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Biography of Richard Harding Davis (excerpt)
Richard Harding Davis (18 April 1864—11 April 1916) was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War.Davis, a managing editor of Harper's Weekly, was one of the world's leading war correspondents at the time of the Second Boer War in South Africa.
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Biography of Lieven Gevaert (excerpt)
Lieven Gevaert (Antwerp, 28 May 1868 – The Hague, 2 February 1935) was a Flemish industrialist.His father died when he was only three years old.He started his career in the company he founded together with his mother in 1889, which produced photographic paper according to traditional methods. ![]()
Biography of Bernard Lazare (excerpt)
Bernard Lazare (15 June 1865 — 1 September 1903) was a French Jewish literary critic, political journalist, polemicist, and anarchist.He was also among the first Dreyfusards. Youth He was born Lazare Marcus Manassé Bernard (he later switched his first name and last name) in Nîmes on 15 June 1865, the eldest of four sons of Jonas Bernard and Douce Noémie Rouget.
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Biography of Vittorio Ambrosio (excerpt)
Vittorio Ambrosio (July 28, 1879 – November 19, 1958) was an Italian general who served in the Italo-Turkish War, World War I, and World War II. During the latter conflict, Ambrosio served an instrumental role in the fall of Mussolini and the eventual Italian renunciation of its alliance with Germany. ![]()
Biography of John French (excerpt)
Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres KP, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCMG, ADC, PC (28 September 1852 - 22 May 1925) was a British officer serving as the first Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in World War I. ![]()
Biography of Lucien Hillemacher (excerpt)
Lucien Hillemacher, born on June 10, 1860 in Paris (birth time source: Lescaut), died on June 2, 1909 in Paris, was a French musician and composer, the brother of pianist and composer Paul Hillemacher (1852-1933). Awards: Prix de Rome (1880) ![]()
Biography of Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (excerpt)
Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (Amsterdam, June 6, 1868 - Auschwitz, ca.February 11, 1944) was a graphic artist active in the years before the Second World War.His pupils included the now renowned Mauritis Cornelis Escher (1898-1972).In the postwar years, de Mequita was largely forgotten. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Achille Le Bel (excerpt)
Joseph Achille Le Bel (January 21, 1847 – August 6, 1930), was a French chemist, who was best known for his work in stereochemistry.He was born on January 21, 1847 in Pechelbronn and educated at the École Polytechnique in Paris.In 1874 he announced his theory outlining the relationship between molecular structure and optical activity, which laid the foundation of the science of Stereochemistry, dealing with the spatial arrangement of atoms in molecules. ![]()
Biography of Charles-Louis Philippe (excerpt)
Charles-Louis Philippe, French novelist, was born in Cérilly, Allier, Auvergne, on 4 August 1874 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), and died in Paris on 21 December 1909. Life Son of a village clogmaker, Charles-Louis Philippe rose from his modest background first to Secondary education via a grant, then to the world of letters.
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Biography of Laurent Tailhade (excerpt)
Laurent Tailhade (16 April 1854, Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées - 2 November 1919, Combs-la-Ville) was a French satirical poet, anarchist polemicist, essayist, and translator, active in Paris in the 1890s and early 1900s. His most well-known poetry collections, Au Pays du mufle (1891) and Imbéciles et gredins (1900) have retained their insulting wit and verve, which blends the street slang of the outer faubourgs (suburbs) of Paris with the rich language of a broad-ranging culture.
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Biography of Hermann Staudinger (excerpt)
Hermann Staudinger (23 March 1881 – 8 September 1965) was a German chemist who demonstrated the existence of macromolecules which he characterized as polymers. For this work he received the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is also known for his discovery of ketenes and of the Staudinger reaction.
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Biography of Alfred Bruneau (excerpt)
Louis-Charles-Bonaventure-Alfred Bruneau (3 March 1857, in Paris-15 June 1934, in Paris) was a French composer who played a key role in the introduction of realism in French opera. As a youth, Bruneau studied the cello at the Paris Conservatory, and played in the Pasdeloup orchestra.
