Biography

Thursday, 6 August 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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Tadeusz Kosciuszko
He was a very talented, outstanding student.
He studied Polish history and general history, philosophy, Latin, Polish, French, German, law, economics, arithmetic, geometry and surveying.
Christopher Columbus
The crew, exhausted by the hardships of the expedition, the high-handed and ruthless behavior of the captain, and disappointed by the absence of the promised riches, began to rebel.
Some broke away from the expedition and searched for treasure on their own, while others returned to ...
Charles III
He became heir to the British throne when he was less than 3.5 years old. Charles' grandfather, King George VI, died on February 6, 1952, making the then 26-year-old Elizabeth Queen.
Although Charles was first in line to the British throne at such a young age, he had to wait another ...
Salvador Dali
He was the author of many aphorisms.
Dali used to say, "There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad."
Peter the Great
During his stay in the Netherlands, Peter was employed in a shipyard belonging to the East India Company as a simple laborer, demanding to call him Peter Timmerman van Zaandam (Peter, the carpenter of Zaandam).
He settled in the enclosed area of the shipyard. Every day he went to work together with the craftsm ...
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway was present during the Normandy landing on June 6th, 1944, but as a war correspondent, he was not permitted to leave the ship and had to conduct his correspondence from its deck.
He was also assigned to the 22nd Infantry Regiment and became commander of a small group of rural mi ...
Robert Oppenheimer
France appointed him an officer of the Legion of Honor in 1957.
In 1962, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society of Great Britain.
Salvador Dali
He loved ripping money off of naive people.
The closest friend, confidant and muse of the artist Amanda Lear recalls that John Lennon's widow, Y ...
Ada Lovelace
Lovelace valued metaphysics on a par with mathematics.
 She saw them as tools for discovering "invisible worlds around us." She believed that intuition and imagination were crucial to the successful application of mathematical and scientific concepts.
John Sutter
He arrived in Alta California in 1839.
W towarzystwie trzech europejskich imigrantów, rdzennie amerykańskiego chłopca i dziesięciu ludzi, k ...