Coventry
About Coventry
Coventry is a cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands county, in England, on the River Sherbourne. Coventry had been a large settlement for centuries. Founded in the early Middle Ages, its city status was formally recognised in a charter of 1345. The city is governed by Coventry City Council, and the West Midlands Combined Authority.
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The German word "Coventrierung" means to flatten, and it refers to the bombing of Coventry — it actually made it into their language as a word.
from NSTAAF International Factball: Australia v Mexico, 2014-06-23 at 00:11:28 · read transcript
Other times Coventry came up
She added, she looked like she'd had the best night out. The other thing about it being a myth is that basically it was against taxes or people have looked back at what Coventry was like back then and probably the people who were here weren't really bothered about taxes. One person said that in those days Coventry was just an inconsequential group of serfs living in single story hovels. Whereas Coventry now has two story buildings, I think.
202: No Such Thing As A Deadly Birthday Cake, 2018-02-02 · listen
In 1842, there was an actress or a performer who was wearing a tight fitting flesh-coloured dress, like a kind of a onesie, but to make it look like she's naked. Then people were outraged. There were all these complaints and I was looking in the British newspaper archive and they were saying, it's depraved, you know, it's encouraged the profligate youth of Coventry to gratify a depraved taste. Any profligate youth of Coventry in tonight?
202: No Such Thing As A Deadly Birthday Cake, 2018-02-02 · listen
Onesie but to make it look like she's naked and then people were outraged there were all these complaints and I was looking in the British newspaper archive and they were saying it's depressed You know, it's encouraged the profligate youth of Coventry to gratify a depraved taste.
No Such Thing As A Deadly Birthday Cake, 2018-02-02 · listen
Yes. I also think a very clever thing. I don't know if Godiva windows has done this, but what I would have done is the whole point of Godiva was that all the people who lived in Coventry had to go inside and not look at her. Right? The story of peeping Tom comes from the Lady Godiva story because he snuck out and did try to catch a glimpse and then he was blinded.
202: No Such Thing As A Deadly Birthday Cake, 2018-02-02 · listen
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Coordinates: 52.4081, -1.5106