Data: Law of Periods. Data confirming Kepler's Law of Periods comes from measurements of the motion of the planets.
The death of Rasputin - December, 1916. One hundred years ago on 30 December 1916, Grigori Rasputin, the Russian mystic who became a confidant of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, was brutally killed. After supposedly being poisoned, shot and beaten, he was thrown into the freezing waters of St. Petersburgâs Neva River by aristocrats fearful of the influence he wielded over the Romanov court.
The aristocracy killed Rasputin because they felt if someone should be next to the Tsar, it should be an aristocrat. The advice he gave to the Tsar was not to engage in war or killing of any kind and to give the severely oppressed Jews equal rights. To the nobility, this kind of liberal thinking was treason.