Biography

After the end of the Third Northern War with the Peace of Nystad, Russia gained wide access to the Baltic Sea, and the opportunity to develop its fleet, and unlimited international trade.

Direct current power plants came to a definitive end with Tesla's invention - the water turbine, which produces alternating current based on the energy of water flow in rivers.

For the sake of Chopin's health and life, as a cholera epidemic was spreading in Paris, his friends found an apartment in Chaillot for him.

Since 1927 the Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition has been held in Warsaw.

Garros was the first to shoot down an aircraft with a machine gun mounted on the fuselage.

She is credited with inventing the astrolabe and the areometer.

Many wealthy Viennese noticed his abilities and offered him financial support, including Prince Joseph Franz Lobkowitz, Prince Charles Lichnowsky, and Baron Gottfried van Swieten.

Hemingway had a special bond with his black and white male cat, Boise.

In the 1990s, Sting released four albums.

As a future candidate for emperor (there was an informal succession of privileges in the Tetrarchy), Constantine stayed at the court of Diocletian, where he received a proper education.