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Biography of Werner Heisenberg (excerpt)
Werner Karl Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 – February 1, 1976) was a celebrated German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics and acknowledged to be one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century. Heisenberg was the head of the German nuclear energy project under the Nazi regime, though the nature of this project, and his work in this capacity, has been heavily debated. ![]()
Biography of Georges Marchais (excerpt)
Georges René Louis Marchais (June 7, 1920, La Hoguette in Calvados - November 16, 1997, Paris) was the head of the French Communist Party (PCF), and a candidate in the French presidential elections of 1981 - in which he managed to garner only 15.
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Biography of Henri Charrière (excerpt)
Henri Charrière (French pronunciation: ; 16 November 1906 – 29 July 1973) was a French writer, convicted as a murderer by the French courts. He wrote the novel Papillon, a memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a penal colony in French Guiana. ![]()
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Cuba gained formal independence from the U.S. on May 20, 1902, as the Republic of Cuba. Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba (Spanish: República de Cuba (About this soundlisten)), is a country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.
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Biography of Phyllis Diller (excerpt)
Phyllis Diller (born July 17, 1917, a Golden Globe-nominated American comedienne, is considered one of the pioneers of female stand-up comedy. She created a stage character persona that was a wild-haired, eccentrically dressed housewife who made jokes about a fictional husband named "Fang" while smoking from a long cigarette holder.
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Biography of E. E. Cummings (excerpt)
Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), popularly known as E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, and playwright. His body of work encompasses more than 900 poems, several plays and essays, numerous drawings, sketches, and paintings, as well as two novels.
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Biography of Claudette Colbert (excerpt)
Claudette Colbert (September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996) was an Academy Award-winning French-American actress for It Happened One Night. She was popular leading lady in Hollywood films, particularly during the 1930s and 1940s. Almost all her titles were American movies. In 1999, she was ranked 12th by the American Film Institute in their list Greatest Female Stars of All Time. ![]()
Biography of Ferdinand Marcos (excerpt)
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralín Marcos (September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives (1949-1959) and a member of the Philippine Senate (1959-1965). During World War II he was the leader of the Ang Maharlika guerrilla force in northern Luzon.
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Biography of Magda Goebbels (excerpt)
Johanna Maria Magdalena "Magda" Goebbels (11 November 1901 – 1 May 1945) was the wife of Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. A prominent member of the Nazi party, she was a close ally and political supporter of Adolf Hitler. As Berlin was being overrun by the Red Army at the end of World War II, she murdered her six children with Goebbels and then committed suicide. ![]()
Biography of Peter Kürten (excerpt)
Peter Kürten May 26, 1883-July 2, 1931 was a German serial killer dubbed The Vampire of Düsseldorf by the contemporary media. He committed a series of sex crimes, assaults and murders against adults and children, most notoriously from February to November 1929 in Düsseldorf.
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Biography of Gérard Oury (excerpt)
Gérard Oury (April 29, 1919, Paris – July 20, 2006, Saint-Tropez) was a French actor, writer and producer. His real name was Max-Gérard Tannenbaum. A commercially successful French filmmaker The son of a pianist and journalist, Oury studied at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. ![]()
Biography of Lúcia dos Santos (excerpt)
Lúcia de Jesus dos Santos, O.C.D. (March 22, 1907 (birth time source: Filipe Ferreira, birth certificate) – February 13, 2005), also known as Lúcia of Fátima and by her religious name Sister Maria Lúcia of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart, was a Portuguese Catholic Carmelite nun and one of the three children, including her cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto, who claimed to witness Marian apparitions in Fátima in 1917. ![]()
Biography of Barbara Hutton (excerpt)
Barbara Woolworth Hutton (November 14, 1912 – May 11, 1979) was an American debutante, socialite, heiress, and philanthropist. She was dubbed the "Poor Little Rich Girl", first when she was given a lavish and expensive debutante ball in 1930, amid the Great Depression, and later due to a notoriously troubled private life.
Biography of Philippe Ariès (excerpt)
Philippe Ariès (July 21, 1914, Blois - February 8, 1984, Paris) was an important French medievalist and historian of the family and childhood, in the style of Georges Duby. Ariès has written many books on the common daily life. His most prominent works regarded the change in the western attitudes towards death.
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Biography of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (excerpt)
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (Olga Nikolaevna Romanova) (Tsarskoe Selo, Russia, November 15 1895 – July 17, 1918) (after 1900, Olga's birthday was celebrated on the 16th of November) was the eldest daughter of the last autocratic ruler of the Russian Empire, Emperor Nicholas II, and of Empress Alexandra of Russia.
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Biography of Golda Meir (excerpt)
Golda Meir (Hebrew: גולדה מאיר, Arabic: جولدا مائير, born Golda Mabovitch, May 3, 1898 (14 May gregorian calendar) - December 8, 1978, known as Golda Myerson from 1917-1956) was the fourth prime minister of the State of Israel. Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister .
