Biography

Caesar's visit to Egypt resulted in an affair with Cleopatra and a civil war.

Rasputin began to seek patronage from well-known centers of Russian Orthodoxy, and to this end began his "great journey" in 1903.

Shortly before her marriage, the Middleton family was granted its own coat of arms.

Tsar Peter I was nicknamed “the Great” not only because of his merits but also because of his impressive height - 203 centimeters.

Garros was able to escape from captivity. He rejoined the French air force and managed to shoot down another plane.

As a reward for teaching his son, Philip II of Macedon freed the inhabitants of Aristotle’s hometown of Stagira from slavery.

Jane's father, George Austin, was an educated minister of the Anglican Church.

In 84 or 83 BC, he married Cornelia, daughter of Lucius Cornelius Cynna, a Roman politician leader of the Popular party.

In 1954, Dali and photographer Philippe Halsman published a book entirely devoted to the mustache.

The authorship and circumstances of the Iliad and the Odyssey have been debated for centuries. The lack of reliable information about Homer's life has led some scholars to hypothesise that Homer never existed.