· It was also a brutal time · this is the extraordinary story of brave King Edmund and his miraculous return · 100 years after his death passed thought A Wise Wizard and Some Curious Cats · Betws-y-Coed, Conwy, Wales · 1553 1620 · English Cymraeg language · animals can get up to all kinds of tricks · wickedly playful cats that once frequented an old inn at Betws-y-Coed in Wales A Witch in a Bottle · Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England · 1100 1200 · Some witches are good, some are bad, some are helpful and others cause trouble. This is the tale of one very troublesome witch. · However, there is no bad deed without a negative response so the witch was put in a bottle That's All Thank u fr listening!
The Chiltern Hills Ursula 11. kl · The Chiltern Hills are known locally as just The Chilterns and are a chalk escarpment in the south-east of England, lying a few miles north-west of London. · They cover four counties and combine beautiful scenery with interesting history. · The Chilterns begin in Oxfordshire in the Thames Valley and stretch north-east through Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire to Hitchin in Hertfordshire. They comprise of chalk hills covered with beautiful beech woods, wild flowers, and a variety of wildlife. History · In pre-Roman times, the Chiltern ridge provided a relatively safe and easily negotiable route across southern Iron Age England, thus the Icknield Way (one of England's ancient trackways) follows the line of the hills. · The name "Chiltern" comes from the Cilternsæte, a tribe
May 14, 1716, Edward Willes, a 22-year-old minister at Oriel College, Oxford. Willes embarked at once upon a career unique in the annals of cryptology and the church. He not only managed to reconcile his religious calling with an activity once condemned by churchly authorities, but also went on to become the only man in history to use cryptanalytic talents to procure ecclesiastical rewards. Within two years, he had been named rector of Barton, Bedfordshire, for solving more than 300 pages of cipher that exposed Sweden's attempt to foment an uprising in England. He virtually guaranteed his future when he testified before the House of Lords in 1723. Here, Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, was being tried by his peers for attempting to set a pretender on the English throne. The pretender's cause exhorted the allegiance of many in England, and the nation's attention focused on Atterbury's trial. Most of the facts