George III: the tyrant who lost America?
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Is He the Most Cultured Monarch of Great Britain?
George the third was an intelligent man, but he was also a tremendously cultured one. The 80 thousand books that form the basis of the centre stacks in the british library are entirely come from george the third's library. He allowed peopleto, like doctor johnson, to use his library at Buckingham palace. And did he take much interest in the great scientific, technological changes that were powering the industrial revolution? Huge,. oh, notthe no, interestingly, not the industrial revolution.
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