Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/July 2008

... that pteridomania is the Victorian era craze for fern collecting (shown) and fern motifs in decorative art?
...that the inscription on the bottom of William Hogarth's Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse was altered 4 times between 1758 and 1764?
... that the English Riviera Geopark in Torbay, United Kingdom is the world's only urban Geopark?
... that an eye of Edward Oldcorne, who was tortured to reveal his part in the Gunpowder Plot, is kept as a holy relic?

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