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		<title>Battle of Verdun</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rupert Colley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As 1914 drew to a close, the Western Front had become a permanent fixture of trenches stretching 400 miles from the English Channel to Switzerland. Stalemate ensued. A year later, the situation was no better. Each side looked for a &#8230; <a href="http://www.historyinanhour.com/2012/02/21/battle-of-verdun/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Frederick Douglass</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rupert Colley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title of Renaissance man would not be inaccurate in describing Frederick Douglass.  Born a slave in about February 1818, Douglass, originally called Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was raised by his grandmother. Denied even the most basic education, Douglass rose &#8230; <a href="http://www.historyinanhour.com/2012/02/20/frederick-douglass/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Luther</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rupert Colley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tudors and Reformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martin Luther was born 10 November 1483 of peasant stock, and lived among the untutored folk of the remote woods and mines around the East German town of Eisleben. His mother and father, Hans and Margaretta Luther, were both devout &#8230; <a href="http://www.historyinanhour.com/2012/02/18/martin-luther/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Abraham Lincoln &#8211; the Legend and Legacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rupert Colley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the United States, Abraham Lincoln has become an iconic and idealized figure, held up to every American school child as an example of honesty, intelligence, and morality.  His life is often used as an example of American liberty and &#8230; <a href="http://www.historyinanhour.com/2012/02/12/abraham-lincoln-the-legend-and-legacy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Marshall Plan and the Cold War</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rupert Colley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cold War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The European Recovery Program, commonly known as Marshall Plan, is usually remembered for the economic support provided by the United States for the rehabilitation of European countries ravaged by the Second World War. But the US was motivated by more &#8230; <a href="http://www.historyinanhour.com/2012/02/09/the-marshall-plan-and-the-cold-war/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dickens, Debt and the Marshalsea Prison</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rupert Colley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, 7 February 2012, is Charles Dickens&#8217; 200th birthday and History in an Hour celebrates with the publication of Dickens: History in an Hour. Here, its author, Kaye Jones, writes about the imprisonment for debt of Dickens&#8217; father and the &#8230; <a href="http://www.historyinanhour.com/2012/02/07/dickens-and-debt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Death of George VI</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rupert Colley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sixty years ago today, on 6 February 1952, Britain&#8217;s King George VI died. Sinead Fitzgibbon summarises the life of the reluctant king. Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George the second son of George V and Queen Mary of Teck, was born &#8230; <a href="http://www.historyinanhour.com/2012/02/06/king-george-vi/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dickens: History in an Hour</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rupert Colley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Information]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[History for busy people. Read a succinct account of Charles Dickens in just one hour. Charles Dickens remains – 200 years after his birth – arguably Britain’s most successful writer. Works such as Great Expectations and Oliver Twist have amused &#8230; <a href="http://www.historyinanhour.com/2012/02/06/dickens-history-in-an-hour/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Eva Braun</title>
		<link>http://www.historyinanhour.com/2012/02/06/eva-braun/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=eva-braun</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rupert Colley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nazi Germany]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eva Braun was born this day, 6 February, 100 years ago. Eva Braun first met Hitler whilst working as an assistant and model to Hitler&#8217;s official photographer, Heinrich Hoffman. It was 1929 and she was 17, Hitler 40. At the &#8230; <a href="http://www.historyinanhour.com/2012/02/06/eva-braun/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Kliment Voroshilov &#8211; Defender of Leningrad</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rupert Colley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Soviet Union]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the 900-day siege of Leningrad, the man initially charged with the city’s defence was one of Stalin’s old favourites, Kliment Voroshilov, born this day, 4 February, in 1881. Rupert Colley summarises his efforts. During the Second World War, the &#8230; <a href="http://www.historyinanhour.com/2012/02/04/voroshilov/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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