Biography

Monday, 20 April 2026

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Zelensky's family has Jewish roots.
Zelensky's great-grandparents perished in the Holocaust, as did his grandfather's three brothers. As ...
Christopher Columbus
Columbus was accused of extreme brutality againts indigenious people.
Some claimed that he refused to baptize the natives just to have an opportunity to abuse them withou ...
Nikola Tesla
When he recovered, he was threatened with conscription into the Austro-Hungarian army, from which he took refuge by fleeing to the mountains near Tomingaja.
While there, he hunted and contemplated nature. He found then that contact with nature made him phys ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
An opportunity arose for Kosciuszko to pursue a military career in the army of the Republic, as one of the first resolutions of the Four-Year Sejm was to raise the army to 100,000.
In October 1789, Kosciuszko received an appointment signed by the King as a major general of the cro ...
Alfred Nobel
The Nobel family came from Östra Nöbbelöv, a village in Skåne, hence the family name.
The first member of the family was Petrus Olai Nobelius, who married Wendela Rudbeck, daughter of th ...
Gaius Julius Caesar
He was appointed Flamen Dialis, high priest of Jupiter.
He obtained this position in late 87 or early 86 BC.
Peter the Great
He introduced the Julian calendar in place of the Byzantine calendar.
At the time, the Julian calendar was used only in Protestant countries; Catholics had already been using the Gregorian calendar for 100 years.
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s documented artistic activity spans the years 1586 to 1612.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Later, Ludwig's father hired better teachers.
The most important of them was the composer and organist Christian Gottlob Neefe, who introduced the ...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
He is a lawyer by education, although he has never worked in this profession.
Yielding to the suggestions of his father, who insisted that his son learn a practical profession, V ...