Biography

Grigori Rasputin's career at the Tsar's court began in Poland, specifically at the Tsar's residence in Spala, which was then in the Kingdom of Poland.

Isabella I of Castile allowed Columbus to organize an expedition to sail under the flag of the Spanish crown.

Beethoven never married.

He built from scratch the new city of St. Petersburg, to which he moved the country's capital.

To consolidate his power in France, after a nationwide plebiscite, Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French on December 2, 1804.

Hemingway’s second son Patrick was born in 1928 in Kansas City.

Years later, Oppenheimer was rehabilitated by President John F. Kennedy. He awarded him the Enrico Fermi Prize in 1963 for his contributions to the development of atomic energy.

It is quite common to attribute the introduction of right-hand traffic to Napoleon.

After the outbreak of the revolution in Paris, Chopin went to England and Scotland. He was already in very poor health, and the journey aggravated it.

Oppenheimer was a compulsive smoker. In late 1965, he was diagnosed with throat cancer.