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1780s opens onto 2 lives, 2 place stories, and 1 named historical windows.
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1780 - Vienna
Maternal myth, bodily decline, and authority resisting sentimental reduction.
In Vienna, with her body failing, an empress who held together an empire through sixteen pregnancies reflects on the cost.
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1785 - Sanssouci
Intellectual pride, bodily siege, and legend resisting simplification.
At Sanssouci, in his last year of clarity, a warrior-king reflects on what Prussia cost him and what it will become without him.
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Alive in this timeline around 1780 / story span 180-1780
Connected to 1 life including Maria Theresa.
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Alive in this timeline around 1785 / story span 1740s-1786
Connected to 1 life including Frederick the Great.
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Early Modern
1750 to 1825
Private lives inside state collapse, military ambition, and the remaking of legitimacy.
16 lives visible here
15 place stories active in the same years
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1780 CE to 1789 CE
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1780 - Vienna
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Maternal myth, bodily decline, and authority resisting sentimental reduction.
In Vienna, with her body failing, an empress who held together an empire through sixteen pregnancies reflects on the cost.
1780s across the atlas
1780 - Vienna
1785 - Sanssouci
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1785 - Sanssouci
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Intellectual pride, bodily siege, and legend resisting simplification.
At Sanssouci, in his last year of clarity, a warrior-king reflects on what Prussia cost him and what it will become without him.
30 BCE - Alexandria
monarchy-and-court
A contrasting life shaped by monarchy and court.
The last pharaoh of Egypt watches her kingdom dissolve, and sets down what Rome will never understand about power.
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