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Friday, 18 July 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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Amadeus Mozart
In 1791, Wolfgang's librettist and friend Emanuel Schikaneder commissioned him to write "The Magic Flute" - a fairy tale opera (singspiel - opera with spoken interludes).
It is one of Mozart's most recognizable operas. Some see in it the author's connections with Freemas ...
Ludwig van Beethoven
He left for Vienna in November 1792 and soon after arriving, he learned of his father's death.
There was a widespread belief that Beethoven was the successor of the recently deceased Mozart - Lud ...
Gaius Julius Caesar
Cleopatra bore Caesar a son - Ptolemy Caesar, commonly known as Caesarion.
He was the last ruler of ancient Egypt and was killed on Octavian Augustus' orders when he invaded E ...
Ada Lovelace
Ada was a descendant of an extinct family of Lovelace barons.
In 1838, her husband became Earl of Lovelace and Viscount Ockham, and Ada became Countess of Lovelace.
Aristotle
He produced numerous scrolls in various fields of science.
He contributed to anatomy, astronomy, geology, embryology (along with his first wife), zoology, geog ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
He left Russia via Finland, Stockholm, and the United Kingdom for the United States.
In the United States, he met with his friends from the American Revolution, including Thomas Jeffers ...
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven never married.
However, the names of the women he loved, often with reciprocity, are known. These women generally c ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Kosciuszko decided to set sail for North America.
He set sail in June 1776, probably from Le Havre, on a voyage that lasted more than two months. He a ...
Alfred Nobel
The Nobel family came from Östra Nöbbelöv, a village in Skåne, hence the family name.
The first member of the family was Petrus Olai Nobelius, who married Wendela Rudbeck, daughter of th ...
Frederic Chopin
Hadi Karimi, a graphic artist with Iranian roots, has recently made a very realistic portrait, the latest reconstruction of Frederic Chopin's face.
He created 3D models of various celebrities and created a computer version of Chopin's silhouette. H ...