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The Gripping History of <i>The Looming Tower</i>

The new Hulu series is a suspenseful, star-studded excavation of the failure to prevent 9/11.
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In 2017, the third most-read page on Wikipedia.org was an article on Queen Elizabeth. Out of the , Queen Victoria came in at No. 13, Princess Margaret at No. 37, and Prince Philip at No. 44. This sudden surge of interest in the British royal family wasn’t just Anglophilia: It was also related to the popularity of Peter Morgan’s Netflix show and the PBS/ITV drama . Both shows’ adaptation of historic events into modern entertainment had prompted millions of viewers to find out whether what they’d seen

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