Biography

Monday, 26 January 2026

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Kate Middleton
In 2010, Prince William proposed to his chosen wife.
In the fall of 2010, the couple was on vacation in Kenya. William proposed to Kate while the couple ...
Marilyn Monroe
She underwent psychoanalysis.
She decided to do so under the influence of Lee Strasberg.
Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer was suspected of treason. When the Soviet Union successfully tested an atomic bomb in 1949, it came as a surprise to the United States. Since it came so soon after the Manhattan Project, it was suspected that someone had betrayed the project.
One of the suspects was Oppenheimer, who was already believed to be a communist sympathizer. The Ame ...
Christopher Columbus
Columbus' return caused a great stir. He was welcomed by thousands of people, especially since he brought gold and colorful ara parrots as a gift for the king.
In a conversation with the royal couple, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, Columbus spoke ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
After returning from Paris to Dresden in June 1793, Kosciuszko developed the concept of organizing a national uprising.
The official date of the start of the insurrection is considered to be March 24, 1794. After a brief ...
Anna Pavlova
She was not only exceptionally talented but ambitious, dedicated, and hardworking.
She claimed that although talent is given by God, hard work transforms it into genius. Anna had to o ...
Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist.
He lived from 1904 to 1967.
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 ...
Ludwig van Beethoven
At the peak of his virtuoso fame, in the period 1796-1798, Beethoven experienced the first symptoms of deafness.
Initially, he treated it as a short-term indisposition of the body, but over time, he realized that ...
Peter the Great
In Poland, there is a giant oak tree in the village of Toporów, which was named the Peter I Oak in honor of Peter the Great.