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In 1462, Johann Trithemius (Heidenberg) was born - a German historian and bibliophile, one of the first cryptographers, as well as the author of mystical works about magic and demons. He spent his early years in the Netherlands, then moved to Heidelber...

Vladislav Benda is a Polish artist who migrated to the USA, where he lived and worked most of his life. Being the son of a musician, Vladislav came into contact with art from an early age, studied painting in Krakow and Vienna. In 1903, he began...

In the spring, on March 18, Ferdinand Berthou was born, a French watchmaker, known not only for inventions that changed the world, but also for a huge number of scientific works. As a teenager, Ferdinand seriously took up the study of chronometry: at...

Among the outstanding queens of the ancient world, a special place was occupied by Queen Zenobia Septimia, ruler of Palmyra. In 260-273 . The Kingdom of Palmyra was a separatist state entity that occupied part of the Roman Empire. It included the...

Man Ray, aka Emmanuel Radnitsky, was a famous French artist and photographer of the XX century. One of the brightest representatives of the "New Vision" movement was born in 1890 in Philadelphia (USA). His parents migrated here from the northwestern...

Henry Creswick Rawlinson is a 19th century British archaeologist who was engaged in deciphering ancient Persian Cuneiform. He repeatedly climbed the Behistun rock to rewrite the texts and then sort out their contents. He spent his early years in London...

In 1819, Joshua Norton was born in London, a bankrupt businessman and eccentric who declared himself the only legitimate ruler of the United States. His childhood was spent in South Africa, and in 1849 he moved to San Francisco, where he tried to...

On October 10, 1901, the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti was born. The future master got acquainted with art in his early years – his father Giovanni Giacometti was a famous impressionist artist, and a creative atmosphere reigned at home. Alberto...

One of the first outstanding representatives of the Japanese art school of Kano was Kano Motonobu, who became famous for the design of screens. Many of his works, made in the Chinese style, became the decoration of palaces and Buddhist temples. Thanks...

The first emperor to lead the Western Roman Empire was Flavius Honorius Augustus. Born in 384, at the age of nine he was proclaimed Augustus, and in 395, after the death of his father, Theodosius the Great, he ascended the throne. For several years, the...