Anglo-Saxon

Anglo-Saxon, iron L. ferrum) Iron was used prehistorically ... 

Anglo-Saxon, Seolfor siolfur L. argentum) Silver has been known since ancient times. It is mentioned in Genesis. Slag dumps in Asia Minor and on islands in the Aegean Sea indicate that man learned to separate silver from lead as earl as 3000 B.C. 

Anglo-Saxon lead L. plumbum) Long known, mentioned in Exodus. The alchemists believed lead to be the oldest metal and associated with the planet Saturn. Native lead occurs in nature, but it is rare. 

Sanskrit Jval Anglo-Saxon gold L. aurum, gold) Known and highly valued from earliest times, gold is found in nature as the free metal and in tellurides it is very widely distributed and is almost always associated with quartz or pyrite. 

The Anglo-Saxon invaders introduced the art to Great Britain, and as Tacitus stated, "Eor drink they use the Hquid distilled from barley or wheat after fermentation has given it a certain resemblance to wine." As early as 1295 AD, the abbots of Burton-on-Trent used the local water which is especially suited for brewing ale and beer. 

Van Arsdall A. Medieval herbal remedies. The old English Herbarium and Anglo-Saxon medicine. Routledge, Boca Raton, 2002. 

A common problem in Anglo Saxon England, as well as much of contemporary Europe, was the way cloth merchants could so easily cheat the common people. At a market, it was all too easy to ask for a yard of cloth, to see it measured against the merchant s yardstick, and pay for the cloth only to get home to learn just how short the merchant s stick was. Paying for 10 yards and coming home with only 9 yards was common, it seems and the problem was not restricted to just cloth, but also to leather and timber. 

The "French" and "Anglo-Saxon" Schools of Theoretical Organic Chemistry... 

Anglo-Saxon school, which in contrast to the phenomenalist French tradition, indulged in the use of pictorial models and premature hypotheses. 

Metals of the iron family. These metals pertain to the 1st transition row. Iron (Fe, [Ar]3r/64.v2), name from the Anglo-Saxon iron, symbol from the Latin name ferrum (iron). The use of iron dates back to prehistoric times. 

Silver (Ag, [Kr]4 /I05.s 1), name from Anglo-Saxon seolfor or siolfur (silver), symbol from the Latin argentum (from Greek dp os, shiny). Known since ancient times. 

Gold (Au, [Xe]4/,45name from Anglo-Saxon geolo (yellow), symbol from Latin aurum. Known since ancient times. 

Tin (Sn, [Kr]4name from the Anglo-Saxon word tin symbol Sn from the Latin word stannum (tin). Tin is one of the oldest metals known by man. There are domestic utensils and arms made of bronze (copper with about 15% of tin), dating from 3500 BC. 

Lead (Pb, [Xe]4/i45t/106.s 26/r), name from the Anglo-Saxon word lead, symbol Pb from the Latin word plumbum. Known since ancient times. 

The history of racial classification over time is a second such site entire races have disappeared from view, from public discussion, and from modern memory, though their flesh-and-blood members still walk the earth. What has become of the nineteenth century s Celts and Slavs, for instance Its Hebrews, Iberics, Mediterraneans, Teutons, and Anglo-Saxons This book tells the story of how these races—these public fictions—rose and fell in American social consciousness, and how the twentieth century s Caucasians emerged to take their place. 

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