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"The Saxon Pretender" is a science fiction short story by L. Sprague de Camp. It was first published under the title "Rogue Princess" in the magazine Science Fiction Quarterly for February, 1952. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It first appeared in book form under the author's preferred title of "The Saxon Pretender" in the collection Sprague de Camp's New ...
Exeter Book Riddle 25 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) [1] is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century Exeter Book. Suggested solutions have included Hemp, Leek, Onion, Rosehip, Mustard and Phallus, but the consensus is that the solution is Onion.
John Saxon (born Carmine Orrico; August 5, 1936 – July 25, 2020) was an American actor who worked on more than 200 film and television projects during a span of 60 years. He was known for his work in Westerns and horror films , often playing police officers and detectives.
@NYT_first_said is a bot account on Twitter and Mastodon that tracks every time The New York Times, an American newspaper, uses a word it has not previously published. It was inspired by a previous Twitter bot by Allison Parrish that also tweeted single English words at a time.
Through his youngest son Hendon, he was posthumously a grandfather of Thomas Caldecot Chubb (1899–1972); [16] Alice "Margaret" Chubb (1901–1976), [17] who married J. Russell Parsons, a partner with Chubb & Son; [18] and Percy Chubb II (1909–1982), [19] who married Corinne Roosevelt Alsop (a daughter of Corinne (née Robinson) Alsop Cole, and Joseph Wright Alsop IV).
Aside from eight leaves added to the codex after it was written, the Exeter Book consists entirely of poetry. However, unlike the Junius manuscript, which is dedicated to biblically inspired works, the Exeter Book is noted for the unmatched diversity of genres among its contents, as well as their generally high level of poetic quality.
Saxon customary law, or Landrecht, was the law of free people including the peasant sokemanry. It contains important rules and regulations concerning property rights, inheritance, marriage, the delivery of goods, and certain torts (e.g. trespass, nuisance). It also treats criminal law and the composition of courts.
Not long afterwards they went out to fight with the West Saxons, their army being almost wholly destroyed (Bede, Hist. Eccl. ii. c. 5). This battle was fought against Cynegils and Cwichelm of Wessex , the West Saxon kings who invaded their territory with a larger force than the East Saxons could muster in or about 626.