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Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.
Why Is Ireland Two Countries?
A potato showing the effects of Phytophthora infestans, or late blight. Potato blight, Irish Potato Famine.
The Mold that Wrecked Ireland
Queen Elizabeth II on her Coronation Day (June 2, 1953) holding the Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross in her right hand the Orb in her left, in an embroidered and beaded dress by Norman Hartnell, a crimson velvet mantle edged with ermine fur, with the Coronation ring, the Coronation necklace, and the Imperial State Crown. The backdrop depicts the interior of Westminster Abbey; photograph by Cecil Beaton. (British royals)
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Queen Elizabeth II addresses at opening of Parliament. (Date unknown on photo, but may be 1958, the first time the opening of Parliament was filmed.)
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Agnes with a lamb near her feet. St. Agnes (Saint Agnes) design drawing for stained glass window by J&R Lamb Studios, ink, mount size 10.5 x 14.5 in.
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Mona Lisa, oil on wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503-06; in the Louvre, Paris, France. 77 x 53 cm.
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The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)
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Also Known As Nicholas Sander
Born c.1530 • Surrey • England
Died 1581 • Ireland
Subjects Of Study Reformation • England
Catharine Macaulay
British historian
Francis Godwin, detail of an engraving by G. Vertue, derived from an earlier portrait, frontispiece to De Praesulibus Angliae, 1743
Francis Godwin
English bishop and historian
Hans Holbein the Younger: Portrait of Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII
king of England
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer
archbishop of Canterbury
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon
English statesman
Thomas Cromwell
Thomas Cromwell
English statesman
John Foxe, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, 1587; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Foxe
English Puritan preacher and author
James Anthony Froude
British historian
Latimer, detail of a panel painting by an unknown artist, 1555; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Hugh Latimer
English Protestant
Richard Henry Tawney
British economist
John Rushworth
English historian
William Camden, oil painting by or after Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Camden
British historian
Rogers, John
John Rogers
English religious reformer
John Jewel, portrait by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
John Jewel
English bishop
Bernard Gilpin
British clergyman
Nicholas Ridley
Nicholas Ridley
English bishop
Orderic Vitalis
Norman history
Richard Cox
English clergyman
A. F. Pollard
English historian and author

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