Biography

Wednesday, 18 March 2026

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William Shakespeare
Young William attended a grammar school in Stratford, a prestigious institution where pupils were taught by Oxford and Cambridge magisters. The young Shakespeare learned Latin, history, ancient literature, rhetoric, basic grammar, and modern languages.
Raised a Catholic, he was very familiar with the Bible. As a city councilman’s son, he did not have ...
Aristotle
Aristotle put great effort into studying logic.
He proposed a new concept called Syllogism he described in his work on deductive reasoning, Prior An ...
Jane Austen
In 2017, a £10 bill with Jane Austen's likeness was introduced into circulation in the United Kingdom.
It is the only British banknote to have an image of a woman on the reverse (apart from the British Queen, whose image is on the obverse as an image of the monarch).
Abraham Lincoln
He died as a result of a gunshot wound during a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater.
The assassin, actor Wilkes Booth, shot Lincoln from a close range after breaking into the presidenti ...
Roland Garros
On the eve of World War I, Garros was in the German Reich. It was there that he learned of the impending conflict.
He arrived in Germany at the invitation of Helmut Hirth, an aeronautical engineer, who gave Garros a ...
Robert Oppenheimer
He lacked laboratory skills. He did not feel comfortable in the laboratory, it took him a very long time to plan and carry out experiments, he even worked at night and still had a lot of catching up to do.
 He concluded at that time that theoretical physics would be closer to his heart than experimental p ...
Antonio Vivaldi
These concertos are one of the most outstanding examples of programmatic-illustrative music.
They carry programmatic content expressed through musical means. They are distinguished by a great number of onomatopoeic effects and imaginative sound paintings.
Ernest Hemingway
Neither Snowball (Snow White) nor the other cats living with Hemingway were the only cats in his life.
Since childhood, wherever he lived and worked, he was accompanied by cats, with whom he shared a par ...
Frederic Chopin
Chopin was buried at the Pere-Lachaise Cemetery to the sounds of Mozart's Requiem and his own Funeral March.
Auguste Clesinger made a posthumous cast of the artist's face and hand. He also designed and manufactured the Chopin tombstone.
Charles Darwin
In 1835, Darwin experienced an earthquake in Chile.
High in the Andes, he saw shells and numerous tree fossils exposed by the tremors. From this he conc ...