Biography

He had to wait some time before organizing the third expedition (1498-1500), as it was difficult for him to regain the lost confidence of the people.

He enslaved, mistreated, and abused Indians who were forced to work for him. Any sign of resistance was considered hostile and tribal villages were raided and destroyed and their inhabitants murdered or kidnapped.

Her real name was Norma Jeane Mortenson.

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

Jane Austin was born on 16 December 1775 in Stevenson near Basingstoke, Hempshire.

The reform also included the central government of the state. A ruling Senate and colleges were created.

Lincoln’s embalmed body rests in a mausoleum in Springfield.

Ernest Hemingway owned a fishing boat, “Pilar,” which he sailed around the Caribbean.

The Kosciuszko family descended from Konstantin Fedorovich, a grand ducal courtier of Alexander Jagiellon and Sigismund I.

"Northanger Abbey" is a parody of the so-called Gothic novel, a literary genre extremely popular in Britain at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.