Biography

Sunday, 7 June 2026

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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 ...
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 ...
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military officer, politician, Emperor of the French, and King of Italy.
He lived from 1769 to 1821.
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 ...
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 ...
Anna Pavlova
There is a debate about when Anna started using Pavlova as her last name.
Some sources claim she took it when adopted by her stepfather, and some that she started using it once she joined the Imperial Russian Ballet.
Gaius Julius Caesar
He first became consul in 59 BC.
The position of consul was one of the two highest posts in the republic. The term of office lasted o ...
Christopher Columbus
Columbus was accused of extreme brutality againts indigenious people.
Some claimed that he refused to baptize the natives just to have an opportunity to abuse them withou ...
Aristotle
In 343 BC, Aristotle became tutoring Alexander the Great.
He has done so at the request of Alexander’s father, Philip II of Macedon.
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Kosciuszko was the first person in 1792 to be awarded the Virtuti Militari gold medal.
He later replaced the medal with the Knight's Cross of the Virtuti Militari.