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Queen Victoria and Prince Albert: Their Parents, Nine Children and Royal Legacy
Explore Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s parents, their nine children, their marriage, and Victoria’s role during her reign from 1837 to 1901.
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Abraham Lincoln: From His Early Life to His Death
Abraham Lincoln’s life began in a Kentucky log cabin and ended in a Washington boarding house after an assassin’s attack. Between those two places, he became a lawyer, a husband and father, and the sixteenth president of the United States. He led the country through the Civil War and helped turn the struggle to preserve…
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Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life, Reign and Final Days
Explore Queen Elizabeth II’s childhood, marriage, coronation, 70-year reign, final days, and death, with six historical photographs and documented sources.
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Cleopatra VII: The Queen Who Fought to Keep Egypt Independent
William Wetmore Story’s Cleopatra, designed in 1858 and carved in 1869. This later sculpture imagines the queen, rather than preserving her appearance. The Metropolitan Museum…
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Marie Curie: Her Life, Discoveries, Family, and Nobel Prizes
From Warsaw to two Nobel Prizes, Marie Curie’s life connected demanding research, family, wartime service, and discoveries that changed science.
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London’s Poor in the 1800s: Work, Hunger and Survival
Discover how London’s poor survived in the 1800s, from street markets and casual work to hunger, disease and the workhouse, through six historical photographs.
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Queen Victoria and Prince Albert: Their Parents, Nine Children and Royal Legacy
Explore Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s parents, their nine children, their marriage, and Victoria’s role during her reign from 1837 to 1901.
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Jack Black: The Life of London’s Famous Victorian Rat-Catcher
Meet Jack Black, Victorian London’s flamboyant rat-catcher. Discover his life, scarlet waistcoat, dangerous work and surprising role in breeding pet rats.
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Abraham Lincoln: From His Early Life to His Death
Abraham Lincoln’s life began in a Kentucky log cabin and ended in a Washington boarding house after an assassin’s attack. Between those two places, he…
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