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Allen Upward (1863 - 1926) was a poet, lawyer, politician and teacher. His work was included in the first anthology of Imagist poetry, Des Imagistes, which was edited by Ezra Pound and published in 1914. Upward was brought up as a member of the Plymouth Brethren and trained as a lawyer at the Royal University of Dublin (now University College Dublin). While living in Dublin, he wrote a pamphlet in favour of Irish Home Rule. Upward later worked for the British Foreign Office in Kenya as a judge. Back in Britain, he defended Havelock Wilson and other labour leaders and ra ...

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Swami Vivekananda (Bangla: স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ, Hindi: स्वामी विवेकानन्द) (whose pre-monastic name was Narendranath Dutta Bangla: নরেন্দ্রনাথ দত্ত, Hindi: नरेन्द्रनाथ दत्त) (January 12, 1863 - July 4, 1902) is considered one of the most famous and influential spiritual leaders of the Vedanta philosophy. He was the chief disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and was the founder of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrish ...

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• Swami Vivekananda - Birth and Early life
• Swami Vivekananda - With Ramakrishna
• Swami Vivekananda - Wanderings in India
• Swami Vivekananda - In the west
• Swami Vivekananda - Back in India
• Swami Vivekananda - Death
• Swami Vivekananda - Principles and Philosophy
• Swami Vivekananda - Works
• Swami Vivekananda - Interaction with contemporary giants
• Swami Vivekananda - Quote
• Swami Vivekananda - Trivia
• Swami Vivekananda - Books on and by Swami Vivekananda
• Swami Vivekananda - Notes

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His Imperial and Royal Highness Archduke Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Joseph of Austria-Este (sometimes called Francis Ferdinand in English) (December 18, 1863 – June 28, 1914) was born in Graz, Austria and was a Habsburg Archduke of Austria and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. His assassination by Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo, Austrian-annexed Bosnia-Herzegovina, precipitated t ...

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• Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria - Family and marriage
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria - Politics
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria - Assassination

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (November 21, 1863 - May 12, 1944) was a Cornish writer, who published under the pen name of Q. Born in Cornwall, he was educated at Newton Abbot College, at Clifton College, and Trinity College, Oxford and later became a lecturer there. While he was at Oxford he published (1887) his Dead Man's Rock (a romance in the vein of Stevenson's Treasure Island), and he followed this up with < ...

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Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (Владимир Иванович Вернадский) (March 12 [O.S. February 28] 1863 – January 6, 1945) was a Russian-Ukrainian mineralogist and geochemist whose ideas of noosphere were an important contribution to the Russian cosmism. He was a founding father of several new disciplines, including geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology. Vernadsky graduated from the St Petersburg University in 1885. He first popularized the concept of the noosphere and deepened the ide ...

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Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and the Henry Ford Company (which later became Cadillac). He was one of the first to apply assembly line manufacturing to the mass production of affordable automobiles. This achievement not only revolutionized industrial production in the United States and the rest of the world, but also had such tremendous influence over modern culture that many social theorists identify this phase of economic and social history as "Fordism." Some credit him with c ...

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• Henry Ford - Early Life
• Henry Ford - Detroit Automobile Company
• Henry Ford - Ford Motor Company
• Henry Ford - The Model T
• Henry Ford - The Model A and later
• Henry Ford - Death of Edsel
• Henry Ford - Ford's labor philosophy
• Henry Ford - Common misconceptions
• Henry Ford - Anti-Semitism and The Dearborn Independent
• Henry Ford - Henry Ford and Nazism
• Henry Ford - Hobbies and interests
• Henry Ford - The Ford Foundation
• Henry Ford - Death
• Henry Ford - Quotations
• Henry Ford - Timeline

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The Right Honourable David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British statesman and the last member of the Liberal Party to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. David Lloyd George - Upbringing. Although born in Manchester in 1863, David Lloyd George was a Welsh-speaking Welshman, the only Welshman ever to hold the office of Prime Minister in the British government. In his early life he lived in poverty and so moved with his mother to live in L ...

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• David Lloyd George - Upbringing
• David Lloyd George - Entry into politics
• David Lloyd George - Prime Minister
• David Lloyd George - Later political career
• David Lloyd George - Family
• David Lloyd George - War cabinet December 1916–January 1919
• David Lloyd George - Changes
• David Lloyd George - Other members of Lloyd George's war government
• David Lloyd George - Peacetime government January 1919–October 1922
• David Lloyd George - Changes

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Robert James "Bob" Fitzsimmons (May 26, 1863 - October 22, 1917) was a Cornish native and moved to New Zealand in his childhood. Representing New Zealand, he made boxing history by being boxing's first three-division world champion ever. He is also famous for being the man who beat Gentleman Jim Corbett, the man who beat the great John L. Sullivan. Had he not jumped from Middleweight to Heavyweight before reigning at Light-Heavyweight, he might have also been considered the first Light-He ...

