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Biography of Pope Benedict XV (excerpt)
Pope Benedict XV (Latin: Benedictus PP. XV), (Italian: Benedetto XV), (November 21, 1854 – January 22, 1922), born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa, reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from September 3, 1914 to January 22, 1922; he succeeded Pope Pius X (1903–14).
Biography of Maurice Leblanc (excerpt)
Maurice-Marie-Émile Leblanc (11 December 1864 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes.
Biography of Arturo Toscanini (excerpt)
Arturo Toscanini (pronounced ) (March 25, 1867 (birth time source: Lois Rodden) – January 16, 1957) was an Italian musician. He was considered by many critics, fellow musicians, and much of the classical listening audience to have been one of the greatest conductors of all time.
Biography of Alfred Dreyfus (excerpt)
Alfred Dreyfus (9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French artillery officer of Jewish background whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most sensational political dramas in modern French history, still known as the Dreyfus Affair.
Biography of Eugène Freyssinet (excerpt)
Eugène Freyssinet (13 July 1879 – 8 June 1962) was a French structural and civil engineer. He was the major pioneer of prestressed concrete. Freyssinet was born in at Objat, Corrèze, France. He worked in the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, France where he designed several bridges until the First World War intervened.
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The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. The Underground has its origins in the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground passenger railway.
Biography of Pierre Louÿs (excerpt)
Pierre Louÿs (December 10, 1870 - June 6, 1925) was a French poet and Romantic writer, most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings. He is known as a writer who "expressed pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection.
Biography of Pope Pius XII (excerpt)
Pope Pius XII (Latin: Pius PP. XII), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (March 2, 1876 – October 9, 1958), reigned as the 260th pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City, from March 2, 1939 until his death.
Biography of Elizabeth Arden (excerpt)
Elizabeth Arden (December 31, 1878 - October 19, 1966) was a Canadian businesswoman who built a cosmetics empire in the United States. Arden was born Florence Nightingale Graham in Woodbridge, Ontario, where she lived until she was twenty-four years old. In 1909 Florence Nightingale Graham dropped out of nursing school in Toronto.
Biography of Ka'Iulani, Princess of Hawaii (excerpt)
Victoria Kawekiu Lunalilo Kalaninuiahilapalapa Kaʻiulani Cleghorn, Crown Princess of Hawaii (October 16, 1875 – March 6, 1899) was heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi and held the title of crown princess. Kaʻiulani became known throughout the world for her intelligence, beauty and determination.
Biography of Gaston Dominici (excerpt)
Gustave Dominici, born January 22, 1877 in Digne-les-Bains, became famous with "Dominici Affair". The 1952 slaying of a vacationing family in rural France sent shock waves through the country for years. The crime was dubbed "The Dominici Affair" after Gaston Dominici, the French peasant who was jailed for the death of the couple and their 10-year-old daughter.
Biography of Ferdinand Hodler (excerpt)
Ferdinand Hodler (March 14, 1853 – May 19, 1918) was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the 19th century. Hodler was born in Berne but moved to Geneva at the age of 18 to start a career as a painter. Hodler's early work consisted of landscapes, figure compositions and portraits, treated with a vigorous realism.
Biography of Paul Claudel (excerpt)
Paul Claudel (August 6, 1868 birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – February 23, 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholic faith.
Biography of Carlo Carrà (excerpt)
Carlo Carrà (February 11, 1881—April 13, 1966) was an Italian painter, a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number of books concerning art.
Biography of Robert Baden-Powell (excerpt)
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB (22 February 1857 in Oxford – 8 January 1941), also known as B-P, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, and founder of the Scout Movement. After having been educated at Charterhouse School, Baden-Powell served in the British Army from 1876 until 1910 in India and Africa.
Biography of Paul Deschanel (excerpt)
Paul Eugène Louis Deschanel (February 13, 1855 - April 28, 1922) was a French statesman. He served as President of France from February 18, 1920 to September 21, 1920. Paul Deschanel, the son of Émile Deschanel (1819-1904), professor at the Collège de France and senator, was born at Brussels, where his father was living in exile (1851—1859), owing to his opposition to Napoleon III.
Biography of Léon-Paul Fargue (excerpt)
Léon-Paul Fargue (March 4, 1876 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - November 24, 1947) was a French poet and essayist. He was born in Paris, France. As a poet he was noted for his poetry of atmosphere and detail. His work spanned numerous literary movements.
