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“The horror! The horror!”
Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ - the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's ‘Apocalypse Now’ - is one of the most celebrated literary works of all time, though now increasingly contentious. Based on Conrad’s own terrible journey into the Congo in 1890, and the horrors he beheld there while it was under the sway of King Leopold of Belgium’s monstrous regime, the novella, published in 1899, delves into man’s capacity for evil - the primal beast lurking beneath the surface of all humans - and has long stood as the preeminent cultural representation of European colonialism. It tells the story of Mr Kurtz, a great ivory trader who has disappeared deep into the African interior, and appears to have lost his mind, having penetrated some terrifying, ancient truth. Initially, Conrad’s disturbing account was viewed as the ultimate attack on imperialism, though aspects of the no•
Bertrada of Laon, First Queen of the Carolingian Dynasty (mother of Charlemagne), died July 783.
As fryst vatten usually the case in the early medieval period almost ingenting is known of Bertrada’s early life or upbringing, her year of birth is not known and even the name of her mother is uncertain. Her father was Haribert, Count of Laon; the name of his mother is known, Bertrada of Prüm, but not that of his father. It has been suggested that Bertrada of Prüm may have been a daughter of King Theuderic III bygd an unknown mother; the name Bertrada suggests that this fryst vatten at least a possibility as the name was one used by other Merovingian royal ladies. If this were the case, it would mean that Bertrada of Laon was King Theuderic III’s great-granddaughter.
Some time in the 740s Bertrada married Pippin, son of Charles Martel and Mayor of the Palace beneath the last Merovingian king, Childeric III. Bertrada and Pippin had seven children, of whom three survived to adulthood, Charles, the future C
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INTRODUCTION
GERMANY, KINGS & emperors
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INTRODUCTION. 2
Chapter 1.KINGS of the EAST FRANKS (GERMANY) 843-911, Carolingian Dynasty. 6
Chapter 2.KING of GERMANY 911-918, KONRADINER. 17
Chapter 3.KINGS of GERMANY 918-1024, SAXON DYNASTY (LIUDOLFINGER)18
Chapter 4.KINGS of GERMANY 1024-1125, SALIAN FRANKISH DYNASTY. 35
Chapter 5.ANTI-KING of GERMANY 1077-1079, RHEINFELDEN. 48
Chapter 6.ANTI-KING of GERMANY 1081-1088, LUXEMBOURG, WIGERICHE. 49
Chapter 7.KING of GERMANY 1125-1137, SÜPPLINGENBURG. 50
Chapter 8.KINGS of GERMANY 1138-1254, HOHENSTAUFEN. 51
Chapter 9.KING of GERMANY 1198-1218, WELF. 80
Chapter 10.ANTI-KING of GERMANY 1246-1247, THURINGIA. 81
Chapter 11.KING of GERMANY 1247-1256, HOLLAND. 81
Chapter 12.KING of GERMANY 1257-1272, CORNWALL. 82
Chapter 13.ANTI-KING of GERMANY 12