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Sunday, 4 October 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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Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer was a compulsive smoker. In late 1965, he was diagnosed with throat cancer.
He underwent surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. While at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, he fell into a coma and soon died on February 18, 1967, at the age of 62.
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 ...
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway worked as a correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance agency (NANA) during the Spanish Civil War.
While in Spain, he was accompanied by American journalist Martha Gellhorn, who became his third wife ...
Peter the Great
While in The Hague, he regularly attended parliamentary sessions (as an observer), visited scholars, and toured palaces, picture galleries, and museums.
He took a keen interest in minutiae, "trying to pinch a particle from each discipline for his own us ...
Alfred Nobel
The Nobel family came from Östra Nöbbelöv, a village in Skåne, hence the family name.
The first member of the family was Petrus Olai Nobelius, who married Wendela Rudbeck, daughter of th ...
Marilyn Monroe
Her path to fame started in a factory.
She was employed at Radioplane Munitions Factory, where she met a photographer David Conover, and decided to leave her current life behind and try her hand at modelling.
Michelangelo
His real name was Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni.
He was born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese, Tuscany, in the province of Arezzo.
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
After returning from Paris to Dresden in June 1793, Kosciuszko developed the concept of organizing a national uprising.
The official date of the start of the insurrection is considered to be March 24, 1794. After a brief ...
Robert Oppenheimer
He lacked laboratory skills. He did not feel comfortable in the laboratory, it took him a very long time to plan and carry out experiments, he even worked at night and still had a lot of catching up to do.
 He concluded at that time that theoretical physics would be closer to his heart than experimental p ...
Michelangelo
Lodovico was not interested in the children, for whom he was cold and strict, especially Michelangelo.
Unfortunately, the father was a man whose only interest in life was money, which he wasn't able to e ...