History is fascinating - and dangerously full of lies. Not the intentional kind, necessarily, but myths, misquotes, ...

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2. In 1137, a 14-year-old girl named Eleanor became the "greatest heiress in the known world." She was, in her own right, the Duchess of Aquitaine and ruled it independently through her two marriages.

The past can be quite fascinating. Those of us living in the present find it really interesting what life was like 50, 100, or even a 1,000 years ago. Luckily, we can go almost 200 years to the past ...