Biography

Sunday, 19 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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Ernest Hemingway
He witnessed a series of battles fought between American and German troops in the Hürtgen Forest (Battle of Hürtgen Forest, September 16th - December 19th, 1944) on the German-Belgian border - the longest single battle of the U.S. Army in its history.
Hemingway was judged badly by soldiers, who accused him of posturing. He also went to Luxembourg to ...
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway’s second son Patrick was born in 1928 in Kansas City.
While staying with his first son in New York, he received a telegram about his father’s suicide. Mom ...
Constantine the Great
Constantine I the Great was born around 272 in Naissus, part of the province of Dardania in Mesa, a Roman province in the central Balkans (now Niš, a city in Serbia).
He was the son of Flavius Constantius Chlorus, a Roman army officer who was one of the four emperors ...
Gaius Julius Caesar
He was born in Rome, most likely on July 12, 100 BC.
He came from a family of urban patricians with medium political influence in the city. His parents were Gaius Julius Caesar the Elder and Aurelia Kotta.
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons is a cycle of 4 violin concertos included in the Op. 8 collection of 12 concertos, "Dispute between Harmony and Imagination," published in 1725.
They were composed around 1720 in Mantua and published in Amsterdam in 1725 with a dedication to the Bohemian Count Wenzl von Morzin, who was a patron of Vivaldi.
Ada Lovelace
Lovelace valued metaphysics on a par with mathematics.
 She saw them as tools for discovering "invisible worlds around us." She believed that intuition and imagination were crucial to the successful application of mathematical and scientific concepts.
William Shakespeare
William had many siblings.
He had three brothers (Gilbert, 1566 - 1611, Richard, 1574 - 1612, and Edmund, 1580 - 1607), and fou ...
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s mother came from the wealthy Arden family, well-known in Warwickshire.
Mary Arden was the youngest of eight siblings. Her father, Robert Arden, was a landowner in Snitterfield. After her father’s death, Mary inherited part of his vast estate.
Amadeus Mozart
The performances of talented children brought splendor and, above all, material benefits to the family.
Practically all of Amadeus' childhood was spent traveling and giving concerts at European courts, wh ...
Peter the Great
Many specialists in various fields came to Russia (about 750 people, mostly Dutch).
Among them were military officers, craftsmen, and people of science and art. Their task was to teach Russians and instill Western European progress in the country.