It\u2019s January of 871, still\u2026 A tremendous amount has happened in the last fortnight, and the year had barely even begun. People tend to compress the past\u2026 especially periods they are unfamiliar with\u2026 into short blurbs. It\u2019s why many people are completely willing to accept minute by minute accounts of World War II, but balk [\u2026]
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