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Dracula

20th Century General Victorian Era 

On the same day in history: Nicholas II, Bram Stoker, 24-Hour Le Mans

May 26, 2016September 26, 2016 David James Bram Stoker, Dracula, Films, Le Mans, movies, On this day, Romanovs

Three significant events occurring on May 26. Nicholas II is crowned last Tsar of Imperial Russia. Bram Stoker’s gothic horror

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  • Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady
  • Matthew Macfadyen as Mr Darcy
  • Downton Abbey
  • Colin Firth as Mr Darcy
  • Jane Austen's Persuasion
  • Sense and Sensibility with Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, and Alan Rickman
  • Jane Austen's favorite: Mansfield Park
  • Cléo de Mérode: the Dancer and Celebrity Glamour Model of the Belle Époque
  • Edward I – The Lord of the Ring of Welsh Castles
  • The USS Constitution – “Old Ironsides”

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Jane Austen We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. ― Jane Austen.

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