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Biography of John Boyd Orr (excerpt)
John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, CH, DSO, MC, FRS (September 23, 1880–June 25, 1971), also known as Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a Scottish teacher, doctor, biologist and politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition and his work as the first Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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Biography of William Green (excerpt)
William Green (March 3, 1873 – November 21, 1952) was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952. The son of Welsh immigrant coal miners from Coshocton, Ohio, he was elected secretary of the United Mine Workers of America in 1891.
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Biography of Max Elskamp (excerpt)
Max Elskamp, born on May 5, 1862 in Antwerp, died on December 10, 1931 in Antwerp, was a Belgian symbolic poet (Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century style of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts.In literature, the style had its beginnings with the publication Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil, 1857) by Charles Baudelaire.).
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Biography of Edwin Markham (excerpt)
Charles Edwin Anson Markham (April 23, 1852 - March 7, 1940) was an American poet. Life Edwin Markham was born in Oregon City, Oregon and was the youngest of 10 children; his parents divorced shortly after his birth.At the age of four, he moved to Lagoon Valley, an area northeast of San Francisco; there, he lived with his sister and mother. ![]()
Biography of Gustav Falke (excerpt)
Gustav Falke (January 11, 1853 – February 8, 1916) was a German writer. Life Falke was born in Lübeck to merchant Johann Friedrich Christian Falke and his wife Elisabeth Franziska Hoyer. The historians Johannes and Jacob von Falke were his uncles, translator Otto Falke his cousin. ![]()
Biography of Ugo Cavallero (excerpt)
Ugo Cavallero (September 20, 1880 – September 13, 1943) was an Italian military commander before and during World War II. Biography Born in Casale Monferrato, Piedmont, Cavallero had a privileged childhood as a member of the Italian nobility.After attending military school, Cavallero was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1900. ![]()
Biography of George M. Cohan (excerpt)
George Michael Cohan (pronounced "Coe-han") (July 3, 1878–November 5, 1942), known professionally as George M. Cohan, was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and producer. Known as "the man who owned Broadway" in the decade before World War I, he is considered the father of American musical comedy.
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Biography of Alexandre Bisson (excerpt)
Alexandre Bisson, born April 9, 1848 in Briouze and died January 27, 1912 in Paris, was a French author and screenwriter. Works (extract) Madame X (1981) (TV) (play) "Au théâtre ce soir" (1 episode, 1980) - Feu Toupinel (1980) TV episode (play)
Biography of Gaston Rullier (excerpt)
Gaston Rullier, born on May 19, 1882 in Libourne (source for his time of birth: Lescaut), died on October 16, 1972 in Bagnolet, Seinte-Saint-Denis, was a French actor and screenwriter. Filmography (extract) Actor (6 titles) 1953 Une fille dans le soleil Le curé 1947 Plume la poule ![]()
Biography of Mazo de La Roche (excerpt)
Mazo de la Roche (January 15, 1879 – July 12, 1961), born Mazo Louise Roche in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, was the author of the Jalna novels, one of the most popular series of books of her time. Early life Mazo de la Roche was the only child of William Roche, a salesman, and Alberta (Lundy) Roche.
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Biography of Maurice Tourneur (excerpt)
Maurice Tourneur (February 2, 1876 – August 4, 1961) was an important international film director and screenwriter. Life Born Maurice Thomas in Paris 17e, France, his father was a jeweler.As a young man, Maurice Thomas first trained as a graphic designer and a magazine illustrator but was soon drawn to the theater. ![]()
Biography of Louis Le Cardonnel (excerpt)
Louis Le Cardonnel, also called Brother Anselme, born on February 25, 1862 in Valence (source for his time of birth: Gauquelin, Lescaut), died on May 28, 1936 in Avignon, was a French priest and poet. Works: Poèmes (1904) Carmina Sacra (1912) Du Rhône à l'Arno (1920)
Biography of Malcolm McAlpine (excerpt)
Sir Malcolm McAlpine, born June 19, 1877 in Hamilton, was a British businessman, the director and chairman of Sir Robert Mc Alpine and Sons.
