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Famous Families

A Woman Scorned

By Arliss Ryan
Virtually nothing is known about Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare, yet plenty of unkind words have been written about her. Shakespeare scholars in particular have not hesitated to portray her as a coarse, illiterate, country wench who seduced an innocent boy and made him miserable thereafter.
With my blood boiling, I [...]

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Were the Wrights Wrong?

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By Gavin Mortimer
I never knew how despised the Wright brothers were. That was the most startling revelation of researching Chasing Icarus. No one liked Wilbur and Orville in those extraordinary pioneer days of aviation. And it wasn’t down to envy. It was the Wrights’ bloody-minded belief and paranoiac greed that whipped up a storm of [...]

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