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  They also had myths.A myth is a female moth. One myth says that the mother of Achilles dipped him in the River Stynx until he became intolerable....
• The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespear.
  Shakespear never made much money and is famous only because of his plays....
• The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West.
  Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years....
• During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic.
  His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe....
• Bach was the most famous composer in the world, and so was Handel.
  Handel was half German, half Italian and half English....
• Eventually, the Ramons conquered the Geeks. History call people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long.
  At Roman banquets, the guests wore garlic in their hair....
• Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time.
  Voltare invented electricity and also wrote a book called "Candy"....
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