Biography

Tuesday, 10 February 2026

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Robert Oppenheimer
Robert had a brother, Frank, who was eight years younger.
Frank was also a physicist - a particle physicist, a professor of physics at the University of Color ...
Rasputin
He did not have a good reputation even in his home village.
Rasputin did not attend school and helped his father occasionally in the wagon business, transportin ...
Napoleon Bonaparte
After assuming dictatorial power in France, Napoleon began a very vigorous effort to organize the functioning of the country.
To win the favor of the aristocracy, he declared an amnesty for royalist émigrés, who were allowed t ...
Ernest Hemingway
A cat named Big Boy Peterson accompanied Hemingway in his last moments at the Idaho estate.
Hemingway’s Cuban residence, the Finca, was home to sixty cats and many dogs, to which Hemingway cou ...
Abraham Lincoln
His mother was Nancy Lincoln, née Hanks. Her descendant, and therefore a descendant of Abraham Lincoln, is actor Tom Hanks.
Nancy’s father was also named Tom.
Antonio Vivaldi
The so-called "Turin manuscripts" were the first to be saved from oblivion in 1926.
They consisted of scores for 140 instrumental works, including nearly 30 cantatas, 12 operas, three ...
Charles III
He has five grandchildren.
On the side of son William are: George (born July 22, 2013), Caroline (born May 2, 2015) and Louis ( ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
In the political life of Poland at the time, a group of activists pushing the need for reform played an increasingly important role.
Great political writers, such as Stanislaw Staszic and Hugo Kollataj, called for strengthening the c ...
Charles III
However, his love for nature did not immediately eradicate his love for hunting.
Charles was a lover of fox hunting, which was banned in the Isles in 2004. One issue Charles tried t ...
Amadeus Mozart
Since both Amadeus and Nannerl showed musical ability, the father gave up his career and devoted himself to the children's musical education.
Amadeus learned to play the harpsichord from the age of five (even as a three-year-old, he listened ...