She is known in pop culture as simply Cleopatra, although there were six Egyptian queens before her with the same name.
Take a virtual tour of highlights from the 2001 British Museum's Cleopatra of Egypt exhibit.
Pharaoh Ptolemy XII died in March 51 BC making the 18 year old Cleopatra and her 12 year old brother Ptolemy XIII joint monarchs.
"Cleopatra was descended from a line of rulers that began with Ptolemy I, a general who served under Alexander the Great in the 4th century BCE."
King Tut One presents Cleopatra's biography in five parts, with a special emphasis on her childhood years.
Cinderella , a history and reading fanatic, created this Royalty.nu site "for fun" in 1998. The seven-page Cleopatra biography is in iPaper format...
On June 6, 1944, Allied troops from the U.S., Britain, Canada and France, stormed the coastline of Normandy, France, taking the occupying Germans by surprise.
The D-Day Museum of Portsmouth, UK, has a large D-Day archive, including articles, veterans' memoirs, and audio clips.
Encyclopedia Britannica's multimedia guide is a terrific starting point for a school research project.
Notable clicks at this PBS site include the World War II European timeline, and the Special Features.
Don't miss the eight-minute video (on the front page) featuring the recollections of five D-Day veterans, and D-Day film footage.
Under the leadership of President Thomas Jefferson, the United States purchased 827,987 square miles of territory from France on May 2, 1803 for $15 million.
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