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2 days ago · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. It is the largest art museum in the Americas and the fourth-largest in the world. With 5.36 million visitors in 2023, it is the most-visited museum in the United States and the fourth-most visited art museum in the world.
1 day ago · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
4 days ago · EARLY MEDIEVAL CHESTER 400-1230. Sub-roman and early english chester. The 10th-century refortification and reoccupation. Chester and the west saxon rulers, 907-40. The hiberno-norse community. The mint and trade in the 10th century. Chester and the ealdormen and earls of mercia. Chester in 1066. Chester and the anglo-norman earls.
2 days ago · In 1539 (Henry VIII.) Forest, an Observant friar, was cruelly burnt in Smithfield, for denying the king's supremacy, the flames being lit with "David Darvel Gatheren," an idolatrous image from Wales. Latimer preached patience to the friar, while he hung by the waist and struggled for life.
The origin of naming bastards Fitzroy is Norman. It comes from the French “fils roy” which literally means “son of the king.” I know of no instance where the female “filles roy” for daughter of the king has been used. It makes sense for a woman to take “Fitzroy” upon marriage, but not necessarily at birth.
5 days ago · A remarkable testimony to the size and prosperity of York in the age preceding the Conquest appears in a life of St. Oswald supposedly written c. 995–1005 by a monk of Ramsey. He describes the city as the metropolis of the Northumbrians, rejoicing in a population of 30,000 not counting children and youths.
5 days ago · Of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old Norse kikna (="bend backwards, sink at the knees") [154] kid. kið (="young goat") [155] kidnap. From kid + a variant of nab, both of which are of Scandinavian origin. [156] kilt. From Middle English kilten, from a Scandinavian source [157] kindle.
