Biography

Monday, 28 September 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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Salvador Dali
He loved ripping money off of naive people.
The closest friend, confidant and muse of the artist Amanda Lear recalls that John Lennon's widow, Y ...
Sting
Sting has co-written music for many soundtracks, most notably Disney's animated film "The Emperor’s New Groove," the romantic comedy "Kate & Leopold," and the Civil War drama "Cold Mountain"
Nikola Tesla
Nikola was the fourth of five children.
He had three sisters, Milka, Angelina, and Marica, and an older brother named Dane, who died in a horseback riding accident when Nikola was five.
Sting
In 1987, he and his future wife, Trudie Styler, founded the Rainforest Foundation, a charitable foundation dedicated to bringing attention to the rainforests and defending the rights of the indigenous people.
One of the frogs discovered in Colombia was named Dendropsophus stingi in recognition of Sting's contributions.
Napoleon Bonaparte
At the insistence of his marshals, Napoleon abdicated, relinquishing power to his son, and entrusting the regency to his wife Marie Louise.
Following demands for unconditional surrender and relinquishing the throne, Napoleon signed an uncon ...
Homer
"The Aeneid" - the epic by the Roman poet Virgil is a direct reference to the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey".
The Roman epic was written in hexameter in the first century BC.  In twelve books of 9892 verses, it describes the story of the Trojan Aeneas, the legendary protoploss of the Romans.
Hypatia
She was the head of the famous Platonic School in Alexandria and many students flocked to her lectures.
From about 400 she was the head of the Platonic School in Alexandria. She taught mathematics, philos ...
Michelangelo
His education was handled by two thinkers and philosophers, Marsilio Ficino, the Athenian school founder in Florence and one of the most famous figures of the early Renaissance, and Count Giovanni della Mirandola.
Michelangelo, then seventeen years old, created the bas-reliefs Madonna at the Stairs and Battle of the Centaurs. These two reliefs are now in the Casa Buonarroti in Florence.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon divorced Josephine (she did not give him an heir) and married Marie Louise - daughter of the defeated Austrian Emperor Francis II.
Maria Louisa bore him a son - Napoleon II. He was the emperor's only legitimate son.
Ernest Hemingway
In 1923 Hemingway and his wife returned to Toronto, where their son Jack Hemingway (John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway) was born.
His parents called him Bumby. At the same time, Hemingway’s first collection of short stories, “Thre ...