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#1 The traditional image of Merlin as the great wizard of Arthurian legend can be traced back to the twelfth century when Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae introduced him in this form.
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#1 The kleśa of being a personality, or individuality, is the result of the urge to divide and discriminate. It is a natural instinctive form in which libido first appears out of the unconscious. According to tantric teaching, there is an urge to produce a personality, something that is centered and divided from other beings.
#2 The instinct of individuation is found everywhere in...
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#1 The village of La Roche-Guyon was occupied by German soldiers in June 1944. It was the most occupied village in all of occupied France. Every one of the 543 villagers was guarded by more than three German soldiers.
#2 Rommel was the commander of Army Group B, and he was waiting impatiently for six o'clock. At that time, he would breakfast with his staff and then depart...
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#1 The dusk spreads from the river. The clatter of shuttering echoes and answers as every house in the Georgian metropolis fortifies itself against the advancing dark. The November gloom hastens lodgers home, and they scurry back with sausages, oysters, and a pennyworth of tea.
#2 The idea of private life is a creation of the early modern period, and England is the birthplace of privacy....
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#1 The English capital punishment used to be hanging, but other means of execution were also used. The church often possessed the right to execute criminals, and the gallows were seen almost everywhere.
#2 The Peak of Derbyshire was ruled by Sir George Vernon, who from the boundless magnificence of his hospitality at the famous Hall of Haddon was known throughout the...
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#1 King Henry II was a man who made an impression. He was physically not much to look at, but his character made him unforgettable. He had near-boundless energy. He was able to spend almost his whole life moving about his lands, and he enjoyed the fact that his physical exertions prevented him from getting fat.
#2 Henry II's reign in England was marked by his love of...
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#1 The Middle East is a powder keg. It has been the scene of repeated belligerent encounters since men learned to bear arms. The first battle of recorded time took place in what is now Israel in 1469 BC.
#2 The Battle of El Alamein was not like the other battles in the desert war. It was a battle of deliberate attrition, conducted in a way that a veteran of World...
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#1 Death was never far from the mind of Colonel Rudolph-Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, as he was constantly on the run from the Gestapo. He had tried to kill Hitler on March 21, 1943, and was now en route to a meeting at Army Group B Headquarters.
#2 Colonel Rudolph von Gersdorff was a conspirator against Hitler. He was born in 1905 in the town of Lubin, Silesia....
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#1 The town of St. Andrews, Scotland, owes its origins to a divine mission. In the ninth century, a Scottish king looked up and saw St. Andrew's diagonal cross in the sky above, and took it as a sign to march outnumbered against the Angles.
#2 I was wondering which one was supposed to move first: the ball or the club. Something terrifying and miraculous can happen over...
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#1 On May 9, 1940, Hitler had a meeting at his headquarters in Berlin to discuss the upcoming campaign against France and Britain. The meeting was supposed to last a month but did not last a day longer.
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#1 I have been mudlarking for years, searching for treasure in the Thames near London Bridge. I am obsessed with the river's ebb and flow, and I know where the river allows me access early and where I can stay for the longest time before I am gently but firmly shooed away.
#2 I have been studying the tide tables for so long that they have become second nature. I never...
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#1 Traveling is a way to relieve sadness. New surroundings prompt forgetfulness of old ones, and thus speed up the passage of time.
#2 The city was silent, and it was clear that the people were suffering. The bread and fuel lines began, and people were nervous and shy. They seemed as if they had never seen the sunlight.
#3 I had gone to Bucharest to interview the Romanian...
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#1 When Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, feverish diplomatic efforts were engaged to obviate the treaty obligations that would force Britain and France to come to her defense. The French had increased their already large army to about 2. 5 million men. They pushed past their own Maginot Line in eastern France and moved cautiously a few kilometers into Germany,...
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Get the Summary of Valerie Hansen's The Year 1000 in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Year 1000" by Valerie Hansen provides a comprehensive examination of global population growth and economic development around the year 1000. The book highlights the surge in agricultural productivity that led to population booms in various regions, including China under the Song dynasty, the Islamic heartland, Western Europe,...
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#1 I was born in 1912 in Wellington, New Zealand. My family settled in Sydney, Australia, when I was about two years old. In 1932, I sailed to America and Europe. I found New York to be an exciting city, and I loved working and living in Paris.
#2 I learned to shop in the little markets around Paris. I learned to appreciate my food and wine, and I learned to cook....
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#1 The Battle of the Bulge was the last large German offensive of World War II, and the German Reich was already finished. But General George S. Patton wrote a remark in his war diary on January 4, 1945, that the war could still be lost.
#2 The Nazi atom bomb is the hidden logic behind the operational plans of both sides late in the war, and it is very likely the hidden...
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#1 The archaeologist John Pendlebury was one of the members of MI(R) sent to Greece and Albania in 1940. He was a romantic who had been interested in Greece since his time as curator at Knossos in the mid-1930s.
#2 During the summer of 1940, Britain prepared for invasion, as the first skirmishes took place in the Western Desert. The Greek dictator, General Ioannis Metaxas,...
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#1 The rush to the diamond fields of Griqualand turned into a frantic escapade that one Cape Town newspaper likened to a dangerous madness. The mining settlements of Griqualand soon came to be renowned as much for despair, disease, and death as for the fortunes made there.
#2 In 1870, young Cecil Rhodes was sent to Natal from England to join his brother Herbert in a...
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#1 The Battle of Britain, which was the British attempt to stop Hitler from taking over Europe, has become a symbol of courage and defiance against a more powerful and warlike enemy. But today, it has lost none of its luster.
#2 The Battle of Britain has come in for its share of revisionary history and debunking, though it has not been the subject of the same harsh criticism...
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#1 The cockerels began their morning chorus and people began to wake up. The vast majority of people lived a rural life and kept their own chickens and pigs in the yard out the back. Cattle and sheep grazed on town commons.
#2 Tudor beds were usually made of straw, and people would sleep on them in their clothes if they had to. They were not very comfortable, and they...
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