the capital city of the US state of Maine. City (pop., 2000: 18,560), capital of Maine, U.S. It was established in 1628 by traders from Plymouth colony as a post at the head of navigation on the Kennebec River. Fort Western was built there in 1754 (restored 1919), attracting settlers. Incorporated in 1797, the town was renamed the next year for the daughter of an American Revolutionary general. It became the state capital in 1832. It is one of Maine's leading vacation centres. Emerita Augusta Gregory Augusta Lady Isabella Augusta Persse Lovelace Augusta Ada King countess of Lady Augusta Ada Byron
{i} (1815-1852) Countess of Lovelace, daughter of poet Lord Byron, mathematician who collaborated with Charles Babbage to create the first calculating machine (the programming language "Ada" is named after her)
orig. Lady Augusta Ada Byron born Dec. 10, 1815, London, Eng. died Nov. 29, 1852, London English mathematician. Her father was the poet Lord Byron. In 1835 she married William King, 8th Baron King; when he was created an earl in 1838, she became a countess. She became interested in Charles Babbage's analytical machines as early as 1833, and in 1843 she translated and annotated an article about them by Luigi Federico Menabrea. For creating a program for Babbage's prototype of a digital computer, she has been called the first computer programmer. The programming language Ada is named for her
orig. Isabella Augusta Persse born March 5, 1852, Roxborough, County Galway, Ire. died May 22, 1932, Coole Irish playwright and theatre manager, an important figure in the Irish Literary Renaissance. With William Butler Yeats, she helped found the Irish Literary Theatre (1898) and the Abbey Theatre (1904). She wrote many dialect comedies based on Irish peasant life, including those collected in Seven Short Plays (1909). She also translated plays by Molière and others into an Anglo-Irish dialect that she called "Kiltartan" and translated and arranged Irish sagas into continuous narratives, published as Cuchulain of Muirthemne (1902) and Gods and Fighting Men (1904)