* 1951 – Chrissie Hynde, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Pretenders and The Moors Murderers )

** Greater Manchester Police announce that they are to search for the bodies of 2 missing children ( who both vanished more than 20 years ago ) after the Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley confess to 2 more murders.

She was involved with early versions of The Clash and The Damned and played in short-lived bands such as Masters of the Backside and The Moors Murderers.

He arranged a rehearsal studio in Denmark Street, where a 3-piece band consisting of Hynde, Mal Hart on bass ( he had played with Hynde and Steve Strange in The Moors Murderers ), and Phil Taylor of Motörhead on drums played a selection of Hynde's original songs.

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* Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, " Moors Murderers ", serial killers

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Winstone recalls playing with his friends on bomb sites until " Moors Murderers " Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were arrested for killing three children.

The work courted controversy when Coyne suggested, in the theatre presentation of the piece, that the destructive relationship between the two lovers could have been based on The Moors Murderers.

The area includes some of the sites used by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, known as the ' Moors Murderers ', to bury their child victims in the early 1960s.

Parsons and Axile had both been in punk bands prior to joining the band: Parsons in The Partisans, and Axile in various bands, most notably The Moors Murderers and X-Ray Spex offshoot Agent Orange.

22 years later, in November 1986, Moors Murderers Ian Brady ( who had also lived in Longsight ) and Myra Hindley revealed that he was one of their victims ; just as police had suspected when arresting them for three other murders in October 1965.

The Visigoths under Alaric I sacked Rome in 410, defeated Attila at the Battle of the Catalunian Plains in 451, and founded a Kingdom in Aquitaine which was pushed to Hispania by the Franks in 507, converted to Catholicism by the late sixth century, and in the early eighth century conquered by the Muslim Moors.

As early as the 6th century, the Bulgars brought the short-necked variety of the instrument called Komuz to the Balkans, and in the 9th century, Moors brought the Oud to Spain.

The Andalusian Moors of the late Medieval era inhabited the Iberian Peninsula after the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in the early 8th century.

During his youth and early adulthood, Peter gained a great deal of military experience in his father's wars of the Reconquista against the Moors.

In Spain, several very different cultural streams came together in the first centuries of the Christian era: the Roman culture, which was dominant for several hundred years, and which brought with it the music and ideas of Ancient Greece ; early Christians, who had their own version of the Roman Rite ; the Visigoths, an North Germanic tribe who overran the Iberian peninsula in the 5th century ; Jews of the diaspora ; and eventually the Moors and Arabs.

After running various Open Weekends and Steam Galas during the early 1970s ( by permission of British Railways ) the NYMRPS transformed itself into a Charitable Trust ( to ensure the future of the railway ) and became The North York Moors Historical Railway Trust Ltd. Purchase of the line was completed and the necessary Light Railway Order obtained, giving powers to operate the railway.

The earliest historical sign of settlement in the Bradfield area is an early to mid Bronze Age ring cairn on Broomhead Moors, three miles to the northwest of Low Bradfield.

Lying within the county boundaries of Lancashire, until the early 19th century, Great Bolton and Little Bolton were two of the eighteen townships of the ecclesiastical parish of Bolton le Moors.

The early name Bolton le Moors described the position of the town amid the low hills on the edge of the West Pennine Moors south east of Rivington Pike ( 456 m ).

The orange stripe represents the Sri Lankan Tamils, the green stripe represents Sri Lankan Moors, and the maroon background represents the majority of Sinhalese, like the lion, this is the color used in early flags of Sri Lanka by kings.

When the Moors arrived in the early 8th century, resistance was fragmented among bishops in control of the small walled towns and the territorial magnates in their fortified villas.

The early Arabs and the Moors used it to refer to the non-Muslim Dravidians who were dark-skinned.

Those who lived in northwest Africa were called " Libyans " by the Greeks, " Africans ", " Numidians " and " Moors " by the Romans and early Europeans, and dubbed " Berbers " by the modern Europeans and Arabs.

Later peoples, notably the Moors and the Spanish, also established settlements on the shoreline during the Middle Ages and early modern period, including the heavily fortified and highly strategic port at Gibraltar, which fell to England in 1704.

The fortress was further enlarged by the Visigoths and, above all, the Moors, who conquered it early during their conquest of Spain.

Green Arrow at Sheffield while on a charter service in late 1978 or early 1979After a series of commemorative runs on preserved railways, the locomotive moved to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway for their LNER gala.

Lucena was taken from the Moors early in the 14th century ; it was in the attempt to recapture it that King Boabdil of Granada was taken prisoner in 1483.

Established on a permanent basis after the raids by the Moors in the early 170s.

The North African Islamic Moors established themselves in Spain in the early 8th century and the province of Almería came under the authority of the Caliphate of Damascus and was later ruled by the Umayyads of Córdoba.

La Convivencia (" the Coexistence ") is the period of Spanish history from the Muslim Umayyad conquest of Hispania in the early eighth century until the completion of the Christian Reconquista in the late fifteenth century, when Muslims, Christians and Jews in Moorish Iberia lived in relative peace together within the different kingdoms ( during the same time, however, the Christian reclaiming of land conquered by the Moors was ongoing ).

