Biography

Saturday, 19 September 2026

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Frederic Chopin
Chopin's relationship with George Sand lasted almost until the last years of the composer's life, ending in 1847.
Chopin greatly outlived this separation, and after leaving Nohant he did not compose any significant works.
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Ada Lovelace
She was no stranger to scandals.
In early 1833, Ada had an affair with one of her tutors and tried to run away with him. The tutor's ...
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Robert Oppenheimer
Robert had a brother, Frank, who was eight years younger.
Frank was also a physicist - a particle physicist, a professor of physics at the University of Color ...
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy
He spent several years of his early childhood in Mongolia.
When he was a few years old, the family moved to Erdenet - now the second largest city in Mongolia a ...
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John Sutter
He arrived in Alta California in 1839.
W towarzystwie trzech europejskich imigrantów, rdzennie amerykańskiego chłopca i dziesięciu ludzi, k ...
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William Shakespeare
In 1596, thanks to Shakespeare’s efforts, his father was granted a noble title.
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Homer
He was an itinerant poet and reciter.
He transmitted his epic poems orally, reciting them to anyone who would listen.  In his poems he ext ...
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Hypatia
Hypatia was brutally murdered.
In March 415, a mob of Christians led by the church lector Peter, whom Socrates described as a fanat ...
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John Sutter
Although his colony was expanding, Sutter had financial problems.
In August 1848, Sutter's son John Augustus Sutter Jr. came to the colony to help his father get out of financial difficulties.
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Tadeusz Kosciuszko
After the death of Catherine II, Kosciuszko was freed from captivity by her successor, Tsar Paul I Romanov.
The price he had to pay for freeing 20.000 Poles from Russian prisons and gulags was to take an oath of allegiance and pledge not to return to Poland.
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