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Queen Cleopatra killed herself using a poisonous snake. Two Romans fell in love with the queen. She was defeated in a battle near Actium.
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The great American Writer Hawthorne Nathaniel was born in 1804.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (Biography)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-64), one of America's greatest writers, was born in Salem, Massachusetts. New England and Puritanism became the subjects of his two most famous novels, The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851). Hawthorne worked for a time in customhouses in Boston and Salem. For six months in 1841, he lived on Brook Farm, where everyone shared the work and the profits. Hawthorne wrote about it in The Blithedale Romance (1852). In 1842, Hawthorne married and went to live in a house called the 'Old Manse'. There he wrote Mosses from an Old Manse (1846). Later, in a house called 'Tanglewood', he wrote two books for children, A Wonder Book (1852) and Tanglewood Tales (1853).
In 1853 Franklin Pierce the president of the United States made Hawthorne consul in Liverpool, England. He died in New England in 1864.
