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Birth of a King

Elderion

By: Peter Jenka

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In a world far different from ours, a 3000 year long peaceful era ends when a fratricide son betrays his own blood and wrecks havoc in the land. The Imperial army is falling apart after the assassination of King Tiber Bauron. The armies of vicious beasts conquer most of the land in less than a month. The Imperial army is forced to relocate into the outskirts of the once great nation. Other nations of the Egician Empire are in danger but fail to unite with the Royal Force, the remainder of the Imperial Army. In his desperation, Prince Artos Bauron seeks the answer to his prayers. He hears of an heir, long lost to another world. But will he find him in time before the enemy destroys him and with him their last hope for a free Egis once again? More importantly, will the heir succeed where others have failed? Or is the prophecy false?

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1462810772

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Elderions Saga: Rise of Evil

By: Peter Jenka

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Elderions Saga: Rise of Evil

By: Peter Jenka

Though the defenses of the Royal Force were boosted and Gázim and Aro killed, the growing activity of the UDE forces is now the main concern of the King and the Grand Order of the Viktan Knights. Elderion and his kingdom now face a different challenge from a planet unknown to them. While Elderion seeks out Aro and mysterious Magia signatures on Earth, an immense force of UDE soldiers mobilizes on the outskirts of the Bauron dessert. And what is most troublesome they are not attacking neither Atris or Lopthar on their way. At the same time the Viktan High council is divided and the parliament is left without a chair, powerless waiting for their doom. Seshoma is attacked on a peaceful mission to Orca and Jaylon and a single battalion unravel a mysterious plot deep in the enemy territory Jungle, far out of the reach of any communication. Again Elderion must prove himself before not only Egis but also Earth perish under the jaws of an evil forgotten by time itself.

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1465353038

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Aldous Huxley

A Study of the Major Novels

By: Peter Bowering

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Aldous Huxley

A Study of the Major Novels

By: Peter Bowering

Essays analysing the decline of Aldous Huxley as a novelist have become a commonplace of literary criticism over the past two decades, yet he continues to be read and few writers equal his ability to make moral concepts exciting, to animate ideas and clothe them with life and vitality. In this study of the nine major novels, from Crome Yellow (1921) to Island (1962), Mr Bowering offers a positive evaluation Huxley's achievements as a novelist of ideas, as the moralist of a scientific age, and as an ironist worthy to be compared with Swift. He shows how the conflicting claims of morality and art must be judged in relation to Huxley's work as a whole and to this search for a way of life which would 'fit all the facts of experience'. All the principle novels require some knowledge of Huxley's source materials to be adequately understood and Mr Bowering is particularly informative on this score. His discussion indeed attempts to set the novels in the widest possible area of reference.

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A&C Black

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1472507193

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Driving Spaces

A Cultural-Historical Geography of England's M1 Motorway

By: Peter Merriman

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Driving Spaces

A Cultural-Historical Geography of England's M1 Motorway

By: Peter Merriman

Peter Merriman traces the social and cultural histories and geographies of driving spaces through an examination of the design, construction and use of England’s M1 motorway in the 1950s and 1960s. A first-of-its-kind academic study examining the production and consumption of the landscapes and spaces of a British motorway An interdisciplinary approach, engaging with theoretical and empirical work from sociology, history, cultural studies, anthropology and geography Contains 38 high quality illustrations Based on extensive, original archive work

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444355473

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The Social Differentiation of English in Norwich

By: Peter Trudgill

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The Social Differentiation of English in Norwich

By: Peter Trudgill

This 1979 volume was the first to apply the principles of social linguistics within a British urban community, specifically Norwich.

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CUP Archive

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0521202647

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Carl Goerdeler and the Jewish Question, 1933–1942

By: Peter Hoffmann

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Carl Goerdeler and the Jewish Question, 1933–1942

By: Peter Hoffmann

In the 1930s, Carl Goerdeler, the mayor of Leipzig and, as prices commissioner, a cabinet-level official, engaged in active opposition against the persecution of the Jews in Germany and in Eastern Europe. He did this openly until 1938 and then secretly in contact with the British Foreign Office. Having failed to change Hitler's policy against the Jews, Goerdeler joined forces with military and civil conspirators against the regime. He was hanged for treason on 2 February 1945. This book describes the actions of Carl Goerdeler, the German resistance leader who consistently engaged in efforts to protect the Jews against persecution. Using new evidence and thus far under-researched documents, including a memorandum written by Goerdeler at the end of 1941 with a proposal for the status of the Jews in the world, the book fundamentally changes our understanding of Goerdeler's plan and presents a new view of the German resistance to Hitler.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139499440

