Biography

Sunday, 30 August 2026

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Amadeus Mozart
Just before his death, Mozart began work on the Requiem funeral mass.
He did not manage to complete this work. In the manuscript, the last notes put by his hand fall on t ...
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Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway’s home in Key West still serves as a museum dedicated to the writer.
Legend has it that the Hemingway family purchased the pool worth $20,000 in the 1930s (the equivalen ...
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Hypatia
She did not get involved in religious or political disputes.
Hypatia lived during the spread of the Christian faith, but remained a pagan (non-practising) hersel ...
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen's life was brought to the screen in films such as "Jane in Love" and" Miss Austen Regrets."
In "Jane in Love" the role of Jane was played by Anne Hathaway, and in "Jane Austen Regrets," describing the last years of the writer's life, Olivia Willliams.
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Marilyn Monroe
She was born on 1st June 1926, in Los Angeles.
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Michelangelo
Michelangelo created many monumental works in Rome.
He led the construction of St. Peter's Basilica and did so until the end of his life. Unfortunately, ...
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Kate Middleton
Shortly before her marriage, the Middleton family was granted its own coat of arms.
The Princess and her siblings can use the coat of arms, while in the future, this right will apply o ...
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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 ...
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Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Kosciuszko was the first person in 1792 to be awarded the Virtuti Militari gold medal.
He later replaced the medal with the Knight's Cross of the Virtuti Militari.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
He left for Vienna in November 1792 and soon after arriving, he learned of his father's death.
There was a widespread belief that Beethoven was the successor of the recently deceased Mozart - Lud ...
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