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 sexual obsession that drove Rasputin to his death: Countless myths have been woven about him. But a dazzling book, using private diaries, reveals new details of the self-styled 'Christ in miniature'. The Russian mystic had an insatiable sex drive, writes FRANCES WELCH.