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  • Thumbnail for Banksy
    Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject...
    176 KB (16,680 words) - 17:32, 19 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Blake
    William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered...
    102 KB (12,327 words) - 20:40, 17 March 2024
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    Byford Dolphin was a semi-submersible, column-stabilised drilling rig operated by Dolphin Drilling, a Fred Olsen Energy subsidiary. It drilled seasonally...
    19 KB (1,879 words) - 16:08, 25 March 2024
  • Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night"...
    140 KB (17,744 words) - 17:22, 6 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Ruskin
    John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art historian, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote...
    194 KB (23,896 words) - 00:23, 26 March 2024
  • Lund University (Swedish: Lunds universitet) is a public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe's oldest universities. The university...
    63 KB (6,562 words) - 03:16, 25 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton
    The wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton took place on Friday, 29 April 2011 at Westminster Abbey in London, England. William was second in...
    158 KB (13,718 words) - 05:07, 25 February 2024
  • Pearse McAuley (1964/1965[citation needed] – c. 18 March 2024) was a Provisional IRA member, who escaped from Brixton Prison in London on 7 July 1991 along...
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    The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see ordnance and...
    83 KB (8,505 words) - 12:15, 14 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edinburgh Festival Fringe
    The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as the Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe Festival or the Fringe) is the world's largest performance arts...
    96 KB (10,668 words) - 03:35, 23 March 2024
  • A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region. It was formerly used in England, Wales, some parts of the United...
    32 KB (3,592 words) - 12:43, 19 January 2024
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    The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities. It works in over 100 countries: promoting...
    73 KB (6,512 words) - 19:23, 3 March 2024
  • The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy (or Muhammad cartoons crisis, Danish: Muhammed-krisen) began after the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten...
    158 KB (15,834 words) - 21:25, 7 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Christ's College, Cambridge
    Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate...
    38 KB (2,450 words) - 11:02, 28 March 2024
  • In the United Kingdom and the British Overseas Territories, personal bravery, achievement, or service are rewarded with honours. The honours system consists...
    72 KB (7,582 words) - 11:48, 13 March 2024
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    The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of cost-saving machinery, and often...
    31 KB (3,437 words) - 23:23, 26 March 2024
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    A sauna (/ˈsɔːnə, ˈsaʊnə/, Finnish: [ˈsɑu̯nɑ], Estonian: [ˈsɑu̯n]) is a room or building designed as a place to experience dry or wet heat sessions, or...
    70 KB (8,670 words) - 18:29, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shoreditch
    Shoreditch is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Hackney alongside neighbouring parts of Tower Hamlets, which are also...
    48 KB (5,110 words) - 14:22, 24 February 2024
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    Joseph Bruce Ismay (/ˈɪzmeɪ/; 12 December 1862 – 17 October 1937) was an English businessman who served as chairman and managing director of the White...
    40 KB (5,139 words) - 22:48, 11 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anti-Irish sentiment
    Anti-Irish sentiment includes oppression, persecution, discrimination, or hatred of Irish people as an ethnic group or a nation. It can be directed against...
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