Biography

Wednesday, 12 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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Napoleon Bonaparte
Thanks to the Corsican governor's patronage, he was admitted to a military school in Brienne-le-Chateau.
He was one of fifty royal scholarship recipients. At school, he had a reputation as a loner who pref ...
Marilyn Monroe
She underwent psychoanalysis.
She decided to do so under the influence of Lee Strasberg.
Jane Austen
The family lived on his father's modest income of £600 a year.
It was a modest income at the time; by comparison, a skilled laborer - a blacksmith or carpenter - c ...
William Shakespeare
In 1995, UNESCO designated the day of Shakespeare’s birth and death - April 23 - World Book and Copyright Day.
Marilyn Monroe
She was born on 1st June 1926, in Los Angeles.
Frederic Chopin
In 1817 the first printed work by Frederic Chopin was published. It was a polonaise in the key of G minor.
It was published in the parish typographical establishment of the Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the New Town in Warsaw.
John Sutter
The settlement was named Nueva Helvetia, which is now part of Sacramento.
Sutter's Fort construction began in 1841, but due to an invasion of gold prospectors, it was abandoned in 1850.
Anna Pavlova
In 1980, Igor Carl Fabergé, a member of the family whose company launched the Fabergé Eggs, licensed a collection of crystal wine glasses in commemoration of the centenary of Pavlova’s birth.
John Sutter
He enslaved, mistreated, and abused Indians who were forced to work for him. Any sign of resistance was considered hostile and tribal villages were raided and destroyed and their inhabitants murdered or kidnapped.
According to reports from travelers who visited Nueva Helvetia, Sutter enslaved many natives and for ...
Rasputin
Women adored Rasputin. He was their guide, not only spiritually.
Among his female admirers were bohemians, court ladies and aristocrats. He never had enough of women ...