Biography

Tuesday, 30 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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Homer
The movie"Troy", which premiered in 2004, is an adaptation of the "Iliad".
It was directed by Wolfgang Petersen. The main roles were played by Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, Diane Kruger, Peter O'Toole, Eric Bana, Sean Bean.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Thanks to the Corsican governor's patronage, he was admitted to a military school in Brienne-le-Chateau.
He was one of fifty royal scholarship recipients. At school, he had a reputation as a loner who pref ...
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway attended school in Oak Park from 1913 to 1917.
He was very fond of sports and eagerly engaged in boxing, athletics, soccer and water polo. Hemingwa ...
Michelangelo
Two funerals of Michelangelo took place in Florence.
The first, on the day after the body was returned, in the Basilica of Santa Croce. The second funera ...
Constantine the Great
In 325 he decided to establish the capital in the city of Byzantium, which he renamed Constantinople - the city of Constantine (now Istanbul).
The inauguration ceremony of the new capital city took place in the year 330. The city later became ...
John Sutter
In 1834, he left his wife and five kids and fled from Europe.
Sutter boarded ship Sully in Le Havre, France and arrived in New York on July 14, 1834.
Amadeus Mozart
Mozart was the first great professional composer to write popular music (dances, divertimentos, serenades headed by "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik").
He left behind more than 50 symphonies, dozens of concertos for piano, violin, flute and other solo ...
Sting
Sting has co-written music for many soundtracks, most notably Disney's animated film "The Emperor’s New Groove," the romantic comedy "Kate & Leopold," and the Civil War drama "Cold Mountain"
William Shakespeare
In 1594, Shakespeare became a member of Lord Chamberlain’s Troupe, later known as the King’s Men, for which he wrote his best plays.
Besides writing the texts of new plays for Lord Chamberlain’s Troupe, he handled the group’s finance ...
Nikola Tesla
After finishing school in 1873, he returned to Smiljan, where he fell ill with cholera shortly after his arrival.
He was bedridden for nine months and came close to death on several occasions. During his illness, h ...