However it started, it made its way from the Germanic into the Middle English as sunne to become our sun of today. |
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This led to Edward's later adoption of the sign of the sunne in splendour as his personal device. |
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For these last 4 dayes the weather hath bene extreame hot and very calme, the Sunne being 5 degrees aboue the horison at midnight. |
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Sharon Kay Penman, in her historical novel The Sunne in Splendour, attributes the death of the Princes to the Duke of Buckingham. |
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Archimedes master of this Science, and who in truth and certaintie assumeth unto himselfe a precedencie above all others, saith, the Sunne is a God of enflamed yron. |
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