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Dr. Hudson: No. It was the Italian bankers, not really the Jewish community at all. They confiscated the wealth of the Jewish community. The kings did not borrow from the Jews. Many of the local landlords and individuals had borrowed, but not the royal debts. We’re not talking about J...
In the Viking homelands, governance took the form of a primitive democracy. Each kingdom was divided into districts. Within each district, all free men met at regular intervals in an assembly called athing. Kings, nobles, rich men, warriors, merchants and farmers all technically had an equal...
From murderous kings and dour queens to graceful movie star princesses and dignified heads of state, royalty comes in many forms -- just like the rest of us. Just who are these people called "royalty"? What do they do, why do we have them, and how did they become royalty in the ...
One reason is that England had an influx of people who adhered to Stuart Royalism, who believed that the prosecution of witchcraft was wrong; while many of the people who adhered to Calvinism, who believed in witchcraft and its ties to the devil, diminished in number (Davies, 1947). ...
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Jenny and Rosie Dolly,known as the Dolly Sisters, were famous in the 1920s for entertaining princes, kings, millionaires, and other members of the world’s elite. The Hungarian-born twins embodied the era's decadence, flaunting their wealth and basking in beauty and glamour. After a car wre...
Nearly a century before Europe's "Age of Enlightenment," while most of the world was still ruled by kings, tsars, sultans, emperors, and chieftains, Pilgrims and Puritans fled from the King of England to settle New England. They...
Nebuchadnezzarwrote that he wanted future kings to expand his empire. In the palaces he built, he incorporated bricks inscribed with "Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon from sea to sea." When Saddam Hussein held the presidency of Iraq, he set out to fulfill Nebuchadnezzar's request, rebuilding an...