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Oct 16, 2019 · St. Hedwig of Silesia was not an owl. But read on anyway: she was a princess, a wife, a mother, and a builder of bridges between the German and Polish people. And her husband's name was "Henry the ...
Crusades - Holy Wars, Jerusalem, Europe: The Albigensian Crusade took place to remove the Catharism heresy from southern France. The saying “Kill them all. God will know his own.” was allegedly made by the papal legate when asked how the Crusaders should distinguish the heretics from true Christians after they captured Beziers; the Crusaders massacred almost the entire population of the city.
Nov 9, 2009 · Civil War and Sherman’s March. On January 18, 1861, fearing abolitionists would liberate their slaves and newly-elected President Abraham Lincoln would abolish slavery, Georgia voted to succeed ...
Nov 9, 2009 · By: History.com Editors. Updated: February 15, 2024 | Original: November 9, 2009. The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865 in the aftermath of the Civil War, abolished slavery ...
Silesia. Prussia, in European history, any of certain areas of eastern and central Europe, respectively (1) the land of the Prussians on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea, which came under Polish and German rule in the Middle Ages, (2) the kingdom ruled from 1701 by the German Hohenzollern dynasty, including Prussia and Brandenburg, with ...
The Wieliczka Salt Mine ( Polish: Kopalnia soli Wieliczka) is a salt mine in the town of Wieliczka, near Kraków in southern Poland . From Neolithic times, sodium chloride ( table salt) was produced there from the upwelling brine. The Wieliczka salt mine, excavated from the 13th century, produced table salt continuously until 1996, [2] as one ...
For 77 days, the carnage and mayhem lasted, the Soviets murdering and burning people alive. Thousands of Breslauers lay dead in the ruins, and the city was almost 70% destroyed. Like most of Silesia, Breslau was placed under Polish administration. Most surviving German inhabitants were expelled and all German property was taken.
