Biography

Friday, 25 September 2026

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Antonio Vivaldi
His father most likely taught Antonio to play the violin.
He made his first public appearance in 1696, playing with his father in the basilica as a violinist. ...
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Jane Austen
Jane Austin was born on 16 December 1775 in Stevenson near Basingstoke, Hempshire.
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Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway’s second son Patrick was born in 1928 in Kansas City.
While staying with his first son in New York, he received a telegram about his father’s suicide. Mom ...
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Robert Oppenheimer
Years later, Oppenheimer was rehabilitated by President John F. Kennedy. He awarded him the Enrico Fermi Prize in 1963 for his contributions to the development of atomic energy.
After Kennedy's assassination, his successor, President Lyndon Johnson, presented Oppenheimer with t ...
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Ada Lovelace
She wanted to be buried next to her father.
Although she didn't know him, he was in her thoughts all her life. She even named her two sons Byron ...
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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 ...
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Homer
"The Aeneid" - the epic by the Roman poet Virgil is a direct reference to the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey".
The Roman epic was written in hexameter in the first century BC.  In twelve books of 9892 verses, it describes the story of the Trojan Aeneas, the legendary protoploss of the Romans.
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Ernest Hemingway
Thanks to Gertrude Stein, he also met the influential painters Picasso, Joan Miró, and Juan Gris.
After some time, a literary dispute arose in Hemingway’s relationship with Stein (which lasted for d ...
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Peter the Great
The reform also included the central government of the state. A ruling Senate and colleges were created.
He placed subordinates at the head of the new offices, thus perpetuating tsarist absolutism and centralization of power.
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John Sutter
In 1847, Sutter planted more than two thousand fruit trees, marking the birth of agriculture in the Sacramento Valley.
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