Cleopatra's needles have nothing to do with Cleopatra herself. They were originally built and inscribed by Thutmose III in about 1450 BC. and stood at a temple at Heliopolis. When the Ptolemies...
Brutus was an idealistic Roman senator. Although a friend of Caesar, he put his duty to the state (as he saw it) ahead of his friendship for Caesar and became one of the assassins.