Biography

Tuesday, 12 May 2026

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Charles Darwin
He became one of the best students.
In the final examinations he placed tenth out of 178 people. The reading of numerous naturalistic wo ...
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Christopher Columbus
In May 1492, Columbus arrived at the port of Palos in Andalusia, where the town provided him with two caravels: Niña and Pinta, and leased a larger ship, the caravel "Santa Maria," as his flagship.
On August 3, 1492, the three ships set sail with a crew of about 90 men and, after a brief stopover at Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, set course westward. Columbus' first expedition had begun.
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Anna Pavlova
Anna was known for her charity.
She supported Russian orphans in Paris after World War I. She also bought a house in Paris for 15 girls she supported with her earnings.
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Roland Garros
In 1909 he attended as an observer the Grande Semaine d'Aviation de la Champagne, an international aviation event.
This was the first competition for the prestigious Gordon Bennett Trophy, sponsored by Gordon Bennet ...
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Kate Middleton
The separation between Kate and William did not last long.
Just a few months after the breakup, the couple got back together and began appearing together in pu ...
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy
On December 31, 2018, he officially announced his candidacy for the presidential election.
Zelensky's candidacy came as quite a surprise, both to Ukrainians themselves and to political scient ...
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Tadeusz Kosciuszko
In 1815, Tsar Alexander I Romanov invited Kosciuszko to Vienna.
The Tsar wanted to gain approval for the creation of the Kingdom of Poland in this way. Learning tha ...
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Michelangelo
Wanting to learn more about human anatomy, he secretly performed autopsies in the hospital (Santo Spirito Monastery).
As a token of his gratitude, Michelangelo carved a wooden crucifix for the monastery, which is the only polychrome wooden sculpture in the artist's oeuvre.
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Ernest Hemingway
During World War I, Hemingway sought to be sent to the Italian front.
In December 1917, after being rejected by the U.S. Army due to poor eyesight, he was sent to the Ita ...
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Roland Garros
Garros ended up in German captivity in 1915. During a raid on the Courtrai railway station in German-controlled territory, a fuel line in his plane became clogged, forcing him to land. Garros was captured by the Germans and sent to a POW camp at the fortress of Magdeburg, where he spent three years.
Before being captured, Garros managed to set fire to the fuselage, but the plane's cannon and armore ...
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