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Simon Winder

(1962) Historian

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Simon Winder is a historian.

Quick Facts About Simon Winder

Born: November 30, 1962
Profession: Historian

About Simon Winder

British writer... | Simon Winder is a British writer. He is the author of several books, including a trilogy of books on the history of Central Europe: Germania, Danubia and Lotharingia. The second book in the trilogy, Danubia, which deals with the Habsburg monarchy, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. His boo

Quotes by Simon Winder

“From the German point of view the military misery came from Louis being someone who, like many unattractive people, spends too much…

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“all of whom radiated level-headed competence, physical fitness and pride in appearance, and lived on a different planet from the one defined…

Fitness

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“It would be interesting to know, for example, at what point it became decisively clear to everyone concerned that unicorn horns were…

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“but I remained bouncy and immune throughout – by the early eighteenth century the Electors’ tombs are entirely out of control and…

Fashion show

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“The bags full of Turkish noses sent by the Uskoks from Senj to Charles V in 1532 may have been one of…

Charles V

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“The decorative arms race finally caved in under the sheer absurdity of Augustus the Strong (1670–1733), the Elector of Saxony who, with…

Arms race

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