ENGLAND

GENERAL FACTS
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, Im student Sirbu Cristina from 6th company,
group 18 at Land Forces Academy Nicolae Blcescu.
The purpose of this speech is to give you some information about some interesting
facts about England.Today I will talk about : initially some really interesting facts that few
people have knowledge on them, bring facts about people, culture and language, history
and monuments, Middle Ages and Renaissance and about 18 th century to present.
England is 74 times smaller than the USA, 59 times smaller than Australia and 3
times smaller than Japan. England is however 2.5 times more populous than Australia, and
1.5 times more populous than California. With 2.5 times less inhabitants than Japan, its
density of population is slightly higher than the country of the rising sun.
The highest temperature ever recorded in England was 38.5C (101.3F ) in
Brogdale, Kent, on 10 August 2003.
English people consume more tea per capita than anybody else in the world (2.5
times more than the Japanese and 22 times more than the Americans or the French).
London used to be the largest and most influential city in the world. With a population of
12 million, it remains the largest city in Europe.
I dont think somebody present here now know that French was the official
language of England for about 300 years, from 1066 till 1362.
One of England's quaintest traditional event is cheese rolling competition in
Brockworth, Gloucestershire. Every year in May people chase Double Gloucester cheese
down the steep Cooper's Hill. The tradition is said to have originated with fertility rites in
Roman times. Other cheese rolling events exist in England, for example at the Uffington
White Horse in Oxfordshire.
The first building in the world to overtake the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt
was Lincoln Cathedral, completed in 1280. Had its spired not been destroyed by a storm in
1549, it would have remained the highest construction ever built in the world until 1884,
when the Washington Monument was erected.
Opened in 1660, the Royal Armouries in the Tower of London is the oldest museum
in the United Kingdom, and one of the oldest in the world (possibly the first in Europe
outside Italy). The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, inaugurated in 1683, was the world's
first university museum.
Champagne was invented in England, not in France. In 1662 scientist Christopher
Merret presented a paper to the Royal Society in London describing how the addition of
sugar and molasses to wine make it brisk and sparkling. This method, now known as
mthode champenoise, was adopted by Dom Prignon over 30 years later to produce the
first sparkling wine in Champagne.

I dont you know that in England the first postage stamps appeared. The first
Penny Post was invented by entrepreneur William Dockwra in the 1680's for delivery of
packets within London. The first nation-wide stamp (and first adhesive stamp) was the
Penny Black, introduced in 1840 as part of Rowland Hill's postal reforms. Because Britain
was the first country to issue national stamps, British stamps still have the unique
distinction of not mentioning the country's name on them.
The custom of afternoon tea was devised in 1840 by Anna Russell, Duchess of
Bedford, who felt the need for an extra meal between lunch and dinner. She began inviting
her friends to join her, and the custom quickly spread around British society and
throughout the British Empire. Britain's first tea room was opened in 1864 by the
Aerated Bread Company at London Bridge.
In this section Ive tryed to give you an idea in words of what England is like through a
series of frequently asked questions.
I hope you dindnt get bored so bad and I believe that all those fact i brought to you were
pretty interesting.
Thank you so much for your attention, and if there is any further questions, please.