Biography

The transaction amounted to $15 million. Napoleon realized that it would be difficult to keep such a ...

His mother died when Michelangelo was six years old. She left five sons as orphans. The father remar ...

 She saw them as tools for discovering "invisible worlds around us." She believed that intuition and imagination were crucial to the successful application of mathematical and scientific concepts.

Aided by contacts with Haydn and Waldstein, Beethoven began to gain a reputation as a performer and ...

Probably the same year he left for Switzerland. He settled with Franz Xavier Zeltner in Solothurn, a ...

In addition to Kosciuszko, these included Marie Joseph de La Fayette (French politician), Jean-Bapti ...

The closest friend, confidant and muse of the artist Amanda Lear recalls that John Lennon's widow, Y ...

He came from a wealthy family of Robert Darwin, a physician and financier, and Susannah Wedgwood - h ...

Enriched uranium was used for one, called ''Little Boy'', and enriched plutonium for the other, called ''Fat Man'', and this type of bomb was decided to be tested.

His greatest achievement was finding a practical application for alternating current. Tesla develope ...