Did Winston Churchill ask the English people to engage his country against Hitler?
Not a lot is said about these brave women and children the majority of whom lived in the London area taking over from the English people who were evacuated to "safer" places.
There are plenty of other reasons to watch the German clubs as they saunter into London to take over a a sport the English invented (as the English love to remind people).
But Mark Perryman, author of Ingerland: Travels with a Football Nation, and the co-founder of the Philosophy Football T-shirt company, which organised the event, agrees with Bragg that the flag and the football team are among the few things English people have to illustrate their national identity.
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The scariest thing for the people that run English football is that this isn't simply a statistical oddity but a creeping trend: In the past five years, Messrs.
Mr Prasad says that in the cities, people know the importance of English.
Another day, we followed the despotic comments and idle comings and goings of a middle-aged Englishman the island was heaving with English people who kept up a kind of running commentary on the temperature, the sand, the wind, and the waves, speaking as emphatically and grandiloquently as if he were uttering a series of deep, long-pondered aphorisms.
What has always fascinated me about World War I was the fundamental change that this titanic futility worked in the way English-speaking people thought.
Perhaps the coalition's Quad is concerned that English people need to be persuaded of the benefits of being allied with Scotland as this debate develops, even if they don't get to vote on it.
English is the global language of business, yet English is also the native tongue of relatively few people, and it is notoriously hard to learn.
One of the problems with English hooliganism overseas is that most of the people involved are deported from the scene of their crime, but never charged.
"Last year 96% of pupils sat an exam that included English literature and more young people are achieving the higher grades in English each year, " said Mr Knight.
The introduction of the National Curriculum in the 1980s meant that all young people studied English, Maths and Science up to the age of 16.
Famine, plague and arbitrary taxes made life hard enough for common people in the English kingdom of France.
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The campaign was started when the pub industry noticed many English people would always go out drinking to celebrate St Patrick's Day, yet did not even know when St George's Day was.
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Meanwhile, pupils from eight Scottish schools joined with the charities Oxfam, Save the Children and the English Speaking Union to raise concern that 72 million people across the world had no access to education, in a special debate at the Scottish Parliament.
This film is the perfect vehicle for introducing people to the outstanding natural heritage of the English Riviera and for encouraging them to explore the Geopark further.
Indeed, in 2005 more English people voted for the Conservatives than voted Labour.
Briefly: I quit English and literature and the people who wrote it for good, I thought and became a packaging-science major.
People living on the English coast are more likely than those living inland to say they are fit and well, an analysis of census data suggests.
The number of people sleeping on English streets dropped from 1, 850 in 1998 to 464 in 2009, according to the snapshot body counts preferred by the Department for Communities and Local Government.
Nokia, which has traditionally sold hand sets, is now selling advice on sowing crops, tools to learn the English language and health tips to people in India, Indonesia, China and now Nigeria and trying to make money while doing that.
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"It's the name people here know who don't speak English, Queensboro Bridge is the name they learn, " Mr. Psm said.
"It is not enough money to be an incentivizer this is not the way that people plan their careers, " said James English, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who has written about the economy of prizes.
The alleged French obsession with odd culinary dishes which earned its people the term "frog" in the English vernacular, has earned Paris the reputation as the world's gastronomic capital, even when other cities now arguably have equal claim to the title.
Many people would regard withdrawing the English side from the World Cup as grossly unfair.
Third, sector programs have had difficulty finding people with the math and English skills necessary to master technical skills quickly.
Many people round the world speak English these days but if you really want to make a sale, speaking the local language can make all the difference.
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Another realization was that education is considered the panacea for problems and English language was the language of business (especially in India) and people were willing to pay to learn these skills.
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And when the author of "A Christmas Carol" was writing, the great clanking machinery of a Ramadan-length Christmas had not got into gear, and English people reserved Dec. 26 ("Boxing Day") for the exchange of tokens.
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