Biography

He became one of the best students.

Six-fingered cats - Hemingway cats - were named in honor of Ernest Hemingway.

It took Tesla almost a full year to complete this task.

His father most likely taught Antonio to play the violin.

When Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” was published, Hemingway read it, became enthralled and decided that his subsequent work would be a novel.

In August 1792, the National Legislative Assembly of revolutionary France awarded Kosciuszko the honorary title of Citizen of France.

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.

Anna was known for her charity.

Kosciuszko's orderly was an African-American from western Massachusetts, Agrippa Hull.

When his health improved, the couple returned to France.Chopin spent six successive summers at George Sand's summer estate at Nohant, and these were undoubtedly his happiest moments in life after leaving his homeland.