#EAST ANGLIA

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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, visits The Nook in the village of Framlingham Earl, south of Norwich, eastern England on June 25, 2020, which is one of the three East Anglia Children's Hospices. The Duchess is the Royal Patron of the charity which offers care and support for children and young people with life-threatening conditions and their families across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. 

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Fun Facts. 100% verified.

To his close friends, Vlad the Impaler was known as “Palesie”.

Due to a clerical error, the National Book Award was once given to Jonathan Taylor Thomas. 

As per his wishes, Marlon Brando’s ashes were scattered in the parking lot of an Olive Garden restaurant  in Orlando. 

In Boston, the most common movie snack is a bowl of mashed potatoes.

Scientists from East Anglia University approved a motion to rename the Tropic of Cancer “The Tropic of Psoriasis”. 

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Dawn behind Ely Cathedral in East Anglia, England, UK.

The Times

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Wolf Guarding the Head of St Edmund

by Doris Clare Zinkeisen

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Gates to the grounds of Norwich Cathedral, Norfolk, East Anglia, England

(Elliott Brown)

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RED KITE MILVUS MILVUS - North Norfolk.. by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: The red kite is a scavenger bird that was once very rare across the UK and even became extinct in Scotland in the 19th century. Red kites have several characteristics that make them easy to identify. These large birds of prey have a rusty brown body with grey and silver markings on their head. They have long angular wings in the same colour as their body but with darker markings at the tips. When fully extended in flight their wingspan can reach up to a massive 5-6ft depending on the size of the bird. Wings appear to bend backwards in flight and their long tail becomes forked, giving it a triangular appearance.

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Pretty as a postcard: Rose Cottage in Houghton, Cambridgeshire

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I do love living in the countryside sometimes 🌳

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Blicking Hall, Norfolk. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DeFacto

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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge during a visit to The Treehouse in Ipswich, eastern England, on March 19, 2012. The Duchess of Cambridge visited to formally open The Treehouse, a children's hospice service for the counties of Suffolk and Essex. 

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Most of us were taught that the Angles and Saxons moved as pioneer settlers into an abandoned land, whose previous inhabitants had fled or been slain. Many recent excavations reveal a gradual changeover with little apparent effect on the landscape; some-times, as at Rivenhall (Essex), it is not easy to tell at what point the Romano-Britons turned into Anglo-Saxons. The ecological evidence strongly favours continuity. When the curtain is raised by Anglo-Saxon documents, much of what we now regard as the 'classic' English landscape was already there, had already acquired its regional differences, and as far as we can tell was not new. It increasingly seems likely that, at least since the Iron Age, every inch of the British Isles has either belonged to somebody or has been expressly set aside for communal use. Not just main roads but wide areas of fields and lanes are Roman (or earlier) antiquities, and survived the Dark Ages almost intact.

- The History of the Countryside. The classic history of Britain's landscape, flora and fauna

By OLIVER RACKHAM

Woodbridge, Suffolk, England

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Wicken Fen (2) (3) by Maurice Biggins

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The Cross, Ixworth, Suffolk, England

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Ring-necked Pheasant Norfolk Woodland Walk.. by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: Ring-necked Pheasant Phasianus colchicus..Because they live in tall vegetation and old fields, Ring-necked Pheasants can be hard to see even in places where they’re numerous. Keep an eye out for them running between patches of cover as you travel through agricultural areas—particularly along dirt roads where the birds often forage in weedy areas. Winter is a good time to look for Ring-necked Pheasants, when vegetation is at a minimum, crops have been harvested, and some areas have a snowy backdrop for the birds to stand out against. In spring and summer, listen and watch for males performing their calling and wing-flapping display in open areas