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Filioque by Clay Lane

It started as an honest mistake, became a diplomatic standoff, and brought down an Empire.

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The Fall of Constantinople by Clay Lane

Hospitality and sympathy, but no help - the Byzantine Emperor learns a bitter lesson about western diplomacy.

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Loan Words : Match these words to the language they come from, whether Old Norse, Malay or Welsh.
Evidence : Join these ideas together to form a single sentence, using the relative pronoun ‘who’.
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Deep Harmony : In the midst of the US Civil War, a simple melody briefly brought the warring factions together.
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