Welcome to the history tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here's your 30-second summary.

Budica was a first-century Celtic queen of the Iceni tribe in what's now eastern England.

After the Roman Empire seized her late

husband's kingdom and brutalized her family, she rallied a massive coalition of tribes and led one of

the most famous uprisings in Roman Britain. Her forces burned several Roman towns, including

Lindenium, and for a brief moment in history, she shook the empire's confidence.

Budica's fame endures as a symbol of resistance, leadership, and fierce defiance against

oppression.

The end.

Let's talk about Budica, but first, let's place her into history, or in this case, let's place a statue of her into history.

In 1902, Horn and Hard Art opened the first automat where food and drink were served through vending machines in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Let's bring this back. Marmite was first produced. Yum. On August 9th, Edward

the 7th of Great Britain was crowned king of the United Kingdom and the British dominions

succeeding his mother, Queen Victoria, who had died the year before. The first science fiction

film, A Trip to the Moon, was released. That's the one where the

spaceship hits the man in the moon right in the eye. Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit

was published, and Brooklyn Toymaker Morris Mictum named his stuffed teddy bear after

U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt. Born this year, Langston Hughes, Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Lindberg, Ansel Adams,

John Steinbeck, and Wicked Witch of the West Margaret Hamilton, died this year, Levi Strauss,

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Charles Ingalls, and Esther Morris, who was the first female

Justice of the Peace in the United States.

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