Franciszek Ferdynand Habsburg (photo:public domain) Franz Ferdinand Habsburg (1863-1914) - Austrian Archduke shot dead in Sarajevo by an assassin. Franz Ferdinand was born in Graz in 1863. He was the nephew of Emperor Franz Joseph, and after the death of his son, Archduke Rudolf, and his own f
More than two centuries after his death, Friedrich Schiller is still considered a freedom poet and one of the most important German poets of all time. Youth under military drill Schiller was born in Marbach am Neckar on November 10, 1759, the son of an officer and military doctor in the ducal Württ
Alice Guy Blaché (1873 – 1968), French filmmaker, was the first female director in the history of cinema, with The cabbage fairy filmed in 1896. The cabbage fairy Fifth child of Marie Clotilde Franceline Aubert and Emile Guy, owners of a chain of bookstores in Chile, Alice was born in Paris in 18
Sappho is an ancient Greek poetess who lived in the 7th and 6th centuries BC in Mytilene, on the island of Lesbos. Poetess, singer and dancer We have little information about Sapphô; the sources that have come to them are late or are comic works, and most of his works have been lost. Sapphô was b