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2 days ago · illegitimate son of Canute who seized the throne of England in 1037 (died in 1040)
Of the monarchs who are living in the eras covered in modern history lessons, it is odd how Henry VII is on paper the sort of monarch who should be at a fairly high level of consciousness - he won the War Of The Roses at Bosworth Field, he solved the War Of The Roses by marrying his Lancastrian self to the seniormost Yorkist woman Elizabeth of York and thus making their offspring both the ...
3 days ago · Social Media Scams. MAY 26, 2024. What you’re about to read is very uncomfortable. It’s possibly the hardest thing I’ve ever written, but it needs to be said, and you need to read it. Wayne is a 50-something Barefoot Dad. His son Mackenzie (Mac) is 16 years old, and obsessed with footy, cricket and getting his L-plates.
2 days ago · Virgil shows Dante the souls of the wrathful in the River Styx, engraving by Gustave Doré, 1861. The engraving depicts the fifth circle of Hell in canto VII of Inferno (The Divine Comedy). The poem begins with Dante at midlife—specifically, 35 years old—and lost inside a dark wood. He is guided by the Roman poet Virgil, who represents the ...
4 days ago · Romeo and Juliet, play by William Shakespeare, written about 1594–96 and first published in an unauthorized quarto in 1597. An authorized quarto appeared in 1599, substantially longer and more reliable. A third quarto, based on the second, was used by the editors of the First Folio of 1623. The characters of Romeo and Juliet have been ...
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16 hours ago · Robinson got two years in prison for the rape. Weeks after that assault, Scott, then 16, landed in the same jail for robbery. He recognized Robinson from the juvenile home. Other inmates ...
3 days ago · Many of his subjects did not like this idea, and shortly before 988, Sweyn, his son, drove his father from the kingdom. The rebels, dispossessed at home, probably formed the first waves of raids on the English coast. The rebels did so well in their raiding that the Danish kings decided to take over the campaign themselves.
