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Hi! Here is some interesting stuff about Britain and around (culture, language, personalities and etc)
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@curiousbritain : King Henry VIII and his wives - oh, that's a puzzled and such a complicated story. Do you want to know one more complication? The divorce with Catherine of Aragon didn't go well and easy, but Anne Boleyn was already pregnant. Henry couldn't wait the divorce papers because he could loose a potential heir of his throne. So Anne and he tied the knot before Henry was officially free. In the nutshell, it means he was a bigamist for some time. No judge just a fact. #england #britain #history #tudor

@curiousbritain : Two in one time

@curiousbritain : London Underground is a union of private companies and it was in this way all time. For example, the first line belonged to two companies: Metropolitan Line and District Line. And these companies didn't have some stations or parts of line, no: one of them managed the clockwise direction, another one - the anti-clockwise direction. And this separation means two different ticket offices: each one for each direction. Help God if you messed them up! The marks of this complicated situation are stil

@curiousbritain : The unexpected journey in the Tube

@curiousbritain : Women at Second World War They worked hard, they played hard. They would go to the cinema, there would always be dances on Saturdays, women were very much in demand at the local Army barracks. there’s a lots of nice accounts, where women talk about wearing a bit of lipstick, wearing non-regulation underwear because nobody’s going to notice they’re not wearing their khaki pants. So there are opportunities for these women to individualise the muddy green/dull uniform. There was a slogan that beau

@curiousbritain : Beauty is a duty too

@curiousbritain : Browsing is a word from the Victorians. Before this time if the customer stepped in the stop, he was expected to buy something. But it was changed. Browsing was born — looking at the goods without feeling that you had a compunction to buy them. Nowadays we’re all brilliant at browsing, aren’t we? #english #history #words

@curiousbritain : Invention of browsing