Biography

At a very young age, he lost his younger brother Thomas due to illness, and his mother died shortly thereafter.

Grigori Rasputin was a Russian peasant claiming to be an Orthodox monk, a mystic, and a favorite of the family of Tsar Nicholas II Romanov.

At that time Chopin did indeed begin to fall seriously ill, probably with tuberculosis, although recently it has been said that it could be cystic fibrosis.

The funeral ceremony took place on January 12.

Ada Lovelace befriended her tutor Mary Somerville.Mary Somerville was a Scottish physicist, writer and scholar. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she and Caroline Herschel (a British astronomer) were elected as the first honorary members of the Royal Astronomical Society.

He was so absorbed in teaching that he lost touch with reality. He didn't read newspapers, listen to radio news, or use the telephone.

Chopin began learning the piano quite early, at the turn of his fourth and fifth year.

Alfred Nobel lived between 1833 and 1896.

She came from Alexandria, a major Mediterranean port.

She loved animals.