Biography

Sunday, 30 November 2025

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Hypatia
She educated successive members of Alexandria's elite, and her students held high positions.
Hypatia came from an aristocratic background and circulated among the ruling and cultural elite. Her ...
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Christopher Columbus
Columbus tried to convince King John II of Portugal to his ideas, but he sent him back to his advisors, who rejected his plan.
Confronted with this, Columbus moved to Spain in 1485, where his ideas were heard by the royal court ...
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Salvador Dali
Dali designed the Chupa Chups logo.
During his career he created many advertisements and logos.
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Abraham Lincoln
He died as a result of a gunshot wound during a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater.
The assassin, actor Wilkes Booth, shot Lincoln from a close range after breaking into the presidenti ...
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Antonio Vivaldi
He wrote his first opera "Ottone in villa" at the age of 35.
It premiered on May 17, 1713, at the Teatro delle Grazie in Vicenza.
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Constantine the Great
Constantine the Great also enacted several new laws regarding the Jews.
Jews were forbidden to persecute other Jews who converted to Christianity. They were forbidden to ow ...
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John Sutter
He arrived in Alta California in 1839.
W towarzystwie trzech europejskich imigrantów, rdzennie amerykańskiego chłopca i dziesięciu ludzi, k ...
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Hypatia
She was the daughter of the mathematician, astronomer and philosopher Theon of Alexandria.
Theon was an active scholar, he is known to have observed the solar eclipse that took place in Alexa ...
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Michelangelo
Lodovico was not interested in the children, for whom he was cold and strict, especially Michelangelo.
Unfortunately, the father was a man whose only interest in life was money, which he wasn't able to e ...
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Salvador Dali
He was the author of many aphorisms.
Dali used to say, "There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad."
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