Then I said, "Harold, duck! Look out for that arrow!"
I was just reading about that...
This is why we eat “beef”, not “cow”, and polite people say “manure” when they meant “sh
Almost 1000 years of continuous British(English) monarchy!
And to think, in 50 years there will likely be another King William too.
Assuming it is sultan Abdul III instead.
It wasn’t till last year that I came to realize that my family heritage comes from this period, and some relatives were part of the Norman invasion. The Battle of Hastings has an impact with me.
Durned in-laws can't get along...
Can’t we all just get along? (/sarcasm)
All the reigning kings and queens of England since then have been descendants of William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy.
All the reigning kings and queens of England since then have been descendants of William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy.
We are also about a week and a half from the 601st Anniversary of Agincourt :)
The Battle of Hastings was the last successful invasion of England, until the current Muslim invasion engineered by England’s elected representatives.
The Normans conquer the Anglo-Saxons, who previously conquered the Britons, who very likely conquered the Picts.
Reparations all around!
The NYTimes used to have a column for people to submit short pieces about interactions in the city. My favorite was by a man who went into a store to buy some things. The young person at the register rang up his order and said to him, “ That will be 10.66.” The man replied, “10.66, the Battle of Hastings.”
The register person gave him a blank stare and then said what? The man explained that the amount of the order was the same year as the Battle of Hastings. Another long blank stare. Then the kid said, “Can you do that with any number?”
I used to ask my class, “Where was the battle of Hastings fought?” Got the weirdest answers.
I know a song about the Battle of Hastings. It’s very alliterative. I know how to do all the stitches in the Bayeux Tapestry, too.
Talk about useless stuff ...
Then I said, "Harold, duck! Look out for that arrow!"
Being cheeky of course, because this is the same argument I hear about native land.
Glad to be reminded of this because I am a proud direct decedent of William the Conqueror.
William, a French speaking Viking, basically.
They’ve been reading Hillary’s campaign literature....
“William next invented a system according to which everybody had to belong to somebody else, and everybody else to the king. This was called the Feutile System, and in order to prove that it was true, he wrote a book called the Doomsday Book, which contained an inventory of all the Possessions of all his subjects; after reading the book through carefully William agreed with it and signed it, indicating to everybody that the Possessions mentioned in it were now his.”