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The Habsburg inbred (the Spanish Habsburgs with the Austrian Habsburgs) leading to infertility and hence lack of heirs.

The Habsburg inbred (the Spanish Habsburgs with the Austrian Habsburgs) leading to infertility and hence lack of heirs.

The reign of King Philip II son of Charles V. Philippines is named after him. The country was his possession.

The greatest of Habsburgs Emperor's thus far Maximilian dies and leaves a treasure trove of his autobiography.

The Crusaders attack the Turks and lost under the Emperor of Hungary Sigismund

The Habsburgs got their name from the castle named Habichtsburg built by the Bishop of Strasbourg Werner and his brother Radbot in 1020.

The book opens with a battle between the Austrians and Swiss as the Leopold III (Habsburg) seek to reclaim lands captured by the Swiss. The battle ends with the defeat of the Habsburgs and the death of their Duke.

Saladin, the great Muslim Military General and Statesman kept a Jew (Moses Maimonides) as his personal physician. Moses attended to him, his concubines and high ranking state officials. It begs on where the line is drawn on the Jew hatred in the general population.

at the heart of Jewish persecution in England

Christianity and Islam are amendments to Judaism

In the formative years of Christianity, there were a lot of worshippers who were Jewish Christians known as Ebionites. They practiced both Judaism and Christianity. The Ebionites accepted Jesus Jesus as the Messiah, but in human guise in which the Hebrew Bible had prophesied he would appear - as 'Son of Man', which made the Ebonites Jesus human an corporeal and rejected the notion of Jesus divinity.

Learning that a lot of the Muslim rituals were copied from Judaism

On Jewish animal sacrifice:"... The perpetual roasting was called tamid, Hebrew for constant, but there was a Greek word too for such a ritual cremation of whole animals, and that word was holocaust"

When Britain assumed the mandate for Palestine, a renewed zeal to rediscover Jerusalem caught the high society. The Palestine Exploration Fund was setup by wealthy Londoners to survey and create a map of Siloam water tunnel built by King Hezekiah to withstand a siege by the Assyrians.

Quite not what I expected in the book. I had hoped for a linear history of the Jews, instead I am now on a chapter on the plumbing of Jerusalem. Its uncanny but interesting.

Lenin is back to Moscow

The revolution is on

Lenin breaks off the relationship with Inessa

God finally helps St. Augustine deal with the longest sin - lust.