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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  John Dee was born on 13 July 1527 and built one of England's largest private libraries while serving as mathematician, astronomer, and advisor to Elizabeth I. He advocated for English colonial expansion in the New World and is credited with coining "British Empire." The turn came when he left the Queen's service to pursue the occult and supernatural, aligning with figures who may have been charlatans and traveling through Europe under accusations of spying for the Crown. He returned to England to discover his home and library vandalised. Elizabeth took him back, but her successor James I turned him away. Dee died in poverty in London between December 1608 and March 1609; no one knows where he's buried.