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Vor 8 Stunden · Explaining linguistic change, and particularly the rise of Old English, is crucial in any account of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain.According to Higham, the adoption of the language—as well as the material culture and traditions—of an Anglo-Saxon elite, "by large numbers of the local people seeking to improve their status within the social structure, and undertaking for this purpose ...
Vor 8 Stunden · A major 19th-century engineering achievement was The Crystal Palace, the huge cast-iron and plate-glass exhibition hall built for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. Glass and iron were used in a similar monumental style in the construction of major railway terminals throughout the city, including King's Cross station (1852) [25] and Paddington Station (1854) [26] .
Vor 8 Stunden · Richard Wagner. Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( / ˈvɑːɡnər / VAHG-nər; [1] [2] German: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ] ⓘ; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera ...
Vor einem Tag · Das Europäische Parlament (inoffiziell auch Europaparlament oder EU-Parlament; kurz EP; lateinisch Parlamentum Europaeum) mit offiziellem Sitz in Straßburg ist das Parlament der Europäischen Union ( Art. 14 EU-Vertrag ). Seit 1979 wird es alle fünf Jahre (zuletzt 2019) in allgemeinen, unmittelbaren, freien, geheimen, aber nicht gleichen [2 ...
Vor einem Tag · Thomas, die Tenderlok. Thomas (Nummer NWR 1; vorher LB&SCR 70) ist eine kleine hellblaue Tenderlokomotive, die zunächst als Rangierlokomotive eingesetzt wird. Erst, nachdem er sich mehrfach bewährt und unter anderem James nach einem Unfall rettet, darf Thomas eine eigene kleine Nebenstrecke befahren.
Vor 8 Stunden · Roy Orbison. Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for his distinctive and powerful voice, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. Orbison's music is mostly in the rock genre and his most successful periods were in the early 1960s and the late 1980s.
Vor einem Tag · History Early history Robert Rollock, Regent (1583–1586) and first principal (1586–1599) of the University of Edinburgh In 1557, Bishop Robert Reid of St Magnus Cathedral on Orkney made a will containing an endowment of 8,000 merks to build a college in Edinburgh. Unusually for his time, Reid's vision included the teaching of rhetoric and poetry, alongside more traditional subjects such as ...
