Biography

Thursday, 20 August 2026
21 facts about Ada Lovelace
21 facts about Ada Lovelace
The first female programmer
Ada Lovelace was a British poet and mathematician who lived in the first half of the 19th century. She was the daughter of one of Britain's greatest d ...

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Anna Pavlova
In 1914, she married Victor Dandré, a Duma official, who she met in Paris between 1900 and 1904.
Very soon after they met, Dandré became Anna’s manager. Dandré was responsible for organizing her to ...
Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer dominated all scientific discussions.
He was so enthusiastic that he sometimes took over the seminar, which did not please the other parti ...
Homer
"The Aeneid" - the epic by the Roman poet Virgil is a direct reference to the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey".
The Roman epic was written in hexameter in the first century BC.  In twelve books of 9892 verses, it describes the story of the Trojan Aeneas, the legendary protoploss of the Romans.
Sting
In 1987, he and his future wife, Trudie Styler, founded the Rainforest Foundation, a charitable foundation dedicated to bringing attention to the rainforests and defending the rights of the indigenous people.
One of the frogs discovered in Colombia was named Dendropsophus stingi in recognition of Sting's contributions.
Ernest Hemingway
Pauline was expecting a child and insisted on returning to the United States.
Before leaving Paris, while in the bathroom, Hemingway had an accident that left a scar on his foreh ...
Charles III
He became heir to the British throne when he was less than 3.5 years old. Charles' grandfather, King George VI, died on February 6, 1952, making the then 26-year-old Elizabeth Queen.
Although Charles was first in line to the British throne at such a young age, he had to wait another ...
Gaius Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar was forced to grow up very quickly.
In 85 BC, his father died suddenly, making the sixteen-year-old Julius have to become the head of the family.
Frederic Chopin
As early as 1836, Chopin met the French writer Aurora Dudevant, known as George Sand, who was six years older.
The couple existed as a relationship only in gossip; George Sand herself claimed to be Chopin's seco ...
John Sutter
He tended to squander the family fortune and quickly fell into debt.
Young John was threatened with imprisonment, so he came up with the idea of emigrating to North America.
Michelangelo
Michelangelo began his artistic career as a painter and then devoted the last thirty years to sculpture.
Towards the end of his life, however, he added another form of artistic expression - he wrote poetry.