What is the Veld of South Africa? An open grazing area of southern Africa. It is the term applied to grassy plateaus of the Republic of South Africa and of Zimbabwe.
At Rouen in English-controlled Normandy, Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who became the savior of France, is burned at the stake for heresy. Joan was born in 1412, the daughter of a tenant farmer at Domremy, on the borders of the duchies of Bar and Lorraine.
Melvyn Bragg on William Tyndale: his genius matched that of Shakespeare. William Tyndale was burned at the stake for translating the Bible into English. He loaded our language with more phrases than any other writer before or since, says Melvyn Bragg. William Tyndale is burned at the stake in Belgium in 1536, from Foxe's Book of Martyrs, published in 1563. 7:00AM BST 06 Jun 2013.