Biography

Friday, 12 December 2025

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Jane Austen
Jane's father, George Austin, was an educated minister of the Anglican Church.
As a promising young man, he won an academic scholarship that enabled him to study at Oxford's St. J ...
Ada Lovelace
In September 2022, Nvidia Corporation announced the Ada Lovelace graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture, the successor to the Ampere architecture.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Zelensky's stance has earned him great acclaim around the world. The media in many parts of the world described the Ukrainian president as a hero and a statesman.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has become a recognizable symbol of the struggle for democratic values.
Jane Austen
The family lived on his father's modest income of £600 a year.
It was a modest income at the time; by comparison, a skilled laborer - a blacksmith or carpenter - c ...
Charles Darwin
In 1838, Charles Darwin developed the theory of natural selection.
Based on his own collections and travel notes, following the scientific methodology of the progressi ...
Peter the Great
Many specialists in various fields came to Russia (about 750 people, mostly Dutch).
Among them were military officers, craftsmen, and people of science and art. Their task was to teach Russians and instill Western European progress in the country.
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
In the political life of Poland at the time, a group of activists pushing the need for reform played an increasingly important role.
Great political writers, such as Stanislaw Staszic and Hugo Kollataj, called for strengthening the c ...
Roland Garros
At the age of four, he moved with his parents to Saigon, where his father opened a law office.
He lived in Saigon until the age of twelve, when his parents sent him to Paris to study at the priva ...
Aristotle
Out of over 200 scrolls and manuscripts written by Aristotle, approximately 31 have survived to the present day.
Gaius Julius Caesar
The battle on the Circus Maximus grounds pitted 2 captive armies against each other to fight to the death.
Each army consisted of 2000 men, 2 horsemen, and 20 war elephants. Some people considered such behav ...