Biography

Because of Aristotle’s Macedonian ties, he fled Athens and ventured to the court of his father-in-law, Hermias of Atarneus.

In 1712, Peter the Great received the Order of the White Eagle - the oldest and highest state decoration of the Republic of Poland, awarded for distinguished civil and military merits for the benefit of the Republic of Poland.

Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770 in a house at Bonnstrasse 20, where the Beethoven-Haus Museum is now located.

An admirer of Jane's novels was the Prince Regent - later King George IV, who kept a set of all her novels in every residence.

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.

Women adored Rasputin. He was their guide, not only spiritually.

While studying in Paris, he came into contact with the fledgling world of aviation, which fascinated him.

The Odyssey has been the inspiration for many valuable works of literature.

In 1773, Amadeus traveled to Vienna with his father, who sought a better position at the Viennese court.

Oppenheimer became entangled with communist connotations.