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- Thread starter Richie
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Persian
looker-on
aka Thomas the Kraut
Alexander the Great? Admittedly, he was not born in Persia.
Not him. But there is a connection between the two.
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BINGO!!
The Persian Empire was born under the rule of Cyrus the Great . He was a just ruler, unlike most power hungry tyrants, then and today.
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That would be Victorian times if in the English speaking world.
Grier
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Is it this woman,
Ada Lovelace: Wrote the World's First Computer Algorithm
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Grier
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That's her Craig! Your turn.
Too easy, especially me choosing a brilliant lady. She worked for Babich and basically invented "Computer Programming" when many would have had her cooking in the kitchen. Interesting surname though, a Lover of Lace, fine things and Embroidery? Typical of old English aristocracy with her Dad being Lord Byron.
Her first name Ada is like 'add a' six and a three... nevermind...
From your link Crag:
Young Ada Lovelace was introduced to English society as the sole (legitimate) child of scalawag poet Lord Byron in 1815. More than 200 years later, she is remembered by many as the first programmer in the history of computing, but not by her lovely embodied lace works.....
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Yes, that was the moth to the flame moment Terry. But what a brilliant mind she had. And who was aware that the first computer was way back then, yet nothing was done until at least a century later to further the technology.
That explains how she was able to study while most women, as you alluded to, were kept in the kitchen or embroidered lace.