Biography

Wednesday, 4 November 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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Roland Garros
Garros ended up in German captivity in 1915. During a raid on the Courtrai railway station in German-controlled territory, a fuel line in his plane became clogged, forcing him to land. Garros was captured by the Germans and sent to a POW camp at the fortress of Magdeburg, where he spent three years.
Before being captured, Garros managed to set fire to the fuselage, but the plane's cannon and armore ...
Ernest Hemingway
In 1923 Hemingway and his wife returned to Toronto, where their son Jack Hemingway (John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway) was born.
His parents called him Bumby. At the same time, Hemingway’s first collection of short stories, “Thre ...
Amadeus Mozart
Eight-year-old Amadeus gave concerts at Versailles for Louis XV and at Buckingham Palace for George III.
At the age of thirteen, he became concertmaster of the archbishop's band in 1769.
Jane Austen
In 1818, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasions" were published.
The first novel was written between 1798 and 1799 under the title - "Susan." Although the manuscript ...
Gaius Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar was forced to grow up very quickly.
In 85 BC, his father died suddenly, making the sixteen-year-old Julius have to become the head of the family.
Frederic Chopin
Chopin died on the night of October 17, 1849.
In his last moments he was surrounded by a few people close to him. In the death certificate tuberculosis was indicated as the cause of death.
Charles III
However, his love for nature did not immediately eradicate his love for hunting.
Charles was a lover of fox hunting, which was banned in the Isles in 2004. One issue Charles tried t ...
Aristotle
In 343 BC, Aristotle became tutoring Alexander the Great.
He has done so at the request of Alexander’s father, Philip II of Macedon.
Rasputin
After three years on Mount Athos, he returned to the country, traveled, healed, prophesied, and preached the Word of God.
He was recognized as a monk, clairvoyant and an exorcist, although he did not take vows. Today he wo ...
Robert Oppenheimer
He became a very popular professor and was nicknamed "Oppie".
The first year of his professorship went poorly, he could not relate to the students, could not expl ...