Grigori Rasputin

Type: Person

Name: Grigori Rasputin

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

St Petersburg - a history of excess

History is around every turn in St Petersburg, a city built on pomp, pride and powerEurope Russia WORDS BY James BrennanSt Petersburg is a city of wealthInside St Isaac's CathedralThe Winter PalaceView from W St PetersburgChurch of the spilled bloo ... [Published Destinations of the World News - May 18 2013]

Entities: Grigori Rasputin, Russia, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

YouTube LLC

Bieber vs. Beethoven; a new twist on battle rap

YouTube hit 'Epic Rap Battles of History' meshes traditional contests of wit, rhyme and raw humor with the random collisions of characters real and fictional.By Dawn C. Chmielewski, Comedian Lloyd Ahlquist steps onto the stage, girded for battle. Wearing ... [Published Los Angeles Times - May 13 2013]

Entities: Justin Bieber, YouTube LLC, Maker Studios Inc

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics

Russian Society to host Prince

The Oxford University Russian Society will host a talk by Prince Michael of Kent on Thursday, 2nd May, at Merton College.Maxim Kotenev, adviser to the society, anticipates that the Prince will talk about his visit to St Petersburg for the burial of the ... [Published The Oxford Student - May 02 2013]

Entities: Prince Michael of Kent, Russia, Felix Yusupov, Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics, Grigori Rasputin

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

Are you a mutant?

Genes matter, but there’s more to life... OPINION: Am I? The advent of personal genomics makes this question less like a Marvel Comics story idea than it did in the past. But, as Spidermans uncle Ben might have put it: with great power comes great re ... [Published Health Canal - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Mutation, Hemophilia, Grigori Rasputin, Mutant, Genome

First reported Dec 16 2012 - Updated Dec 16 2012 - 1 reports

This week in religion history: Death of the ‘mad monk’

December 16 1786: German chorister Konrad Kocher was born. Kocher was the composer of the tune “For the Beauty of the Earth” and helped popularize four-part singing in churches. 1916: Grigori Rasputin, the controversial Russian Orthodox monk who ... [Published National Post | Life » Holy Post - Dec 16 2012]

Entities: Religion, B B King, Thomas Collins