On a sunny summer's afternoon such as
this, it is good to reflect on this thought.
Britain has given much to the world. Shakespeare, Wodehouse, Adams, Dryden, Pope, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, George Eliot, Smollet, Austen, Laurie Lee, Byron and many more in the field of literature.
The steam engine, antibiotics, the computer, television, clean drinking water, railways, immunization, antiseptic surgery, anaesthetics, moving pictures and many, many more important technological advances.
Britain has given much to the world. Shakespeare, Wodehouse, Adams, Dryden, Pope, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, George Eliot, Smollet, Austen, Laurie Lee, Byron and many more in the field of literature.
The steam engine, antibiotics, the computer, television, clean drinking water, railways, immunization, antiseptic surgery, anaesthetics, moving pictures and many, many more important technological advances.
The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Who,
Clash, Led Zeppelin, Kinks, David Bowie, Elton John and too many
giants of popular music to count, as well as Elgar, Vaughan Williams,
Purcell, Britten, Tallis and others in the field of classical
music.
In sport we have given the world tennis, football, rugby, golf and several other sports that the rest of the world can now beat us at.
In sport we have given the world tennis, football, rugby, golf and several other sports that the rest of the world can now beat us at.
Socio-culturally, Britain led the
western world in the abolitions of slavery and child labour, prison
reform, socialized medicine, unions, invented parliamentary democracy and
established a legal code which is the model for almost every other
country.
A country the size of Oregon, we have
produced 89 Nobel laureates, from Appleton to Wilson, the BBC and the
great marvel of art and communication which is the English language.
I could go on, but I'm sure you get my drift.
However, as the smell of barbecue smoke drifts lazily through the dappled sunlight under the oak tree where I sit in my deck chair, it is obvious to that there is one gift from us to the world which rises above all others, and indeed, if this were the only thing this sceptered isle had ever produced would make us worthy of the cognomen Great Britain.
Pimms.
Thank you, Britain.
However, as the smell of barbecue smoke drifts lazily through the dappled sunlight under the oak tree where I sit in my deck chair, it is obvious to that there is one gift from us to the world which rises above all others, and indeed, if this were the only thing this sceptered isle had ever produced would make us worthy of the cognomen Great Britain.
Pimms.
Thank you, Britain.
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