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The Battle of Maldon - 991 AD - Describing the last stand of Byrhtnoth, Earl of Essex, against a Viking horde in the year of our Lord, 991. Setting the scene, the battle and conclusion.
Battle of Maldon - The Battle of Maldon is described in the translation of an Anglo-Saxon Poem. The site also contains a map, links, and images of the battle-ground.
MAHG - Maldon archaeological and historical group exists to increase people's awareness and enjoyment of Maldon's archaeology and history. Includes a notice board, recent projects and ongoing projects.
The Dawn Trust - A traditional Thames sailing barge, built in Maldon in the late 1890s to carry hay and straw as a deck cargo. The trust aims to return the Dawn to working order as an example of this important part of England's maritime heritage. [Needs flash].
Maldon Archaeological Reports - A collection by Paul N Brown. Maeldune - light on Maldon's distant past, the Maldon Burh jigsaw, Lofts farm project interim reports and survey data, computer programme and geographic information system.
Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. Society and Culture "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Use your own best judgment at all times. -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Society and Culture Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example. -- Anon. Society and Culture He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Society and Culture A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice Society and Culture "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. -- Jonson, Ben Society and Culture Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau Society and Culture It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra Society and Culture Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison Society and Culture I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous Society and Culture "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James Society and Culture Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus Society and Culture We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem Society and Culture The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld Society and Culture Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Society and Culture Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Society and Culture Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Society and Culture As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore Society and Culture The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden Society and Culture
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