Biography

Monday, 7 September 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
At the age of six he began taking piano lessons from Wojciech Żywny, a Polish pianist of Czech origin.
Żywny taught Chopin for six years. He acquainted Frederic with works of the baroque and classical mu ...
Gaius Julius Caesar
He was the first commander of the Roman army to succeed in crossing the Channel.
Although the offensive against the Britons conducted in 54-53 BC did not bring tangible benefits, he ...
Aristotle
Aristotle remained in the Academy until 37 years of age.
After Plato’s death in 348 or 347, his nephew Speusippus took control of the academy. It is unknown, however, whether that was the reason Aristotle decided to leave the academy.
Charles III
Charles publicly admitted his infidelity. In a documentary aired in June 1994, the future king confessed to an extramarital relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles that lasted several years.
 On August 28, 1996, Charles and Diana's marriage officially ended. However, Charles had no official relationship with Camilla, who had been divorced since 1995. 
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway’s marital relations began to deteriorate when he met Pauline Pfeiffer and got into an affair with her, and his wife found out.
Hadley asked for a separation and later filed for divorce. The couple divorced in January 1927, and ...
Homer
The authorship and circumstances of the Iliad and the Odyssey have been debated for centuries. The lack of reliable information about Homer's life has led some scholars to hypothesise that Homer never existed.
In the 3rd century BC, Alexandrian critics - the so-called Chorizontes ('dividers') - believed that ...
Homer
The Iliad tells the story of the Trojan War.
It depicts episodes from the final phase of the conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans - Homer ...
Amadeus Mozart
Since both Amadeus and Nannerl showed musical ability, the father gave up his career and devoted himself to the children's musical education.
Amadeus learned to play the harpsichord from the age of five (even as a three-year-old, he listened ...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
From 2010 to 2012, he was a member of the Board of Directors of Inter TV, where he worked as Chief Producer.
Peter the Great
The envoy visited Livonia and Prussia, Germany, the Netherlands, England, Austria and the Republic.
In social contacts, Peter I was perceived as an attractive man with a noble demeanor and pleasant ap ...