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Biography of Bernard Faivre d'Arcier (excerpt)
Bernard Faivre d'Arcier, born July 12, 1944, in Albertville, is a French civil administrator. Former director of theater and shows for the Ministry of Culture and the Festival d'Avignon, he is vice-president of the Biennales de Lyon. He is one of the main initiators of the French Capital of Culture label.
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Biography of Alice Parizeau (excerpt)
Alice Parizeau, OC (née Alicja Poznańska; 25 July 1930 – 30 September 1990) was a Polish-Canadian writer, essayist, journalist and criminologist. Early life Her parents were Stanislaw Poznański (1894 - 1943) and Rebeka (Bronislawa Breina) Kestenberg (1892-1943) Polish Jews murdered in the Holocaust, both in Otwock, Poland according to the testimony of Kestenberg's brother, Yehuda Adam Kestenberg, recorded in Yad Vashem.
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Biography of Stefanie Zweig (excerpt)
Stefanie Zweig (19 September 1932 – 25 April 2014) was a German Jewish writer and journalist.She is best known for her autobiographical novel, Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa) (1995), which was a bestseller in Germany.The novel is based on her early life in Kenya, where her family had fled to escape persecution in Nazi Germany.
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Biography of Wanda Hjort Heger (excerpt)
Wanda Maria Heger (née Wanda Maria von der Marwitz Hjort; 9 March 1921 – 27 January 2017) was a Norwegian social worker noted for her efforts to help Norwegian and other prisoners in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Background Wanda Hjort was the oldest of Johan Bernhard Hjort's six children.
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Biography of Freddie Oversteegen (excerpt)
Freddie Nanda Dekker-Oversteegen (6 September 1925 – 5 September 2018) was a Dutch resistance member during the occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. World War II During the war, the Oversteegen family hid a Jewish couple in their home.Freddie Oversteegen and her older sister Truus began handing out anti-Nazi pamphlets, which attracted the notice of Haarlem Council of Resistance commander Frans van der Wiel.
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Biography of Lone Maslocha (excerpt)
Anna Louise Christine "Lone" Maslocha, also Masłocha, née Mogensen (26 October 1921 – 3 January 1945) was a Polish-born Danish photographer who became a resistance fighter during the German occupation of Denmark in World War II. She was associated with the Polish-English intelligence service and with the Danish resistance movement Holger Danske and worked for the prominent Danish resistance member Citronen.
Biography of Masayuki Uemura (excerpt)
Masayuki Uemura (20 June 1943 – 6 December 2021) was a Japanese engineer, video game producer, and professor. He was known for his work as an employee of Nintendo from 1971 to 2004, most notably for serving as a key factor in the development of the Nintendo Entertainment System.
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Biography of Aldrich Ames (excerpt)
Aldrich Hazen Ames (born May 26, 1941) is an American former CIA counterintelligence officer who was convicted of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia in 1994. He is serving a life sentence, without the possibility of parole, in the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana. ![]()
Biography of Julian May (excerpt)
Julian Clare May (July 10, 1931 – October 17, 2017) was an American science fiction, fantasy, horror, science and children's writer who also used several literary pseudonyms. She was best known for her Saga of Pliocene Exile (Saga of the Exiles in the United Kingdom) and Galactic Milieu Series books.
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Biography of Katyna Ranieri (excerpt)
Caterina Ranieri (31 August 1925 – 3 September 2018), known professionally as Katyna Ranieri, was an Italian singer. Biography Ranieri was born in Follonica in 1925. She had her first hit in 1954 at the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Una canzone da due soldi".
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Biography of Mary Gaitskill (excerpt)
Mary Gaitskill, born November 11, 1954, is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Her works have been featured in prominent publications, and she has been nominated for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award for her novel "Veronica".
Biography of Émile Viollat (excerpt)
Émile Viollat, born June 19, 1937 in Combloux, and died August 7, 2012 in Passy, was a French alpine skier, member of the Club des Sports de Megève.
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Biography of Sibylle Lewitscharoff (excerpt)
Sibylle Lewitscharoff (born 16 April 1954) is a German author.Among her novels are Pong (1998), Apostoloff (2009) and Blumenberg (2011).She has received several German literary awards, including the Georg Büchner Prize in 2013. Early life Lewitscharoff was born and grew up in Stuttgart with a father who was a doctor of Bulgarian origin and a German mother. ![]()
Biography of Doris Gercke (excerpt)
Doris Gercke (born 7 February 1937 in Greifswald) is a German writer of crime thrillers.She also works under the nom de plume Mary-Jo Morell. Born to a working-class family, Doris Gercke's family could not afford higher education for her, so she became an administrator at the age of 16.
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Biography of Marta Minujín (excerpt)
Marta Minujín (born January 30, 1943) is an Argentine conceptual and performance artist known for her innovative and provocative works. Born in Buenos Aires, she gained early recognition in Paris, where she was inspired by the Nouveaux Réalistes. Minujín is famous for her "happenings," including the destruction of her own artworks and interactive installations like La Menesunda.
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Biography of László Krasznahorkai (excerpt)
László Krasznahorkai (born 5 January 1954) is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter known for difficult and demanding novels, often labeled postmodern, with dystopian and melancholic themes. Several of his works, including his novels Satantango (Sátántangó, 1985) and The Melancholy of Resistance (Az ellenállás melankóliája, 1989), have been turned into feature films by Hungarian film director Béla Tarr.
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Biography of Grace Lee Whitney (excerpt)
Grace Lee Whitney (born Mary Ann Chase; April 1, 1930 – May 1, 2015) was an American actress and singer.She played Janice Rand on the original Star Trek television series and subsequent Star Trek films. Personal life and death Whitney had two sons, Scott and Jonathan Dweck.
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Biography of Bernard Bigot (excerpt)
Bernard Bigot (French pronunciation: ; 24 January 1950 – 14 May 2022) was an academic, civil servant, and he served as the Director-General of the ITER organization between 2015 and 2022. Bigot held Ph.D.'s in physics and chemistry. He was the president of the École normale supérieure de Lyon, and director of the French Commission for Atomic Energy.
Biography of Jacques Plante (lyricist) (excerpt)
Jacques Plante, born on August 14, 1920 in Paris 17th arrondissement and died on July 16, 2003 in Paris 20th arrondissement, is a French lyricist and publisher.He wrote for many famous French singers (Charles Aznavour, Yves Montand, Georges Guétary, Line Renaud..), sometimes under the pseudonyms of Harold Jeffries or William David.
Biography of Yves Ballot (excerpt)
Yves Ballot is a French architect born July 21, 1956 in Marseille.He studied at the Versailles school of architecture from which he graduated in 1986.He obtained a post of assistant professor in 1994 and taught at the Clermont-Ferrand school of architecture for 3 years.
Biography of Jim Perry (television personality) (excerpt)
Jim Perry (November 9, 1933 – November 20, 2015) was an American-Canadian television game show host, singer, announcer, and performer in the 1970s and 1980s. Perry enjoyed success on both Canadian and American television.He was the host of the American game shows Card Sharks and $ale of the Century, as well as the Canadian game shows Definition and Headline Hunters.
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Biography of Celly Campello (excerpt)
Célia Campello Gomes Chacon, born Célia Benelli Campello, known by her stage name Celly Campello (18 June 1942 – 4 March 2003), was a Brazilian singer and performer, a pioneer in Brazilian rock. She also acted in the telenovela Estúpido Cupido.
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Biography of Nada (singer) (excerpt)
Nada (born Nada Malanima 17 November 1953 in Rosignano Marittimo, Province of Livorno) is an Italian singer.She was nicknamed Il pulcino del Gabbro ("The little chick of Gabbro"). Career Nada's début occurred at the age of fifteen at the 1969 Sanremo Music Festival with the song Ma che freddo fa, which gave her a sudden success, also with the Spanish language version Hace frío ya. ![]()
Biography of Victoria Vetri (excerpt)
Victoria Vetri (born September 26, 1944; also known as Angela Dorian and Victoria Rathgeb) is an American model and actress. Personal life Vetri, aged 18, married Hugh Terry Whettam on April 7, 1963.Their son was born on September 8, 1963.They were divorced in 1966.
