Red Phone Box

At the botton of this page you can see a list of images of Great Britain I like so much. In one of them there is a phone box, a red phone box, one of those items that instantly marked the nation's identity to overseas visitors.
But what do you know about it? and since so many of us have mobile phones now, could we be forgiven for hardly noticing?
If you want to discover its history try on the left "Undertstanding them" section Icons at a glance.

How to Curse without Cursing

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"Basic Instructions" is a comic strip. Any advice contained herein is intended as humor, and should not be followed as actual instructions or advice.

What's on? Elisabeth: The Golden Age

Elisabeth: The Golden Age a historical thriller documenting Queen Elizabeth I's reign, is filmed and set in a number of locations around the country, if you want to enjoy these places click the link and walk around the same places this Queen lived or enter the film website straight away where you can enjoy trailers, images, audio and much more.

Why Should We Learn a Foreign Language? II

Thanksgiving Day and US President Pardon

The first Thanksgiving feast was celebrated by the pilgrims of the Plymouth colony and about 90 Wampanoag Indians in 1621. The pilgrims had survived a devastating winter in which nearly half had died. Without the help of the Indians, all would have perished.
After the first harvest, Governor William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving and prayer to God. The food, which was eaten outdoors, included corn, goose, turkey, duck, eel, clams, leeks, plums, cod, bass, barley, venison and corn bread. The feast lasted 3 days.
George Washington proclaimed the first national day of Thanksgiving and it is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.

Nowadays turkeys win Thanksgiving pardon from US presidents and you can see George W Bush's on that day:




And what do you know about it?
Try the Thanksgiving Quiz Trivial