As for the publisher, Bromleigh House Ltd. of Devon appears to be located in Newton Abbot, Devon. Which is in the United Kingdom.

The Hungarians were actually a people that lived in a very "nomadic" style. They came to the Central Europe somewhere from the East (I think that the Hungarian is considered an "Uralic" language, so maybe they came from Ural?) at the beginning of the 10th century and they started raiding everything they could (and since they were essentially living and fighting on the horseback, they were quite good at it). By the way, one of the first things they did is that they made a quick end to the Great Moravia (that was in ~907). Maybe there were other causes too, but we don't know much about it.

After that, they repeatedly wandered through today's Austria, eastern parts of Germany, and of course today's Czech Republic and Slovakia, pillaging and taking what they could. On some occasions they were repelled (and forced to take a break with the pillaging) but all in all, they were pestering the Central Europe for nearly 50 years, until they have finally been given a sound thrashing in 955 at the river Lech (essentially the Germans and the Bohemians alike were so much fed up with them that they joined forces and defeated them. There were more battles than this one, but we don't know much about them.).

When much of their forces had been defeated, the rest of them was allowed to settle peacefully roughly in the places where today's Hungary is (sort of pushing/mixing with the original Slavic population), and they rose in power very quickly, so at the break of the millenium they already had things like a hereditary title of a king, and a seat of an archbishop (while we the Bohemians managed to get those boons much much later). All in all, a new power was in place. For much of the history, they were spanning much farther than today's Hungary (for instance, they held much of today's Slovakia, which was called "the Upper Hungary"), they were reduced in size only after the First World War, and even before and in the Second World War, the Hungary sided with Hitler because there was a widespread belief that with him, they will be able to recover their country to its former glory of "Great Hungary". (Essentially "Make Hungary great again", if you permit.)

However all of them are quite similar: all were nomadic tribes, mostly used to living their lives on the horseback, invading from the East and plundering and killing, often with great cruelty, as much as they could manage. Usually they were excellent horse-archers, which made it quite hard for the Europeans to deal with them, as they weren't really accustomed to that style of fighting.

Huns were beaten back, Avars just sort of "vanished", dispersing and mixing with the other Central European peoples. Of Hungarians I have told in the previous post. The Mongols were the greatest threat: in the 1240s when they came, it actually just seemed that nobody in all Europe was actually capable of doing them any real harm (I could at least note that the Bohemian king Václav I. at least made serious effort to hinder them, though in the end it had not been enough). However, they stayed only for a couple of years and then they rode back — if I recall it well, not because they would be defeated, but because the word got to them that Genghis Khan had died and of course everybody was far more eager to contend for the empty throne back home than to wander around the foreign Europe burning and killing.

I had a very good friend in Germany – he taught History and English – and when we stayed with him one Summer, he spent one totally engrossing evening laying out for us the threads of history which showed how a purely pragmatic political decision made by the Emperor Otto sometime round the 1100's (the creation of the Prince-Bishops) led to Hitler and the Third Reich. I wish I could remember the whole of it, but all that remains in my memory now are the barest outlines. He got cancer and died in 1999, and I still miss him. He was a lovely man and a good friend, but his life was dogged by some of the cruellest misfortune.

You see, another story! And wasn't going to tell one . However, the Czech history makes for one heck of a story, though we are only a little nation. There is everything you would want, from periods of awesome greatness, when the Bohemian kingdom stretched up to the sea and all would tremble before it, to the periods of horrible misery when it looked like the state and the people will vanish altogether. But, ultimately, the Czech language is still spoken in these lands, and that's also a sizable miracle.

Things changed to a certain extent shortly after I left school when I came across two quotes. The first one was Edmund Burke's quote "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it" and the second (I can't remember who said it) was "Learn from other people's mistakes. Life's too short to make them all yourself". I still made no systematic effort to learn history, but I made sure I picked up a fair bit along the way!

Many years later, after he was long dead, I was asked to tutor a lad who was having problems with his chemistry. I soon found out that the problem was a poor teacher, who had just thrown facts at the class and omitted the connections. All I needed to do was to demonstrate that the connections were there. Once the lad had been shown that, the facts suddenly made sense to him, and I understand he did very well.

"Hi,
I have done something wrong and got myself banned..
All I did was to ask "how does one "flip on exit"
after using MOKs patch..in MM6.?
I then asked how to check had MOks patch been
installed ok...
I then tried to make same post on MM9...got second
offence..
I checked I did not use any bad words...not in the
post anyway..when I got banned I might of muttered
some thing not nice about Denmark.."Dannish Blue
pooh"...

Best Wishes from Peter and Maippi in Finland"