Biography

A planet, an asteroid, a crater and a group of fissures (Rimae Hypatia) on the Moon are named after Hypatia.

As he traveled around the country, he met with representatives of the official Orthodox Church, adherents of various religious sects, and ordinary people at markets, railroad stations, and river stops.

William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, England, in the family home on Henley Street.

Nikola Tesla was an American engineer of Serbian descent.

Her breakthrough was a lead solo performance in Michael Fokine’s “The Dying Swan” in 1905.

Michelangelo was well established as a great, admired artist, but as a man, he was feared.

Tesla was a visionary.

He spent the next years of his life traveling around Europe, where he conducted his concerts.

As a reward for teaching his son, Philip II of Macedon freed the inhabitants of Aristotle’s hometown of Stagira from slavery.

In the spring of 1777, Kosciuszko was sent north to the Canadian border, where he fortified various Continental Army military camps for months under General Horatio Gates.