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Amazing Maps @amazingmap - A political settlement agreed in the late 9th century still marks England’s landscape through language.
The Danelaw emerged after Alfred of Wessex and Guthrum, a Viking ruler, agreed on a division of territory in the late 870s or 880s. Viking control was strongest in the north and east, and that is where Old Norse place-name elements became deeply embedded.
Names ending in -by usually come from the Old Norse word for a farmstead or village, -thorpe often points to a secondary settlement, and -toft refers to a homestead or house plot. That is why names like Grimsby, Derby, and Scunthorpe cluster so heavily in eastern and northern England.
Further south and west, Old English endings are much more common. -ton usually meant an enclosed farm or settlement, -ham a homestead or village, and -ford a river crossing.
The line on this map is simplified, but the pattern is real. More than 1,000 years later, one of the clearest traces of Viking settlement in England is still visible in everyday place names.
https://x.com/amazingmap/status/2043670332255424754
Ambassador Mike Huckabee @USAmbIsrael - Video: As Yom HaShoah begins this evening, we remember the six million Jewish men, women, and children murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust, the systematic attempt to annihilate the Jewish people from the face of the earth.
https://x.com/USAmbIsrael/status/2043619014954430850
Ambassador Mike Waltz @michaelgwaltz - Strong, principled statement from Singapore on its refusal to cut “side deals” w Iran.
Quote:
Omar Ghanim (PhD - Int. Policies) @DrOmarGhanim
Translated from Arabic
Singapore's Foreign Minister, in a parliamentary statement today regarding opportunities for negotiations with Iran to allow Singaporean ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, said:
1. We will not negotiate with the Iranians, nor will we be part of normalizing a practice that violates the Law of the Sea and the UNCLOS Convention.
2. Singapore overlooks a strait that is (two nautical miles) wide, while the width of the passage in the Strait of Hormuz is (21 nautical miles), and yet Singapore has never considered seizing this opportunity to violate international law.
3. I will not negotiate with the Iranian Foreign Minister, as we are at a moment of affirming the international law of the sea, in the face of an absurd situation that would set a precedent leading to numerous consequences that would not leave international trade in a good position. (He concludes)
When there are statesmen ranked number (1) in every global index for good governance... the logic of state management becomes evident... but when we have gangland experts ruling a state like the current Iranian regime, where a person there fires a bullet into the air... we must expect nothing but the logic of piracy and banditry.
https://x.com/michaelgwaltz/status/2043389657589665912
America First Legal @America1stLegal - NEW: @America1stLegal and @AGJamesUthmeier filed a petition for rulemaking urging the @uscensusbureau to require citizenship and immigration status questions in the decennial census.
We must get this right.
The future of our country depends upon a clean and accurate Census.
https://x.com/America1stLegal/status/2043842791042695246
Andrew Leyden @PenguinSix - Workers outside the Chinese Embassy in D.C. are installing barbed wire atop the perimeter fence. No reason has been given but it is worth noting the Chinese Embassy is across the street from the Israeli Embassy which is under a heightened state of security at the moment.
https://x.com/PenguinSix/status/2043865491085709368
Andrew Leyden @PenguinSix - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen at the U.S. Department of State this morning. He was asked about the blockcade but took no questions.
https://x.com/PenguinSix/status/2043702215353802853
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