Biography

Oppenheimer was never a spy for the Soviet Union. This was determined in 2009 based on extensive analysis of KGB archives

Columbus was accused of extreme brutality againts indigenious people.

Mozart was the first great professional composer to write popular music (dances, divertimentos, serenades headed by "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik").

In 1995, UNESCO designated the day of Shakespeare’s birth and death - April 23 - World Book and Copyright Day.

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.

Shakespeare’s parents probably got married in 1557. Most likely they were cousins - John’s mother and Mary’s mother were sisters.

Mozart received a commission from Munich to write a grand opera for the start of the opera season in that city in December 1780.

He was born into a peasant family in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoye in Tyumen Oblast.

At the age of seventeen, Ada was introduced to the royal court.

Anna settled at the Ivy House in Golders Green, London, in 1912.