Queen of Tahiti, Pōmare IV or Pomare the Great (1813 – 1877) reigned for fifty years. She sees the arrival of the British and then the French, against whom she strives to fight. Contacts with Europeans Daughter of Princess Teriitaria Tamatoa, herself daughter of Tamatoa III, King of Raiatea, and
A feminist and socialist activist, Jeanne Deroin (1805 – 1894) made headlines in 1849 by presenting herself as a candidate in the legislative elections, at a time when women were neither voters nor eligible. The subjugation of women Jeanne Deroin was born on December 31, 1805 in Paris in a modest
Loved, hated and read a lot - Thomas Mann is one of the most important German writers of the 20th century. But during his lifetime he polarized:he was too intellectual for the conservatives, too German for the left and too bourgeois for his fellow writers. Strict father, exotic mother The author A
Katarzyna Czylok as Oda in the photo of Sylwester Zalewski. Oda Dytrykówna Polish duchess, second wife of Mieszko I of the Piast dynasty. She was the daughter of an influential German magnate, margrave of the northern march, Theodoric. She spent her youth in a monastery. She was married off as