Biography

Saturday, 20 June 2026

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Salvador Dali
He had eccentric ideas already in high school.
From this period he was remembered not as an extremely talented student but for creating a spectacle in which he threw himself down the stairs in front of the entire school audience.
Salvador Dali
He created about 1500 paintings.
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare amassed a considerable fortune.
He made a profit from writing and acting, was a shareholder of a thriving theater, and was also acti ...
Marilyn Monroe
She has been numerously commemorated in pop culture.
Elton John wrote “Candle in the Wind” for her.
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
He was a very talented, outstanding student.
He studied Polish history and general history, philosophy, Latin, Polish, French, German, law, economics, arithmetic, geometry and surveying.
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi also known as "The Red Priest" - Il Prete Rosso - was born in 1678 in Venice.
He was born into a rather poor family. His father, Giambattista Vivaldi, a musician by passion, init ...
Nikola Tesla
At the first meeting in Edison's laboratory, Tesla was already very impressed with him.
Thanks to excellent recommendations from Europe, he was hired at Edison's lab, and although he was n ...
Constantine the Great
Constantine I the Great was born around 272 in Naissus, part of the province of Dardania in Mesa, a Roman province in the central Balkans (now Niš, a city in Serbia).
He was the son of Flavius Constantius Chlorus, a Roman army officer who was one of the four emperors ...
Ada Lovelace
Lovelace valued metaphysics on a par with mathematics.
 She saw them as tools for discovering "invisible worlds around us." She believed that intuition and imagination were crucial to the successful application of mathematical and scientific concepts.
Aristotle
Out of over 200 scrolls and manuscripts written by Aristotle, approximately 31 have survived to the present day.