Words in English. A Brief History of English, with Chronologyby Suzanne Kemmer © 2001-2005 Pre-English | Old English | Middle English | Modern English The language we call English was first brought to the north sea coasts of England in the 5th and 6th centuries A.D., by seafaring people from Denmark and the northwestern coasts of present-day Germany and the Netherlands.
These immigrants spoke a cluster of related dialects falling within the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family. The Rest Of The Story – Had We Not Used The Bomb. The Rest Of The Story – Had We Not Used The Bomb By Bob Pearcy on August 13th, 2009 An Invasion Not Found in the History Books by James Martin Davis reprinted from the Omaha World Herald, November 1987 Deep in the recesses of the National Archives in Washington, D.C., hidden for nearly four decades lie thousands of pages of yellowing and dusty documents stamped "Top Secret". These documents, now declassified, are the plans for Operation Downfall, the invasion of Japan during World War II. Captured: Color Photography from Russia in the Early 1900’s – Plog Photo Blog. Posted Oct 21, 2009 Share This Gallery inShare58 The photographs of Russian chemist and photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, show Russia on the eve of World War I and the coming of the revolution.
From 1909-1912 and again in 1915, Prokudin-Gorskii travelled across the Russian Empire, documenting life, landscapes and the work of Russain people. Taming a Nazi Sniper With a Trumpet.