Biography

Friday, 8 May 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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Amadeus Mozart
Amadeus had a sister, Maria Anna, five years older, who was called Nannerl by the household, also musically talented.
The other five siblings died in infancy.
Rasputin
After three years on Mount Athos, he returned to the country, traveled, healed, prophesied, and preached the Word of God.
He was recognized as a monk, clairvoyant and an exorcist, although he did not take vows. Today he wo ...
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel lived between 1833 and 1896.
He was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. His most famous achie ...
Aristotle
Aristotle's line of thought greatly impacted Islamic viewpoints.
During the Islamic Golden Age in the middle ages, much of Aristotle’s work was translated into Arabi ...
Rasputin
Rasputin's disappearance caused unrest in Tsarskoye Selo, a town containing the residence of the Russian imperial family.
The perpetrators of the murder were quickly discovered, and they wanted to punish them severely, but ...
Nikola Tesla
He lived from 1865 to 1943.
He was born on 10th July 1856, in Smiljana, Croatia (then Austrian Empire). In this village, on the ...
John Sutter
He enslaved, mistreated, and abused Indians who were forced to work for him. Any sign of resistance was considered hostile and tribal villages were raided and destroyed and their inhabitants murdered or kidnapped.
According to reports from travelers who visited Nueva Helvetia, Sutter enslaved many natives and for ...
Ludwig van Beethoven
He was the forerunner of romanticism in music.
His works cover the transition from the classical period to the romantic era in classical music.
Robert Oppenheimer
He took a course in thermodynamics taught by Professor Percy Bridgman.
He then became interested in experimental physics. Since there were no world-class experimental phys ...
John Sutter
John Sutter died on June 18, 1880, in a hotel room in Washington D.C.