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Waitangi had a population of 57 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 6 people (11.8%) since the 2018 census, and a decrease of 9 people (−13.6%) since the 2013 census. There were 39 males and 21 females in 39 dwellings.
Jan Harold Brunvand (born March 23, 1933) is an American retired folklorist, researcher, writer, public speaker, and professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah. [ 3 ] Brunvand is best known for popularizing the concept of the urban legend , a form of modern folklore or story telling.
The Mountain Meadows Massacre (September 7–11, 1857) was a series of attacks during the Utah War that resulted in the mass murder of at least 120 members of the Baker–Fancher wagon train.
By this time, the DF and DX classes were permitted to run to Whangārei, and the DC class could also pass through the Makarau tunnel. [31] In 2022, KiwiRail undertook tests of the DL class on the North Auckland Line. In October 2022 two DL class locomotives travelled from Westfield in Auckland to the Makarau Tunnel for clearance testing.
English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years. [ 1 ] The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the fifth century, are called Old English .
The Golden Legend may have been the source for retellings of the Seven Sleepers in Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, in a poem by Goethe, Washington Irving's "Rip van Winkle", H. G. Wells's The Sleeper Awakes. It also might have an influence on the motif of the "King asleep in mountain".
Former site of Arthur's purported grave in "Avalon" at Glastonbury AbbeyThe historicity of King Arthur has been debated both by academics and popular writers. While there have been many claims that King Arthur was a real historical person, the current consensus among specialists on the period holds him to be a mythological or folkloric figure.
Tristan 1946 (1967), is a novel by Maria Kuncewiczowa (in Polish), and according to the publisher it tells the story inspired by the fate of the unhappy marriage between the writer's son and an English actress, presented as the Celtic legend taking place in modern times.