Biography

Friday, 11 September 2026

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Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel lived between 1833 and 1896.
He was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. His most famous achie ...
Ernest Hemingway
Contrary to prevailing legend, Hemingway was not the first person in liberated Paris, nor did he liberate the Ritz Hotel.
While there, he reconciled with Gertrude Stein and visited Pablo Picasso and Sylvia Beach.
Nikola Tesla
At the end of his sophomore year, Tesla lost his scholarship and became addicted to gambling.
He lost his allowance and tuition money - he played pool. When it was time for exams, he was unprepa ...
Homer
The Iliad tells the story of the Trojan War.
It depicts episodes from the final phase of the conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans - Homer ...
Gaius Julius Caesar
After the British campaign, Caesar faced another challenge - the revolt of the Gauls.
He dealt with the insurgents in a brutal, bloody but effective manner. In the emperor's favor were i ...
Robert Oppenheimer
He became a very popular professor and was nicknamed "Oppie".
The first year of his professorship went poorly, he could not relate to the students, could not expl ...
Christopher Columbus
Columbus' second expedition took place between 1493 and 1494.
It was organized very quickly. While it was difficult to recruit 90 crew members for the first exped ...
Jane Austen
Jane Austen's letter, dated 29-30 October 1812, sent to her favorite niece Anna Lefroy, in which the writer parodied a Gothic novel she had read, sold for over £162,000 at auction on 11 July 2017.
Salvador Dali
While creating, the artist never used substances "modifying consciousness". He used to say: "I don't do drugs. I am drugs."
In the early 1930s, he developed a method called paranoid-critical. This method was based on pretend ...
Ludwig van Beethoven
After the death of his brother Kasper, Beethoven tried hard to take care of his son Karl, because he believed that his widow, Johanna, was too promiscuous to take care of the child.
Unfortunately, Ludwig was completely unsuitable for raising his nephew, he did not lead a stable lif ...