Bill Buckley is one of the very best writers of English prose we have in America, or anywhere else the English language holds sway.

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The court heard that grandfather-of-four, Dr Howells, who lectured in Cardiff and Swansea, had spent the last 16 years in South America and had recently retired as English professor at the University of Brasilia.

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Think of the mass immigration of rich and ambitious Englishmen to America in the 1960s, when English income tax rates on the rich approached 100%.

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There was no sign of the settlers, including White's granddaughter, Virginia Dare, the first English child to be born in America.

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From the Elizabethan English spoken in Chesapeake Bay to the Basque in Elko, Nevada, America's ethnic melting pot refuses categorically to dissolve.

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In 1609, Henry Hudson, the English navigator and explorer, entered the river later known as the Hudson, in North America.

CNN: Friday,

Beginning on Christmas Day, 1999, and ending on the last day of 2000, he travelled with the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists to more than fifty churches in Europe and America, including hallowed places where Bach worked.

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But for those used to the defence of free speech entrenched in America's First Amendment, English law seems anything but fair.

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In 1851, the schooner America outraced the Aurora off the English coast to win a trophy that became known as the America's Cup.

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It was a little over a century ago that my grandfather first came to America to work as a houseboy for a family in the state of Washington in exchange for English lessons.

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