Biography

Tuesday, 24 February 2026

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Gaius Julius Caesar
It is said that the night before Caesar died, Calpurnia dreamed of a scene in which her stabbed husband dies in her embrace.
In the morning she told him of her fears and asked him not to go to the Senate that day. After much ...
Kate Middleton
Shortly before her marriage, the Middleton family was granted its own coat of arms.
The Princess and her siblings can use the coat of arms, while in the future, this right will apply o ...
Napoleon Bonaparte
According to historians, Napoleon was a short man, being 169 centimeters tall.
One anecdote says that during one of his deliberations, Napoleon could not reach a map lying on a sh ...
Michelangelo
Michelangelo died in Rome in 1564, at the age of 89.
He worked on the Pietà Rondanini almost until his death. He lived with his servant Francesco Armador ...
Kate Middleton
She underwent head surgery as a child.
What ailed the Princess in her childhood has never been made public. However, the information about ...
Ernest Hemingway
In 1931, the family settled in Key West, Florida, in a house on Whitehead Street, which the couple received from Pauline’s uncle as a belated wedding gift.
They had previously lived on Simonton Street, where Hemingway wrote “A Farewell to Arms” in 1929. Wh ...
Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer became entangled with communist connotations.
In 1936 he fell in love with a psychology student, Jean Tatlock. She was a supporter of communism an ...
Frederic Chopin
During his student years, Chopin was fascinated by folk music, and it characterises his work from this period.
The first serious compositions were written at this time: Sonata in C minor Fantasy on Polish Airs ...
Hypatia
She probably never left her hometown.
Some scholars believe that Hypatia was educated in Athens, but it is more likely that she never left ...
Napoleon Bonaparte
When Bonaparte was sixteen, his father died.
Napoleon always respected his mother, treating her with typical Corsican reverence. His attitude tow ...