, central to the Mexican Modern art movement. Shaped by the Mexican Revolution, he expressed his artistic vision through painting, lithography, illustration, photography, and filmmaking.
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Biography of Keith Holyoake (excerpt)
Sir Keith Jacka Holyoake (born February 11, 1904 – died December 8, 1983) was a New Zealand politician.He served as the 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand, briefly in 1957 and then from 1960 to 1972, and as the 13th Governor-General from 1977 to 1980.
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Biography of Adriaan Morriën (excerpt)
Adriaan Morriën (Velsen, June 5, 1912 – Amsterdam, June 7, 2002) was a Dutch poet, writer of short prose, essayist, translator, and critic.Morriën made his debut in 1935, shortly before its closure, in the magazine Forum, led by Menno ter Braak and E.
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Biography of Ferdinand von Bredow (excerpt)
Ferdinand von Bredow (16 May 1884 – 30 June 1934) was a German Generalmajor, head of the Abwehr, and deputy defence minister in Kurt von Schleicher's cabinet. He was killed during the Night of the Long Knives, accused of plotting against Hitler.
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Biography of Kurt Hirsch (excerpt)
Kurt August Hirsch (12 January 1906 – 4 November 1986) was a German mathematician who moved to England to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews.His research was in group theory.He also worked to reform mathematics education and became a county chess champion.
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Biography of John Wilson McIlvaine (excerpt)
John Wilson McIlvaine (June 22, 1907 – July 1, 1963) was a United States District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He earned a Bachelor of Science from Washington & Jefferson College in 1928, and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Pittsburgh in 1932, before entering private legal practice.
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Biography of Mary Eccles (excerpt)
Mary Eccles, Viscountess Eccles, born Mary Morley Crapo on July 8, 1912, and died August 26, 2003, was an American-British author and renowned literary collector.She was also known as Mary Hyde during her first marriage. She assembled one of the greatest private collections of 18th-century literature, focused on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, which she donated to Harvard.
Biography of Ah Jook Ku (excerpt)
Ah Jook Ku, born April 24, 1910, in Kailua, Hawaii, and died August 6, 2007, was a trailblazing American journalist. She was the first Asian American reporter for the Associated Press and the first Asian American woman at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, where she began as a high school correspondent.
Biography of Marc-Adolphe Guégan (excerpt)
Marc-Adolphe Guégan (25 January 1891 – 6 November 1959) was a French journalist and poet, a pioneer of haiku in the French language. He lived on the Île d’Yeu in the Atlantic, drawing inspiration from its landscapes. A close friend of Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe (known as Marcel Moore), he collaborated with them on two books.
Biography of James Lewin (excerpt)
James Lewin (October 28, 1887 – December 31, 1937) was a German-Jewish psychiatrist and physician. Born in Berlin, he studied medicine and philosophy at the University of Berlin, earning his PhD in 1912. He specialized in psychiatry, working in Kiel and Leipzig.
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Biography of Gottfried von Bismarck-Schönhausen (excerpt)
Count Gottfried von Bismarck-Schönhausen (9 March 1901 – 14 September 1949) was a German politician and a conspirator in the 20 July 1944 plot. Born in Berlin, he was the grandson of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.A member of the Nazi Party, he was elected to the Reichstag in 1933 and served as Kreisleiter in Rügen until 1934.
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Biography of Ulrich Rauscher (excerpt)
Ulrich Karl Paul Rauscher (June 26, 1884 – December 18, 1930) was a German journalist, writer, and diplomat. After studying law, he became a correspondent for Frankfurter Zeitung in Strasbourg and Berlin, and collaborated with Die Schaubühne.He was among the first to recognize cinema's potential as a propaganda tool.
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Biography of Henriette Wyeth (excerpt)
Henriette Wyeth Hurd (October 22, 1907 – April 3, 1997) was an American artist known for her portraits and still life paintings. Her time of birth comes from her. The eldest daughter of illustrator N.C. Wyeth, she studied painting under her father and brother Andrew Wyeth at their home studio in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
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Biography of Werner Kolhörster (excerpt)
Werner Heinrich Gustav Kolhörster (December 28, 1887 – August 5, 1946) was a German physicist and a pioneer in cosmic ray research. Born in Schwiebus (now Świebodzin, Poland), he studied physics at the University of Halle under Friedrich Ernst Dorn. In 1913-1914, replicating Victor Hess' experiments, he ascended to 9 km by balloon, confirming that cosmic ray ionization increases with altitude, proving that these ionizing rays originate from space.
