1.Pодился в 1892-м году. Служил в Петрограде старшим фельдфебелем учебной команды запасного батальона лейб-гвардии Волынского полка, старшим унтер-офицером. Утром 27 февраля 1917 года в 5 часов утра поднял подчинённых ему солдат, вооружил и построил до прихода начальства. Накануне днём их командир штабс-капитан Лашкевич по приказу командующего ( Read more... )

...X. is a member of the Crow Nation of Native Americans. He is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Bronze Star Medal, and the Légion d'honneur ( Read more... )

X. studied physics and chemistry at the University of Kiel. In 1929 X.completed his thesis on x-rays. While a student, he formulated the concept of the cyclotron. From 1927 to 1945, X. was a physicist at the Siemens-Schuckertwerke in Berlin. From 1934, he was a laboratory director, and it was in that year that he submitted a patent for the betatron ( Read more... )

Occasionally, I've bumped into obscure people who DID change the world as we know it ( Read more... )

...X. was a New York City bail bondsman and Tammany Hall politician born in Govan, Scotland. He spent his days at Jefferson Market Police Court furnishing bonds for prisoners and his nights at various saloons around the city, playing poker and guzzling whiskey and plotting against Republicans, wisps of cigar smoke fogging his face. Get him drunk ( Read more... )

...X. was a merchant from Carthage trading with Sicily and Italy. Suffering from an illness during his short stay in Salerno, he took refuge with the king's brother Gusulf. A doctor named Abbas of Curiat was the interpreter. X. noted that Abbas did not even ask for the bottle of urine, and the Italian doctor who came to examine the bottle was ( Read more... )

...Х. родился в Чехословакии. Получил высшее экономическое образование. Сошёл с ума после того, как забыл в трамвае докторскую диссертацию по дороге в Высшую Аттестационную Комиссию. Жил в семикомнатной коммунальной квартире в центре Харькова. Прославился в середине 1980-х годов многочисленными надписями на заборах и стенах домов, состоящими из ( Read more... )

...X. was born in Tuscany. He studied medicine in Florence and practiced it for several years before moving to London to take up a mercantile career as an importer. While in London he met Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Adams. They convinced him to undertake his next venture ( Read more... )

X was born in 1733. He had an enormous affinity for books, and was constantly found reading, whether in his bedroom or up a tree. Catholics were excluded from British Universities, and in 1750 X was sent to France. There, X began to develop an interest in chemistry. In 1754, he left Poitiers, and joined a Jesuit order. However, he abandoned his ( Read more... )

X’s decision to be castrated became a life-long remorse ( Read more... )