Biography

Saturday, 25 April 2026

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Hypatia
Cyril of Alexandria became a saint of the Catholic Church and a prominent theologian who fought for the purity of Christianity.
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Abraham Lincoln
He measured about 195 centimeters, which makes him the tallest president of the US.
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Peter the Great
Pyotr I Alekseyevich, commonly known as Peter the Great, was born in 1672 in Moscow.
He was the son of Alexei I Mikhailovich (Tsar of Russia from 1645 to 1676, father of three successiv ...
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Frederic Chopin
Chopin had three sisters: Ludwika, Izabela and Emilia, who died prematurely.
Emilia died very young. Frederick was closest with Ludwika.
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Charles Darwin
In 1835, Darwin experienced an earthquake in Chile.
High in the Andes, he saw shells and numerous tree fossils exposed by the tremors. From this he conc ...
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy
After his return to Kryvyi Rih, Volodymyr began to study at the secondary school No. 95.
It was a school with an intensive English program. All the teachers of the school remember Volodymyr ...
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Charles Darwin
Darwin worked very hard and neglected his health.
From the clinical syndromes described, modern physicians concluded that Darwin suffered from three p ...
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Hypatia
Crowds of enthusiasts gathered outside her house.
She also gave public lectures on mathematics and astronomy in her house and in the lecture halls of ...
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Peter the Great
Eventually, both brothers became tsars, with their sister Sophia as regent.
The brothers co-ruled until Ivan V died in 1696.
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Aristotle
At the age of 17 or 18, he joined Plato’s Academy.
It was funded by Plato in 387 BC on the outskirts of Athens and is often referred to as a school for would-be politicians.
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