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Tariq's Landing to the Jet Age: History's Greatest April–May Week
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From the Islamic conquest of Hispania in 711 to the world's first commercial jet flight in 1952, this week in history spans continents, centuries, and civilisations. Eight extraordinary events — one remarkable calendar week.
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On the eighth of May, fourteen twenty-nine, outside the city of Orléans in northern France, a teenage girl in armour changed the course of a war. Joan of Arc had arrived weeks earlier to rally the exhausted French forces, and on this day the English siege that had strangled Orléans for months finally broke.
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