Biography

Rasputin began to seek patronage from well-known centers of Russian Orthodoxy, and to this end began his "great journey" in 1903.

The ambitious father decided to showcase his talented children at European princely courts.

Darwin's last child was Charles Waring Darwin, who never learned to walk or talk.

Beethoven began learning music at the age of five, and because the study regime was strict and intense, it often reduced him to tears.

Bishop Cyril harboured a deep, pathological hatred for Hypatia.

He was born in Saint-Denis, Réunion, an island in the Indian Ocean.

In 1836 Frederic Chopin got engaged to Maria Wodzińska, but the wedding never happened.

Some sources claim Anna wished to be considered a product of her mother’s early marriage, so she claimed her father was a man named Pavel, who died when she was a toddler.

The United States Military Academy at West Point has a statue of Kosciuszko and a commemorative plaque.

The Nobel family came from Östra Nöbbelöv, a village in Skåne, hence the family name.