Biography

Tuesday, 26 May 2026

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Antonio Vivaldi
Six months after his ordination, he began working as a music teacher at the Ospedale della Pieta orphanage for girls.
The Ospedale della Pieta was a convent, orphanage and music school for girls in Venice, operating be ...
Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer's family was wealthy.
The Oppenheimers lived in Manhattan, a neighborhood known for its luxury mansions and townhouses. Th ...
Hypatia
She probably never left her hometown.
Some scholars believe that Hypatia was educated in Athens, but it is more likely that she never left ...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
As an actor, he has appeared in Russian-language romantic comedies: the 3-part (2009, 2010, 2014) film "Love in the Big City," and the films "8 First Dates" (2012), "Rzhevsky Versus Napoleon" (2012) and "8 New Dates" (2015).
 In 2014 and 2017, he lent his voice to the title character in the films "Paddington" and "Paddington 2."
Antonio Vivaldi
It is assumed that Vivaldi composed about 500 instrumental concertos.
about 350 concertos for one solo instrument and strings about 40 concertos for two solo instruments ...
Anna Pavlova
While on a tour in China, she performed 37 turns atop a moving elephant.
Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The work in the laboratory was enormously stressful.
Oppenheimer then became addicted to cigarettes, which he smoked in large quantities, one after anoth ...
William Shakespeare
At 18, Shakespeare married 26-years old Anne Hathaway. Because of the age difference and Anne’s pregnancy, it was suspected that the wedding was a necessity.
They had three children, a daughter Susanna, born in 1583, and twins Hamnet and Judith, born in 1585 ...
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s mother came from the wealthy Arden family, well-known in Warwickshire.
Mary Arden was the youngest of eight siblings. Her father, Robert Arden, was a landowner in Snitterfield. After her father’s death, Mary inherited part of his vast estate.
Amadeus Mozart
He left his job with the archbishop and moved to Vienna.
He settled in a room rented from Aloysius Weber's family. Aloysia was already married at the time, b ...