Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/July 2008




 * ... that pteridomania is the Victorian era craze for fern collecting (shown) and fern motifs in decorative art?
 * ...that the inscription on the bottom of William Hogarth's Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse was altered 4 times between 1758 and 1764?
 * ... that the English Riviera Geopark in Torbay, United Kingdom is the world's only urban Geopark?
 * ... that an eye of Edward Oldcorne, who was tortured to reveal his part in the Gunpowder Plot, is kept as a holy relic?