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Gentleman, Gentlewoman. Ministerialis. Lord of the Manor. v. t. e. Thane ( / ˈθeɪn /; Scottish Gaelic: taidhn) [ 1] was the title given to a local royal official in medieval eastern Scotland, equivalent in rank to the son of an earl, [ 2] who was at the head of an administrative and socio-economic unit known as a thanedom or thanage.
Sir Roderick David Stewart CBE (born 10 January 1945) [2] is a British rock and pop singer and songwriter. Known for his distinctive raspy singing voice, [3] Stewart is among the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 120 million records worldwide. [4]
Aly Bain, fiddler. Jimmy Bain, bassist associated with Thin Lizzy, Rainbow and Dio. Ian Bairnson, guitarist of Pilot and The Alan Parsons Project. Balaam and the Angel, rock band. Ballboy, indie band. A Band Called Quinn. Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, official regimental military band. Jimmy Barnes.
The Battle of Winwick was fought on 19 August 1648 between a Scottish Royalist army and a Parliamentarian army during the Second English Civil War. The Scottish army invaded north-west England and was attacked and defeated at Preston on 17 August. The surviving Royalists fled south, closely pursued. Two days later, hungry, cold, soaking wet ...
Thegn. Ivory seal of Godwin, an unknown thegn – first half of eleventh century, British Museum. In later Anglo-Saxon England, a thegn ( pronounced / θeɪn /; Old English: þeġn) or thane[ 1] (or thayn in Shakespearean English) was an aristocrat who owned substantial land in one or more counties. Thanes ranked at the third level in lay ...
In 2022, Charli XCX began publicly dating Belgian-British musician George Daniel, who is the drummer for the alternative band The 1975. The couple first met while working on the No Rome track " Spinning ", released on 4 March 2021, and they collaborated again on her album Crash , released on 18 March 2022, on the album's title track and several ...
In 2003, The Sunday Times published a list of the people who had rejected the Order of the British Empire, including David Bowie, John Cleese, Nigella Lawson, Elgar Howarth, L. S. Lowry, George Melly, and J. G. Ballard. [35] In addition, Ballard voiced his opposition to the honours system, calling it "a preposterous charade". [35]
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