Biography

After less than a year on Elba, Napoleon escaped from the island in February 1815 and appeared in Paris on the first of March, embracing power in France for 100 days.

He continued his education at Janson de Sailly, one of the most prestigious schools in Europe.

Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770 in a house at Bonnstrasse 20, where the Beethoven-Haus Museum is now located.

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.

In antiquity he was also regarded as the author of other epic poems.

Her photo graced the first-ever front cover of Playboy magazine.

Around 335 BC, Aristotle founded a peripatetic school of philosophy.

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

He witnessed a series of battles fought between American and German troops in the Hürtgen Forest (Battle of Hürtgen Forest, September 16th - December 19th, 1944) on the German-Belgian border - the longest single battle of the U.S. Army in its history.

He was married three times.