Biography of Pierre de Lagarde (excerpt)
Pierre de Lagarde, born March 25, 1932 in Meudon and died November 15, 2022 in Paris, was a French historian, producer and television director. He has devoted his career to the protection and enhancement of the architectural heritage of his country.
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Biography of Michel Melki (excerpt)
Michel Melki is a French actor born October 3, 1952 in Paris. Selected filmography 1976 : À nous les petites Anglaises de Michel Lang : Pierrot 1986 : Zone rouge de Robert Enrico : l'employé des assurances 1987 : Flag de Jacques Santi : Maurice
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Biography of Jean-Bernard Lévy (excerpt)
Jean-Bernard Lévy (born 18 March 1955) is a French businessman, and the CEO and chairman of EDF. Career Early career Lévy started his career as an engineer at France Telecom in 1979, in Angers. In 1982, he joined the Directorate General of Telecommunications within the PTT France, responsible for the management of senior staff and budgets, then promoted to deputy chief of staff. ![]()
Biography of Monika Maron (excerpt)
Monika Maron (born 3 June 1941 in Berlin) is a German author, formerly of the German Democratic Republic. She moved in 1951 from West to East Berlin with her stepfather, Karl Maron, the GDR Minister of the Interior.She studied theatre and spent time as a directing assistant and as a journalist.
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Biography of Bob Anderson (baseball) (excerpt)
Robert Carl Anderson (September 29, 1935 – March 12, 2015) was an American professional baseball player and right-handed pitcher who appeared in 246 games in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1957 and 1963 for the Chicago Cubs and Detroit Tigers. Born in East Chicago, Indiana, he graduated from Hammond High School and attended both Michigan State University and Western Michigan University.
Biography of Michel Bataille (excerpt)
Michel Bataille, born March 25, 1926 in Paris and died February 28, 2008 in Clamart, is a French writer.
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Biography of Wavy Gravy (excerpt)
Hugh Nanton Romney Jr.(born May 15, 1936), known as Wavy Gravy, is an American entertainer and peace activist best known for his role at Woodstock, as well as for his hippie persona and countercultural beliefs. Romney has founded or co-founded several organizations, including the activist commune the Hog Farm, and later, as Wavy Gravy, Camp Winnarainbow and the Seva Foundation. ![]()
Biography of Joy Page (excerpt)
Joy Page (born Joy Cerrette Paige; November 9, 1924 – April 18, 2008) was an American actress. She is best known for her role as the Bulgarian refugee Annina Brandel in Casablanca (1942). She was sometimes credited as Joanne Page. Early life
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Biography of Emmanuèle Bernheim (excerpt)
Emmanuèle Bernheim (December 1955 – 10 May 2017) was a French writer.She was the daughter of art collector André Bernheim and sculptress Claude de Soria.In 1993 she won the Prix Médicis with her book Sa femme. She wrote the screenplay of feature films Swimming Pool (2003) and 5x2 (2004), both directed by François Ozon.
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Biography of Carla Capponi (excerpt)
Carla Capponi aka The Little English Girl (7 December 1918 – 24 November 2000) was an Italian partisan and politician who received the Gold Medal of Military Valour for her participation in the Italian resistance movement. Italian resistance Around the time of the German occupation of Italy (1939-1945), she joined the Italian Communist Party and began her involvement in the resistance.
Biography of Louis-Michel Nourry (excerpt)
Louis-Michel Nourry (5 April 1946 – 14 September 2022) was a French historian who specialized in the history of landscaping and gardening. He was an honorary professor of the Écoles nationales supérieures d'architecture. Distinctions Gold Medal of the Ligue musicale Maine-Anjou (1977) Knight of the Ordre des Palmes académiques (1990)
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Biography of Fernande Volral (excerpt)
ernande Volral (7 October 1920 – 7 August 1944), was a Belgian resistance fighter during World War II. Fernande Volral was born in Champigneulles, near Nancy, in October 1920. During the 1930s, her family moved to Charleroi, in Belgium. When she became an adult, she moved to Jette, launching a career in fashion.
