Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 39

[cahn]

Last post, along with the usual 18th-century suspects, included the Ottonians; changing ideas of conception and women's sexual pleasure; Isabella of Parma (the one who fell in love, and vice versa, with her husband's sister); Henry IV and Bertha (and Henry's second wife divorcing him for "unspeakable sexual acts"). (Okay, Isabella of Parma was 18th century.)

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Re: What the term Holy Roman Empire actually meant

[mildred_of_midgard]

we did learn far more extensively about the US Civil Rights movement and Vietnam

Ironically, then you were ahead of me in this game, because we never covered Vietnam, and the Civil Rights movement only once, due to the date cutoffs I mentioned. But we did get quizzed on how to spell and define "Realpolitik", because 19th century!