Biography

Thursday, 22 October 2026

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Michelangelo
The last Pieta he made for the cathedral in Florence was intended in his last will for his tomb.
Michelangelo loved to create significant, monumental things. He was not satisfied with commissions o ...
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Abraham Lincoln
At a very young age, he lost his younger brother Thomas due to illness, and his mother died shortly thereafter.
A few years later he also lost his older sister, who died of postpartum fever.
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Tadeusz Kosciuszko
In the political life of Poland at the time, a group of activists pushing the need for reform played an increasingly important role.
Great political writers, such as Stanislaw Staszic and Hugo Kollataj, called for strengthening the c ...
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Ada Lovelace
The second Tuesday of October is Ada Lovelace Day.
It is an annual event that began on the second Tuesday of October in 2009. Its purpose is to raise t ...
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy
On February 24, 2022, Russian troops launched an invasion of Ukraine on the orders of Vladimir Putin.
In late October and early November 2021, Russia began to significantly increase the number of its tr ...
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William Shakespeare
In 1594, Shakespeare became a member of Lord Chamberlain’s Troupe, later known as the King’s Men, for which he wrote his best plays.
Besides writing the texts of new plays for Lord Chamberlain’s Troupe, he handled the group’s finance ...
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Salvador Dali
The artist worked on increasing his creativity.
One day he figured out how to remember his dreams. He fell asleep with spoon in his hand over a tin ...
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John Sutter
California Goldrush drove him into bankruptcy.
Sutter's land was immediately overrun by immigrants obsessed with the potential fortune they may earn. They stole whatever there was to steal including livestock. Colony fell into ruin around 1850.
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Abraham Lincoln
He loved telling stories and anecdotes, especially in situations where he could not openly express his opinion.
During the escape of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, when asked by General Sherman whether he ...
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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.
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