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Brief Description of English with a Timeline

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Well,

English is a language and it was the first poem by Geoffrey Chaucer aka “The Father of English” Chaucer was born in London most likely in the early 1340s. But who wrote English? The answer is not one guy it was the Anglo-Saxons Settlers( I think I will post a blog about them sooner or later ). After the Norman Conquest English was replaced for a while by the Anglo-Norman/Anglo-Norman French( A relative of French ), this was the end of Old English and Middle English, influenced by the Anglo-Norman. Middle English was aided by the invention of the Printing Press by Johannes Gutenberg so after a long, long, long period Modern English came and is used right now.

  • Old English literature (c. 450–1066)
  •  Middle English literature (1066–1500) 2.1 Medieval theatre
  •  English Renaissance (1500–1660) 3.1 Elizabethan period (1558–1603) 
  •  Restoration Age (1660–1700) 4.1 Poetry
  •  18th century
  •  Romanticism (1798–1837) 
  •  Victorian Literature (1837–1901) 
  •  20th century
ORIGIN ANGLO-SAXONS – Anglo-Saxons came from Scandinavia and Germany. They settled in Britain between AD 410 and AD 1066.
WHO ARE THE ANGLO NORMAN OR THE ANGLO NORMAN FRENCH – The Anglo-Normans were the medieval ruling class in England
THE TALE OF THE NAME -Angles (tribe), a Germanic-speaking people that took their name from the Angeln cultural region in Germany
ANGLES (EVOLUTION OF PRONOUNCIATION )= ENGLISH
 The speakers of English are called Anglophones.

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History of Christmas. Also who is Santa ?

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ORIGINS OF CHRISTMAS / HISTORY OF CHRISTMAS
The origins of Christmas stem from both the pagan and Roman cultures. The Romans actually celebrated two holidays in the month of December. (The first was Saturnalia, a two-week festival honouring their god of agriculture Saturn). On December 25th, they celebrated the birth of Mithra, their sun god.

As Christianity spread across Europe, the Christian clergy could not curb the pagan customs and celebrations. Since no one knew Jesus’s date of birth, they adapted the pagan ritual into a celebration of His birthday.

People also believe that on this day Santa (who we will be talking about later) come and give gifts to children and for those who are being naughty he takes them away. people also go to church.

Now we come to our second point which is Who is Santa ?

SANTA CLAUS
Inspired by St. Nicholas, this Christmas tradition has Christian roots, rather than pagan ones. Born in southern Turkey in a village called patara on March 15 280 A.D to Theophanes ,Nonna, he was a bishop in the early Christian church and suffered persecution and imprisonment for his faith. Coming from a wealthy family, he was renowned for his generosity towards the poor and disenfranchised. The legends surrounding him abound, but the most famous is how he saved three daughters from being sold into slavery. There was no dowry to entice a man to marry them, so it was their father’s last resort. St. Nicholas is said to have tossed gold through an open window into the home, thus saving them from their fate. Legend has it that the gold landed in a sock drying by the fire, so children started hanging stockings by their fires in hopes that St. Nicholas would toss gifts into them. He died on 6 December 343 AD,Myra, Turkey.

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-ANISH DUTTA