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Claire Merritt Hodgson (born Clara Mae Merritt September 11, 1897 - October 25, 1976) is most famous for being the second wife of Babe Ruth. Born near Athens, Georgia, she met Ruth in 1923, a year after her husband Frank Hodgson died, leaving her with a daughter, Julia. Ruth was still married to Helen Woodford. Woodford died in a house fire in January of 1929, and Ruth and Hodgson married that April 17, staying together until Ruth's death in 1948. She is buried n ...

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Winifred Wagner, born Winifred Williams (June 23, 1897 - March 5, 1980) was born in Hastings, England. She lost both her parents before the age of two and was initially raised in a series of homes. Eight years later she was adopted by a distant German relative of her mother's, Karl Klindworth, a musician and a friend of Richard Wagner. Winifred Wagner - Role in Bayreuth. The Bayreuth Festival was envisioned as a family business, with the leadership to be passed from Richard Wagn ...

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Wilfred Ruprecht Bion, 1897-1979, was a British psychoanalyst. He was a pioneer in group dynamics. He was the author of Experiences in Groups, London: Tavistock, 1961 and many other books and journal articles. Bion was born in India, but educated in England. After the outbreak of World War I, he served as a tank commander in France where he was awarded both the DSO and the Legion of Honour. Subsequently, he studied history at Queen's College, Oxford and medicine at University College London. As his interest in psychoanalysis increased, he underwent training analysis, at one poin ...

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Aiden Wilson Tozer (April 21, 1897 - May 12, 1963) was an American Protestant pastor, preacher, author, magazine editor, Bible conference speaker, and spiritual mentor. For his untiring work, he received two honorary doctorates. Born in La Jose (now Newburg), a tiny farming community in western Pennsylvania, his conversion experience was as a teenager in Akron, Ohio. While on his way home from work at a tire company, he overheard a street preacher say: "If you don't know how to be saved... just call on God." Upon returning home, he ...

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Chen Cheng (陳誠 Chén Chéng) (January 4, 1897 - March 5, 1965), was Vice President (1954 - 1965) and Premier (March 7, 1950 - June 7, 1954; June 30, 1958 - December 15, 1963) of the Republic of China and Chairman of Taiwan Province (1948). Under Chiang Kai-shek, he initiated a popular land reform program, giving him a good reputation even after death. His courtesy name, officially in Gwoyeu Romatzyh, was Che ...

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Benjamin Lee Whorf (April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist. Born in Winthrop, Massachusetts, the son of Harry and Sarah (Lee) Whorf, Benjamin Lee Whorf graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1918 with a degree in chemical engineering and shortly afterwards began work as a fire prevention engineer (inspector) for the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, pursuing li ...

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One of the founders of modern studies in Greek mythology, Karl (Carl, Károly) Kerényi (January 19, 1897 - April 14, 1973) was born in Timisoara, then in Hungary, to a family of some landed property. At the University of Budapest he followed a program in classical philology with a doctorate on Plato and Longinus and aesthetic theory in Antiquity, and read widely. In the following years he taught in Hungary at the secondary school level, travelled in Greece and Italy and followed courses at Greifswald, Heidelberg and the Univer ...

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Dr Zakir Husain (February 8, 1897 - May 3, 1969) was the third President of India from May 13, 1967 until his death. Hussain was born in Hyderabad, India, where his father had migrated from Uttar Pradesh. He went for higher education to Anglo-Muhammadan Oriental College (now Aligarh Muslim University). He was known even in those days for his love of knowledge, his wit and eloquence and his readiness to help his fellow students. Zakir Husain, then only 23 and a student of the M.A. , was among the small group of students a ...

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Pitter was a traditionalist poet--she avoided most of the experimentations of modern verse and preferred the meter and rhyme schemes of the 19th century. Because of this, Pitter was too frequently overlooked by the major critics of her day, and has only in recent years been seen as an important British poet of the 20th century: her reputation has been helped in large part by Philip Larkin's respect for her poetry (he included four of her poems in the ...

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Ruth Pitter, Ruth Pitter - Career, Ruth Pitter - Style and Influences, Ruth Pitter - External link

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Menon was born at Panniyankara in Calicut, Kerala, into the powerful Vengalil family of South India. He was the grandson of the Raja of Kartanad and the third son of a successful lawyer of the Calicut bar, Komath Krishna Kurup, one of Kerala's richest men at the time. Menon had his early education in Tellicherry and he took his B.A. degree from Presidency College, Chennai While in College, he started taking an active interest in the national movement. While studying in the Law College of Madras, he became involved in Theosophy and act ...

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Krishna Menon, Krishna Menon - Early Life, Krishna Menon - Life & Activities in England, Krishna Menon - High Commission 1947-52, Krishna Menon - Election to Parliament

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In March 1942, Slim was given command of BurCorps (consisting of the Indian 17th and Burmese 1st Division) in Burma, which was being attacked by the Japanese. Heavily outnumbered, he was soon forced to withdraw to India. Having successfully brought the majority of his shattered command out of Burma, he took over XV Corps, which covered the coastal approaches from Burma to India, east of Chittagong. During this time he planned for a revolutionary new style of warfare—to negate the advantages the Japanese had in mobil ...

