Peter I (Pyotr Alekseyevich Romanov, in Russian), better known as the name of Peter the Great (Piotr Veliki, in Russian) was born on June 9 (May 30), 1672 in Moscow and died on February 8 (January 28), 1725 in Saint Petersburg. Son of Alexis I (1629-1676) and Natalia Narychkina (1651-1694), he was T
Peeblesshire , also Called Peebles , historic southeast county Scotland showing a triangle between the historic counties Midlothian (North and Northeast), Selkirkshire (East and Southeast), Dumfriesshire (South) and Lanarkshire (West) forms. It is entirely within the scop
Uraha Hill , a northern paleoanthropological site Malawi, known for the discovery of an ancient human (genus) jawbone Homo ) 2.4 million years ago (mya). It resembles specimens between 1.9 and 1.8 mya from Koobi Fora , Kenya. The Uraha Hill specimen is one of the oldest occurrences o
A unique prehistoric structure of deep wells forming a huge circle two kilometers in diameter around an ancient settlement near Stonehenge opens new avenues of research into the origins and meaning of the mysterious prehistoric monument, the university of st andrews. Recent research and analysis by