Biography

Friday, 24 July 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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Volodymyr Zelenskyy
During his studies he became interested in comedy and theater.
He created his own miniature theater called "Homeless". Soon he founded his own troupe "Kryvyi Rih" ...
Rasputin
He was born into a peasant family in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoye in Tyumen Oblast.
There is also uncertainty about his real name. Some studies state that his probable surname may have ...
Hypatia
She was the head of the famous Platonic School in Alexandria and many students flocked to her lectures.
From about 400 she was the head of the Platonic School in Alexandria. She taught mathematics, philos ...
Robert Oppenheimer
He described himself as the loneliest man in the world.
Even as a child, he had trouble interacting with his peers. Children thought he was arrogant and tac ...
Frederic Chopin
Frederic was probably born on 1 March 1810 in Żelazowa Wola.
Some sources state that he was born on 22 February 1810.
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Unfortunately, these aspirations caused unrest among Russia and Prussia, as well as the Polish magnates, with ties to foreign powers.
Magnate conspirators (Szczęsny Potocki, Seweryn Rzewuski, Franciszek Ksawery Branicki) formed the Ta ...
Ernest Hemingway
Grace Hall-Hemingway followed the Victorian convention of not differentiating children’s clothing by gender.
She wanted the eldest daughter Marcelline and the year younger Ernest to look like twins. So the chi ...
Marilyn Monroe
She underwent psychoanalysis.
She decided to do so under the influence of Lee Strasberg.
Ernest Hemingway
Throughout his life, including in his prose, Ernest Hemingway emphasized the importance of male strength.
His biographers tried to explain this fact with an emotional need to exorcise the painful memory of his mother, who emphasized her superiority over Ernest’s father.
William Shakespeare
Young William attended a grammar school in Stratford, a prestigious institution where pupils were taught by Oxford and Cambridge magisters. The young Shakespeare learned Latin, history, ancient literature, rhetoric, basic grammar, and modern languages.
Raised a Catholic, he was very familiar with the Bible. As a city councilman’s son, he did not have ...