Biography

Thursday, 20 November 2025

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Amadeus Mozart
He was born in an apartment building at Getreidegasse 9, in the so-called "Hagenauer House."
The composer's house on Makrtplatz and the tenement on Getreidegasse, now house museums dedicated to the musician.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy
He assumed the office of president after being sworn in on May 20, 2019.
On the same day, he announced the dissolution of parliament, and in early elections the associated " ...
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Hypatia
She probably never left her hometown.
Some scholars believe that Hypatia was educated in Athens, but it is more likely that she never left ...
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon divorced Josephine (she did not give him an heir) and married Marie Louise - daughter of the defeated Austrian Emperor Francis II.
Maria Louisa bore him a son - Napoleon II. He was the emperor's only legitimate son.
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William Shakespeare
William had many siblings.
He had three brothers (Gilbert, 1566 - 1611, Richard, 1574 - 1612, and Edmund, 1580 - 1607), and fou ...
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Hypatia
She did not get involved in religious or political disputes.
Hypatia lived during the spread of the Christian faith, but remained a pagan (non-practising) hersel ...
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John Sutter
California Goldrush drove him into bankruptcy.
Sutter's land was immediately overrun by immigrants obsessed with the potential fortune they may earn. They stole whatever there was to steal including livestock. Colony fell into ruin around 1850.
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Gaius Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar received 23 stabbings.
Of all the blows inflicted on him, only one was fatal, the second stab to the chest which pierced th ...
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Salvador Dali
In 1954, Dali and photographer Philippe Halsman published a book entirely devoted to the mustache.
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Abraham Lincoln
On one hand, Lincoln was against slavery. On the other, however, opposed the idea of granting civil rights to Afro-Americans, and suggested emigration to Africa and Latin America.
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