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The Forbidden Experiment

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

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The Most Important Thing to the Pope

Frederick the second became holy roman emperor and delivered a series of promises to honorius the third, the pope who succeeded innocent. Frederick had no interest in crusading to jerusalem. He was a social reformer, interested in matters at home. The thing he craved more than anything else, even more than power, was knowledge. Some thought he might even be an atheist. In the inferno, dante placed him in the sixth ring of hell to be burned in a tomb for all eternity.

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