Biography

Thanks to Gertrude Stein, he also met the influential painters Picasso, Joan Miró, and Juan Gris.

Oppenheimer was a compulsive smoker. In late 1965, he was diagnosed with throat cancer.

Shakespeare’s lineage died out 25 years after his death.

Soon Beethoven began working with Neefe as assistant organist in the court chapel.

He was the first commander of the Roman army to succeed in crossing the Channel.

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

His work at the orphanage proved to be an excellent inspiration for his work.

Amadeus practically never left Vienna anymore. His father died, and he began to sink into depression.

It was not Darwin's observation of finches that contributed to the formulation of the theory of evolution.

Contrary to the prevailing opinion about the poverty in which Mozart's family lived, caused by their inability to earn a living, the composer earned a great deal of money in the last decade of his life.