Biography

Wednesday, 26 November 2025

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Jane Austen
In 1995, a television adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice" - a miniseries starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth, was awarded an Emmy statuette.
Aristotle
Out of over 200 scrolls and manuscripts written by Aristotle, approximately 31 have survived to the present day.
Frederic Chopin
After completing his studies in 1829, Frederic went to Vienna with his friends. This journey proved to be a phenomenal success.
Chopin aroused the enthusiasm of the public there, and after the publication of his Variations Op. 2 ...
Ada Lovelace
She was also a gambling enthusiast - in her late 40s she lost more than £3,000 on horse racing.
Gambling inspired her to create a mathematical model of high stakes betting in 1851. The idea failed, however, and she lost thousands of pounds.
Anna Pavlova
While on a tour in China, she performed 37 turns atop a moving elephant.
Marilyn Monroe
Monroe’s autobiography, “My story,” was written at the peak of her career, but published 10 years after her death.
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was a great cat lover.
His home in Key West currently houses about 50 cats, most of which are descendants of Hemingway’s pe ...
Hypatia
A group of scholars in the 20th century decided that Hypatia was the most intelligent person in the history of mankind.
Ernest Hemingway
In 1931, the family settled in Key West, Florida, in a house on Whitehead Street, which the couple received from Pauline’s uncle as a belated wedding gift.
They had previously lived on Simonton Street, where Hemingway wrote “A Farewell to Arms” in 1929. Wh ...
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 ...