The replica ABC is now on permanent display in the first floor lobby of the Durham Center for Computation and Communication at Iowa State University.

As holder of one of the " five great sees " ( the others being York, London, Durham and Winchester ), the Archbishop of Canterbury is ex officio one of the Lords Spiritual of the House of Lords.

The Liber Vitae of Durham Cathedral includes a list of priests ; two are named Bede, and one of these is presumably Bede himself.

He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records, including the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994, which is the only quintuple hundred in first-class cricket history.

Æthelstan's campaign is reported by in brief by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and later chroniclers such as John of Worcester, William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Symeon of Durham add detail to that bald account.

Symeon of Durham records the victory of Offa in 771 over the Hestingorum gens, that is, " the people of the Hastings tribe ", and the same tribe gave their name to Hastingleigh in Kent.

In the Durham case, the court ruled that a defendant is entitled to acquittal if the crime was the product of his mental illness ( i. e., crime would not have been committed but for the disease ).

For instance, the carriage of the remains of St Cuthbert from Lindisfarne to Durham is the subject of " The Road from Lindisfarne ", the third movement of the Durham Concerto ( 2007 ) by Jon Lord.

This is an emerging Durham tradition, with patchy observance since 2001.

* 1908 – American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.

Smith is married to Pam, a former model who grew up in Easington and Durham, and the couple have houses in St John's Wood, Oxfordshire and Barbados.

* 1346 – Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England near Durham, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years.

Oswald's head was interred in Durham Cathedral together with the remains of Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ( a saint with whom Oswald became posthumously associated, although the two were not associated in life ; Cuthbert became bishop of Lindisfarne more than forty years after Oswald's death ) and other valuables in a quickly made coffin, where it is generally believed to remain, although there are at least four other claimed heads of Oswald in continental Europe.

The court is named for John Cosin ( 1594 – 1672 ) who was successively Master of Peterhouse, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University and Prince-Bishop of Durham.

* October 25 – St. Cuthbert's Society, University of Durham is founded after a general meeting, chaired by the Reverend Hastings Rashdall.

* July 4 – The University of Durham is founded by an act of Parliament and given royal assent by King William IV.

* April 9 – The Treaty of Durham is signed between King Stephen of England and David I of Scotland.

* Cirencester Grammar School is founded in south-west England by the Bishop of Durham.

As an example of the difference in the softer South County Durham / Wearside the English ' book ' is pronounced ' bewk ', in Geordie it becomes ' bouk ' while in the Northumbrian it is ' byuk '.

The accents of Northern England are also distinctive including a range of variations: Northumberland, County Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, Cumbria, Lancashire with regional variants in Bolton, Burnley, Blackburn, Manchester, Preston, Blackpool, Merseyside and Wigan, Yorkshire is also distinctive, having variations between the North Riding of Yorkshire, West Riding of Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire.

A largely honorific post, the current Chancellor is Professor Sir Kenneth Calman, former Chief Medical Officer and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Durham.

* Durham Cathedral is completed.

* Northumbria is divided by the Normans into the counties of Northumberland, County Palatine of Durham, Yorkshire, Westmorland and Lancashire.

He played for Durham, Somerset and Worcestershire, as well as a season ( 1987 – 88 ) in Australia playing for the Queensland Bulls.

For these efforts, he was awarded the Otto Hahn Peace Medal in 1989, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 and the Harvey Prize in 1992 as well as Honorary Doctorates from University of Calgary in 1993, Durham University in 1995, Trinity College in 2002 and University of Münster in 2005, and Eureka College in 2009.

He was head of the Durham Militia band 1760 – 61 and visited the home of Sir Ralph Milbanke at Halnaby Hall in 1760, where he wrote two symphonies, as well as giving performances himself.

Situated nearly equidistant from the Greensboro, Raleigh / Durham / RTP, and Fayetteville metro areas, Sanford is well positioned to provide manufacturing, services, and housing throughout the region for business and industry.

