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Saturday, 22 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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Anna Pavlova
While on a tour in China, she performed 37 turns atop a moving elephant.
Robert Oppenheimer
He described himself as the loneliest man in the world.
Even as a child, he had trouble interacting with his peers. Children thought he was arrogant and tac ...
Ada Lovelace
Lovelace valued metaphysics on a par with mathematics.
 She saw them as tools for discovering "invisible worlds around us." She believed that intuition and imagination were crucial to the successful application of mathematical and scientific concepts.
Peter the Great
He subordinated the Orthodox Church to the state, allowing Russia to take over the cultural tradition of Byzantium.
Michelangelo
Michelangelo had a similar attitude towards Raphael.
He recognized outstanding talent in the young painter, who admired the master but harbored a deep di ...
Jane Austen
In 1995, a television adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice" - a miniseries starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth, was awarded an Emmy statuette.
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 ...
Michelangelo
After a year of apprenticeship in a painter's studio, he moved to the studio of the sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni.
Bertoldo di Giovanni managed the Medici collection and introduced Michelangelo to the ruler of Flore ...
Roland Garros
Garros began his aviation career in 1909.
He obtained his pilot's license in July 1910 and bought his first plane, a Clément-Bayard Santos-Dum ...
Ludwig van Beethoven
Later, Ludwig's father hired better teachers.
The most important of them was the composer and organist Christian Gottlob Neefe, who introduced the ...