Biography

Monday, 8 December 2025

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Rasputin
He did not have a good reputation even in his home village.
Rasputin did not attend school and helped his father occasionally in the wagon business, transportin ...
Anna Pavlova
Anna settled at the Ivy House in Golders Green, London, in 1912.
She never returned to Russia, instead lived in England for the rest of her life.
Robert Oppenheimer
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.
His interest in chemistry led him to attend Harvard College. He began this study at the age of 18 (o ...
Salvador Dali
Dali was fascinated by Hitler.
He claimed that he often dreams of him, like other men dream of women.
Alfred Nobel
He was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833.
He was the third son of Immanuel Nobel, an inventor and engineer and a graduate of the Royal Institu ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Kosciuszko also assisted the southern army, where he was sent at his request.
For his services, by a resolution of Congress, he was promoted to brigadier general of the U.S. Army ...
Gaius Julius Caesar
He was appointed Flamen Dialis, high priest of Jupiter.
He obtained this position in late 87 or early 86 BC.
Amadeus Mozart
Like her sister Aloysia, Constance Weber was a singer.
Her marriage to Mozart lasted nine years, and during her marriage, Constance gave birth to six children, of whom only two sons, Franz Xaver Wolfgang and Karl Thomas, survived.
Sting
His bandmate from "Phoenix Jazzman" gave him the nickname Sting because of the black and yellow striped sweater he often wore during performances.
Frederic Chopin
The young, eight-year-old Chopin played in Warsaw for the Tsarina Maria Feodorovna, to whom he offered two of his Polish dances.
Young Chopin also played for Tsar Alexander I, who came to Warsaw for the session of the Parliament. ...