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6 Things About the UK Today
- Dartmoor pony May 24, 2025
- Aysgarth Falls - a delight in the Yorkshire Dales May 24, 2025Aysgarth Falls are a well-known scenic attraction in Lower Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales. They are a triple flight of waterfalls carved out by the River Ure. This spot has been admired for its beauty for centuries. The broad limestone steps across which the water cascades are particularly pleasing to the eye.
- Boudica - hero of an anti-Roman uprising May 24, 2025Boudica was a queen of the British Celtic Iceni tribe, who led an uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. According to Roman sources, shortly after the uprising failed, she poisoned herself or died of her wounds, although there is no actual evidence of her fate. She is […]
- Hummingbird hawk-moth - Britain's frenetic flier May 24, 2025On sunny late afternoons in the summer, gardeners in Britain may observe an intriguing creature hovering around their flowers, and feeding on nectar with a long tongue. But are there really small hummingbirds in this country? Well, not quite, but nearly!
- The history of Cricket May 24, 2025Though it is now an international game, cricket is still largely seen as a quintessentially English pastime, a summer adornment to a village green. It can be traced back at least as far as 1300.
- Harvington Hall - a haven of hiding places May 24, 2025Harvington Hall is a 16th-century moated medieval and Elizabethan manor house in Worcestershire, famed for its extensive number of secret hiding places, used by those seeking to avoid persecution for preaching the Catholic faith.
