Biography

Garros was the first to shoot down an aircraft with a machine gun mounted on the fuselage.

Beethoven took part in the so-called piano "duels".

Hemingway worked as a correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance agency (NANA) during the Spanish Civil War.

Anna was advised to undergo surgery due to her illness but refused since it would have meant she would not be able to perform any longer.

Pauline was expecting a child and insisted on returning to the United States.

From Nicaraguan tribesmen he learned of the "rich kingdoms" of the - Mayan and possibly Inca civilizations and of the "great sea" (Pacific Ocean) farther west.

No manuscripts of Shakespeare have survived, and no correspondence or notes remain of him.

An admirer of Jane's novels was the Prince Regent - later King George IV, who kept a set of all her novels in every residence.

Charles Darwin lived from 1809 to 1882.

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.