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Felix Weingartner - Symphonies. Symphony No. 1 in G, op. 23 Symphony No. 2 in E-flat, op. 29 Symphony No. 3 in E, op. 49 with organ Symphony No. 4 in F, op. 61 Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 71 Symphony No. 6 in B minor, op. 74, 'in Gedenken des 19. November 1828' (also Tragica. Second movement orchestrates, is based on sketches apparently meant for the dance/scherzo or minuet-movement of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, the B minor D759.) Symphony No. 7, ChoralSee also:

Felix Weingartner, Felix Weingartner - Works, Felix Weingartner - Symphonies, Felix Weingartner - Operas, Felix Weingartner - Notes

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Lloyd George began to feel the weight of the coalition with the Conservatives after the war. His decision to extend conscription to Ireland was nothing short of disastrous, indirectly leading a majority of Irish MPs to declare independence. He presided over a bloody war of attrition in Ireland, that led to the formation of the Irish Free State. The involvement of government in atrocities was a major factor in turning Irish people away from the United Kingdom. At one point, he famously declared of the IRA "We have murder by the throat!". However he was soon to begin negotiations with ...

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David Lloyd George, David Lloyd George - Upbringing, David Lloyd George - Entry into politics, David Lloyd George - War time Prime Minister, David Lloyd George - Prime Minister Post War, David Lloyd George - Later political career, David Lloyd George - Family, David Lloyd George - War cabinet December 1916–January 1919, David Lloyd George - Changes, David Lloyd George - Other members of Lloyd George's war government, David Lloyd George - Peacetime government January 1919–October 1922, David Lloyd George - Changes

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Franz Ferdinand was the oldest son of the Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria and of his second wife, Princess Maria Annunciata of the Two Sicilies. His cousin Francis V, Duke of Modena was the last male member of his line of the Habsburgs and named Franz Ferdinand his major heir on condition that he add the name Este to his own. Franz Ferdinand thus, at age 12, became one of the wealthiest men in Europe. The marriage of Franz Ferdinand and Sophie became known as one of the world's greatest love affairs. Countess Sophie Maria Josephine Al ...

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria - Family and marriage, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria - Politics, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria - Assassination

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Swami Vivekananda - Birth and Early life. Narendranath Dutta was born in Shimla Pally, Kolkata, West Bengal, India on 12 January 1863 as the son of Viswanath Dutta and Bhuvaneswari Devi. Even as he was young, he showed a precocious mind and keen memory. He practiced meditation from a very early age. While at school, he was good at studies, as well as games of various kinds. He organised an amateur theatrical company and a gymnasium and took lessons in fencing, wrestling, rowing and other sports. He ...

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Swami Vivekananda, Swami Vivekananda - Biography, Swami Vivekananda - Birth and Early life, Swami Vivekananda - With Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda - Wanderings in India, Swami Vivekananda - In the west, Swami Vivekananda - Back in India, Swami Vivekananda - Death, Swami Vivekananda - Principles and Philosophy, Swami Vivekananda - Works, Swami Vivekananda - Interaction with contemporary giants, Swami Vivekananda - Quote, Swami Vivekananda - Trivia, Swami Vivekananda - Books on and by Swami Vivekananda, Swami Vivekananda - Notes

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Lewis Harcourt was born in Nuneham Courtenay, Oxon, and was educated at Eton. He never knew his mother, Thérèse Lister, who died in 1863. He was her only child. His father Sir William Harcourt was Home Secretary 1880-5, at which time Lewis acted as his Private Secretary. His grandfather was Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York. He married on 1 July 1899 Mary Ethel Burns, daughter of Walter Hayes Burns, of New York and North Mymms Park, Hertfordshi ...

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Lewis Vernon Harcourt 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lewis Vernon Harcourt 1st Viscount Harcourt - Family, Lewis Vernon Harcourt 1st Viscount Harcourt - Career, Lewis Vernon Harcourt 1st Viscount Harcourt - Port Harcourt, Lewis Vernon Harcourt 1st Viscount Harcourt - Queen Victoria, Lewis Vernon Harcourt 1st Viscount Harcourt - Death, Lewis Vernon Harcourt 1st Viscount Harcourt - External link

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His flair quickly showed, and he was elected Liberal MP for Caernarfon in 1890 and he would remain an MP until 1945, fifty-five years later. He gained national fame by his vehement opposition to the Second Boer War. In 1905, he entered the new Liberal Cabinet of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as President of the Board of Trade, and on Campbell-Bannerman's death he succeeded the new Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1908 to 1915. In this role, he was largely responsible for the introduction of old age pensions in Brita ...

