Biography

Although he refused to learn to play the cello, years later, he admitted that music lessons contributed to his writing style, as evidenced by the contrapuntal structure of the novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls.”

The city of Bath in the county of Somerset is home to the Jane Austen Centre.

Columbus' second expedition took place between 1493 and 1494.

During World War II, he became the scientific director of the Manhattan Project.

She was regarded as a moral authority and valued for her knowledge, logic, teaching ability and other intellectual qualities, as well as for her character traits of modesty, respectability, simplicity of dress, sexual restraint and love for Alexandria, in whose affairs she was involved.

At nineteen, he married Praskovia Fedorovna Dubrovna, with whom he had four children.

He got married to Annette Dubold in 1824.

The success achieved during the siege of Toulon resulted in the appointment of the twenty-four-year-old Napoleon as a brigadier general.

Peter I reformed the army, introducing annual compulsory conscription for permanent service in the regular army.

Byron was disappointed by the birth of his daughter, he expected a son, "a wonderful boy". The girl was named after Byron's half-sister (his great love), Augusta Leighi; Byron called her Ada.