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| x Benjamin Whorf | Benjamin Lee Whorf papers | Jul 26, 1941 |
Benjamin Lee Whorf (April 24, 1897 in Winthrop, Massachusetts – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist. Whorf is widely known for his ideas about linguistic relativity, the hypothesis that language influences thought. An important theme in many of...
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Apr 24, 1897 | |
| x Henri Bergson |
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The Two Sources of Morality and Religion | Jan 4, 1941 |
Henri-Louis Bergson (French pronunciation: [bɛʁksɔn] 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that immediate experience and...
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Oct 18, 1859 |
| Time and Free Will | |||||
| Duration and Simultaneity: Bergson and the Einsteinian Universe | |||||
| Matter and Memory | |||||
| Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic | |||||
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| x James Joyce |
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Dubliners | Jan 13, 1941 |
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a...
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Feb 2, 1882 |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | |||||
| Finnegans Wake | |||||
| Ulysses | |||||
| Stephen Hero | |||||
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| x Marina Tsvetaeva |
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Six poems/songs | Aug 31, 1941 |
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (Russian: Мари́на Ива́новна Цвета́ева; 8 October [O.S. 26 September] 1892 – 31 August 1941) was a Russian and Soviet poet. Her work is considered among some of the greatest in twentieth century Russian literature. She lived...
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Oct 8, 1892 |
| Mne kazalosʹ, i͡a︡ idu po zvezdam-- | |||||
| settimo sogno | |||||
| Izbrannoe | |||||
| Art in the light of conscience | |||||
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| x Virginia Woolf |
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Mrs Dalloway | Mar 28, 1941 |
Adeline Virginia Woolf (pronounced /ˈwʊlf/; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.
During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in...
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Jan 25, 1882 |
| To the Lighthouse | |||||
| The Voyage Out | |||||
| Flush: A Biography | |||||
| The Waves | |||||
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| x Arthur Evans |
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The Palace of Minos | Jul 11, 1941 |
Sir Arthur John Evans FRS (8 July 1851 – 11 July 1941) was a British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete and for developing the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artifacts...
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Jul 8, 1851 |
| x Henri Lebesgue |
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Measure and the integral | Jul 26, 1941 |
Henri Léon Lebesgue FRS (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi leɔ̃ ləbɛɡ]; June 28, 1875 – July 26, 1941) was a French mathematician most famous for his theory of integration, which was a generalization of the 17th century concept of integration—summing the...
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Jun 28, 1875 |
| x Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell |
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Sea Scouting and Seamanship for Boys | Jan 8, 1941 |
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Bt, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB ( /ˈbeɪdən ˈpoʊ.əl/; 22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941), also known as B.-P., B-P or Lord Baden-Powell, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer,...
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Feb 22, 1857 |
| Playing the Game | |||||
| My Adventures as a Spy | |||||
| Adventures and Accidents | |||||
| Boy Scouts Beyond the Seas - My World Tour | |||||
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| x Lola Ridge | Sun-up | May 19, 1941 |
Lola Ridge (12 December 1873 Dublin – 19 May 1941 Brooklyn) was an anarchist poet and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications best remembered for her long poems and poetic sequences. She, along with other political...
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Dec 12, 1873 | |
| Light In Hand | |||||
| Sun-up And Other Poems | |||||
| The Ghetto And Other Poems | |||||
| Firehead | |||||
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| x Frederick Banting |
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economic background of the Gospels | Feb 21, 1941 |
Sir Frederick Grant Banting, KBE, MC, FRS, FRSC (November 14, 1891 – February 21, 1941) was a Canadian medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate noted as one of the main discoverers of insulin.
In 1923 Banting and John James Rickard Macleod...
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Nov 14, 1891 |
| x Walther Nernst |
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Theoretical chemistry from the standpoint of Avogadro's rule and thermodynamics | Nov 18, 1941 |
Walther Hermann Nernst FRS (25 June 1864 – 18 November 1941) was a German physical chemist and physicist who is known for his theories behind the calculation of chemical affinity as embodied in the third law of thermodynamics, for which he won the...
