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biographics.org
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| | | | | He's the man who killed a king. Oliver Cromwell, the English Puritan turned military dictator, is today most famous for signing the death warrant that led to Charles I's bloody execution in 1649. Over a hundred years before the American and French Revolutions shook the globe, this small-time farmer from the British sticks proved with steel that the divine right of kings was not so holy after all. But what set Cromwell on his path to infamy? What possessed a guy who worked in agriculture to drop his tools... | |
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londonhistorians.wordpress.com
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| | | | | Most visitors to Trafalgar Square are understandibly distracted by Nelson's column, its lions, the fountains and the magnificent buildings adjacent: The National Gallery, St Martin in the Fields, Canada House, South Africa House. They might be forgiven for missing one of my favourite public monuments: the equestrian statue of Charles I. Commissioned in the early... | |
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historytheinterestingbits.com
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| | | | | Myths and rumour have shrouded the Borgia family for centuries - tales of incest, intrigue and murder have been told of them since they themselves walked the hallways of the Apostolic Palace. In particular, vicious rumour and slanderous tales have stuck to the names of two members of the infamous Borgia family - Cesare and... | |
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historytheinterestingbits.com
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| | | Mary's mother, Matilda of Boulogne Mary of Blois was the youngest daughter of Stephen of Blois and his wife, Matilda of Boulogne, herself the granddaughter of St Margaret, queen of Scotland. Mary was born in Blois, France around 1136. She was destined for the cloister from an early age and, while still a young girl,... | ||
