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…under him. (It should be remembered that almost everything that went wrong in twentieth-century Europe began with the Prussian victory there). On another occasion the Archduke was really warned by…

…Piero del Vacca, whose nickname Achattabriga makes him sound like a bandit. Third, slaves were relatively common in fifteenth-century Italy, as long as the slave was not Christian. Indeed, Europe’s…

…Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire. Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill ‘Bolshevism…

…is the idea, examined of late in this blog, that gypsies steal children, an idea that stretches from eastern Europe through to the New World, where it was taken up…

…on the other side of the globe, rather than in the field outside the author’s city. As to living trees Beach even has some strange nineteenth-century references from Europe to…

…titles here are from Arab, Chinese and Persian libraries: medieval Europe was a bit of a disappointment too. Many of these works no longer exist, they are, in other words,…

…Dr. Jessopp left him to help himself. The Independent “Fear and Ghosts” Andrew Lang, 603-606 Volume 72 1912 Longleat has one of the largest private book collections in Europe. It…

…away, i.e. in another state in the US or in another country in Europe. (vi) look out for stories that repeat themselves again and again in different sources and over…

…early Christian Europe! What did Macarius really mean? We don’t know as we have to trust the hostile Ratramnus to recount Macarius’s student views, who may, it must be remembered,…

Here is an early instance of the 419 scam. Was Spain nineteenth-century Nigeria? For some months a number of persons in several parts of Europe have had letters addressed to…

…cats came to be so hated in many parts of Europe. Here is one of the most interesting early texts, which comes from Walter Map, writing in England, c. 1180….

…Europe’s most important sixteenth-century witch theorists. There was… at Lyons a young noblewoman a few years ago, who got up at night and, lighting the candle, took a jar of…

…large objects don’t tend to stay together over this kind of distance; perhaps a European vessel was wrecked pushing down the African coast towards the equator? But even that c….

…few attractive categories: the gentleman soldier. The cult of the gentleman soldier began amongst the European aristocracy in the middle ages, its values were embodied in chivalry: and the cult…

…Ports Eve News, 23 Feb 1880, 3. Dead Man Family: X sends a letter to grieving family in Europe of son who has died. Apparently he has a family in…