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.
In 1906, Rasputin, known by many as the mad monk, arrived in St. Petersburg with a reputation as a mystic and faith healer. Two years later, he was introduced to Russian Czar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna, who were seeking help for their sickly son, Alexis.