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Among the monarchs of English history, few have stirred the imagination quite like her. Elizabeth I. Known as the “Virgin Queen,” she led 16th-century Englan...

The mist along the Loire River of France would creep slowly across the fields at dawn, before dissolving into the morning light.In the fifteenth century, one...

Dante Alighieri.A towering figure who symbolizes medieval European literature and stands among the greatest in the history of world letters. The long narrati...

Beneath the Renaissance sky, there once walked a boy upon the stone streets of Florence.His name was Michelangelo Buonarroti. Born among marble, he lived thr...

Did the sun shine even at night? Louis XIV of France—known as the Sun King—shone brilliantly in the sky of 17th-century Europe. Crowned at the age of just fo...

Benjamin Franklin.Born in 1706 in Boston to a candlemaker’s bustling household, he was the fifteenth of seventeen children. He helped draft the Declaration o...

In a corner of ancient Athens, there walked a strange man. A philosopher who preached the wisdom of knowing one’s own ignorance, who led others toward truth ...

Around the turn of the 11th century, in the middle of the Heian period, poetry and love were woven into the fabric of daily life, like light and shadow danci...