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Wednesday, 1 July 2026
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Frederic Chopin
For the sake of Chopin's health and life, as a cholera epidemic was spreading in Paris, his friends found an apartment in Chaillot for him.
Stirling took care of him, but she annoyed Chopin, the Czartoryski family sent the musician one of t ...
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Anna Pavlova
Anna was known for her charity.
She supported Russian orphans in Paris after World War I. She also bought a house in Paris for 15 girls she supported with her earnings.
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Anna Pavlova
Anna popularized various ethnic dances.
The “Mexican hat dance”, known in Mexico as Jarabe Tapatio, was popularized outside Mexico when Pavl ...
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Anna Pavlova
A meringue-based dessert, pavlova, was named after Anna.
During her tours to Australia and New Zealand in 1920, she asked for a light dessert, and she was se ...
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus died in Valladolid on May 20, 1506, and was buried there.
After three years, the body was transferred to Seville. It was Columbus' wish to be buried in Americ ...
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon divorced Josephine (she did not give him an heir) and married Marie Louise - daughter of the defeated Austrian Emperor Francis II.
Maria Louisa bore him a son - Napoleon II. He was the emperor's only legitimate son.
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Jane Austen
Jane received her education primarily at home, learning drawing, music, and dance.
Jane's parents were avid readers, which they also strongly encouraged their daughter to do. As a res ...
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Kate Middleton
The length of their informal relationship earned Kate an unflattering nickname.
The press began ironically calling her Waity Katie after the couple’s subsequent reunion, still not ...
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist who lived from 1770 to 1827.
He remains one of the most admired composers in the history of music, his works are among the most frequently performed in the classical music repertoire.
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Robert Oppenheimer
He came from a family of American Jews.
Robert was born in New York City on April 22, 1904. His father was Julius Seligmann Oppenheimer, a w ...
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