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American servicemen landed on English soil and brought baseball to Old Trafford. When football resumed, money was scarce and plans for a new bridge into Salford and a car park were delayed.
Centuries-old ‘witches marks’ found carved into walls of English manor house. A volunteer tour guide found an inscription cursing a previous owner of Gainsborough Old Hall, an old manor house ...
The team went back to a navy block D from 1931-33, but switched back to the 1930 Old English D in 1934. That logo would remain representative of the team until 1956. In that time, the Tigers won ...
I recently went to the last town in the world that still speaks Old English and I was shocked by how much I could speak and understand. Well okay, it’s not exactly Old English, it’s a rare ...
Besides being the greatest writer in the history of the English language, William Shakespeare was the master of the pithy put-down. So the nervous servant who tells Macbeth his castle is under ...
The Old English language was initially joined by other Germanic languages including Old Norse and Frisian. The Norman Conquest brought speakers of the Romance language Norman French to Britain.
An 'adorable' Old English Foxhound from the Percy Hunt in Northumberland has won Best of Breed - making history at the same time.
President Ronald Reagan rededicates the Old Post Office as the Nancy Hanks Center, which houses several arts-and-­humanities-related federal agencies and a glossy food-and-shopping court. The ...
The Old English Puritan was such an one, that honored God above all, and under God gave every one his due. His first care was to serve God… making the word of God the rule of his worship.
The 600-year-old coin predates the first documented European contact with North America since the Vikings, in a region with a 9,000-year-old history of human settlement and rich Indigenous traditions.
According to the old legend, two mermaids placed an enigmatic curse on the village of Staithes after being captured and kept ...