Biography

A few weeks after Rasputin was assassinated, the Romanov dynasty was overthrown.

Napoleon Bonaparte suffered from ailurophobia - an irrational, terrifying fear of cats.

Jane Austin was born on 16 December 1775 in Stevenson near Basingstoke, Hempshire.

Thanks to Gertrude Stein, he also met the influential painters Picasso, Joan Miró, and Juan Gris.

In Europe he wrote 16 papers on quantum mechanics, and together with Born published a paper on the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. He then decided to return to the United States.

He also invented the wireless transfer of electricity.

Chopin had three sisters: Ludwika, Izabela and Emilia, who died prematurely.

Napoleon's initial military successes in Malta and Lower Egypt were followed by the destruction of the French fleet by Admiral Nelson's squadron of English ships at the mouth of the Nile.

During the uprising, Kosciuszko reformed the Polish army, introducing many innovations.

Crowds of enthusiasts gathered outside her house.