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    performed songs from her masterpiece album "Back To Black" and a few songs from her debut album, "Frank". The Dap-Kings, male only band, consists of Dale Davis on the bass, Zalon Thompson & Ade Omatayo as backup vocals. Robin Banerjee on the guitars, Nathan Alan playing the drums and Xantone Blacq on the keyboards. Also, Henry Collins on trumpet, James Hunt played alto saxophone and flute and Frank Walden on the baritone saxophone. Amy Jade Winehouse was born on September 14, 1983,…

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    Charlemagne was a medieval emperor who ruled western Europe. Around the year 771, he became the king of the Franks, which consisted of different Germanic tribes in Europe. During his reign, he had a specific goal. His goal was to unify all the Germanic tribes into one kingdom and to convert his enemies into Christians. He battled against the territories that were under Muslim rule. As a skilled strategist, he pushed the Muslim rule in Europe further away. Between the years 777-778, Charlemagne…

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    head-to-head with the established power of central Europe, the kingdom of the Eastern Franks. In the opening years of the conflict, the Magyars, as they were known (later known as the Hungarians) created a crisis which threatened the survival of the Eastern Frankish kingdom. The magnitude of the Magyar threat the kingdom and Europe as a whole has largely been neglected by modern scholarship. The struggle between the Eastern Franks and the Hungarians can be compared to the Moorish invasion of…

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    Christianity Vs Paganism

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    the Romans and the Franks. The topic of religion has been known to destroy families, friends, and in earlier times, kingdoms fell to others beliefs. The two primary religions practiced in early Europe were Roman Christianity and Paganism which was often practiced by the Franks, a group of united barbaric tribes. During this period, Roman civilization was coming to a decline, paving the way for a new ruler to take charge. At the fall of the Roman Empire, one king of the Franks, Clovis, sought to…

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    The Carolingian dynasty was a Frankish noble family which descended directly from the Merovingian dynasty which came before it. The Merovingian dynasty was founded by Childeric I, king of the Franks from 457-481 AD, who, thanks to his many military outings against the Visigoths, Saxons and Alemanni, managed to establish a foot hold of territory for the dynasty that his son, Clovis I, would create a few years later. It wasn’t until Childeric and his wife, Basina, Queen of Thuringia’s son, Clovis…

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    Charles “the Great” was the name he was called. He was Charlemagne Charles “the Great.” Charlemagne was not only the King of the Franks, he also declared himself the King of the Lombards, and he was crowned Emperor of the Romans. Charlemagne was a Frank. He was a german-speaking invader of Rome. His crowning was a way for the Pope to unite Christian, Germans and Romans traditions: “This crowning of the ‘German ruler’ as an emperor represents the merging of German christian and Roman traditions…

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    Research for Reason #2 (at least 2 sources) The Diary of Anne Frank- Anne Frank and her family are Jews in the 40’s hiding from the Nazis in fear of being taken to a concentration camp. They end up hiding in a part of her father’s office called the Annex, and others must lie saying there are no Jews living there in order to spare the Franks’ lives. http://www.officer.com/article/10232601/ends-justify-means-every-time This article discusses why lying…

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    Charlemagne Research Paper

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    Introduction: Charlemagne was the King of the Franks from 768 and Emperor of the Romans from 800 until his death in 814. He expanded his kingdom to an empire, uniting most of west Europe. The Carolingian Renaissance is associated with his reign, a time when art and culture was revived through the Catholic Church, which encouraged a common European identity. Chapter 1 who is Charlemagne? He is the King of Franks; he was the greatest ruler in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire.…

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    Emperor. Each chapter is historically significant because each can be used as a lens for understanding what occurred after the reign of Charlemagne. Einhard states that the war with Saxony was the most gruesome, persistent and bitter war the Franks fought. The Franks were in a 33 yearlong battle beginning in 772 with the Saxons who had no regard for human or divine rules. Saxons were devil worshippers and were hostile to any form of Christianity. Einhard says that the war could easily have ended…

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    Charlemagne was king of the Lombards, Franks, and was the king of the Holy Roman empire. Charlemagne’s father was king Pepin the short and his mother was Queen Bertrada. He had four sisters and two brothers who were really nice to him, and when his father passed away in the year of 768, That is when Charlemagne and his brother Carloman took over the empire in Germany in 814. They needed to rule with each other because according to the general of the Franks. Charlemagne knew how to speak…

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