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Beware the Lides of March

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Queen Victoria's Stalker

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Medieval Icelandic Feasts

The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis

The Death of Caspar Hauser

Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles

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The 50 Years That Made America

Napoleon: Two centuries of life after death

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Edmund of Abingdon's Dream Job

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The Bruneri-Canella Case

The Early Modern English Plan to Colonize Russia

Solving the Riddle of Reproduction

Cleopatra's Daughter (2018)

How to Leave the House of Lords

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