The painting, which dates from 1779, shows two young women dressed in the finest clothes of the age. However, one is an aristocratic white-skinned girl in a pink dress and the other is a mixed ...
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Does This Mysterious Portrait Depict Lady Jane Grey, the Doomed Queen Who Ruled England for Nine Days in 1553?In the summer of 1553, a girl of around 16 was proclaimed the queen of England. Her name was Lady Jane Grey, and she ruled ...
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How an 18th-Century Female Physicist Broke Boundaries and Inspired the Generations Who FollowedCristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics ...
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