Maay 3

Whatever else he may have been, Lord Byron must have been quite a swimmer, because on the 3rd in 1810 while touring Asia Minor he successfully swam the Hellespont, from Sestos to Abydos. A remarkable accomplishment, even if you are “mad, bad and dangerous to know.” Byron is referred to simply as Byron because his full name, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, just took too long to say. Byron’s daughter, Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace ccollaborated with Charles Babbage on the development of an analytic engine, a very early attempt at building a computer.