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Friday 10 April 2009
WILT
Apparantly you learn something new everyday. What I Learnt Today was the personification for the United Kingdom: John Bull - and what's more Mr. Bull is far older than Uncle Sam. Other terms for the UK include: Albion (the oldest name for the island), Brittania and the well known Great Britian and The British Isles. One does wonder why a single country (or four) requires such an array of names.
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