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Bermuda's two-house Parliament voted emergency powers, including conscription, to Acting Governor Major Eric Aldhelm Torlogh Dutton. He called to the colors two of the island's three volunteer military units. Two officers commandeered a machine from a private estate and did what no Governor of Bermuda has ever done: toured the island by motor car, inspecting defense posts...
...like spirit did not for a long time die out, it took a milder course. Soon Northumbria took the lead in literature, and gave birth to one Caedmon, a monk in Whitby monastery, and the first true English poet. The other poets of this division of the Heptarchy were Aldhelm of Wessex, Bede, King Alfred and Cynewulf. Wessex took the lead in rose and produced King Alfred, St. Dunstan, and Abbots Wulfstan and Aelfric...
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