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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Times, Educational, Supplement with the genre: History, Europe?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'European History for Dummies'
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conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: European History for Dummies
  On 1 November 1755, the city of Lisbon was almost destroyed in a catastrophic earthquake and tidal wave. Lisbon's elegant buildings crumbled into rubble and something like 40,000 people were killed. If you believed in a benevolent God who had created the world and who looked favourably on man's efforts to create a civilised, harmonious society, then how on earth were you able to explain this act of appalling destruction? For those who believed that this world was the best of all possible worlds, the destruction of Lisbon took a lot of explaining; others found their faith in God running very low.
  Peter the Great had made a rule that each tsar should choose his own successor. The idea was to ensure some stability and avoid the risk of having a child tsar. Peter's plan didn't quite work.
  Peter's widow, Catherine I, and his grandson, Peter II, only reigned for a couple of years each. Peter's niece, Anne, was completely controlled by her lover, Johannes Biron, who instituted rule by terror. When she died, her 4-month-old great nephew became Ivan VI. That was when Peter the Great's feisty daughter Elizabeth overthrew Biron and had little Ivan VI locked up. Elizabeth took the throne herself.
  Elizabeth's heir was going to be her nephew, Peter. Peter wasn't one of imperial Russia's great brains. In 1745, Elizabeth married Peter off to another German, Sophia-Augusta of Anhalb-Zerbst, who quickly adopted her new country and dropped her old one. Sophia-Augusta took a more Russian name, Catherine, and set about making friends among the imperial guards (she had learnt quickly). When Elizabeth died in 1762, Peter became Tsar Peter III, but it was painfully clear that he wasn't any happier as tsar than he had been as prince. So Catherine put him out of his misery. Catherine hatched a plot with her lover, a handsome young guards officer called Gregory Orlov, and he and his brother burst in on Peter and strangled him. Catherine became empress in her own right, as the Empress Catherine II.
  Voltaire was so impressed with the empress that he hailed her as Catherine the Great and the name has caught on, at least among historians (see the earlier section 'The Militant Middle Classes' for more on Voltaire).
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conversations.value: Give me three more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Some historians think that the Russo–Japanese War was all a clever plot by the hard-line Russian interior minister, von Plehve, to give the Russians something to take their minds off their troubles at home. We'll never know because the Social Revolutionaries blew him up.
  The outcome of this war did not help the mood in Russia, which only needed one more disaster to spill over into revolution. So, on 9 January 1905, Nicholas II provided them with one more disaster – a really big one.
  The trouble started with a massive strike in St Petersburg at the end of 1904; just about every worker in the city was out on the streets demanding food and a better way of life. Then a radical priest, called Father Gapon, had an idea.
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conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
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conversations.value: Then a radical priest, called Father Gapon, had an idea. We'll never know because the Social Revolutionaries blew him up.
  The outcome of this war did not help the mood in Russia, which only needed one more disaster to spill over into revolution. So, on 9 January 1905, Nicholas II provided them with one more disaster – a really big one.
  The trouble started with a massive strike in St Petersburg at the end of 1904; just about every worker in the city was out on the streets demanding food and a better way of life.Some historians think that the Russo–Japanese War was all a clever plot by the hard-line Russian interior minister, von Plehve, to give the Russians something to take their minds off their troubles at home.
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conversations.value: Give me the last three paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Nowadays, French towns are finally getting rid of these contraptions and replacing them with automatic toilets, where you insert a coin to open a sliding door, which then encloses you in a tiny space and forces you onto a white shaped plastic seat. If you're not claustrophobic when you go in, you are by the time you come out, but I advise you to get on with the business in hand because when your allotted time is up the door opens whether you're finished or not.
  France is a modern, hi tech country, with something of a national love affair with the futuristic in design and engineering; all they need to do is apply some of the ingenuity that went into designing the superfast TGV train to the simple, everyday process of emptying the bladder. Someone let me know when it happens. What I do know is that no grown man looks good in lederhosen. That combination of knobbly knees and the cross strap of the braces makes a man look as if he's just landed by parachute and left his trousers in the plane. A photo was taken of Hitler relaxing in a pair of lederhosen, and frankly, anyone who can vote for someone looking that daft deserves everything they get. Quite enough misery exists in the world without our adding to it with the sight of overweight men in leather shorts yodelling and slapping each others' bottoms.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about Whether, copying.
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conversations.value: Nowadays, French towns are finally getting rid of these contraptions and replacing them with automatic toilets, where you insert a coin to open a sliding door, which then encloses you in a tiny space and forces you onto a white shaped plastic seat. If you're not claustrophobic when you go in, you are by the time you come out, but I advise you to get on with the business in hand because when your allotted time is up the door opens whether you're finished or not. 
  France is a modern, hi tech country, with something of a national love affair with the futuristic in design and engineering; all they need to do is apply some of the ingenuity that went into designing the superfast TGV train to the simple, everyday process of emptying the bladder. Someone let me know when it happens. 
  Whether this style development began with men copying their children or the leather was so tight the children could never get them off and wore them till they died, I don't know. What I do know is that no grown man looks good in lederhosen. That combination of knobbly knees and the cross strap of the braces makes a man look as if he's just landed by parachute and left his trousers in the plane. A photo was taken of Hitler relaxing in a pair of lederhosen, and frankly, anyone who can vote for someone looking that daft deserves everything they get. Quite enough misery exists in the world without our adding to it with the sight of overweight men in leather shorts yodelling and slapping each others' bottoms.