Biography

Tuesday, 3 February 2026

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Constantine the Great
When Constantine returned from the eastern front to Nicomedia in the spring of 303, he witnessed the beginning of Diocletian's "great persecution," the most severe persecution of Christians in Roman history.
Diocletian ordered the destruction of the new church in Nicomedia, the destruction of its writings a ...
Nikola Tesla
He attended elementary school in Smiljan, where he learned German, arithmetic, and religion.
The family moved to nearby Gospic, where his father became a parish priest. There Tesla completed el ...
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.
Charles III
During the pandemic in 2020, he was infected with COVID-19.
This information was made public on March 25, 2020. The then prince passed the disease easily and wo ...
Roland Garros
He became one of the most famous pilots in France.
He won the Grand Prix d'Anjou in 1911 and triumphed in several air races, such as the Paris-Rome and ...
Kate Middleton
She spent her early childhood abroad.
When she was two years old, her father got a job as an airport manager in Amman. The whole family moved to the Jordanian capital and lived there for the next two years.
Charles Darwin
He ate animals that were not on the menu of traditional English cuisine. He definitely did not like owls.
It was all due to a group he joined while studying at Cambridge between 1828 and 1831. There, a grou ...
Sting
While at school, he performed in local clubs, mainly with jazz bands such as "Phoenix Jazzman" and "Last Exit."
Hypatia
Bishop Cyril harboured a deep, pathological hatred for Hypatia.
He envied the mathematician's wisdom and extensive astronomical knowledge, but above all her popular ...
Ernest Hemingway
In 1931, Hemingway’s third son Gregory Hancock Hemingway was born.