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Prince Igor Konstantinovich of Russia

Son of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich and his wife Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna. He was born on 10th June 1894 in Strelna.

Prince Igor Konstantinovich of Russia

Son of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich and his wife Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna. He was born on 10th June 1894 in Strelna.

He was brought up along with his older brother Prince Oleg Konstantinovich, who was two years older than him. They spent a lot of time together, sharing games and children’s toys. Prince Igor also loved animals from childhood, especially horses. While Igor was more calm, thoughtful, sentimental, and vulnerable. He waa enrolled at Page Corps, for which Prince Igor was very proud that he was now a military man, and he did not hide his joy. That at one occasion, having visited the imperial family in the new uniform, he would have traditionally wanted to kiss the Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, but, remembering the instructions of the nanny, she bounced to the side: “No, no. Little girls should not kiss soldiers.” Prince Igor was not at all upset, but, on the contrary, was very pleased that he was mistaken for a real soldier. Igor loved church singing and possessing a good ear for music and voice, he willingly took part in festive services. He was so fond of the church and worship that in adolescence be was appointed clerk of the field church. He was later a clerk of the church of the Pavlovsk Palace. After graduating from the Page Corps, the Prince passed the exam for an officer and was enrolled in the Life Guards Hussar Regiment. It was in his composition that he went to the First World War. Prince Igor was the youngest representative of the Romanov dynasty in the First World War, he was only twenty years old when he went to the front. But he later suffered from pleurisy, the Prince was sent on vacation for treatment to Petrograd. He also witnessed the death of his favourite brother, Oleg. Which sent their father to an early grave.

After the death of his father, Prince Igor took care of all the economic affairs of Ostashevo, which had been his father’s estate. After recovering from his illness, he later became the Tsar’s wing-adjutant. Prince Igor had a good-natured, disposing character, the Tsar was very happy when Igor was on duty with him. Even colleagues at the front called the Prince "a cheerful person."

Prince Igor Konstantinovich was one of the several Romanovs murdered in 1918.

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Seweryna Szmaglewska - Polish writer.

Seweryna Szmaglewska was born on February 11, 1916 in Przygłów near Piotrków Trybunalski. She studied psychology and literature to become a teacher. After the beginning of German occupation of Poland, she worked in one of the hospitals in Piotrków Trybunalski as a volunteer nurse and was engaged in illegal education. In 1940 she joined a student resistance organization that run an underground library of Polish literature. For her involvement in the resistance she was arrested by the Gestapo. On October 6, 1942, she became a prisoner of the Auschwitz camp. 

Immediately after escaping from an evacuation transport near Wodzisław Śląski on January 18, 1945, she began to write her memoirs which became one of the first – if not the first – personal books about the experience of Auschwitz.

Since 1945, Smoke over Birkenau has been reprinted frequently and widely translated. “Smoke over Birkenau is not a book about death or hatred,” one critic wrote. “It is a powerful act of the will to live and a profession of the noblest humanism. The victorious idea of life is woven through every page. Maintaining, cultivating, and instilling in oneself the imperative: You must endure! You must live! – a plan carried out unswervingly despite everything.”

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TSAR NICHOLAS I OF RUSSIA.

Nicholas Pavlovich Romanov known as Tsar Nicholas I (6 July 1796 – 2 March 1855) reigned as Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855. He was also the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland. 

Nicholas was born at Gatchina Palace in Gatchina to Grand Duke Paul, and Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna of Russia. Five months after his birth, his grandmother, Catherine the Great, died and his parents became emperor and empress of Russia. He was a younger brother of Emperor Alexander I of Russia, who succeeded to the throne in 1801, and of Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia. On 13 July 1817, Nicholas married Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1798–1860), who thereafter went by the name Alexandra Feodorovna when she converted to Orthodoxy. Nicholas had a happy marriage that produced a large family; all of their seven children survived childhood.

On 1825 Nicholas brother's Tsar Alexander died with no heirs and the Russian throne passed to his brother Constantine who renouced. After Constantine's renouce Nicholas became Tsar of all Russias on 1825. Nicholas' biographer Nicholas V. Riasanovsky said that he displayed determination, singleness of purpose, and an iron will, along with a powerful sense of duty and a dedication to very hard work. He saw himself as a soldier—a junior officer totally consumed by spit and polish. He was highly nervous and aggressive. Trained as an engineer, he was a stickler for minute detail. In his public persona, stated Riasanovsky, "Nicholas I came to represent autocracy personified: infinitely majestic, determined and powerful, hard as stone, and relentless as fate."

Nicholas was known as a gorgeous man, Riasanovsky says he was, "the most handsome man in Europe, but also a charmer who enjoyed feminine company and was often at his best with the men."

Nicholas died on 2 March 1855, during the Crimean War, at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. He caught a chill, refused medical treatment and died of pneumonia, although there were rumors he was committing a passive suicide by refusing treatment. He was buried in the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg.

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ROBERT TAYLOR.

Robert Taylor (born Spangler Arlington Brugh; August 5, 1911 – June 8, 1969) was an American film and television actor and singer who was one of the most popular leading men of his time.

Taylor began his career in films in 1934 when he signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He won his first leading role the following year in Magnificent Obsession. His popularity increased during the late 1930s and 1940s with appearances in A Yank at Oxford (1938), Waterloo Bridge (1940), and Bataan (1943). During World War II, he served in the United States Naval Air Forces, where he worked as a flight instructor and appeared in instructional films. From 1959 to 1962, he starred in the series The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor. In 1966, he took over hosting duties from his friend Ronald Reagan on the series Death Valley Days.

