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Bede

American  
[beed] / bid /

noun

  1. Saint the Venerable Bede, a.d. 673?–735, English monk, historian, and theologian: wrote earliest history of England.


Bede British  
/ biːd /

noun

  1. Latin name: BaedaSaint , known as the Venerable Bede . ?673–735 ad , English monk, scholar, historian, and theologian, noted for his Latin Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731). Feast day: May 27 or 25

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Bede seems often to have known no more than we do today.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

Because of this tangled ownership history, many Bede scholars had considered the manuscript lost since 1975.

From Science Daily May 17, 2026

Rail services were stopped between Bede and South Shields for more than an hour after flooding on the line at Tyne Dock.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2023

St. Bede is located in affluent La Cañada Flintridge, where La Cañada Unified was just ranked the fourth-best school district in California by Niche.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 15, 2023

However, unlike Bede, he lived in a Europe where Arabic numerals were common, so he started counting with zero.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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