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2 days ago · City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ISBN: 9780544104655; 578pp.; Price: £25.00. Although most Americans take pride in being ‘a nation of immigrants’ (a slogan apparently popularized by John F. Kennedy), the process of immigration causes perennial controversy in the ...
2 days ago · Hailed by The New York Times as “a genuinely epic production,” The Lehman Trilogy is the story of a family and a company that changed the world. On a cold September morning in 1844, a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers, and an American epic begins.
4 days ago · May 23 2024. The youth of an emperor. A few months after emperor Henry VII had died in the Tuscan village of Buonconvento and before a successor had been elected, a young man, Ludwig, second son of the duke of Upper Bavaria made his name defeating a much larger Habsburg force.
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21 hours ago · Henry II (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189), also known as Henry Fitzempress and Henry Curtmantle, was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189. During his reign he controlled England, substantial parts of Wales and Ireland, and much of France (including Normandy, Anjou, and Aquitaine), an area that altogether was later called the Angevin Empire, and also held power over Scotland and the ...
2 days ago · Particularly for the later years of his reign, German scholars have pointed to the pressure exerted by the princes on Frederick, such as in the trial of Henry the Lion, his cousin, duke of Bavaria and Saxony, and erstwhile favourite , but unlike other biographers, Freed seems to view this powerlessness as pervasive almost throughout Frederick ...
3 days ago · Henry the Young King 1155–1183 Duke of Normandy, Count of Anjou and Maine: Matilda of England Duchess of Saxony 1156–1189: Henry III & XII The Lion 1129–1195 Duke of Saxony & Duke of Bavaria: Geoffrey II 1158–1186 Duke of Brittany: Constance 1161–1201 Duchess of Brittany: Eleanor of England 1162–1214 Queen of Castile: Alfonso VIII ...
1 day ago · Henry VIII, one of England‘s most famous and controversial kings, was born on June 28, 1491 at Greenwich Palace. He was the second son of Henry VII, the first Tudor king, and his wife Elizabeth of York. At the time of his birth, young Henry was not expected to become king. That role was destined for his older brother Arthur, Prince of Wales ...
