Auguste Beernaert's Birth Card: The 2 of Clubs

In the record

Auguste Marie François Beernaert (26 July 1829 – 6 October 1912) was the prime minister of Belgium from October 1884 to March 1894, and the 1909 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The birth-card coordinate for July 26 is the 2 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1909 Peace prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1909 The Nobel Peace Prize — for their prominent position in the international movement for peace and arbitration

The 2 of Clubs coordinate

Auguste Beernaert's birthday maps to the 2 of Clubs (The Collaborative Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Auguste Beernaert. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You think with someone else and still leave the conversation with a position of your own.

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Auguste Beernaert in the public record

Born in Ostend in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands 1829, he entered the Faculty of Law at the Catholic University of Leuven at age 17. He finished five years later with greatest distinction. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1873, and became Minister of Public Works under Jules Malou, greatly improving the rail, canal and road systems. After his tenure as Prime Minister, he represented Belgium at the Hague conventions of 1899 and 1907, presiding at the Hague Peace Conference of 1907. He was also co-winner (with Paul d'Estournelles de Constant) of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1909 for his work at the Permanent Court of Arbitration. He was chosen as president of the panel established under the rules of that organization in the Sarvarkar Case in 1911. A year later, he died in Lucerne, Switzerland. A lawyer by profession, he served as Minister of Public Works.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Auguste Beernaert (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the King of Hearts

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Commanding emotional authority with depth and care

Auguste Marie François Beernaert (26 July 1829 – 6 October 1912) was the prime minister of Belgium from October 1884 to March 1894, and the 1909 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: minister.

Also on the record

1. He served as prime minister and Minister of Finance from 1884 to 1894.
2. He held the post of president of the international law of association from 1903 to 1905.
3. He was Belgium's first representative to the Hague peace conferences in 1899 and 1907.
4. In the year 1912 he was hospitalised in Lucerne, where he died of pneumonia.

Other laureates with this card

• Adam G. Riess — 2011 Physics
• Albert Claude — 1974 Physiology or Medicine
• Alexis Carrel — 1912 Physiology or Medicine
• Brian Kobilka — 2012 Chemistry
• Charles B. Huggins — 1966 Physiology or Medicine
• Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard — 1995 Physiology or Medicine
• Edmund S. Phelps — 2006 Economic Sciences
• Elfriede Jelinek — 2004 Literature
• F. Sherwood Rowland — 1995 Chemistry
• George Bernard Shaw — 1925 Literature
• George Wald — 1967 Physiology or Medicine
• Hannes Alfvén — 1970 Physics
• 11 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Auguste Beernaert's birth card?

The 2 of Clubs. July 26 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?

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Where do Auguste Beernaert's dates come from?

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