Biography

She is credited with inventing the astrolabe and the areometer.

Beethoven was probably first introduced to Joseph Haydn in late 1790 when he, traveling to London, stopped over Christmas in Bonn.

Tesla then went to Paris, where he worked at the Continental Edison Company. This company manufactured generators, motors, and lighting based on the patents of Thomas A. Edison.

Hemingway attended school in Oak Park from 1913 to 1917.

Jane's mother, Cassandra Leigh, came from a prominent family-her father was a rector of All Souls College in Oxford.

He was born into a peasant family in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoye in Tyumen Oblast.

On one hand, Lincoln was against slavery. On the other, however, opposed the idea of granting civil rights to Afro-Americans, and suggested emigration to Africa and Latin America.

Catherine Elizabeth Middleton was born on January 9th, 1982, in Reading.

Like many other activists, Kosciuszko decided to leave the country and go into exile in Saxony, as an emigration center of opponents of the Targowica Confederation was being formed in Leipzig and Dresden.

Napoleon's initial military successes in Malta and Lower Egypt were followed by the destruction of the French fleet by Admiral Nelson's squadron of English ships at the mouth of the Nile.