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The researchers turned to lists of surviving medieval texts—and those suspected to have been lost—written between 600 and 1450 C.E. in Dutch, French, Icelandic, Irish, English, and German.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 16, 2022
This bold, soulful depiction of Jesus is by Sofia Minson, a painter of Swedish, Irish, English and Maori descent living in New Zealand.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2020
He and his friends were keenly aware of who was Irish, English, French, Yankee — the American melting pot is on full display.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2016
Her ancestry was "Scotch, Irish, English, French and Indian, and." says Grandma, "that's a good combination, isn't it?"
From Time Magazine Archive
The next James—sharp blame to him—gave his daughter to William as woman and wife; made the Irish English, and the English Irish, like wheat and oats in the month of harvest.
From Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish by Gregory, Lady
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