Michelle Frankl, an American and a chemistry profe... ...ttack upon their national drink. It was up to the United States Embassy in London to smooth over the tensi... ...5/24: Karen Pierce, the British ambassador to the United States, responds with instructions on how to make...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/24/USUK-Diplomatic-Crisis-Ends-with-American-Capitulation/In this ad for Heathrow airport, Stephen Fry expla... ...t, Stephen Fry explains how they do things in the United Kingdom . The small things that matter, like the After You...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/01/06/Stephen-Frys-Guide-to-the-UK/(Photo: David Ball)But that may change. A British government task force is looking through 44,000 pieces of legislation, some dating back to the 13th Century, to identify obsolete laws for Parliament to eliminate. Among...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/12/16/Its-Still-Illegal-to-Wear-a-Suit-of-Armor-inside-the-British-Parliament/(Photo: Peter Corbett)There's a spit of land in Kent jutting out into the English Channel. It's so dry that the British government refers to it as the nation's only desert. This is Dungeness and it can be yours--for the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/10/For-Sale-The-Only-Desert-in-Britain/(Photo: Martin Cooper)It's called Fantasia. It looks like a human-sized dollhouse that fits into a single slot in a parking lot in the seaside town of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK. You can find it on Google Street View here. A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/03/23/A-Tiny-Functional-Occupied-House-in-the-Middle-of-a-Parking-Lot/(Maps via the Daily Telegraph)In the early Fifth C... ...e general areas of the old Anglo-Saxon and Celtic kingdoms . Sarah Knapton writes for the Daily Telegraph:... ...orth and South Wales corresponding to the ancient kingdoms of Gwynedd and Dyfed.In the North, specific group... ...Yorkshire, which coincide...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/03/18/Geneticists-Discover-That-Britons/Thursday, the citizens of Scotland will vote on wh... ...ens of Scotland will vote on whether to leave the United Kingdom and stand on their own as a sovereign nation. The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/09/17/The-Union-Jack-Without-Scotland/[http://youtu.be/BUY6HGqYweQ] (YouTube link)With a new royal heir due any minute, C.G.P. Grey explains to us how one would ascend to the British throne, with examples from history. I love how the closed captioning calls...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/07/16/How-to-Become-the-British-Monarch/At its height in the early Twentieth Century, the British Empire spanned a fourth of the world. That is why it was said that the sun never set on the Empire: it was always sunny in at least one part of Britain's possessi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/06/04/The-Sun-Will-Never-Set-on-the-British-Empire-Even-if-Theres-a-Solar-Eclipse/Eric Idle, a member of the comedy troupe Monty Pyt... ...hon, and John Major, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , both turn 70 years old today. On the occasions o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/29/Imagine-a-Britain-Led-by-Monty-Python/
