Biography

A group of scholars in the 20th century decided that Hypatia was the most intelligent person in the history of mankind.

Her photo graced the first-ever front cover of Playboy magazine.

He organized a network of secular schools at the elementary level.

When the Santa Maria was wrecked and Columbus lost contact with the Pinta in a storm, he decided to use the only surviving ship, the Niña, to bring news of the discovery of a route to America to the royal court.

Beethoven's income during this period came from the publication of his works, from their performances, and from patrons for whom he performed private concerts and exclusive copies of the works they commissioned before their publication.

Like many other activists, Kosciuszko decided to leave the country and go into exile in Saxony, as an emigration center of opponents of the Targowica Confederation was being formed in Leipzig and Dresden.

The epics "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" are the oldest monuments of Greek and European literature in general.

Maximilian Friedrich's successor as Elector of Bonn, Maximilian Franz, appointed Beethoven as court organist and also paid for his visit to Vienna in 1792.

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

Constantine died of natural causes on May 22, 337, in the imperial villa at Ancyron, near Nicomedia.