Biography

Wednesday, 13 May 2026

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Charles Darwin
In his adult life he also ate unusual animals.
This was dictated by the lack of access to traditional foods while travelling in South American coun ...
Michelangelo
The family Buonarroti Simoni was one of the old Florentine families.
When Michelangelo was a few weeks old infant, the family moved to Florence.
Gaius Julius Caesar
It is not certain whether Caesar, in the last moments of his life, uttered the words "Et tu, Brute?”
According to Svetonius and Plutarch, Caesar remained silent and only covered his head with a toga when he saw his friend Brutus among the assassins.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
As an actor, he has appeared in Russian-language romantic comedies: the 3-part (2009, 2010, 2014) film "Love in the Big City," and the films "8 First Dates" (2012), "Rzhevsky Versus Napoleon" (2012) and "8 New Dates" (2015).
 In 2014 and 2017, he lent his voice to the title character in the films "Paddington" and "Paddington 2."
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Tadeusz Kosciuszko died in Solothurn on October 15, 1817, at age 71, and was buried in nearby Zuchwil.
A year later, a coffin with Kosciuszko's embalmed body was brought back to the country and ceremonio ...
Ludwig van Beethoven
Towards the end of his life, Ludwig senior had his portrait painted, which remained in his grandson's rooms as a talisman of his musical heritage.
Johann van Beethoven married Maria Magdalena Keverich, daughter of the chef at the court of the Arch ...
Charles III
At the age of 15, he received a mallet from Prince Philip - a special wooden hammer used for playing polo.
Thanks to this, Charles developed an interest in this discipline and began to participate in competitions.Charles's other sporting activities include cricket, skiing and surfing.
Ludwig van Beethoven
In 1810, Beethoven was hailed by the writer and composer Ernst Hoffmann in an influential review of the Allgemeinemusikalische Zeitung as the greatest of the three "Romantic" composers.
According to Hoffmann, he was ahead of Haydn and Mozart in this ranking. He wrote that in Beethoven' ...
Amadeus Mozart
In 1791, Wolfgang's librettist and friend Emanuel Schikaneder commissioned him to write "The Magic Flute" - a fairy tale opera (singspiel - opera with spoken interludes).
It is one of Mozart's most recognizable operas. Some see in it the author's connections with Freemas ...
Robert Oppenheimer
After the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer became very popular. He gave lectures all over the country, talking about the responsible use of atomic energy.
After the hydrogen weapon tests, the situation changed and the scientist began to take an interest i ...