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3 days ago · Finally, the English fleet repeatedly avoided a bigger battle on the open sea. Antonio Luis Gómez Beltrán reminds us to take into account the nature of the English ships; despite being more numerous, they were smaller in average, and thus did not approach the Spanish ships at close quarters, maintaining a large distance between their ships ...
Badhistory is your one-stop shop for casual dissertations on the historicity of everything from bestselling books to zero-budget adult films! Mindless Monday, 06 May 2024. Happy (or sad) Monday guys! Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever!
5 days ago · Friday, 22 July 2022. By Hugh Dow. Woodcut of Tyndale's execution in Vilvoorde, Belgium. It is a source of wonder that the two soaring geniuses who created Early Modern English both came from small towns near the Welsh border, both were called William, and both wrote with such effortless beauty that they forged English into a tongue to compete ...
5 days ago · But his political apathy did stop others from making plans for the aloof Belgian prince. His father tried to set him up with one of the daughters of Brazil’s Emperor Pedro II, a proposition Philippe quickly brushed aside. He had no plans to marry at that stage, and he was loathe to cross the Atlantic for a princess he deemed ‘unpretty’.
1 day ago · The team behind Back to the Future originally wanted to cast Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, but he was busy filming Family Ties.Instead, they went with up-and-coming actor Eric Stoltz, whose ...
Born to Die (song) " Born to Die " is a song by American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey, taken from her debut major-label and second studio album of the same name. The song was released as the singer's second single on December 30, 2011, through Interscope Records. Musically, "Born to Die" is a pop and trip hop ballad that speaks of a doomed ...
2 days ago · Following the sack, the Crusaders established the Latin Empire, crowning Baldwin of Flanders as the first emperor. The Latin Empire controlled Constantinople and parts of the former Byzantine territories for just over half a century before the Nicaean forces under Michael VIII Palaiologos recaptured the city and restored the Byzantine Empire in ...
