Biography

Tuesday, 31 March 2026

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Sting
In the summer of 2014, he wrote the musical "The Last Ship," inspired by his childhood in the shipyard town of Wallsend.
“The Last Ship”, Sting’s eleventh studio album, was released in 2013.
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Gaius Julius Caesar
In 84 or 83 BC, he married Cornelia, daughter of Lucius Cornelius Cynna, a Roman politician leader of the Popular party.
Cornelia was the first wife of Julius Caesar, entering into marriage when she was 14 years old. From ...
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Gaius Julius Caesar
Cleopatra bore Caesar a son - Ptolemy Caesar, commonly known as Caesarion.
He was the last ruler of ancient Egypt and was killed on Octavian Augustus' orders when he invaded E ...
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Roland Garros
In 1911, he set an altitude record of 3950 meters.
This record was broken a year later by Austrian aviator Phillipp von Blaschke (4360 meters), but Gar ...
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Frederic Chopin
Since 1927 the Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition has been held in Warsaw.
It is the oldest monographic music competition in the world. Its author was Jerzy Żurawlew, a Polish ...
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Peter the Great
Meanwhile, Peter married Eudoxia Lopukhina, who came from a wealthy boyar family.
She married Peter shortly before an attempt on his life, prepared by the Tsar's half-sister Sophia R ...
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Robert Oppenheimer
After the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer became very popular. He gave lectures all over the country, talking about the responsible use of atomic energy.
After the hydrogen weapon tests, the situation changed and the scientist began to take an interest i ...
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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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Christopher Columbus
On his second expedition, Columbus chose a more southerly route.
He sailed to the Lesser Antilles, discovered Dominica, Marie-Galante, Guadeloupe, Antigua, and Puert ...
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Hypatia
The exact date of Hypatia's birth is not known.
She was probably born around 355 or 370. Such dates are given in her biographies, written by ancient scholars decades after her death. Most modern scholars believe that Hypatia was born in 370.
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