Biography

He loved ripping money off of naive people.

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

Vivaldi was almost immediately forgotten after his death.

The National Tadeusz Kosciuszko Memorial Museum is located in Philadelphia.

Nikola Tesla was the author of 300 patents that protected his 125 inventions in 26 countries.

Oppenheimer was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The work in the laboratory was enormously stressful.

While acquiring a maritime practice, Columbus simultaneously educated himself by reading the writings of ancient and classical writers Strabo, Seneca, and Aristotle, as well as his humanist contemporaries.

In 1914, she married Victor Dandré, a Duma official, who she met in Paris between 1900 and 1904.

Peter I's trip to Western Europe is described by chronicles as one of the "milestones" of his reign.

John Sutter died on June 18, 1880, in a hotel room in Washington D.C.