Behind every great man, there's a great woman; no other adage more aptly describes the relationship between Charles Babbage, the man credited with thinking up the concept of the programmable computer, and mathematician Ada Lovelace, whose contributions, according to Essinger, proved indispensable to Babbage's invention. The Analytical Engine was a series of cogwheels, gear-shafts, camshafts, and power transmission rods controlled by a punch-card system based on the Jacquard loom. Lovelace, the o...
Ceran St. Vrain, American Frontier Entrepreneur
by Ronald K Wetherington
Life of the Venerable M.-M. Dufrost de Lajemmerais, Mde. D'Youville
by D S Ramsay
Zebulon B. Vance, governor of North Carolina during the devastating years of the Civil War, has long sparked controversy and spirited political comment among scholars. He has been portrayed as a loyal Confederate, viciously characterized as one of the principal causes of the Confederate defeat, and called ""the Lincoln of the South."" Joe A. Mobley clarifies the nature of Vance's leadership, focusing on the young governor's commitment to Southern independence, military and administrative decisio...
The author, Countess Katinka Szapary, recalls the 1920s and 1930s when she was growing up in rural Hungary, her experiences of the Second World War, (particularly the Russian occupation of eastern Europe), and her post-war experiences when she was employed as a translator by the British occupying forces in Vienna, at which time her family, as aristocrats, were being subjected to the deportations and executions of the Stalinist regime. The memoirs include details of past events that occurred in...
When the 15-year-old Henrietta Maria, daughter of Henri IV of France and Marie de Medici, arrived in England in June 1625 to marry Charles I, she could not speak English. She discovered her future husband to be short, puny, stiff in manner, who spoke with a stammer. Within months, Henrietta was at odds with both her new husband and his country, because of her Frenchness, Catholicism, extravagance and her refusal to be crowned at the Protestant coronation ceremony. However, Charles turned to his...
A Welsh Childhood (Mermaid Books) (Cascades S.)
by Alice Thomas Ellis
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, Volume 1 - Primary Source Edition
by Lucy Aikin