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William Shakespeare: The Poacher’s Plays
1564-1616 STRATFORD-ON-AVON, ENGLAND William Shakespeare was a great English dramatist and poet, the writer of 36 plays, 154 sonnets, and two narrative poems. Shakespeare’s works of the 16th and 17th centuries include “Antony and Cleopatra,” “Hamlet,” “Henry VI,” “Julius Caesar,” “King Lear,” “Macbeth,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Othello,” and “Romeo and Juliet.” Like many of [...]
Battle of Crecy: Sunset for the Knight
A few miles north of the village of Crécy-en-Ponthieu, France, in the year 1346, the sun began to set on the proud and seemingly invincible armored knight, who had ruled European battlefields in the Middle Ages. The English longbow ended its reign.
Pteranodon: The Flying Reptile
75 Million BC23 Feet37 Pounds Pteranodon belongs to an ancient group of flying reptiles called "pterosaurs" that lived at the same time as the dinosaurs. When the first pterosaur fossils were discovered in Germany in 1784, scientists thought they were aquatic animals. It took them 100 years to finally recognize they were flying reptiles!