You Are History: From the Alarm Clock to the Toilet, the Amazing History of the Things You Use Every Day

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But this was a pan-European movement and what she does really well is to identify first of all the commonalities. In all of these countries, when you look at underground resistance movements, similar things happened. They had clandestine literature, they collected intelligence, later on they started engaging in sabotage and armed conflict. All of this is happening at different moments and in different ways, but it is happening across Europe. G Flip reveals how they charmed Selling Sunset star wife Chrishell Stause - after announcing exciting baby plans The Gen Z guide to surviving your 'nine to five': Influencer reveals top tips for office new starters ... because there's NO such thing as a work-life balance

One of these two figures is George Staunton, who’s a child prodigy. He learns to speak Chinese when he’s very young and meets the emperor when he’s twelve years old. He must have been insufferable! He stays on in China and becomes an interpreter for the East India Company.Make it short enough to read in one sitting. While the family knowledge you have could fill a book - literally - keep it simple enough to engage people who aren't genealogy hobbyists.

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Enlightenment, empire, and revolution

The biggest question posed by Emperor of Rome is why some rulers are considered good and others bad. The answer, according to Beard, comes down to succession. Roman emperors didn’t simply pass on the throne to their eldest son, as generations of European rulers would later do. Instead, they designated a successor, who could be a relative but was often not. Whether this individual ultimately claimed the title—and what happened when emperors failed to name an heir—was an entirely different issue, and “the transition of power was almost always debated, fraught and sometimes killed for,” writes Beard. “Once the old ruler was dead, it was others who could turn, or refuse to turn, the implied promises of succession into reality.”

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