Macaulay took a personal interest in running five new English medium schools which opened in Bengal, a year and a half after the reforms began in 1835 - in a single town in Bengal, he wrote, 1, 400 boys were learning English.

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If you have a hobby, like raising English bulldogs or running triathlons, you can make an account that is devoted to that purpose, and keep your professional Twitter feed separate.

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It also raised concerns about introducing English Baccalaureate certificates in English, maths and science while still running "discredited" GCSEs for other subjects.

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The English Heritage cathedral grants scheme has been running since 1991 when a survey showed that the country's 61 cathedrals were facing a backlog of repairs that they could not fund alone.

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The long-running argument in the United States over whether schoolchildren should be taught in Spanish, English or both will be put before voters in Arizona.

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But Luke McAlister got the hosts up and running with a penalty before they delivered the first of two devastating double-whammies to English hopes.

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Until then, the Catholic Church branded as heretics scientific investigators who, like the 13th-century English friar Roger Bacon, calculated that the current calendar year was over-running the solar year by a whole day every 125 years.

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The takeover is unprecedented in English football, given the website's stated intention of involving the members so radically in the running of the club, particularly with team selection.

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