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Saturday, 4 April 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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Frederic Chopin
Chopin had three sisters: Ludwika, Izabela and Emilia, who died prematurely.
Emilia died very young. Frederick was closest with Ludwika.
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s father, John, was among the respected citizens of Stratford.
Presumably, he was the son of Richard Shakespeare of Snitterfield, who received a land grant for his ...
Salvador Dali
He never graduated.
While studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, he was known for his eccentric behavior ...
Ernest Hemingway
In 1954, Hemingway and his wife traveled to Africa, where they were twice involved in plane crashes.
Both he and his wife were injured in these crashes. The same year, during a bushfire, the writer suf ...
William Shakespeare
In one entry in the Stationer’s Register of Stationer’s Company of London, a Society established in 1403 with a monopoly on the publishing industry, Shakespeare, as well as John Fletcher, Shakespeare’s associate, is credited with the authorship of the play “Cardenio” staged by the King’s Men in 1613.
Professor Brean Hammond of the University of Nottingham claims that in the play “Double Falsehood” b ...
Frederic Chopin
On November 5, 1830, Chopin left Poland for good.
During his journey to Paris, Stuttgart,he learned of the fall of the November Rising and suffered a ...
Charles Darwin
His mother Susannah died in 1818 at age 52, probably of an ulcer or stomach cancer.
Charles was only nine years old at the time of his mother's death, but by then his father had alread ...
Salvador Dali
He was often called "Avida Dollars".
He loved money and was known for his greed. He often used unethical methods to earn them. Once, he s ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
In the political life of Poland at the time, a group of activists pushing the need for reform played an increasingly important role.
Great political writers, such as Stanislaw Staszic and Hugo Kollataj, called for strengthening the c ...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Volodymyr Zelenski won in the second round.
Elections were scheduled for March 2019. Zelenski's main opponents were the incumbent President of U ...