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Sep 10, 2021 · The Danish inventor Valdemar Poulsen developed the first magnetic tape recorder, the telegraphoon, in 1898. A few years later, the Dane also made the very first answering machine for the telephone. The answering machine allowed callers to leave a message when their call went unanswered. Today voicemail systems are the most normal thing in the ...
Valdemar was probably there more to pillage valuables than outright conquest, at least at first. The peasants had earlier in the 1200s successfully defeated a Swedish king "invading" and trying to raise their taxes, so they'd not be completely at odds with the concept of fighting kings, no matter who they were.
Mar 1, 1999 · Valdemar developed a dislike for elementary school, which he found devoid of light and air, and of artistic or scientific matters. Everything that had to do with school was a suffering and his poor father had to make a change of environment three times; he finally became relatively happy in the school named Borgerdyden in an eastern district of Copenhagen (Christianshavn).
In “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,” the title character is in a liminal state for seven months. The mesmeric trance the Narrator has put him into keeps him suspended between life and death (and between sleeping and waking). That Valdemar is in a place to which the living do not have access, and which is therefore difficult to imagine ...
Nov 21, 2023 · The mesmerist, who is the narrator of the story, has been studying mesmerism for the last three years. He wants to try to mesmerize his friend, M. Valdemar, who is an unhealthy man with pthisis ...
Dec 13, 2023 · To make a long but still beloved story short, Valdemar is a lot of fun to read, especially if you enjoy books where intelligent and competent people do their level best to make good things happen. If you liked L.E. Modesitt’s Imager Portfolio, The Founding of Valdemar trilogy has the same feel to it as that series did after Scholar.
1461: Bad news travels fast. On December 30th 1460 disaster struck the Yorkist cause. At the Battle of Wakefield Richard duke of York, Edmund Earl of Rutland and the Earl of Salisbury were all killed in or shortly after the battle. The Yorkist army that had intended to enforce the Act of Accord was destroyed.
