Claude (Claudius) Honoré Desiré Dornier (1884 - 1969) was a German aeronautical engineer, aircraft manufacturer and founder of the eponymous company Dornier. Of French Huguenot origin, Claude Dornier was born in Kempten in Bavaria where he grew up and went to school. Passionate about techniques, he
Rightly or wrongly, the Junkers Ju 87 has become synonymous with blitzkrieg, under its pseudonym “Stuka”, an abbreviation of the German designation Sturzkampfflugzeug which means dive bomber. And the sinister fame of the Stuka has been such that much of the legend now attaches to the plane itself, t
Sacha Guitry, by his full name Alexandre Georges-Pierre Guitry is an actor, playwright, theater director, director and screenwriter, born February 21, 1885 in Saint-Petersburg (Russia), died July 24, 1957 in Paris (72 years old). A very prolific playwright, he wrote more than a hundred plays and ada
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (born in Salonica on March 12, 1881 - died in Istanbul on November 10, 1938) is the founder and first president of the Turkish Republic. After the First World War and the Allied occupation of the Ottoman Empire, this career soldier refused to see the Ottoman Empire be dismembe
Mikhail Bulgakov began his literary career after the Revolution. He was born in 1891 to a father who was a historian of religions. He became a doctor and practiced behind the front when the First World War broke out. In 1917, during the Revolution, he quickly joined the White Army, known as the “vol
Osip Mandelstam Born in 1891 in Warsaw into a Jewish family, Mandelstam studied Latin languages and made the acquaintance of the Symbolists. However, he quickly became a supporter of acmeism as a literary architect, as claimed by this current. His poem The Seashell testifies to it. When he emigra
(Paris, 1901 - Créteil, 1976.) Writer and politician, André Malraux was born under the sign of the scorpion, the very sign of death. Almost nothing is known of his childhood:he was brought up by women, he received a religious education from which he would later break away in a movement of revolt ver
Léon Blum (April 9, 1872 - March 30, 1950) was a man French socialist politics. He was one of the leaders of the French section of the Workers International (SFIO), and president of the council, that is to say head of the French government, in 1936, 1938 and 1946. He marked history French politician
The Marshal in the Great War At the beginning of 1916, Pétain was sixty years old and he was appointed to defend Verdun. After he was finally found in Paris, in the company of Eugénie Hardon, his regular, he moved with his staff to the town hall of Souilly. There, he is appreciated by the soldiers,
Jules Francois Camille Ferry, born April 5, 1832 in Saint-Dié and died on March 17, 1893 in Paris, was a French politician. Jules Ferry is the son of Charles-Edouard Ferry, lawyer, and Adèle Jamelot. First a student at the Collège de Saint-Dié until 1846, then at the Lycée Imperial in Strasbourg (c
Jean-Paul Sartre (born Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre June 21, 1905 in Paris - April 15, 1980, Paris) is a French philosopher and writer (playwright, novelist and short story writer) as well as critic of the 20th century, whose work marked the middle of the century and whose life as a committed int
Jean Jaurès, by his civil name Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès, was a French politician, born in Castres on September 3, 1859 and died in Paris on July 31, 1914. Jean Jaurès comes from a family of modest French provincial bourgeoisie, with some brilliant careers (two admiral cousins, one of w
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 in Dearborn, Michigan, USA - 1947) is the founder of the Ford Motor Company. He developed a new method of industrial work that came to be called Fordism; she ensured for a time the pre-eminence of her company in the field of automobile construction. His parents were Willi
Red Sunday On the side of the revolutionaries, Gapon also led the Bolsheviks on January 22, 1905 in Petrograd, when the workers went to present the petition to the Tsar. Written by Gapon and signed by many Russians, it demanded more justice and protection from the Tsar, but also a decent salary, th
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899, Oak Park, Illinois, USA – July 2, 1961, Ketchum, Idaho) was an American writer, journalist, and war correspondent. His style of writing, characterized by economy and understatement, influenced the novel of the 20th century, as did his adventurous life and the
Émile Zola, French writer (Paris, April 2, 1840 - Paris, September 29, 1902), is considered the leader of naturalism. He played a big role in the review of the trial of Alfred Dreyfus. Only son of Francesco Zola (August 7, 1795 in Venice - March 27, 1847), Italian engineer who will work in Aix-en-P
Edward Hopper was born on July 22, 1882 in New York in the United States and died on May 15, 1967 in the United States. Particularly known for his paintings, he is nonetheless a talented engraver and watercolourist. A student in commercial design and painting at the prestigious New York School of A
Boris Vian, whose real name is Boris Paul Vian, was born on March 10, 1920 in Ville-dAvray into a family of four children. French writer, poet, lyricist, singer, critic, jazz musician, more precisely trumpeter, he is also an engineer from the Ecole Centrale, translator, screenwriter, translator, lec
Illustrious author of Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak was born in 1890 into a family of artists with a painter father and a musician mother. Boris Pasternak quickly turned to poetry. His first poem was published in 1913 by supporters of the futurist movement. However, he will quickly break away from
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger de Saint-Exupéry, born on 29 June 1900 in Lyon and disappeared in flight on July 31, 1944 at sea, off Marseille, Mort pour la France, is a French writer, poet, aviator and reporter. Born into a family descended from the French nobility, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry spe
The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation was one of the oldest European institutions when the Seven Years War broke out in 1756. The forces of the Empire comprised of the military units of the small German states and states in this case sided with of Austria and against Frederick the Greats Prussi
ʿAmūq , Turkish Amik , level of Southern Turkey , borders Syria. Framed by mountains, the plain is about 500 square kilometers and forms a triangle between the cities of Antioch (southwest), Reyhanlı (southeast) and Kırıkhan (north). In the center of the plain is Lake Amik (Lake Antioch), which was
In order to avoid detours as much as possible, the Roman engineers had developed a set of facilities for crossing the waterways. Fords The tracks often forded these. These areas were often simply paved or made of stone masonry with lime, supported by wooden beams. However, the excavations have br
Gandhiji believed that Jinnah would never get Pakistan until the British made Pakistan and gave it to him. Gandhiji had lost after persuading his comrades, the British would never do this, as long as the majority of the Congress stood against it. The decision of partition is in the hands of the Cong