Biography

In 1980, Igor Carl Fabergé, a member of the family whose company launched the Fabergé Eggs, licensed a collection of crystal wine glasses in commemoration of the centenary of Pavlova’s birth.

After the annexation of Crimea and the establishment of separatist republics in Donbass, Volodymyr Zelenski stopped cooperating with Russian television.

According to some legends, Homer was blind.

On February 24, 2022, Russian troops launched an invasion of Ukraine on the orders of Vladimir Putin.

Just before his death, Mozart began work on the Requiem funeral mass.

Oppenheimer was a compulsive smoker. In late 1965, he was diagnosed with throat cancer.

In 1913, Tesla patented a bladeless disc turbine - his 100th patent.

Michelangelo created many monumental works in Rome.

"Northanger Abbey" is a parody of the so-called Gothic novel, a literary genre extremely popular in Britain at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Among Lincoln’s favorite readings were the Bible, Aesop’s Fables, “The Pilgrim’s Wanderings” by John Buyan, and “The Cases of Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe.