Biography

In 1835, Darwin experienced an earthquake in Chile.

Contrary to prevailing legend, Hemingway was not the first person in liberated Paris, nor did he liberate the Ritz Hotel.

George Gordon Byron's life was filled with moral scandals and love conquests.

He was such a gifted student that he completed the third and fourth grades in one year and the eighth grade in six months. In his last year of school he became interested in chemistry.

As part of his work duties, he began his first oceanic trading voyages to England, Madeira and Guinea.

She underwent head surgery as a child.

After the master's death, a letter to the Immortal Beloved was found in a hidden drawer of the desk (found together with, among others, the Heiligenstadt Testament).

He spoke three languages.

Monroe was awarded a Golden Globe for her role in “Some Like it Hot.”

When Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” was published, Hemingway read it, became enthralled and decided that his subsequent work would be a novel.