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.
Speaking to an audience at the Grand Theatre of Havana on Tuesday, Obama also urged the communist leadership of Cuba to grant more freedom to its citizens. The US embargo - which Cuba says has cost the country $1.1 trillion over five decades - is an outdated burden on the Cuban people, said the American president. We have to have courage to acknowledge that it was not working.