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Conan, Duke of Brittany, and William, Duke of Normandy, were related to each other, and in a manner the Bretons owned the Duke of Normandy as overlord.

His face went almost white, and then his head came up as befitted him in whose veins flowed the blood of the overlord of a world.

Roughly, the various kingdoms were to remain virtually independent, but there was to be one great overlord, or emperor.

"I have seen Kantos Kan, Overlord of the Navy, and Prince Soran of Ptarth, and Djor Kantos, son of Kantos Kan," she shot a roguish glance at her mistress as she mentioned Djor Kantos' name, "and--oh, there were others, many have come."

"My powerful and illustrious master," he began, "Charles, King of Navarre, Earl of Evreux, Count of Champagne, who also writeth himself Overlord of Bearn, hereby sends his love and greetings to his dear cousin Edward, the Prince of Wales, Governor of Aquitaine, Grand Commander of "

There was nothing Mowgli liked better than, as he himself said, "to pull the whiskers of Death," and make the Jungle know that he was their overlord. He had often, with Baloo's help, robbed bees' nests in single trees, and he knew that the Little People hated the smell of wild garlic.

These poor serfs, who were worse than slaves to the proud barons who owned the land they tilled, were forbidden by royal edict to sell or give a pennysworth of provisions to the Outlaw of Torn, upon pain of death, but nevertheless his great carts made their trips regularly and always returned full laden, and though the husbandmen told sad tales to their overlords of the awful raids of the Devil of Torn in which he seized upon their stuff by force, their tongues were in their cheeks as they spoke and the Devil's gold in their pockets.

They were creatures of mastery, possessing all manner of unknown and impossible potencies, overlords of the alive and the not alive- -making obey that which moved, imparting movement to that which did not move, and making life, sun-coloured and biting life, to grow out of dead moss and wood.

The congressman said we should be proud of all veterans, but especially those who stormed Normandy's beaches during Operation Overlord.

This instructional packet is designed to introduce students to primary source material by having them participate in an historical "what might have been." Students engage in critical thinking and document analysis, and through the process learn about Operation OVERLORD and World War II in general.

In chronological order the six are: Ian Knight's The National Army Museum Book of the Zulu War; Malcolm Brown's The Imperial War Museum Book of the Western Front (a new edition that is expanded, revised and updated); Field Marshal Lord Carver's The National Army Museum Book of the Turkish Front 1914-1918: The Campaigns at Gallipoli, in Mesopotamia and in Palestine; Michael Smith's Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park; Sir Max Hastings' Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, 1944; and, finally, Major General John Strawson's If By Chance which takes a long look at the role of chance in warfare.

On June 6, 1944, the Allies launched Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious assault in history.