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Biography of Rudolf Eucken (excerpt)
Rudolf Christoph Eucken (5 January 1846 – 15 September 1926) was a German philosopher, and the winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature. Early life He was born in Aurich, Kingdom of Hanover (now Lower Saxony).His father died when he was a child, and he was brought up by his mother.
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Biography of Hans Luther (excerpt)
Hans Luther (10 March 1879 – 11 May 1962) was a German politician and Chancellor of Germany. Biography Born in Berlin, Luther started in politics in 1907 by becoming the town councillor in Magdeburg.He continued on becoming secretary of the German Städtetag in 1913 and then mayor of Essen in 1918. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Marchand (excerpt)
Major Jean-Baptiste Marchand (November 22, 1863 – January 13, 1934) was a French military officer and explorer in Africa. Marchand was born in Thoissey, Ain and attended l’Ecole militaire de Saint-Maixent.He participated in the French conquest of Senegal and was severely wounded in 1889 at the capture of Diena by the French.
Biography of Thomas Callender (excerpt)
Thomas Callender, born April 9, 1855 in Glasgow, was a Scottish businessman and entrepreneur. ![]()
Biography of Gustave Samazeuilh (excerpt)
Gustave Samazeuilh, born on June 2, 1877 in Bordeaux, died on August 4, 1967, was a French musician, composer, and critic. ![]()
Biography of Alfred Capus (excerpt)
Alfred Capus (November 25, 1858 in Aix-en-Provence - November 1, 1922) was a French journalist and playwright, born in Aix-en-Provence and deceased in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Son to a lawyer from Marseille, Alfred Capus went to university in Toulon. After failing several entrance tests for higher-education schools and working as a draughtsman for a while, he went on to become a journalist. ![]()
Biography of Tullio Levi-Civita (excerpt)
Tullio Levi-Civita (March 29, 1873 — December 29, 1941) (pronounced /'levi ˈʧivita/) was an Italian mathematician, most famous for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity but who also made significant contributions in other areas.
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Biography of Maurice Rollinat (excerpt)
Maurice Rollinat (born December 29, 1846 in Châteauroux, France; died October 26, 1903 in Ivry-sur-Seine) was a French poet. Early works His father represented Indre in the National Assembly of 1848, and was a friend of George Sand, whose influence is very marked in young Rollinat's first volume, Dans les brandes (1877), and to whom it was dedicated.
Biography of Karl Baisch (excerpt)
Karl Baisch, born January 28, 1869 in Gaildorf, died January 8, 1943 in Stuttgart, was a German physician, gynecologist, researcher, and author. ![]()
Biography of Jules Vedrines (excerpt)
Jules Charles Toussaint Védrines, born December 21, 1881 and died April 21, 1919, was a French aviator. ![]()
Biography of Hester Dowden (excerpt)
Hester Dowden, born May 3, 1868 in Dublin, died in 1949, was a professional medium whose psychic development was marked by the successive appearance of five spirit personalities: "Peter," "Eyen," "Astor," "Shamar," and "Johannes." She was later known for her experiments in automatic writing. ![]()
Biography of Jacinto Benavente (excerpt)
Jacinto Benavente y Martínez (August 12, 1866 – July 14, 1954) was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century.He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922. Born in Madrid, the son of a celebrated pediatrician, he returned drama to reality by way of social criticism: declamatory verse giving way to prose, melodrama to comedy, formula to experience, impulsive action to dialogue and the play of minds.
