Biography

We know very little about the seven years of Shakespeare’s life after 1585. This period is referred to as the “lost years.”

In 1792, Stanislaw August Poniatowski wanted to award Kosciuszko the Order of the White Eagle.

During his student days he was an avid collector of beetles.

He loved fashion.

In 1783, he premiered the Great Mass in C minor KV 427.

On the eve of World War I, Garros was in the German Reich. It was there that he learned of the impending conflict.

As an active member of the Royal Family, Kate Middleton performs a variety of functions.

Ernest had a problematic relationship with his domineering mother, who overshadowed even her husband.

During this stay, while in Rome at the Sistine Chapel, the fourteen-year-old Mozart heard Gregorio Allegri's "Miserere."

Among Lincoln’s favorite readings were the Bible, Aesop’s Fables, “The Pilgrim’s Wanderings” by John Buyan, and “The Cases of Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe.