Biography

Thursday, 1 October 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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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 ...
Marilyn Monroe
Monroe died on 5th August 1962.
The cause of death was determined as a sleeping pill overdose.
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short story writer, journalist, and sportsman whose many works are considered classics of American literature.
He published seven novels, six collections of short stories, and two non-fiction items. After his death, three more of his novels, four more short stories, and three non-fiction pieces were published.
Kate Middleton
As an active member of the Royal Family, Kate Middleton performs a variety of functions.
Among the most important are public appearances, official meetings, and charity work.Kate Middleton ...
Amadeus Mozart
Amadeus practically never left Vienna anymore. His father died, and he began to sink into depression.
In such a depressed state, he threw himself into composing. Two of his best-known operas were writte ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
After the death of Catherine II, Kosciuszko was freed from captivity by her successor, Tsar Paul I Romanov.
The price he had to pay for freeing 20.000 Poles from Russian prisons and gulags was to take an oath of allegiance and pledge not to return to Poland.
Ernest Hemingway
He witnessed a series of battles fought between American and German troops in the Hürtgen Forest (Battle of Hürtgen Forest, September 16th - December 19th, 1944) on the German-Belgian border - the longest single battle of the U.S. Army in its history.
Hemingway was judged badly by soldiers, who accused him of posturing. He also went to Luxembourg to ...
William Shakespeare
In 1596, thanks to Shakespeare’s efforts, his father was granted a noble title.
Salvador Dali
While creating, the artist never used substances "modifying consciousness". He used to say: "I don't do drugs. I am drugs."
In the early 1930s, he developed a method called paranoid-critical. This method was based on pretend ...
Robert Oppenheimer
In 1947, Oppenheimer took a position as director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
He received a hefty salary of $20,000 a year and the opportunity to live for free in a 17th-century house, with a cook and caretaker. The house was surrounded by woods covering 107 acres.