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TIL about Cleopatra Selene II (40 BCE - ca. 5 BCE), the only daughter of Greek Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra VII and Roman Triumvir Mark Antony, who as Queen of Mauretania was a powerful female ruler until her untimely death during a lunar eclipse at the age of 35.

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