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In the early 19th century British satirist and political cartoonist James Gillray created an amusing cartoon entitled ‘The plum pudding in danger’. What subject did it depict?
1220 – Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula, an engagement over who would control a castle of the same name. Thus evidencing, yet again, that most warfare, if not all, throughout history, has been about ownership of property. 1648 – Mehmed IV succeeds Ibrahim I as Ottoman emperor. 1944 –…
