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Bartholomew Fair (play)

Bartholomew Fair is a Jacobean comedy in five acts by Ben Jonson. It was first staged on 31 October 1614 at the Hope Theatre by the Lady Elizabeth's Men company. Written four years after The Alchemist, five after Epicœne, or the Silent Woma

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Regent's Park tube station

Regent's Park is a London Underground station. It is 175 m south of Regent's Park. The station is on the Bakerloo line, between Baker Street and Oxford Circus stations. Its access is on Marylebone Road, within Park Crescent. It is the secon

Atlas: natureCambridge9 min

King's College Chapel, Cambridge

King's College Chapel is the chapel of King's College in the University of Cambridge. It is considered one of the finest examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture and features the world's largest fan vault. The Chapel was built in phase

Atlas: natureAcross the UK13 min

Eday

Eday (, Aidee) is one of the islands of Orkney, which are located to the north of the Scottish mainland. One of the North Isles, Eday is about 24 km from the Orkney Mainland. With an area of 27 km2, it is the ninth-largest island of the arc

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Edgeley Park

Edgeley Park is a football stadium in Edgeley, Stockport, England. Built for Stockport RFC, a rugby league club, in 1891, Stockport County Football Club moved in by 1902, a year before the rugby club went defunct. Sale Sharks Rugby Union Cl

Atlas: natureEdinburgh12 min

Edinburgh Zoo

Edinburgh Zoo (Sù Dhùn Èideann), formerly the Scottish National Zoological Park, is an 82 acre non-profit zoological park in the Corstorphine area of Edinburgh, Scotland. The zoo is positioned on the south-facing slopes of Corstorphine Hil

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Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh

The Archdiocese of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh (Archidioecesis Sancti Andreae et Edimburgensis) is an archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in Scotland. It is the metropolitan see of the province of Saint Andrews and Edinbu

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Peak District

The Peak District is an upland area in central-northern England, at the southern end of the Pennines. Mostly in Derbyshire, it extends into Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire. It is subdivided in

Atlas: natureLondon6 min

Lawn Tennis Association

The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) is the national governing body of tennis in Great Britain, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man founded in 1888. The LTA promotes all levels of lawn tennis. The organisation believes tennis can provide

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Moray Firth

The Moray Firth (; An Cuan Moireach, Linne Mhoireibh or Caolas Mhoireibh) is a roughly triangular inlet (or firth) of the North Sea, north and east of Inverness, which is in the Highland council area of the north of Scotland. It is the lar

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Tyburn

Tyburn was a manor (estate) in London, Middlesex, England, one of two which were served by the parish of Marylebone. Tyburn took its name from the Tyburn Brook, a tributary of the River Westbourne. The name Tyburn, from Teo Bourne, means 'b

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Red Lady of Paviland

The Red "Lady" of Paviland ("Dynes" Goch Pafiland) is an Upper Paleolithic partial male skeleton dyed in red ochre and buried in Wales approximately 34,000 years Before Present (approximately 32,000 BCE). The bones were discovered in 1823 b