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In 1630, a little remembered group of 8 Englishmen became separated from their ship, and were left virtually without equipment and supplies, in one of the world’s harshest environments, to almost certain death.
In the 1270s in what is today Benelux region of Western Europe, disagreements between the Prince-Bishopric of Liege and the County of Namur led to all out war - according to some chronicles, over a single cow.
On September 1, 1774, General Thomas Gage gave orders that would nearly lead to battle seven months before the shots rang out at Lexington and Concord.
One of the great questions of antiquity is what ancient knowledge might have been lost with the destruction of the famed Great Library of Alexandria. We can only guess at the answer, but the question itself reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the library- what it was, where it was, why its was, and what happened to it.
