Biography

Michelangelo was well established as a great, admired artist, but as a man, he was feared.

Tesla was a capable, bright student able to perform integral calculus by memory.

Chopin had three sisters: Ludwika, Izabela and Emilia, who died prematurely.

A cat named Big Boy Peterson accompanied Hemingway in his last moments at the Idaho estate.

Garros ended up in German captivity in 1915. During a raid on the Courtrai railway station in German-controlled territory, a fuel line in his plane became clogged, forcing him to land. Garros was captured by the Germans and sent to a POW camp at the fortress of Magdeburg, where he spent three years.

He arrived in Alta California in 1839.

He was such a gifted student that he completed the third and fourth grades in one year and the eighth grade in six months. In his last year of school he became interested in chemistry.

Nikola Tesla died on January 7, 1943, at 87.

Anna graduated from the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet School at the age of 18.

To consolidate his power in France, after a nationwide plebiscite, Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French on December 2, 1804.