Biography

Thursday, 25 June 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
Hemingway’s home in Key West still serves as a museum dedicated to the writer.
Legend has it that the Hemingway family purchased the pool worth $20,000 in the 1930s (the equivalen ...
Frederic Chopin
For the sake of Chopin's health and life, as a cholera epidemic was spreading in Paris, his friends found an apartment in Chaillot for him.
Stirling took care of him, but she annoyed Chopin, the Czartoryski family sent the musician one of t ...
Roland Garros
Garros was able to escape from captivity. He rejoined the French air force and managed to shoot down another plane.
Together with French aviation pioneer Anselme Marchal, he escaped to Belgium in February 1918 and re ...
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon's initial military successes in Malta and Lower Egypt were followed by the destruction of the French fleet by Admiral Nelson's squadron of English ships at the mouth of the Nile.
The interference of Turkish troops in the conflict and the seizure of Malta by the English forced the French to capitulate in 1801.
Christopher Columbus
Columbus Day is celebrated in many countries in the Americas, and in Spain.
It commemorates the discovery of America on October 12, 1492. The unofficial celebration of this hol ...
Nikola Tesla
Tesla was a visionary.
As early as 1893, he predicted the coming of wireless communication. He developed a number of device ...
Michelangelo
He had many plans and dreams connected with his art, but he failed to achieve them all.
As his most significant failure, he considered the completion of Pope Julius II's tomb in the form h ...
Ernest Hemingway
During his first ten months living in Paris, Hemingway wrote 88 articles for the Toronto Star.
These were reports describing the Greco-Turkish War and the great fire of Smyrna, which Hemingway witnessed.
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 ...
Homer
According to some legends, Homer was blind.
In some dialects of ancient Greek, the name Homer meant blind ('not seeing'). It is possible that in ...