England
#1. The population of England is 56 million.
#2. They grow wheat, oats, potatoes, and beets.
#3. Wellington boots are like rubber boots.
#4. They also use them in a sport called welly wanging, where they compete to see who can throw their boots the furthest.
#5. Mr. Bean live’s in England.
#6. Mother Shipton’s Dropping well is in England.
#7. The water drips on objects in the well and turn’s them into stone.
#8. People used to think it was magic, but now we know it’s from minerals in the water.
#9. England is much smaller than Canada but it also has more people.
#10. Alnwick Castle is in England.
#11. It was used as Hogwarts in two of the Harry Potter movie’s.
#11. Harry Potter live’s in England.
#12. William Shakespeare wrote plays almost 500 years ago.
#13. The Lion King was based on a play that Shakespeare wrote a long time ago.
#14. Shakespeare’s plays have been translated into over 100 languages, including Klingon, a made up language from Star Trek.
#15. Many of Shakespeare’s plays were first performed at the Globe Theatre.
#16. It burnt down in 1613 but they rebuilt it in 1997.
#17. London is the biggest city in Europe.
#18. Over 9 million people live there.
#19. Big Ben is a clock tower in London, England.
#20. It was built in 1843.
#21. The bell inside it chimes every 15 minutes.
#22. One time a flock of starlings landed on Big Ben’s minute hand & slowed the clock down by 5 minutes.
#23. As the ground shifts, Big Ben has started tilting, but it won’t be a problem for a few thousand years.
#24. Over 500 years ago (that’s a long time!), knights helped protect the land and fought in battles.
#25. Knight’s wore metal armour to protect themselves, but it all looked the same, so they had coats of arms to tell each other apart.
#26. Coat of arms comes from the word surcoat.
#27. Surcoats were a tunic that knights wore over their armour to protect it.
#28. NO two coats of arms can be the same.
#29. Alice is from England.
#30. Peppa Pig is from England.
#31. Harry Potter is from England.
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