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741) Princes in the Tower: The History of the Mysterious Disappearances of King Edward V and the Duke
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When England's King Edward IV fell ill at Easter 1483 after coming back from a fishing trip and died shortly after on April 9, it threw a country that had already suffered a series of wars into a state of chaos. What exactly killed him is unclear, and though some people would later speculate that he had been poisoned, there is every reason to believe that he died of natural causes. Disease was common in medieval England, and doctors lacked much of...
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One of the most famous people in the world came to tour the city of Paris for the first time on June 28, 1940. Over the next three hours, he rode through the city's streets, stopping to tour L'Opéra Paris. He rode down the Champs-Élysées toward the Trocadero and the Eiffel Tower, where he had his picture taken. After passing through the Arc de Triomphe, he toured the Pantheon and old medieval churches, though he did not manage to see the Louvre...
743) Medieval England: The History of England From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Tudor Dynasty
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As the Western Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century, Hadrian's Wall was abandoned, and Roman control of the area broke down. Little is known of this period of British history, but soon the Anglo-Saxons–who had been harassing the Saxon Shore as pirates–showed up and began to settle the land, creating a patchwork of little kingdoms and starting a new era of British history.
Several early medieval historians, writing well after the...
744) Richard Sorge: The Life and Legacy of the German Journalist Who Became the Soviet Union's Most Effec
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Spies are a feature of countless works of fiction in which they often discover secrets on which the fate of nations hang in the balance. Reality is generally rather more mundane, as spies often gather low-level intelligence that only makes sense when it is examined by analysts and compared to information from other sources. Espionage provides clues to what the enemy is planning, but on its own, it rarely changes the course of a war. Moreover, real...
745) Norman Invasion of England: The History and Legacy of William the Conqueror's Successful Campaign
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For hundreds of years, the Anglo-Saxons – who had been harassing the Saxon Shore as pirates –began to settle in Britain, creating a patchwork of little kingdoms and starting a new era of English history. Several early medieval historians, writing well after the events, said the Anglo-Saxons were invited to Britain to defend the region from the northern tribes and ended up taking over. The Venerable Bede (672 or 673-735) said in his Historia ecclesiastica...
746) Ely Samuel Parker: The Life and Legacy of the Seneca Grand Chief Who Fought in the Civil War and Bec
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Despite their own cultural differences, the nations that comprised the Iroquois Confederacy established their political dominance across much of America's East Coast and Midwest through conquest, and it is that aspect which has perhaps best endured among Americans in terms of the Iroquois' legacy. European settlers who came into contact with the Mohawks in the Northeast certainly learned to respect their combat skills, to the point that there were...
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