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Tintagel Castle is a now-ruined medieval-era creation located on the small peninsula of Tintagel Island, in north Cornwall. Its location is famed as the legendary birthplace of King Arthur, and the 13th-century castle that stood here was built several centuries after his supposed reign, in honour of the mythic British hero king.
Perhaps now better known for their North American relatives, beavers are actually native to mainland Britain. But these industrious herbivores were hunted to extinction in the 16th century by people who wanted their fur, meat and scent glands.
The first electric kettle was actually developed in the United States, but the idea was perfected in Birmingham by the creation of an innovative way of placing the heating element in the water.
Point Lynas Lighthouse on the north coast of Anglesey in North Wales was built in 1835, replacing a lighted pilots’ lookout established in 1766.
Douglas Adams was an English author and humourist, best known for the BBC radio comedy series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", which first aired in 1978, and introduced listeners to the awful possibility that any advanced galactic civilisation would be just as absurd and incompetent as late twentieth century Britain.
The Iceni or Eceni were a tribe of eastern Britain during the Iron Age and early Roman era. Their territory included present-day Norfolk and parts of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, in what became East Anglia. They were a significant power in eastern Britain during Claudius' conquest of Britain in AD 43, in which they initially allied with Rome - whose subsequent increasing influence resulted in a revolt in AD 47.
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