Biography

He witnessed a series of battles fought between American and German troops in the Hürtgen Forest (Battle of Hürtgen Forest, September 16th - December 19th, 1944) on the German-Belgian border - the longest single battle of the U.S. Army in its history.

The so-called "Turin manuscripts" were the first to be saved from oblivion in 1926.

She was also a gambling enthusiast - in her late 40s she lost more than £3,000 on horse racing.

When Bonaparte was sixteen, his father died.

Aristotle is considered the father of zoology.

At the age of 27, he married the widowed aristocrat Josephine de Beauharnais (she was the mistress of many influential politicians after her husband's death).

By the end of the 1950s, Hemingway worked on material that was published after his death as “A Moveable Feast.”

At a very young age, he lost his younger brother Thomas due to illness, and his mother died shortly thereafter.

He died as a result of a gunshot wound during a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater.

In October 2020, New York’s Christie’s Auction House reported that a copy of the First Folio sold for $9.97 million.