Biography

Tuesday, 19 May 2026

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Constantine the Great
Constantine died of natural causes on May 22, 337, in the imperial villa at Ancyron, near Nicomedia.
A few days before his death, Constantine I was baptized by the Arian bishop Eusebius of Nicomedia, although he had planned to be baptized in the waters of the Jordan River like Jesus.
Charles III
At some point, it was time for the heir to the throne to marry.
Camilla Shand, better known to the public as Parker Bowles, met Charles in the summer of 1971. The t ...
Abraham Lincoln
On one hand, Lincoln was against slavery. On the other, however, opposed the idea of granting civil rights to Afro-Americans, and suggested emigration to Africa and Latin America.
Ernest Hemingway
During World War I, Hemingway sought to be sent to the Italian front.
In December 1917, after being rejected by the U.S. Army due to poor eyesight, he was sent to the Ita ...
Sting
He grew up in a Roman Catholic family and attended Catholic primary and secondary school.
His mother, Audrey, worked as a hairdresser, and his father, Ernest, was a dairyman. The musician has a brother Philip and two sisters, Anita and Angela.
Rasputin
As a "saintly man," he returned to his native village, where a crowd of female admirers awaited him.
Accompanied by them, he made several pilgrimages to Verkhoturia, to the grave of one of the saints of the Russian Orthodox Church, Simeon Verkhotursky.
William Shakespeare
We know very little about the seven years of Shakespeare’s life after 1585. This period is referred to as the “lost years.”
In a persistent and long-repeated legend, it is maintained that he had to flee his hometown in fear ...
Rasputin
A few weeks after Rasputin was assassinated, the Romanov dynasty was overthrown.
Shortly before his death, Rasputin wrote a letter to Tsar Nicholas II in which he announced that "no ...
Jane Austen
In Joe Wright's 2005 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, young lovers struggling with social conventions, barriers, and prejudices were played by Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen.
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Kosciuszko decided to set sail for North America.
He set sail in June 1776, probably from Le Havre, on a voyage that lasted more than two months. He a ...