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32 facts about Peter the Great

32 facts about Peter the Great

The first Emperor of all Russia

Peter the Great is considered one of Russia's greatest rulers. He was a great reformer, strategist, and builder who was the first of the tsars to trav ...

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Anna Pavlova

Some sources claim Anna wished to be considered a product of her mother’s early marriage, so she claimed her father was a man named Pavel, who died when she was a toddler.

She claimed he was married to her mother before she married Matvej Pavlov.

Michelangelo

Two years later, while in Bologna, he carved a candelabrum in the form of a kneeling naked angel and statues of saints: Petronius and Proculius, San Domenico.

Michelangelo left the Medici Palace after the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent. He returned to his family home and worked on a sculpture of Hercules (this work was lost in the 18th century).

John Sutter

He arrived in Alta California in 1839.

W towarzystwie trzech europejskich imigrantów, rdzennie amerykańskiego chłopca i dziesięciu ludzi, k ...

Charles III

At the age of 15, he received a mallet from Prince Philip - a special wooden hammer used for playing polo.

Thanks to this, Charles developed an interest in this discipline and began to participate in competitions.Charles's other sporting activities include cricket, skiing and surfing.

Nikola Tesla

He was a very hard-working student, working from 3 in the morning until 11 at night, excluding Sundays and holidays.

His father did not appreciate his success and hard work, and after he died in 1879, Nikola found a b ...

Charles Darwin

HMS Beagle returned from the expedition in 1836.

The publication of Darwin's voyage diary was met with great interest by the British.

Michelangelo

Wanting to learn more about human anatomy, he secretly performed autopsies in the hospital (Santo Spirito Monastery).

As a token of his gratitude, Michelangelo carved a wooden crucifix for the monastery, which is the only polychrome wooden sculpture in the artist's oeuvre.

Ernest Hemingway

After all these adventures, in September 1919, he went on a camping trip with his high school classmates to the Upper Peninsula in Michigan.

This trip inspired him to write the short story “Big Two-Hearted River,” in which the protagonist es ...

William Shakespeare

William had many siblings.

He had three brothers (Gilbert, 1566 - 1611, Richard, 1574 - 1612, and Edmund, 1580 - 1607), and fou ...

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin died after a long illness on April 19, 1882, at the age of 73.

In recognition of his great contributions to science, Queen Victoria expressed the wish that the gre ...

39 facts about Ludwig van Beethoven

39 facts about Ludwig van Beethoven

For many, the most important composer in history

Ludwig van Beethoven, a German composer and pianist, is one of the most recognized and admired composers in the history of music. His works are among ...

52 facts about Tadeusz Kosciuszko

52 facts about Tadeusz Kosciuszko

Hero of the North

Tadeusz Kosciuszko (Andrew Thaddeus Bonaventure Kosciuszko) is considered a national hero of Poland, the United States, and Belarus. He was an excelle ...

30 facts about Gaius Julius Caesar

30 facts about Gaius Julius Caesar

The man had enormous amounts of ambition, which he pursued laboriously throughout his life. His methodical approach to working on his career, his abil ...

28 facts about Amadeus Mozart

28 facts about Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, along with Haydn and Beethoven, is counted among the Viennese classics. He is considered one of the most outstanding and impo ...

32 facts about Napoleon Bonaparte

32 facts about Napoleon Bonaparte

Emperor of the French

Napoleon Bonaparte is considered the most outstanding military commander in history, and one of the most important figures in French and world history ...

19 facts about Antonio Vivaldi

19 facts about Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi was one of Italy's greatest violinists and composers. Probably best known for his "Four Seasons," he composed many other magnificent a ...

35 facts about Nikola Tesla

35 facts about Nikola Tesla

Ruler of lightning

Nikola Tesla lived at the turn of the 20th century. He was an inventor, designer, and visionary to whom the world owes many technologies that are indi ...

12 facts about Abraham Lincoln

12 facts about Abraham Lincoln

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today"

Abraham Lincoln is considered the most popular, and certainly the most characteristic US President. Learn a handful of interesting facts about the man ...

19 facts about Marilyn Monroe

19 facts about Marilyn Monroe

"You never know what life is like, until you have lived it"

An American actress who dominated the consciousness of the masses as a symbol of sex appeal in the 1950s and 1960s. ...

18 facts about Roland Garros

18 facts about Roland Garros

French pioneer of aviation who played tennis only a few times in his life

Roland Garros was a French aviator who played an important role in the history of aviation. He began his aviation career in 1909 and achieved many aer ...

23 facts about Kate Middleton

23 facts about Kate Middleton

Catherine, Princess of Wales

Kate Middleton is the wife of the heir to the British throne, Prince William, with whom she has three children. Even though joining the official ranks ...

23 facts about Charles III

23 facts about Charles III

King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland of the Windsor dynasty

On May 6, 2023, Charles, son of Queen Elizabeth II, was crowned King of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey. He waited a record 70 years for the c ...

32 facts about Robert Oppenheimer

32 facts about Robert Oppenheimer

Father of the Atomic Bomb

Father of the Atomic BombHe was an outstanding scientist who devoted his entire life to theoretical physics. He is called the "Father of the Atomic Bo ...

22 facts about Hypatia

22 facts about Hypatia

Prominent scholar murdered by an angry Christian mob

She lived at the turn of the fourth and fifth centuries. She embodied the ideal of the ancient scholar. Hypatia was a mathematician and a well-trained ...

17 facts about Homer

17 facts about Homer

Blind wanderer, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

Homer is the oldest poet known by name, he is considered the father of epic poetry. No Greek poet surpassed him in fame. Temples were built in his ho ...