" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.

Many of Christie ’ s books and short stories both set in the Middle East and back in England have a decidedly otherworldly influence in which religious sects, sacrifices, ceremony, and seances play a part.

Having held a prebend at Holborn ( prior to 1229 ) and a canonry of St. Paul ’ s in London ( 1226-1229 ), He visited England in 1230 and received a canonry and an archdeaconry in Coventry and Lichfield, his native diocese.

Potter ’ s paternal grandfather, Edmund Potter, from Glossop in Derbyshire, owned the largest calico printing works in England at the time, and later served as a Member of Parliament.

The earliest example we have of a recognisable ballad in form in England is ‘ Judas ’ in a 13th-century manuscript.

Similarly in England William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced a collection of Lyrical Ballads in 1798, including Coleridge ’ s ‘ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ’.

One of the first and throughout its history one of the most significant treatises of the common law, Bracton ’ s De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae ( On the Laws and Customs of England ), was heavily influenced by the division of the law in Justinian ’ s Institutes.

Signs of this can be found in Blackstone ’ s Commentaries on the Laws of England, and Roman law ideas regained importance with the revival of academic law schools in the 19th century.

Also in 1983, he recorded tracks including " In England and In Africa " and " Sing Like Billy Bragg " which were used as a ‘ demo ’ to secure a further Peel Session in 1984, where he performed three songs including " Hands Together Eyes Closed ".

All kings supported King John of England ’ s defiance of Pope Innocent III ninety years after the Concordat of Worms in the matter concerning Stephen Langton.

One of the oldest is Dublin Castle, which was first founded as a major defensive work on the orders of King John of England in 1204, shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169, when it was commanded that a castle be built with strong walls and good ditches for the defence of the city, the administration of justice, and the protection of the King ’ s treasure.

Her sister Millicent recalled Elizabeth ’ s weekly lectures, “ Talks on Things in General ”, when her younger siblings would gather her while she discussed politics and current affairs from Garibaldi to Macauley ’ s History of England.

In the wake of Mussolini ’ s declaration of war against France and England on June 10, 1940, he discovered Kafka ’ s The Metamorphosis, Gogol, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner along with French films by Marcel Carné, René Clair, and Julien Duvivier.

In May 2010, Lineker resigned from his role as columnist for The Mail on Sunday in protest over the sting operation against Lord Triesman that jeopardised England ’ s bid to host the 2018 World Cup.

Matilda ’ s father, Henry I, had required the leading barons, ecclesiastics and officials in Normandy and England, to take an oath to accept Matilda as his heir.

Upon Henry ’ s death, the Norman and English barons ignored Matilda ’ s claim to the throne, and thus through a series of decisions, Stephen, Henry ’ s favourite nephew, was welcomed by many in England and Normandy as their new ruler.

In AD 867 the Vikings seized Northumbria, forming the Kingdom of York ; three years later they stormed the Britons ’ fortress of Dumbarton and subsequently conquered much of England except for a reduced kingdom of Wessex, leaving the new combined Pictish and Gaelic kingdom almost encircled.

Sir John Tenniel ( Bayswater, London, 28 February 1820 – 25 February 1914 ) was a British illustrator, graphic humourist and political cartoonist whose work was prominent during the second half of England ’ s 19th century.

Tenniel is most noted for two major accomplishments: he was the principal political cartoonist for England ’ s Punch magazine for over 50 years, and he was the artist who illustrated Lewis Carroll ’ s Alice ’ s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

In an attempt to encourage cycling some cities have placed bicycle stand s around the city centers such as these on Briggate in Leeds, England.

He was more successful as a journalist and published articles in Monde, a political / literary journal edited by Henri Barbusse, – his first article as a professional writer, La Censure en Angleterre, appeared in that journal on 6 October 1928 – G. K .' s Weekly – where his first article to appear in England, A Farthing Newspaper, was printed on 29 December 1928 – and Le Progrès Civique ( founded by the left-wing coalition Le Cartel des Gauches ).

For example, the Green Party of England and Wales features an eco-socialist group, Green Left, that was founded in June 2005 and whose members hold a number of influential positions within the party, including both the former Principal Speakers Siân Berry and Dr. Derek Wall, himself an eco-socialist and marxist academic.

