Biography

Friday, 6 February 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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Robert Oppenheimer
The first ground test of a nuclear weapon took place on July 16, 1945, and was code-named "Trinity".
It took place near the town of Alamagordo, New Mexico. The bomb was given the name "Gadget", and the ...
Frederic Chopin
He was famous, leading the life of a virtuoso, composing works that quickly became fashionable in the salons. He moved quickly from a small apartment at Boulevard Poissonniere to the fashionable district of Paris, and his friends called his apartment Olympus, because of the heavenly music that came from there.
He gave piano lessons to many great people: Baroness Rothschild, Princess Noailles, Caroline Hartmann and Adolf Gutmann.
Napoleon Bonaparte
During the siege of Toulon, Bonaparte was sworn in as captain of an artillery of the revolutionary forces.
He won the support of Augustin Robespierre, younger brother of the revolutionary leader Maximilien R ...
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 ...
Kate Middleton
Many consider her a style icon.
Although her image used to be less formal, Kate Middleton has developed a style that inspires women ...
Charles Darwin
It was not Darwin's observation of finches that contributed to the formulation of the theory of evolution.
Despite the observation of these birds in the Galapagos Islands, the founder of the theory of evolut ...
Sting
After graduating in 1974, Sting taught English at St. Paul's First School in Cramlington for two years.
Aristotle
Some of Aristotle’s theories were absurd.
For instance, he proposed that the gender of a goat is determined by the direction in which the wind blows.
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel lived between 1833 and 1896.
He was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. His most famous achie ...
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway traveled to China with Martha, where both worked as reporters - Martha for Collier’s magazine and Ernest for the PM newspaper.
They returned to Cuba before the United States joined World War II. There are suggestions that even ...