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Edward I Documentary - Biography
Edward Longshanks Documentary. Biographical Documentary on the life of Edward I King of England. A documentary on the life of Edward the Longshanks Hammer of the Scots from his childhood, to him helping his father Henry III to defeat Simon...
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Zoroaster Biography
Zoroaster Zoroaster, thought to be of Persian origin, founded the religion and philosophy of Zoroastrianism. http://www.cloudbiography.com See a related article at Britannica.com: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/658060/Zoroaster...
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The Shogunate: History of Japan
A brief history of the Shogunate system of Japan.
"Eastminster"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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The Hanoverian Queens & Consorts of The United Kingdom 7/8
The German Hanoverian Queens of Great Britain and later the United Kingdom had some of the most epic royal matrimonial brawls in history. One brought enlightenment thinking to court. One was dear friends with Marie Antoinette and endured...
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Wyndclyffe Castle
Wyndclyffe castle located in Rhinebeck New York was once a 24 room mansion overlooking the Hudson river. Now it sits abandoned and crumbling. Music Moon by LEMMiNO https://soundcloud.com/lemmino Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike...
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Camille Desmoulins
Camille Desmoulins (1760-1794) was one of the most prominent journalists during the French Revolution (1789-1799). A fervent republican, he played an important role in the Storming of the Bastille, when he called the people to arms. Although...
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Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was a German composer of Romantic music most famous for his epic operas like The Ring, Tannhäuser, and Tristan and Isolde. Wagner was concerned throughout his career with the theme of redemption through love and...
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Jacques-Pierre Brissot
Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville (1754-1793) was a French journalist, abolitionist, and politician who played a prominent role in the French Revolution (1789-1799). A leader of the Girondins, a moderate political faction, Brissot was instrumental...
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Gracchus Babeuf & the Conspiracy of Equals
On 10 May 1796, in the later stages of the French Revolution (1789-1799), a group of leftwing agitators were arrested in Paris, charged with plotting to overthrow the French Directory. After a series of trials, two of them were guillotined...
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Christiane Desroches Noblecourt - Strong as the Stones she was able to move
Her name echoes down the corridors, in classrooms and in books, Christiane Desroches Noblecourt was a great French Egyptologist and, in the opinion of the writer, a woman strong and determined enough to have been the first female to direct...