Biography

Saturday, 10 October 2026

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Anna Pavlova
Anna settled at the Ivy House in Golders Green, London, in 1912.
She never returned to Russia, instead lived in England for the rest of her life.
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Amadeus Mozart
Urged strongly by his father to return to Salzburg, he stopped in Munich and Mannheim on his way back.
He also managed to meet his first love Aloysia Weber, who confessed to Mozart that she no longer rec ...
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Ernest Hemingway
Pauline was expecting a child and insisted on returning to the United States.
Before leaving Paris, while in the bathroom, Hemingway had an accident that left a scar on his foreh ...
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Gaius Julius Caesar
The battle on the Circus Maximus grounds pitted 2 captive armies against each other to fight to the death.
Each army consisted of 2000 men, 2 horsemen, and 20 war elephants. Some people considered such behav ...
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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 ...
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Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway and Pauline attended a three-month safari in Africa.
Their guide was Philip Hope Percival, who also hunted with Theodore Roosevelt in 1909. During the sa ...
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Sting
Sting - Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner - was born on October 2, 1951, in Wallsend, Northumberland County, England.
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Peter the Great
During his stay in the Netherlands, Peter was employed in a shipyard belonging to the East India Company as a simple laborer, demanding to call him Peter Timmerman van Zaandam (Peter, the carpenter of Zaandam).
He settled in the enclosed area of the shipyard. Every day he went to work together with the craftsm ...
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Amadeus Mozart
After the first successes in Vienna, the Mozart family decided to go on another tour.
The mother also went with them. They gave concerts in Munich, Augsburg, Schwetzingen, Mainz, Frankfurt am Main (young Goethe was present at the concert), Koblenz and probably Aachen.
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Peter the Great
Peter I's trip to Western Europe is described by chronicles as one of the "milestones" of his reign.
The repercussions of this trip were the changes that took place in Russia. From a semi-oriental, rem ...
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