John agreed to heavy terms, including the abandonment of all the English possession in Berry and 20, 000 Marks of Silver, but Philip in turn recognised John as king, formally abandoning Arthur I of Brittany, whom he had thitherto supported, and recognised John's suzerainty over the Duchy of Brittany.

In the 12th century, Henry II established the Sterling Silver standard for English coinage, of 92. 5 % silver and 7. 5 % copper, replacing the earlier mediæval use of fine silver.

In the 12th century a new standard for English coinage was established by Henry II — the Sterling Silver standard of 92. 5 % silver and 7. 5 % copper.

The success of Silver City's Lympne — Le Touquet air ferry service resulted in subsequent introduction of additional routes across the English Channel and to other parts of the British Isles.

At its peak, Silver City operated 222 daily ferry flights across the English Channel, as well as between Scotland and Ireland and to / from the Isle of Wight, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

George Silver, an English fencer who wrote two books ( 1599, 1605 ) including lengthy sections on staff fighting does not use the term " quarterstaff ", but instead calls it a " short staff " ( as opposed to the " long staff ").

His major English language critics include Derek Harris and Phillip Silver.

With his company, Barrett is credited with attracting the largest crowds of English theatregoers ever because of his success with melodrama, an instance being his production of The Silver King ( 1882 ) at the Princess's Theatre of London.

The band so impressed the audience with their performance that the band was bestowed with the Gaviota de Plata ( English translation: the Silver Seagull ), the highest award that can presented to an artist performing at the Viña del Mar Festival.

* Long John Silver is a Franco-Belgian comics series written by Xavier Dorison, illustrated by Mathieu Laufray and published by Dargaud in French and Cinebook in English.

The Silver Chalice is a 1952 English language historical novel by Thomas B. Costain.

The Río de la Plata (, River of Silver ) — usually rendered River Plate in British English and the Commonwealth, and occasionally rendered Plata River in other English-speaking countries — is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River on the border between Argentina and Uruguay.

* ( English ) Margaret Mary Vale, ' Sand and Silver: Jewellery, Costume and Life in the Oasis of Siwa ', London, 2011.

After the match, the English side were awarded Silver medals, and the French side were given Bronze medals, and both teams were also given miniature statues of the Eiffel Tower.

Silver championed the native English martial arts while objecting on ethical and technical grounds to the fashionable continental rapier systems being taught at the time.

One point of similarity with Italian rapier fencing is that Silver advocates the use of the thrust together with the cut ; he claims that in the English tradition only the cut was allowed.

He also translated the Constitution of Norway to English and studied the Free Silver issue.

One of the most versatile English composers of his time, Gibbons wrote a quantity of keyboard works, around thirty fantasias for viols, a number of madrigals ( the best-known being " The Silver Swan "), and many popular verse anthems.

A West Country native where many well-known English pirates hailed from, Robert Newton's portrayal of Long John Silver in 1950s films popularized the stereotypical West Country pirate accent.

Carole G. Silver, Professor of English at Yeshiva University has also traced the euhemerist theory of fairies further back to Walter Scott in his Letters on Demonology ( 1830 ).

Barbadian Christmas music is mostly based on church and concert hall performances, where typical North American Christmas carols are performed, such as " White Christmas " and " Silver Bells ", alongside works by English composers like William Byrd, Henry Walford Davies and Thomas Tallis.

* English Silver Coinage by P. Alan Rayner

Mature trees include Turkey, English Elm, Common Oak, Sessile Oak, Rowan, Silver Birch, Common Lime and Horse Chestnut.

Starting with Charles Thomas Crutwell's A History of Roman Literature from the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius, which first came out in 1877, English literary historians have included the spare century in Silver Latin.

In relation the beauty of the Norse elves, some further evidence is given by old English words such as ælfsciene (" elf-beautiful "), used of seductively beautiful Biblical women in the Old English poems Judith and Genesis A.

* 1943 – Judith Barker, English actress

Gary K. Wolfe, professor of humanities and English at Roosevelt University, identifies the introduction of the term New Wave to SF as occurring in 1966 in an essay for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction written by Judith Merril, who was indirectly yet it seems unambiguously referring to that term in order to comment on the experimental fiction that had begun to appear in the English magazine New Worlds, after Michael Moorcock assumed editorship in 1964.

Dame Judith Olivia " Judi " Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA ( born 9 December 1934 ) is an English film, stage and television actress.

* Judith ( homily ), an Old English homily by Aelfric of Eynsham

* " Judith " ( poem ), an Old English poem about the heroine of the Book of Judith

As such it has become extremely popular sung to the English composer Hubert Parry's tune Repton taken from the 1888 oratorio Judith and set to the latter part of Whittier's poem in 1924 by Dr George Gilbert Stocks.

The Catholic tract " A Treatise of Schisme " written in 1578 at Douai by the English scholar Gregory Martin included a paragraph in which Martin expressed confidence that " the Catholic Hope would triumph, and pious Judith would slay Holofernes ".

The famous 40-voice motet Spem in alium by English composer Thomas Tallis, is a setting of a text from the Book of Judith.

English playwright Howard Barker examined the Judith story and its aftermath, first in the scene " The Unforeseen Consequences of a Patriotic Act ," as part of his collection of vignettes, The Possibilities.

* Online verse translations in English by Judith P. Shoaf

His smooth, upper-crust English accent and sleek British manner, along with a suave, snobbish and somewhat threatening air, put him in demand for American films throughout the following decade. He played supporting roles in high-end productions such as Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca ( 1940 ), in which he and Judith Anderson played cruel foils to Joan Fontaine's character.

The Old English poem " Judith " describes the beheading of Assyrian general Holofernes by Israelite Judith of Bethulia.

The Old English poem is one of many retellings of the Holofernes-Judith tale as it was found in the Book of Judith, still present in the Catholic and Orthodox Christian Bibles.

Had the first nine cantos been preserved, it is often thought that Judith would be considered one of the most laudable Old English works ( Cook, pg.

Campbell, J. J. ‘ Schematic Technique in Judith ’, English Literary History 38 ( 1971 ), 155-72

: Cambell ’ s writing details many differences between the Vulgate ’ s “ Judith ” and the Old English poem “ Judith .” Campbell offers a clearer perspective on the character of Judith as it is represented quite differently by the two works.

Additionally, Chamberlain includes the Old English text of “ Judith ,” along with several insightful footnotes and vocabulary assistance.