Biography

Friday, 19 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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Kate Middleton
In 2010, Prince William proposed to his chosen wife.
In the fall of 2010, the couple was on vacation in Kenya. William proposed to Kate while the couple ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
During the uprising, Kosciuszko reformed the Polish army, introducing many innovations.
Due to the lack of sufficient weapons, he ordered the formation of peasant troops armed with war scy ...
Charles III
The British monarch is a talented watercolorist. The Telegraph described him as one of the highest earning artists in the British Isles.
 He was expected to earn £2 million from the sale of his paintings. However, the profit from the sal ...
Roland Garros
In 1911, he set an altitude record of 3950 meters.
This record was broken a year later by Austrian aviator Phillipp von Blaschke (4360 meters), but Gar ...
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 ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
In August 1792, the National Legislative Assembly of revolutionary France awarded Kosciuszko the honorary title of Citizen of France.
It was awarded in recognition of his activities and struggle for the ideals of freedom.
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
He produced numerous scrolls in various fields of science.
He contributed to anatomy, astronomy, geology, embryology (along with his first wife), zoology, geog ...
Charles Darwin
Darwin worked very hard and neglected his health.
From the clinical syndromes described, modern physicians concluded that Darwin suffered from three p ...
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 ...