Posted in Things you need to know on Jun 28th, 2009
Living in the UK, occasionally one gets the impression the utility bill is more important for your rights than the Magna Carta. Unlike for example Denmark, there is no (at least not yet) central register of who lives in the UK and where. And by the way, this article certainly should not be construed as [...]
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Posted in Culture, Geography on Jun 12th, 2009
I recently wrote a post about the British and geography. I have to admit to some past cluelessness about the UK. Many years ago I thought England was the name of what I now know as the United Kingdom. I knew there was something called Scotland and Wales and I knew where they where, but [...]
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Posted in Geography on Jun 1st, 2009
The British once ruled large parts of the world, yet a majority of them don’t have a clue about geography and their nation-state neighbours. They are especially clue-less about Denmark and the Netherlands (Holland). They frequently confuse those two countries and the languages spoken (Danish in Denmark and Dutch in the Netherlands). So I frequently [...]
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