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Jun 25, 1864 |
| The theoretical and experimental bases of the New Heat Theorem | |||||
| Reasoning of theoretical chemistry: Nine papers (1889-1921) | |||||
| x Alexej von Jawlensky |
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Mar 15, 1941 |
Alexej Georgewitsch von Jawlensky (13 March 1864 – 15 March 1941) was a Russian expressionist painter active in Germany. He was a key member of the New Munich Artist's Association (Neue Künstlervereinigung München), Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)...
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Mar 13, 1864 | |
| x Émile Nelligan |
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Selected poems | Nov 18, 1941 |
Émile Nelligan (December 24, 1879 – November 18, 1941) was a francophone poet from Quebec, Canada.
Nelligan was born in Montreal on December 24, 1879 at 602, rue de La Gauchetière. He was the first son of David Nelligan, who arrived in Quebec from...
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Dec 24, 1879 |
| Pour un plaisir de verbe | |||||
| 31 poèmes autographes | |||||
| Poésies | |||||
| Émile Nelligan et son œuvre | |||||
| more ▼ | |||||
| x Minakata Kumagusu |
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Dec 29, 1941 |
Minakata Kumagusu (南方 熊楠, April 15, 1867 – December 29, 1941) was a Japanese author and naturalist.
Minakata was born in Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. In 1883, he moved to Tokyo, where he entered the preparatory school Kyōryū Gakkō. The...
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Apr 15, 1867 | |
| x Henry Walford Davies |
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Music and worship | Mar 11, 1941 |
Sir Henry Walford Davies KCVO OBE (6 September 1869 – 11 March 1941) was a British composer, who held the title Master of the King's Musick from 1934 until 1941.
Henry Walford Davies was born in Oswestry on the Wales-England border, seventh of nine...
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Sep 6, 1869 |
| The pursuit of music | |||||
| x Louis Brandeis |
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Business | Oct 5, 1941 |
Louis Dembitz Brandeis (pronounced /ˈbrændaɪs/; November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.
He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jewish immigrant parents who raised...
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Nov 13, 1856 |
| social and economic views of Mr. Justice Brandeis | |||||
| Life insurance: the abuses and the remedies | |||||
| Financial condition of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad company and of the Boston & Maine railroad | |||||
| Other people's money and how the bankers use it | |||||
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| x John Gillespie Magee, Jr. |
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Dec 11, 1941 |
John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (9 June 1922 – 11 December 1941) was an American aviator and poet who died as a result of a mid-air collision over Lincolnshire during World War II. He was serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force, which he joined before the...
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Jun 9, 1922 | |
| x Emanuel Lasker |
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Lasker's Manual of Chess | Jan 11, 1941 |
Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years. In his prime Lasker was one of the most dominant champions, and he is still generally regarded...
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Dec 24, 1868 |
| Lasker's chess primer | |||||
| Lasker's How to Play Chess | |||||
| philosophie des unvollendbar | |||||
| verständige kartenspiel | |||||
| more ▼ | |||||
| x Dayton Miller |
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The science of musical sounds | Feb 22, 1941 |
Dayton Clarence Miller (March 13, 1866 - February 22, 1941) was an American physicist, astronomer, acoustician, and accomplished amateur flautist. An early experimenter of X-rays, Miller was an advocate of aether theory and absolute space and an...
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Mar 13, 1866 |
| x Kurt Koffka | Colour and organization | Nov 22, 1941 |
Kurt Koffka (Berlin, March 18, 1886 - Northampton, November 22, 1941) was a German psychologist. He was born and educated in Berlin and earned his PhD there in 1909 as a student of Carl Stumpf. In addition to his studies in Berlin, Koffka also spent...
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Mar 18, 1886 | |
| The growth of the mind | |||||
| Principles of gestalt psychology | |||||
| x Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell |
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Jul 26, 1941 |
James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC (9 November 1858–26 July 1941), known as Sir Rennell Rodd before 1933, was a British diplomat, poet and politician. He served as British Ambassador to Italy during the First World War.
