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General: History

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Map showing the British Isles, United Kingdom and Ireland, and constituent countries of the U.K. (Photo Â© Reid Bramblett)

UK or Great Britain?

So, which is it? "The United Kingdom" or "Great Britain?"

Beau Nash (Photo from a print in the collection of J. F. Meehan, Esq

Bath

The Master of Ceremonies presiding over Bath's golden Georgian era

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The British Royal Family. (Note: Those aren't people in the picture, but rather their wax dopplegÃ¤ngers from Madame Tussaud's) (Photo )

The Royal Family

Fun facts and history about Queen Elizabath II and Britain's Royal Family

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A line of old Routemasters at Finsbury Park (Photo Sludge G)

The Saga of the Routemasters

London

The history and rebirth of London's famous double-decker buses

Tolkien under his tree (Photo by Billet Potter)

Lord of the Rings in Oxford

Oxford

How Oxford's spires (and pints in a local pub) helped inspire Tolkien's Middle Earth

Self-portriat of Lewis Carroll, circa 1858 (Photo By Lewis Carroll)

Alice in Wonderland in Oxford

Oxford

The original tea party on an Oxford riverbank inspires a beloved fantasy realm

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