Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/October 2006


 * ...that Banks' Florilegium is a series of 743 engravings of plants collected by Joseph Banks (pictured) and Daniel Solander on Cook's Pacific voyage between 1768 and 1771?
 * ...that the Royal West of England Academy housed the Bristol Aeroplane Company and the U.S. Army during World War II?
 * ...that the 2003 British Grand Prix was disrupted when defrocked Catholic priest Neil Horan ran into the path of the oncoming cars?
 * ...that Portlethen Moss is an acidic bog that played a role in stopping the Roman advance in Scotland and whose traversal was used in the Bishops' Wars?