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Biography of Len Cariou (excerpt)
Leonard Joseph Cariou OC OM (born September 30, 1939) is a Canadian actor and stage director, best known for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd in the original cast of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, and for playing the patriarch Henry Reagan, NYPD Police Commissioner (retired), in the multi-generational television series Blue Bloods on CBS.
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Biography of Fred Trump Jr. (excerpt)
Frederick Crist Trump Jr. (October 14, 1938 – September 26, 1981) was an American airplane pilot and maintenance worker. The eldest son of real-estate businessman Fred Trump Sr., he fell out of his father's favor when he chose to become an airline pilot, leading to his younger brother Donald Trump inheriting the family business.
Biography of Ken Reed (excerpt)
Kenneth Woodrow Reed (November 24, 1941 – September 5, 2014) was a Canadian football player who played as a linebacker for the Edmonton Eskimos and the Saskatchewan Roughriders; he won the Grey Cup in 1966. Born in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, he was an alumnus of the University of Tulsa.
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Biography of George Thorogood (excerpt)
George Lawrence Thorogood (born February 24, 1950) is an American musician, singer and songwriter from Wilmington, Delaware.His "high-energy boogie-blues" sound became a staple of 1980s USA rock radio, with hits like his original songs "Bad to the Bone" and "I Drink Alone".
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Biography of Gudrun Pausewang (excerpt)
Gudrun Pausewang (3 March 1928 – 23 January 2020), less commonly known by her married name, Gudrun Wilcke, was a German author of children's and young adult literature.She was known for books such as The Last Children of Schewenborn and Die Wolke (translated as Fall-Out) which were made part of German school canons.
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Biography of Valerie Sutton (excerpt)
Valerie Sutton (born February 22, 1951) is an American developer of movement notation and a former dancer. Developed In California, she credits the influence of Disney animation, as well as the theater and dance environment of Hollywood for directing her interest toward movement.
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Biography of Mariya Melentyeva (excerpt)
Mariya Vladimirovna Melentyeva (24 January 1924 in Pryazha – 2 July 1943) was a Soviet partisan from Karelia who was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 25 September 1943 for her resistance activities.
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Biography of Lydia Davis (excerpt)
Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, who often writes short (one or two pages long) short stories. Davis has produced several new translations of French literary classics, including Swann's Way by Marcel Proust and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
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Biography of William Chaney (historian) (excerpt)
William Albert Chaney (December 23, 1922 – March 13, 2013) was an American author and historian of Anglo-Saxon England.Chaney spent his career at Lawrence University, where he taught from 1952 until his death; he held the George McKendree Steele endowed chair in history from 1962 until his official retirement in 1999, and was chair of the history department from 1968 to 1971.
Biography of Gilbert Voynet (excerpt)
Gilbert Voynet (sometimes Voinet), born November 26, 1928 in Pont-de-Roide, is a former French wrestler.
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Biography of Reina Prinsen Geerligs (excerpt)
Reina Prinsen Geerligs (7 October 1922 - 24 November 1943 (age 21)) was an author and a member of the Dutch Resistance during World War II.After the war the literary Reina Prinsen Geerligs Award was created in her memory. Reina Prinsen Geerligs was born in 1922 in Semarang, Dutch East Indies, the daughter of the chemist Johan Prinsen Geerligs and his wife Helen Carolina Zon.
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Biography of Marisa Sannia (excerpt)
Marisa Sannia (February 15, 1947 in Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy – April 14, 2008 in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy) was an Italian singer from the island of Sardinia.She started her career with success in pop music in the sixties.She later became an interpreter of songs, composer, an actress and then finally an artistic researcher.
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Biography of Patrick Zaniroli (excerpt)
Patrick Zaniroli, born in Courbevoie on April 5, 1950, is a former sports journalist, rally-raid driver, and organizer of the Paris-Dakar rally for 12 years, which he won in 1985. He is the originator of the 4x4 movement in France and the initiator of numerous automotive events in France.
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Biography of Ehud Yaari (excerpt)
Ehud Yaari (Hebrew: אֵהוּד יָעָרִי; born 1 March 1945 (his time birth comes from his mother)) is an Israeli journalist, author, television personality and political commentator. Biography Ehud Ya'ari was born in 1945 during the Mandate era. He holds a BA in Middle Eastern Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from Tel Aviv University. |
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