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3 days ago · Munich, or München (“Home of the Monks”), traces its origins to the Benedictine monastery at Tegernsee, which was probably founded in 750 ce. In 1157 Henry the Lion, duke of Bavaria, granted the monks the right to establish a market where the road from Salzburg met the Isar River.
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4 days ago · House of Tudor, an English royal dynasty of Welsh origin, which gave five sovereigns to England: Henry VII (reigned 1485–1509); his son, Henry VIII (1509–47); followed by Henry VIII’s three children, Edward VI (1547–53), Mary I (1553–58), and Elizabeth I (1558–1603).
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5 days ago · The exhibition honouring the legacy of Richard the Lionheart (d. 1199) - king of England, knight and crusading leader - at the Historisches Museum der Pfalz Speyer, Germany, offers a royal tribute to the legacy of this famous medieval ruler.
16 hours ago · The Lion Tells His Tale takes audiences on a journey of awakening as the brilliance, resistance, and resilience of Black people from Africa to the Americas is brought to life. The 11-person cast ...
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2 days ago · VIEWPOINT By RALPH HARDIN Evening Times Editor There’s a great old movie from the late 1960s called “The Lion in Winter.” It has an excellent cast, including Peter O’Toole and Katherine Hepburn in the lead with a young Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton in supporting roles. The movie revolves around some royal melodrama surrounding King Henry II of England, his wife and their plotting ...
3 days ago · Henry V (16 September 1386 – 31 August 1422), also called Henry of Monmouth, was King of England from 1413 until his death in 1422. Despite his relatively short reign, Henry's outstanding military successes in the Hundred Years' War against France made England one of the strongest military powers in Europe .
