During Queen Victoria’s reign Britain was the most powerful trading nation in the world. Introduction Victorian advances...
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His death prompted a quite extraordinary explosion of mourning around the world. Introduction Abraham Lincoln yearned to...
Jefferson, ever sanguine, was merely trying to make the best of a wretched scenario. A yellow-fever epidemic...
He wrote of everything from daily death counts to quack remedies. Introduction In early April, writer Jen...
His reign is commonly considered to mark the end of the golden period in the history of...
The bronze colossus originally portrayed Nero, thereafter Commodus, before it was given its present appearance in the...