Tag: history
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Mankilling manual
Ruthful crusader, to slay dragons pregnant with stagnant flame And bold boar-faced jewels of Saxon make, and shield fragments, Which elsewise would have broken Before Billy the Bastard’s Domesday book ere opened, One must lure the beast from its cave to some open place At all times, one’s mount must be maintained In close, inside…
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Arx tarpeia Capitoli proxima
Went from sticking to margins to brazen open marches Through ancient triumphal arches, caged in marble Trajan’s heart As prelate, I shall commission incredible works of truthless art I intend to make harmfully rich the Eternal City’s every starving artist One by one, the slow-gathered darknesses are harnessed Virgo ascendant in the stars, ‘longside Mars…
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Paddyonthemove
Fulco of Ireland served alongside Charlemagne of the flame retardant cloak and raiment There showing shrewdness, piety and bravery, thereby was he raised And married raised a family, to this day the name Scoti is conveyed James of Ireland, who accompanied Odoric of Pordenone from occident to orient His glorious travels were widely reported, dictated…