Biography

After all these adventures, in September 1919, he went on a camping trip with his high school classmates to the Upper Peninsula in Michigan.

In 1905, Rasputin returned to St. Petersburg. A circle of his friends led to his presentation at the Tsar's court.

He attended elementary school in Smiljan, where he learned German, arithmetic, and religion.

Ada Lovelace befriended her tutor Mary Somerville.Mary Somerville was a Scottish physicist, writer and scholar. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she and Caroline Herschel (a British astronomer) were elected as the first honorary members of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In the fall of 1808, after turning down a position at the Royal Theater, Beethoven was offered a well-paid position as bandmaster at the court of Cassel by Napoleon's brother, Jerome Bonaparte, then king of Westphalia.

At the orphanage's music school, Vivaldi taught girls to play the violin but also began composing his first debut works.

He tended to squander the family fortune and quickly fell into debt.

Shakespeare’s works were published seven years after the poet’s death in 1623 under the title “Mr. William Shakespeare Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies.” The contemporary title of the first collection is “First Folio.”

Peter I's trip to Western Europe is described by chronicles as one of the "milestones" of his reign.

Lincoln was a licensed bartender.