Biography

Wednesday, 1 July 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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John Sutter
He was granted by Mexico land of 48,4 thousand acres (19,6 thousand hectares).
After erecting a camp, Sutter contacted local Nisenan and Miwok people, to whom offered work with expanding the settlement and building a fort.
Robert Oppenheimer
He lacked laboratory skills. He did not feel comfortable in the laboratory, it took him a very long time to plan and carry out experiments, he even worked at night and still had a lot of catching up to do.
 He concluded at that time that theoretical physics would be closer to his heart than experimental p ...
Nikola Tesla
Tesla and Edison were in constant conflict.
In 1915, a report by the Reuters Agency claimed a Nobel Prize for Tesla and Edison, but the news was ...
Jane Austen
The novel "Mansfield Park" was published in 1814 in three volumes. The Star magazine advertised it as a new novel by the author of "Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility."
Jane wrote it from 1811 to 1813. The main character of this novel is radically different from the pr ...
John Sutter
He got married to Annette Dubold in 1824.
They had five children. His oldest son, John Augustus Sutter was a founder of Sacramento.
Jane Austen
Jane Austen's first novel - "Sense and Sensibility" was published in 1811 in three volumes as a work, "By a Lady."
The first version of the novel, previously titled "Elinor and Marianne," was written in 1795 as a co ...
Constantine the Great
Constantine the Great is a saint of the Orthodox Church.
The Orthodox Church calls him an equal of the Apostles. His feast day is May 21.
Aristotle
Aristotle favored patriarchy.
Despite believing that society may be content only when both men and women are equally pleased, he c ...
Ludwig van Beethoven
Towards the end of his life, Ludwig senior had his portrait painted, which remained in his grandson's rooms as a talisman of his musical heritage.
Johann van Beethoven married Maria Magdalena Keverich, daughter of the chef at the court of the Arch ...
Constantine the Great
When Constantine returned from the eastern front to Nicomedia in the spring of 303, he witnessed the beginning of Diocletian's "great persecution," the most severe persecution of Christians in Roman history.
Diocletian ordered the destruction of the new church in Nicomedia, the destruction of its writings a ...