The pageant required more than fifty actresses, only three of whom had speaking parts, to portray famous women from history (not all of them remembered today). In the initial, Scala production, the only speaking role...
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1596: Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, was founded...
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1596
Sidney Sussex College
, Cambridge, was founded under the terms of the will of Lady Frances Sidney, Dowager Countess of Sussex
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Powell, Ken, and Chris Cook. English Historical Facts: 1485-1603. Macmillan, 1977.