Word: englands
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...When the punk movement first surfaced in England in 1977, its nihilistic posturing and contempt for cultural and pop-music traditions rattled both the social and entertainment establishments. Long after the movement petered out or became commercialized elsewhere, it took hold for the first time in Jakarta in the mid-1990s - at a time when the music's belligerence seemed to perfectly echo the hostility many young people felt toward the authoritarian regime of then President Suharto. Onie recalls listening to Guns N' Roses and boy band New Kids on the Block and never feeling a real connection with...
Number of women priests ordained by the Church of England last year. Women outnumbered men--210 were ordained in 2006--for the first time since the church began ordaining women...
Glenn, reviewing a new book for the Globe on the history of toothpicks, discovered that in 1860s New England “polite society regarded public tooth-picking as vulgar...
...Something can probably be done in Rhode Island, the New England area, and California, but I’m not really optimistic about the rest of the nation,” Kellaway said. “I pay most attention to Massachusetts because that is where I am from. I feel confident that I will be able to get married here. I’m not leaving...
...theme-based approach has catalyzed a dizzying rise in academic achievement at Robert Mellors. Three years ago it was languishing in the bottom quarter of English schools; it has since vaulted into the top 25%. A September visit from Ofsted, England's educational inspection body, yielded a rating of "outstanding," and special kudos were given for the school's ability to mentor pupils with learning disabilities or behavioral problems. "The school recognizes that pupils will only be successful if lessons are stimulating," the report said...