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was King of England for two years, from 1483 until his death in 1485 during 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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The widely published report of his voyage of 1492 made Columbus famous throughout Europe and secured for him the title of Admiral of the Ocean Sea and further royal patronage
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Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is one of the most famous and most celebrated works of all time. The mastery of the painting lies in its subtle detail, including the faint smile, and Mona Lisa's distinctive gaze.
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Thomas mores Utopia is pollitical fiction that was originally written in latin, that uses a framed narative to depict a fictional island societey and its political, social, and religous customs
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Henry the VIII broke away from the catholic church and established the Church of England, even though he still held on to many core catholic teaches. He did this mainly in part to his desires of divorce
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Was the fifth and last of the Tudor dynasty, daughter to Henry VII. Gained the crown after her half brother tried to bequeath it to someone else, and also her half sister tried to rule herself. Elizabeth was expected to carry on the Tudor dynasty by reproducing, however she never did.
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William Shakespeare was born to the parents John and Mary Shakespeare in Straford upon Avon.
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Was built by Shakespeare's playing company, The Lord Chamberlin's Men, and was owned by Thomas Brend, and inherited by his son Nick Brend. Featuring a circuler stage that had seating for rich as well as poor
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King Lear and Macbeth are two of shakespeares better known works. Both are tradgedies in whcih the main character has an extreme fall from grace and looses virtualy everything. In both works the characters that initiate that fall from grace are family, one being a wife, and the other being daughters.
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Jamestown was discovered and settled by a joint stock company based out of England. It was the first settlement that actually thrived, unlike its predacesor, Roanoke, whcih disapeared and was never seen again.
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Shakespeare's sonnets are a collection of 154 sonnets, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality.The sonnets include a dedication to one "Mr. W.H.". The identity of this person remains a mystery and, since the 19th century, has provoked a great deal of speculation
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is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England begun in 1604 and completed in 1611. First printed by the King's Printer Robert Barker. this was the third translation into English to be approved by the English Church authorities
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In 1620 the Mayflower landed in Plymouth Rock Massachusetss. Although not the first settlement, it was the first settlement due to religous persecution in England. It was also the first place of self sustaining government in the US was concieved with the siging of the mayflower compact
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The first newspapers began apearing due to a large part of the newly invented printing press, which was being used and produced to make more bibles. The printing press let newspapers replace the old handwritten periodicals into a news source that could be widely distributed and could have more facts.
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Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. Was originally published in ten books that contained over ten thousand lines of verse, but was revised into twelve. Considered to be Milton's major work and what defined him as one of the greatest English poets.
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The Commonwealth, or Commonwealth of England, was the period from 1649 onwards when England, along later with Ireland and Scotland, was ruled as a republic following the end of the Second English Civil War and the trial and execution of Charles I. The republic's existence was initially declared through "An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth", However it ended in 1660 due to a lack of leadership.
