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Saturday, 5 September 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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Amadeus Mozart
He was the seventh child of Leopold Mozart and Anna Maria, née Pertl.
Leopold Mozart was a court violinist and composer and the author of the first violin textbook.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven's income during this period came from the publication of his works, from their performances, and from patrons for whom he performed private concerts and exclusive copies of the works they commissioned before their publication.
Some of his patrons, including Prince Lobkowitz and Prince Lichnovsky, gave him annual stipends in a ...
Roland Garros
Eugene Adrien Roland Georges Garros was a French aviation pioneer and fighter pilot.
He was born in 1888, when no one in the world dreamed of the existence of such machines as airplanes ...
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace befriended her tutor Mary Somerville.Mary Somerville was a Scottish physicist, writer and scholar. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she and Caroline Herschel (a British astronomer) were elected as the first honorary members of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Somerville introduced Ada in 1833 to Charles Babbage, the "father of computing," an English scientis ...
Frederic Chopin
After the outbreak of the revolution in Paris, Chopin went to England and Scotland. He was already in very poor health, and the journey aggravated it.
In London, Chopin's last public concert took place in 1848. The concert was organized by his pupil J ...
Ernest Hemingway
After graduation, he began working at The Kansas City Star newspaper, where he spent six months.
During those six months on the job, he picked up some editorial advice (use short sentences, use short first paragraphs, use energetic words, be positive) that became the basis of his writing style.
Aristotle
Aristotle tutored several crown heads.
Apart from Alexander the Great, who was one of the most prominent rulers of Macedonia, Aristotle tut ...
Constantine the Great
In 307 Constantine married Maximian's daughter Fausta.
Five years later Constantine became the sole ruler of the West (there were two emperors in total at that time).
Antonio Vivaldi
After Vivaldi's death, his vast collection of musical manuscripts was bound into 27 large volumes.
They were acquired first by Venetian bibliophile Jacopo Soranzo and later by Count Giacomo Durazzo. ...
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway traveled to China with Martha, where both worked as reporters - Martha for Collier’s magazine and Ernest for the PM newspaper.
They returned to Cuba before the United States joined World War II. There are suggestions that even ...