Biography of Romain Rolland (excerpt)
Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – December 30, 1944) was a French writer and dramatist, best known as the author of the novel series Jean-Christophe (1904-12). His first book was published in 1902, when he was already 36 years old.
Biography of Otto Hahn (excerpt)
Otto Hahn (8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) was a German chemist and Nobel laureate who pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry" and the "founder of the atomic age". Hahn served as the last President of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG) in 1946 and as the founding President of the Max Planck Society (MPG) from 1948 to 1960.
Biography of Gino Severini (excerpt)
Gino Severini (April 7, 1883 (birth time source: Gauquelin, 6:30 AM Rome time)) – February 26, 1966), was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement. At an early stage in his artwork, he was exposed to Impressionist ideas.
Biography of Marie Vetsera (excerpt)
Baroness Mary Vetsera (March 19, 1870 – January 30, 1889) was Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria's mistress. She was the daughter of Baron Albin Vetsera, a diplomat in foreign service at the Austrian court, and his wife Baroness Helene Vetsera (née Helene Baltazzi).
Biography of George Westinghouse (excerpt)
George Westinghouse, Jr (6 October 1846–12 March 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railroad air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry. Westinghouse was one of Thomas Edison's main rivals in the early implementation of the American electricity system.
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Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly 350 square miles (910 km2) into three other counties: Denton, Parker, and Wise.
Biography of Charles VII of France (excerpt)
Charles VII (22 February 1403 – 22 July 1461), called the Victorious (le Victorieux) or the Well-Served (le Bien-Servi), was King of France from 1422 to his death, though he was initially opposed by Henry VI of England, whose servants ruled much of France from Paris.
Biography of Vittorio Orlando (excerpt)
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (May 13, 1860 - December 1, 1952) was an Italian diplomat and political figure. He was born in Palermo, Sicily. His father, a landed gentleman, delayed venturing out to register his son's birth for fear of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1,000 patriots who had just stormed into Sicily on the first leg of their march to build an Italian nation.
Biography of Miklós Horthy (excerpt)
Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya (18 June 1868 – 9 February 1957) was the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary during the interwar years and throughout most of World War II, serving from 1 March 1920 to 15 October 1944. Horthy was styled "His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary" (Hungarian: Ő Főméltósága a Magyar Királyság Kormányzója).
Biography of Karl Jaspers (excerpt)
Karl Theodor Jaspers (February 23, 1883 – February 26, 1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy. Jaspers was born in Oldenburg in 1883 to a mother from a local farming community, and a jurist father.
Biography of Tristan Corbière (excerpt)
Tristan Corbière (July 18, 1845 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – March 1, 1875), born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean, near Morlaix in Brittany, where he lived most of his life and where he died.
Biography of Georges de la Fouchardière (excerpt)
Georges de la Fouchardière, born February 1, 1874 in Châtellerault, died in 1946, was a French journalist and author. Bibliography (extracts) Le Diable dans le Bénitier. Montaigne. Hors-d'Œuvre..Payot&Cie 1919 L'Affaire Peau-de-Balle (La Machine à galoper). Librairie des lettres, 1919. Petit guide du parfait parieur aux courses Editions du siècle 1923
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New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia and 17,000 km (11,000 mi) from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Chesterfield Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of Pines, and a few remote islets.
Biography of Knut Hamsun (excerpt)
Knut Hamsun, born Knud Pedersen (August 4, 1859 - February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian author. He was considered by Isaac Bashevis Singer to be the "father of modern literature", and by King Haakon to be Norway's soul. In 1920, the Nobel Committee awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil".
Biography of Marie Noël (excerpt)
Marie Rouget, best known as Marie Noël, born February 16, 1883 in Auxerre, died December 23, 1967 in Auxerre, was a French poet and author. She was a friend of French politician Léon Noël (1888-1987). Works (extracts) Les Chansons et les Heures (1920)
Biography of Isabelle Eberhardt (excerpt)
Isabelle Eberhardt (17 February 1877–21 October 1904) was an explorer and writer who lived and travelled extensively in North Africa. For the time she was an extremely liberated (but troubled) individual who rejected conventional European morality in favour of her own path and that of Islam.
Biography of Lon Chaney (excerpt)
Lon Chaney (April 1, 1883 (birth time source: Lois Rodden) – August 26, 1930), nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema.
Biography of Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau (excerpt)
Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau (December 2, 1846 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives, birth certificate n°364) - August 20, 1904) was a French statesman. René Waldeck-Rousseau was born in Nantes, France. His father, René Waldec-Rousseau, a barrister at the Nantes bar and a leader of the local republican party, figured in the revolution of 1848 as one of the deputies returned to the Constituent Assembly for Loire Inferieure.
