Biography

Tuesday, 27 January 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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Roland Garros
Roland Garros is sometimes referred to as the world's first air ace.
A fighter ace or air ace is an honorary title given to fighter pilots who shoot down a certain numbe ...
Ernest Hemingway
In 1923 Hemingway and his wife returned to Toronto, where their son Jack Hemingway (John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway) was born.
His parents called him Bumby. At the same time, Hemingway’s first collection of short stories, “Thre ...
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 1593, Shakespeare’s acting and playwriting activities got suspended.
Because of the outbreak of an epidemic in London, the city authorities banned “plays, bears and bull ...
Roland Garros
On the eve of World War I, Garros was in the German Reich. It was there that he learned of the impending conflict.
He arrived in Germany at the invitation of Helmut Hirth, an aeronautical engineer, who gave Garros a ...
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 ...
Roland Garros
Garros began his aviation career in 1909.
He obtained his pilot's license in July 1910 and bought his first plane, a Clément-Bayard Santos-Dum ...
Ludwig van Beethoven
After several years of struggling with disability, Beethoven was forced to completely give up public performances and devote himself exclusively to composing.
It was a great blow to him, because concerts were an important source of income, and his deafness al ...
Robert Oppenheimer
He was admitted to the honorary society Phi Beta Kappa ( ΦΒΚ ).
To compensate for a year's delay in starting his studies, he took six courses each semester (Harvard ...
Ludwig van Beethoven
The years 1804-1810 were the period of exceptional creative fertility of the composer.
At that time, four symphonies, four concertos, five quartets, trios, sonatas, and overtures were created.