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Sunday, 30 August 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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Michelangelo
Michelangelo worked for seven popes in Rome.
The first of these was Julius II, for whom Buonarroti began a tomb that was to consist of about 40 s ...
Kate Middleton
Kate Middleton is an avid photographer.
It is likely that if it were not for her role as Duchess of Cambridge and eventually Princess of Wal ...
Jane Austen
The family lived on his father's modest income of £600 a year.
It was a modest income at the time; by comparison, a skilled laborer - a blacksmith or carpenter - c ...
William Shakespeare
The farce “The Comedy of Errors” is Shakespeare’s shortest comedy at 1,770 lines. His most extended play is “Hamlet,” with 4042 lines.
Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer became entangled with communist connotations.
In 1936 he fell in love with a psychology student, Jean Tatlock. She was a supporter of communism an ...
Salvador Dali
Was he inspired by Einstein?
Critics and scholars wondered if Dali's famous Melting Watch was inspired on Einsteins theory of relativity.
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.
Charles Darwin
Darwin's last child was Charles Waring Darwin, who never learned to walk or talk.
He is believed to have suffered from Down syndrome, which at that time had not yet been medically described.
Hypatia
She is credited with inventing the astrolabe and the areometer.
An astrolabe is an instrument used to determine the position of celestial bodies above the horizon. ...
Ada Lovelace
The Ada computer language was developed at the request of the U.S. Department of Defense. It was named in honor of Ada Lovelace.
In 1981, the Association for Women in Computing (AWC) established the Ada Lovelace Award. Since 1998, the British Computer Society has awarded the Lovelace Medal.