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Biography of Lena Horne (excerpt)
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an African-American dancer, actress, Grammy-winning singer, and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned over 70 years, appearing in film, television, and theater. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of 16 and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood.
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Biography of Michel Audiard (excerpt)
Pierre Michel Audiard (French pronunciation: ; 15 May 1920 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, acte 5904) – 27 July 1985) was a French screenwriter and film director. He was the father of French film director Jacques Audiard. Filmography 1940s - 1950s
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Biography of Oliver Hardy (excerpt)
Oliver Hardy (born Norvell Hardy; January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) was an American actor, most remembered for his role in one of the world's most famous double acts, Laurel and Hardy, with his friend Stan Laurel. Name He did not adopt the name "Oliver" until 1914, doing so as a tribute to his father, who had died when Hardy was an infant.
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Biography of Maurice Chevalier (excerpt)
Maurice Chevalier (September 12, 1888 – January 1, 1972) was a Belgian-French actor, singer, and popular entertainer. Chevalier's signature songs included "Louise", "Mimi", and "Valentine." His trademark was a casual straw hat, which he always wore on stage with his tuxedo. ![]()
Biography of Witold Lutoslawski (excerpt)
Witold Lutosławski (January 25, 1913 – February 7, 1994) was one of the major European composers of the 20th century, and one of the pre-eminent Polish musicians during his last three decades. During his lifetime, Lutosławski earned many international awards and prizes, including the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest honour.
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Biography of Isabella I of Castile (excerpt)
Isabella I of Castile (April 22, 1451 – November 26, 1504) was Queen regnant of Castile and Leon. She and her husband, Ferdinand II of Aragon, laid the foundation for the political unification of Spain under their grandson, Carlos I of Spain (Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor).
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Biography of Margaret Mead (excerpt)
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901, Philadelphia – November 15, 1978, New York City) was an American cultural anthropologist. Early years Mead was the first of five children, born into a Quaker family, raised near Doylestown, Pennsylvania by her university professor at the University at Pennsylvania father, Edward Sherwood Mead, and social-activist mother, Emily Fogg Mead.
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Biography of Pierre Mendès France (excerpt)
Pierre Mendès France (11 January 1907 - 18 October 1982), French politician, was born in Paris, into a family of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin (Mendes de França). Third Republic and World War II He was educated at the University of Paris, graduating with a doctorate in law and becoming the youngest member of the Paris Bar association in 1928.
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Biography of Claus von Stauffenberg (excerpt)
Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer and one of the leading figures of the failed July 20 Plot of 1944 to kill German dictator Adolf Hitler and seize power in Germany.
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Biography of Katherine Mansfield (excerpt)
Kathleen Mansfield Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction who wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield was born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp into a socially prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand.
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Biography of Danny Kaye (excerpt)
Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; January 18, 1911 (birth time source: Gar Osten quotes Kaye's widow by phone, AFA DX., a 1938 ship's passenger list as well as the social security death index give 1911 as his birth year) – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian, musician, and philanthropist. ![]()
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The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor within New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel. ![]()
Biography of Paul Delvaux (excerpt)
Paul Delvaux (September 23, 1897 – July 20, 1994) was a Belgian painter, famous for his surrealist paintings with female nudes. Delvaux was born in Antheit in the Belgian province of Liège, the son of a lawyer. The young Delvaux took music lessons, studied Greek and Latin, and absorbed the fiction of Jules Verne and the poetry of Homer. ![]()
Biography of Marcel Aymé (excerpt)
Marcel Aymé (March 29, 1902 - October 14, 1967) was a French novelist, children's writer , humour writer and also a movie and theater playwright. Marcel Aymé was born in Joigny, in the Yonne département (Bourgogne). He studied in the Collège de Dole, and worked among other as a journalist in Paris. ![]()
Biography of René Clément (excerpt)
René Clément March 18, 1913, Bordeaux – March 17, 1996, Monte Carlo, Monaco) was a French film director and screenwriter. Clément studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. In 1936, he directed his first film, a 20 minute short written and featuring Jacques Tati. ![]()
Biography of Marcel Bigeard (excerpt)
Marcel "Bruno" Bigeard (14 February 1916 (birth time source: Barbault, birth certificate) – 18 June 2010) was a French military officer who fought in World War II, Indochina and Algeria. He was one of the commanders in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and is thought by many to have been a dominating influence on French 'unconventional' warfare thinking from that time onwards.
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Biography of Susan Hayward (excerpt)
Susan Hayward (June 30, 1917 – March 14, 1975) was an Academy Award-winning American actress. Early life Hayward was born Edythe Marrenner in Brooklyn, New York to Walter Marrenner and Ellen Pearson. Her maternal grandparents were from Sweden. She began her career as a photographer's model.