Symeon of Durham stated that St-Calais was chosen as a bishop for this reason, describing him as " very well versed in sacred and secular learning, very conscientious in matters of divine and worldly business, and so remarkable for good conduct that he had no equal amongst his contemporaries ".

Shute Barrington ( 26 May 1734 – 25 March 1826 ) was an English churchman, Bishop of Llandaff in Wales, as well as Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of Durham in England.

Gaudy or gaudie ( from the Latin, " gaudium ", meaning " enjoyment " or " merry-making ") is a term used to reflect student life in a number of the ancient universities in the United Kingdom as well as red brick institutions such as Durham University.

It is often thought that Eddie Durham ( who contributed other arrangements on the recording date of " In The Mood ", August 1, 1939 as well ), John Chalmers McGregor ( Miller's pianist ) and Miller himself contributed most to the final version.

She learns more about Durham himself, including his time spent in psychiatric care and his callous experimentation on his own Copies, as well as his assiduously reticent Copy backers.

Durham, however, confides in Maria that he does not believe the insectoid creatures will ever seriously consider the concept of a creator and intends to use Maria's slice of the universe's processing power ( as a founder of the world she was given de facto control of a continuously-growing zone of the processor network as well ) to make forbidden first contact with the life of Planet Lambert.

American Airlines served Melbourne with flights to Raleigh / Durham and Continental served the airport as well with service to Newark-Liberty.

The facilities currently include a library shared with Durham College, the Science Building, and the Business and IT Building as well as a state of the art virtual hospital for nursing students.

Durham University Queens Campus can be seen on the opposite side, as well as the skyline of Middlesbrough in the middle distance and Roseberry Topping in the Cleveland Hills, approximately fifteen miles south east in the far distance.

Then they left the more remote west side of the country and returned to the east, finding a resting-place at Craike near Easington, County Durham, close to the coast, well south of Lindisfarne, but also sufficiently far north of the new Viking kingdom being established at York.

Local bus services operated by Arriva and Go North East also provide access to the nearby towns of Murton, Peterlee and Houghton-le-Spring, as well as further afield to Sunderland, Newcastle upon Tyne, Durham, Darlington, Stockton-on-Tees and Middlesbrough.

She has also received honorary degrees from the following universities in the UK: Bath, Cambridge, Dundee, Durham, Nottingham, Oxford, Sunderland, Warwick as well as these universities worldwide: Chicago, Auckland and Waikato as well as being honorary fellow of Somerville College, Oxford and Wolfson College, Cambridge.

The dragon was dropped in a well and after about 3 – 4 years became a beast and started terrorizing the countryside of Durham while the fisherman who caught it was away at the Crusades.

That is why well into the last century this area was still part of County Durham.

Durham Area Transit Authority ( DATA ), the transit system for the city of Durham, operates 19 fixed bus routes as well as paratransit services.

The family owned the historic house and gardens at Mount Stewart, County Down, Northern Ireland, the Wynyard Park estate in County Durham as well as Londonderry House on Park Lane in London ( where the Hilton London Hotel is now ) and Plas Machynlleth in mid-Wales.

Both the first Earl's father, William Henry Lambton ( 1764 – 1797 ), and grandfather, Major-General John Lambton ( 1710 – 1794 ), as well as his great-uncle Henry Lambton ( 1697 – 1761 ), represented the City of Durham in Parliament.

In contemporary documents from the early Revolutionary period, the area is generally referred to as " The Three Lower Counties on the Delaware River " ( Lower Counties on Delaware ) or by the names of the three counties, all of which retained linguistic and cultural connections to those of Maryland ; New Castle, which related well to North East England's Newcastle as the defunct Durham County, Maryland ( both Newcastle and Durham were relatively close to the Calvert regional identity as that of Northern England -- and as landlords in County Longford, of the Irish Midlands, their barony shared some characteristics with the earlier English Catholic plantation by Mary I of England and Philip II of Spain in Queen's and King's counties ), while Kent was contiguous with neighboring Kent County, Maryland and Sussex generally held a similar origin to Sussex County, Virginia, being the furthest removed from Penn's colony.