Antonio Salieri: The main rival of Mozart and the teacher of Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, and Ludwig van Beethoven News
The body of Alfred Wegener, the founder of the theory of continental drift, remains buried under the Greenland snow News
Umberto Eco wrote his first novel, “The Name of the Rose” at the age of 48, after he had been invited to write a short detective story News
Young Sean Connery earned the respect of a notorious Edinburgh gang by beating up six of its members at once News
Sir Isaac Newton spent the final years of his life hunting money counterfeiters and convicting them to death News
Carl Linnaeus wanted to create the “flower clock,” a garden that would tell the time through plants that open their flowers at different times of day News
The lives of Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine were marked by a lifelong feud which was never resolved Glamour
Oscar Wilde ended up in prison for sodomy and “gross indecency” after he had sued the father of his lover News