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Dido of Carthage: A love story gone wrong
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Elizabeth Fry: 'The angel of prisons'
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Queen Tamar: The myth of a perfect ruler
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Lal Ded, mystical Kashmiri poet
Secrets of the Great Pyramid
Ray Bradbury, a master of science fiction
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Picasso, artist of reinvention
Tolstoy: War and Peace
Chaucer, father of English poetry
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