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Queens and Kings

The Boleyn Ring

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Paradoxes of the French Revolution

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The Dangers of a Mycenaean Childhood

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The Cow Dung Fertility Cure—and other odd adventures in baby-making

By Randi Hutter Epstein
Last year, I visited a sperm bank (was awash in a winter wonderland of frozen samples), watched a woman have her egg frozen, and sorted through websites of available egg donors. Would anyone really want an egg from a woman who put cheerleading under academic information in her donor-web entry? That was [...]

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Who were the Guise?

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Lucky Gaspard de Coligny?

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By Stuart Carroll
As he left the Louvre at 11 am on Friday 22 August 1572, Gaspard de Coligny, paid little attention to his surroundings. He had just attended a royal council meeting, and as he walked along was absorbed in reading an important piece of business. He did not return the hostile looks of the [...]

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A Cruel Exception

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By Dan Edelstein
The Capetian dynasty, which had ruled France since 987, was overthrown on the night of 9-10 August, 1792. The deposed king, Louis XVI, had escaped with his family to safety; with the monarchy gone, the French still had a monarch on their hands. There was little question that he should be tried for [...]

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