* White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, an ethnicity

In contemporary Anglophone cultures outside the United Kingdom, the term is most commonly found in certain contexts, such as the term " White Anglo-Saxon Protestant " or " WASP ".

Lawrence, or most notably Old Lawrence, was formerly home to a large upper class of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant families that lived there since the time of the American Revolution.

He is an outspoken bigot, seemingly prejudiced against everyone who is not a U. S .- born, politically conservative, heterosexual White Anglo-Saxon Protestant male, and dismissive of anyone not in agreement with his view of the world.

* WASP ( White Anglo-Saxon Protestant )

White Anglo-Saxon Protestant ( WASP ) is an informal term, often derogatory or disparaging, for a closed group of high-status Americans mostly of English Protestant ancestry.

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fr: White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

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nl: White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

pl: White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

sh: White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

Also, he was the first leader of the Manitoba CCF / NDP who was not of Anglo-Saxon and Protestant descent.

It created for the first time a class of the super-rich " captains of industry ", the " Robber Barons " whose network of business, social and family connections ruled a largely White Anglo-Saxon Protestant social world that possessed clearly defined boundaries.

While the Emergency Quota Act used the census of 1910, xenophobic fears in the WASP community lead to the adoption of the 1890 census, more favorable to White Anglo-Saxon Protestant ( WASP ) population, for the uses of the Immigration Act of 1924, which responded to rising immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, as well as Asia.

" " Evangelical " translates as evangelisch, the Swiss term for Protestant, as opposed to Evangelicalism as used in Anglo-Saxon Christianity.

The family was socially conservative Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

There were terms for his adoption that had to be met: he had to be born at the time and place appointed by the astrologers, his mother was to die shortly after giving birth, and he was to be of Anglo-Saxon Protestant descent.

Eliot was the son of a Unitarian minister and grandson of Harvard president Charles Eliot and Curley based his campaign on appeals to ethnic, class and religious bigotry against the well to do White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Yankee Eliot.

In response to this incursion, Alfred led an Anglo-Saxon force against the Danes who, instead of engaging the army of Wessex, fled to their beached ships and sailed to another part of Britain.

For some time the existence of the word bretwalda in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which was based in part on the list given by Bede in his Historia Ecclesiastica, led historians to think that there was perhaps a ' title ' held by Anglo-Saxon overlords.

" Cuthwulf's relationship with Ceawlin is unknown, but the alliteration common to Anglo-Saxon royal families suggests Cuthwulf may be part of the West Saxon royal line.

In its modern usage, the idea that a part of the Americas has affinity with the Romance cultures as a whole can be traced back to the 1830s, in the writing of the French Saint-Simonian Michel Chevalier, who postulated that this part of the Americas was inhabited by people of a " Latin race " and that it could, therefore, ally itself with " Latin Europe " in a struggle with " Teutonic Europe ", " Anglo-Saxon America " and " Slavic Europe ".

The character of the obsessed academic Rose Lorimer in Angus Wilson's 1956 novel Anglo-Saxon Attitudes is said to have been inspired in part by Murray and Frances Yates.

Some people regard Hardy's definition as correct on the grounds that the counties north of the Thames, along with Berkshire and north-east Somerset, were part of Mercia for much of the Anglo-Saxon period.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in the " D " version, goes so far as to state that William visited England in the later part of 1051, perhaps to secure confirmation of the succession, or perhaps William was attempting to secure aid for his troubles in Normandy.

Archaeologists concluded that this part of Wat's Dyke, so long thought of as Anglo-Saxon and a mid-8th century contemporary of Offa's Dyke, must have been built 300 years earlier in the post-Roman period in Britain.

Although the Anglo-Saxon monarchs are known to have rewarded their loyal subjects with rings and other symbols of favour, it was the Normans who introduced knighthoods as part of their feudal government.

Edward the Confessor was the first Anglo-Saxon and the only king of England to be canonised, but he was part of a tradition of ( uncanonised ) English royal saints, such as Eadburh of Winchester, a daughter of Edward the Elder, Edith of Wilton, a daughter of Edgar the Peaceful, and King Edward the Martyr.

In 723, the Anglo-Saxon missionary Winfrid — subsequently called St. Boniface, Apostle of the Germans — proselytizing among the Chatti, felled their sacred tree, Thor's Oak, near Fritzlar, as part of his efforts to compel the conversion of the Chatti and the other northern Germanic tribes to Christianity.

Northumbrian Old English had been established in what is now southeastern Scotland as far as the River Forth by the seventh century, as the region was part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria.

The Danelaw, as recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( also known as the Danelagh ; Old English: Dena lagu ; ), is a historical name given to the part of England in which the laws of the " Danes " held sway and dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( MS E ) describes Eric laconically as ‘ Harold ’ s son ’ ( Haroldes sunu ), perhaps assuming some familiarity on the reader's part.

As a part of Anglo-Saxon art the manuscript reveals a love of riddles and surprise, shown through the pattern and interlace in the meticulously designed pages.

In his own realm, Carloman strengthened his authority in part via his support of the Anglo-Saxon missionary Winfrid ( later Saint Boniface ), the so-called " Apostle of the Germans ," whom he charged with restructuring the church in Austrasia.

* Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos ( ASNaC ) ( I, II ) ( two year part I )

About half of the Life is little more than a translation of part of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the years 851 – 887, though Asser adds personal opinions and interpolates information about Alfred's life.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the following entry as part of the entry for 909 or 910 ( in different versions of the chronicle ): " Here Frithustan succeeded to the bishopric in Winchester, and after that Asser, who was bishop at Sherborne, departed.

The first ' Bermondsey ' is that known as the location of an Anglo-Saxon monastery, and known from later charters to be the area around the post-Conquest Bermondsey Abbey and its manor, which was in turn part of the medieval parish.

It follows a part of the line of the Roman route, Iter III in the Antonine Itinerary, which later took the Anglo-Saxon name Watling Street.