Biography

Friday, 9 January 2026

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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 ...
Peter the Great
Pyotr I Alekseyevich, commonly known as Peter the Great, was born in 1672 in Moscow.
He was the son of Alexei I Mikhailovich (Tsar of Russia from 1645 to 1676, father of three successiv ...
Michelangelo
The family Buonarroti Simoni was one of the old Florentine families.
When Michelangelo was a few weeks old infant, the family moved to Florence.
Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer became entangled with communist connotations.
In 1936 he fell in love with a psychology student, Jean Tatlock. She was a supporter of communism an ...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
After his return to Kryvyi Rih, Volodymyr began to study at the secondary school No. 95.
It was a school with an intensive English program. All the teachers of the school remember Volodymyr ...
Roland Garros
While studying in Paris, he came into contact with the fledgling world of aviation, which fascinated him.
He dropped out of college and founded a car dealership in Paris at the age of twenty-one. He became ...
Anna Pavlova
During her career, Anna performed over four thousand times.
Napoleon Bonaparte
At the age of 27, he married the widowed aristocrat Josephine de Beauharnais (she was the mistress of many influential politicians after her husband's death).
After marrying Josephine, Buonaparte changed his name, giving it a French spelling and pronunciation ...
Peter the Great
The envoy consisted of 200-250 people accompanying three plenipotentiary deputies (ambassadors).
These included three governors: Novgorod, Siberia, and Belov.
Nikola Tesla
In 1913, Tesla patented a bladeless disc turbine - his 100th patent.
Tesla was mainly concerned with the subject of electricity. He experimented with various methods of ...