Biography

Monday, 13 October 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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Hypatia
She came from Alexandria, a major Mediterranean port.
Alexandria was a wealthy and multinational city where the Greeks had a lot to say as well as the Egy ...
Ernest Hemingway
In Paris, Hemingway met Gertrude Stein, James Joys and Ezra Pound, who helped young artists develop their careers.
Gertrude Stein, one of the most influential authors of modernism, became Hemingway’s mentor. She int ...
Kate Middleton
In her youth, Kate Middleton took up employment in various areas.
During her school days, she took up the usual casual employment for young people; she was a store at ...
Nikola Tesla
In 1875, having previously obtained a scholarship (thanks to a high school teacher), he enrolled at the Graz University of Technology.
In his first year, he never missed lectures, earned top grades, and passed nine exams (twice as many ...
Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer dominated all scientific discussions.
He was so enthusiastic that he sometimes took over the seminar, which did not please the other parti ...
Amadeus Mozart
Mozart received a commission from Munich to write a grand opera for the start of the opera season in that city in December 1780.
He wrote "Idomeneo, King of Crete" and traveled to Munich to supervise rehearsals and conduct the pr ...
Amadeus Mozart
Urged strongly by his father to return to Salzburg, he stopped in Munich and Mannheim on his way back.
He also managed to meet his first love Aloysia Weber, who confessed to Mozart that she no longer rec ...
William Shakespeare
In one entry in the Stationer’s Register of Stationer’s Company of London, a Society established in 1403 with a monopoly on the publishing industry, Shakespeare, as well as John Fletcher, Shakespeare’s associate, is credited with the authorship of the play “Cardenio” staged by the King’s Men in 1613.
Professor Brean Hammond of the University of Nottingham claims that in the play “Double Falsehood” b ...
Roland Garros
In 1909 he attended as an observer the Grande Semaine d'Aviation de la Champagne, an international aviation event.
This was the first competition for the prestigious Gordon Bennett Trophy, sponsored by Gordon Bennet ...
Rasputin
The cult of Rasputin flourished among the ladies of St. Petersburg.
There were times when queues lined up to wash the feet of the holy man. It was rumored that he was u ...