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.
He had been at Oxford with her husband, Prince Felix Yussoupov, and the idea he could have killed Rasputin is not so outlandish. But Yussoupov had his own reasons for wanting Rasputin dead. In June 1915, mobs gathered in Moscowâs Red Square calling for Rasputin to be hanged.