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The first Photograph, Joseph Niépce
One hundred and fifty years ago [Summer 1826] Joseph Nicéphore Niépce succeeded in obtaining a camera picture on a polished pewter plate, sensitized with bitumen of Judea... |
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De Coster, Writer of Thyl Ulenspiegel
Charles-Theodore-Henri De Coster was a Belgian novelist whose efforts laid the basis for a native Belgian literature. His masterpiece was The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel a... |
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Jules Verne, Pioneer of Science Fiction
Jules Verne, French writer and pioneer of science fiction, whose best known works today are Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea(1870) and Around the World in Eighty D... |
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Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Dramatist
Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen was born on March 20, 1828, in the little village of Skien. After a brief flirtation with poetic drama, he would go on to become Norway's... |
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Henri Dunant, Founder of the Red Cross
Henri Dunant, the man whose vision led to the creation of the worldwide Red Cross and Red Crescent movement; he went from riches to rags but became joint recipient of the... |
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Leo Tolstoy, Russian Writer
Count Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist and philosopher, considered one of the world's greatest writers.
About 1876 the doubts that had beset Tolstoy since youth, fed by h... |
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Chester A. Arthur, 21st US President
Chester Alan Arthur was an American politician who served as the twenty-first President of the United States (1881-1885). Arthur was a member of the Republican Party and... |
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Geronimo, Apache Leader
Geronimo ("one who yawns") was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who defended his people against the encroachment of the United States on their... |
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Ecuador Gains Independence
The Republic of Ecuador is a country in northwestern South America, bounded by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean on the west.... |
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Independence of Belgium
With the death of Mary of Burgundy in 1482 a period of foreign domination began by the Netherlands, Austria and Spain, for the period from 1477 to 1794. Belgium was occup... |
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Emily Dickinson
American poet Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts where she would remain for almost her entire life. As a result of her reclusive ten... |
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Camille Pissarro, Impressionist
Camille Pissarro was a French Impressionist painter. His importance resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but also in his... |
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Muybridge, Father of Motion Picture
Eadweard Muybridge is often called the father of the motion picture because of his photographic studies of animal motion. He began his career as a landscape photographer... |
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Hector Malot, Writer of Sans Famille
Hector Malot, writer of children's stories, whose novel Sans famille (Nobody's Boy, 1878) is one of the great popular classics of French culture. The moral and didactic a... |
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Emperor Franz Josef, Austria-Hungary
Franz Josef was born in 1830. At the age of eighteen he became Hapsburg Emperor and in 1867, ruler of Austria-Hungary. Over the next few years his army subdued revolts in... |
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