Rodd...
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Nov 9, 1858 | |
| x Annie Jump Cannon |
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The Henry Draper catalog | Apr 13, 1941 |
Annie Jump Cannon (December 11, 1863 – April 13, 1941) was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the...
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Dec 11, 1863 |
| Second catalogue of variable stars | |||||
| x Reed Smoot |
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In the world | Feb 9, 1941 |
Reed Owen Smoot (January 10, 1862 – February 9, 1941) was a native-born Utahn who was first elected to the United States Senate from Utah in 1903, and served as a Senator until 1933. Smoot is primarily remembered as the co-sponsor of the 1930 Smoot...
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Jan 10, 1862 |
| x Hans Spemann | Embryonic development and induction | Sep 9, 1941 |
Hans Spemann (27 June 1869 – 9 September 1941) was a German embryologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935 for his discovery of the effect now known as embryonic induction, an influence, exercised by various parts of...
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Jun 27, 1869 | |
| x James Frazer |
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Worship of Nature | May 7, 1941 |
Sir James George Frazer FRS FRSE FBA OM (1 January 1854, Glasgow – 7 May 1941, Cambridge), was a Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. He is often considered one...
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Jan 1, 1854 |
| The Devil's Advocate | |||||
| Man and the Supernatural | |||||
| Creation Evolution in Primitive Cosmogonies & Other Pieces | |||||
| Psyche's Task | |||||
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| x Rudolf Hilferding | Finance capital | Feb 11, 1941 |
Rudolf Hilferding (10 August 1877, probably in the house of Malzgasse 9/10, Leopoldstadt, Vienna – 11 February 1941, Paris) was an Austrian-born Marxist economist, leading socialist theorist, politician and chief theoretician for the Social...
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Aug 10, 1877 | |
| x Karin Boye |
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Complete poems | Apr 24, 1941 |
Karin Maria Boye (help·info) (October 26, 1900 – April 24, 1941) was a Swedish poet and novelist.
Boye was born in Gothenburg (Göteborg), Sweden and moved with her family to Stockholm in 1909. She studied at Uppsala University from 1921 to 1926 and...
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Oct 26, 1900 |
| För trädets skull | |||||
| verkligt jordiskt liv | |||||
| Kallocain | |||||
| Dikter | |||||
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| x Sherwood Anderson | Many Marriages | Mar 8, 1941 |
Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer. His most enduring work is the short story sequence Winesburg, Ohio. Writers he has influenced include Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John...
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Sep 13, 1876 | |
| Winesburg, Ohio | |||||
| Aus dem nirgends ins nichts | |||||
| Letters | |||||
| homme qui devint femme | |||||
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| x Evelyn Underhill |
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The mystics of the church | Jun 15, 1941 |
Evelyn Underhill (6 December 1875 – 15 June 1941) was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism.
In the English-speaking world, she was one of the...
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Dec 6, 1875 |
| Fragments from an inner life | |||||
| Worship | |||||
| Three Medieval Mystics | |||||
| Preparation of the Mystic | |||||
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| x Nicolae Titulescu |
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Romania's foreign policy | Mar 17, 1941 |
Nicolae Titulescu (Romanian pronunciation: [nikoˈla.e tituˈlesku]; March 4, 1882, Craiova – March 17, 1941, Cannes) was a well-known Romanian diplomat, at various times government minister, finance and foreign minister, and for two terms President...
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Mar 4, 1882 |
| x Tullio Levi-Civita |
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The absolute differential calculus | Dec 29, 1941 |
Tullio Levi-Civita, FRS (29 March 1873 – 29 December 1941; Italian pronunciation: [ˈleːvi ˈtʃiːvita]) was an Italian mathematician, most famous for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of...
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Mar 29, 1873 |
| x Werner Sombart |
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Jūkyūseiki ni okeru shakai shugi oyobi shakaiteki undō | May 18, 1941 |
Werner Sombart (19 January 1863 – 18 May 1941) was a German economist and sociologist, the head of the “Youngest Historical School” and one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first quarter of the 20th century.
