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When somebody says I need, it means that the thing they will tell you is a terror, and must not really be heard at all.
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― Gingerbread
― Gingerbread
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The title ‘Lord of All-Rus'’ did not possess much basis either in history or in current reality. It came into the same category as that whereby the kings of England laid claim to France. In the 1490s, two-and-a-half centuries after all traces of a united Kievan Rus' had been destroyed, it had the same degree of credibility that the king of France might have enjoyed if, in his struggle with the German Empire, he had proclaimed himself ‘Lord of all the Franks’. By that time, it conflicted with the
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― Europe: A History
― Europe: A History
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