Culture

Do You Know That

... every year, in summer, thousand of folk music fans arrive in Cambridge for one of the biggest festivals of folk music in England? The festival is held in the grounds of an old house, where there is plenty of room for people to put up their tents if they want to stay overnight.
... Walter Scott's Monument in Edinburgh is a graceful Gothic spire 200 ft high which stands in one of Edinburgh’s central streets, Princes Street?
... the Irish National Gallery is one of world's important collections?
... there are over thirty theatres within a square mile in the centre of London?
... Britain's Polite Society, formed in 1987 to encourage good manners,has named the English town of Shrewsbury, near the Welsh border, and the village of Newton Steward, in Scotland, as the politest places in Britain?
... animals are the subject of art in many societies? In London, the British Museum has a really comprehensive collection of paintintings,drawings, sculptures, photographs of animals as man's friends and helpers. The aim of the exhibitions is to make people think about the need to save wild animals.
... Regent's Park, which was originally a hunting park, is now the home of London Zoo and an open air theatre which delights people with performances of Shakespeare's plays in summer? …