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Tuesday, 13 January 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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Kate Middleton
The length of their informal relationship earned Kate an unflattering nickname.
The press began ironically calling her Waity Katie after the couple’s subsequent reunion, still not ...
Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer was a compulsive smoker. In late 1965, he was diagnosed with throat cancer.
He underwent surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. While at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, he fell into a coma and soon died on February 18, 1967, at the age of 62.
Antonio Vivaldi
At the orphanage's music school, Vivaldi taught girls to play the violin but also began composing his first debut works.
In 1705, his first collection of sonatas a tre (a trio sonata, a sonata for two solo instruments and ...
Nikola Tesla
In 1887, he developed an AC-powered induction motor.
Tesla's partners negotiated a licensing agreement with Westinghouse for Tesla's multiphase induction ...
Ernest Hemingway
During World War I, Hemingway sought to be sent to the Italian front.
In December 1917, after being rejected by the U.S. Army due to poor eyesight, he was sent to the Ita ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Kosciuszko decided to set sail for North America.
He set sail in June 1776, probably from Le Havre, on a voyage that lasted more than two months. He a ...
Ernest Hemingway
In 1931, Hemingway’s third son Gregory Hancock Hemingway was born.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon's initial military successes in Malta and Lower Egypt were followed by the destruction of the French fleet by Admiral Nelson's squadron of English ships at the mouth of the Nile.
The interference of Turkish troops in the conflict and the seizure of Malta by the English forced the French to capitulate in 1801.
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
When Congress paid him the outstanding money, even though his financial situation was not the best, he used the entire amount he received to buy freedom and educate the colored population.
Kosciuszko entrusted the rest of his estate to Thomas Jefferson. The latter was the executor of his ...
Charles III
The King of Great Britain is an active ecology enthusiast.
As early as the 1970s, Charles became interested in ecology and environmental protection. He gave hi ...