* Wilson, Derek ( 2005 ): The Uncrowned Kings of England: The Black History of the Dudleys and the Tudor Throne Carroll & Graf ISBN 0-7867-1469-7

The Dutch form Derek was used in England from the 15th century.

MetaComCo ( MCC ) was a computer systems software company started in 1981 and based in Bristol, England by Peter Mackeonis and Derek Budge.

Other notable people, such as footballer and former England Captain David Beckham, I, Claudius star Derek Jacobi, former Essex and England cricket Captain Graham Gooch, and the film director and producer Alfred Hitchcock, were also born in the borough.

England Test cricketers Peter Lever ( born 1940 ) and Derek Shackleton ( 1924 – 2007 ) are from Todmorden.

* Delphinium: A Childhood Portrait of Derek Jarman ( 2009 ): a " stylized and lyrical coming-of-age " short film combining narrative and documentary elements directed by Matthew Mishory depicting Jarman's " artistic, sexual, and political awakening in postwar England ".

Derek Jarman: Dreams of England.

The first British national league was the British Paintball League created in 1989 by Gary Morhall, Richard Hart and Derek Wildermuth in Essex England.

* Wilson, Derek ( 2005 ): The Uncrowned Kings of England: The Black History of the Dudleys and the Tudor Throne.

After the 2009 budget, the Sunday Times editorialised that Lamont's budget had been so badly received that he was out of his job within two months, " but it fixed the public finances and set up the prosperity of the 1990s and beyond " and Derek Scott, Tony Blair's economic adviser from 1997 to 2003, wrote that Lamont was " rightly praised " for putting in place the post-ERM framework, that stage of Lamont's career being " due for rerating since, in addition to designing a proper framework for monetary policy ( later consolidated by Bank of England independence in 1997 ), he also took most of the tough decisions on spending and tax to put the public finances on the road to recovery.

Gorman was born in Stafford, England to parents Derek Gorman and Fay Collins, who are now divorced.

The final began with eerie resemblances to same fixture earlier in the tournament when England bowled out Pakistan for a paltry 74, as Derek Pringle dismissed both Pakistani openers at 24.

* Derek Underwood, Kent and England bowler ( known as ' Deadly ' by the Australians )

Du Pré was born in Oxford, England, the second child of Derek and Iris du Pré.

Snow took only two wickets at Headingley as " Deadly " Derek Underwood spun England to an Ashes retaining victory with 10 / 82, but he was the second highest scorer in the England first innings, adding 104 with Ray Illingworth ( 57 ) before he was stumped for 48 and given a standing ovation by the Yorkshire crowd.

* Judgement of England and Wales Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) in R v. Derek William Bentley ( Deceased ) &# 91 ; 1998 &# 93 ; EWCA Crim 2516, 1998

" Le Treizième Revient " and " Exeloume " appear on the soundtrack to Derek Jarman's The Last of England.

Clifford has since represented various clients, including: David Copperfield ; Mohamed Al-Fayed ; Simon Cowell ; brain-damaged boxer Michael Watson ; Liverpool left-wing politician Derek Hatton, for whom Clifford created an affair in order to change his image ; former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson ; Norfolk farmer Tony Martin, who was imprisoned for fatally shooting a burglar ; Rebecca Loos, when she negotiated with the press about her alleged affair with England football captain David Beckham ; Cheryl Cole ; Celebrity Big Brother 2007 winner Shilpa Shetty ; and Jade Goody, in the period of the reality star's cervical cancer and death.

Among them were Ray Pinney of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers, Cedrick Hardman of the 1970s San Francisco 49ers and early 1980s Oakland Raiders, Anthony Carter ( Minnesota Vikings, Detroit Lions ), Arthur Whittington ( Oakland Raiders, Buffalo Bills ), Bobby Hebert ( New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons ), Gary Plummer ( San Diego Chargers, San Francisco 49ers ), Raymond Chester ( Oakland Raiders, Baltimore Colts ), Albert Bentley ( Indianapolis Colts, Pittsburgh Steelers ), Dave Browning ( Oakland Raiders, Los Angeles Raiders, New England Patriots ), Ray Bentley ( Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals ), Dale Markham ( St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, Green Bay Packers ) and Derek Holloway ( Washington Redskins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers ).

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