Until the early 19th century, Anglezarke was a township in the ancient parish of Bolton le Moors, itself part of the hundred of Salford in Lancashire.

In 1993 the band released a second demo: Journey Through the Cold Moors of Svarttjern.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, Moors head proper with a band Argent around, clothed in Azure and Or.

Das Pop is a Belgian band founded in Ghent by schoolfriends Reinhard Vanbergen, Niek Meul, Lieven Moors and Bent Van Looy.

Tom Kestens and Lieven Moors later left the band, and in 2007 New Zealander Matt Eccles ( formerly drums in Betchadupa ) joined the band as the new drummer.

The plucked family led to lute-like instruments in 2000 BC Mesopotamia, and developed into the oud or ud before appearing in Spain, first documented around 711 AD, courtesy of the Moors.

Slavery in Mauritania was finally criminalized in August 2007 It was already abolished in 1980 though it was still affecting the descendants of black Africans abducted into slavery before generations, who live now in Mauritania as " black Moors " or haratin and who partially still serve the " white Moors ", or bidhan ( the name means literally white-skinned people ), as slaves.

It can be questioned due to the Portuguese Reconquista that had ended in 1249, and both the Castillian and Portuguese kingdoms that may have begun profiting from maritime expansion along Africa before the Jews and Moors were expelled.

Some of the buildings may have existed before the arrival of the Moors.

Albayzín ( also written as Albaicín ), located on a hill on the right bank of the river Darro, is the ancient Moorish quarter of the city and transports the visitor to a unique world: the site of the ancient city of Elvira, so-called before the Zirid Moors renamed it Granada.

At the same time, the Moors ( consisting of Arabs and Berbers ) invaded Europe via Gibraltar ( conquering Hispania — the Iberian Peninsula — from the Visigothic Kingdom in 711 ), before being halted by the Franks at the Battle of Tours in 732.

He also fought against the Moors in Spain before 1096, and he was the first to join the crusade after Pope Urban II's sermon at the Council of Clermont.

This would give further momentum to the Christian Reconquest begun by the kingdoms of northern Iberia centuries before, resulting in a sharp reduction in the already declining power of the Moors in the Iberian Peninsula.

Settlement in the region dates back to the Bronze Age, and has been colonised and ruled by many cultures such as the Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, Visigoths and Moors, before the Reconquista.

More recently it housed, in 1966, Moors murderess Myra Hindley ; in 1967, beautiful Welsh temptress Kim Newell who was involved in the Red Mini Murder and Nazi synagogue arsonist Françoise Dior, in 1993, Sheila Bowler, the music teacher wrongly imprisoned for the murder of her elderly aunt, was detained there before being transferred to Bullwood Hall and in 2002, Maxine Carr who gave a false alibi for Soham murderer Ian Huntley.

The site was originally a pagan temple, then a Visigothic Christian church, before the Umayyad Moors converted the building into a mosque and then built a new mosque on the site.

The river rises at the Esklets on Westerdale Moor in the North York Moors, flowing through Westerdale before merging with a large number of becks from the surrounding hills, including Tower, Baysdale, Sleddale, Danby, Great Fryup, Stonegate, Glaisdale and Murk becks.

The word aljama is derived from the Arabic jama (" gather ") plus the definite article al, which meant originally " congregation ", " assembly ", " group ", but which, even before the establishment of Spanish rule, was applied by the Moors to their own religious bodies and the larger mosques, and especially to the Jewish communities in the midst of them, and to the synagogues and schools which formed the center of all Jewish life.

The line then rose on an embankment to cross the A161 road, and then entered a cutting, where it was joined by the Hatfield Moors branch, the two running parallel for some before the cutting become an embankment, and they joined near Epworth station.

She and Ian Brady lived there at the time of the first three Moors murders, before moving to Hattersley where they committed two further murders and were arrested in October 1965.

We first hear of him ( before 1445 ) as a captive of the Barbary Moors in the western Mediterranean ; while among these he acquired a knowledge of Arabic, and probably conceived the design of exploration in the interior of the continent whose coasts the Portuguese were now unveiling.

It was wrested from the Moors by Afonso I of Portugal in 1166 ; but was temporarily recaptured before its final occupation by the Portuguese in 1226.

Heading south the Itchen Way passes under the A34 before running parallel with the former route of the former Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway between the Winnall Moors nature reserve and the Winnall industrial estate.

Instead of simply fusing musical styles as they currently exist, Radio Tarifa goes back in time to the common past of those styles, back to before 1492 when the Moors and Jews were exiled from Spain.

To place the population at only 250 people in the 16th century who are mostly settled in its small village of Cabolutan and living by gathering wax was perhaps to my own opinion was before the late incursion by the Moors or Moros who have annually infested the islands carrying captivity.

After Wappenshall junction the canal dropped down through the two Eyton locks, which were widened when the Newport Branch was built, passing to the north of Eyton upon the Weald Moors and through Sleapford, before crossing the River Tern on the aqueduct at Longdon-on-Tern.

Then they closed the gates of the city before the Christians and opened them for the Moors.

In the earliest years of the Christian Reconquista, just before the arise of a Portuguese national identity, the region was a battleplace for Muslim Moors and Christian crusaders.