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Friday, 18 July 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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Charles III
Charles III is also interested in architecture. He has established several institutions, dealing with the issue of urban planning and architecture, which, as of 2018, form The Prince's Foundation.
In 1989, he published the book: A Vision of Britain: A Personal View of Architecture, in the pages o ...
Charles Darwin
During one of his first journeys, Darwin received a special gift.
On his twenty-fifth birthday (February 12, 1834), the ship's captain, Robert FitzRoy, named the newly discovered highest mountain in the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago a Mount Darvin.
Christopher Columbus
As part of his work duties, he began his first oceanic trading voyages to England, Madeira and Guinea.
Soon he married Felipa Perestrello de Moniz, the daughter of the former governor of Porto Santo, an ...
Gaius Julius Caesar
It is said that the night before Caesar died, Calpurnia dreamed of a scene in which her stabbed husband dies in her embrace.
In the morning she told him of her fears and asked him not to go to the Senate that day. After much ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
The Kosciuszko Insurrection, also known as the Kosciuszko Uprising, was a Polish national uprising against Russia and Prussia in 1794, including the Warsaw, Vilnius, Kurland, Greater Poland, and several other insurrections.
It lasted eight months, from March 24 to November 16, 1794. It ended in total defeat, followed by the Third Partition of Poland.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven's death was attended by his friend Anselm Huttenbrenner and probably his sister-in-law, Johanna van Beethoven.
According to Huttenbrenner, around 5 p.m. there was a flash of lightning and thunder: "Beethoven opened his eyes, raised his right hand and looked up for a few seconds with a clenched fist...".
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway and Pauline attended a three-month safari in Africa.
Their guide was Philip Hope Percival, who also hunted with Theodore Roosevelt in 1909. During the sa ...
Charles III
As a member of the royal family, Charles has been a patron of charitable initiatives.
Over the years of his life, various institutions were established, such as the Prince of Wales Chari ...
William Shakespeare
No manuscripts of Shakespeare have survived, and no correspondence or notes remain of him.
Only five of his signatures remain: one under his will, one on the title page of Montaigne’s work “T ...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
He is a wealthy person.
When registering as a presidential candidate, he submitted a declaration of assets showing that he o ...