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Why did William Shakespeare hate Richard The 3rd? They didn't live in the same years. I don't understand why he'd slander a dead king.

The Ajay Bruno Show - William C. Davis Interview 06/09 by Ajay Bruno | History Podcasts There were a few things I wanted to get to, but the clock ran out! Hope you like it.

it seems like there would be no blood relation between james and william, since william was norman blood and james was probably celtic, yet the line of succession has been unbroken from william until present day ? thanks

In his description of the book here: Writing the Pacific War - Published Books, Reviews and New Writing Projects Willam Bartsch states: "Juxtaposed with detailed personal experiences of the Marine participants, those of many of their Japanese adversaries are also presented in this, the first...

One could argue that his extreme actions (for example the Harrying of the North) were required for him to maintain control as a ruler and not lose the ungoverned realms but were they too evil? Another question of which I am not sure of the answer to, did William actually have much control over...

Point of departure - Harold wins at Hastings. He also beats a revenge invasion by Robert and William Rufus, who are the surviving sons of Duke William. Henry Beauclerc doesn't exist in this timeline, since he was born in 1067, and thus after Hastings. By 1075, Harold is seemingly sitting...

Aside from the issue of the massacre, he had flunked out of junior college and done odd jobs before enlisting. I guess the men from good colleges and so on mostly got out of going to Vietnam one way or another. However, couldn't they have found enough college educated draftees and experienced...

Lets imagine that William III of Orange wasn't eliminated by that mole assassin. How would this affect the war of the Spanish succession? How would his survival change things and his assets and flaws effect the war. Would he have been a better political leader than Queen Anne. Despite my...

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If William the Conqueror set off earlier and arrived at the same time or earlier than Harald Hardrada how would the events of the year 1066 have been different and how would the subsequent events from there have played out.

What were the major sources of revenue in the Netherlands around 1830? How did William I finance his government?

William T Sherman- The Most Overrated General of the Civil war? “The literature is frequently slanted in favor of Grant and Sherman” -Thomas J Rowland George B McClellan and Civil war History Kent State University Press William Tucumseh Sherman or “Uncle Billy” in my...

Since the Norman Conquest of 1066, it seems that many English kings were quite preoccupied with retaining and/or recovering their continental lands in France. King John, for example, greatly increased government revenue demand in England between 1204 and 1214 for the sole purpose of reconquering...

By William Dalrymple The battlelines are drawn in Karnataka over the Siddaramaiah government’s decision to celebrate November 10 as Tipu Jayanti. But what’s the truth about the ‘Tiger of Mysore’? Author and historian William Dalrymple elaborates... In 1791, the Swami of Sringeri Math...

Why didn't William I make his oldest son Robert the King of England.?

Do you think English history would be much different if the white ship had not sunk in 1120 killing William Adelin who was the only legitimate son to Henry I ? Yes i know its impossible to know. But this is called speculative history.

Let's suppose for a moment that much better weather conditions had prevailed during William Henry Harrison's inauguration as president in 1841, or at the very least, he had worn the right clothing for the conditions at hand. So W.H. Harrison avoids the illness that would kill him one month later...

Yeesh, this is my first proper post, be easy on me. I'm crazy about English Consort Music. It was a kind of chamber music that was very popular with the upper classes for about a century from about 1560 through 1670. My favorite composer, right now, is William Lawes. He was likely born in...

What if President William Harrison had survived his illness and did 2 terms?

Following the Norman Conquest, it was part of folklore that he devided up the country among friends relatives and nobles who supported him. it was said to be around300 people/families, Who started off the present aristocracy/landed gentry. Is this correct? Wasn't there in existence an...