On the outskirts of Voronezh, in a small house above the river, in the family of a poor merchant Ivan Savich Nikitin was born. My father dreamed that his son would become a scientific healer, but this dream did not come true. His father’s trade was ruined, and so as not to go bankrupt, he … Read more
Augustin Jean Fresnel is a famous French physicist and engineer who made a great contribution to the development of the wave theory of light. Childhood and early years Augustin Jean Fresnel was born May 10, 1788 in the family of Jacques Fresnel and Augustine Merimee. His father was an architect. As a child, studying was … Read more
(born 1947) Oster Grigory Bentsionovich (born 1947), a children’s writer. He was born on November 27 in Odessa in the family of a port mechanic. After graduating from high school in 1966, for three years he served in the Northern Fleet. In 1969 he returned to Odessa. In 1970 he came to Moscow, entered the … Read more
George Buhl is known as the author of symbolic logic. He is considered one of the founders of computer science. Childhood and youth Bull’s father, George Bull, was a merchant in London and it was he who gave the first lessons in mathematics to his son. He also taught his son the manufacture of optical … Read more
Oleg Ivanovich Dahl is an actor of theater and cinema. Oleg was born in Moscow on May 25, 1941, but spent his childhood in Lublin. In the family, Dal had no actor roots – his father was an engineer, and his mother – a teacher. As a child in his biography, Oleg Dal went in … Read more
Klitschko Vitaly Vladimirovich is a famous professional Ukrainian boxer, politician. He was born on July 19, 1971 in the village of Belovodskoye, Kirghiz SSR. The athlete conducts battles in the heavyweight division. The physical data of Vitali Klitschko are as follows: height 200 cm, weight 112 kg. In his entire biography Vitali Klitschko earned 35 … Read more
Simon Vasilyevich Petlyura – political, military leader of Ukraine, who heads the Directory of the Ukrainian People’s Republic. Simon Petliura was born in Poltava on May 5, 1879. Educated in the seminary of Poltava. 1900 in Petliura’s biography is designated by joining the revolutionary Ukrainian party. Since then, he began active party activities. A little … Read more
Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov is a Russian poet, perceived by his contemporaries as the flagship of revolutionary-democratic lyrics and the personification of the “conscience of the epoch”. In Nekrasov’s lyrics, which opened a new page in the development of Russian realism, the dramas and tragedies of the everyday life of representatives of the social lower classes … Read more
Armin van Bureen – DJ, composer, producer, was born in the Netherlands. The fascination with music, including electronic music, in the biography of Armin van Buuren was manifested in childhood. Over time, this passion flared up even more. So, at the age of 14, with the help of a synthesizer and a sampler, the first … Read more
Chuck Close is an American artist, was born in the city of Monroe, Washington. In the biography of Chuck Close, education was obtained at the University of Washington, where in 1962 he received a bachelor’s degree. Then in 1963, Close protected the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Yale University, and in 1964 became a … Read more