"There was a land of cavaliers and cotton fields called the Old South".
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494. Evita: Birth of a Legend (Part 1)
493. Lee Miller: Exposing the Horrors of World War Two
492. The War on Beards: From Peter the Great to John Lennon (Part 2)
491. History's Greatest Beards: From Egyptian Queens to Medieval Conquerors (Part 1)
490. Hundred Years' War: England Triumphant (Part 4)
489. Hundred Years' War: Bloodbath at Agincourt (Part 3)
488. Hundred Years' War: The Road to Agincourt (Part 2)
487. Hundred Years' War: Henry V’s Invasion of France (Part 1)
486. Henry IV: Warrior Princes and Fat Knights (Part 2)
485. Henry IV: The Usurper King (Part 1)
484. The Food that Changed the World
483. The Mysterious Case of the Ape Man
482. The French Revolution: The Royal Family Escapes (Part 8)
481. The French Revolution: The Women's March on Versailles (Part 7)
480. The French Revolution: The Rights of Man (Part 6)
479. The French Revolution: The Storming of the Bastille (Part 5)
478. The French Revolution: Showdown in Versailles (Part 4)
477. The French Revolution: The Violence Begins (Part 3)
476. The French Revolution: The Diamond Necklace Scandal (Part 2)
475. The French Revolution: Marie Antoinette (Part 1)
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