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He is credited with the responsibility for several murders, including those of his nephews Edward and Richard, and of Henry VI.
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Famed Italian explorer, he discovered the "New World" of the Americas on an expedition sponsored by King Ferdinand of Spain.
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Painted by the famous Italian artist, between 1504 and 1519,it is a half body commission for a woman named Lisa Gherardini. Her husband, Francesco Del Giocondo requested the work
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Thomas More is known for his 1516 book Utopia and for his untimely death in 1535, after refusing to acknowledge King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England
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He was the second Tudor monarch and was well-known for having six wives.
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Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, the childless Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
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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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The Globe was destroyed by fire in 1613, rebuilt in 1614, and then demolished in 1644
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Tradgedies written by William Shakepeare.
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The Jamestown[1] settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas
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Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets accredited to William Shakespeare which cover themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality
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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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The Mayflower was the ship that transported English Separatists, known today as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth in England to the New World.
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In the beginning of the 17th century, the right to print was strictly controlled in England.
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John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell.
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The Restoration of the English monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II.
