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The Cornish flag,st. pirrans flag, a white cross on a black background is often seen in cornwall. The Duchy shield of gold bezants on a black field is also used. Because of these two symbols black,white and gold are considered colours symbolic of cornwall. The chough (in cornish palores) is also used as a symbol of Cornwall. In cornish poetry the chough is used to symbolise the spirit of cornwall. Also there is a cornish belief that king arthur lives in the form of a chough. "Chough" ...

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Cornwall is famous for its pasties (a type of pie often containing meat), but saffron buns, Cornish Heavy (Hevva) Cake, Cornish fairings (biscuit), Cornish fudge and Cornish ice cream are also common. Cornwall with the South West shares clotted cream and many types of cider. There are also many types of beers brewed in Cornwall including a stout and there is some small scale production of wine. ...

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Main article: Politics of the United Kingdom, Government of England Since the promulgation of the 1284 Statute of Rhuddlan and the Laws in Wales Acts 1535-1542, Wales has shared a legal identity with England as the joint entity of England and Wales. The Act of Union with the Kingdom of Scotland in 1707 created the Kingdom of Great Britain, subsuming England, Wales and Scotland into a single political entity. Scotland, along with Northern Ireland, retain separate legal systems. The duchies of Cornwall and Lanca ...

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Main article: Subdivisions of England Historically, the highest level of local government in England was the county. These divisions had emerged from a range of units of old, pre-unification England, whether they were Kingdoms, such as Essex and Sussex; Duchies, such as Yorkshire, Cornwall and Lancashire or simply tracts of land given to some noble, as is the case with Berkshire. Until 1867, they were subdivided ...

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A Celtic cross combines the cross with a ring surrounding the intersection. It is the characteristic symbol of Celtic Christianity, though it may have older, pre-Christian origins. Celtic cross - Origins. In Celtic regions of Britain and Ireland many free-standing upright crosses – or high crosses – were erected, beginning at least as early as the 8th Century. Some of these 'Celtic' crosses bear inscriptions in runes. There are surviving free-standing crosses in Cornwall and Wales, in the island ... Including:

• Celtic cross - Origins
• Celtic cross - Political symbol

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In the 20th century a conscious effort was made to revive Cornish as a language for everyday use in speech and writing (see below for further details about the dialects of modern Cornish). It is estimated that there are now approximately 3,500 speakers of Cornish (about 0.7% of the Cornish population) and 300-400 fluent speakers (about 0.07%). It is estimated that in excess of 5,000 more have some knowledge of basic phrases or could understand basic sentences. A few people under the age of 30 have been brought up speaking it. Cornish ...

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George's desire to create music targeted to a more sophisticated audience than the duo's primarily teenage fan-base, led to George and Andrew announcing the break-up of Wham! in 1986, destined to take place after a farewell single and album, and a grand finale concert at Wembley Stadium. The single was The Edge Of Heaven (later flip-sided with Where Did Your Heart Go?) which reached #1 in June 1986. The album was called The Final, and the two duly said goodbye to their audience - 100,000 of whom attended the 8-hour event ...

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The Cornish language (in Cornish: Kernowek, Kernewek, Curnoack) is one of the Brythonic group of Celtic languages that includes Welsh, Breton, the extinct Cumbric and perhaps the hypothetical Ivernic. The Celtic languages of Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Manx are part of the separate Goidelic group. Cornish shares about 80% basic vocabulary with Breton, 75% with Welsh, 35% with Irish, and 35% with Scottish Gaelic. By comparison, Welsh shares about 70% with Breton. The language died out in the late 18th century, and w ... Including:

• Cornish language - History
• Cornish language - Revival
• Cornish language - Current status
• Cornish language - Culture
• Cornish language - European recognition
• Cornish language - Sounds
• Cornish language - The consonants of Revived Cornish
• Cornish language - The vowels of Revived Cornish
• Cornish language - Grammar
• Cornish language - Dialects
• Cornish language - Examples

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English people - Contribution to humanity. The English have played a significant role in the development of the arts and sciences. Prominent individuals have included the scientists and inventors Isaac Newton, Francis Crick, Abraham Darby, Michael Faraday, Charles Darwin, Frank Whittle and Tim Berners-Lee; the poet and playwright William Shakespeare, the novelists Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and George Orwell, the composer Gustav Holst, and the explorer James Cook (for a complete list of famous English people se ...

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In April 1985 Wham! took a break from recording to embark on an enormous world tour which included a groundbreaking 10-day visit to China. The China excursion was a masterful publicity scheme devised by one of their two managers Simon Napier-Bell and it culminated in a concert at the Worker's Gymnasium in Beijing in front of 10,000 people. The visit to China was the first-ever tour of that country by Western pop musicians. Film producer Martin Lewis and director Lindsay Anderson documented the 10- ...

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The impact of Wham! on the public, especially teenage girls, was felt from the moment they finished their debut performance of Young Guns (Go For It) on Top Of The Pops. George's appearance helped; already a classically good-looking teenager, he wore espadrilles, a suede jacket slit open and rolled-up denim jeans. As he took the foreground, Andrew stood behind him, either side of backing singers D.C. Lee and Shirlie Holliman and the performance was as much one of acting as it was of singing (or miming, in truth), with George pl ...

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Wham! returned in May 1984 with a more presentable image. The moody look in leather jackets had been replaced by smiles, coloured clothing and an aim to promote themselves more as sex symbols rather than spokespeople for a disaffected generation. Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, a song George wrote from a note left to him in his hotel room one night by Andrew, became their first UK #1 (it also got to the top in the USA) and was capped by a memorable video of the duo, plus the ubiquitous Pepsi and Shirlie, wearing Katharine Hamnett T-shirt ...

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Wham! - Albums. 1983 Fantastic #1 UK, #83 US 1984 Make It Big #1 UK, #1 US 1986 Music From The Edge of Heaven #10 US 1986 The Final (compilation) #2 UK 1997 If You Were There (The Best of Wham)(compilation) #4 UK Wham! - Hit singles. from Fantastic! 1982 Young Guns (Go For It!) #3 UK 1983 Wham Rap #8 UK 1983 Bad Boys #2 UK 198 ...

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