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The modern historical novel begins with Scott, but so too does a wider realist tradition that treats the past not as costume but as cause.
By her teens, Elizabeth understood that words, ceremony, and image could steady a kingdom.
The brothers’ bicycle‑shop methods—build, test, measure, iterate—shaped modern engineering culture.
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