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For a short period, they also operated as a standalone European business. In May 2016, following a failed merger with Staples,[5] Office Depot Inc. agreed to sell its European business, including Viking, to Aurelius Group for an undisclosed purchase price.[6] In November 2021, Aurelius sold the business to The RAJA Group.[7]
Members of the group appeared in the British Museum's Vikings Live [21] cinema broadcast in 2014 to launch the Vikings: Life and Legend exhibition. Member Peter Holyoake starred in the Kerry Food's 'Walls! Bring It On Britain!' advertising campaign in 2010. [22] Footage from the groups re-enactment at Hemsby Viking Festival 2010 is used in the ad.
Such Viking evidence in Britain consists primarily of Viking burials undertaken in Shetland, Orkney, the Western Isles, the Isle of Man, Ireland, and the north-west of England. [53] Archaeologists James Graham-Campbell and Colleen E. Batey remarked that it was on the Isle of Man where Norse archaeology was "remarkably rich in quality and ...
Jarl Orm, the likely ruler of Leicester at the time [9] (and who attested charters between 930 and 958 [citation needed]) married his daughter Aldgyth to King Olaf later that year to cement the alliance. The burh might have made use of the walls of the Roman Leicester (Ratae Corieltauvorum), of approx 7,800 ft (2,400 m) [12] (c. 1900 hides).
Viking Mortar Section in 2020 Viking Armoured Vehicle of the Royal Marines during a demonstration at the Portsmouth International Festival in 2005. Viking Squadron is under the overall control of Commando Logistic Regiment and is the armoured element of UK Commando Force, equipped with the Viking armoured vehicle. [10]
The Washburn Square–Leicester Common Historic District encompasses the historic civic heart of Leicester, Massachusetts.It includes Washburn Square, as the town common is called; the buildings along its perimeter; and the properties along Main Street extending east along Main Street to its junction with Henshaw Street.
The Ridgeway Hill Viking burial pit at Ridgeway Hill near Weymouth, Dorset, was a mass grave of 54 skeletons, including 51 skulls, of Scandinavian men executed some time between AD 970 and 1025. The men are believed to have been Vikings executed by local Anglo-Saxons .
This is a list of historic houses in Massachusetts. Samuel Lincoln House, Hingham, built on land purchased 1649 by Samuel Lincoln , ancestor of President Abraham Lincoln Stephen Phillips House is over 200 years old and is located in the Chestnut Street District , in Salem , Massachusetts , United States.