Biography

The emperor's body was placed in a golden coffin decorated with imperial purple, transported to Constantinople, and placed in the imperial palace.

Dali was the third Salvador in the family.

When Ernest Rutherford introduced him to the Danish Nobel laureate Niels Bohr at a university conference, he was delighted and the conversation with him restored his confidence in his own abilities and skills. He decided to pursue theoretical physics.

Columbus tried to convince King John II of Portugal to his ideas, but he sent him back to his advisors, who rejected his plan.

During this stay, while in Rome at the Sistine Chapel, the fourteen-year-old Mozart heard Gregorio Allegri's "Miserere."

She met her future husband, the heir to the throne of the United Kingdom, during her college years.

Shakespeare’s name appears in the surviving books of Queen Elizabeth I’s treasurer as one of three so-called “Lord Chamberlain’s servants” who got paid to perform a play before the Queen at Greenwich Palace on December 26 and 28, 1594.

Hemingway was present during the Normandy landing on June 6th, 1944, but as a war correspondent, he was not permitted to leave the ship and had to conduct his correspondence from its deck.

Hemingway worked as a correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance agency (NANA) during the Spanish Civil War.

The Odyssey is the story of the adventures of King Odysseus.