Taylor was married to actress Barbara Stanwyck from 1939 to 1951. He married actress Ursula Thiess in 1954, and they had two children. A chain smoker, Taylor was diagnosed with lung cancer in October 1968. He died of the disease on June 8, 1969 at the age of 57.

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The Man Who Stopped The Sun And Moved The Earth

Nicolaus Copernicus was born in 1473, in Toruń, Poland. His father was a wealthy merchant, his mother came from a well-established merchant family, and Nicolaus, the youngest of four children, was afforded a comfortable upbringing and a comparably rich education. When he was 10, his father died, and the Copernicus kids passed into the care of their uncle. Copernicus' uncle would eventually become a high-ranking bishop in the Catholic church; with his help, Copernicus, who had studied astronomy and astrology at the University of Kraków, was granted a position as a canon in Warmia, in northeastern Poland. But before moving to Warmia, Copernicus traveled to Bologna, in Italy, to study canonical law.

In Bologna, he had additional time to study mathematics and astrology, this time as an assistant to Domenico Maria the Ferrarese of Novara a professor at the local university. Later, he spent some time at the University of Padua, where he boned up on contemporary medicine, and at the University of Ferrara, where he eventually earned his doctorate in canonical law.

He also proved himself as an effective strategist and military commander, leading the defence of Olsztyn during the Polish–Teutonic War. Later on, he exhibited great organizational skills, quickly rebuilding and relaunching the economy of the areas devastated by the invasion of the Teutonic Knights. He also served in diplomacy and participated in the works of the Polish Sejm.

At the time, the prevailing theory, codified by the 1st century philosopher Ptolemy, was geocentrism – the belief, in short, that all celestial bodies revolve around the earth. Undertaking an extensive analysis of the path of the planets overhead, Copernicus argued that in fact it was the sun that was at the center of the solar system.

Copernicus of Poland, published his book, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium ("On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres") when he was 70 and on his death bed. Though his ideas didn't ignite the popular imagination until almost a hundred years later, his heliocentric model of the solar system is integral to our understanding of the universe today.

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William Franklin Finley (1940-2012)

American actor, singer, songwriter and writer.

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William Finley was an actor best known for his collaborations with Brian de Palma. Daft Punk, Guillermo del Toro, Edgar Wright, Darth Vader and My Chemical Romance to name a few examples were inspired by his movies.

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He was born in New York and attended Sarah Lawrence college with Brian de Palma, who became his close friend. They went on collaborating in a large number of movies, from de Palma's student short Woton's Wake to his 2006 movie The Black Dahlia. Finley was most famous for his role as Winslow Leach in Phantom of the Paradise (1974), a horror musical about a struggling young composer whose music is stolen by a greedy producer.

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Phantom of the Paradise was a box office failure when it was released, but gained a large cult in the following years, especially in Winnipeg, where a festival called Phantompalooza was organized. Finley and his co-star Gerrit Graham were invited. Although hesitant at first Finley was overjoyed by the reception in Winnipeg and helped them to organize Phantompalooza 2, in which the entire cast was reunited.

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Finley married Susan Weiser in 1974. They had a son, Dashiell Finley, who, like his father, became an actor and writer.

Finley died of an inflamed colon in 2012. He was greatly mourned by his fans and co-stars. His funeral was attended by his co-stars from Phantom of the Paradise and the organizers of Phantompalooza.

Susan and Dashiell founded a charity in his name, which supported young artists in Winnipeg.

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He was described as a kind, gentle, very sweet person by his friends and co-stars. He loved to dress up or play pranks. His co-star in Phantom of the Paradise, Jessica Harper, has stated that he was like a brother to her.

He was 6'3 tall.

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Aaron Burr II (1756–1836)

American Vice President and politician

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He was an American politician and lawyer. He was the third vice president of the United States (1801–1805), serving during President Thomas Jefferson's first term.

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Burr served as a Continental Army officer in the American Revolutionary War, after which he became a successful lawyer and politician. He was elected twice to the New York State Assembly (1784–1785, 1798–1799), was appointed New York State Attorney General (1789–1791), was chosen as a U.S. senator (1791–1797) from the State of New York, and reached the apex of his career as vice president. In the waning months of his tenure as president of the Senate, he oversaw the 1805 impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase.

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As campaign manager for the Democratic-Republican party during the presidential election of 1800, Burr (along with his unofficial campaign team, known as the Little Band) was responsible for the first open, public political campaign.

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Burr shot his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a famous duel in 1804, the last full year of his single term as vice president. He was never tried for the illegal duel and all charges against him were eventually dropped, but Hamilton's death ended Burr's political career.

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Burr left Washington, D.C., and traveled west seeking new opportunies, both economic and political—as well as refuge from the controversy surrounding him in the rest of the country. His activities eventually led to his arrest on charges of treason in 1807. He was tried and acquitted multiple times, but the fallout left him with large debts and few influential friends. To avoid vigilante execution and further charges by the state, he left the United States for Europe. He remained overseas until 1812, when he returned to the United States to practice law in New York City. He spent the rest of his life there in relative obscurity.

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He was married to Theodosia Bartow Prevost in 1782, then Eliza Jumel in 1833. He had seven children (or more).

Burr suffered a debilitating stroke in 1834, which rendered him immobile. He died two years later.

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Note: "fun fact about aaron burr: he was supposedly so charismatic that people were genuinely afraid of not being able to hate him, more hilariously, the guards assigned to take him to richmond to stand trial in 1807 were strictly ordered not to speak to him at all under any circumstances because it was feared that if they did, they wouldn’t be able to resist him."

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