Agatha Christie

•  Ada Lovelace

  Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), born Augusta Ada Byron, was an English writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognized as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine; as such she is often regarded as the world's first computer programmer.

  

  21.4%
  

  28.6%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Anne Brontë

  Anne Brontë (17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Brontë lived most of her life with her family at the small parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. For a couple of years she went to a boarding school. At the age of nineteen, she left Haworth working as a governess between 1839 and 1845.

  

  18.2%
  

  31.8%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Charlotte Brontë

  Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels are English literature standards. Under the pen name Currer Bell, she wrote Jane Eyre.

  

  38.2%
  

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  35.3%
  
•  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861) was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both England and the United States during her lifetime. A collection of her last poems was published by her husband shortly after her death.

  

  22.2%
  

  44.4%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Emily Brontë

  Emily Jane Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet, now best remembered for her novel Wuthering Heights, a classic of English literature. Emily was the second eldest of the three surviving Brontë sisters, between Charlotte and Anne. She published under the androgynous pen name Ellis Bell.

  

  32.6%
  

  37.2%
  

  30.2%
  
•  Elizabeth I of England

  Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen regnant of England and Queen regnant of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called the Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. The daughter of Henry VIII, she was born a princess, but her mother, Anne Boleyn, was executed two and a half years after her birth, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate.

  

  15.0%
  

  30.0%
  

  55.0%
  
•  George Eliot

  Mary Anne (Mary Ann, Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of eight novels, including The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight.

  

  38.9%
  

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  41.7%
  
•  Jane Austen

  Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction set among the gentry have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature. Amongst scholars and critics, Austen's realism and biting social commentary have cemented her historical importance as a writer. Austen lived her entire life as part of a small and close-knit family located on the lower fringes of English gentry.

  

  24.1%
  

  48.3%
  

  27.6%
  
•  Mary Shelley

  Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

  

  30.0%
  

  25.0%
  

  45.0%
  
•  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and feminist. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education.

  

  48.1%
  

  7.4%
  

  44.4%
  

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•  Euroscepticism

  Euroscepticism is a general term used to describe criticism of the European Union (EU), and opposition to the process of European integration. Traditionally, the main source of euroscepticism has been the notion that integration weakens the nation state. Other views occasionally seen as eurosceptic include perceptions of the EU being undemocratic or too bureaucratic.

  

  42.9%
  

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•  Parseierspitze

  Parseierspitze is, at 3,036 metres tall, the highest mountain of the Northern Limestone Alps and the only one that exceeds the 3,000 m mark. The peak consists of Radiolarite rocks preventing it from erosion. The mountain is located in Austrian state of Tyrol, in the Lechtal Alps near Landeck and due to its height, is called "Queen of the Lechtal Alps". The first documented attainment of the summit was made in 1869 by the Specht/Siess party.

  

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•  Hovden, Nordland

  Hovden (68°49′0″ N, 14°33′0″ E) is a fishing community in Bø municipality in Nordland county, Norway. Hovden makes up the north-eastern part of the municipality and is defined geographically by the Malnesfjord in East and the ocean in the north and west. The road has its end in Hovden. The habitation of Hovden, on the outermost point on a peninsula of the third largest island in Norway; Langøy, is because of the closeness to the rich fishing banks off Vesterålen.

  

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•  Hador (Steward)

  

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•  MacPherson Lake

  MacPherson Lake is a lake of Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.

  

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