Biography

Thursday, 12 February 2026

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Peter the Great
At the age of four, he lost his father and was placed under the care of boyar Rodion Streshnev.
His education took place under the tutelage of enlightened teachers, including Simeon Polotsky, a gr ...
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Peter the Great
He introduced the poll tax, which was the primary source of revenue for the Russian monarchy until 1887.
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Robert Oppenheimer
France appointed him an officer of the Legion of Honor in 1957.
In 1962, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society of Great Britain.
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Christopher Columbus
Isabella I of Castile allowed Columbus to organize an expedition to sail under the flag of the Spanish crown.
The expedition was financed partly by the court and partly by the Pinzon merchant family. Columbus w ...
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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.
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Robert Oppenheimer
He took a course in thermodynamics taught by Professor Percy Bridgman.
He then became interested in experimental physics. Since there were no world-class experimental phys ...
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Nikola Tesla
At the end of his sophomore year, Tesla lost his scholarship and became addicted to gambling.
He lost his allowance and tuition money - he played pool. When it was time for exams, he was unprepa ...
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Ernest Hemingway
Already separated from Pauline, Hemingway moved out of Key West to a summer residence in Ketchum, Idaho.
He also sailed to Cuba, where he initially rented a room in a hotel in Havana. However, when Martha ...
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Rasputin
Grigori Rasputin was a Russian peasant claiming to be an Orthodox monk, a mystic, and a favorite of the family of Tsar Nicholas II Romanov.
No details of his birth date exist; he was probably born in January 1869, although he gave different birth dates at various stages of his life.
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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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