Milestones of History

Notre-Dame, Palace of the Virgin, with its clusters of columns, its soaring arches, its superb stone carvings and its matchless

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Richard I, the Lion Heart, fails to capture Jerusalem from the Saracens. The birth of the New Byzantium The first

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Fall of Constantinople begins – the crusaders from the West had taken an oath to free the Holy Land from

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