Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/April 2008
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- ...that Chorley Old Hall, the oldest inhabited country house in Cheshire, consists of two ranges, one medieval (c.1300) (pictured), the other Elizabethan (mid-16th century)?
- ...that Edward Cocker's Arithmetick was such a popular textbook of mathematics that over 100 editions were published over a period of more than a century?
- ...that Scottish footballer John Cushley was a modern languages graduate, who acted as a Spanish translator when Celtic F.C. attempted to sign Real Madrid striker Alfredo Di Stéfano in 1964?