[A dictionary of Old Norse names from runic inscriptions. Most of these names come from eastern Scandinavia and are therefore most appropriate for people with personas from Sweden or Denmark, but there are some west Scandinavian names from Norway, the British Isles, etc. as well, also some pla...
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A New Day in Old Sana'a is a 2005 romantic drama film directed by Bader Ben Hirsi, a British playwright and director of Yemeni ancestry, and produced by Ahmed Abdali. It was shot in San‘a’, the capital of Yemen, and was the first Yemeni film to be shown at the Cannes Fi...
Historic note of interest: In the early 19th Century, there was a scandal involving the British General-in-Chief of the Armies (then fighting Napoleon) where his mistress was found to have been selling commissions to wealthy, but undeserving men, for high private fees. The General-in-Chief r...
if built in the 1990s they would have been named something likeNelson Mandela House, Steve Biko Towers. etc etcJust thinkOnly Fools and Horses– the classic UK comedy series. (If you know you know.)Just ask anyone from a British inner city and they will tell you that the naming of such...
Names and Places: Many places in England still bear names of Old Norse origin. For instance, “by” in names like Derby and Whitby comes from the Old Norse word for “farm” or “settlement.” Gender Equality: Viking women had more rights compared to many other societies of their time. ...
In a gray coat, Liu sat straight and gazed at the lens, grinning and showing his ivory-white teeth. "We each printed several one-inch photos, wrote our names and words of blessing on the back, and gave them to some classmates," he recalled. ...
They are subservient to Abimelech, so that the compound cannot here mean ‘originators of hostility’; Abimelech’s soldiery cannot originate anything, they are not of sufficient status to start warfare, but they are of a sort that uses warfare to rape women in their power. In the poem ...
Jonathan names twelve (12) slaves, the “Negro” men,Lot, IsaacandRoger, womenMereahandPhillis, a boy,Daniel, “girls”Peg, Kate, Mercy,Luceand Phillis’s two children,CofeandMeriah. Notably, Jonathan directs that his slave,Mereah, be freed upon his death, allowed to live in his house...
Sir Edward Coke (1552 – 1634), British jurist and politician and Greneley’s Case in British Common Law 1610 (click for more) Simone de Greneleye 15 July 1260. This is the first hand written record of de Greneleye. It is from the rolls of King Henry III. ...