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Biography of Martine Carol (excerpt)
Martine Carol (May 16, 1920 – February 6, 1967) was a French film actress. Born Marie-Louise Jeanne Nicolle Mourer in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne (France), she studied acting under René Simon (1898-1966), making her stage debut in 1940 and her first motion picture in 1943.
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Biography of Elsa Schiaparelli (excerpt)
Elsa Schiaparelli (10 September 1890 – 13 November 1973) was an influential Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, she dominated fashion between the two World Wars. Starting with knitwear, her designs were heavily influenced by Surrealists like her collaborator Salvador Dalí.
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Biography of John Cage (excerpt)
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer. He was a pioneer of chance music, non-standard use of musical instruments, and electronic music. He is perhaps best known for his 1952 composition 4'33", whose three movements are performed without a single note being played.
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Biography of Francisco Xavier (excerpt)
Chico Xavier was a popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement. In his life he wrote more than 400 books in a process known as Automatic writing. He was born in 1910 and died in 2002. Biography Francisco Cândido Xavier (April 2, 1910 - June 30, 2002), was the most popular and prolific medium in 20th century Brazil's Spiritism movement.
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Biography of Robert Taylor (excerpt)
Robert Taylor (August 5, 1911 (birth time source: from the biography "Robert Taylor," from Jane Wayne) – June 8, 1969), was an American actor. Early life Born Spangler Arlington Brugh in Filley, Nebraska, he was the son of Andrew Brugh, a farmer turned doctor, and Ruth Brugh.
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Biography of Gopi Krishna (excerpt)
Gopi Krishna (1903 - 1984) of India was a yogi, mystic, teacher, social reformer, and writer. His autobiography is known under the title Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man. In the 1970s he founded together with Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker a research foundation "for western sciences and eastern wisdom".
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Biography of Egon Schiele (excerpt)
Egon Schiele (June 12, 1890 – October 31, 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. Schiele's work is noted for its intensity, and the many self-portraits the artist produced.
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Biography of Balthus (excerpt)
Balthazar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 in Paris – February 18, 2001) was an esteemed Polish/French modern artist whose work was ultimately anti-modern. Life and work Style and themes Balthus' style is primarily classical and academic. Though his technique and compositions were inspired by pre-renaissance painters, there are also eerie intimations reminiscent of contemporary surrealists like de Chirico.
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Biography of François Mauriac (excerpt)
François Mauriac (October 11, 1885 (birth time source: birth certificate, Didier Geslain) – September 1, 1970) was a French author, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is acknowledged to be one of the greatest Roman Catholic writers of the 20th century. ![]()
Biography of Robert Delaunay (excerpt)
Robert Delaunay (1885 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)-1941, October 25) was a French artist who used orphism, similar to abstraction and cubism in his work. Delaunay concentrated on orphism, while his later works were more abstract, reminiscent of Paul Klee. His key influence related to bold use of colour, and a clear love of experimentation of both depth and tone.
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Biography of Etty Hillesum (excerpt)
Ester "Etty" Hillesum (January 15, 1914 in Middelburg, The Netherlands (birth time source: Astro-Kring, birth certificate) — November 30, 1943 in Auschwitz, Poland) was a young Jewish writer whose letters and diaries, kept between 1941 and 1943 describe life under Nazi rule in Amsterdam during the the German occupation of World War II.
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Biography of Edmund Hillary (excerpt)
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE (born 20 July 1919) is a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. On 29 May 1953 he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.
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Biography of Guy de Rothschild (excerpt)
Baron Guy Édouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild (May 21, 1909 – June 12, 2007) was a French banker and member of the Rothschild family. He chaired the bank Rothschild Frères from 1967 to 1979, when it was nationalized by the French government, and maintained possessions in other French and foreign companies including Imerys.
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Biography of Rémy Chauvin (excerpt)
Remy Chauvin (October 10, 1913 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)–December 8, 2009) at Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines, Haut-Rhin, was a biologist and entomologist, and a French Honorary Professor Emeritus at the Sorbonne, PhD, senior research fellow since 1946. Chauvin was also known for defending the rights of animals and for being interested in such topics as parapsychology, life after death, psychics, clairvoyance and the phenomenon of UFOs.
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Biography of Glenn Ford (excerpt)
Gwyllyn Samuel Newton "Glenn" Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006) was an acclaimed Canadian-born actor from Hollywood's Golden Era with a career that spanned seven decades. Ford was a versatile actor best known for playing either cowboys or ordinary men in unusual circumstances.
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Biography of Alec Guinness (excerpt)
Sir Alec Guinness CH, CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning English actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation. Early life Guinness was born in Marylebone, London, England, possibly as Alec Guinness de Cuffe, although what is written on his birth certificate, reportedly lacking a father's name, is not known.
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Biography of Carl Orff (excerpt)
Carl Orff (July 10, 1895 – March 29, 1982) was a 20th-century German composer, most famous for Carmina Burana (1937). He was also successful and influential in the field of music education. Life Orff was born in Munich, Germany and came from a Bavarian family that was very active in the German military. |
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