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the
San Salvador
was a
galleon
of the
Spanish Armada
whose capture supplied the
English
with a significant proportion of the
gunpowder
that they used in the campaign?
in 1560, the
English
helped the
Scots
lay siege to the French encampment
at
Leith
?
US
abolitionist
Robert Purvis
had two grandparents who were
English
, a grandmother kidnapped at twelve from
Morocco
and enslaved in
Charleston
, and a grandfather who was
German Jewish
?
Leon Greenman
was reportedly the only
Englishman
sent to
Auschwitz
?
English
dramatist
Edward Rose
published
The Rose Reader
, "a new way of teaching to read," that only used words that were spelled as they sounded?
Facts on topics related to English
English language
16 of the 72
fiction authors with at least 100 million copies of their works in print
did not write in
English
, and 16 of the 72 are women?
92% of students at
West London
's
Villiers High School
do not speak
English
as their
first language
?
Andrew Carnegie
(pictured)
founded the
Simplified Spelling Board
in 1906, with the aim of making
English
the
world language
by addressing its difficult spelling?
botanist
Henry Lyte's
Niewe Herball
of 1578 was an
English
translation
of the 1564
Cruydeboeck
of
Rembert Dodoens
printed in
Antwerp
with the
woodcuts
of the original edition?
children's book
publisher
Kane/Miller
published the
English language
edition of
Everyone Poops
?
Chilean
Canadian
writer
Carmen Rodriguez
publishes much of her work in both
English
and
Spanish
, and that she herself is responsible for their
translation
?
Dutch
linguist
Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk
published a
Batak
-
Dutch
dictionary to enable him to translate the
Bible
into
Batak
in 1861, and his posthumous trilingual
Kawi
-
Balinese
-
Dutch
dictionary was republished in
English
in 1971?
Dutch
rocker
Wally Tax
learned
English
by age 11 by working as a
pimp
for American sailors in the
Port of Amsterdam
?
Edyta Górniak
sang part of
"
To Nie Ja
"
in
English
at the dress rehearsal for the
Eurovision Song Contest 1994
, which almost caused the song to be disqualified?
English
once had a four-form
yes and no
system, employed by
Shakespeare
and others, instead of the two-form system that it has today?
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