Teen jailed for attacking girls over Harry Potter jibe

NineMSN ^ | 5:17pm February 12, 2014 | Natasha Lee

[Olog-hai]

A teenager bullied for his resemblance to Harry Potter has been jailed after stabbing one girl in the face and smashing another’s head against a fence after they compared him to the boy wizard.

Ryan Walker, 19, “snapped” after two girls called him Harry Potter as he walked back to his family flat in Southampton, a court has heard.

The girls, 15-year-old Emma Keeble and 16-year-old Leah Pearce, were sitting outside the flat and touched Walker’s shopping bag as he walked past before verbally abusing him and telling him he looked like the fictional character. …

[Hulka]

The City, as it is called, the one square mile that today is surrounded by “greater” London, only truly became a great city after 1066. . .and mostly through the efforts of the Guilds.

The “Great” in Great Britain was primariliy to recognize its world-wide reach and influence.

The City today is The Corporation of the City of London. The City (run and adminstered by the Guilds) do not run greater London. The City has its own aldermen and a Lord Mayor, and Liverymen of the Guilds vote annually for the sheriff and mayor.

[Olog-hai]

The fellow who coined the term “Great Britain” (James I of England/James VI of Scots, of Authorized Version Bible fame) didn’t expand his kingdom’s worldwide reach, though; he was rather anti-colonial. 75 years after his death, British overseas possessions were still rather minimal compared to what the empire would be at its height.

[Hulka]

True, but it was world-wide and it did exercise great influence.

Nice to chat with a fellow Anglophile.

By chance, off the wall question, are you a pilot or navigator?