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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...
    84 KB (8,586 words) - 11:09, 12 July 2024
  • Lund University (Swedish: Lunds universitet) is a public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe's oldest universities. The university...
    68 KB (6,815 words) - 21:13, 1 July 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) - 13:11, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for British Council
    The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities. It works in over 100 countries: promoting...
    74 KB (6,603 words) - 05:29, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edinburgh Festival Fringe
    The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as the Edinburgh Fringe, the Fringe or the Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest performance...
    96 KB (10,684 words) - 22:16, 8 July 2024
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    William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become...
    105 KB (12,562 words) - 09:45, 15 July 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"...
    131 KB (16,801 words) - 19:52, 25 July 2024
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    Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ˈrʌdjərd/ RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He...
    129 KB (14,931 words) - 19:14, 20 July 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...
    195 KB (24,007 words) - 15:37, 26 July 2024
  • The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy (or Muhammad cartoons crisis, Danish: Muhammed-krisen) began after the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten...
    158 KB (15,842 words) - 08:23, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
    Corpus Christi College (full name: "The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary", often shortened to "Corpus") is a constituent college of...
    96 KB (8,761 words) - 18:36, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2006–07 in English football
    The 2006–07 season was the 127th season of competitive association football in England. Manchester United regain the league title for the first time in...
    114 KB (9,290 words) - 05:06, 15 July 2024
  • Artur "Conrad" Kozłowski (17 October 1977 – 5 September 2011) was a Polish cave diver who spent his last years in Ireland. Amongst other achievements in...
    12 KB (1,142 words) - 23:21, 24 March 2024
  • The Scottish Sub Aqua Club (ScotSAC) was founded in Glasgow in 1953. Today it is a company limited by guarantee with nearly 70 branches and 1200 members...
    8 KB (606 words) - 05:36, 23 June 2024
  • Caboc is a Scottish cream cheese, made with double cream or cream-enriched milk. This rennet-free cheese is formed into a log shape and rolled in toasted...
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  • 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 (2,452 words) - 22:07, 10 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coronation of the British monarch
    The coronation of the monarch of the United Kingdom is an initiation ceremony in which they are formally invested with regalia and crowned at Westminster...
    103 KB (12,304 words) - 03:07, 9 July 2024
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    Lundy is an English island in the Bristol Channel. It forms part of the district of Torridge in the county of Devon. About 3 miles (5 kilometres) long...
    74 KB (7,756 words) - 21:05, 16 June 2024
  • LIBRIS (Library Information System) is a Swedish national union catalogue maintained by the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm. It is possible to...
    4 KB (347 words) - 06:00, 28 March 2023
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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...
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