Biography

Like many other activists, Kosciuszko decided to leave the country and go into exile in Saxony, as an emigration center of opponents of the Targowica Confederation was being formed in Leipzig and Dresden.

He was born into a Serbian family, and his ancestors came from western Serbia near Montenegro.

In the post-war period, Hemingway suffered from many illnesses: diabetes, severe headaches, high blood pressure and overweight problems. He also abused alcohol.

The period of his first compositional successes coincided with the period of his first love affair with Konstancja Gładkowska, the singer he called the ideal.

No manuscripts of Shakespeare have survived, and no correspondence or notes remain of him.

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 published a number of sonnets and sermons, and the subjects he mainly dealt with were love and death.

In 2010, Prince William proposed to his chosen wife.

Michelangelo died in Rome in 1564, at the age of 89.

Beethoven's return from Heiligenstadt to Vienna was marked by a change in musical style and is now often referred to as the beginning of his middle (heroic) period.