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5 days ago · The House of Wittelsbach split into these two branches in 1329: Under the Treaty of Pavia, Emperor Louis IV granted the Palatinate including the Bavarian Upper Palatinate to his brother Duke Rudolf's descendants, Rudolf II, Rupert I and Rupert II. Rudolf I in this way became the ancestor of the older (Palatinate) line of the Wittelsbach dynasty ...
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- Ludwig III
4 days ago · It takes a master manipulator to pull off that kind of long-term transition. Palpatine is the "Star Wars" version of it. One of the franchise's most quotable lines occurs the scene where Palpatine, disfigured after getting cooked by his own Force lightning, presides over the Senate vote that guts the Republic's last vestiges of democracy and replaces it with "the first Galactic Empire," headed ...
2 days ago · Some, such as Lancelot, Perceval and Tristan, feature in the roles of a protagonist or eponymous hero in various works of chivalric romance. Other well-known members of the Round Table include the holy knight Galahad, replacing Perceval as the main Grail Knight in the later stories, and Arthur's traitorous son and nemesis Mordred.
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3 days ago · The Thirty Years' War [j] was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of battle, famine, or disease, while parts of present-day Germany reported population declines of over 50%. [19]
3 days ago · When he sent troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Putin evoked World War II in seeking to justify his actions that Kyiv and its Western allies denounced as an unprovoked war of aggression. Putin cited the “denazification” of Ukraine as a main goal of Moscow, falsely describing the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who ...
5 days ago · The war hero, who received the Legion D'Honneur, was a sniper and former Desert Rat Donald Rose, 109, was honoured with a flying visit from Spitfire ( Image: William Lailey/SWNS)
5 days ago · 7 May 2024. Hoplite warriors, emblematic of ancient Greek military power, played a pivotal role in shaping the warfare of their time. Originating in the late eighth, or early seventh century BC, these citizen-soldiers revolutionised infantry tactics with the introduction of the phalanx formation. Drawn predominantly from the middle and ruling ...
