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Who gave Charles the Bold his nickname and why?
I am talking about the Duke of Burgundy here.
Wikipedia has a tantalizing footnote (n. 1):
Charles le Téméraire is more accurately translated in English as "the
Rash", but the English ...
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Horace Walpole on Richard III
Thus reads Wikipedia:
In Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III (1768),
Walpole defended Richard III against the common belief that he
murdered the Princes in the Tower. In ...
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