Biography

Kosciuszko also assisted the southern army, where he was sent at his request.

She educated successive members of Alexandria's elite, and her students held high positions.

As a widower, Columbus met Beatriz Enriquez in Spain, whom he never married but left her a large portion of his fortune.

Some accuse her of being too rigid and hiding her emotions.

The dying Chopin asked that after his death his heart be taken from his body and sent to Warsaw.

He was famous, leading the life of a virtuoso, composing works that quickly became fashionable in the salons. He moved quickly from a small apartment at Boulevard Poissonniere to the fashionable district of Paris, and his friends called his apartment Olympus, because of the heavenly music that came from there.

HMS Beagle returned from the expedition in 1836.

He was the initiator of the creation of the Julian calendar.

She never tied herself to a man and remained a virgin for the rest of her life.

Oppenheimer's team developed two bomb designs.