Biography

Monday, 26 January 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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Jane Austen
The novel Pride and Prejudice was written between October 1796 and August 1797.
Jane revised a manuscript titled "First Impressions" in 1812 and with the revised title was publishe ...
Salvador Dali
Dali designed the Chupa Chups logo.
During his career he created many advertisements and logos.
Nikola Tesla
In his laboratories, he developed the basics of alternating current generation and transmission, which are still used worldwide.
He also created designs for devices powered directly by alternating currents, such as the fluorescen ...
Charles III
As the years passed, Charles acquired more titles.
At birth, as the son of the Duchess and Duke of Edinburgh, he was given the title His Highness the D ...
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon is also traditionally credited with a geometric theorem known as Napoleon's theorem, declaring that the orthocenters of equilateral triangles built on the sides of any triangle are the vertices of the equilateral triangle.
However, there is no evidence of Napoleon's contribution to formulating or proving this theorem.
Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer dominated all scientific discussions.
He was so enthusiastic that he sometimes took over the seminar, which did not please the other parti ...
Christopher Columbus
When the Santa Maria was wrecked and Columbus lost contact with the Pinta in a storm, he decided to use the only surviving ship, the Niña, to bring news of the discovery of a route to America to the royal court.
He left part of the crew, 43 volunteers, at the fortress of Navidad on Hispaniola and set sail for S ...
Frederic Chopin
Chopin began learning the piano quite early, at the turn of his fourth and fifth year.
His mother gave him lessons.
Robert Oppenheimer
He came from a family of American Jews.
Robert was born in New York City on April 22, 1904. His father was Julius Seligmann Oppenheimer, a w ...
Antonio Vivaldi
Vivaldi was almost immediately forgotten after his death.
Only the growing interest in the music of J.S. Bach, who transcribed Vivaldi's eighteen violin conce ...