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However Anne failed to produce a male]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@alyssas/what-did-elizabeth-i-think-of-her-mother-anne-boleyn-who-had-been-executed</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@alyssas/what-did-elizabeth-i-think-of-her-mother-anne-boleyn-who-had-been-executed</guid><category><![CDATA[busy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[alyssas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2018 15:39:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/Zskj99Ky2URwawdY8C2P5cwhSLH5VJEtHwQjza9x64CVecRNRDx6isYT9B35RGWmixXLgiSaxP9sbdESnvwX92uvuZ7N5GsQ591XgPbHyU8H4mg3X7XL?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors guide to Brexit and the Travel Industry]]></title><description><![CDATA[We got a profits warning today from Thomas Cook - and they blamed the summer heatwave for their travails rather than Brexit. 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They are still demanding that NI stay in the EU (effectively annexing Northern Ireland)]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@alyssas/it-looks-like-it-is-going-to-be-a-no-deal-brexit</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@alyssas/it-looks-like-it-is-going-to-be-a-no-deal-brexit</guid><category><![CDATA[busy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[alyssas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2018 16:40:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/62PdCouTvNPEAghD4TD5DaBsf7xwUapK9BeRrFq9D82fQJefrVjaTJXkzhY7C8rLoMZ5gwro67VQejyE1zQe7Rv9faxH5LzX7wyy2ab83MQkVft?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The risky business of making predictions in the late medieval world]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the late medieval world, a new "science" appeared - astrology, which at the time was done concurrently with astronomy. 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