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First published in 1485 by William Caxton, Le Morte d'Arthur is today perhaps the best-known work of Arthurisian literature in Englsih. Many modern Arthurian writers have used Malory as their principal source
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Papermaking and manufacturing in Europe was started by Muslims living on the Iberian Peninsula, ( today's Portugal & Spain) and Sicily in the 10th century
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First drafted by the Archishop of Canterbury to make peace between the unpopular King and a group f rebel barons, it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from ilegal imprisonment s
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The Crusades, judged by what they set out to accomplish, mus be accounted an inglorious failure. After two hundred years of conflict, afer a vast expenditure of wealth and human lives, the Holy Land remained in Moslem hands
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The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, reulsting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people
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The DC Comics version of Robin Hood first appeared in New Adventure Comics Vol 1, #23 January 1938
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A collection of stories in a frame story, between 1387 and 1400. It is the story of a group of thirty people who travel as piligrims to Canterbury, England
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The Yorkists defeat King VI's Lancastrain forces at St. Albans, 20 miles northwest of London. Many Lancasrian bobles perished, including Edmund Beaufort, the duke of Somerset
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a collection of stories in a frame story, between 1387 and 1400. It is the story of a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury, England
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Lord of Ireland form his seizing the crown on 22 Agust 1485 until his death on 21 April 1509
