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Queen Elizabeth I Imagine if as a child, your birth was the most disappointing thing of your father’s life, your mother got executed and you had to live with your stepmother and her husband. This all happened to Queen Elizabeth I in her life and a lot more. She grew up in a very difficult family and she ended up living with her stepmother after her father and mother died. Her father wanted a son instead of a daughter so she was a huge dissapointment. Queen Elizabeth I shows her importance in her…

be a very influential queen. Though Elizabeth was illegitimate, she managed to leave a mark on England's history as a powerful queen, who overcame trials such as the Queen of Scots and the pressure she received from the church to marry. Greenwich Palace was Elizabeth's birthplace, her father was Henry VII and her mother was Anne Boleyn, Henry’s second wife (Strickland 2). To their surprise she was a girl, extinguishing the hope for a male heir. “By the sentence which Cranmer has passed on the…

One of the most influential figures in World War Two (WWII) history is Sir Winston Churchill. Winston Churchill, who is best known for his political and strategic roles as British Prime Minister, was born in Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, on November 30th, 1874. As a young man he joined the British army as an officer, and after a slow start quickly moved upwards in the ranks. In 1940 he secured his position as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and remained in this position…

Henry VIII King Henry is perhaps the most popular kings of all time. Mostly known because of the amount of wives that he had. Henry VIII was born in Palace of Placentia, Greenwich, United Kingdom on June 28 1491.When Henry was a kid he was highly intelligent and was very athletic. Henry’s other interest were books,music, and he was a lavish patron of the arts and even participated in wrestling,jousting,hunting and writing .Later on in England after the death of Henry VII (Henry VIII’s…

Then in 1640 Cromwell was elected a member of the Parliament for the borough of Cambridge (partly because of the important social position he held in Ely and partly because of his fame as "Lord of the Fens,") he found himself among many friends at Westminster who were highly critical of the monarchy. This "Short Parliament" did little since it was dissolved after three weeks, but, when in November 1640 Cromwell returned to Cambridge for the "Long Parliament", which sat until…

subjects. Queen Elizabeth’s birth, childhood, and reign were full of difficult experiences, but despite these hardships, her legacy still lives on. From her birth Elizabeth’s life was dysfunctional. Elizabeth was born 7 September 1533 at Greenwich Palace (Jokinen). Her mother was Anne Boleyn and her father was King Henry VII (“Elizabeth I” 1). Her parents were married in January of the same year Elizabeth was born (Sharnette). Elizabeth's father was hoping that Elizabeth was a boy. He wanted a…

following American Proverb: “If you owe the bank a hundred thousand dollars, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank a hundred million dollars, you own the bank”. To further introduce the concept of Debt, Graeber recalls attending a garden party at Westminster Abbey. He met a woman who worked as legal support for anti-poverty groups in London. They began discussing the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Graeber postulates that the IMF are the world’s debt enforcers. However, Graeber then makes a…

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called her to announce the death of William IV but Victoria did not inherit the kingdom of Hanover as there the Salic Law still existed, a law that prevented women from inheriting the throne, and on June 28th, 1838, Victoria was coronate queen at Westminster Abbey. Furthermore, a year after her coronation, on October 15, 1839, Victoria proposed to her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in her journal she described him as “charming, and extremely handsome”, on February 10th, 1840 they…

OSCAR WILDES “The picture of Dorian Gray” Oscar Wilde was a very popular Irish author, poet and a play writer, best known for his book “The Picture Of Dorian Gray”. Born on the 16th of October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland, to Robert Wilde and Jane Francesca Wilde, he turned out to be a quick-witted kid like his parents. His father was a well-known doctor, earned the title of ‘Sir’ for his work as a medical advisor. His mother, Jane Francesca, was a writer who used to write under the pseudonym…