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9 hours ago · The great emperor employed him against the Saracen invaders from Spain, whom he defeated at Orange. In 804 he founded a Benedictine monastery, since called S. Guilhem le Desert, in the valley of Gellone, near Lodeve in the Diocese of Maguelonne, and subjected it to the famous St. Benedict of Aniane, whose monastery was close at hand.
1 day ago · The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani ( / ˈroʊməni / ROH-mə-nee or / ˈrɒməni / ROM-ə-nee) and colloquially known as the Roma ( sg.: Rom ), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin [71] [72] [73] who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle. Linguistic and genetic evidence suggests that the Romani originated in the Indian ...
9 hours ago · Yesterday afternoon, between 5pm and 6pm, a very heavy thunderstorm passed over Henley. During the progress of the storm, there was a sharp flash of lightning followed by a tremendous clap of thunder. A telegraph pole near the Saracen’s Head pub in Greys Road was struck and the wire for a distance of about 100 yards was snapped off into short ...
9 hours ago · The siege went on and on. The Muslim commander, a man named Mirat, had sworn an oath by the Prophet Mohammed that he would never surrender the castle to any mortal man. One day, an eagle carrying a trout caught from the River Gave, dropped it inside the Saracen castle walls.
The Saracen Saber's crew, a Rebel Alliance SpecOps team, I commissioned from Steelhavenstudio This is the first team from my first RPG campaign. We were a Special Ops team, mostly posing as a tramp freighter's crew while conducting missions. If you check out my other posts you can see more of the Saber.
9 hours ago · The Three Rivers Audubon Society will host its annual picnic June 4. Participants will meet at 9 a.m. at the Lake Saracen parking lot at the beginning of the walking trail. They will carpool to Arkansas Post. Participants should bring their own brown bag lunch, drinks and binoculars, according to a news release.
9 hours ago · Rudyard Kipling" “When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains, And go to your God like a soldier”
