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These portraits by the Scots artist William Strang (1859-1921) are uncannily Holbeinesque.
On a diplomatic mission to Scotland Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, later Pope Pius II (1458-1464) passed thru Newcastle. Here's what he thought
Napoleon suffered one of his few defeats OTD in 1809 when Archduke Karl's white-coated Austrians prevailed at Aspern