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1 day ago · The ninth-century biographer Einhard reports Charlemagne as being in his seventy-second year at his death; the Royal Frankish Annals imprecisely gives his age at death as about 71, and his original epitaph called him a septuagenarian.
May 15, 2024 · This is full audiobook of The Life of Charlemagne by Einhard. Audiobook credit to LibriVox. Chapters: 00:00:00 - Preface, 1-Merovingian Family, 2-Charlemagne's Ancestors, 3-Charlemagne's...
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May 31, 2024 · Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi German official who was Heinrich Himmler’s chief lieutenant in the Schutzstaffel, the paramilitary corps commonly known as the SS. He played a key role in organizing the Holocaust during the opening years of World War II.
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6 days ago · The astronomer Gan De (fl. 4th century BCE) from the State of Qi was the first in history to acknowledge sunspots as genuine solar phenomena (and not obstructing natural satellites as thought in the West after Einhard's observation in 807 CE), while the first precisely dated sunspot observation in China occurred on May 10, 28 BCE, during the ...
May 26, 2024 · Others, including Dumezil and Dillman in the 20 th century, and Einhard in the 9th century, have suggested that the raids began in retaliation for Charlemagne’s wars against the Saxons in the 8 th century.
3 days ago · The biography of Charlemagne written after the Emperor's death by his sometime courtier Einhard is sidelined on the grounds that 'he made it clear that his purposes did not include providing a detailed narrative of his subject's life and times'.
May 31, 2024 · Another source on early medieval Serbia are the Royal Frankish Annals by Einhard, that recorded Serbs (in 822) who controlled great part of Dalmatia ("ad Sorabos, quae natio magnam Dalmatiae partem obtinere dicitur"). It was the oldest historical record which mentioned the name Serbs and gave some details about them.
