[quote author=ketchim link=topic=100144.msg655615#msg655615 date=1442413807]
Whom did this course for O levels : English history including the War of the Roses ?
Calypso at Saint Josephs High , I bet 8)
Wars of the Roses, (1455–85),
In English history, the series of dynastic civil wars whose violence and civil strife preceded the strong government of the Tudors.
Fought between the Houses of Lancaster and York for the English throne, the wars were named many years afterward
from the supposed badges of the contending parties: [size=10pt]
the white rose of York and the red of Lancaster.[/size]
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the only thing important about that rump strife now elevated into events of global stature which it is now is th cricket match between Lancashire and Yorkshire which even that has lost any king of importance itself.
no one gives an eff anymore of the that once famous english cricket match