He was...
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Jan 19, 1863 |
| deutsche Volkswirtschaft im neunzehnten Jahrhundert und im Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts | |||||
| El Apogeo del Capitalismo II | |||||
| Jews and modern capitalism | |||||
| proletarische Sozialismus | |||||
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| x Maurice Leblanc |
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The crystal stopper | Nov 6, 1941 |
Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (11 November 1864 – 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...
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Nov 11, 1864 |
| The Exploits of Arsene Lupin | |||||
| The Woman Of Mystery | |||||
| L'Arrestation d'Arsène Lupin | |||||
| L'Aiguille creuse | |||||
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| x William Gibbs McAdoo |
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The liberty loan | Feb 1, 1941 |
William Gibbs McAdoo, Jr. (October 31, 1863 – February 1, 1941) was an American lawyer and political leader who served as a U.S. Senator, United States Secretary of the Treasury and director of the United States Railroad Administration (USRA). By...
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Oct 31, 1863 |
| x Elizabeth von Arnim | Vera | Feb 9, 1941 |
Elizabeth von Arnim (31 August 1866 – 9 February 1941), born Mary Annette Beauchamp, was an Australian-born British novelist. By marriage she became Gräfin (Countess) von Arnim-Schlagenthin, and by a second marriage, Countess Russell. Although known...
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Aug 31, 1866 | |
| Elizabeth and Her German Garden | |||||
| Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther | |||||
| The adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen | |||||
| The caravaners | |||||
| more ▼ | |||||
| x Harry M. Daugherty |
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Address by the Attorney General of the United States, Hon. Harry M. Daugherty, at Canton, Ohio, October 21, 1922 | Oct 12, 1941 |
Harry Micajah Daugherty (pronounced "daw-HER-tee") (1860-1941) was an American politician. A key Ohio Republican political insider, Daugherty is best remembered for his service as Attorney General of the United States under Presidents Warren G....
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Jan 26, 1860 |
| x William Sulzer |
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The Russian passport controversy | Nov 6, 1941 |
William Sulzer (March 18, 1863 – November 6, 1941) was an American lawyer and politician, nicknamed Plain Bill Sulzer. He was the 39th Governor of New York and a long-serving congressman from the same state. He was the first and so far only New York...
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Mar 18, 1863 |
| The termination of the Russian treaty | |||||
| x Tom Mann |
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The eight hours movement | Mar 13, 1941 |
Tom Mann (1856–1941) was a noted British trade unionist. Largely self-educated, Mann became a successful organiser and a popular public speaker in the labour movement.
Mann was born on 15 April 1856 in Longford, now a suburb of Coventry, the son of...
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Apr 15, 1856 |
| Tom Mann's secrets of the bass pros | |||||
| x Pál Teleki |
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The evolution of Hungary and its place in European history | Apr 3, 1941 |
Pál Count Teleki de Szék (Budapest, Hungary, 1 November 1879 – Budapest, Hungary, 3 April 1941) was prime minister of Hungary from 19 July 1920 to 14 April 1921 and from 16 February 1939 to 3 April 1941. He was also a famous expert in geography, a...
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Nov 1, 1879 |
| x Hugh Walpole |
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Hans Frost | Jun 1, 1941 |
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (13 March 1884 – 1 June 1941) was an English novelist. A prolific writer, he published thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two plays and three volumes of memoirs. His skill at scene-setting, his vivid...
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Mar 13, 1884 |
| secret city | |||||
| letter to a modern novelist | |||||
| Captain Nicholas | |||||
| Famous stories of five centuries | |||||
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| x Robert Byron | First Russia, Then Tibet | Feb 24, 1941 |
Robert Byron (Wembley, Middlesex, 26 February 1905 - off Cape Wrath, Scotland, 24 February 1941) was a British travel writer, best known for his travelogue The Road to Oxiana. He was also a noted writer, art critic and historian.
Byron was born in...
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Feb 26, 1905 | |
| The road to Oxiana | |||||
| The station | |||||
| essay on India | |||||
| Byzantine achievement | |||||
| more ▼ | |||||
| x Ignacy Jan Paderewski |
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Manru | Jun 29, 1941 |
Ignacy Jan Paderewski GBE (Polish pronunciation: [iɡˈnat͡sɨ ˈjan padɛˈrɛfskʲi]; 18 November [O.S. 6 November] 1860 – 29 June 1941) was a Polish pianist, composer, diplomat, politician, and the second Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland.
Ignacy...
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Nov 18, 1860 |
| The Paderewski memoirs | |||||
| x Hjalmar Söderberg |
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Doctor Glas | Oct 14, 1941 |
Hjalmar Emil Fredrik Söderberg (July 2, 1869 - October 14, 1941) was a Swedish novelist, playwright, poet and journalist. His works often deal with melancholy and lovelorn characters, and offer a rich portrayal of contemporary Stockholm through the...
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Jul 2, 1869 |
| Historietter | |||||
| Historietter | |||||
| Pälsen | |||||
| Delusions | |||||
| more ▼ | |||||
| x Louis Lincoln Emmerson |
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The revenue amendment and tax reform | Feb 4, 1941 |
Louis Lincoln Emmerson (December 27, 1863 – February 4, 1941) was the Secretary of State of Illinois, 1917 to 1929. At the end of his term, he was elected the 27th Governor of Illinois, serving from 1929 to 1933. Emmerson was born in Albion, Edwards...
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Dec 27, 1863 |
| x John Stanley Plaskett | The dimensions and structure of the galaxy | Oct 17, 1941 |
John Stanley Plaskett FRS (November 17, 1865 – October 17, 1941) was a Canadian astronomer.
He worked as a machinist, and was offered a job as a mechanician at the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto, constructing apparatuses and...
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Nov 17, 1865 | |
| The Dominion astrophysical observatory, Victoria, B.C | |||||
| x John Oxenham | Corner Island | Jan 23, 1941 |
William Arthur Dunkerley (November 12, 1852 - January 23, 1941) was a prolific English journalist, novelist and poet. He was born in Manchester, spent a short time after his marriage in America before moving to Ealing, west London, where he served...
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Nov 12, 1852 | |
| Broken shackles | |||||
| Queen of the guarded mounts | |||||
| Bees in Amber | |||||
| The Hidden Years | |||||
| x Charles Murray | Apr 12, 1941 |
Charles Murray (27 September 1864 - 12 April 1941) was a poet who wrote in the Doric dialect of Scots. He was born and raised in Alford in north east Scotland. However he wrote much of his poetry while living in South Africa where he spent most of...
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Sep 27, 1864 | ||
| x José Antonio Dávila |
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Dec 4, 1941 |
Dr. José Antonio Dávila (October 7, 1898 – December 4, 1941) was a well-known poet during Puerto Rico's postmodern era of poetry.
Dávila was born and raised in the City of Bayamon, Puerto Rico into a literary family. He received both his primary and...
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Oct 7, 1898 | |
| x J. Rendel Harris | The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles and the Sibylline Books | Mar 1, 1941 |
James Rendel Harris (Plymouth, Devon, 27 January 1852 – 1 March 1941) was an English biblical scholar and curator of manuscripts, who was instrumental in bringing back to light many Syriac Scriptures and other early documents. His contacts at the...
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Jan 27, 1852 | |
| Peg O'Nell | |||||
| Sunset essays | |||||
| origin of the prologue to St. John's Gospel | |||||
| Tatian | |||||
| more ▼ | |||||
| x Simon Dubnow |
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The demands of the Jews | Dec 8, 1941 |
Simon Dubnow (alternatively spelled Dubnov, Russian: Семён Маркович Дубнов/Semyon Markovich Dubnov; Yiddish: שמעון דובנאָװ Shimen Dubnov; September 10, 1860 – December 8, 1941) was a Jewish historian, writer and activist. He is the father-in-law of...
