“I've had two or three injuries when with England and it's been a bit bizarre.” TwoThreeBitsEnglandInjuryBizarre Author:Jamie Redknapp
“A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names we still use today, like ‘Robert’, and in some case I tweaked them a little bit. I made ‘Edward’ into ‘Eddard’. If you look back at medieval times, no one knew how to spell their own names. There are a lot of variations that we’ve lost.” IfsLooksLittlesMadeStillsUseTodayWantedNamesLostBitsDifficultCasesFantasyToo MuchLittle BitEnglandSpellsVariationMedievalFlavourMedieval Times Author:George R. R. Martin
“I kind of was shoveled onto a boat at 11 and went to England. I didn't have any parent watching over me. It was very free and may have been a bit of a scary time for me, but I really don't remember much about the voyage apart from playing ping-pong a lot with a couple friends.” KindMayHas BeensRememberBitsParentCoupleEnglandScaryBoatVoyagesPingPing Pong Author:Michael Ondaatje
“The idea of separating church and state by the Founding Fathers of America was freedom from the domination of one form of religion, because many of them left England, because they were persecuted by the church, because they want to express their Christian faith in a different way. So it was a bit of warfare between Christians.” WayWantIdeasDifferentStatesChristianAmericaFormFatherLeftBitsChurchEnglandDifferent WaysWarfareFoundingDominationChurch And StateChristian FaithPersecutedSeparatingFounding Fathers Of America Author:John Lennox