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Sunday, 27 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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Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway attended school in Oak Park from 1913 to 1917.
He was very fond of sports and eagerly engaged in boxing, athletics, soccer and water polo. Hemingwa ...
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was an American engineer of Serbian descent.
He was an electrical engineer, designer, inventor, and visionary.
John Sutter
Building a sawmill was probably the worst of Sutter's idea.
During the construction of a water-powered sawmill, one of Sutter's employees, James W. Marshall dis ...
Charles Darwin
In 1839, Darwin married his cousin Emma Wedgwood.
The Darwins had ten children. Two died in infancy, and their beloved daughter Annie died at the age ...
Christopher Columbus
This time the king responded decisively, sending Francisco Fernandez de Bobadilla west, equipped with far-reaching powers.
Upon arriving in Haiti, Bobadilla had Columbus and his son Diego arrested and sent back to Spain in ...
Peter the Great
He organized a network of secular schools at the elementary level.
He reformed the existing Cyrillic alphabet, creating a new script. He established the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
Sting
In the summer of 2014, he wrote the musical "The Last Ship," inspired by his childhood in the shipyard town of Wallsend.
“The Last Ship”, Sting’s eleventh studio album, was released in 2013.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Immediately after the outbreak of the war, he refused the American offer of evacuation from Ukraine.
When offered to evacuate Kiev, Zelenski replied: "I need ammunition, not a lift." False information ...
Christopher Columbus
In 1476 he took part in an expedition of Genoese merchant ships to Lisbon and Flanders.
During this expedition, near Cape St. Vincent, a fleet of Franco-Portuguese attacked a Genoese convo ...
Aristotle
His theories on chemistry and physics did not stand the test of time.
Most of his assumptions were disproved, such as the theory of the Sun orbiting Earth, which was proven wrong by Copernicus.