In Latvia, today is the Name day for people called Ada.
Ada is a feminine given name. It comes from the Germanic element "adel-" meaning "nobility". 10 famous Adas:
Ada Scott Brown: American blues singer. She is best known for her recordings of Ill Natural Blues, Break o' Day Blues, and Evil Mama Blues.
Ada Clare: character in Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House
Saint Ada: French saint. In the 7th-century, she served the Christian church as the abbess of the St. Julien de Prés Abbey in Le Mans.
Ada Everleigh: with her sister Minna, she operated the Everleigh Club, a high-priced brothel in the Levee District of Chicago during the first decade of the twentieth century.
Ada Thorne: character in the BBC TV drama Peaky Blinders.
Ada Lovelace: English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
Ada McGrath: protagonist of the 1993 film The Piano
Ada Lee: singer from Springfield, Ohio, who has performed jazz, blues, gospel and soul music on stage and record in the United States and Canada since the late 1950s.
Ada Cavendish: English actress known for her Shakespearean roles and for popularising the plays of Wilkie Collins in America.
Ada of Caria: member of the House of Hecatomnus and ruler of Caria during the mid-4th century BC, first as Persian Satrap and later as Queen under the auspices of Alexander III of Macedon.
The six richest people in Britain decide to hold a contest to settle the question of which of them is most successful. It will be a gladiator style contest with each entrant fielding a team of ten super-powered combatants. Entrepreneur Llew Powell sets out to put together his team, which includes his former lover, an employee of his company with a fascinating hobby, two refugees from another dimension (a lonely giant and a drunken sailor), two sisters bound together by a promise, a diminutive doctor, a former Tibetan monk initiate and two androids with a history. As the team train together, alliances form, friendships and more develop, while others find the past is not easy to leave behind.
Meanwhile, a ruthless race of aliens has its eyes on the Earth. Already abducting and enslaving humans, they work towards the final invasion which would destroy life on Earth as we know it. Powell’s group, Combat Team Alpha, stumble upon one of the wormholes the aliens use to travel to Earth and witness for themselves the horrors in store if the aliens aren’t stopped. Barely escaping with their lives, they realise there are more important things to worry about than a fighting competition.
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