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Video: Essays on Reality, Chapter 2

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam1/13/2013 3:12:59 am PST

re: #207 Sol Berdinowitz

One of the English language textbooks here has a short article about Hawkwood, believe it or not. It prompted me to look him up on Wikipedia. He sure was a wiley fellow. If some city council didn’t pay him, he’d turn his soldiers loose to loot and pillage the city, or go visit a rival city and offer his services (for a suitable fee) to loot and pillage the first city on the rival’s behalf. Despite all this, the Italians loved him.