Biography

As a solo musician and member of The Police, Sting won 17 Grammy Awards, won Song of the Year for "Every Breath You Take," three Brit Awards, including Best British Male Artist in 1994, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and four Academy Award nominations for Best Original Song.

Monroe was not always blonde.

Young William attended a grammar school in Stratford, a prestigious institution where pupils were taught by Oxford and Cambridge magisters. The young Shakespeare learned Latin, history, ancient literature, rhetoric, basic grammar, and modern languages.

He became a very popular professor and was nicknamed "Oppie".

He took a course in thermodynamics taught by Professor Percy Bridgman.

Anna popularized various ethnic dances.

The young, eight-year-old Chopin played in Warsaw for the Tsarina Maria Feodorovna, to whom he offered two of his Polish dances.

Vivaldi composed the Four Seasons based on anonymous sonnets, each named after one of the seasons.

There are over 100 variations of the name Shakespeare. The poet was also known as Shakspere, Shakspear, Shakespere, Shaksper, Shaxper Shake-spear.

After graduation, he began working at The Kansas City Star newspaper, where he spent six months.