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A twelfth-century genealogical chart traces the Anglo-Saxon kings of Mercia, one of the seven kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy, which fell under the sway of Wessex at the close of the first millennium, back to the god Odin (Woden)
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Requests for loans in letters to Tolstoy and in messages to the author of the post
Many letters to Tolstoy began with the words: I have not read your books, but could you possibly lend me some money. I have been receiving much the same sort of message lately, but do go on writing all the same, it is rather entertaining
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The Jewish community, too, celebrated Elizabeth's coronation in 1953
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A medieval recipe for a pie made up of three parts, two lower and one upper, is described in a manuscript from the Vatican Library
A medieval recipe for a pie made up of three parts, two lower and one upper, is described in a manuscript from the Vatican Library. The pie is served by a one-armed, one-legged grotesque
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Vladimir's wives and mother in the chronicle compilation and names invented by Tatishchev
As for Vladimir, I would be cautious here and cite what is written about him rather than what is thought, for example. One respected historian countered my sallies in the spirit of "he is a semi-mythical figure altogether" with the argument of Vladimir's RELICS. Very
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Russo-Scandinavian marriages of the 11th and 12th centuries in the sagas and Yaroslav's daughters
The saga of the Norwegian kings from roughly 1025 to 1157 is called "Morkinskinna" ("Rotten Skin"). It mentions the marriage of Elizabeth, daughter of Yaroslav, Prince of Kyiv, to Harald Sigurdsson. It is believed that in reality the princess was called Olisava, and in the sagas
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Elegant Skating Positions from a Manual of 1830
Elegant skating positions from a manual of 1830. What is a rink without a hat and an umbrella?
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For the last week and a half I have been writing every day, sorting through old notes, editing and so forth
For the last week and a half I have been writing every day, sorting through old notes, editing and so forth. When I say old notes, I mean, for example, the field journals of the 1920s and 1930s from the Mongolian expedition and curious jottings on the Russian explorers of
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At Woodstock, Elizabeth scratched with a diamond on a window pane: "much suspected by me, nothing proved can be, quoth Elizabeth the prisoner"
At Woodstock, Elizabeth scratched with a diamond on a window pane: "much suspected by me, nothing proved can be, quoth Elizabeth the prisoner". I have not seen it myself, but this is what the autograph of Elizabeth I looks like
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Scene of the burning of the martyr Eustace and his family in the belly of a brazen bull at the will of the Emperor Hadrian, from a thirteenth-century French manuscript of legends of the saints
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The School of Venus: a sex manual for women of the seventeenth century, London, 1680
The School of Venus: a sex manual for women of the seventeenth century, London, 1680. The words in this text still strike one as bawdy vocabulary today, though the comparison with cows' teats is simply odd