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Friday, 28 November 2025
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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Charles III
Charles III is the first-born son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
He was born in London on November 14, 1948, the first of four royal children. He was followed by Ann ...
Anna Pavlova
Pavlova is considered the inventor of modern pointe shoes.
Although it was considered cheating during her times, her design was incorporated into the production of pointe shoes, allowing dancers with curved feet to perform with ease and less pain.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
He is now one of the main targets of the Russian invaders.
British and U.S. intelligence established that even before the war, Putin had located a special forc ...
Nikola Tesla
He was born into a Serbian family, and his ancestors came from western Serbia near Montenegro.
He was the son of Milutin Tesla, an Orthodox presbyter, and Georgina Djuka Mandić, whose father was ...
Charles Darwin
During his student days he was an avid collector of beetles.
Descriptions of some of his finds were published in James Francis Stephens' Illustrations of British Entomology.
Gaius Julius Caesar
The famous "Veni, vidi, vici" report was sent by Caesar to his friend Amintius after the victorious battle of Zela fought against Pharnakes II, king of Pontus.
This battle took place after the end of the Alexandrian War and Caesar's departure from Egypt. However, it was not Caesar's last military success before returning to Rome.
Frederic Chopin
In 1836 Frederic Chopin got engaged to Maria Wodzińska, but the wedding never happened.
Maria's family did not agree to the wedding, claiming that Frederic was too sickly a candidate for a husband and the engagement was broken off.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven's ancestors were Catholic farmers from what is now Belgium (the prefix "van" is a typical element of common Dutch surnames, often derived from the name of a place).
The composer's grandfather, Ludwig Senior, came to Bonn from the city of Mechelen (then in the Austr ...
Gaius Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar was the first Roman to be officially deified.
Deification is the attribution of divine qualities to a mortal. He was posthumously given the title Divus Iulius (divine Julius) by decree of the Roman Senate on January 1, 42 BC.
Amadeus Mozart
He left his job with the archbishop and moved to Vienna.
He settled in a room rented from Aloysius Weber's family. Aloysia was already married at the time, b ...