Biography

Tuesday, 16 December 2025

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Marilyn Monroe
She ranked 6th in the list of the Greatest Actresses of All Time published by the American Film Institute.
John Sutter
In 1834, he left his wife and five kids and fled from Europe.
Sutter boarded ship Sully in Le Havre, France and arrived in New York on July 14, 1834.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven's income during this period came from the publication of his works, from their performances, and from patrons for whom he performed private concerts and exclusive copies of the works they commissioned before their publication.
Some of his patrons, including Prince Lobkowitz and Prince Lichnovsky, gave him annual stipends in a ...
Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The work in the laboratory was enormously stressful.
Oppenheimer then became addicted to cigarettes, which he smoked in large quantities, one after anoth ...
Frederic Chopin
The period of his first compositional successes coincided with the period of his first love affair with Konstancja Gładkowska, the singer he called the ideal.
Constantine the Great
Constantine the Great also enacted several new laws regarding the Jews.
Jews were forbidden to persecute other Jews who converted to Christianity. They were forbidden to ow ...
Aristotle
In 343 BC, Aristotle became tutoring Alexander the Great.
He has done so at the request of Alexander’s father, Philip II of Macedon.
Abraham Lincoln
He measured about 195 centimeters, which makes him the tallest president of the US.
Christopher Columbus
In 1476 he took part in an expedition of Genoese merchant ships to Lisbon and Flanders.
During this expedition, near Cape St. Vincent, a fleet of Franco-Portuguese attacked a Genoese convo ...
Antonio Vivaldi
It is assumed that Vivaldi composed about 500 instrumental concertos.
about 350 concertos for one solo instrument and strings about 40 concertos for two solo instruments ...