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Thursday, 8 October 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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Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer was suspected of treason. When the Soviet Union successfully tested an atomic bomb in 1949, it came as a surprise to the United States. Since it came so soon after the Manhattan Project, it was suspected that someone had betrayed the project.
One of the suspects was Oppenheimer, who was already believed to be a communist sympathizer. The Ame ...
Peter the Great
Peter spent the last years of his life expanding Russian territories in the east.
He conquered Kamchatka and fought a war with Persia, consolidating Russia's position in the Caspian Sea region.
Charles Darwin
He ate animals that were not on the menu of traditional English cuisine. He definitely did not like owls.
It was all due to a group he joined while studying at Cambridge between 1828 and 1831. There, a grou ...
Ada Lovelace
At the age of seventeen, Ada was introduced to the royal court.
She quickly became the "popular beauty of the season," largely because of her "brilliant" mind. By 1 ...
Christopher Columbus
He was probably born in Genoa in the year 1451.
There is no unanimity among historians about the origin of Columbus -  several theories about it hav ...
Nikola Tesla
He attended elementary school in Smiljan, where he learned German, arithmetic, and religion.
The family moved to nearby Gospic, where his father became a parish priest. There Tesla completed el ...
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.
Sting
His bandmate from "Phoenix Jazzman" gave him the nickname Sting because of the black and yellow striped sweater he often wore during performances.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military officer, politician, Emperor of the French, and King of Italy.
He lived from 1769 to 1821.
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 ...