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Biography of Wolfgang Gurlitt (excerpt)
Wolfgang Gurlitt (February 15, 1888 – March 26, 1965) was a German art dealer, museum director, and publisher whose collection included Nazi-looted artworks. The grandson of painter Louis Gurlitt and son of art dealer Fritz Gurlitt, he took over the Fritz Gurlitt Gallery in 1907.
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Biography of Arthur O'Connell (excerpt)
Arthur Joseph O'Connell, born on March 29, 1908, and died on May 18, 1981, was an American actor known for character roles in film, stage, and TV during the 1950s. He earned two Academy Award nominations for Picnic (1955) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959).
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Biography of Robert Jentzsch (excerpt)
Robert Georg Adolf Alfred Jentzsch (November 4, 1890 – March 21, 1918) was a German mathematician and poet. Born in Königsberg, he was the youngest of four children.His father, Alfred Jentzsch, was a prominent geologist, and his mother, Clara Falkson, was the daughter of a Jewish physician.
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Biography of Siegfried Sassoon (excerpt)
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry described the horrors of the trenches and satirized the jingoistic patriotism that he believed fueled the war.
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Biography of Bernard Boutet de Monvel (excerpt)
Bernard Boutet de Monvel (born August 9, 1881 – died October 28, 1949) was a French painter, sculptor, engraver, fashion illustrator, and interior decorator. Initially recognized for his etchings, he later gained renown for his geometric paintings of the 1900s and his Moroccan-inspired works during World War I.
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Biography of Rüdiger von der Goltz (lawyer) (excerpt)
Gustav Adolf Karl Joachim Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz (10 July 1894 – 18 April 1976) was a German lawyer and Nazi Party member known for defending figures like Joseph Goebbels before their rise to power. Born into a noble family in Charlottenburg, he lost a leg in World War I and earned a Doctor of Law degree in 1919.
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Biography of Alexander Kanoldt (excerpt)
Alexander Kanoldt (29 September 1881 – 24 January 1939) was a German painter associated with New Objectivity and magic realism. Born in Karlsruhe, he was the son of Edmund Kanoldt, a Nazarene-style painter.After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, he moved to Munich in 1908, where he interacted with modernists like Alexej von Jawlensky and Wassily Kandinsky.
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Biography of Lillian Smith (author) (excerpt)
Lillian Eugenia Smith, born December 12, 1897, and died September 28, 1966, was a writer and social critic from the Southern United States, known for her non-fiction and fiction works, including the best-selling novel Strange Fruit (1944). A White woman from the South, she embraced controversial positions advocating for racial and gender equality.
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Biography of Eric Ledermann (excerpt)
Eric Kurt Ledermann (16 May 1908 – 7 May 2005) was a German psychiatrist, homeopath, naturopath, and philosopher. Born in Berlin to Jewish parents, he earned his medical degree from the University of Freiburg in 1932.Influenced by Alfred Adler and Jan Smuts, he embraced a vitalist philosophy.
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Biography of Marion Dönhoff (excerpt)
Marion Hedda Ilse Gräfin von Dönhoff (December 2, 1909 – March 11, 2002) was a German journalist and publisher who resisted Nazism alongside Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. Born into Prussian nobility, she grew up in Friedrichstein Palace, which was destroyed by the Red Army in 1945.
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Biography of Ormond McGill (excerpt)
Ormond Dale McGill, born on June 15, 1913 in Palo Alto, California, and died on October 19, 2005, was an American stage hypnotist, magician, and author, known as the "Dean of American Hypnotists." His time of birth comes from him, in his book "The Amazing Life of Ormond McGill", by Ormond McGill (Crown House, 2005).
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Biography of Polly Ann Young (excerpt)
Polly Ann Young, born October 25, 1908, in Denver and died January 21, 1997, in Los Angeles, was an American actress.She was the sister of fellow actresses Loretta Young and Sally Blane. From 1917 to 1941, she appeared in over 40 films, many in minor or uncredited roles.
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Biography of Lock Martin (excerpt)
Joseph Lockard "Lock" Martin Jr.(October 12, 1916 – January 19, 1959) was an American performer afflicted with gigantism.Martin and a twin brother were born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; his brother died in childbirth. Martin would eventually grow to over 7 feet tall by adulthood, though his exact height was reported inconsistently.
