Cleopatra and her Wobbling Cobra

Author: Margaret Simpson
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book is one of the "Very Famous" series. It also includes "The Virgin Queen and Her Great Conquest," "Inventors and Their Super Ideas," "Da Vinci and His Magical Codes," "Saint Joan of Arc and Her Expulsion Orders," "Scarface and His Gang," "Einstein and His Brain Laboratory," and "Spartacus and His Brave Gladiators." The target audience is middle school students aged 3rd grade and above. Although it belongs to the category of celebrity biographies, it differs from the usual stiff, dull, and preachy biographical books. While fully respecting historical facts, it caters to the reading tastes of children and adolescents, striving to make them enjoy the pleasure of learning history through stories, thereby achieving the goals of acquiring knowledge and broadening horizons.
You may have heard of Cleopatra and the reasons for her fame:
● She chose Caesar and Mark Antony as lovers and ruled Egypt for 21 years with their help;
● Was a master of cosmetics;
● Her death was mysterious, rumored to be related to a cobra.
Did you know some other things about her?
● She married her brothers;
● Was very intelligent, fluent in nine languages;
● Had her sister executed.
Cleopatra was the last queen of Egypt. Although she has been dead for over two thousand years, her fame has only grown. Now, you can discover the mysteries of her life through her secret diary, related reports in Roman newspapers, and the secret archives of the cobra.