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Friday, 29 May 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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Charles Darwin
He suffered from seasickness.
However, this did not prevent him from conducting research on marine invertebrates, especially plankton - most of his zoological records dealt with marine invertebrates.
Christopher Columbus
He was probably born in Genoa in the year 1451.
There is no unanimity among historians about the origin of Columbus -  several theories about it hav ...
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was the author of 300 patents that protected his 125 inventions in 26 countries.
His greatest achievement was finding a practical application for alternating current. Tesla develope ...
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s father was probably an obscure Catholic.
There was a document, found in the 18th century in the attic of one of the Henley Street buildings, ...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
He is a wealthy person.
When registering as a presidential candidate, he submitted a declaration of assets showing that he o ...
Ludwig van Beethoven
In the fall of 1808, after turning down a position at the Royal Theater, Beethoven was offered a well-paid position as bandmaster at the court of Cassel by Napoleon's brother, Jerome Bonaparte, then king of Westphalia.
To persuade Beethoven to stay in Vienna, Archduke Rudolf and his other patrons agreed to pay him an ...
Ada Lovelace
The second Tuesday of October is Ada Lovelace Day.
It is an annual event that began on the second Tuesday of October in 2009. Its purpose is to raise t ...
Antonio Vivaldi
At the orphanage's music school, Vivaldi taught girls to play the violin but also began composing his first debut works.
In 1705, his first collection of sonatas a tre (a trio sonata, a sonata for two solo instruments and ...
Ernest Hemingway
When Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” was published, Hemingway read it, became enthralled and decided that his subsequent work would be a novel.
He took his wife to the Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain, and became fascinated by bullfigh ...
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway worked as a correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance agency (NANA) during the Spanish Civil War.
While in Spain, he was accompanied by American journalist Martha Gellhorn, who became his third wife ...