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Anglo meaning

An English person or person of English ancestry. | A North American, especially a white one (regardless of actual ethnicity), whose native language is English (as opposed to Americans who have another native language). | An Anglo-Australian (as opposed to Australians of Mediterranean or Middle Eastern background)

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Also, the use of Anglo-Saxon disguises the extent to which people identified as Anglo-Scandinavian after the Viking age or the conquest of 1016, or as Anglo-Norman after the Norman conquest.

G. Stanely, Imagining the Anglo-Saxon Past: The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism and Anglo-Saxon Trial by Jury (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1975, rpt.

In his reign new Anglo-Angevin and Anglo-Aquitanian aristocracies developed, though not to the same point as the Anglo-Norman once did, and the Norman nobles interacted with their French peers.

Anglo American told shareholders on Tuesday that it plans to sell or demerge its De Beers diamond business, Anglo American platinum and coking coal assets.

In late May, BHP walked away from a $49 billion takeover offer for rival Anglo American, a plan which was at the time aimed at securing Anglo’s prized copper assets in Latin America and increase BHP’s access to copper.

In an open letter to Sirius boss Chris Fraser and Anglo chief Mark Cutifani, Odey said Sirius’s most recent accounts in September show an equity value of £893.1 million, 120% above Anglo’s offer.

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A Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon; with supplement prepared by Neil Ker originally published in Anglo-Saxon England; 5, 1957.

Although not themselves sources of law, Anglo-Saxon charters are a most valuable historical source for tracing the actual legal practices of the various Anglo-Saxon communities.

Anglo-Saxon medicine The Anglo-Saxon charm Wið Dweorh ( Against a Dwarf ) appears to relate to sleep disturbances.

Both Anglo-Catholics and Evangelicals have been affected by this movement such that it is not uncommon to find typically charismatic postures, music, and other themes evident during the services of otherwise Anglo-Catholic or Evangelical parishes.

Campbell et al., The Anglo-Saxons, p. 22. It seems likely that something at that time was interrupting the general flow of the Anglo-Saxons from the continent to Britain.

Campbell et al., The Anglo-Saxons p. 23. Shortly after Gildas's time the Anglo-Saxon advance was resumed, and by the late 6th century nearly all of southern England was under the control of the continental invaders.

Campbell et al., The Anglo-Saxons, p. 38) This early date, only a few decades after the departure of the Romans, also suggests that more of Roman civilization may have survived into Anglo-Saxon rule in Kent than in other areas.

For a brief period following a victory over the rival kingdom of Northumbria around the year 616, East Anglia was the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England, and its King Raedwald was Bretwalda (overlord of the Anglo-Saxons kingdoms).

For example, an Anglo-Saxon charter of 682 refers to Creechborough Hill as "the hill the British call Cructan and we call Crychbeorh" citation ("we" being the Anglo-Saxons).

Harper-Bill "Anglo-Norman Church" Companion to the Anglo-Norman World p. 158 He was known for his generosity and for his diplomatic and administrative abilities.

In his supplementary article to the 1935 posthumous edition of Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader, Dr. James Hulbert writes: In such historical conditions, an incalculable amount of the writings of the Anglo-Saxon period perished.

In November 2011 the Oppenheimer family announced its intention to sell the entirety of its 40% stake in De Beers to Anglo American plc thereby increasing Anglo American's ownership of the company to 85%.

It is given to some of the rulers of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms from the 5th century onwards who had achieved overlordship of some or all of the other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.