Biography

Tuesday, 9 December 2025

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Amadeus Mozart
Amadeus practically never left Vienna anymore. His father died, and he began to sink into depression.
In such a depressed state, he threw himself into composing. Two of his best-known operas were writte ...
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Aristotle
Some of Aristotle’s theories were absurd.
For instance, he proposed that the gender of a goat is determined by the direction in which the wind blows.
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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 ...
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Salvador Dali
He never graduated.
While studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, he was known for his eccentric behavior ...
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Amadeus Mozart
Urged strongly by his father to return to Salzburg, he stopped in Munich and Mannheim on his way back.
He also managed to meet his first love Aloysia Weber, who confessed to Mozart that she no longer rec ...
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Charles Darwin
Charles was fascinated by South America.
He was enthralled by the rainforests of Brazil, excitedly discovered the mysteries of Patagonia, and ...
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Salvador Dali
He was fascinated by the appearance of Diego Velazquez.
Dali's famous mustache was modeled on the mustache of a recognized painter.
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Michelangelo
Lodovico was not interested in the children, for whom he was cold and strict, especially Michelangelo.
Unfortunately, the father was a man whose only interest in life was money, which he wasn't able to e ...
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway owned a fishing boat, “Pilar,” which he sailed around the Caribbean.
While sailing, he stayed for several months in the westernmost district of the Bahamas - Bimini - where he worked on the novel “To Have and Have Not.”
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Amadeus Mozart
He was the seventh child of Leopold Mozart and Anna Maria, née Pertl.
Leopold Mozart was a court violinist and composer and the author of the first violin textbook.
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