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Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian
Era, a period of industrial, cultural, scientific, and political
change that was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.
But Victoria was raised under close supervision and near isolation
until she became Queen of the United Kingdom at the young age of
18. She married her first cousin, Albert, and had nine children who
married into families across Europe. By the time she had earned the
nickname "The Grandmother of Europe" and the title "Empress of
India" it was indeed true that the sun never set on the British
Empire. Publicly, she became a national icon, but privately, "Who
Was Queen Victoria?"
As a boy he preferred reading sea stories to doing homework and, at
age 16, became an apprentice seaman. Subsequently, Ernest
Shackleton's incredible journeys to the South Pole in the early
1900s made him one of the most famous explorers of modern times.
His courage in the face of dangerous conditions and unforeseeable
tragedies reveal the great leader that he was. His historic 1914
journey aboard the "Endurance "has all the drama of an action
movie.
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