King Tutankhamun’s full name was Tutankhaten, which he later changed to Tutankhamun, meaning “living image of Amun.”
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When Bach was a boy, he couldn’t use a special music book his brother kept locked up, so he snuck down at night and copied the music by moonlight because he was so determined to learn it!
Ludwig van Beethoven's burial site has been moved once—his remains were exhumed and reburied in a more prominent location in Vienna's Central Cemetery in 1888.
Hernán Cortés helped bring horses back to mainland North America when he arrived in Mexico in 1519 with about 16 horses, and these Spanish horses later spread across the continent and changed how many Native peoples lived and traveled.
Vincent van Gogh taught himself how to draw and paint by copying prints and studying drawing-lesson books and manuals before he started creating his own original works.