Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/November 2006

... that Fowlsheugh cliffs (pictured) attract 170,000 breeding seabirds annually, and may be one of the few nature reserves with more vertical than horizontal land area?
...that a fielder in cricket may only alter the ball condition by removing mud, drying or polishing it without use of an artificial substance, else he is guilty of ball tampering?
...that Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A. D. 1803 (1874) by Dorothy Wordsworth—her "masterpiece"—was never published in her lifetime?
...that Gibbon's Tennis Court, a Tudor-style real tennis court converted into a theatre in 1660, was home to one of the earliest appearances by a professional actress in England?

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