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Agustí Chalaux I De Subirà
Agustí Chalaux i de Subirà (Sant Genís dels Agudells, 1911, Barcelona 2006), was a Spaniards, Spanish thinker, who designed a political, economic and social model meant to reduce as much as possible the misuse of power, extreme poverty and corruption. Biography He was born at Sant Genís dels Agudells (Catalonia, Spain), which was then a hamlet with 15 inhabitants near Barcelona, on 19 July 1911. His father was a French businessman who had a factory producing dyes for woollens in Almogàvers street, in Barcelona. His mother was from the Subirà family, with a Catalonia, Catalan Carlist tradition. When he was four he was sent to the Maria Montessori, Montessori school, one of the first to be opened in Europe. At nine years of age he was sent to France to study, where he stayed in Toulon until he finished high school. When he was fourteen he met a banker, Horace Finaly, who exerted a great influence on him for the following fourteen years, and who suggested that he should stud ...
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Second World War
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ...
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1911 Births
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Spanish Economists
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Politicians From Barcelona
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Joaquim Xirau
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Martí Olivella Solé
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Lluís Maria Xirinacs
Lluís Maria Xirinacs i Damians (; 6 August 1932 – 11 August 2007) was a Spanish politician, writer, catholic cleric and advocate for the independence of Catalonia. Biography He was born in Barcelona in 1932, and he became a priest when he was 22. In 1990 he abandoned the priesthood. In the 1960s and 1970s, he conducted several hunger strikes, the first a long one against the relationship between church and state in Francoist Spain. He was imprisoned twice (1972 and 1974–75). He declared himself a follower of Gandhi's ideals and employed non-violence in his struggles. For example, he spent twelve hours a day for a year and nine months standing in front of a Barcelona prison until the approval of an amnesty law for political prisoners. As a result of all these actions, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize every year from 1975 to 1977. In 1977, in the first Spanish elections after the end of Francoist Spain, he became senator for Barcelona as an independent candidate. ...
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Joan Bardina Castarà
Joan Doménec Bardina Castarà () (1877-1950) was a Spanish-Chilean Learning theory (education), theorist of education, acknowledged for his innovative approach to pedagogy and for his contribution to renewal of the Catalonia, Catalan schooling system. In Chile he is known also as a scholar in law; in Spain, and especially in Catalonia, he is recognized as a member of the Catalanism, Catalanist movement. Active in Carlism during his youth, he is considered a typical case of a transitional political identity, moving from Carlism to peripheral nationalism. Increasingly concerned with social issues, by the end of his life he sympathized with Francoism and Nazism; he also focused more on his extended family and became increasingly religious. His manuals, published anonymously and related mostly to health, hygiene and cuisine, were fairly popular in Spain in the 1920s and 1930s. Family and youth Joan Bardina Castarà descended from a working class Catalan family. His paternal grandpar ...
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