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Sunday, 31 May 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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Ada Lovelace
Ada was a descendant of an extinct family of Lovelace barons.
In 1838, her husband became Earl of Lovelace and Viscount Ockham, and Ada became Countess of Lovelace.
Anna Pavlova
Anna was the principal ballerina of the Imperial Russian Ballet.
The Imperial Russian Ballet, currently known as the Kirov Ballet, was founded in the 18th century an ...
Ernest Hemingway
He lived from 1899 to 1961.
He was born on July 21st, 1899, in Oak Park, an affluent neighborhood west of Chicago. His father, C ...
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.
Sting
A year later, he released a live album, "Bring on the Night," which featured songs from his debut album and earlier periods of his career. The album was filmed on VHS, later also on DVD and Blu-ray.
During this time, Sting became a true multi-instrumentalist - he played bass, keyboards, and saxophone.
Salvador Dali
While creating, the artist never used substances "modifying consciousness". He used to say: "I don't do drugs. I am drugs."
In the early 1930s, he developed a method called paranoid-critical. This method was based on pretend ...
Ludwig van Beethoven
In 1806, Beethoven visited Count Franz von Oppersdorff in his castle in Głogówek near Prudnik.
The castle orchestra welcomed him with a concert, performing his Symphony No. 2 in D major. Beethove ...
Roland Garros
The car manufacturer Peugeot calls the feature lines of some of its car models "Roland Garros".
These models are: 106, 205, 206, 206 CC, 207 CC, 306, 307 SW, 308 CC and 405 with luxurious equipment - mainly dark green metallic paint, aluminum wheels and beige leather interior.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon divorced Josephine (she did not give him an heir) and married Marie Louise - daughter of the defeated Austrian Emperor Francis II.
Maria Louisa bore him a son - Napoleon II. He was the emperor's only legitimate son.
Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer was suspected of treason. When the Soviet Union successfully tested an atomic bomb in 1949, it came as a surprise to the United States. Since it came so soon after the Manhattan Project, it was suspected that someone had betrayed the project.
One of the suspects was Oppenheimer, who was already believed to be a communist sympathizer. The Ame ...