Category: History & Culture

Biography of Xavier Abril:- Poet and Peruvian narrator, introducer of surrealism in the poetry of his country, and whose creative evolution went through various aesthetic proposals (Xavier Abril de Vivero, Lima, 1905 – Montevideo, 1990). Biography of Xavier Abril Born:- 4 November 1905, Lima, Peru Died:- 1 January 1990, Montevideo, Uruguay He completed his primary and secondary studies at the German School of Lima (1911-1923) and completed his training at the Institute Lima, where

Biography of Joao Capistrano De Abreu: – Historian, geographer, literary critic and Brazilian linguist. His family sent him to Pernambuco for the purpose of conducting preliminary studies to gain access to the Faculty of Law. He returned to Ceara, where he began as a teacher his professional career in the field of education, although he also devoted himself to literary criticism. Biography of Joao Capistrano De Abreu Born:- 23 October 1853, Maranguape,

Biography of Duke of the Abruzzo: – Son of the king of Spain, Amadeo I, and of Dona Maria Victoria of Pozzo Della Cisterna, and cousin of the king Victor Manuel II of Italy, left Spain along with his family, when scarcely counted on one month, for having renounced his father to the throne Spanish. He studied at the Naval Academy of Livorno and made several sea cruises; was also

Biography of Abderraman III: – Eighth sovereign Umayyad of Muslim Spain and first of them took the title of Caliph (Cordoba, 891 – 961). He acceded to the throne in the year 912, when he was only 21, designated by its grandfathers to happen to him in preference to its own children; and in 929 he was proclaimed caliph, breaking the last symbolic link that united him with the caliphate

Biography of Abdurrahman I: – First independent emir of Cordoba (Damascus, 734 – Cordoba, 788) Grandchild of the caliph Hisham of Damascus was one of the few members of the Umayyad dynasty who escaped the slaughter of Abu Futrus, to power to the Abasidas in the year 750. Biography of Abdurrahman I Born:- 731 AD, Palmyra, Syria Died:-  30 September 788 AD, Córdoba, Spain Parents:- Mu’awiya ibn Hisham House:-  Umayyad Caliphate Successor:-  Hisham I of Córdoba Children:-  Hisham

Biography of Abd-el-Krim: – Leader of the resistance against Spanish colonial domination in northern Morocco. Belonging to the rifena tribes of Beni Urriaguel, it was son of a cedi; after receiving an education in Tunis and Fez, served the Spanish colonial administration in various positions. Biography of Abd-el-Krim Born:- 1882, Ajdir, Morocco Died:-  6 February 1963, Cairo, Egypt Parents:-  Abd al-Karim El-Khattabi Battles/Wars:-  Rif War Battle of Annual Other Name:- Abd el-Krim or Abdelkrim Rank:-  Emir His first

Biography of Alvar Aalto: – A great architect, and a legendary artist of Finland, was born on 3 February 1898 in Kuortane, Finland. He completed the education received in Finland with trips abroad. During the 1920s he was influenced by the great master of functionalism, Le Corbusier, and he himself was a pioneer of this movement in Finland. He soon gained international recognition, and from 1940 to 1949 he was

Biography of Abd al-Rahman III: – Emir (912-929) and first Umayyad caliph of Cordoba (929-961). The grandson of Abd Allah, emir of Cordoba and a member of the Umayyad dynasty, who had ruled the caliphate of Damascus (661-750), were appointed by his grandfather as heir to the throne because of his intelligence, insight and tenacity. Upon his death, in 912, Abd al-Rahman III, aged twenty-one, assumed the government of a

Biography of Abd al-Rahman I: – First independent emir of al-Andalus (755-788). Grandchild of the tenth Umayyad caliph of Damascus, he managed to escape the slaughter that his family decimated during the revolution that brought the Abbasids to power in 750. Biography of Abd al-Rahman I Born:- 731 AD, Palmyra, Syria Died:-  30 September 788 AD, Córdoba, Spain Parents:- Mu’awiya ibn Hisham House:-  Umayyad Caliphate Children:-  Hisham I of Córdoba, Soliman ibn Abdulrahman Successor:-  Hisham I of Córdoba During

Biography of Charles Greeley Abbot: – An American astronomer, famous for his work on the energy of the sun and its influence on terrestrial temperatures. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated in 1895, and then was appointed assistant to Samuel P. Langley, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Biography of Charles Greeley Abbot Born:- 31 May 1872, Wilton, New Hampshire, United State Died:- 17 December 1973, Riverdale Park, Maryland,