The history of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain begins with an invitation from the British Emperor Martian to the Angles and to the Saxons. The result was three vessels, filled with Angles and Saxons, hea...
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The history of England goes far back to the fifth century, with the arrival of Germanic tribes to the United Kingdom. These tribes were the Anglos, the Saxons and the Jutes, whose people later on beca...
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New York (dpa) - The animated film version of the Anglo-Saxon epic
poem Beowulf debuted at the top of the North American box office this
weekend with 28.1-million-dollars in...
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New 24-hour alcohol licensing laws have failed to help Britons adopt a more relaxed attitude toward drinking, a Cabinet minister said, according to a Sunday newspaper.Most Britons enjoy drinking to...
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Dusseldorf, Germany (dpa) - Germany's most powerful banker was
back in court on Thursday in the latest round of the country's
biggest ever corporate crime trial.
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Paris (dpa) - Four years after French President Jacques Chirac
proposed a French version of CNN, the first French-language 24-hour
all-news channel is set to be launched lat...
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Sydney (dpa) - Australia's domestic spy agency has recruited a
number of fluent Chinese speakers for a new counter-espionage unit
designed to combat the increased number of ...
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Cannes, France (dpa) - Swedish director Roy Andersson's drole,
tragic comedy You, The Living screened Thursday at the Cannes Film
Festival for the prize in the prestigious U...
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The homeland security chief on Saturday tore into his own employees for staging a phony news conference at the Federal Emergency Management Agency."I think it was one of the dumbest and most inappr...
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SYDNEY, Nov 29 (Reuters) - The discovery of two pig heads
draped with an Australian flag at the site of a proposed
Islamic school near Sydney was a "display of hatred" and
anti-Australian, religio...
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InuitBurying bodies in ice-covered ground is no easy thing, which is why traditional Inuit (Eskimo) burial ceremonies involved placing bodies under piles of rocks or wooden blocks. It is a remarkab...
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Brussels (dpa) - The dust had barely settled on the EU's last
major power struggle Friday before politicians in Brussels began
grappling over the first pawn in the next big ...
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History of the Anglo Saxons
Beowulf makes mincemeat of box-office competition
