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Jan Huss: Pre-Protestant Reformer
Brian Ober Jan Hus was born in the town of Husinec or Goose Town in what was then the Kingdom of Bohemia, sometime between 1369 to 1371 to simple peasant parents. He took the towns name as his last name. “In his twenties, he shortened his name to Huss—”goose,” and he and his friends delighted…
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Emperor Vespasian and the Year of Four Emperors
Brian Ober Early Life to 69 CE Vespasian or Titus Flavius Vespasianus was born on the 7th of November in 9 CE to Titus Flavius Sabinus and Vespasia Polla. They belonged to a rather undistinguished family in the Latin aristocracy. By 69 CE Vespasian had one surviving sibling his older brother who was named after…