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By 1400, the once-mighty Byzantine Empire stood on the verge of destruction. Most of its territories had been lost to the Ottoman Turks, and Constantinople ...
King Cnut ruled England from 1017 to 1035 and left behind him a legacy of peace, law and order. However, the beginnings of his kingship ...
Historian, philosopher, critic, playwright, journalist, and actor, Egon Friedell (was a key figure in the extraordinary flowering of Viennese culture between the two world wars ...
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