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William Slim 1st Viscount Slim, William Slim 1st Viscount Slim - Early Years, William Slim 1st Viscount Slim - Burma campaign, William Slim 1st Viscount Slim - Post World War II, William Slim 1st Viscount Slim - Bibliography, William Slim 1st Viscount Slim - Sources

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Buchalter's downfall began in the mid-1930s when he went on the run from both the FBI, who wanted to nail him on a narcotics charge, and New York City special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey, who wanted him put away for his Syndicate activities. He was tricked by a childhood friend into surrendering to the Feds in exchange for not getting turned over to Dewey, and he ended up incarcerated at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in Kansas on a 14-year term for narcotics. The sentence was later extended to 30 years on account of Bu ...

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Louis Buchalter, Louis Buchalter - Early career, Louis Buchalter - A standout criminal, Louis Buchalter - Top of the crime world, Louis Buchalter - National Crime Syndicate, Louis Buchalter - The bloodiest one of all, Louis Buchalter - Downfall, Louis Buchalter - Conviction, Louis Buchalter - Execution

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Born Walter Winchel (with only one l) in New York City, where he spent his formative years, Winchell started performing in vaudeville troupes while still in his teens. His career as a journalist began when he started posting gossipy notes about his acting troup on backstage bulletin boards. He became a professional journalist in the 1920s. Winchell was extremely popular and influential in shaping public opinion, notoriously aiding and ruining the careers of many entertainers. Although he concentrated on gossiping about e ...

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Walter Winchell, Walter Winchell - Professional Career, Walter Winchell - Style, Walter Winchell - Personal Life, Walter Winchell - Legacy, Walter Winchell - Persons Targeted by Winchell, Walter Winchell - Portrayals in the Media

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After the war Petiot entered the accelerated education program intended for war veterans, completed medical school in eight months and went to become an intern in Evreux mental hospital. He received his medical degree December 1921 and moved to Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, where he received payment for his services both from the patients and from government medical assistance funds. He already favored addictive narcotics. Petiot's first victim might have been Louise Delaveau, the daughter of an elderly patient, with whom he had a torr ...

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Marcel Petiot, Marcel Petiot - Early life, Marcel Petiot - Into the medical profession, Marcel Petiot - Fraudulent escape network, Marcel Petiot - Discovery, Marcel Petiot - Avoidance and capture, Marcel Petiot - Trial and sentence, Marcel Petiot - Bibliography

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Lunar soil bevahes like volanic dust. Mars has sandstorms. Improved his coronagraph. Made motion pictures of solar prominences and the corona. Found spectral lines in the corona. ...

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Bernard Lyot, Bernard Lyot - Observations and Achievements on Pic du Midi, Bernard Lyot - Inventions, Bernard Lyot - Awards and honors

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The Bayreuth Festival was envisioned as a family business, with the leadership to be passed from Richard Wagner to his son Siegfried Wagner, but Siegfried, who was secretly homosexual, showed little interest in marriage. It was arranged that Winifred Klindworth, as she now was called, aged 17, would meet Siegfried Wagner, aged 45, at the Bayreuth Festival in 1914. A year later they were married. It was hoped that the marriage would end Siegfried's homos ...

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Winifred Wagner, Winifred Wagner - Role in Bayreuth, Winifred Wagner - Post Bayreuth Years

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Von Manteuffel was born in Potsdam to a respected Prussian aristocratic family. In 1908 he became a cadet in a military school, he joined the Imperial German Army on February 22, 1916 as an officer in a Hussar regiment. He entered the World War I in April 1916 with the 5th Squadron of 3rd Hussar Regiment attached to the 6th Prussian Infantry Division stationed on the Western Front, where he was wounded on October 12 during the fighting in France. After recuperation he reentered active service in February 1917 an ...

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Hasso von Manteuffel, Hasso von Manteuffel - Life, Hasso von Manteuffel - Reference

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Henryk Dobrzański was born on June 22, 1897, in Jasło, to a Polish noble family of Henryk Dobrzański de Hubal and Maria Dobrzańska née Lubieniecka. In 1912 he joined the "Drużyny Strzeleckie", an underground Scouting organisation. When the World War I broke out he volunteered to Józef Piłsudski's Polish Legions. He served with distinction in the 2nd Regiment of Uhlans and participated in many battles such as Stawczany and Battle of Rarańcza. In 1918 after Poland rega ...

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Henryk Dobrzański, Henryk Dobrzański - Biography

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Winchell married Rita Greene, one of his onstage partners, on August 11, 1919. They separated a few years later and he moved in with June Magee, who had already given birth to their first child, daughter Walda, by the time he actually divorced Greene in 1928. He and Magee had been pretending to be married for some years by then. They never did marry because he was always afraid that the marriage license would be discovered and ...

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Walter Winchell, Walter Winchell - Professional Career, Walter Winchell - Style, Walter Winchell - Personal Life, Walter Winchell - Legacy, Walter Winchell - Persons Targeted by Winchell, Walter Winchell - Portrayals in the Media

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Winchell's success wasn't due entirely to the salaciousness of the celebrity secrets he revealed. After all, many other columnists, such as Ed Sullivan in New York and Louella Parsons in Los Angeles, began to write gossip soon after Winchell's initial success. But Winchell had a style that others found impossible to mimic. He disdained the flowerly language that had characterized newspaper columns in the past. Instead, he wrote in a kind of telegraph style filled with slang and incomplete sentences. Creating his own shorthand language, Winch ...

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Walter Winchell, Walter Winchell - Professional Career, Walter Winchell - Style, Walter Winchell - Personal Life, Walter Winchell - Legacy, Walter Winchell - Persons Targeted by Winchell, Walter Winchell - Portrayals in the Media

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