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2) Knight
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Describes knights and knighthood focusing on their earliest history, their armor, weapons, horses, battles, the castle at peace, and the lords and ladies of the manors. Also provides information on chivalry, the tournaments, jousts, heraldry, and hunting. In addition contains descriptions of a knight's faith, pilgrimages, and crusades, and other related material.
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"The prolonged German siege of Leningrad during the Second World War was among the most destructive sieges in history, leading to mass starvation and well over a million deaths. The contemporary Russian poet and scholar Polina Barskova, born in Leningrad, has done extensive research on the siege in archives in St. Petersburg, research that has borne fruit in Living Pictures, an extraordinary dramatization of life under the most extreme of circumstances....
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"Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where, historically, empires clashed and sieges from the east toppled kingdoms and enslaved peoples. Many view the region-comprising present-day Germany, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Slovenia, and Romania, among other countries--as united only by the shared experience of invasions launched by foreign powers, from the Huns of the fourth century, to the Swedes of the seventeenth,...
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