Biography

Sunday, 18 October 2026

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Ernest Hemingway
Contrary to prevailing legend, Hemingway was not the first person in liberated Paris, nor did he liberate the Ritz Hotel.
While there, he reconciled with Gertrude Stein and visited Pablo Picasso and Sylvia Beach.
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Charles III
The king received a thorough education.
Charles's education began at Hill House School in London and continued at Cheam preparatory school i ...
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Peter the Great
He was the first Russian tsar to travel abroad.
In 1697-1698, he embarked on an official diplomatic, 18-month mission called the “Grand Embassy,” tr ...
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Michelangelo
His education was handled by two thinkers and philosophers, Marsilio Ficino, the Athenian school founder in Florence and one of the most famous figures of the early Renaissance, and Count Giovanni della Mirandola.
Michelangelo, then seventeen years old, created the bas-reliefs Madonna at the Stairs and Battle of the Centaurs. These two reliefs are now in the Casa Buonarroti in Florence.
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway owned a fishing boat, “Pilar,” which he sailed around the Caribbean.
While sailing, he stayed for several months in the westernmost district of the Bahamas - Bimini - where he worked on the novel “To Have and Have Not.”
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Rasputin
As he traveled around the country, he met with representatives of the official Orthodox Church, adherents of various religious sects, and ordinary people at markets, railroad stations, and river stops.
That was when the so-called "Rasputin circle" was formed, which initially grouped people from Rasput ...
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Nikola Tesla
Tesla was a visionary.
As early as 1893, he predicted the coming of wireless communication. He developed a number of device ...
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Hypatia
She did not get involved in religious or political disputes.
Hypatia lived during the spread of the Christian faith, but remained a pagan (non-practising) hersel ...
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Ada Lovelace
In September 2022, Nvidia Corporation announced the Ada Lovelace graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture, the successor to the Ampere architecture.
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Constantine the Great
Constantine the Great is a saint of the Orthodox Church.
The Orthodox Church calls him an equal of the Apostles. His feast day is May 21.
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