Early Years. Ada Lovelace, born as Augusta Ada Byron, was the only legitimate child of the famous poet Lord George Gordon Byron. Lord Byron's marriage to Ada's mother, Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, was not a happy one. Lady Byron separated from her husband only weeks after their daughter was born.
Obama makes travel to Cuba easier and lifts financial restrictions on Havana. A cabdriver in a classic American car passes a billboard that reads in Spanish, Long live free Cuba, in Havana on March 14.
House Republicans voted on Thursday to keep restrictions on Americans seeking to travel to Cuba, a setback to Obama administration efforts to ease the five-decade Cold War standoff. The Republican-controlled chamber voted 247-176 to keep a Cuba-related provision in a transportation funding bill.