Biography

Sunday, 24 May 2026

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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 ...
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Tadeusz Kosciuszko
On October 10, 1794, a battle took place near Maciejowice between Polish troops commanded by the head of the insurrection Tadeusz Kosciuszko, and Russian troops under General Fyodor Denisov.
The battle ended with the defeat of the insurgent army and the imprisonment of wounded Kosciuszko in the Petropavlovsk fortress in St. Petersburg.
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Ernest Hemingway
In 1948, he traveled to Europe with his wife, stopping in Venice for several months.
He traveled across the Atlantic on the Polish passenger ship “Jagiello.” During this trip, the write ...
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Robert Oppenheimer
He was such a gifted student that he completed the third and fourth grades in one year and the eighth grade in six months. In his last year of school he became interested in chemistry.
His interest in chemistry led him to attend Harvard College. He began this study at the age of 18 (o ...
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Sting
Sting's relative came from Warsaw.
In an interview, Sting mentioned that his uncle Stanislaw emigrated to the UK, settled in Newcastle, ...
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William Shakespeare
In October 2020, New York’s Christie’s Auction House reported that a copy of the First Folio sold for $9.97 million.
The previous sales record was set in 2001; a copy of the “First Folio” was sold then for $6 million.
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Frederic Chopin
In 1817 the first printed work by Frederic Chopin was published. It was a polonaise in the key of G minor.
It was published in the parish typographical establishment of the Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the New Town in Warsaw.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
The master's complete deafness prevented him from contact with the surroundings.
Communication took place using the so-called conversation notebooks (Konversationshefte), which cons ...
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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.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Anecdotes say that Antonio Vivaldi wrote the Four Seasons and about six hundred variations on this composition.
But the fact is that he was a very prolific composer, and almost all of his works are equally successful.
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