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Sep 10, 1860 |
| x Edward Rydz-Śmigły |
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Dażac do koǹca swolch dróg | Dec 2, 1941 |
Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły [ˈɛdvard ˈrɨdz ˈɕmiɡwɨ] ( listen), before 1922 Edward Rydz, since 1922 Edward Śmigły-Rydz (help·info) (11 March 1886 – 2 December 1941); nom de guerre Śmigły, Tarłowski, Adam Zawisza) was a Marshal of Poland, Polish...
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Mar 11, 1886 |
| x Josef Strzygowski | The influences of Indian art | Jan 2, 1941 |
Josef Strzygowski (March 7, 1862, in Biala – January 2, 1941, Vienna) was a German art historian known for his theory on the influence of Early Christian Armenian architecture on the early Medieval architecture of Europe, outlined in his book, Die...
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Mar 7, 1862 | |
| x F. R. Higgins | Arable holdings | Jan 6, 1941 |
Frederick Robert Higgins (24 April 1896 - 6 January 1941) was an Irish poet and theatre director.
Higgins was born on the west coast of Ireland in Foxford, which is located in County Mayo. He grew up in Ballivor in County Meath, and then spent the...
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Apr 24, 1896 | |
| Island blood | |||||
| x Paul Sabatier |
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Catalysis in organic chemistry | Aug 14, 1941 |
Paul Sabatier FRS (November 5, 1854 – August 14, 1941) was a French chemist, born at Carcassonne. He taught science classes most of his life before he became Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Toulouse in 1905.
Sabatier's earliest...
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Nov 5, 1854 |
| x John Lavery |
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The life of a painter | Jan 10, 1941 |
Sir John Lavery (20 March 1856 – 10 January 1941) was an Irish painter best known for his portraits.
Belfast-born John Lavery attended the Haldane Academy, in Glasgow, in the 1870s and the Académie Julian in Paris in the early 1880s. He returned to...
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Mar 20, 1856 |
| x Émile Bernard |
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Emile Bernard, 1868-1941 | Apr 16, 1941 |
Émile Henri Bernard (28 April 1868 – 16 April 1941) is known as a Post-Impressionist painter who had artistic friendships with Van Gogh, Gauguin and Eugene Boch, and at a later time, Cézanne. Most of his notable work was accomplished at a young age,...
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Apr 28, 1868 |
| x Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon |
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The diary of an ambassador, Viscount D'Abernon | Nov 1, 1941 |
Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon, GCB, GCMG, PC, FRS (19 August 1857 – 1 November 1941) was a British politician, diplomat, art collector and author.
Vincent was the youngest son of Sir Frederick Vincent, 11th Baronet, of Stoke D'Abernon (1798...
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Aug 19, 1857 |
| The eighteenth decisive battle of the world | |||||
| x Daniel Carter Beard | The American Boy's Handy Book | Jun 11, 1941 |
Daniel Carter "Uncle Dan" Beard (June 21, 1850 – June 11, 1941) was an American illustrator, author, youth leader, and social reformer who founded the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905, which Beard later merged with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).
Beard...
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Jun 21, 1850 | |
| Camp-lore and woodcraft | |||||
| Shelters, shacks, and shanties | |||||
| Hardly a man is now alive | |||||
| Buckskin book for buckskin men and boys | |||||
| more ▼ | |||||
| x Thomas R. Kelly | The eternal promise | Jan 17, 1941 |
Thomas Raymond Kelly (1893-January 17, 1941) was an American Quaker educator. He taught and wrote on the subject of mysticism. His books are widely read, especially by people interested in spirituality.
Kelly was born in 1893 in Ohio to a Religious...
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1893 | |
| Reality Of The Spiritual World | |||||
| The sanctuary of the soul | |||||
| A testament of devotion | |||||
| Explanation and reality in the philosophy of E mile Meyerson | |||||
| x Hastings Lees-Smith | The encyclopaedia of the labour movement | Dec 18, 1941 |
Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith PC (26 January 1878 – 18 December 1941) was a British Labour politician who was briefly in the cabinet as President of the Board of Education in 1931. He was the acting Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour...
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Jan 26, 1878 | |