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Heretics and Believers

A History of the English Reformation

By: Peter Marshall

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Heretics and Believers

A History of the English Reformation

By: Peter Marshall

A sumptuously written people’s history and a major retelling and reinterpretation of the story of the English Reformation Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall’s sweeping new history—the first major overview for general readers in a generation—argues that sixteenth-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to change, but one open to ideas of “reform” in various competing guises. King Henry VIII wanted an orderly, uniform Reformation, but his actions opened a Pandora’s Box from which pluralism and diversity flowed and rooted themselves in English life. With sensitivity to individual experience as well as masterfully synthesizing historical and institutional developments, Marshall frames the perceptions and actions of people great and small, from monarchs and bishops to ordinary families and ecclesiastics, against a backdrop of profound change that altered the meanings of “religion” itself. This engaging history reveals what was really at stake in the overthrow of Catholic culture and the reshaping of the English Church.

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Yale University Press

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0300226330

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Victoria Protestantism and Bloody Mary

The Legacy of Religious Persecution in Tudor England

By: P. L. Wickins

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Victoria Protestantism and Bloody Mary

The Legacy of Religious Persecution in Tudor England

By: P. L. Wickins

This is an important and interesting book on aspects of our religious heritage which until now have escaped the investigation of scholars. History is all too often employed as a weapon for smiting the "infidel." So it was among religiously-minded people in 19th century England. By the beginning of the Victorian era, after the somnolence of the 18th century, religious enthusiasm among both clergy and laity in the established Church revived. This brought about such acrimonious differences it was a wonder they could be accommodated in the same Church. Provoked by a group of Oxford scholars who sought to show that the Church of England was neither Roman Catholic nor Protestant but a middle way between the two, Protestant militants were aroused to demonstrate against and even disrupt church services of which they disapproved. To remind English men and women of the glories of the Reformation they erected memorials in many towns to celebrate the heroic reputation of the martyrs who suffered in the reign of 'Bloody Mary.' Memorials required names and to find out who the victims were and where they met their end the memorial committees turned to the pages of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments of the Christian Martyrs, better known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs. A most effective work of propaganda in the days of religious warfare, it was reprinted in new editions. Now the target was no longer the Church of Rome, but the Anglo-Catholics or the alleged 'Romanisers.' A perplexing problem for the historian is what the Protestant martyrs actually believed. It is clearly naive to suppose that they died for 19th century parliamentary democracy and liberties. Foxe's criterion of Protestant martyrdom was hatred of Rome and in his anxiety to drum up the numbers he was reticent about or ignorant of the widely varying beliefs of his martyrs. The assumption of the 19th century Protestants was that the English people rose as one to reject popery, but it is impossible to accurately assess the support for state-imposed religious change. Surviving evidence, as the preamble to wills, seems to suggest that people for the most part simply acquiesced in what the government of the day decided was the 'true' religion.

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Arena books

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1906791953

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Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England

By: Peter Marshall

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Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England

By: Peter Marshall

This is the first comprehensive study of one of the most important aspects of the Reformation in England: its impact on the status of the dead. Protestant reformers insisted vehemently that between heaven and hell there was no 'middle place' of purgatory where the souls of the departed could be assisted by the prayers of those still living on earth. This was no remote theological proposition, but a revolutionary doctrine affecting the lives of all sixteenth-century English people, and the ways in which their Church and society were organized. This book illuminates the (sometimes ambivalent) attitudes towards the dead to be discerned in pre-Reformation religious culture, and traces (up to about 1630) the uncertain progress of the 'reformation of the dead' attempted by Protestant authorities, as they sought both to stamp out traditional rituals and to provide the replacements acceptable in an increasingly fragmented religious world. It also provides detailed surveys of Protestant perceptions of the afterlife, of the cultural meanings of the appearance of ghosts, and of the patterns of commemoration and memory which became characteristic of post-Reformation England. Together these topics constitute an important case-study in the nature and tempo of the English Reformation as an agent of social and cultural transformation. The book speaks directly to the central concerns of current Reformation scholarship, addressing questions posed by 'revisionist' historians about the vibrancy and resilience of traditional religious culture, and by 'post-revisionists' about the penetration of reformed ideas. Dr Marshall demonstrates not only that the dead can be regarded as a significant 'marker' of religious and cultural change, but that a persistent concern with their status did a great deal to fashion the distinctive appearance of the English Reformation as a whole, and to create its peculiarities and contradictory impulses.

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OUP Oxford

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0191542911

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Comprehensive Reviews in Toxicology

For Emergency Clinicians

By: Peter D Bryson

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Comprehensive Reviews in Toxicology

For Emergency Clinicians

By: Peter D Bryson

Revised and updated, this edition covers general principles of overdose management; the automonic nervous system, neurotransmitters and drugs; drugs used in psychiatry; cardiac drugs; agents that burn; gases and abnormal haemoglobin formation; the

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CRC Press

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1439810877

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What Works for Whom?

A Critical Review of Treatments for Children and Adolescents

By: Peter Fonagy,David Cottrell,Jeannette Phillips,Dickon Bevington,Danya Glaser,Elizabeth Allison

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What Works for Whom?

A Critical Review of Treatments for Children and Adolescents

By: Peter Fonagy,David Cottrell,Jeannette Phillips,Dickon Bevington,Danya Glaser,Elizabeth Allison

The standard reference in the field, this acclaimed work synthesizes findings from hundreds of carefully selected studies of mental health treatments for children and adolescents. Chapters on frequently encountered clinical problems systematically review the available data, identify gaps in what is known, and spell out recommendations for evidence-based practice. The authors draw on extensive clinical experience as well as research expertise. Showcasing the most effective psychosocial and pharmacological interventions for young patients, they also address challenges in translating research into real-world clinical practice. New to This Edition *Incorporates over a decade of research advances and evolving models of evidence-based care. *New chapter topic: child maltreatment. *Separate chapters on self-injurious behavior, eating disorders, and substance use disorders (previously covered in a single chapter on self-harming disorders). *Expanded chapters on depression, anxiety, and conduct disorder. *Includes reviews of the burgeoning range of manualized psychosocial "treatment packages" for children.

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Guilford Publications

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1462516378

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To Walk the Earth Again

The Politics of Resurrection in Early America

By: Christopher Trigg

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To Walk the Earth Again

The Politics of Resurrection in Early America

By: Christopher Trigg

The Quick and the Dead explores the political dimension of Anglo-American Protestant writing about the future resurrection of the dead between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Reading histories, epic poetry, funeral sermons, and scientific tracts alongside works of eschatological exegesis, the book challenges the conventional scholarly assumption that Protestantism's rejection of purgatory prepared the way for the individualization and secularization of Western attitudes towards mortality. A deeper engagement with the complex history of resurrection theology reveals the importance of collective solidarity with the dead for Protestant social and political thought. Puritans, Anglicans, Quakers, and radicals looked to resurrection to understand their communities' prospects in the uncertain terrain of colonial America. They also expressed their conviction that political identities and religious duties did not expire with the mortal body but were carried over into the next life. This belief shaped their positions on a wide variety of issues, including the limits of ecclesiastical and civil power, the relationship of humanity to the natural world, and the emerging rhetoric of racial difference. In the early national and antebellum periods, secular and Christian reformers drew on the idea of resurrection to imagine how American republicanism might transform society and politics and ameliorate the human form itself. Early-modern Protestants really believed that they would live again in the flesh. By taking this belief seriously, this book opens up new perspectives on their mutually constitutive visions of earthly and resurrected existence"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197652751

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The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London, 1501–1557

By: Peter W. M. Blayney

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The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London, 1501–1557

By: Peter W. M. Blayney

This major, revisionist reference work explains for the first time how the Stationers' Company acquired both a charter and a nationwide monopoly of printing. In the most detailed and comprehensive investigation of the London book trade in any period, Peter Blayney systematically documents the story from 1501, when printing first established permanent roots inside the City boundaries, until the Stationers' Company was incorporated by royal charter in 1557. Having exhaustively re-examined original sources and scoured numerous archives unexplored by others in the field, Blayney radically revises accepted beliefs about such matters as the scale of native production versus importation, privileges and patents, and the regulation of printing by the Church, Crown and City. His persistent focus on individuals - most notably the families, rivals and successors of Richard Pynson, John Rastell and Robert Redman - keeps this study firmly grounded in the vivid lives and careers of early Tudor Londoners.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107512409

