Biography

Wednesday, 2 September 2026

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Hypatia
The exact date of Hypatia's birth is not known.
She was probably born around 355 or 370. Such dates are given in her biographies, written by ancient scholars decades after her death. Most modern scholars believe that Hypatia was born in 370.
Hypatia
Her father guided Hypatia's education. It is likely that he instilled in her an interest in science. She studied philosophy, but also specialised in mathematics and astronomy.
Together with her father, she worked on the edition of Euclid's Elements and commentaries on the wor ...
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s family home still stands in Stratford on Henley Street.
After Shakespeare’s death, the house remained in his family until 1670, which was converted into an ...
Homer
During the Hellenistic period, Homer was the object of hero worship in several cities.
One of the most distinctive features of Greek religion was the worship of heroes (heros), who became ...
Anna Pavlova
Anna popularized various ethnic dances.
The “Mexican hat dance”, known in Mexico as Jarabe Tapatio, was popularized outside Mexico when Pavl ...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
He has known his wife since middle school, but their closer relationship began during college.
Olena Zelenska (née Kiyashko) was born on February 16, 1978 in Kryvyi Rih. She met her future husban ...
Ludwig van Beethoven
At the peak of his virtuoso fame, in the period 1796-1798, Beethoven experienced the first symptoms of deafness.
Initially, he treated it as a short-term indisposition of the body, but over time, he realized that ...
Charles Darwin
He began his education at the age of eight in a day school run by a preacher.
A year later, he and his brother Erasmus began attending a nearby Anglican school in Shrewsbury.
Roland Garros
Garros was the first to shoot down an aircraft with a machine gun mounted on the fuselage.
Early in World War I, the possibility of mounting a forward firing machine gun on a fighter aircraft ...
Gaius Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar received 23 stabbings.
Of all the blows inflicted on him, only one was fatal, the second stab to the chest which pierced th ...