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The Authors and Essays in I Wish I'd Been There, Book TwoJosiah Ober At the Deathbed of Alexander the GreatTom Holland Hannibal Crosses the Alps Theodore K. Rabb Christmas Day in the Year 800John Julius Norwich Venice, July 24, 1177Katherine Fischer Drew Magna Carta and the King's Men Barbara A. Hanawalt Rebel Leader Confronts King at Smithfield in 1381Lauro Martines Ten Thousand Brutes in Renaissance FlorenceGeoffrey Parker August 9, 1588: The Spanish Armada (almost) SurrendersKatherine Duncan-Jones The Globe Theatre, February 7, 1601John H. Elliott With the Prince of Wales in Madrid, 1623Mordechai Feingold By Fits and Starts: The Making of Isaac Newton's Principia Ellen T. Harris Handel Is FiredWilliam McNeill Frederick the Great and the Propagation of PotatoesPaul Kennedy The Battle of the Nile Ross King The "Uncouth Riddle" of douard Manet: Le Djeuner sur l'herbe at the 1863 Salon des RefussRichard Pipes Nicholas II Signs the October ManifestoMargaret MacMillan Tunnels, Territory, and Broken Promises: France Betrayed by the Anglo-SaxonsCharles A.