Dec 15, 2009

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King Alfred the Great

King Alfred [c.849-99], the ninth-century warrior-philosopher, is undoubtedly one of the greatest figures to have graced England’s shores. But whilst he is usually remembered for uniting the various regional strands of an often divided country against its persistent Viking adversaries, his many cultural triumphs remain either forgotten or overlooked. In this article I intend...

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Sep 25, 2009

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England’s Sultan?
(Multiculturalism Just Gets Dumber & Dumber)

A popular claim doing the rounds in Muslim circles holds that Offa, the great King of the Mercians who reigned for four decades from AD 757 to 796, was a Muslim. The only piece of evidence for the supposed Islamic faith of this King, ruler of one of the Saxon Heptarchies, comes from a gold coin now on display in the British Museum. The coin is a copy of an Abbasid dinar bearing on...

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Sep 24, 2009

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Saxon Treasure Discovered in England

“Saxon Hoard Discovered in England”by Norma JacksonWestern Voices World News, September 24, 2009An amateur treasure seeker is being hailed as a hero after discovering what is called an historic hoard of Anglo-Saxon artifacts. The AP news service quoted expert Roger Bland: “This is just a fantastic find completely out of the blue. It will make us rethink the Dark...

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