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...Aurica Draghici lives in the small southern Romanian village of Peretu, where most locals have traditionally been farmers. Some have jobs at a ball-bearing factory in Alexandrina, the nearest town, but a growing number, among them Aurica's eldest son Florian and his wife Adriana, have left to find work abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Alone in Romania | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

When naive Alexandrina Victoria became Queen of England in 1837, she inherited as Prime Minister a fine worldly Whig: William Lamb, Lord Melbourne. For four years, he, the representative of a passing era, patiently tutored the young Queen who was to play the title role in a new age. But the same man had had another life, as William Lamb, second son of worldlywise, domineering Lady Melbourne. As William Lamb, he was the husband of Byron's mistress, Caroline Lamb, and was by all odds the most urbane of the many cuckolds whom George Gordon Lord Byron left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Caroline Lamb's Husband | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Queen Alexandrina, suffering from a slight internal trouble, was operated on at St. Lucas Hospital, Copenhagen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Denmark | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

King Christian and Queen Alexandrina will celebrate their silver wedding on April 26. The doctors attending the Queen predict that she will have completely recovered from her operation by that date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Denmark | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

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