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Richard III was King of England from 1483 until his death in 1485, at the age of 32, in the Battle of Bosworth Field. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty.
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Columbus led his three ships - the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria - out of the Spanish port of Palos on August 3, 1492. His objective was to sail west until he reached Asia (the Indies) where the riches of gold, pearls and spice awaited.
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The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about
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Utopia is a work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More in latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs
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Henry's demand for a male heir led him to marry six different women. Two of them he beheaded.
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She was a princess but declared illegitimate through political machinations. She eventually claimed the throne at the age of 25 and held it for 44 years. Was know as "the virgin Queen".
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William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist
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Globe Theatre, famous London theatre in which after 1599 the plays of William Shakespeare were performed.
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King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It depicts the gradual descent into madness of the title character, after he disposes of his kingdom giving bequests to two of his three daughters. Macbeth dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake.
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The settlement was located within the country of Tsenacommacah, which was administered by the Powhatan Confederacy, and specifically in that of the Paspahegh tribe
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Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare, which covers themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. He addresses the first 126 sonnets to a young man; the last 28 to a woman.
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The King James Version of the Bible was authorized by King James in order to have as accurate a translation as possible, which could be printed and widely circulated.
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In the landmark Mayflower Compact of 1620, the Pilgrims decided that they would rule themselves, based on majority rule of the townsmen.
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Thomas Archer, a printer in London, was arrested for distributing corantos without a license, and his printing press was shut down.
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Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse.
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Under invitation by leaders of the English Commonwealth, Charles II, the exiled king of England, lands at Dover, England, to assume the throne and end 11 years of military rule.
