The name mineral oil by itself is imprecise, having been used for many specific oils over the past few centuries. Other names, similarly imprecise, include white oil, liquid paraffin, pariffinum liquidum (Latin), and liquid petroleum.aby oil is a perfumed mineral oil. Most often, mineral oil is a liquid by-product of refining crude oil to make gasoline and other petroleum products. This type of mineral oil is a transparent, colorless oil composed mainly of alkanes and cycloalkanes, related to petroleum jelly.
Catherine the Great (1729 â 1796) Catherine the Great Â© Catherine II was Empress of Russia for more than 30 years and one of the countryâs most influential rulers. Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst was born on 2 May 1729 in Stettin, then part of Prussia (now Szczecin in Poland), the daughter of a minor German prince.
Shelves: history, biography. 1  Little Mother of Russia is an immensely readable biography of the Dowager Empress Marie Fedorovna, the mother of the Last Tsar of Russia, from her childhood in Denmark through the triumphs and tragedies of her life as Empress to her return as a penniless exile to Denmark after the fall of the Romanov Dynasty.