Eliška Junková (1900 – 1994), born Alžběta Pospíšilová, was a Czech racing driver and the only woman to win a Grand Prix event. Clandestine driving lessons Eliška Junková was born on November 16, 1900 in Moravia, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Daughter of a blacksmith, she is the sixth of eight c
Active in the XIIth century, Azalaïs de Porcairagues composed poetry and sang courtly love in the courts of Occitania. She is considered the first troubadouress whose name is known to us. Troubadouresses Its in Occitania, in the XIth century, that the troubadour movement was born. An emblematic fi
The Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah had deprived Jai Singh of the rights of Amer state and made him a vassal of Dausa only, but Jai Singh with the help of Mewar and Marwar kings defeated his brother and his supporting Mughal officials and recaptured Amer. Gradually, his influence in the Mughal court inc
She marries the Vicomte de Beauharnais, a revolutionary who will be guillotined. She bore him two children (Eugene and Hortense). She married General Bonaparte, whom she helped to get named in Italy. Having become Empress of the French, the Emperor repudiated her, for lack of an heir. Josephine ofte