Our forefathers were involved in the civil war, and it was the crucible period where the democratic values that we believe in today, and we assert against the terrorists, were first forged,
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He was the first to want to make poverty history, and his... reforms came to pass centuries after he made the suggestions, ... And to see the event through his eyes provides, I think, an important corrective to those three strands of history that have, for one reason or another, ignored or deplored the trial of the king.
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