05-15-2018, 01:38 PM
(05-14-2018, 08:51 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I would indeed have added the victory at Tours over the Moors in 732; it allowed the growth of Western Civilization.
I think that I do. Sometimes the site is understood to be Tours, and some times Poitiers. Charles Martel makes Charlemagne (and much else) possible.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.