Biography

Monday, 23 March 2026

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Kate Middleton
She met her future husband, the heir to the throne of the United Kingdom, during her college years.
Prince William, like Kate, took a gap year after finishing college. He then chose the same universit ...
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Salvador Dali
He was always fascinated by the legendary painter Pablo Picasso.
While in Paris in 1927, he met with Picasso in his atelier, where the painter showed him his works. ...
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Nikola Tesla
He attended elementary school in Smiljan, where he learned German, arithmetic, and religion.
The family moved to nearby Gospic, where his father became a parish priest. There Tesla completed el ...
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Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was one of the pioneers of roentgenology.
Independently of attempts by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen, widely recognized as the discoverer ...
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Napoleon Bonaparte
He was born as Napoleone di Buonaparte in Ajaccio, Corsica, on August 15, 1769.
He was the son of an indigent nobleman of Italian descent, Carlo Maria Buonaparte, and his wife, Let ...
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Napoleon Bonaparte
During the siege of Toulon, Bonaparte was sworn in as captain of an artillery of the revolutionary forces.
He won the support of Augustin Robespierre, younger brother of the revolutionary leader Maximilien R ...
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Nikola Tesla
In his laboratories, he developed the basics of alternating current generation and transmission, which are still used worldwide.
He also created designs for devices powered directly by alternating currents, such as the fluorescen ...
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Sting
In the summer of 2014, he wrote the musical "The Last Ship," inspired by his childhood in the shipyard town of Wallsend.
“The Last Ship”, Sting’s eleventh studio album, was released in 2013.
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Christopher Columbus
He traveled to the American mainland and reached the coast south of the mouth of the Orinoco.
Continuing along the coast in a westerly direction, the expedition discovered Trinidad. He then retu ...
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Peter the Great
He was the first Russian tsar to travel abroad.
In 1697-1698, he embarked on an official diplomatic, 18-month mission called the “Grand Embassy,” tr ...
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