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The collective nouns we use for animals (gaggle of geese, herd of deer etc.) mostly come from the Book of St Alban's published in 1486. It also included terms for professions such as a melody of harpists, a sentence of judges and a superfluity of nuns.

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A loan of £1000 at the rate of 6% p.a. was given by a UK school to the city of St Albans in 1722. St. Albans City council, despite acknowledging the loan, has not made any repayments on it. As of 2012, the debt stands at £21,800,000,000 (21.8 billion GPB).

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1. While there Hawking attended St Albans High School for Girls, later transferring to St Albans School.

2. A pub called "Ye Olde Fighting Cocks" in St. Albans, England. It claims to be established in 793 AD, but its oldest license dating back to the 17th century. It is recognized as the oldest pub in the UK by Guinness World Records

3. Robert of St. Albans was an English templar knight who converted to Islam in 1185 and led an army for Saladin against the Crusaders and eventually married the niece of Saladin.

4. Stephen Hawking attended an all girls high school called St Albans High School for Girls

5. The northernmost military action of the U.S. Civil War occured in St. Albans, Vermont, on October 19, 1864. 21 Confederate cavalrymen robbed the town's three banks, killed one local citizen, wounded another and after a failed attempt to burn down the village, fled into Canada.

6. In the 1300s Richard Wallingford of St. Albans developed astronomical clocks considered to be masterpieces. Giovanni de Donda of Padua also created masterpieces of astronomical clocks during this time. The design descriptions have survived but not the clocks.

7. The city of St Albans owes St Albans school £21,800,000,000.00

8. The most northern Confederate action which took place during the Civil War was a raid on St. Albans, VT.