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Monday, 16 February 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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Marilyn Monroe
Monroe was not always blonde.
In fact, her natural hair color was brown. In the 1940s she decided to change her image and only then dyed her hair blond, which became her trademark.
Ernest Hemingway
Thanks to Gertrude Stein, he also met the influential painters Picasso, Joan Miró, and Juan Gris.
After some time, a literary dispute arose in Hemingway’s relationship with Stein (which lasted for d ...
Hypatia
Her father guided Hypatia's education. It is likely that he instilled in her an interest in science. She studied philosophy, but also specialised in mathematics and astronomy.
Together with her father, she worked on the edition of Euclid's Elements and commentaries on the wor ...
Homer
He was an itinerant poet and reciter.
He transmitted his epic poems orally, reciting them to anyone who would listen.  In his poems he ext ...
John Sutter
He wanted to build a town named Sutterville.
His son, John Augustus Sutter Jr., proposed the name Sacramento, derived from the Sacramento River. ...
John Sutter
California Goldrush drove him into bankruptcy.
Sutter's land was immediately overrun by immigrants obsessed with the potential fortune they may earn. They stole whatever there was to steal including livestock. Colony fell into ruin around 1850.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
On February 24, 2022, Russian troops launched an invasion of Ukraine on the orders of Vladimir Putin.
In late October and early November 2021, Russia began to significantly increase the number of its tr ...
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare wrote 38 comedies and tragedies, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and many poems diverse in content and form.
It is impossible to determine the order in which Shakespeare’s works were written. It was feared tha ...
Homer
The authorship and circumstances of the Iliad and the Odyssey have been debated for centuries. The lack of reliable information about Homer's life has led some scholars to hypothesise that Homer never existed.
In the 3rd century BC, Alexandrian critics - the so-called Chorizontes ('dividers') - believed that ...
John Sutter
Building a sawmill was probably the worst of Sutter's idea.
During the construction of a water-powered sawmill, one of Sutter's employees, James W. Marshall dis ...