“Love is a glance, a jerk and a wipe. » The beginnings of a growing career Sarah Bernhardt was born in 1844 in Paris. Coming from a Jewish family and an illegitimate child, she was soon abandoned by her mother. Sarah Bernhardt experiences an invisible childhood, a little girl that no one notices a
Nobel Prize for Literature Rudyard Kipling (born in Bombay, British India, December 30, 1865 and died in London, January 18, 1936) was a British writer. His books for young people have enjoyed unfailing success since their publication, notably The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895)
Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan de Brazza (born in Rome on January 26, 1852, died in Dakar on September 14, 1905) was an Italian explorer naturalized French. He explored the right bank of the Congo River, opening the way to French colonization in Equatorial Africa. His good nature, his charm,
(Versailles, 1805 - La Chênaie, Indre, 1894.) Diplomat. He entered the Carrière in 1825 and was a member of the Consulate General in Lisbon. Employed in the offices of the commercial department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1827, he was appointed, on October 19, 1828, student-consul then, sh
Jules Verne, born February 8, 1828 in Nantes, died March 24, 1905 in Amiens, was a French writer, much of whose work is devoted to adventure and science fiction novels (called in the time of Jules Verne science fiction novel). The year 2005 was declared Jules Verne Year, on the occasion of the cente
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, known as Lord Kitchener, born in Ballylongford (County Kerry, Ireland) on June 24, 1850 and died off the coast of Orkney on June 5, 1916, was a British marshal and politician. Youth Horatio Herbert Kitchener was the third child of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Horatio Kitchen
Gustave Caillebotte was born in Paris in 1848. He was a naval engineer and had a fortune that came to him from his fathers inheritance, received in 1873 and which allowed him to paint only without however liking the academic style. A pupil of Léon Bonnat at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he join
Giuseppe Garibaldi, born in Nice[1], July 4, 1807 and died in Caprera (Kingdom of Italy), June 2, 1882, is an Italian politician, nicknamed the Hero of Two Worlds. His parents, originally from the Genoa region, settled in Nice. But, from the age of 7, in 1814, he became a subject of Victor-Emmanuel
Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, GCB, GCVO, born May 31, 1827 and died April 9, 1905, is a British general best known for having started the Anglo-Zulu War, during which the British army suffered one of its most resounding defeats (Battle of Isandlwana, January 22, 1879 ). Youth Fr
Charles George Gordon, English general, nicknamed Gordon Pasha, was born on January 28, 1833 and died in Khartoum, Sudan on January 26, 1885. A pupil of the Woolwich Military Academy, he served in the Crimea, then in the China campaign of 1860. The Taï-pings or rebels with long hair, taking advanta
Charles DarwinBirth:February 12, 1809 Shrewsbury, England Died:April 19, 1882 (aged 73) Downe, England Nationality:United Kingdom Profession:British biologist Distinctions:Wollaston Medal 1859Copley Medal 1864 Family:Erasmus Darwin, his grandfatherRobert Darwin, his fatherEmma Wedgwood, his wif
Chaka (1787 - 1828), or Shaka, was the founder of the Zulu Empire. Childhood Chaka is said to be the result of an illegitimate union between Nandi, Princess Langeni, and Senza Ngakona, chief of the Zulu clan (a fraction of the Nguni people, from the Bantus who populated South Africa from the 13th
Catherine II, born Sophie Frédérique Augusta dAnhalt-Zerbst (May 2, 1729 in Stettin in Pomerania and died November 17, 1796 in Saint Petersburg, nicknamed Figchen, then the Great Catherine, is empress and autocrat of all the Russias from June 28, 1762 to his death. Childhood and education The futur
Carl Philip Gottfried (or Gottlieb) von Clausewitz (June 1, 1780 in Magdeburg - November 16, 1831 in Breslau) was a Prussian military officer and theorist. He comes from a family of Silesian origin (Oberschlesien) of the middle class which nevertheless claims noble origins. His father received an o
Benjamin Disraeli (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British politician and author, twice appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern conservative party whose doctrine he formalized. Through his great influence on foreign policy, he as
Alfred Bertrand was born in 1856 in Geneva. It is said that his three passions were travel, photography and Calvinism. As an explorer, he left to join the Protestant missionaries in Africa in the hope of making the savages good Christians. By setting out to explore the world, Bertrand could exercis
In nineteenth-century Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin is the figure of romanticism par excellence. He succeeds classical authors such as Gavrila Derzhavin, then the sentimentalist movement to which Nikolai Karamzin belongs. Both poet and prose writer, Pushkin breaks the codes of classicism an
Here, three achievements are to the credit of Ferry. First, he reformed the pi grammes of classical education, eliminating Latin discourse. We learned, he said, Latin to write it, now we learn it to read it. What the gramma would lose there, the “love of letters would recover. We dont want, said
By 139 votes against 126, the Senate agreed with Jules Simon (in truth, it was a question, the Senate knew it and Ferry too - of voting God or not God). The House rejected the senatorial amendment.Ferry resigned himself to withdrawing the third bill, reserving to take it up again:which he did under
But the Catholic right maintained its formula:school without God, which tomorrow would be, by virtue of a sort of law of political gravity, school against God:It said to Ferry:you are violating the freedom of the father of a believing family to provide its children with a Catholic education; you lea
As the final stage of prehistory is known, that we can consider in many cases protohistory, is directly related to the use of metals. Hence, since the 19th century, its temporal divisions mainly serve a greater use of some, compared to others. In such a way that three main periods are known, the Cop
Rwanda and Burundi are two small African countries, smaller than Brittany, but twice as populated thanks to their exceptional fertility. Before colonization, different castes cohabited without being truly different ethnic groups. The distinction between these castes is made mainly by their role:the
SKS 45 The SKS (Samozariadni Karabin sistemy Simonova, 1945; in French:Carabine semi-automatique system Simonov 1945) or SKS 45, is a Soviet semi-automatic carbine designed in 1945 by Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov (en), adopted in 1949 by the Red Army alongside the AK-47 assault rifle. With the massi
Shrapnel, named after its inventor Henry Shrapnel, is the name for bullet shell. The term shrapnel is often misused to designate small fragments projected by an explosion whatever their origin. In 1784, Lieutenant Henry Shrapnel (1761-1842) of the British Royal Artillery Corps (Royal Artillery)