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Till Eulenspiegel, a supposedly historical figure of…

Till Eulenspiegel, a supposedly historical figure of…

1480 CE to 1491 CE

Till Eulenspiegel, a supposedly historical figure of the fourteenth century, appears as the peasant hero of the first German chapbook in prose, an anonymous collection of farcical tales which is soon translated into High German, Dutch, English, and French.

Considered a personification of Low German humor, he appears in literature as a scapegoat clown and prankster of rustic simplicity who aims his practical jokes at artisans, innkeepers, nobles, and clergy.

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The slackening of imperial efforts in systematic…

The slackening of imperial efforts in systematic improvements to the levee system leads to a major change in the course of the Huang Ho during the early years (1850-64) of the Taiping Rebellion in South and central China.

The river returns to its old course north of the Shantung Peninsula in 1852-54, removing Süchow's westward waterway link.

The Nien's activities greatly intensify, partly by the addition to their numbers of a great many starving people who have lost their livelihood from the repeated floods of the Huang Ho in the early 1850s, and partly because they have become emboldened by the Taiping advance north of the Yangtze.

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