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Marcel Proust
Marcel-Valentin-Louis-Eugène-Georges Proust was a French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time (in French À la r... |
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Rutherford, Father of Nuclear Physics
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM PC FRS, widely referred to as Lord Rutherford, was a chemist (B.Sc. in chemistry and geology 1894, Canterbury College... |
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Roald Amundsen, 1st on the South Pole
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the Antarctic expedition of 1910–1912 which was the first to reach the South Pole. Th... |
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Calvin Coolidge, 30th US President
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the thirtieth President of the United States (1923–1929). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massach... |
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Blériot, 1st Flight across The Channel - 1909
Louis Blériot was a French aviator, inventor and engineer. In 1909 he completed the first flight across a large body of water in a heavier-than-air craft when he crossed... |
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Piet Mondrian
In 1917, Mondrian became one of the founders of De Stijl. This group, which included Theo van Doesburg, Bart van der Leck, and Georges Vantongerloo, extended its principl... |
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Russell, Philosopher & Mathematician
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3d Earl, was a British philosopher, mathematician, and social reformer, b. Trelleck, Wales. Russell had a distinguished background: His g... |
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Alberto Santos-Dumont, Pioneer of Aviation
Alberto Santos-Dumont was an early pioneer of aviation. He was born and died in Brazil. Heir of a prosperous coffee producer family, Santos-Dumont dedicated himself to sc... |
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Turn of the Century Timeline
History in the United States.... |
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Talat Pasha, Last Ottoman Statesman
Mehmed Talat Pasha was one of leaders of the Young Turks, an Ottoman statesman, grand vizier (1917) , and leading member of the Sublime Porte from 1913 until 1918. He is... |
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Ernest Shackleton, Polar Explorer
Sir Ernest Shackleton is probably best known for leading a thousand mile open boat journey across the treacherous Southern Ocean after losing his ship to the crushing ice... |
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Arnold Schoenberg, Composer
Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (before Schönberg) was an Austrian and later American composer. Many of Schoenberg's works are associated with the expressionist movements... |
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Robert Frost
American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963) is perhaps best known for his poem "The Road Not Taken," published in 1916 in Mountain Interval, a collection of his early poetry.... |
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Herbert Hoover, 31st US President
Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933), was a world-famous mining engineer and humanitarian administrator before turning to political a... |
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Sir Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was a politician, a soldier, an artist, and the 20th century's most famous and celebrated Prime Minister. His father was Lord Randolph Churchill, a Nine... |
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