Biography

Friday, 28 November 2025

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Tadeusz Kosciuszko
In 1792, Stanislaw August Poniatowski wanted to award Kosciuszko the Order of the White Eagle.
Kosciuszko, however, as a republican by conviction, was said to have refused to accept.
Robert Oppenheimer
He took a course in thermodynamics taught by Professor Percy Bridgman.
He then became interested in experimental physics. Since there were no world-class experimental phys ...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
He is a lawyer by education, although he has never worked in this profession.
Yielding to the suggestions of his father, who insisted that his son learn a practical profession, V ...
Homer
During the Hellenistic period, Homer was the object of hero worship in several cities.
One of the most distinctive features of Greek religion was the worship of heroes (heros), who became ...
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace lived from 1815 to 1852.
Her actual name was Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, and she was the only married daughter of Lord Byron, one of England's greatest poets and playwrights.
Ernest Hemingway
After all these adventures, in September 1919, he went on a camping trip with his high school classmates to the Upper Peninsula in Michigan.
This trip inspired him to write the short story “Big Two-Hearted River,” in which the protagonist es ...
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 ...
Salvador Dali
In 1954, Dali and photographer Philippe Halsman published a book entirely devoted to the mustache.
Homer
The Iliad tells the story of the Trojan War.
It depicts episodes from the final phase of the conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans - Homer ...
Nikola Tesla
He also invented the wireless transfer of electricity.
Here he took advantage of the resonant transformer's ability to generate a strong alternating electr ...