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...translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People. In Old English, Saturday was also known as sunnanæfen ("sun" + "eve" cf. dialectal German ...

...the Old English "Tiwesdæg" and literally means "Tiw's Day". Tiw is the Old English form of the Proto-Germanic god *Tîwaz, or Týr in Norse, a god of war and la ...

...k week. The name of Monday is derived from Old English Mōnandæg and Middle English Monenday, which means "moon day". ...

...l calendars. The name is derived from Old English ''Wōdnesdæg'' and Middle English ''Wednesdei'', "day of Woden", ultimately a calque of ''dies Mercurii'' "da ...

The middle boy stops short, the others hurtle<br> <i>English teacher, war poet and pacifist, Owen wrote many poems on life and the horro ...

...eek, is derived from Egyptian astrology, where the seven planets, known in English as Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon, each had an ...Germanic languages, including Old Frisian sunnandei, Old Saxon sunnundag, Middle Dutch sonnendach (modern Dutch zondag), Old High German sunnun tag (modern ...

Originally ''eke name'', "additional name". ''eke'' is a Middle English word meaning "also". The initial N comes from a misdivision of "an ekename" ...

...f the Study of Women's Literature. She is recently retired as professor of English literature at the University of Warwick in England. ...ent teenage male beauty", alleging that Greer had reinvented herself as a "middle-aged [[pederasty|pederast]]." [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/poli ...

At the age of four, Marius found himself in the middle of a spectacle when his mother married His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haak *[[Wikipedia:en:Marius Borg Høiby|Article in the English Wikipedia]] ...

...ere are vast areas of agreement, there is still a small hazier area in the middle where disagreement should be expected. The origin of the English word ''boy'' is unclear; it is probably related to East Frisian ''boi'', Ol ...

...n a swimming hall in the eastern parts of Oslo (characterized by its lower middle class population). Lars just wants to do good, but his abilities aren't alw ...ming pool, Lars recognizes an acquaintance from his past, Hans (Mestad), a middle aged man with a reputation of "fiddling" with the teenage boys in the neigh ...

*''The Friendly Young Ladies'' (US title: ''The Middle Mist'') (1944) [[Category:English literature]] ...

==English public schools == The English public (that is, private) school has been the exemplar boarding school in t ...

*Duvert, Tony, When Jonathan Died, Heretic, 176 pp., 1991 (I HAVE BUT NOT IN ENGLISH) Lund, Asger, The Boy and the Dagger, English edition, Amsterdam, 1982, pb. ...

* [[All About Ah-Long (1989]]) (Cantonese with optional English subtitles): all about ah-long * [[Bumpy]] (1981) (Estonian with optional English subtitles): nukitsamees ...

...nd 63.7 million inhabitants) extends from the [[Mediterranean Sea]] to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. Thus i France has been a major power in Europe since the Late [[Middle Ages]], with its victory in the Hundred Years’ War (1337 to 1453) strengthe ...

*Language: English ...e has lived for most of his eleven years, he hitches a ride from Marcus, a middle-aged man he quickly decides is both a loony and a criminal. But Franklin's ...

...ally compulsive, being mainly attracted to [[Bear (gay culture)|bearish]], middle-aged men. Neil begins to prostitute himself at the age of fifteen. Eventual [[Category:English-language films]] ...

*''The Friendly Young Ladies'' (US title: ''The Middle Mist'') (1944) [[Category:English literature]] ...

...is friend for over thirty years and who would translate all his works into English. In 1923 he conceived a daughter named Catherine with another woman, Elisab ...torial Africa colony with his lover Marc Allégret. He went successively in Middle Congo (now the Republic of the Congo), in Oubangui-Chari (now the Central A ...