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Give to Me an Angry Sea

While on holiday in Sardinia, a wild storm inspired the following poem...

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That We May Never Have to Play Dalibors Fiddle


During  Vladislav II's reign  knight Ploskovský behaved toward his people in serfdom in a such a cruel way, that peasants did revolt capturing him and forced him to free them from the serfdom.

The peasents asked for serfdom from Dalibor from Kozojed, who behaved in a more humane way.
The nobles, scared of the trend spreading invited Dalibor to the court to Prague and put him into the prison, gra...

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