Biography

Friday, 22 May 2026

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Jane Austen
Jane's father, George Austin, was an educated minister of the Anglican Church.
As a promising young man, he won an academic scholarship that enabled him to study at Oxford's St. J ...
Roland Garros
Eugene Adrien Roland Georges Garros was a French aviation pioneer and fighter pilot.
He was born in 1888, when no one in the world dreamed of the existence of such machines as airplanes ...
Jane Austen
Austen's works have repeatedly inspired filmmakers.
Many Hollywood productions lived to see the novels: "Pride and Prejudice," which was screened as many as ten times, "Sense and Sensibility," "Mansfield Park" and "Emma."
Christopher Columbus
This time the king responded decisively, sending Francisco Fernandez de Bobadilla west, equipped with far-reaching powers.
Upon arriving in Haiti, Bobadilla had Columbus and his son Diego arrested and sent back to Spain in ...
Anna Pavlova
Anna popularized various ethnic dances.
The “Mexican hat dance”, known in Mexico as Jarabe Tapatio, was popularized outside Mexico when Pavl ...
Peter the Great
He built from scratch the new city of St. Petersburg, to which he moved the country's capital.
In 1721, the Senate proclaimed Tsar Peter the Great as Emperor of All-Russia.
Ada Lovelace
Ada was a descendant of an extinct family of Lovelace barons.
In 1838, her husband became Earl of Lovelace and Viscount Ockham, and Ada became Countess of Lovelace.
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 ...
Frederic Chopin
In 1818, the first review of Chopin's works was published in print.
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin died after a long illness on April 19, 1882, at the age of 73.
In recognition of his great contributions to science, Queen Victoria expressed the wish that the gre ...