Portal:England/Did you know/10 2008


 * ... that the Corpus Clock (pictured), a large, sculptural clock at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge featuring the world's largest grasshopper escapement, is entirely accurate only once every five minutes?
 * ... that The Mock Tempest was a 1674 parody of Dryden and Davenant's adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest?
 * ... that the Swaminarayan Temple in the London suburb of Willesden is in a converted church?
 * ... that Sir Michael Sachs was the first English solicitor to become a High Court judge, appointed in 1993?
 * ... that although William Hogarth painted his March of the Guards to Finchley as a gift for George II, the King took great offence at the artwork and refused to keep it?