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Biography of Andrew Forsyth (excerpt)
Andrew Russell Forsyth (18 June 1858, Glasgow – 2 June 1942, South Kensington) was a Scottish mathematician. Andrew Forsyth studied at Liverpool College and was tutored by Richard Pendlebury before entering Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating senior wrangler in 1881.He was elected a fellow of Trinity and then appointed to the chair of mathematics at the University of Liverpool at the age of 24.
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Biography of Henri Lavedan (excerpt)
Henri Léon Emile Lavedan (9 April 1859 - 30 September 1940), French dramatist and man of letters, was born at Orléans, the son of Hubert Léon Lavedan, a well-known Catholicand liberal journalist. As a writer, Lavedan contributed to various Parisian papers a series of witty tales and dialogues of Parisian life, many of which were collected in volume form.
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Biography of Walter Hampden (excerpt)
Walter Hampden is the artist name of Walter Hampden Dougherty (June 30, 1879 in Brooklyn – June 11, 1955 in Los Angeles) was a U.S. actor and theatre manager. He was the younger brother of the American painter Paul Dougherty (1877-1947). ![]()
Biography of Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (excerpt)
Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (January 7, 1852 – 1929) was one of the leading French artists of the academic school. He was born in Paris, the son of a tailor, and was raised by his grandfather after his father emigrated to Brazil. Later he added his grandfather’s name, Bouveret, to his own.
Biography of Pierre Magnier (excerpt)
Pierre Magnier was a French actor and director, who began on the stage in the 1890s and became a prominent silent film actor in France.He was the second actor to portray Cyrano de Bergerac in any film in 1925.He continued acting until the 1950s.
Biography of Paul Ollivier (excerpt)
Paul Ollivier, born François, Hilarion, Paul Olivari February 10, 1876 in Marseille, died June 10, 1948 in Paris, was a French actor. Filmography (extracts) * 1920 : Arthur Flambard de Semery * 1921 : Chichinette et Cie de Henri Desfontaines ![]()
Biography of Louis Charles Breguet (excerpt)
Louis Charles Breguet (January 2, 1880 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain)- May 4, 1955 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France) was a French aircraft designer and builder, one of the early aviation pioneers. In 1905, with his brother Jacques, and under the guidance of Charles Robert Richet, he began work on a gyroplane (the forerunner of the helicopter) with flexible wings.
Biography of Walthere Spring (excerpt)
Walthere Spring, born March 6, 1848 in Liège and died in 1911, was a Belgian chemist.
Biography of A. Alpheus (excerpt)
A. Alpheus, born November 30, 1868 near Iona, Michigan, died in 1914, was an American astrologer and author of astrology articles and books. ![]()
Biography of Henri Duparc (excerpt)
Henri Duparc (Eugène Marie Henri Fouques Duparc) (January 21, 1848 – February 12, 1933) was a French composer of the late Romantic period. Biography Duparc was born in Paris.He studied piano with César Franck at the Jesuit College in the Vaugirard district and became one of his first composition pupils. ![]()
Biography of Charles Dana Gibson (excerpt)
Charles Dana Gibson (September 14, 1867–December 23, 1944) was an American graphic artist, noted for his creation of the "Gibson Girl", an iconic representation of the beautiful and independent American woman at the turn of the 20th century. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Biography of Ernest Monis (excerpt)
Antoine Emmanuel Ernest Monis (French pronunciation: ; 23 May 1846 Châteauneuf-sur-Charente (source for his time of birth: Lescaut)– 25 May 1929 Mondouzil) was a French politician of the Third Republic, deputy of Gironde from 1885 to 1889 and then senator of the same department from 1891 to 1920. ![]()
Biography of Paul de Vivie (excerpt)
Paul de Vivie, who wrote as Vélocio (April 29, 1853 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)– February 27, 1930), was publisher of Le Cycliste, an early champion of derailleur gears, and father of French bicycle touring and randonneuring. Background De Vivie was born at Pernes-les-Fontaines, France. |
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