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Friday, 23 October 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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Frederic Chopin
In the autumn of 1810 the Chopin family moved to Warsaw.
They settled in a tenement house on Krakowskie Przedmieście Street, which no longer exists, and soon ...
Sting
From an early age, he was a music enthusiast, with a particular fondness for the Beatles and jazz musicians, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane.
Rasputin
After three years on Mount Athos, he returned to the country, traveled, healed, prophesied, and preached the Word of God.
He was recognized as a monk, clairvoyant and an exorcist, although he did not take vows. Today he wo ...
Gaius Julius Caesar
On April 6, 46 BC, a final clash between the Pompeians and the Caesarians took place at Tapsus (Ras Dimas) in Tunisia.
Caesar's 10 legions were led by Scipio's 10 legions supported by 2500 units of Numidian cavalry and ...
Aristotle
As a reward for teaching his son, Philip II of Macedon freed the inhabitants of Aristotle’s hometown of Stagira from slavery.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Volodymyr Zelenski was born on January 25, 1978 in the central Ukrainian town of Kryvyi Rih.
Kryvyi Rih was founded in the 17th century by Zaporozhian Cossacks. Its rapid development began in 1 ...
Gaius Julius Caesar
In the Julian calendar, July (iulius) was dedicated to Caesar.
Another, August (augustus) was dedicated to Octavian Augustus in later years.
Ada Lovelace
Byron was disappointed by the birth of his daughter, he expected a son, "a wonderful boy". The girl was named after Byron's half-sister (his great love), Augusta Leighi; Byron called her Ada.
The marriage of Byron and Annabella Milbanke was not a happy one. Shortly after the birth of their d ...
Nikola Tesla
He lived from 1865 to 1943.
He was born on 10th July 1856, in Smiljana, Croatia (then Austrian Empire). In this village, on the ...
Salvador Dali
He was often called "Avida Dollars".
He loved money and was known for his greed. He often used unethical methods to earn them. Once, he s ...