Biography

Neither Snowball (Snow White) nor the other cats living with Hemingway were the only cats in his life.

In 1923 Hemingway and his wife returned to Toronto, where their son Jack Hemingway (John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway) was born.

At the age of 27, he married the widowed aristocrat Josephine de Beauharnais (she was the mistress of many influential politicians after her husband's death).

In Munich, Amadeus met the sixteen-year-old soprano Aloysia Weber and fell in love with her.

He was such a gifted student that he completed the third and fourth grades in one year and the eighth grade in six months. In his last year of school he became interested in chemistry.

Shakespeare’s father, John, was among the respected citizens of Stratford.

In the fall of 1808, after turning down a position at the Royal Theater, Beethoven was offered a well-paid position as bandmaster at the court of Cassel by Napoleon's brother, Jerome Bonaparte, then king of Westphalia.

Michelangelo sculpted exclusively in marble. Most of the time, he worked alone and only during the creation of the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel he hired thirteen assistants.

He is a lawyer by education, although he has never worked in this profession.

Lincoln’s embalmed body rests in a mausoleum in Springfield.