The London Olympics
The unpredictable British weather hardly makes us favourites for hosting the Summer Olympics, but London has achieved…
The unpredictable British weather hardly makes us favourites for hosting the Summer Olympics, but London has achieved…
The tidal 3-mile-wide island of Lindisfarne sits off the sandy Northumberland coast. Its mile-long causeway is revealed…
King Edward VII (1841-1910) created the Order of Merit (OM) in 1902 in recognition of “..exceptionally meritorious…
The Ancient Monuments Protection Act of 1882 established long-awaited regulations for governmental safeguarding of certain historically important…
A fearsome sight for many, the hypodermic syringe was nevertheless an improvement on the animal bladder and…
After the British Army’s evacuation from France in May 1940, the Germans believed the War was won,…
William the Conqueror (c.1028-87) did not make any friends when he ordered dozens of Hampshire and Wiltshire…
Dame Julie Andrews (1935-) was born in Surrey with a natural gift for singing. Her mother and…
Evidently there are far more British words for insulting people than there are for praising them, probably…
Louise Brown, born in Lancashire in 1978, and Alastair MacDonald, born in Glasgow six months later, were…
The Crystal Palace (a.k.a. ‘the Palace of the People’) began as a glass-walled, modular, 3-storey hall-cum-greenhouse in…
Trade with China in the 1800s brought about a small, close-knit settlement of Chinese sailors and their…
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