Biography

Saturday, 26 July 2025

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Constantine the Great
When Constantine returned from the eastern front to Nicomedia in the spring of 303, he witnessed the beginning of Diocletian's "great persecution," the most severe persecution of Christians in Roman history.
Diocletian ordered the destruction of the new church in Nicomedia, the destruction of its writings a ...
Marilyn Monroe
She was born on 1st June 1926, in Los Angeles.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
In 2003, he and his group returned to Ukraine permanently and became active in the Ukrainian entertainment market.
He continued his cabaret activities and began his career as a comedy actor. The TV cabaret formula "Kvartal 95" quickly became one of the most popular entertainment programs on Ukrainian television.
Nikola Tesla
Toward the end of his life, Tesla worked obsessively on the concept of free energy.
In 1901, he patented a free energy receiver called the Radiant Energy Apparatus. The patent applies to the sun, as well as other sources of radiant energy, such as cosmic rays.
Homer
According to some legends, Homer was blind.
In some dialects of ancient Greek, the name Homer meant blind ('not seeing'). It is possible that in ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
After returning from Paris to Dresden in June 1793, Kosciuszko developed the concept of organizing a national uprising.
The official date of the start of the insurrection is considered to be March 24, 1794. After a brief ...
Ernest Hemingway
In the post-war period, Hemingway suffered from many illnesses: diabetes, severe headaches, high blood pressure and overweight problems. He also abused alcohol.
The deaths of several of his friends, including Gertrude Stein, James Joyce and Scott Fitzgerald, le ...
Nikola Tesla
At the end of his sophomore year, Tesla lost his scholarship and became addicted to gambling.
He lost his allowance and tuition money - he played pool. When it was time for exams, he was unprepa ...
Michelangelo
Michelangelo loved Florence, but his most exciting assignments were in Rome.
He was eager to take advantage of them because he felt it would enhance his position as a well-known ...
Nikola Tesla
He was born into a Serbian family, and his ancestors came from western Serbia near Montenegro.
He was the son of Milutin Tesla, an Orthodox presbyter, and Georgina Djuka Mandić, whose father was ...