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14th Century
As a means of recording the passage of time, the 14th century was the century which lasted from January 1, 1301, to December 31, 1400. In Europe, Asia, and North Africa, the Black Death claimed between 75 to 200 million lives. England and France fought in the protracted Hundred Years' War. Political and natural disaster ravaged the Mongolian Empire, which lost much of its power in Asia and Eastern Europe.
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One of the nice things about Time, Crowley always said, was that it was steadily taking him further away from the fourteenth century, the most bloody boring hundred years on God's, excuse his French, Earth.
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― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since ideology had anything to do with it. Not without cunning, Fat Man and Little Boy gradually mutated the whole state belief system into a debased form of Confucianism, in which traditional ancestor worship and respect for order become blended with extreme nationalism and xenophobia. Near the southernmost city of Kaesong, captured by the North in 1951, I was taken to see the beautifully preserved to
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― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
