Eric Idle, a member of the comedy troupe Monty Python, and John Major, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, both turn 70 years old today. On the occasions of their mutual birthday 20 years ago, Idle wrote to Majo...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/29/Imagine-a-Britain-Led-by-Monty-Python/[youtube YUdkEzNjVRA](Video Link) The Brambles sandbank between the Isle of Wight and the British mainland rises above the waves only once a year and then for only an hour at low tide. It is then that representatives of...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/26/Cricket-Match-on-a-Sandbar/
The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo... ...he tales of Arthur in his History of the Kings of Britain in 1135, he recorded Arthur's birth in the late f... ...p readers from taking The History of the Kings of Britain seriously -it served as the standard text on Brit...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/25/the-legend-of-king-arthur/
If you're sad that the United Stat... ...and you'll feel a bit better: at least we're not Britain , where they really don't make anything an... ...at's going on with what has been called Britain 's De-Industrial Revolution: In s... ...In significant part, it's a tale...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/17/why-britain-doesnt-make-things-anymore/
In October, internet users always look for the str... ...many children who were temporarily sent away from Britain during the war. But the explanation has to do wit...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/28/world-war-ii-evacuee-costume/
The estate at Witley Park in Britain has been a private home and a public facility at...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/29/the-room-under-the-lake/(YouTube link)We once featured an Eule... ...the British Isles, the United Kingdom, and Great Britain . This video explains all that clearly but quickly...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/the-united-kingdom-great-britain-and-england-and-a-whole-lot-more/
How has Britain changed in the past 10 years? Prospect Magazine h... ...infographic detailing the transformation of Great Britain from 1997 to 2009:Richer, fatter, living longer,...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/how-britain-has-changed-1997-to-2009/
Probably no tree better symbolizes Britain than Quercus robur, the native oak. In an essay... ...mon Schama reviews its significance. The tree is Britain , after all. Boscobel oak, where Charles II hid... ...ttacking Quercus robur, up and down the length of Britain ....
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/22/a-blight-is-threatening-the-oak-trees-of-britain/
Officials at a nursery school in Pemberton, England, confiscated the cheese sandwich a two-year old brought to school. The sandwich was considered to be inappropirate because it did not include either lettuce or tomato...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/30/school-officials-confiscate-toddlers-cheese-sandwich/
