Biography

Oppenheimer's family was wealthy.

Family environment von Breuning's family environment provided an alternative to his home life.

A planet, an asteroid, a crater and a group of fissures (Rimae Hypatia) on the Moon are named after Hypatia.

When the lyceum where Frederic's father worked was moved from the Saski Palace to the Kazimierzowski Palace, the Chopins settled in the outbuilding of the palace, the so-called post-rector's building.

In 1836 Frederic Chopin got engaged to Maria Wodzińska, but the wedding never happened.

His mother Susannah died in 1818 at age 52, probably of an ulcer or stomach cancer.

His marriage to Lady Diana was tumultuous from the start.

At the orphanage's music school, Vivaldi taught girls to play the violin but also began composing his first debut works.

Like many other activists, Kosciuszko decided to leave the country and go into exile in Saxony, as an emigration center of opponents of the Targowica Confederation was being formed in Leipzig and Dresden.

Ernest Hemingway owned a fishing boat, “Pilar,” which he sailed around the Caribbean.