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6:30 is not just time to wake up, 630 is also the year when Croats and Serbs settles in the Balkans, having been invited by the Byzantine emperor Heraclius.

12:01 is not just lunch time, it is also the year when John of England put an embargo on wheat exported to Flanders in an attempt to force an allegiance between the states.

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