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20 hours ago · Early years and family Best grew up on the Cregagh estate, east Belfast. The playing fields in the estate where he played football as a boy, Cregagh Green, is protected for community recreation in perpetuity as a Fields in Trust Active Space. George Best was the first child of Richard "Dickie" Best (1919–2008) and Anne Withers (1922–1978). He was born on 22 May 1946 and grew up in Cregagh ...
20 hours ago · Sub-Roman Britain (410– c. 449) Heptarchy (c. 449–927) Kingdom of England (927–1066) Engla land (Old English) 410–1066 Britain around the year 540. Anglo-Saxon kingdoms' names are coloured red. Britonnic kingdoms' names are coloured black. Common languages Old English Demonym(s) Anglo-Saxon, Angle, Saxon History • Abandonment of the Roman province Britannia 410 • Start of the Anglo ...
20 hours ago · Twelve daily newspapers and eleven Sunday-only weekly newspapers are distributed nationally in the United Kingdom. Others circulate in Scotland only and still others serve smaller areas. National daily newspapers publish every day except Sundays and 25 December. Sunday newspapers may be independent; e.g. The Observer was an independent Sunday newspaper from its founding in 1791 until it was ...
20 hours ago · Royal Mail flights from EMA go to Belfast, Edinburgh, Inverness, Aberdeen, Newcastle, Exeter and Bournemouth, and it is the largest UK Royal Mail air hub, with eleven flights per night. DHL is the main route carrier at EMA by far with 20 flights per night, UPS have 6, and TNT have 2 (Belfast and Liège); for hubs in Europe, DHL flies to Leipzig , UPS to Cologne , and TNT at Liège .
20 hours ago · List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1885. Ship. State. Description. Frank Moffatt. United States. The steamship 's boiler exploded at Sombra, Ontario, Canada and she was wrecked, sinking in the Saint Clair River. Five crew died. Her engine was salvaged on 1 December and the wreck was blown up with dynamite.
20 hours ago · Lieutenant-General Sir William Babtie (1859—1920), Royal Army Medical Corps; Major-General Anthony Bacon (1796—1864); General Sir Alexander Robert Badcock (1844—1907), quartermaster-general, Indian Army
20 hours ago · The 2024 ATP Tour is the global elite men's professional tennis circuit organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for the 2024 tennis season. The 2024 ATP Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments, supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the ATP Finals, the ATP Masters 1000, the United Cup (organized with the WTA), the ATP 500 series and the ATP 250 ...
