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Norman and influence
Similarly those of the Palatine Chapel, the Martorana at Palermo, and the cathedral of Cefalù, together with the vast decoration of the cathedral at Monreale, demonstrate the influence of Byzantium on the Norman Court of Sicily in the twelfth century.
* A Romance language ( although English, descended from the speech of Germanic tribes which arrived after the Romans had left Britain, has had a heavy influence from French, due primarily to the Norman conquest of England ), nor
Doom is released from prison due to the influence of H. A. M. M. E. R director Norman Osborn.
Howe into positions of great power and influence during the War, but was hit hard by the 1940 air-crash death of key minister and protege Norman McLeod Rogers.
His sons also lost much of their control over Maine, which revolted in 1089 and managed to remain mostly free of Norman influence thereafter.
William II ( Old Norman: Williame II ; – 2 August 1100 ), the third son of William I of England, was King of England from 1087 until 1100, with powers over Normandy, and influence in Scotland.
" Anglo-Saxon " in linguistics is still used as a term for the original West Germanic component of the modern English language, which was later expanded and developed through the influence of Old Norse and Norman French, though linguists now more often refer to it as Old English.
German influence was less obvious in the beginning, despite an early missionary attempt by Ansgar, but gradually emerged as the dominant religious force in the area, especially after the Norman conquest of England.
In 1058, Harold also became Earl of Hereford, and replaced his late father as the focus of opposition to growing Norman influence in England under the restored monarchy ( 1042 – 66 ) of Edward the Confessor, who had spent over 25 years in exile in Normandy.
As Edward drew advisors, nobles and priests from his former place of refuge in a bid to develop his own power base, Godwin soon became the leader of opposition to growing Norman influence.
Even now, after nearly a thousand years, the Norman influence on the English language is still apparent, though it did not begin to affect Middle English until somewhat later.
There was Norman influence from the 14th century, due to adventuring of the FitzGerald, de Clare and Butler houses, two of whom carved out earldoms within the Lordship of Ireland, the Earls of Desmond eventually becoming independent potentates, for a time the greatest in Ireland, while the Earls of Ormond remained closer to England.
Under Norman influence, Thou became parallel with Tu, but then fell into disuse as it eventually came to be seen as rude.
Following World War II, writers such as Mavis Gallant, Mordecai Richler, Norman Levine, Margaret Laurence and Irving Layton added to the Modernist influence to Canadian literature previously introduced by F. R.
The phrase is one of the few cases in the English language where the adjective is a postmodifier — some other phrases, such as the legal terms attorney general and court martial, also follow that pattern, largely due to the influence of Norman French.
Aside from the obvious influence on artists that Taylor has worked with over the years, numerous notable people have named Taylor and DA as musical heroes over the years including artists like U2, The Ocean Blue, Randy Stonehill, The 77s, Phil Keaggy, Steve Taylor, Jimmy Abegg, Phil Madeira, Crystal Lewis, This Train, Carolyn Arends ( Arends actually used to perform DA songs in one of her early bands ), Ventriloquist Terry Fator, Brian Healy, The Throes, The Choir, Mortal, Larry Norman, Animator and Musician Doug TenNapel, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Isaac Air Freight, Deliverance, Starflyer59, Jonathan Coulton ,< ref >
There was some Norman influence during the 14th century due to battles with the de Clare's for control.
His works became standard school texts in monastic schools, until his influence declined around the time of the Norman Conquest.
Norman had an influence on the emerging English gospel music scene.
Other stops on their honeymoon included L ' Abri, a Christian community started by Christian philosopher Francis Schaeffer, who had a profound influence on Norman.
After many years of a negative relationship with Norman, many CCM artists have credited Norman as an influence on their music, particularly in the sub-genre of Christian rock.
Others who acknowledge Norman's influence on their career or music include American drummer Hilly Michaels, who recorded with Norman and Randy Stonehill in 1970 ; Grammy Award-winning recording artist and rapper TobyMac, who described Norman as " socially relevant, spiritually significant and passionate about challenging his generation to new heights of love ", considered Norman his " greatest lyrical influence "; Mark Salomon, the lead singer of Christian metal band Stavesacre and thrash metal band The Crucified, who reveals that it was Norman's concert performance that connected him to Christian music ; and Welsh singer-songwriter Martyn Joseph.

Norman and entered
When the United States entered World War I, Eastman organized with Roger Baldwin and Norman Thomas the National Civil Liberties Bureau to protect conscientious objectors, or in her words: " To maintain something over here that will be worth coming back to when the weary war is over.
The outer bailey of Kenilworth Castle is usually entered through Mortimer's Tower, today a modest ruin but originally a Norman stone gatehouse, extended in the late 13th and 16th centuries.
He wrote in his memoirs that he found this period very useful later on, when he entered politics, and that senior civil servant Norman Robertson tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to stay on.
* 1156 – On June 18, the Treaty of Benevento is entered into by Pope Adrian IV and the Norman Kingdom of Sicily.
In 1873, he entered the steamboat business and by 1879 he had a local monopoly by merging ( with Norman Kittson ).
On August 7, 1973 Norman entered AIR studios in London to record his favorite album, the second album in his Trilogy, So Long Ago the Garden, which was produced again by Edwards, Hand, and Miller.
In the Domesday Book of 1086, Kilpeck ( entered as Chipeete ) was given by William the Conqueror to William Fitz Norman de la Mare, son of Norman de la Mare.
Like most Norman keeps, Lancaster's would have been entered at first floor level.
In the Channel Islands, such seaweed fertiliser is known as vraic in their dialects of Norman, a word that has also entered Channel Island English, the activity of collecting vraic being termed vraicking.
Despite having only recently entered Parliament, Hague became part of the government in 1990, serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary for the Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont .< ref name =" profile ">
Bocage is a Norman word which has entered both the French and English languages.
The word became in French palaisin, and with the Norman dynasty entered the English language as palatine.
The keep was once the gatehouse through which the Norman castle would have been entered.
At the age of eleven he was entered as a novice in the Norman monastery of St Evroul-en-Ouche, which Earl Roger had formerly despoiled but, in his later years, was loading with gifts.
This term entered English through Norman in the 11th century, following the Norman invasion of England, and the establishment of Royal Forests.
Approximately 10, 000 French ( and Norman ) loan words entered Middle English, particularly terms associated with government, church, law, the military, fashion, and food.
He also entered diplomatic relations with the western powers by marrying one of his sons, Constantine Bodin, to the daughter of the Norman governor of Bari.
The problem we all live with — by Norman Rockwell ( 1894 – 1978 ), depicting an incident in the American Civil Rights struggle of the early 1960s, when Ruby Bridges entered first grade on the first day of court-ordered desegregation of New Orleans, Louisiana, public schools ( November 14, 1960 ).
At the age of 16, Norman entered the Marian Anderson Vocal Competition in Philadelphia which, although she did not win, led to an offer of a full scholarship at Howard University, in Washington, D. C.
Earl Lambert died in 1976, and his son Norman and wife Patti entered into the restaurant business as partners to Agnes Lambert.
Beth accuses Norman of having entered the sphere and gaining access to the power.
After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form Robert, where an Old English cognate form ( Hrēodbēorht, Hrodberht, Hrēodbēorð, Hrœdbœrð, Hrœdberð ) had existed before the Norman Conquest.

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