History's Great Untold Stories: Obscure Events of Lasting ImportanceAllen & Unwin, 2006 - 367 pages 'History's Great Untold Stories' opens readers' eyes to important places, events and peoples that have been ignored, yet directly affected our history. |
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... passed sentence on it . The Catholic Church does not officially discuss the Cadaver Synod , which scholars call by the equally ominous - sounding title Synod horrenda . With a little prompting , it will admit to popes who were less than ...
... passed sentence on it . The Catholic Church does not officially discuss the Cadaver Synod , which scholars call by the equally ominous - sounding title Synod horrenda . With a little prompting , it will admit to popes who were less than ...
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... passed the sentence . All of Formosus's acts as pope and bishop were invali- dated , including every clerical appointment and ordination he had made ; three fin- gers of his right hand were cut off - the ones used to give blessings ...
... passed the sentence . All of Formosus's acts as pope and bishop were invali- dated , including every clerical appointment and ordination he had made ; three fin- gers of his right hand were cut off - the ones used to give blessings ...
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... passed from person to person by respiratory drops , one has to be in close contact with a leper for a long time to have any chance of catching the disease . In medieval times , leprosy was also thought to be passed by sexual contact and ...
... passed from person to person by respiratory drops , one has to be in close contact with a leper for a long time to have any chance of catching the disease . In medieval times , leprosy was also thought to be passed by sexual contact and ...
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... passed away sometime in mid - May , 1185 , a few months shy of his twenty - fourth birthday , and was buried in a cemetery near Mount Calvary . The Kingdom of Jerusalem would not survive long after his death . His young nephew , King ...
... passed away sometime in mid - May , 1185 , a few months shy of his twenty - fourth birthday , and was buried in a cemetery near Mount Calvary . The Kingdom of Jerusalem would not survive long after his death . His young nephew , King ...
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... passed in front of the wheel of a wagon , and all those whose heads rose above the linchpin were immediately beheaded . The women and small children were assimilated into Temujin's tribe . In effect , Jamuka's tribe ceased to exist ...
... passed in front of the wheel of a wagon , and all those whose heads rose above the linchpin were immediately beheaded . The women and small children were assimilated into Temujin's tribe . In effect , Jamuka's tribe ceased to exist ...
Contents
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The Marco Polo of the East | 46 |
The Treasure Fleet | 58 |
The Shot That Echoed Through the Centuries | 71 |
The Shimabara Uprising and the Disappearance of Japan | 84 |
John Wesley Powell and the Shaping of the American West | 206 |
How the World Was Changed by Bird Droppings | 220 |
The Fighting Women of Dahomey | 230 |
The Story of John Devoy | 242 |
Queen Min and the Battle to Save Korea | 256 |
The First Modern Genocide | 270 |
The San Francisco Plague | 282 |
Blessed Assassin of the Armenian Nation | 296 |
Father of American Civil Liberties | 94 |
The Battle of Poltava and the Fall of the Swedish Empire | 106 |
Vitus Bering and the Russian Discovery of Alaska | 118 |
Francisco Dagohoy and the Rebels of Bohol | 132 |
The British Abolition Movement | 140 |
North Americas Greatest Geographer | 152 |
The Great Conciliator of Van Diemens Land | 164 |
American President of Nicaragua | 180 |
The SecondWorst Conflict in History | 194 |
Explorers of the Deep | 308 |
The Search for the Origins of the Aryan Race | 322 |
A Lesson Not Learnt | 334 |
The Death of the Mexican Counterculture | 346 |
Bibliography | 358 |
Acknowledgments | 360 |
Index | 361 |
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