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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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Volodymyr Zelenskyy
He spent several years of his early childhood in Mongolia.
When he was a few years old, the family moved to Erdenet - now the second largest city in Mongolia a ...
Amadeus Mozart
The ambitious father decided to showcase his talented children at European princely courts.
Amadeus made his first foreign trip to Munich at the age of six. The family's next tour took them th ...
Hypatia
She was regarded as a moral authority and valued for her knowledge, logic, teaching ability and other intellectual qualities, as well as for her character traits of modesty, respectability, simplicity of dress, sexual restraint and love for Alexandria, in whose affairs she was involved.
Some believed that she was held in high esteem by the whole city. The Suda Lexicon (a 10th century B ...
Homer
He was an itinerant poet and reciter.
He transmitted his epic poems orally, reciting them to anyone who would listen.  In his poems he ext ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
When patriotic celebrations of Kosciuszko's death anniversary were to be held in 1861, Russian governor Charles Lambert imposed martial law in the Kingdom of Poland.
The anniversary celebrations were violently suppressed by the Russian army, including the desecration of churches.
Frederic Chopin
Chopin studied at the Warsaw School of Music, where he began learning harmony and counterpoint with Joseph Elsner.
Joseph Elsner was a Polish composer of German origin, educator, music culture activist, music theori ...
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 ...
Ernest Hemingway
His mother worked a lot, giving music and singing lessons, composing, and directing the children’s church choir and the orchestra at the Congregational Church. She also sang at concerts and was a soloist in the church choir.
Because of her tight schedule, Grace’s father and housemaids handled raising the children and all th ...
Rasputin
There are also hypotheses that Rasputin's assassination was inspired by British intelligence, which feared a separatist truce between Russia and Germany, which Rasputin urged on the Tsar.
Doubts were sown by the inconsistent testimony of the assassins and the lack of traces of poison in ...
Salvador Dali
Dali was the third Salvador in the family.
This was also name of his father and older brother, who died nine months before the birth of the pai ...