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Si Spain: The Bourbons and the Enlightment
This resource provides some brief information on the Bourbons and the enlightment.
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Shmoop: Love's Labour's Lost
This delightful comedy written by William Shakespeare around 1594 is analysed thoroughly in this intriguing site that looks in detail at the various characters and their actions.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Louis Xiv
The age of Louis XIV. during the reign of Louis XIV, the son and successor of Louis XIII (1643-1715), which lasted over seventy years, France was the leading nation of Europe. In some respects it was a brilliant period. The magnificence...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Francis Ii
The boy king, Francis II of France.
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Photograph:louis Xvi, Oil on Canvas by Antoine Fran
Through encyclopedic article on the life of King Louis XVI of France. Follow his life from child hood to his execution during the French Revolution.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Edward Iii
Edward III was one of the most successful English kings of medieval times. His fifty-year reign began when his father, Edward II of England killed. Edwards reign was marked by an expansion of English territory through wars in Scotland...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux
One of the greatest of the Girondists, was born at Marseilles, March 6, 1767. At first an advocate and journalist at Marseilles, he was sent by that city to the Constituent Assembly at Paris. There he opposed the Court party, and took...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Intercolonial Wars, 1689 1713
A map of eastern colonial North America showing the struggle for supremacy between England, France, and Spain in the region, from the King William's War (1689-1692) to Queen Anne's War (1702-1713), a period also known as the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Charles I
Charles I (1625-1649) was a far abler ruler than his father. He was a man of greater courage and more dignity of character, but he had been trained from infancy in the belief of his divine right to fule, and he chose ministers who...
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The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Chaucer's Ransom
List of "Contributions for Ransoms Made by the King," which includes Chaucer's name and price (following his capture in France).
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: George Bryan Brummell
Beau Brummell, ne George Bryan Brummell (7 June 1778, London, England - 30 March 1840, Caen, France), was the arbiter of men's fashion in Regency England and a friend of the Prince Regent, the future King George IV. He established the...