Biography

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

After Vivaldi's death, his vast collection of musical manuscripts was bound into 27 large volumes.

Immediately after the outbreak of the war, he refused the American offer of evacuation from Ukraine.

Even as a child Frederic made numerous appearances in the salons of the Warsaw aristocracy.

Tadeusz Kosciuszko was born in 1746 in Mereczowszczyzna near Kosovo in Polesia.

Isabella I of Castile allowed Columbus to organize an expedition to sail under the flag of the Spanish crown.

Napoleon is also traditionally credited with a geometric theorem known as Napoleon's theorem, declaring that the orthocenters of equilateral triangles built on the sides of any triangle are the vertices of the equilateral triangle.

The family lived on his father's modest income of £600 a year.

Dali was the third Salvador in the family.

Jane Austen's first novel - "Sense and Sensibility" was published in 1811 in three volumes as a work, "By a Lady."