The worldâs water exists naturally in different forms and locations: in the air, on the surface, below the ground, and in the oceans. Freshwater accounts for only 2.5% of the Earthâs water, and most of it is frozen in glaciers and ice caps.
On Christmas Day, 1066, William the Conqueror was crowned the first Norman king of England, in Westminster Abbey, and the Anglo-Saxon phase of English history came to an end. French became the language of the kingâs court and gradually blended with the Anglo-Saxon tongue to give birth to modern English.
In 1028, an unmarried French woman bore a son to the Duke of Normandy. People taunted the boy with the nickname âWilliam the Bastardâ. Yet he not only became a formidable Norman ruler: he became one of England's most brutal and influential kings.From the Battle of Hastings to the Domesday Book, William was responsible for truly extraordinary events in England's history.Find out how a brutal childhood, some lucky breaks and a festering angry grudge shaped the man who changed Britain forever.t's thought William and Edward developed a friendship and when Edward returned to England he was more familiar with the culture and customs of northern France than in his new kingdom. In 1051, a childless Edward supposedly writes to William promising him the crown when he dies.