Showing posts with label famous people. Show all posts
Showing posts with label famous people. Show all posts

Was Benjamin Franklin really a great inventor?

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Many legends are presented about the facts of famous historical figures, and these stories are often not true. For example, the story of...

Which person spoke more languages?

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A GREAT HYPERPOLYGLOT OF ITALIAN ORIGIN A person who is fluent in one language can easily speak and write in that same language. Many pe...

What is the relationship between dynamite and Nobel Prizes?

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Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist and engineer whose family owned an explosives factory. When Alfred's brother died from an explosio...

What was the cause of Mozart's death?

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On December 5, 1791, the world of music lost Wolgang Amadeus Mozart . The mystery of his death was never clarified, and several hypotheses w...

Who was Elizabeth Bathory, the bloody Countess?

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Elizabeth Báthory was a 17th century Hungarian countess, wife of General Ferenz Nadasdy. She lived in the castle of Csejthe in the Carpathi...

Facts about Ernesto "Che" Guevara

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Ernesto "Che" Guevara had Irish ancestry from his father. Che Guevara was nicknamed 'chancho' (pig) when he was very...

Great facts about people who made History

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SOME CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO MADE HISTORY Charles Dickens used to sleep facing north . He thought this would help him write bet...

Facts about Napoleon Bonaparte

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Napoleone di Buonaparte was the name under which Napoleon Bonaparte was born on 15 August 1769 on the island of Corsica. Just one year b...

Great facts about Mother Teresa

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Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, Albania on August 26, 1910. Mother Teresa of Calcutta's real name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Her fa...

Great facts about Princess Diana of Wales

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Diana was born into an aristocratic family in Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk England . Diana was the youngest daughter of Edward and Fr...

Facts about Pope John Paul II

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John Paul II, the first Slavic pope in history, was born on May 18, 1920 in the city of Wadowice, Poland. His real name was Karol Józef W...

Facts about Sophia Loren

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Sophia Loren's real name is Sofia Villani Scicolone. Sophia was born in the city of Rome on September 20, 1934. Her parents were Ricc...

Facts about Rabindranath Tagore

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Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta, India on 7 May 1961. Rabindranath Tagore was the first writer from Asia to win the Nobel Priz...

Facts about Dante Alighieri

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The word 'divine' was first added to the 1555 edition of The Divine Comedy; the original title was simply The Comedy. Dante Aligh...

Facts about Michelangelo

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The Renaissance artist Michelangelo was born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese, Italy. Michelangelo Buonarroti was a celebrated poet during his ...

Facts about Cervantes

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It was in Alcalá de Henares where Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, known as the prince of ingenuity , was born. The ingenious nobleman Don Q...

Facts about Russian composer Tchaikovsky

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk, Russia, on May 7, 1840. In 1869 Tchaikovsky composed the Fantasy-Overture Romeo and Juliet...

Interesting facts about Giuseppe Verdi

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The great Italian composer, Giuseppe Verdi, was born on 10 October 1813. His parents were Carlo Verdi and Luigia Uttini. Verdi was charac...

Facts about composer Franz Schubert

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It was in Vienna, the city where Franz Schubert, one of the most gifted composers of the 19th century, was born. Schubert (January 31, 17...

14 Facts about Vivaldi, Italian composer

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 It was in the city of Venice where Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born on March 4, 1678. Antonio Vivaldi is known by the nickname of Il Pre...