Word: ostrogoths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Solingen, in Western Germany, knew a thing or two about cutting edges long before Richard the Lionhearted matched blades with wily Saladin. Roman soldiers who had served in the East brought many of the steelmaking secrets of Damascus into the Rhineland, and in the 6th Century Theodoric the Ostrogoth pronounced Solingen's swords worthy of Vulcan's own forge. Charlemagne armed his warriors at Solingen's smithies. During the Crusades they produced the finest blades in Christendom. In the 16th Century the smiths of Solingen engraved the proud label, "Solingen made me," on their blades...
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...record in short, spare sentences the everyday life of Frenchmen of every class and type. Built up out of thousands of small incidents, Simenon's novels never fail to show a "customary air of slow-motion absent-mindedness." But they were written-usually on his canal boat Ostrogoth)-at rates varying from four days to one month per novel. Says Simenon: "I get up at half-past five; go on deck; start typing at six, with either a bottle of brandy or white wine at my side; and write a chapter an hour until noon, when...
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