northern

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The discovery provided some of the clearest evidence yet of Mesolithic burials in northern Britain.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

Showers on Sunday should be confined to southern England as an area of high pressure builds back across northern parts of the UK.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

Six hundred years ago, on a muddy field near Agincourt in northern France, King Henry V’s outnumbered, half-starved English army faced the flower of French chivalry.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Particularly fierce solar storms can knock out satellites and threaten astronauts -- and create dazzling auroras in the skies known as the northern or southern lights.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

But she told them about the secret northern pass through the mountains, and the detour Hecate described that could take them to Epirus.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan