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• General information

Capital London Official language
English Population 50,714,000 Area 130,395
km2 Currency Pound sterling (GBP) Internet
domain .uk Time zone GMT (UTC0) -Summer BST
(UTC1) Calling code 44 Patron saint Saint
George
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• The map of England

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• The Flag of England is the St George's Cross. The
  red cross appeared in as an emblem of England
  during the Middle Ages and the Crusades and is
  one of the earliest known emblems representing
  England. It achieved status as the national flag
  of England during the 16th century.
• Saint George became the patron saint of England
  in the 13th century, and the legend of Saint
  George slaying a dragon dates from the 12th
  century.

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• Royal Arms of England

The Royal Coat of Arms of England was the
official coat of arms of the Monarchs of England,
and were used as the official coat of arms of the
Kingdom of England until the Union of the Crowns
in 1603. Afterwards, the arms became an integral
part of the Royal Coat of Arms of the United
Kingdom. The spread of the British Empire has led
to the arms being incorporated in various other
coats of arms of the UK's former colonies.
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• The Tudor rose

The Tudor rose is the national floral emblem of
England, and was adopted as a national emblem of
England around the time of the Wars of the
Roses. The rose is used in a variety of contexts
in its use for England's representation.
Technically, the rose of England should always be
a Tudor, or half-red-half-white rose, symbolising
the end of both the Wars of the Roses and the
subsequent marriage between the House of
Lancaster and the House of York. This symbolism
is reflected in the Royal coat of arms of the
United Kingdom and the crest of the FA. However,
the rose of England is often displayed as a red
rose (which also symbolises Lancashire), such as
the badge of the England national rugby union
team. A white rose (which also symbolises
Yorkshire) is also used on different occasions.
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• St. George

In Christian hagiography Saint George - The Saint
who killed the Dragon (ca. 275-281April 23, 303)
was a soldier of the Roman Empire, from Anatolia,
now modern day Turkey, who was venerated as a
Christian martyr. Saint George is one of the most
venerated saints in the Eastern Orthodox Church
and Oriental Orthodox Churches. Immortalised in
the tale of George and the Dragon, he is the
patron saint of Canada, Catalonia, England,
Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Montenegro, Portugal,
Serbia, the cities of Beirut, Istanbul, Ljubljana
and Moscow, as well as a wide range of
professions, organisations and disease sufferers.
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• The Queen of Great Britain

Elizabeth II (1926present), queen of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland (1952present),
elder daughter and successor of George VI. At age
18 she was made a State Counsellor, a confidante
of the king. During World War II she trained as a
junior subaltern (second lieutenant) in the
women's services. On Nov. 20, 1947, she married
Philip Mountbatten, duke of Edinburgh. They were
in Kenya (en route for a tour of Australia and
New Zealand) when the king died (Feb. 6, 1952)
and Elizabeth succeeded to the throne. Her
coronation, on June 2, 1953, was the first to be
televised. An extremely popular queen, Elizabeth
has travelled more extensively than any previous
British monarch. Throughout her reign, expanded
media coverage has brought the monarchy closer to
the British people. Although the queen, who in
public is formal and unemotional, continues to be
greatly admired and respected, since the
mid-1980s a barrage of tabloid reports about her
children and their spouses has seriously
tarnished the royal image. In 1992 she celebrated
her 40th year on the throne, but it was also a
year in which part of Windsor Castle suffered a
devastating fire her son Prince Andrew (b. 1960)
separated from his wife, the former Sarah
Ferguson (they were divorced in 1996) her
daughter, Princess Anne, divorced and her son
and heir to the throne Prince Charles and his
wife Princess Diana separated (they were divorced
in 1996). Elizabeths youngest son is Prince
Edward (b. 1964). In 1992 Elizabeth, the
wealthiest woman in England, agreed to pay income
tax for the first time. Although she was widely
criticized for her seeming insensitivity in the
days following Princess Dianas death (1997), she
had regained the publics esteem by the time of
her golden jubilee, less than five years later.
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• Famous people from England

Kings Queens -Richard I Lionheart (1157-1199),
inveterate crusader -Henry VIII (1491-1547),
founder of the Anglican Church -Queen Mary "the
Catholic" (1553-1558), best remembered as "Bloody
Mary" -Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603), supervised
England's first golden age. -George III
(1738-1820), lost the 13 American colonies that
became the USA and went mad after that and the
French Revolution -Queen Victoria (1819-1901),
reigned over the British Empire at its apogee and
-Britain's second golden age. Longest serving
Britsih monarch. -Queen Elizabeth II (b 1926),
present queen of England Politicians -Sir
Robert Walpole (1676-1745), British prime
minister -Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852), 1st Duke
of Wellington ("The Iron Duke"), general
British prime minister. He defeated Napoleon at
Waterloo. -Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British
prime minister -William Ewart Gladstone
(1809-1898), British prime minister -Winston
Churchill (1874-1965), British prime minister and
Nobel prizewinner for literature -Baroness
Margaret Thatcher (b 1925), the "Iron Lady",
British prime minister
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• Famous people from England

Writers Poets -Geoffrey Chaucer (c.
1343-1400), poet, author of The Canterbury
Tales -Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) -William
Shakespeare (c. 1564-1616) -John Milton
(1608-1674) -Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) -Thomas
Paine (1737-1809), one of the Founding Fathers of
the United States -Jane Austen (1775-1817) -Charle
s Dickens (1812-1870) -Charlotte Bronte
(1816-1855) -Emily Bronte (1818-1848) -Anne
Bronte (1820-1849) -Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936),
author of the "Jungle Book", Nobel prize winner
for literature -Beatrix Potter
(1866-1943),author and illustrator of "Peter
Rabbit" -William Somerset Maugham
(1874-1965) -Winston Churchill (1874-1965),
British prime minister and Nobel prize winner for
literature -T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), poet,
playwright and Nobel prize winner for
literature -Dame Agatha Christie
(1891-1976) -George Orwell (1903-1950, real name
Eric Blair), journalist and novelist -Andy
Warhol (1928-1987)
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• Famous people from England

Enlightened minds -John Locke (1632-1704),
philosopher -Isaac Newton (1642-1727), founder of
modern physics, inventor of the reflector
telescope -George Stephenson (1781-1848),
father of British Steam Railways -Isambard
Kingdom Brunel, (1806-1859), engineer of the
Great Western Railway, transatlantic ships and
bridges -Charles Darwin, (1809-1882), founder of
The Theory of Evolution Musican, Singers and
Bands -The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney,
George Harrison, Ringo Starr) -The Rolling
Stones -Pink Floyd -Black Sabbath -Led
Zeppelin -The Sex Pistols -Queen -Cliff Richard
(b. 1940) -David Bowie (b. 1947) -Sir Elton John
(b. 1947) -Phil Collins (b. 1951) -Boy George (b.
1961) -George Michael (b. 1963) -Robbie Williams
(b. 1974)
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• Famous people from England

Actor, Actresses Filmmakers -Sir Charlie
Chaplin (1889-1977) -Alfred Hitchcock,
(1899-1980) -Sir Peter Ustinov (1921-2004)
-Roger Moore (b 1927) -Audrey Hepburn
(1929-1993), Belgian-born of English father and
Dutch mother. -Dame Elizabeth Taylor(b 1932)
-John Clesse (b. 1939), one of the Monty
Python -Graham Chapman (b. 1941), one of the
Monty Python -Terry Jones (b. 1942), one of the
Monty Python -Eric Idle (b. 1943), one of the
Monty Python -Micheal Pallin (b. 1943), one of
the Monty Python -Sir Ben Kingsley (b
1943) -Jeremy Irons (b. 1948) -Rowan Atkinson,
aka "Mr Bean' (b 1955) -Hugh Grant (b
1960) -Colin Firth (b. 1960) -Orlando Bloom (b.
1977) -Keira Knightley (b. 1985) -Daniel
Radcliffe (b. 1989)
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• The most interesting places in England

London London is the largest city in England,
the United Kingdom, and the European Union. The
City of London is a major business and commercial
centre, ranking alongside New York City as the
leading centre of global finance.

Heathrow Airport is the world's busiest airport
in terms of numbers of international passengers.
The London Eye, the world's largest observation
wheel.
To date, the new Wembley Stadium is the most
expensive stadium ever built, costing 793
million (1.6 billion).
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• The most interesting places in England

London


Tower of London
The Palace of Westminster, Parliament of the
United Kingdom.
Westminster Abbey The traditional place of
coronation and burial site for English monarchs
Buckingham Palace is the royal residence of the
British monarch
Big Ben
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• The most interesting places in England

Other places


Stonehenge, a Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic
monument in Wiltshire, thought to have been
erected c.2000-2500BC.
Canterbury Cathedral is the mother church of the
Church of England, a significant worldwide
Christian denomination.
Cambridge University and Oxford University are
two of the most famous and successful
universities in the world.
York Minster, an Anglican Gothic cathedral in
York. York Minster is the largest Mediaeval
church in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth
of Nations.
Borrowdale in the Lake District- one of nine
National Parks of England.
The Radcliffe Camera in Oxford.
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