The Battle of Svolder was a naval battle fought around the year 1000 between Olaf Tryggvason, the king of Norway, and a ...
Mandrake Handshake model their range on bygone tropes, with one foot in the present and another in the intergalactic ether.
It’s possible, as President Donald Trump flings executive orders hither and yon, that he may sign one to regulate the flow of ...
On Valentine's Day, the most romantic day of the year, here is the history of St Catherine's Chapel near Abbotsbury, whose namesake St ...
In 1027, legend recounts that King Cnut of England set his throne on the seashore and commanded the incoming tide to halt. His feet still got wet. A thousand years later, America’s president seems to ...
Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses the audacious ways scientists are considering to combat Earth's rising sea levels.
Reading, 79, is preparing for the demolition of her erosion-threatened home having already lost one property. Mrs Nierop-Reading moved to the village in 2009 - living in a 1930s, three-bedroom ...
Into this mix came Emma of Normandy, a noblewoman who married Anglo-Saxon king Æthelred the Unready and later became the wife of Cnut. Emma was the mother to two kings of England by her marriages – ...
The white man in China last week was King Canute uneasy on his little throne, the foreign concessions, defying the tide of Chinese Nationalism not to engulf him. Throughout Europe disgruntled ...
January has brought sightings of a unique phenomenon called ‘hair ice’ to parts of Western Washington. One of those places is Vashon Island. Maria Metler is the co-executive director and ...
After a tsunami of economic gloom, Rachel Reeves – like King Canute – is seeking to turn the tide. In her latest major announcement, the Chancellor yesterday tried to crawl out of the fiscal ...
Instead, they rose to an incredible high of 906,000 in 2023. The Home Office is often like King Canute trying to hold back the tide of immigration. But any Home Secretary always finds themself ...
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