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Henry VI’s campaign to confirm himself as King of France looked to be in trouble after the Duke of Brittany switched sides.
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By Bill Ingalls, NASA, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
The final part of this series is dedicated to Queen Elizabeth II, the country’s longest-serving monarch and arguably the most popular in our history.
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Victorian economist Alfred Marshall argued that it was no accident that free societies and coal-powered industries are found together.
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Reynard the Fox was mortified to hear his efforts to rescue Isegrim’s wife from a frozen lake had been misinterpreted.
Winslow Homer (1836–1910)
However loud his critics shouted their disapproval, Abraham Lincoln would neither deprive them of free speech nor change his opinions.
By Nikolai Nevrev (1830–1904), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Boris Godunov was crowned Tsar of All Russia in 1598 in the belief that Tsar Ivan’s son Dmitry was dead — but was he?