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Topic: Historic figures

Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon and then coughed his way through Buckingham Palace

The first man on the Moon faced Buckingham Palace in 1969 with a streaming head cold, and the handshake went badly wrong.

The truth behind the reign of Queen Elizabeth I

On January 15, 1559, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth took place, but was this monarch's reign fraught with lies?

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