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Today, July 17, is the birthday of the Queen of the United Kingdom/Northern Ireland, Camilla. Camilla Rosemary Shand was born and raised in East Sussex. She is no stranger to the spotlight and controversies. In 1973 she married British Army officer, Andrew Parker Bowles, becoming Camilla Parker Bowles. They divorced in 1995. In 1986, Camilla…

Kent (Ancient Greek: Κάντιον, romanized: Kántion) is a ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surreyto the west, and Greater London to the north-west. The county has an area of 3,544 square kilometres (1,368 sq mi) and had population of 1,875,893 in 2022, making it the fifth most populous county in England.…

Saint Helena is one of the three constituent parts of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, a remote British overseas territory. The British Overseas Territories (BOTs) or alternatively referred to as the United Kingdom Overseas Territories (UKOTs) are the fourteen territories with a constitutional and historical link with the United Kingdom that, while not forming part of the United Kingdom itself, are part of its…

Thank you AEG and VetTix for a wonderful evening at Fiddler’s Green with The Blind Boys of Alabama and Lyle Lovett and his LARGE Band. Bonus:

Wiltshire (/ˈwɪlt.ʃər, -ʃɪr/ abbreviated to Wilts) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It borders Gloucestershireto the north, Oxfordshire to the north-east, Berkshire to the east, Hampshire to the south-east and south, Dorset to the south, and Somerset to the west. The largest settlement is Swindon, and Trowbridge is the county town. Undulating chalk down lands characterize much of the county. Downland, chalkland, chalk downs or just downs are areas of open chalkhills, such as the North Downs. This term is used to…

Today marks the 75th time i have traveled around the sun. It is my birthday so I fly the flag of our namesake: Flanders. It is the Dutch speaking northern portion of Belgium. It is ‘Vlaandeeren’ in Dutch; ‘Flandre’ in French and ‘Flandern’ in German. The capital is The City of Brussels. It is not…

The Republic of Kiribati, an independent island nation composed of islands, atolls and coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean. Kiribati is another place where despite there being humans there for thousands of years, once England found it to be of strategic importance it well…took it. It was a good port to stop at while in…

The National Flag of the United Kingdom. Also known as ‘The Union Flag’ or ‘The Union Jack’ “The Union Jack is a composite flag made up of the flags of three of the UK’s four constituent countries: the red and white cross of Saint George (England), the white X-shaped cross of Saint Andrew (Scotland), and…

“Nunavut is the largest and northernmost territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, which provided this territory to the Inuit for self-government. The boundaries had been drawn in 1993. The creation of Nunavut resulted in the first major change to Canada’s political map in half a century…