Biography

Tuesday, 20 January 2026

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Anna Pavlova
Anna died on January 23rd, 1931 in Hague, Netherlands, at the age of 49.
She died of pleurisy, which was a result of a 12-hour train delay she was forced to wait out in the ...
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Salvador Dali
Dali designed the Chupa Chups logo.
During his career he created many advertisements and logos.
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Jane Austen
Jane's father, George Austin, was an educated minister of the Anglican Church.
As a promising young man, he won an academic scholarship that enabled him to study at Oxford's St. J ...
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Roland Garros
While studying in Paris, he came into contact with the fledgling world of aviation, which fascinated him.
He dropped out of college and founded a car dealership in Paris at the age of twenty-one. He became ...
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy
As an actor, he has appeared in Russian-language romantic comedies: the 3-part (2009, 2010, 2014) film "Love in the Big City," and the films "8 First Dates" (2012), "Rzhevsky Versus Napoleon" (2012) and "8 New Dates" (2015).
 In 2014 and 2017, he lent his voice to the title character in the films "Paddington" and "Paddington 2."
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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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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 ...
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John Sutter
He wanted to build a town named Sutterville.
His son, John Augustus Sutter Jr., proposed the name Sacramento, derived from the Sacramento River. ...
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Charles Darwin
He suffered from seasickness.
However, this did not prevent him from conducting research on marine invertebrates, especially plankton - most of his zoological records dealt with marine invertebrates.
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Constantine the Great
Constantine I the Great was born around 272 in Naissus, part of the province of Dardania in Mesa, a Roman province in the central Balkans (now Niš, a city in Serbia).
He was the son of Flavius Constantius Chlorus, a Roman army officer who was one of the four emperors ...
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