Biography

In the spring of 1777, Kosciuszko was sent north to the Canadian border, where he fortified various Continental Army military camps for months under General Horatio Gates.

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist who lived from 1770 to 1827.

At the age of six he began taking piano lessons from Wojciech Żywny, a Polish pianist of Czech origin.

In accordance with the predominant religion of the islands, he was baptized in the Anglican rite.

Ada Lovelace died of uterine cancer in 1852 at the age of 36. Her father, Lord Byron, died at the same age.

"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.

Jane had numerous siblings - six brothers and one sister.

Cyril of Alexandria became a saint of the Catholic Church and a prominent theologian who fought for the purity of Christianity.

Beethoven's return from Heiligenstadt to Vienna was marked by a change in musical style and is now often referred to as the beginning of his middle (heroic) period.

During his first ten months living in Paris, Hemingway wrote 88 articles for the Toronto Star.