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Politics of England
Respect and a Kidderminster Hospital campaigner.

Subdivisions and local government
powers of the Scottish Parliament.

Major rivers
England has a number of important rivers including the Severn (the longest river and largest river basin in Great Britain), Tees, Thames, Trent, Humber, Tyne, Wear, Ribble, Ouse, Mersey, Dee, Aire, Avon and Medway.

Literature
[[Image:Shakespeare.jpg|thumb|upright|right|[[William Shakespeare]],

Science and philosophy
Prominent English figures from the field of science and mathematics include Sir Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, Joseph Priestley, J. J. Thomson, Charles Babbage, Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawking, Christopher Wren, Alan Turing, Francis Crick, Joseph Lister, Tim Berners-Lee, Andrew Wiles and Richard Dawkins. Some experts claim that the earliest concept of a Metric system was invented by John Wilkins, first secretary of the Royal Society in 1668.

England played a major role in the development of Western philosophy, particularly during the Enlightenment. Jeremy Bentham, leader of the Philosophical Radicals influenced the development of English Law and of socialism.

Tran
The government department overseeing transport is the Department for Transport.

Nomenclature
The country is named after the Angles, one of several

National symbols, insignia and anthems
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Rose
The Tudor rose is the national floral emblem of England, and was adopted as a national emblem of England around the time of the Wars of the Roses.

Anthem
England does not have an official designated national anthem, as the United Kingdom as a whole has "God Save the Queen"