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Penelope was the captivating queen of Ithaca, famous for her unwavering loyalty, intelligence, and cunning. She was the wife of Odysseus, and the mother of their son, Telemachus. As her husband is away at war, she faces the daunting challenge...
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"What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent." *** Cordelia is a legendary character from the Middle Ages, immortalized by Shakespeare's tragedy “King Lear”. Cordelia is King Lear's youngest daughter. When King Lear decides to divide his kingdom between his...
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“Goodbye,” she wrote to a friend in the winter of 1917. ”Don't forget us.” *** Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsaritsa Alexandra of Russia. The tsar family was murdered by the Bolsheviks on...
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"Fold your arms round me close and strain me so that our hearts may break and our souls go free at last. Take me to that happy place of which you told me long ago. The fields whence none return,...
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“In my end is my beginning.” *** Mary Queen of Scots, or Mary Stuart, inherited the Scottish throne at just six days old. Her reign was marked by conspiracy, treachery and death, often involving one of her husbands. History has...
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