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Examples of Old English: Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum
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It has been long believed that Attilla the Hun died of a nosebleed on his wedding night.
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In 541, the bubonic plague, at the time called the Plague of Justinian, surfaces.
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Examples of Middle English: And filigh me sal þi mercy
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First recorded use of windmills.
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King John signed the Magna Carta in 1215
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The Canterbury Tales were suspected to have been written near the end of the 14th century.
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The Bubonic Plague, which was transferred from fleas, to rats, to humans, hit hard in the 14th century, and would end up wiping out 1/3 of Europe's population.
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Examples of Modern English: he leadeth me beside the still waters
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Michaelangelo completed this famous statue in 1504.
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At the age of 52, poet and playright William Shakespeare dies.
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William Shakespeare's first Folio was published in late 1623
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Here the minutemen faced the British, in what some consider the start of the Revolutionary War.
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The Declaration of Independence was singed by the Founding Fathers.
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Beowulf was suspected to be written anywhere from 800CE to 1100CE
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Vikings "discovered" the Americas long before Columbus.
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Charlemagne crowned Emperor of Rome.
