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Just for reference, but there is an Aragonese Wikipedia at http://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portalada

Heh heh. I was going to say David. In the old sitcom The Charmings, in which Prince Charming, Snow White and Snow's wicked stepmother were transported to our world, Prince Charming's first name was Eric. (The fey magic mirror was played by Paul Winfield).

Autobiography of David ap Gwyn, hero of the Great Asian War, who is credited with the capture of over 10,000 Cathayan soldiers during the Corean Campaign. Despite the loss of over 100,000 Imperial troops, His Imperial Majesty's forces were victorious, and Corea became an Imperial possession...

Title of the definitive alchemical textbook, written by Ignatius Vespuccius and Leonardo da Capua in 1547. Still used in universities around the world today, despite claims that it is outdated. The latest revision, published in 2006 by the University of Bologna Press, was edited by Nobel Prize...

Western European call to arms when the Oromia region of Ethiopia attempted rebellion against Italy in the 1950s. Italy had succeeded in taking Ethiopia in the early years of World War II, but the Oromo people rose in rebellion. Despite French and English moral support (but little in the way of...

Best-selling album by award-winning singer Patrick Davies, addressing his dual legacies of an Irish mother and an English father. Also the name of Davies's autobiography, published after his suicide by hanging in 2007. Octopussy

The title first assumed by Roman Emperor Constantine I upon his final destruction of the Christian faith upon the death of his mother, Helena. All Christian temples were torn down, and the cult of the Emperor became the official religion of all of the Empire. All of the Emperors from that day...

John Dudley, the son of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland.

Would Henry VIII and Catherine have remained married?

SM Stirling's five-volume series of histories of Ancient Rome, discussing the Julian Imperators, begun by Gaius Julius Caesar, first Imperator, and the five generations of succeeding Julians, culminating in the assassination of Quintillus Julius Caesar by the Praetorians and replacing him with...

The Mongols are always the exception.

There was a civil war going on before Lee made his decision.

Quote thrown towards the Personal Bodyguard of Emperor John III in 1745 by the Peasants' Rebels, led by "Michael Goodman", who was, in reality, the Earl of Essex, Philip FitzArnulf. Although the peasants had gathered in a valiant attempt at overthrowing the Emperor, they never really...

Popular term for the 1805-1807 attempted overthrow of the Imperial government by factions in New England, led by John Snowden, Earl of Mechica. Snowden and his brother-in-law, Philip Hampden, Marshal of His Imperial Majesty's New England Army, plotted to declare New England an independent...

A moving film from 1937, written and directed by Arthur Richmond, Earl of New Kent. The historical film gives a historical representation of the Battle of Hannover, the 1645 battle in which Imperial forces defeated the combined Skandian-Lithuanian armies which were bent on taking most of...