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between Scylla and Charybdis,
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Henry VIII owned more than eight hundred carpets,
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but he frequently drank too much, and when he was inebriated would indiscriminately "let out his secret thoughts and quarrel with bystanders for feeble causes."47"
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Islamic lands did not emigrate willingly to Israel." In order "to force them to leave," Giladi writes, "Jews killed Jews." He goes on to say that in an effort "to buy time to confiscate ever more Arab lands, Jews on numerous occasions rejected genuine peace initiatives from their Arab neighbors."[136]"
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Tudor historians were fond of reminding their readers of the horrors of the Wars of the Roses, recounting how the realm had been plunged into the vicious civil war over a disputed crown that lasted more than thirty years.
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Virgil had no difficulty in believing that God has visited the sins of Henry IV upon his descendant, Henry VI, yet he did not explain how this was to be reconciled with the triumphant career of Henry V.
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Tudor historians were adept at rewriting history.
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