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You might have already heard of the Battle of the Ice, but just in case you haven't, here's how Prussia's 'crusade' against Novgorod played out: ...




So Prussia went to war with pagan Lithuania instead, and pretty much stayed at war with Lithuania until Lithuania moved in with Poland.

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The Crusades! Adventure! Romance! Plate armor in climatically inappropriate regions! Sacking, attempted sacking, conspiracy to sack, and jaywalking! It's like we were the Vikings, only afterwards we were too embarrassed to look anybody in the eye.

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But the point is that Godunov was not generally considered to be of sufficiently noble blood to be the ruler of Russia, and many of the Russian aristocracy (including the Romanovs) chafed under his appointment. But, Godunov had been a capable administrator under the tsar; so the whole thing went forward.




Unfortunately, things then turned Very Russian. ...




Things proceeded in the manner to which Russia is accustomed: the cold weather led to famine, famine led to economic collapse as refugees from the outer provinces fled into Moscow to take advantage of government relief efforts, disorganization and depopulation led to banditry, the Don Cossacks on the frontier grew restless, starvation and plagues broke out in the cities, some rivers might or might not have turned to blood, Girls Gone Wild put out another video, etc.




The oligarchs of the National Assembly had just one thing to say about all this.

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Considering that the Hundred Years' War was one of history's most defining "I just don't like his face" grudge matches, it may surprise you to know that in the beginning, there was an actual reason for it! See, in 1328, France's line of kings died out.




...hang on, let me just show you, this shit is bananas:...




In other words, between 1314 and 1328, the kings of France had the average life expectancy of a pet turtle.

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Initially airing February 2010, For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots is a PBS documentary that details the military contributions of African Americans. Realizing the educational significance of the film, the U.S. Army created an edited 25-minute version of the film and corresponding high school and college facilitator guides. The materials, structured to fit a classroom timeframe, are versatile and can compliment studies in American history, civics, social studies and ROTC programs.

ipl2 was asked by a representative of United Solutions and Services, LLC., to continue offering these materials after funding from the U.S. Army for hosting these materials at their original site (http://www.forloveofliberty.net/) ran out on September 30, 2010.

Two professors, Marcelite D. Johnson, Ph.D. and Jewell G. Winn, Ed.D., of M and J Consultants, holding PhD's in curriculum development created the facilitator guides. These guides define course outcomes, general information, important facts and post viewing questions for each chapter.

The chapters of the film are divided according to wars, which allow educators the option to adapt the materials to fit specific topical discussions. The 25-minute version can be shown in its entirety or according to appropriate content. Either way, educators can customize the video footage to support several presentation formats.

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…Princess Fatima Al Zamil qualified as one ruler. A blue-blooded lady born of a marriage between members of the Al-Rasheed and Shammar tribes - which makes her a relative of the current Saudi Arabian King Abdullah - she ruled the province of Ha’il from 1911 to 1914 as an administrator of her minor grandson’s estate. ...

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On Slate, Jonathan Sarna, professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University and chief historian of the National Museum of American Jewish History, offers an interesting, brief account of General Grant’s 1862 order expelling Jews as a class from the region under Grant’s Civil War command.

...Sarna explores how Grant’s order first frightened but then mobilized American Jews, spurring many to seek a more prominent role in political life. Sarna also examines how Grant’s regrets about the order affected his presidency, prompting him to reject claims that America should be identified as a “Christian nation” and to include Jews among those receiving important government appointments.

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Reflections on the 70th anniversary of Japanese American incarcerations.

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Manila, Philippines - Diario de Filipinas has confirmed that Andres Bonifacio and Emilio Aguinaldo, leaders of rival factions in the Katipunan, engaged in a duel recently. The duo, and their supporters, have worked to keep the animosity between the leaders quiet. However, sources have confirmed that they almost pulled pistols on one another in the town of San Francisco de Malabon.

The source of the widening rift between Bonifacio and Aguinaldo appears to be more than personal and is connected to their disparate views on the future of the Philippine Revolution. The Magdiwang faction, led now by Andres Bonifacio, favors retaining Katipunan leadership of the Revolution. The Magdalo faction, led by Emilio Aguinaldo, favors creating a new government that reflects the new composition of the Revolution; recent enlistees (many deserters from the Spanish military) are not members of the Katipunan. Correspondence acquired by Diario indicates that the Magdalo faction has been working to establish a new revolutionary government based in Cavite. ...

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The short clip above was recorded in Denmark in 1932 and is titled “Trotzky makes debut performance before microphone”. ...You can read the text of the speech called “In Defence of October” held on November 27 here. There are also two impressive photos secretly taken by a photojournalist. There was a lot of commotion surrounding Trotsky’s trip to Denmark...

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The Depression hit bottom in 1931. More people were jobless [in Norway] than in any other Nordic country. Unlike in the U.S., the Norwegian union movement kept the people thrown out of work as members, even though they couldn’t pay dues. This decision paid off in mass mobilizations. When the employers’ federation locked employees out of the factories to try to force a reduction of wages, the workers fought back with massive demonstrations.

Many people then found that their mortgages were in jeopardy. (Sound familiar?) The Depression continued, and farmers were unable to keep up payment on their debts.

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The architects of equality before the law, or equality of opportunity, knew that it would only allow a few special black people to succeed, and shrugged their shoulders about the rest. As the Reverend Horace James, the former Superintendent of Negro Affairs in North Carolina, said in 1865, “Give the colored man equality, not of social condition, but equality before the law, and if he proves himself the superior of the Anglo Saxon, who can hinder it? If he falls below him, who can help it?” (Side note: lynch mobs were the south’s response to the question who can hinder successful black people.)

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Occupy movement, you now have a leader.

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In any other context, we would be shocked at the suggestion that an organization’s religious affiliation should take precedence over an individual’s health care needs. Unfortunately, we have become so accustomed to religious objections to women’s health needs that they can seem commonplace.

It is important to remember, however, that many laws — including those we consider core to America’s values — initially confronted religiously-grounded opposition.

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Technology giant Google normally has its eyes fixed firmly on the future. But it has turned its attention to an old house in England to help preserve a slice of computing history. ...

For reasons of national security, a veil of secrecy shrouded Bletchley Park. Only in the last 20 years has the extraordinary story of breaking the code of the German Enigma machine finally become well-known.

The secret work there had, it is believed, shortened the war by two years.

But the veil of secrecy came at a cost, not just to the physical fabric of the site, but also, some believe, to Britain and its ability to build on its achievements in computer technology.

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It’s also worth noting that Bork also believed that not only the landmark Afrcian-American disenfranchisement case Baker v. Carr but the housing discrimination case Shelley v. Kramer were wrongly decided. Bork, in other words, on civil rights was to the right of a unanimous Supreme Court from 1948. We’re supposed to see his defeat in 1987 as some massive outrage against human decency?

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