Biography

Hemingway and Pauline attended a three-month safari in Africa.

The plot against Caesar had its beginning on February 22, three weeks before the murder.

Anecdotes say that Antonio Vivaldi wrote the Four Seasons and about six hundred variations on this composition.

His mother was Nancy Lincoln, née Hanks. Her descendant, and therefore a descendant of Abraham Lincoln, is actor Tom Hanks.

Napoleon Bonaparte suffered from ailurophobia - an irrational, terrifying fear of cats.

The Ninth Symphony was something revolutionary, something that had never happened before in the history of music, the history of symphony.

Sting is the father of six children. He has two children with his first wife, Frances Tornelty (1976 - 1984), and four with Trudie Styler, with whom he has formed a happy relationship since 1992.

He had many plans and dreams connected with his art, but he failed to achieve them all.

His bandmate from "Phoenix Jazzman" gave him the nickname Sting because of the black and yellow striped sweater he often wore during performances.

In Joe Wright's 2005 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, young lovers struggling with social conventions, barriers, and prejudices were played by Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen.