Biography

Friday, 17 April 2026

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Tadeusz Kosciuszko
After the death of Catherine II, Kosciuszko was freed from captivity by her successor, Tsar Paul I Romanov.
The price he had to pay for freeing 20.000 Poles from Russian prisons and gulags was to take an oath of allegiance and pledge not to return to Poland.
Sting
A year later, he released a live album, "Bring on the Night," which featured songs from his debut album and earlier periods of his career. The album was filmed on VHS, later also on DVD and Blu-ray.
During this time, Sting became a true multi-instrumentalist - he played bass, keyboards, and saxophone.
Gaius Julius Caesar
Pompey himself, after his defeat at Pharsalos in 48 BC, fled to Egypt.
Seeking rescue on the other side of the Mediterranean, however, he fell into the worst possible posi ...
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven's return from Heiligenstadt to Vienna was marked by a change in musical style and is now often referred to as the beginning of his middle (heroic) period.
Shortly after Beethoven's breakdown, one of his most joyful works, Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36 ...
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway traveled to China with Martha, where both worked as reporters - Martha for Collier’s magazine and Ernest for the PM newspaper.
They returned to Cuba before the United States joined World War II. There are suggestions that even ...
Michelangelo
He had many plans and dreams connected with his art, but he failed to achieve them all.
As his most significant failure, he considered the completion of Pope Julius II's tomb in the form h ...
Nikola Tesla
Tesla was a visionary.
As early as 1893, he predicted the coming of wireless communication. He developed a number of device ...
Ludwig van Beethoven
The composer was originally buried at the St. Marx cemetery in Vienna, from which in 1888 the remains of the deceased were moved to the newly established Central Cemetery in Vienna, where they were placed in a grave adjacent to Schubert's.
Beethoven's funeral took place on March 29, 1827, attended by over 10.000 people. Viennese (the city ...
Nikola Tesla
Tesla was a capable, bright student able to perform integral calculus by memory.
Of course, this aroused the disbelief of his teachers, who thought he was cheating. Finally, however, he finished his education scheduled for four years in three.
Peter the Great
Meanwhile, Peter married Eudoxia Lopukhina, who came from a wealthy boyar family.
She married Peter shortly before an attempt on his life, prepared by the Tsar's half-sister Sophia R ...