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Biography of Richard G. Colbert (excerpt)
Richard Gary Colbert (February 12, 1915 – December 2, 1973) was a four-star U.S. Navy admiral renowned for fostering international naval cooperation during the Cold War. He served as President of the Naval War College from 1968 to 1971, and then as Commander in Chief of NATO's Southern European forces from 1972 until his death in 1973.
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Biography of Alex Golden Oblad (excerpt)
Alex Golden Oblad (November 26, 1909 – September 19, 2000) was an American chemist and chemical engineer, recognized for his pioneering work in catalysis and catalytic chemistry. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he grew up in Sugar House and studied at the University of Utah before earning a Ph.D.
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Biography of Sorley MacLean (excerpt)
Sorley MacLean (* October 26, 1911 – † November 24, 1996) was a Scottish Gaelic poet, regarded as one of the major modern Scottish poets. Born into a strict Presbyterian family on the Isle of Raasay, he was immersed in Gaelic culture and literature but later embraced socialism.
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Biography of René Tavernier (geologist) (excerpt)
René Tavernier (August 26, 1914 – November 19, 1992) was a Belgian geologist, pedologist, and stratigrapher, born in Nevele and died in Ghent. A professor of geology at Ghent University, he was a member of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten and co-founder of the Belgian Soil Science Society (SBSS).
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Biography of Tess Slesinger (excerpt)
Theresa "Tess" Slesinger (July 16, 1905 – February 21, 1945) was an American writer and screenwriter, active in New York’s intellectual scene. Born in New York to a Jewish family of Hungarian descent, she was educated at Ethical Culture Fieldston School, Swarthmore College, and Columbia Journalism School.
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Biography of Adrienne Dore (excerpt)
Adrienne Dore, born Elizabeth Himmelsbach on May 22, 1907, and died November 26, 1992, was an American actress, model, and beauty queen.She was Miss Los Angeles and first runner-up at the 1925 Miss America pageant. Educated at a convent in Seattle, she trained in theater and dance, later performing in musical revues in New York.
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Biography of Cristina Kahlo (excerpt)
Cristina Kahlo y Calderón (June 7, 1908 – February 8, 1964) was the younger sister of Frida Kahlo and shared a deep emotional bond with her. She posed for both Frida and Diego Rivera, with whom she had an affair after the birth of her second child.
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Biography of Joseph J. Katz (excerpt)
Joseph J. Katz (April 19, 1912, Detroit – January 28, 2008, Chicago) was a chemist at Argonne National Laboratory. His groundbreaking research on photosynthesis earned him membership in the US National Academy of Sciences. He was the son of Jewish immigrants from Czarist Russia, neither of whom had formal schooling.
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Biography of Friedrich Karl Georg Rumpf (excerpt)
Friedrich Karl Georg Rumpf, known as Fritz Rumpf (* January 5, 1888, in Berlin Charlottenburg; † May 13, 1949, in Potsdam), was a German draftsman, folklorist, and Japanologist. The son of painter Fritz Rumpf the Elder, he learned Japanese at the age of 15 and studied at the Königliche Kunstschule Berlin.
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Biography of Jacques-Paul Bonjean (excerpt)
Jacques-Paul Bonjean (born April 3, 1899, in Paris 15ᵉ, died November 18, 1990, in Paris 8ᵉ) was a French art dealer, antique dealer, and collector. In 1927, he co-founded La Maison des quatre chemins with Maurice Sachs, publishing luxury editions of works by Max Jacob and Jean Cocteau, and later opened galleries with Pierre Colle and Christian Dior.
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Biography of Eleanor Keaton (excerpt)
Eleanor Ruth Keaton (née Norris; July 29, 1918 – October 19, 1998) was an American dancer and variety performer. She became an MGM contract dancer in her teens. At age 21, she married silent film legend Buster Keaton, becoming his third wife. She played a key role in reviving his personal life and career.
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Biography of Leopoldo Trieste (excerpt)
Leopoldo Trieste (3 May 1917 – 25 January 2003) was an Italian actor, film director and script writer. Trieste was born in Reggio Calabria. He worked with directors such as Pietro Germi, Francis Ford Coppola, Giuseppe Tornatore, Mario Bava, Tinto Brass, Charles Vidor, René Clément and Federico Fellini. |
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