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Saturday, 12 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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Gaius Julius Caesar
He was appointed Flamen Dialis, high priest of Jupiter.
He obtained this position in late 87 or early 86 BC.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
He played the title role in a comedy series "Servant of the Nation".
The 2015 series told the story of how, through a video recorded for a joke, its main character, quit ...
Aristotle
Around 335 BC, Aristotle founded a peripatetic school of philosophy.
Its main focus was philosophy and science taught by experience, not theory, in order to determine the “why.”
John Sutter
In 1847, Sutter planted more than two thousand fruit trees, marking the birth of agriculture in the Sacramento Valley.
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin died after a long illness on April 19, 1882, at the age of 73.
In recognition of his great contributions to science, Queen Victoria expressed the wish that the gre ...
Amadeus Mozart
Eight-year-old Amadeus gave concerts at Versailles for Louis XV and at Buckingham Palace for George III.
At the age of thirteen, he became concertmaster of the archbishop's band in 1769.
Charles III
During the pandemic in 2020, he was infected with COVID-19.
This information was made public on March 25, 2020. The then prince passed the disease easily and wo ...
Sting
He intended to become a teacher and enrolled at the Northern Counties Teacher Training College (now Northumbria University).
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Like many other activists, Kosciuszko decided to leave the country and go into exile in Saxony, as an emigration center of opponents of the Targowica Confederation was being formed in Leipzig and Dresden.
He only stayed in Leipzig for two weeks, then went to Paris to try to obtain French assistance there for the uprising planned in the Republic.
Peter the Great
He introduced the Julian calendar in place of the Byzantine calendar.
At the time, the Julian calendar was used only in Protestant countries; Catholics had already been using the Gregorian calendar for 100 years.