Biography

Sunday, 7 December 2025
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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Christopher Columbus
Isabella I of Castile allowed Columbus to organize an expedition to sail under the flag of the Spanish crown.
The expedition was financed partly by the court and partly by the Pinzon merchant family. Columbus w ...
Amadeus Mozart
Since both Amadeus and Nannerl showed musical ability, the father gave up his career and devoted himself to the children's musical education.
Amadeus learned to play the harpsichord from the age of five (even as a three-year-old, he listened ...
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 ...
Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer collected European furniture and French Post-Impressionist and Fauvist artworks.
His collection included works by Cezanne, Derain, Despiau, de Vlamnick, Picasso, Rembrandt, Renoir, van Gogh, Vuillard and others.
Amadeus Mozart
Just before his death, Mozart began work on the Requiem funeral mass.
He did not manage to complete this work. In the manuscript, the last notes put by his hand fall on t ...
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway had a special bond with his black and white male cat, Boise.
It grew closer to Hemingway than any other human or animal. Boise walked with him step by step, acco ...
Napoleon Bonaparte
At the age of 27, he married the widowed aristocrat Josephine de Beauharnais (she was the mistress of many influential politicians after her husband's death).
After marrying Josephine, Buonaparte changed his name, giving it a French spelling and pronunciation ...
William Shakespeare
Among Shakespeare’s masterpieces, the most acclaimed nowadays is “Romeo and Juliet,” a tragic love story of two young people who are separated by their feuding families’ past, and “Hamlet,” the story of a Danish prince entangled in love, betrayal, and revenge, who learns of a family secret.
Shakespeare’s other works include: historical dramas dealing with events in English history - “King ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
In 1921, the Polish Sejm decided to bring Kosciuszko's heart to the country, which was realized on October 15, 1927.
Since June 13, 1983, the urn containing Tadeusz Kosciuszko's heart has been kept at the Royal Castle in Warsaw.
Jane Austen
Jane Austen's life was brought to the screen in films such as "Jane in Love" and" Miss Austen Regrets."
In "Jane in Love" the role of Jane was played by Anne Hathaway, and in "Jane Austen Regrets," describing the last years of the writer's life, Olivia Willliams.