Historical Figures

These historical figures look a lot different than what we thought!

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PRICES MAY VARY. MARILYN MONROE BOBBLEHEAD – Norma Jeane Mortenson better known as Marilyn Monroe is widely recognized as the most famous female celebrity of all time. Her unique blend of beauty, talent, and humor have inspired artists, musicians, writers, and fashion designers. POP CULTURE COLLECTIBLES – Royal Bobbles features several different product lines of famous icons including entertainers, artists, and historic/political figures. Each features an authenticity hologram with a unique…

The teenage queen was embraced by France in 1770. Twenty-three years later, she lost her head to the guillotine. (But she never said, "Let them eat cake")

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun made the rich look beautiful, before and after the French Revolution. Now she has a show of her own at the Met.

Nathan Shipley is using artificial intelligence to bring historical figures to life, in ways we’ve never seen before. Most of these figures lived far before the advent of photography, so ther…

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We tend to think of history like a comic book: we have heroes, we have villains, the end. But that is not how real life works. People are too complex to be boiled down into one easily digestible image. However, that has not stopped history from conveniently forgetting a few things about some of its

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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) was such an important figure in world history that the years from 1800-1815 are generally known as the “Napoleonic Era.” He divorced Josephine and in 1810 married Marie Louise, daughter of the Austrian emperor. As an emperor in his own right, Napoleon intended to found a dynasty. To do that, he had to have a son, whom his second wife provided. The boy was called “the King of Rome” but only lived into his twenties and died of tuberculosis in Vienna.