Biography of Jean Delville (excerpt)
Jean Delville (January 19, 1867 – 1953) was a Belgian symbolist painter, writer, and occultist. He founded the Salon d’Art Idealiste, which is considered the Belgian equivalent to the Parisian Rose & Cross Salon and the Pre-Raphaelite movement in London. Quotes "Understood in its metaphysical sense, Beauty is one of the manifestations of the Absolute Being.
Biography of Théo Varlet (excerpt)
Théo Varlet, born March 12, 1878 in Lille and died in 1938, was a French poet, writer and translator. Selected works Poetry 1898. Heures de Rêve, Lille. 1905. Notes et Poèmes, Le Beffroi, Lille. 1906. Notations, Le Beffroi, Lille. 1911. Poèmes choisis, Cassis.
Biography of Léon Gaumont (excerpt)
Léon Gaumont (May 10, 1864 – August 9, 1946) was a French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry. Léon Ernest Gaumont, born Semblancay/Indre & Loire was gifted with a mechanical mind which led him to employment manufacturing precision instruments.
Biography of Jean-Alban Bergonié (excerpt)
Jean-Alban Bergonié, born October 7, 1857 in Casseneuil, was a French military physician.
Biography of Joseph Vacher (excerpt)
Joseph Vacher (November 16th, 1869, Beaufort, Isère (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - December 31, 1898, Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain) was a French serial killer, sometimes known as The French Ripper or L'éventreur du Sud-Est (The South-East Ripper) due to comparisons to the more famous Jack the Ripper murderer of London, England in 1888.
Biography of Léon Daudet (excerpt)
Léon Daudet (16 November 1867 – 30 June 1942) was a French journalist, writer, an active Orléanist, and a member of the Académie Goncourt. Move to the right Daudet was born in Paris. His father was the novelist Alphonse Daudet and his younger brother, Lucien Daudet, would also become an artist.
Biography of Eugène Caslant (excerpt)
Eugène Caslant, born December 1, 1865 in Nanteuil-le-Haudouin, died in 1940, was a French engineer of Ecole Polytechnique, author and astrologer.
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Omaha is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 10 miles (15 km) north of the mouth of the Platte River (also known as the Nebraska River).
Biography of Léon Bloy (excerpt)
Léon Bloy (Périgueux, July 11, 1846 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - Bourg-la-Reine, November 3, 1917) was a French novelist, essayist, pamphleteer and poet. His works reflect a deepening devotion to the Roman Catholic Church and most generally a tremendous craving for the Absolute.
Biography of Orville Wright (excerpt)
The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two Americans who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight on 17 December 1903.
Biography of Haakon VII of Norway (excerpt)
Haakon VII (Prince Carl of Denmark, born Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel) (August 3, 1872 – September 21, 1957), was the first king of Norway after the 1905 dissolution of the personal union with Sweden. As one of the few elected monarchs, Haakon quickly won the respect and affection of his people and played a pivotal role in uniting the Norwegian nation in its resistance of the attack and five-year-long Nazi occupation during World War II.
Biography of Luigi Pirandello (excerpt)
Luigi Pirandello (June 28, 1867 – December 10, 1936), an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934. Pirandello was born into an upper-class family in a village with the curious name of Kaos (Chaos), a poor suburb of Girgenti (Agrigento, a town in southern Sicily).
Biography of Louis Franchet d'Espèrey (excerpt)
Louis Félix Marie François Franchet d'Espérey (Mostaganem, 25 May 1856 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 8 July 1942) was a French general during the First World War. Early life He was born in Mostaganem in what is today Algeria, the son of an officer of cavalry in the Chasseurs d'Afrique.
Biography of Lucien Laberthonnière (excerpt)
Priest Lucien Laberthonnière, born October 5, 1860 in Chazelet, died October 6, 1932 in Paris, was a French theologist, philosopher, historian and writer. Works (extracts) (fr) Théorie de l'éducation, 1901. Essais de philosophie religieuse, 1903. Le réalisme chrétien et l'idéalisme grec, 1904.
Biography of Sibilla Aleramo (excerpt)
Sibilla Aleramo (14 August 1876 - 13 January 1960) was an Italian author and feminist best known for her autobiographical depictions of life as a woman in late 19th century Italy. Life and career Born Rina Faccio in Alessandria, Piedmont, she was forced to drop out of school at 16 and marry the man who raped her. |
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