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Monday, 9 March 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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Ludwig van Beethoven
The years 1804-1810 were the period of exceptional creative fertility of the composer.
At that time, four symphonies, four concertos, five quartets, trios, sonatas, and overtures were created.
Kate Middleton
She underwent head surgery as a child.
What ailed the Princess in her childhood has never been made public. However, the information about ...
Sting
In 1977, he moved to London and formed the rock band "The Police" with musicians Stewart Copeland and Henri Padovani (soon replaced by Andy Summers).
Sting was the vocalist and played bass, Summers played guitar, and Copeland played drums. The band w ...
Rasputin
At nineteen, he married Praskovia Fedorovna Dubrovna, with whom he had four children.
A spiritual transformation began to take place in Rasputin. It is not known what caused it, whether ...
Robert Oppenheimer
The bombs were dropped on Japan on August 6 and 9, 1945.
President Harry Truman authorized the dropping of "Little Boy" on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killi ...
Ludwig van Beethoven
After the master's death, a letter to the Immortal Beloved was found in a hidden drawer of the desk (found together with, among others, the Heiligenstadt Testament).
Unfortunately, it was not possible to determine who the mysterious addressee of the letter was, nor ...
Ernest Hemingway
In 1931, the family settled in Key West, Florida, in a house on Whitehead Street, which the couple received from Pauline’s uncle as a belated wedding gift.
They had previously lived on Simonton Street, where Hemingway wrote “A Farewell to Arms” in 1929. Wh ...
Aristotle
In 343 BC, Aristotle became tutoring Alexander the Great.
He has done so at the request of Alexander’s father, Philip II of Macedon.
Constantine the Great
In the year 305. Diocletian resigned as emperor (as did the second Augustus, Maximian), and the new Augustus were Constantius Chlorus in the West and Galerius in the East.
After the death of Constantius Chlorus in 306, his legions proclaimed Constantine I Augustus. Consta ...
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway owned a fishing boat, “Pilar,” which he sailed around the Caribbean.
While sailing, he stayed for several months in the westernmost district of the Bahamas - Bimini - where he worked on the novel “To Have and Have Not.”