Bede's remains may have been transferred to Durham Cathedral in the 11th century ; his tomb there was looted in 1541, but the contents were probably re-interred in the Galilee chapel at the cathedral.

Research in the 20th century has focused on dating the manuscripts ( 19th-century scholars tended to date them older ); locating where the manuscripts were created — there were seven major scriptoria from which they originate: Winchester, Exeter, Worcester, Abingdon, Durham, and two Canterbury houses, Christ Church and St. Augustine's Abbey ; and identifying the regional dialects used: Northumbrian, Mercian, Kentish, West Saxon ( the last being the main dialect ).

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.

For example, there is a story that at the Battle of Neville's Cross in 1346, the Prior of the Abbey at Durham received a vision of Cuthbert, ordering him to take the corporax cloth of the saint and raise it on a spear point near the battlefield as a banner.

As of the census of 2000, there were 5, 220 people, 1, 914 households, and 1, 466 families residing in Durham.

To mark his fiftieth year in the prelacy the diocese of Durham built the Clergy Jubilee School in Newcastle and arranged that Dame Allan's Schools should be housed there.

John's coins were minted at Bury St Edmunds, Canterbury, Carlisle, Durham, Exeter, Ipswich, King's Lynn, Lincoln, London, Northampton, Norwich, Oxford, Rhuddlan ( although many of the short-cross coins minted there were doubtless imitative issues by Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, prince of Wales ), Rochester, Winchester, and York.

The monument by which his name is there commemorated was erected in 1632 by his friend Thomas Morton when Bishop of Durham.

He was there, he said, " not only as one of the representatives of the city of Durham, but also as one of the representatives of that benevolent organisation, the Anti-Corn Law League.

Plaque in Durham Cathedral's cloisters for John Wessington | John Washington, who was Prior there.

Historically a part of County Durham, there were three original settlements on the site of modern-day Sunderland.

At the end of Part One, Durham reveals the full extent of his plan to Maria: after taking his earlier self-experiments to their logical conclusion, he became convinced of something he came to call the Dust Theory, which holds that there is no difference, even in principle, between physics and mathematics, and that all mathematically possible structures exist, among them our physics and therefore our spacetime.

Indeed, Durham himself claims to have been through such a process several times, each time finding himself back in " the real world " after deletion, with there existing some plausible explanation as to why he believed himself to have been a Copy who was deleted, though with each successive experience of Copying himself and being deleted, he gradually became increasingly confident that the experiences were actually the result of his consciousness finding a logical interpretation in which it had not actually ceased, rather than each successive experience being ultimately true and real.

Section of the Trail near Scott King Road in Durham CountySouth of I-40 there is a natural or existing surface segment that is currently open.

The trail may be most accessed at 7682 Fayetteville Road, Durham, NC 27713, as there is off-road parking.

In the North-East of England ( particularly County Durham ), there is a popular dish known as tattie fish-" tattie " being the local slang for potato, and " fish " because the pancake resembles a deep fried piece of fish.

The Parish Church of St Mary and St Cuthbert is where the body of St Cuthbert remained for 112 years before being transferred to Durham Cathedral, and the site of the first translation of the Gospels into English, Aldred writing the Old English gloss between the lines of the Lindisfarne Gospels there.

After this devastation wrought by the Normans the region was left out of the Domesday Book ; there was little left to record, and the region was by then being run from Durham by the Prince-Bishops so held little interest for London.

To his inquiry who he was, Morton replied, ‘ I am that old man, the Bishop of Durham, in spite of all your votes ;’ asked where he was going, his answer was, ‘ To London, to live there a little while, and then to die .’ Ultimately Sir Christopher invited him to his house at Easton Mauduit, ten miles from Northampton.

As far as is known the book remained at Durham for the remainder of the Middle Ages, until the Dissolution, kept as a relic in three bags of red leather, normally resting in a reliquary, and there are various records of it being shown to visitors, the more distinguished of which were allowed to hang it round their neck for a while.

It is thought likely that the book remained at Durham until the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII, although the various late medieval records of books and relics held there do not allow it to be identified with certainty.

His varied cultural background added more reasons to travel-his mother was born in the shadow of Durham castle in North East England, and Pierre also once attended Bow School there as a child.

However, the influence of the Prince Bishops of Durham was on the wane and there was pressure for reform.

Firby Court on Firby Road in Richmond was developed for the branch of family which moved there via Kirkby Fleetham and thence Catterick, all of which happened concurrent to the Bishops ' Wars and English Civil War, with some outpouring in County Durham.

In that year he was the senior layman present at the examination of the remains of Saint Cuthbert at Durham prior to their re-interment.

In July 1962, he was invested with the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the universities of Oxford and Durham.

Chaplin was also awarded honorary Doctor of Letters degrees by the University of Oxford and the University of Durham in 1962.

It was here that his sister Martha was born, before they once more moved, this time to Durham, North Carolina, then to Boise, Idaho and then to Alexandria, Virginia.

* With reference to Gibbon's comments, Joseph Barber Lightfoot ( late 19th century theologian and former Bishop of Durham ) pointed out that Eusebius ' statements indicate his honesty in stating what he was not going to discuss, and also his limitations as a historian in not including such material.

Some incorrectly attribute the first recording to Eddie Durham, but his recording with the Kansas City Five was 15 days later.

At around this time the ad hoc meetings of Friends began to be formalized and a monthly meeting was set up in County Durham.

The strict M ' Naghten standard for the insanity defense was used until the 1950s and the Durham v. United States case.

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 ).

He was buried here, his remains later translated to Durham Cathedral ( along with the relics of Saint Eadfrith of Lindisfarne ).

The bishopric was transferred to Durham in AD 1000.

The " modern " opening of the tomb was by James Farrer, an antiquarian and the Member of Parliament for South Durham, in July 1861.

Smith's father, Kenneth, was born in Tow Law, County Durham, and worked at a coal mine during the Second World War looking after the pit ponies.

In 1039, Strathclyde was attacked by the Northumbrians, and a retaliatory raid led by Duncan against Durham in 1040 turned into a disaster.

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.

The Parapsychological Association ( PA ) was created in Durham, North Carolina, on June 19, 1957.

After the Lower Canada Rebellion led by Louis-Joseph Papineau in 1837, and the Upper Canada Rebellion led by William Lyon Mackenzie, Lord Durham was appointed governor general of British North America and had the task of examining the issues and determining how to defuse tensions.

) He appointed as regents Hugh de Puiset, Bishop of Durham, and William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex — who soon died and was replaced by Richard's chancellor William Longchamp.

Production was due to also take place in Seaham, County Durham, but government restrictions disallowed this.

Reginald of Durham recounts another miracle, saying that his right arm was taken by a bird ( perhaps a raven ) to an ash tree, which gave the tree ageless vigor ; when the bird dropped the arm onto the ground, a spring emerged from the ground.

Stephen's wife Matilda was sent to negotiate another agreement between Stephen and David, called the treaty of Durham ; Northumbria and Cumbria would effectively be granted to David and his son Prince Henry, in exchange for their fealty and future peace along the border.