Biography

Tuesday, 16 June 2026

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Ernest Hemingway
He witnessed a series of battles fought between American and German troops in the Hürtgen Forest (Battle of Hürtgen Forest, September 16th - December 19th, 1944) on the German-Belgian border - the longest single battle of the U.S. Army in its history.
Hemingway was judged badly by soldiers, who accused him of posturing. He also went to Luxembourg to ...
William Shakespeare
No manuscripts of Shakespeare have survived, and no correspondence or notes remain of him.
Only five of his signatures remain: one under his will, one on the title page of Montaigne’s work “T ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Kosciuszko's stay in Paris lasted five years.
Pre-revolutionary France at the time made a huge impression on him, translating into his political and social beliefs.
Charles III
His first foreign trip as King was to Germany, which he visited on March 29, 2023.
He was the first British monarch to deliver a speech to the German parliament.
John Sutter
Although his colony was expanding, Sutter had financial problems.
In August 1848, Sutter's son John Augustus Sutter Jr. came to the colony to help his father get out of financial difficulties.
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway and Pauline attended a three-month safari in Africa.
Their guide was Philip Hope Percival, who also hunted with Theodore Roosevelt in 1909. During the sa ...
Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer collected European furniture and French Post-Impressionist and Fauvist artworks.
His collection included works by Cezanne, Derain, Despiau, de Vlamnick, Picasso, Rembrandt, Renoir, van Gogh, Vuillard and others.
Abraham Lincoln
He never finished any school.
He was self-taught and owed his love of reading and writing to his stepmother, Sarah Bush Johnston, who encouraged his learning and nurtured his development.
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons is a cycle of 4 violin concertos included in the Op. 8 collection of 12 concertos, "Dispute between Harmony and Imagination," published in 1725.
They were composed around 1720 in Mantua and published in Amsterdam in 1725 with a dedication to the Bohemian Count Wenzl von Morzin, who was a patron of Vivaldi.
Charles Darwin
He was a great opponent of slavery.
During his travels, he witnessed a slave hunt in West Africa, which he described as "barbaric and shocking."