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#1 The story of human beings in Ireland is very short. The first evidence of people living in Ireland goes back only to c. 8000 BC, to the era known as the Mesolithic or middle stone age. The first Irish settlers, at sites such as Mount Sandel in Co. Derry and Lough Boora in Co. Offaly, seem to have depended on wild boar and fish for their non-plant foods.
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Book Preview: #1 The end of the war in Berlin was on 30 April, but in Aachen, 640 kilometers west of Berlin, the war had already been over for six months. In Duisburg, the war had been over in the districts to the west of the Rhine since 28 March, but in the east it raged for another 16 days.
#2 The idea of Zero Hour was emblematic of the elemental break that Germany had experienced....
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#1 The British government was responsible for the state of Ireland, and it was their mismanagement that produced the terrible conditions there. The mere fact that Ireland was so miserable was a complete and irrefutable proof of the mismanagement to which she had been subjected.
#2 The Famine killed millions of people in Ireland, and it was also the cause of emigration....
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#1 I had wanted to be a professional actor after college, but I had no plan how to achieve it. I had stumbled into an Art History 101 class at the end of my freshman year, and I found myself spellbound. Within three weeks, I became an art history major.
#2 The reward of jet lag is a new set of coordinates, a new language, and local delicacies. I was in Italy to study...
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#1 The French countryside was dotted with obstacles and wooden crosses, which were symbols of the German occupation. The German army knew that the days of their comparatively idyllic existence were drawing to a close by 1944.
#2 In the summer of 1940, there was no thought of an invasion in the minds of Germany's soldiers basking in the glory of victory over their traditional...
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#1 The first Christian bishop was sent to Ireland in AD 431, and his name was not Patrick. The theologian St. Prosper of Aquitaine records the event. The first Christian bishop was Palladius, and he spent most of his time in Ireland ministering in Baltinglass.
#2 Patrick was a Romanized British man who grew up comfortably in his province. He was captured by Irish...
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#1 The modern visitor to the Highland areas of Scotland encounters the Picts through their spectacular artistic legacy. They made their first appearance in the historical record in the third century, when their raiding activities troubled the authorities of Roman Britain. They vanished from the pages of history in the eighth century.
#2 The king-list is a source of data...
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#1 The Karelian Isthmus is a land bridge between Russia and Scandinavia, and has been a highway for tribal migrations, a conduit for trade, and a springboard for conquest. The Isthmus has been a battleground between Russia and Sweden and has suffered as a result.
#2 Finland was a Swedish province from 1721 to 1809, when it was ceded to Russia as a function of the general...
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#1 The traditional image of Merlin as the great wizard of Arthurian legend can be traced back to the twelfth century when Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae introduced him in this form.
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#1 In 1845, Robert Fortune was sent to China to collect samples of the Orient's botanical treasures. He was in the last days of a three-year expedition to China, conducted at the behest of the Royal Horticultural Society of London, to find and collect samples of the Orient's botanical riches.
#2 The British Empire was a source of opportunity for many entrepreneurial...
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#1 The dusk spreads from the river. The clatter of shuttering echoes and answers as every house in the Georgian metropolis fortifies itself against the advancing dark. The November gloom hastens lodgers home, and they scurry back with sausages, oysters, and a pennyworth of tea.
#2 The idea of private life is a creation of the early modern period, and England is the birthplace of privacy....
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#1 The village of La Roche-Guyon was occupied by German soldiers in June 1944. It was the most occupied village in all of occupied France. Every one of the 543 villagers was guarded by more than three German soldiers.
#2 Rommel was the commander of Army Group B, and he was waiting impatiently for six o'clock. At that time, he would breakfast with his staff and then depart...
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#1 The kleśa of being a personality, or individuality, is the result of the urge to divide and discriminate. It is a natural instinctive form in which libido first appears out of the unconscious. According to tantric teaching, there is an urge to produce a personality, something that is centered and divided from other beings.
#2 The instinct of individuation is found everywhere in...
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#1 The English capital punishment used to be hanging, but other means of execution were also used. The church often possessed the right to execute criminals, and the gallows were seen almost everywhere.
#2 The Peak of Derbyshire was ruled by Sir George Vernon, who from the boundless magnificence of his hospitality at the famous Hall of Haddon was known throughout the...
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#1 The mood in Germany had changed two years before, when rumors began to circulate that General Paulus's Sixth Army had been encircled on the Volga by the Red Army. The Nazi regime found it difficult to admit that the largest formation in the Wehrmacht was doomed to annihilation in the ruins of Stalingrad.
#2 The air-raid shelters in Berlin were overcrowded, and the foreign workers...
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#1 The town of Pécs, Hungary, is a good place to start the history of Habsburg Europe. It is the last place heading south before the landscape gets terminally dusty, and it has a frontier atmosphere. The town was a wine colony in the fourth century, but was destroyed by Hun raiders in AD 400.
#2 The area that would become the southern zone of the Habsburg Empire was...
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#1 The hotel the Campbell sisters stayed at was a Mina sort of place. It was Victorian-brothel-meets-20s-speakeasy, and it had a cosy bar with a warm, cocoon-like welcome. Hannah enjoyed the attention from the staff.
#2 Hannah was in the middle of a sabbatical when she decided to come to Ireland and take cooking classes. She had never been out of the work force, and...
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#1 Picasso and his friend Carles Casagemas arrived in Paris from Barcelona in mid-October 1900. They were tasked with seeing the Exposition Universelle, which was scheduled to close on November 12. They had little time to dally if they wanted to see it.
#2 In Paris, the engineers and construction workers were working on the city's new underground Métro system....
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#1 The visit that the Habsburg heir and his wife, Sophie, paid to Sarajevo lasted only an hour, but the drama of those 60 or 70 minutes has revolutionized the course of modern history.
#2 The view of Sarajevo from the southwest is a lovely one. The valley of the Miljacka, a shallow torrent that cuts the town in two, narrows at its eastern outskirts to a rugged...
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Get the Summary of Kermit Lynch's Adventures on the Wine Route in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Adventures on the Wine Route" by Kermit Lynch chronicles his explorations and discoveries in the French wine industry. Lynch's journey begins in the Loire Valley, where he develops a fondness for the region's red wines, particularly Cabernet Franc from Chinon and Bourgueil. He is surprised by a Sancerre rouge and impressed...
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