Biography

Tuesday, 14 April 2026

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Marilyn Monroe
Monroe was awarded a Golden Globe for her role in “Some Like it Hot.”
Hypatia
She was regarded as a moral authority and valued for her knowledge, logic, teaching ability and other intellectual qualities, as well as for her character traits of modesty, respectability, simplicity of dress, sexual restraint and love for Alexandria, in whose affairs she was involved.
Some believed that she was held in high esteem by the whole city. The Suda Lexicon (a 10th century B ...
Frederic Chopin
During his studies at the Warsaw Lyceum, Frederic often left Warsaw and visited a large part of Poland.
He visited Szafarnia, from where he sent his famous letters to his parents, "Kuriery Szafarskie" ("C ...
Homer
He may have been one of the forerunners of writing down poetic song previously transmitted orally.
In the eighth century BC, alphabetic writing was introduced to Greece. There was a growing shift awa ...
Hypatia
Her father guided Hypatia's education. It is likely that he instilled in her an interest in science. She studied philosophy, but also specialised in mathematics and astronomy.
Together with her father, she worked on the edition of Euclid's Elements and commentaries on the wor ...
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway’s home in Key West still serves as a museum dedicated to the writer.
Legend has it that the Hemingway family purchased the pool worth $20,000 in the 1930s (the equivalen ...
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway’s marital relations began to deteriorate when he met Pauline Pfeiffer and got into an affair with her, and his wife found out.
Hadley asked for a separation and later filed for divorce. The couple divorced in January 1927, and ...
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.
Gaius Julius Caesar
Pompey himself, after his defeat at Pharsalos in 48 BC, fled to Egypt.
Seeking rescue on the other side of the Mediterranean, however, he fell into the worst possible posi ...
Salvador Dali
While creating, the artist never used substances "modifying consciousness". He used to say: "I don't do drugs. I am drugs."
In the early 1930s, he developed a method called paranoid-critical. This method was based on pretend ...