English claims to the French throne their realms as listed in their titles and styles, and the French fleur-de-lys were included in the royal arms. This continued until 1801, by which time France had no monarch, having become a republic. Following an episode of insanity on the part of Henry VI of England in 1453 and the subsequent outbreak of the Wars of the Roses (1455–87), the English were no longer in any position to pursue their claim to the French throne and lost all their land on the continent, except for Calais. Calais was ruled by eight more English Kings and Queens of France until
In the Neolithic Age In the Neolithic Age "In the Neolithic Age" is a poem by the English writer Rudyard Kipling. It was published in the December 1892 issue of "The Idler" and in 1896 in his poetry collection "The Seven Seas". The poem is the source of the quotation: "There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, / And every single one of them is right." The poem was published in the December 1892 issue of the literary magazine "The Idler" as the introduction to Kipling's article "My First Book", with the title "Primum Tempus". Kipling experimented with a variety of