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St. Jones Neck is a geographic region of eastern central Kent County, Delaware, United States, with a rich prehistory and colonial history. Originally known just as Jones Neck , it is bounded on the west by the St. Jones River , on the north by Little Creek (roughly, the southeast boundary of Dover Air Force Base ), and on the east by Delaware ...
Survivors. 219. Finnair Flight 915 (AY915) was a scheduled flight by Finnair from Tokyo, Japan, over the North Pole to Helsinki, Finland, on 23 December 1987. In 2014, Finnish media reported a claim by two of the flight's pilots that the Soviet Union had fired a missile at the aircraft, which exploded less than 30 seconds before impact.
Maravarman Rajasimha II ( r. c. 900–915 AD) was the last major king of the early medieval Pandya kingdom (6th–10th century AD) of south India. He was the son and successor of Parantaka Viranarayana ( r. c. 880–900 AD). [2] [3] He is the donor of the Larger Sinnamanur Plates.
The 9th century was a period from 801 (represented by the Roman numerals DCCCI) through 900 (CM) in accordance with the Julian calendar . The Carolingian Renaissance and the Viking raids occurred within this period. In the Middle East, the House of Wisdom was founded in Abbasid Baghdad, attracting many scholars to the city.
Joshua Pritchard Hughes had a Dahlia Dahlia 'Bishop of Llandaff' named for him in 1924. In 1924, the Dahlia 'Bishop of Llandaff' was named after Joshua Pritchard Hughes, who was bishop from 1905 to 1931. A long-serving recent bishop of Llandaff was Barry Morgan; when elected as bishop in 1999 his official signature was Barry Landav, but once ...
August – Norse invasion force sacks Ipswich. [1] 10 August – Battle of Maldon: Danes defeat the English army, [5] whose leader, Byrhtnoth, is killed. The first Danegeld, of £10,000, is paid to the Danes in return for their leaving England (according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ).
