Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born in London, destined to become the longest-reigning British Monarch. ( Image: Royal ...

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Founded, according to legend, by Romulus and Remus in 753 BC, Rome was first the centre of the Roman Republic, then of the Roman Empire, and it became the capital of the Christian world in the 4th ...