1. Crusades
Facial reconstructions have been made by Richard Neave, and he has reconstructed the heads of Lindow man and Yde Girl (bog bodies). ... Recently, scientists hired a forensic artist (Richard Neave) to reconstruct her face and and it gives us an idea of what she looked like at about the time of her violent death. ...
Finally, German legends were full of heroes and heroines like Hagen, Siegfried, and Brunhild, who were so superbly depicted in Richard Wagner's opera, the Nibelungenlied. Heroes such as those, inspired Germans including Hitler, to think of themselves as larger than life and capable of bringing great glory to Germany through both life and death (Thomas, Landry, Bruch, Richard Wagner on the Web). ... Great warriors like Frederick III inspired the creation of 18th and 19th century Prussia, laying the roots of 20th century Germany. ...