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Thursday, 18 December 2025
21 facts about Ada Lovelace
21 facts about Ada Lovelace
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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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John Sutter
John Augustus Sutter was born on February 23, 1803, in Kandern, former Holy Roman Empire.
Kandern is now a part of Germany.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven's death was attended by his friend Anselm Huttenbrenner and probably his sister-in-law, Johanna van Beethoven.
According to Huttenbrenner, around 5 p.m. there was a flash of lightning and thunder: "Beethoven opened his eyes, raised his right hand and looked up for a few seconds with a clenched fist...".
Homer
According to tradition, Homer died in old age on the island of Chios.
Sting
While at school, he performed in local clubs, mainly with jazz bands such as "Phoenix Jazzman" and "Last Exit."
Kate Middleton
The couple welcomed three children into the world.
George, the couple’s firstborn son, was born on July 22nd, 2013. On May 2nd, 2015, their only daught ...
Ada Lovelace
She wanted to be buried next to her father.
Although she didn't know him, he was in her thoughts all her life. She even named her two sons Byron ...
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon is also traditionally credited with a geometric theorem known as Napoleon's theorem, declaring that the orthocenters of equilateral triangles built on the sides of any triangle are the vertices of the equilateral triangle.
However, there is no evidence of Napoleon's contribution to formulating or proving this theorem.
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 ...
Aristotle
At the age of 17 or 18, he joined Plato’s Academy.
It was funded by Plato in 387 BC on the outskirts of Athens and is often referred to as a school for would-be politicians.
Frederic Chopin
At that time Chopin did indeed begin to fall seriously ill, probably with tuberculosis, although recently it has been said that it could be cystic fibrosis.