Biography

It was a modest income at the time; by comparison, a skilled laborer - a blacksmith or carpenter - c ...

Elton John wrote “Candle in the Wind” for her.

While Kosciuszko was in Philadelphia, he was visited by Indian chief Little Turtle, to whom Kosciusz ...

It was prompted by a statement issued by the U.S. government, calling on all ship and boat owners to volunteer to patrol North American coastal waters in search of German submarines.

Thanks to excellent recommendations from Europe, he was hired at Edison's lab, and although he was n ...

Rasputin had some supernatural strength because not only under the effect of the poison and with his ...

He underwent surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. While at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, he fell into a coma and soon died on February 18, 1967, at the age of 62.

After Cornelia's death the very next year, he married Pompeia, whom he divorced six years later as a ...