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.
Photo courtesy of HistoryOnline: Russian Tzars Catherine the Great, also known as Yekaterina Alexeevna or Catherine II was the widely known and longest ruling female leader of Russia. She reigned from 1762 up until her death in 1796 at the age of 67.She led her nation into the political and cultural life of Europe, continuing what Peter the Great started and what her husband failed to do.