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Our header picture of E. T. Bell is from the Constance Reid biography on him, taken when he was a freshman at Stanford, then a free college. Bell was born February 7, 1883, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland and died December 21, 1960, Watsonville, Santa Cruz County, California. He emigrated to the United States in 1902 at the age of 19 and immediately enrolled at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California where after two years he earned his bachelor’s degree. Then there is a 4 year repast before he received he went to the University of Washington in 1908, even his biographer does…
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This is a general sunrise chart for Greta the spokes girl from Sweden on climate change. Her rising is 08 Aquarius 34 wth an appropriate midheaven of Sagittarius for her travels. Neptune that rules the 12th is found there, showing how the Viking spirit of travelling via boat to bring about the conquest of her message appeals to her. Greta has a strong stellium in the 11th house of public speaking that will be a problem for her as she matures because it will swallow up her own personality as it gets subsumed by the group. She has nothing in…
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Henry Dreyfuss is not a household name, but his designs are objects that fill and beautify our homes like the Royal Quiet de Luxe Typewriter, the Westclox Big Ben alarm clock, the Western Electric desk, vacuum cleaners for Hoover and the AT&T desk and Princess line phones, the round thermostat for Honeywell (cloned by Nest though still in use). He lead the forefront of American industrial for decades until his death in 1972. Dreyfuss’s name has a second “s” because his family were German Jews. French Jews Julia Louis Dreyfus of Seinfeld and Veep fame have just one. He was…
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Fighting Cammille Mrs. Adams met her husband in England during World War II when she was a firefighter; they relocated to the States after the War and settled in Maryland. There is no mention of her second or succeeding husbands. or what happened to him; that’s a mystery. She reposed on May 11, 2011 in Bowie, Maryland. Astro Highlights: Moon and Neptune are the handle to her Wheelbarrow Temperament Type making her highly psychic/intuitive She has a 2nd House Preponderance of Spiritual Consummation Grand Trine in Water Her Line of Vitality is Inconjunct Her Line of of Motivation Sextile Line…
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Lovely pictures in this book by French Astrologer Christine Grenard. It was originally published in Paris. Cassell of London translated thankfully it for English readers. She does a nice comparison of Gandhi and Mozart, but I’m only attaching Mozart for viewing. Wolgang Amadeus Theophilus Mozart was born on January 27 1756 at around 10 pm in Salzburg, then the Holy Roman Empire. He was christened, Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. His father was from a wealthy family from which he was estranged, and a musician, though to support his family a music teacher. His mother came from a middle class…
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Robert Pershing Wadlow is the tallest person in medical history for whom there is irrefutable documented evidence. Because he was born in Alton, Illinois, a town one hundred miles south of the capitol, Springfield, and across the river from St. Louis, Bob got the nickname of “The Alton Giant.” Hyperpituitarism made him grow Robert Wadlow reached 8 feet 11.1 inches (272 cm) in height and weighed 490 pounds (220 kg) at his death. His great size and his continued growth past adolescence and well into adulthood was astonishing. A medical condition called “hypertrophy of the pituitary gland” caused by an…
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Our header shot is of wife Keke putting the last makeup touches on husband John’s presentation for NYC television in 1980. An Immigrants’ Son John Bayard Anderson was born on Feb. 15, 1922, in Rockford, Ill., a son of Swedish immigrants at 8:55PM CST according to Michel Gauquelin’s Book of American Charts. Valedictorian of his class at Rockford Central High School, Anderson went on the University of Illinois for a bachelor’s and law degrees and then a master of laws at Harvard University.
