By the time the Brotherhood was transformed into a political organization in 1936, some of its members were already participating in uprisings against Zionist settlements in Palestine. Al-Banna
“the piquant fact about Lydgate was his good birth”
― Middlemarch (Unabridged): Enriched edition. Victorian Provincial Lives, Marriage, Idealism, and Social Change in 19th-Century England
― Middlemarch (Unabridged): Enriched edition. Victorian Provincial Lives, Marriage, Idealism, and Social Change in 19th-Century England
“It’s simply that Uncle knows one has to make regular sacrifices to the gods of happiness by wasting time”
― Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of Etna
― Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of Etna
“Worse, it had revealed something about Britain that few wanted to acknowledge. The country told itself that, while other nations might be willing to goose-step or bend to the will of a dictator, such things were not in the British nature. But Roberts had found ordinary British men and women who didn’t just privately wish Hitler well, but were prepared to risk their lives to help him. Behind them were surely many more who would cheerfully have gone along with fascism if it had seemed the safest course.”
― Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter
― Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter
“EVIL COMES OFTEN to a man with money; tyranny comes surely to him without it.”
― The Walking Drum: A Novel
― The Walking Drum: A Novel
“Women in the fourteenth century had an approximately one in fifty chance of dying in childbirth or soon afterwards”
― Living in Medieval England: The Turbulent Year of 1326
― Living in Medieval England: The Turbulent Year of 1326
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