Biography

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

His mother worked a lot, giving music and singing lessons, composing, and directing the children’s church choir and the orchestra at the Congregational Church. She also sang at concerts and was a soloist in the church choir.

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

In 343 BC, Aristotle became tutoring Alexander the Great.

As the years passed, Charles acquired more titles.

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.

Upon his return to Poland, which had been partitioned by Russia, Austria, and Prussia three years earlier, he found no employment in the army (the Polish army at the time was reduced to 10,000 soldiers).

He also met with Napoleon, whom he was skeptical about, not trusting him.

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

Hemingway patrolled the waters along Cuba’s coast and the Gulf of Mexico between 1942 and 1944.