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cahn ([personal profile] cahn) wrote2020-01-24 09:39 pm
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Announcing Rheinsberg: Frederick the Great discussion post 10

So for anyone who is reading this and would like to learn more about Frederick the Great and his contemporaries, but who doesn't want to wade through 500k (600k?) words worth of comments and an increasingly sprawling comment section:

We now have a community, [community profile] rheinsberg, that has quite a lot of the interesting historical content (and more coming regularly), organized nicely with lots of lovely tags so if there's any subject you are interested in it is easy to find :D
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Re: MacDonogh Reread IV

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard 2020-01-30 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
Frederick began to boast in April 1769 that anyone wanting to set eyes on one of the breed

Whoops, this should have been a separate quote, with a preface explaining that it's talking about the Papal suppression of the Jesuits, and Fritz's decision to offer them asylum as Catholic monarchs kicked them out.
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Re: MacDonogh Reread IV

[personal profile] selenak 2020-01-30 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I figured. ;)
mildred_of_midgard: (Default)

Re: MacDonogh Reread IV

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard 2020-01-30 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I figured you figured! I didn't figure [personal profile] cahn figured. :)