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    Queen Victoria

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    Queen Victoria reigned England for sixty-three years, thus making her the longest reigning monarch to this day. In a monarchy, the crown is passed down to the closest living relative in a family. When Victoria’s uncle, William IV, passed away, Victoria became queen at the young age of 18. Queen Victoria’s reign is considered as epic. Similar to many epic heroes, Victoria the Queen influenced culture. The VIctorian Era was named for her during her reign on England. During her reign, England went

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    The Red Queen

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    Red queen takes place in the year 490 and is a world where people are divided by blood. The reds, who are regular human beings and the silvers who have silver blood and super powers. Mare Barrow is the protagonist of the story and she is quite different from all the others. Mare Barrow started off in a red village where all the reds live. She was a thief and she would lie to support her family. Mare faces the problem of having to go to war at age 18, since she can’t find a job. She then meets an

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    Queen Isabella

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    Queen Isabella once said, "I will assume the undertaking for my own crown of Castile, and am ready to pawn my jewels to defray the expenses of it, if the funds in the treasury should be found inadequate." She may be most famous for funding Christopher Columbus on his expedition to the New World, but she was so much more than the provider of that trip. She had a complicated childhood and became a great ruler. Isabella I of Castile, was born April 22, 1451, she was half Spanish and half Portuguese

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    felt a great deal of pain. He expresses his emotions throughout the song, and at the end realizes that all the pain he was dealt shouldn’t matter to him. “Bohemian Rhapsody” was written by Freddie Mercury and performed by a British rock band named “Queen” in 1975. It is a six minute suite divided into multiple sections without a refrain. There is an intro, a ballad segment, an operatic passage, a hard rock part, and a reflective coda. “Bohemian Rhapsody” consist of many emotional tones and imagery

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    Queens On Facebook

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    In her article “ Why the debate over ‘real names’ matters — for drag queens on Facebook and everyone else, “ Caitlin Dewey descants on the topic of “Why does the real name debate matter?” Explaining that Facebook using real names is “an attempt to civilize, and thus, colonize the social web. She references to a situation where people want to use different names online because they want to separate their personal life from social media, and gives the example of a transitioning transgender activist

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    The Queen Of The King

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    Once upon a time, in a faraway land, a king and a queen anxiously awaited the birth of their child. The king and queen had longed for a child, and so they had a daughter. However, when the child was born, the queen died. Soon after the queen’s passing, the king took a new wife. However, the new queen was selfish, for she did not want to care for a child that was not her own. And so, she sent the young princess to live a town by the harbor at the edge of the kingdom with the hope that the princess

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    Buddhism originated in a particular place at a particular time, and its roots are in forms and beliefs that were part of the environment in which it advanced. Queen Maya begins the story when she dreams about a white elephant and how she will have a son that will either be a great king or a great religious leader. Many books describe this sense a little different. Kinnard explains how Siddhartha Gautama was born and got up and walked towards the way of a great religious leader. A few weeks later

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    Amazon Queen

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    Flight Of The Amazon Queen takes place in the 1940’s and is the story about Joe King, pilot for hire. His latest job is to take a famous actress to her photo shoot but on route manages to crash land his plane in the middle of the Amazon. This triggers a massive adventure filled with phantom primates, 6ft tall pygmies, Amazon woman, dinosaurs and a whole lot more weirdness. As you can see in the tradition of the best B-movies this game doesn’t take itself too seriously. After playing this game for

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    Mary I Queen of England was a very controversial queen. She is remembered for the prosecutions she set in place against the people of Protestant faith. When in fact Mary I Queen of England was a good queen that suffered many hardships through her early childhood, her fight for the crown, and even her life during her reign. Mary’s early childhood came with a mix of emotions from her father, King Henry VIII. Mary was the first child to King Henry, he was very happy when she was born in 1516 even

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    Queen Of The Tearling

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    The Queen of the Tearling is a fantasy novel written by Erika Johansen about a girl who is raised secluded in a forest cottage away from the kingdom her mother governs as queen. she is brought up by two devoted servants who pledge their lives to protect her, but growing up in isolation she knows little of the kingdom she will inherit and its gruesome past and current state. Erika Johansen creates a compelling character called Kelsey who starts off as a young woman who knows little about politics

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