Biography

Based on the information he gathered, Columbus was convinced that by traveling west, one could reach Asia.

As a result of conquests, by 1812 France had expanded its territory to 750,000 square kilometers.

In the fall of 1808, after turning down a position at the Royal Theater, Beethoven was offered a well-paid position as bandmaster at the court of Cassel by Napoleon's brother, Jerome Bonaparte, then king of Westphalia.

Thanks to the Corsican governor's patronage, he was admitted to a military school in Brienne-le-Chateau.

Beethoven's ancestors were Catholic farmers from what is now Belgium (the prefix "van" is a typical element of common Dutch surnames, often derived from the name of a place).

Alfred and his three brothers spent their early childhood in poverty. After several business failures, his father's workshop went bankrupt and was auctioned off.

No manuscripts of Shakespeare have survived, and no correspondence or notes remain of him.

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

He lacked laboratory skills. He did not feel comfortable in the laboratory, it took him a very long time to plan and carry out experiments, he even worked at night and still had a lot of catching up to do.

As president, he promised to work for Ukraine's membership in NATO and the European Union.