The strategy with this party is to have the Grave Robbers use Lunge and Shadow Fade continuously, "dancing" around the Vestal. Wine, women, and song" is a hendiatris (turn of phrase) that endorses hedonistic lifestyles or behaviors. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-10-13 23:14:48 Boxid IA40258101 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier King Cadwalla of the Gewissae kills King Ethelwalh and devastates his province with plundering and slaughter

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Ferdinand and Isabella were not naïfs. Hereditary monarchs and crafty sovereigns, they had created Spain by the ploy of their marriage, uniting Ferdinand’s Aragon with Isabella’s much larger Castile and then pushing the Iberian Peninsula’s one remaining Islamic kingdom into the sea. This last they had accomplished only in March 1492 after years of war and had come to occupy the Alcázar but minutes (as it were) before Columbus appeared once more to present his final and most eloquent plea. Political to their fingertips, the Catholic Monarchs allowed not a whisper of disagreement to squeeze between them. Their motto, “Tanto monta, monta tanto,” means something like “Each is the same as the other.” So don’t try any special pleading with one of us. Each character here has a theme around the way they make money. The Antiquarian is the game's money farmer, the Grave Robber steals from the dead, the Highwayman steal from the living, and the Man-at-Arms was a mercenary. Murine' means having to do with rodents, specifically rats or mice - and thus may reference this party's scrounging (money-making) and scuttling (party shuffling) nature.After eleven years in the grave, Cuthbert’s body is found incorrupt. His successor departs this life soon afterwards Martin E. Marty , Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, The University of Chicago Under Adamnan’s influence, many churches of the Irish adopt the Catholic Easter. He writes a book on the Holy Places

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Written in AD 731, Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English Peopleis the first account of Anglo-Saxon England ever written, and remains our single most valuable source for this period. It begins with Julius Caesar’s invasion in the first century BC and goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop government and convert the people to Christianity during these crucial formative years. Relating the deeds of great men and women but also describing landscape, customs and ordinary lives, this is a rich, vivid portrait of an emerging church and nation by the ‘Father of English History’. Heroes have either been cast out from society (hellion, leper, abomination), or have to do with literal beasts (abomination, houndmaster) Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe (2006), and A Saint on Death Row (2009). A "boarding kennel" is a place that temporarily houses pet dogs or cats for a fee. The Houndmasters are the ones running this boarding kennel, while the hounds and Abominations are the dogs.Intoxicating.... Cahill's command of rich historical detail makes medieval cities and their colorful characters come to alive.” — The Los Angeles Times All heroes are constantly traveling(the occultist is after Eldritch secrets and artifacts,the antiquarian is after relics,hellion lost her tribe or was exiled from it,abomination is constantly on the move from the church) Thanks to a spectacular series of bribes and promises of future rewards by the winning candidate, the cardinals chose the Catholic Monarchs’ fellow Spaniard Rodrigo de Borja y Borja, the worst pope in history, father of several children (born both before and after his election to the papacy), including dear Lucrezia of the poisoned ring and Cesare Borgia (as the family name was Italianized), the model for Machiavelli’s prince. That the thrice-married and much-bedded Lucrezia actually poisoned the food of husbands and others she wished to be rid of, or that she slept with her father and her brother and had children by them, cannot now be proven conclusively. That the Borgias were vicious and implacable and threw howlingly good parties is indisputable. Commedia is a form of theatre characterized by masked "types" which began in Italy in the 16th century and was responsible for the advent of actresses and improvised performances based on sketches or scenarios.

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Without counting the Abomination's Transform, all heroes involved have low DMG. The party has great durability, Stress recovery, and DoTs to grind out an attrition battle.Leo Sherley-Price’s translation from the Latin brings us an accurate and readable version of Bede’s History. This edition includes Bede’s Letter to Egbert, denouncing false monasteries; and The Death of Bede, an admirable eye-witness account by Cuthbert, monk and later Abbot of Jarrow, both translated by D. H. Farmer.

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Shuffling the Hellions with Breakthrough can tear through the enemy frontal ranks. The Highwayman can join in with Duelist's Advance or Grapeshot Blast. Belle is the french word for beautiful (when speaking about a woman), as well as slang for an attractive woman. Being hellions, and in constrast to the ugly creatures they battle, they are hell's belles. There is a pun intended (hell's bells), as well as a likely reference to the AC/DC song "Hell's Bells" Columbus, basing his calculations on inaccurate assumptions, theorized that the east coast of Asia could be reached by a European ship within a few weeks of its leaving port. The actual circumference of the Earth is about 40,000 kilometers, whereas Columbus assumed it to be closer to 25,000 kilometers. Compounding his mistake was his ­misreading—in a Latin ­translation—of a renowned ­ninth-­century Persian astronomer, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir ­al-­Farghani, known to the West as Alfraganus. The Persian’s correct measurements were given in Arabic miles, which Columbus assumed to be the same as Roman miles. In actuality, Roman miles are about 25 percent shorter than Arabic ones. Had the Ocean not held the Americas and the vast sea been empty of land between Europe and Asia, Columbus and his crew, heading west, would have perished in the deep and never been heard from again. This had indeed been the fate of several earlier (and ­well-­known) attempts.The New York Times bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization reveals how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. • “Cahill is our king of popular historians.” — The Dallas Morning News Full Book Name: Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World When he is focused on the people of the Renaissance and Reformation we do get flashes of the biographical and historic analysis that is the good in Prof. Cahill. This is said with reservations. Martin Luther is necessarily a central figure of this period. Cahill shrugs off any possibility that the man had major psychological scaring from his upbringing. The historian would have you believe that the human child decides upon psychological attitudes, not based on what and how he is treated in the so called formative years, but by polling his contemporaries and rationalizing hurt against a standard deviation of normal levels of domestic violence. The diaries of Luther include descriptions of instances wherein the reformer had physical fights with the devil, ended when Martin tosses his feces at Satan. Cahill will only admit that Luther had constipation, and that only while under the physical constraints of safe keeping. Reference to the historical last crusades of which were done solely by holy crusaders, much like this party contains.