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The English landscape garden

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American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) who wrote under the pseudonym of Mark Twain, standing outside on a porch. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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For all their flaws, I admire Britain’s empire builders

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How to display the ancient world

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A History of Diplomacy

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