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Fatal Rivalry: Part Three of The Last Great Saxon Earls

Fatal Rivalry: Part Three of The Last Great Saxon Earls

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<p>In 1066, the rivalry between two brothers brought England to its knees. When Duke William of Normandy landed at Pevensey on September 28, 1066, no one was there to resist him. King Harold Godwineson was in the north, fighting his brother Tostig and a fierce Viking invasion. How could this have happened? Why would Tostig turn traitor to wreak revenge on his brother?<br />The Sons of Godwine were not always enemies. It took a massive Northumbrian uprising to tear them apart, making Tostig an exile and Harold his sworn enemy. And when 1066 came to an end, all the Godwinesons were dead except one: Wulfnoth, hostage in Normandy. For two generations, Godwine and his sons were a mighty force, but their power faded away as the Anglo-Saxon era came to a close.</p>

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Three hours into last night’s happy hour, I struck up a conversation with the mixed-gender group of folks next to us. Quickly, we all dove into conversation on the familiar, hot-button topic of women versus men in outlooks on sex & dating. One of the guys in their group (whom I had never met before in my life) was not only agreed with all the guys’ points of view, he frequently doubled over laughing. He and I then specifically asked two ladies in the group to scan the entire room. There were approximately one hundred total women in the bar. We wanted these two ladies to literally point out women that we two guys would not sleep with, if somehow those ladies made themselves available to either of us at end of the evening. The two ladies quickly and correctly eliminated the obvious choices which was great - but not the point. The fact that they failed to realize that some women’s poor fashion choices – at least in their eyes - would not rule them out as sex options is not the point either. In fact, the full point we’re trying to make didn’t occur from the analysis of any specific woman in that bar. The point is, I had only met this guy minutes before yet he and I saw the same physical qualities in every woman. The two women making choices based on their opinions instead of our opinions attempted to argue us guys down. There were a handful of women in the bar that they thought we should see in the same light as they did.

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Start at the 2:30 mark of this video for the reivew!<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ4i7wyQGbM"><br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ4i7wyQGbM</a>