#EuropeanBios

It's been far too long since my last #EuropeanBios thread, but getting married is very distracting! Entry #73 is Ada Lovelace, regarded as the first computer programmer, and I am

This is what I'm going to call entry #31 in project #EuropeanBios but I just went and checked and discovered there were two #10s and also two #16s? Whatever, there's

Our 29th entry in project #EuropeanBios is a short, sweet biography of Saint Francis of Assisi, an unassuming, modest but extremely charismatic man whose determination to be of service to

It's Sunday night so here's entry #38 in #EuropeanBios: our subject is Isabella of Castille, who was pretty awe-inspiring so I hope to do her justice. She overcame centuries of

With unexpected speed -- one has literally nothing to do in quarantine on the weekends, it turns out -- we reach the 11th entry in project #EuropeanBios, Hadrian, Roman emperor

This is #EuropeanBios entry #59, Peter the Great. A metaphorical and also literal giant of a man, standing 6'8" (the European average at the time was a foot shorter), he

It's time for #EuropeanBios entry number 8, Cleopatra, and it is a treat. It turns out absolutely everything I ever heard about Cleopatra is wrong, the truth is much more