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Religious Identities in Henry VIII's England

By: Peter Marshall

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Religious Identities in Henry VIII's England

By: Peter Marshall

Henry VIII's decision to declare himself supreme head of the church in England, and thereby set himself in opposition to the authority of the papacy, had momentous consequences for the country and his subjects. At a stroke people were forced to reconsider assumptions about their identity and loyalties, in rapidly shifting political and theological circumstances. Whilst many studies have investigated Catholic and Protestant identities during the reigns of Elizabeth and Mary, much less is understood about the processes of religious identity-formation during Henry's reign.

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Routledge

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1317066936

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Injury Prevention

An International Perspective Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Policy

By: Peter Barss

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Injury Prevention

An International Perspective Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Policy

By: Peter Barss

The authors emphasize a methodological approach in the analysis of the health impact, circumstances, and costs of injuries. They detail the role of health services in injury prevention and describe surveillance methods and effective preventive measures that can be implemented relatively easily, even in countries with limited resources.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195119827

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The Death of the German Cousin

Variations on a Literary Stereotype, 1890-1920

By: Peter Edgerly Firchow

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The Death of the German Cousin

Variations on a Literary Stereotype, 1890-1920

By: Peter Edgerly Firchow

In works by Kipling and Forster, Lawrence and Shaw, Mansfield and Conrad, the Germans were transformed from peaceful country cousins into bloodthirsty Huns. The author's aim is to present what Lukacs calls extreme situations, which radiate a symbolic force far beyond their relatively narrow confines.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838750958

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Cultural Norms and National Security

Police and Military in Postwar Japan

By: Peter J. Katzenstein

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Cultural Norms and National Security

Police and Military in Postwar Japan

By: Peter J. Katzenstein

Nonviolent state behavior in Japan, this book argues, results from the distinctive breadth with which the Japanese define security policy, making it inseparable from the quest for social stability through economic growth. While much of the literature on contemporary Japan has resisted emphasis on cultural uniqueness, Peter J. Katzenstein seeks to explain particular aspects of Japan's security policy in terms of legal and social norms that are collective, institutionalized, and sometimes the source of intense political conflict and change. Culture, thus specified, is amenable to empirical analysis, suggesting comparisons across policy domains and with other countries. Katzenstein focuses on the traditional core agencies of law enforcement and national defense. The police and the military in postwar Japan are, he finds, reluctant to deploy physical violence to enforce state security. Police agents rarely use repression against domestic opponents of the state, and the Japanese public continues to support, by large majorities, constitutional limits on overseas deployment of the military. Katzenstein traces the relationship between the United States and Japan since 1945 and then compares Japan with postwar Germany. He concludes by suggesting that while we may think of Japan's security policy as highly unusual, it is the definition of security used in the United States that is, in international terms, exceptional.

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Cornell University Press

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1501731467

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The Scroll and the Marble

Studies in Reading and Reception in Hellenistic Poetry

By: Peter Bing

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The Scroll and the Marble

Studies in Reading and Reception in Hellenistic Poetry

By: Peter Bing

Seminal essays from one of the most prominent scholars of Hellenistic poetry

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University of Michigan Press

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0472116320

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9780472116324

What Works for Whom?, Second Edition

A Critical Review of Treatments for Children and Adolescents

By: Peter Fonagy,David Cottrell,Jeannette Phillips,Dickon Bevington,Danya Glaser,Elizabeth Allison

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What Works for Whom?, Second Edition

A Critical Review of Treatments for Children and Adolescents

By: Peter Fonagy,David Cottrell,Jeannette Phillips,Dickon Bevington,Danya Glaser,Elizabeth Allison

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Guilford Publications

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146252592X

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Hirohito and War

Imperial Tradition and Military Decision Making in Prewar Japan

By: Peter Wetzler

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Hirohito and War

Imperial Tradition and Military Decision Making in Prewar Japan

By: Peter Wetzler

Content Description #Includes bibliographical references and index.

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University of Hawaii Press

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082481925X

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Chatterton

By: Peter Ackroyd

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Chatterton

By: Peter Ackroyd

When Thomas Chatterton, a brilliant literary counterfeiter, is found dead in 1770, the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death are unraveled in succeeding centuries.

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0802134807

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