Biography

Wednesday, 4 February 2026

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Abraham Lincoln
At a very young age, he lost his younger brother Thomas due to illness, and his mother died shortly thereafter.
A few years later he also lost his older sister, who died of postpartum fever.
Rasputin
At nineteen, he married Praskovia Fedorovna Dubrovna, with whom he had four children.
A spiritual transformation began to take place in Rasputin. It is not known what caused it, whether ...
Robert Oppenheimer
When Ernest Rutherford introduced him to the Danish Nobel laureate Niels Bohr at a university conference, he was delighted and the conversation with him restored his confidence in his own abilities and skills. He decided to pursue theoretical physics.
He chose to go to the world center of theoretical physics - the University of Göttingen, where he co ...
Kate Middleton
Catherine Elizabeth Middleton was born on January 9th, 1982, in Reading.
Kate’s parents, Carole and Michael, met at work; the Princess’ mother worked as a flight attendant a ...
Amadeus Mozart
The ambitious father decided to showcase his talented children at European princely courts.
Amadeus made his first foreign trip to Munich at the age of six. The family's next tour took them th ...
Aristotle
Around 335 BC, Aristotle founded a peripatetic school of philosophy.
Its main focus was philosophy and science taught by experience, not theory, in order to determine the “why.”
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Upon his return to Poland, which had been partitioned by Russia, Austria, and Prussia three years earlier, he found no employment in the army (the Polish army at the time was reduced to 10,000 soldiers).
He had no property (his brother ran the family farm), which was an obstacle to his marriage plans linked to Ludwika Sosnowska, daughter of Lithuanian Field Hetman Jozef Sylvester Sosnowski.
Charles III
As the years passed, Charles acquired more titles.
At birth, as the son of the Duchess and Duke of Edinburgh, he was given the title His Highness the D ...
John Sutter
He arrived in Alta California in 1839.
W towarzystwie trzech europejskich imigrantów, rdzennie amerykańskiego chłopca i dziesięciu ludzi, k ...
Gaius Julius Caesar
The plot against Caesar had its beginning on February 22, three weeks before the murder.
On that day Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus met, and during their conversation, they ...