
386 – God’s Messenger
The British History Podcast
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The Pope's Letter to the Pope
The pope legitimized william's plan in more ways than one, because with his blessing, this invasion didn't look half as crazy as it did before. And suddenly people were taking a second look at project sea horse. The appearance of the comet wasn't the only thing that was happening in april of ten 66, because it was also spring. It was a time of temperate weather, where new leaves opened to the sun and fresh petals enticed nearby insects to spread pollen far and wide. But for the religious people of the eleventh century, this wasn't just a big old chunk of ice hurtling through the vacuum of space in an elliptical orbit around the sun.
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