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David Lloyd George, David Lloyd George - Upbringing, David Lloyd George - Entry into politics, David Lloyd George - Prime Minister, David Lloyd George - Later political career, David Lloyd George - Family, David Lloyd George - War cabinet December 1916–January 1919, David Lloyd George - Changes, David Lloyd George - Other members of Lloyd George's war government, David Lloyd George - Peacetime government January 1919–October 1922, David Lloyd George - Changes

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Werner Sombart - Early Career Socialism and Economics. He was born in Ermsleben, Harz, Germany, as the son of a wealthy liberal politician, industrialist, and estate-owner, Anton Ludwig Sombart, and studied at the universities of Pisa, Berlin, and Rome, both law and economics. In 1888, he received his Ph.D. from Berlin under the direction of Gustav von Schmoller, then the most eminent German economist. As an economist and especially social activist, Sombart was then seen as radically left-wing, and so only ...

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Werner Sombart, Werner Sombart - Life and Work, Werner Sombart - Early Career Socialism and Economics, Werner Sombart - Middle Career and Sociology, Werner Sombart - Late Career and National Socialism, Werner Sombart - Sombart Today, Werner Sombart - Bibliography, Werner Sombart - Works by Sombart, Werner Sombart - Works about Sombart

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Swami Vivekananda - Birth and Early life. Narendranath Dutta was born in Shimla Pally, Kolkata, West Bengal, India on 12 January 1863 as the son of Viswanath Dutta and Bhuvaneswari Devi. Even as he was young, he showed a precocious mind and keen memory. He practiced meditation from a very early age. While at school, he was good at studies, as well as games of various kinds. He organised an amateur theatrical company and a gymnasium and took lessons in fencing, wrestling, rowing and other sports. He ...

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Swami Vivekananda, Swami Vivekananda - Biography, Swami Vivekananda - Birth and Early life, Swami Vivekananda - With Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda - Wanderings in India, Swami Vivekananda - In the west, Swami Vivekananda - Back in India, Swami Vivekananda - Death, Swami Vivekananda - Principles and Philosophy, Swami Vivekananda - Works, Swami Vivekananda - Interaction with contemporary giants, Swami Vivekananda - Quote, Swami Vivekananda - Trivia, Swami Vivekananda - Books on and by Swami Vivekananda, Swami Vivekananda - See Also, Swami Vivekananda - Notes

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Brought up within a family of skilled artisans (his father was a draughtsman) Painlevé showed early promise across the range of elementary studies and was initially attracted by either an engineering or political career. However, he finally entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1883 to study mathematics, receiving his doctorate in 1887 following a period of study at Göttingen, Germany with Felix Klein and Hermann Amandus Schwarz. Intending an academic career he became professor at Lisle, returning to Paris in 1892 to teach at the Sorbo ...

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Paul Painlevé, Paul Painlevé - Early life, Paul Painlevé - Mathematical work, Paul Painlevé - First period as French Prime Minister, Paul Painlevé - Second period as French Prime Minister, Paul Painlevé - Later political career, Paul Painlevé - Painlevé's First Government September 12–November 16 1917, Paul Painlevé - Painlevé's Second Ministry April 17–October 29 1925, Paul Painlevé - Painlevé's Third Ministry October 29–November 28 1925

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Franz Ferdinand was the eldest son of the Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria and of his second wife, Princess Maria Annunciata of the Two Sicilies. He was born at Graz. In 1875, when he was only 12 years old a distant cousin, Francis V, Duke of Modena died. Francis was the last male member of his line of the Habsburgs; in his will he made Franz Ferdinand his major heir on condition that he add the name Este t ...

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria - Family and marriage, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria - Politics, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria - Assassination

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In 1908 he succeeded José Pardo (a succession event that would occur again in 1919) after being elected president for the first time by an alliance of the Civil and Constitutional parties. Some of Leguía's first actions were to institute social and economic reforms in an attempt to industrialize Peru and turn it into a modern capitalist society. On May 29, 1909, a group of citizens (supporters of Piérola's Democratic Party) managed to force their entry into the Palacio de Gobierno demanding the resignation of Leguía. Among ...

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Augusto B. Leguía, Augusto B. Leguía - Early Years, Augusto B. Leguía - First term, Augusto B. Leguía - Second term, Augusto B. Leguía - Overthrown

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Henry Ford, with eleven other investors and $28,000 in capital, incorporated the Ford Motor Company in 1903. In a newly-designed car, Ford drove an exhibition in which the car covered the distance of a mile on the ice of Lake St. Clair in 39.4 seconds, which was a new land speed record. Convinced by this success, the famous race driver Barney Oldfield, who named this new Ford model "999" in honor of a racing locomotive of the day, took the car around the country and thereby made the Ford brand known throughout the U.S. Henry Ford was also one of the early backers of the Indianapolis 500. < ...

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Henry Ford, Henry Ford - Early Life, Henry Ford - Detroit Automobile Company, Henry Ford - Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford - The Model T, Henry Ford - The Model A and later, Henry Ford - Death of Edsel, Henry Ford - Ford's labor philosophy, Henry Ford - Common misconceptions, Henry Ford - Anti-Semitism and The Dearborn Independent, Henry Ford - Henry Ford and Nazism, Henry Ford - Hobbies and interests, Henry Ford - The Ford Foundation, Henry Ford - Death, Henry Ford - Quotations, Henry Ford - Timeline

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