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Sunday, 25 January 2026
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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Ernest Hemingway
In 1948, he traveled to Europe with his wife, stopping in Venice for several months.
He traveled across the Atlantic on the Polish passenger ship “Jagiello.” During this trip, the write ...
Michelangelo
Michelangelo created several works for the Florence Cathedral.
These included statues for the Piccolomini Altarpiece and twelve statues of the apostles. He was als ...
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.
Marilyn Monroe
Her image has inspired many artists and companies.
One of the most famous works is Andy Warhol’s “Portrait of Marilyn Monroe.” Companies such as Fiat, Chanel, and Mercedes-Benz have used her image in their advertising campaigns.
Kate Middleton
She met her future husband, the heir to the throne of the United Kingdom, during her college years.
Prince William, like Kate, took a gap year after finishing college. He then chose the same universit ...
Napoleon Bonaparte
Thanks to the Corsican governor's patronage, he was admitted to a military school in Brienne-le-Chateau.
He was one of fifty royal scholarship recipients. At school, he had a reputation as a loner who pref ...
Constantine the Great
Constantine I the Great was born around 272 in Naissus, part of the province of Dardania in Mesa, a Roman province in the central Balkans (now Niš, a city in Serbia).
He was the son of Flavius Constantius Chlorus, a Roman army officer who was one of the four emperors ...
William Shakespeare
We know very little about the seven years of Shakespeare’s life after 1585. This period is referred to as the “lost years.”
In a persistent and long-repeated legend, it is maintained that he had to flee his hometown in fear ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
The United States Military Academy at West Point has a statue of Kosciuszko and a commemorative plaque.
The academy is located in a former U.S. Army fort in West Point, New York, on the Hudson River. It i ...
Jane Austen
In 2017, a £10 bill with Jane Austen's likeness was introduced into circulation in the United Kingdom.
It is the only British banknote to have an image of a woman on the reverse (apart from the British Queen, whose image is on the obverse as an image of the monarch).