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Harry Mount's How England Made the English: From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours is packed with astonishing facts and wonderful stories.Q. Why are English train seats so narrow?A. It's all the Romans' fault. The first Victorian trains were built to the same width as horse-drawn wagons; and they were designed to fit the ruts left in the roads by Roman chariots.For readers of Paxman's The English, Bryson's Notes on a Small Island and Fox's Watching the English, this intriguing and witty book explains how our national characteristics - our sense of humour, our hobbies, our favourite foods and our behaviour with the opposite sex - are all defined by our nation's extraordinary geography, geology, climate and weather.You will learn how we would be as freezing cold as Siberia without the Gulf Stream; why we drive on the left-hand side of the road; why the Midlands became the home of the British curry. It identifies the materials that make England, too: the faint pink Aberdeen granite of kerbstones; that precise English mix of air temperature, smell and light that hits you the moment you touch down at Heathrow.
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Those endless afternoons where you struggled to remember the third person singular present indicative may be long gone, but if you still have the vaguest memory, your mastery of Latin will spring back to life. Harry Mount uncorks its magic using authors such as Kingsley Amis, John Cleese and Evelyn Waugh.
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Harry Mount veegt het stof van al die saaie schoolboeken en blaast nieuw leven in de grootste taal van allemaal. In deze spannende gids Latijn komt van alles voorbij. De tattoo's van Angelina Jolie, David Beckham en Mel Gibson. De lesjes grammatica in The Life of Brian en Harry Potter. De beste stukken proza en poëzie uit tweeduizend jaar literaire geschiedenis. (Bron: covertekst)
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History --- Art --- Regional documentation --- topography [image-making] --- travelogs --- Reynolds, Sir Joshua --- Flanders --- Netherlands --- Painting, Dutch --- Painting, Flemish --- Peinture hollandaise --- Peinture flamande --- Early works to 1800 --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Reynolds, Joshua, --- Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792 --- Journeys --- Voyages --- Flandres --- Pays-Bas --- Description and travel --- Descriptions et voyages --- Vlaanderen --- 75 <491.9> --- 949.19.02 --- Painting, Dutch. --- Painting, Flemish. --- Flemish painting --- Dutch painting --- Schilderkunst--De Nederlanden. Benelux --- Geschiedenis van de Nederlanden:--Nieuwe Tijd (16de-18de eeuw) --- Reynolds, Joshua Sir --- -Reynolds, Joshua Sir --- -Travel --- -Flanders --- -Netherlands --- Description and travel. --- 949.19.02 Geschiedenis van de Nederlanden:--Nieuwe Tijd (16de-18de eeuw) --- 75 <491.9> Schilderkunst--De Nederlanden. Benelux --- Travel --- The Netherlands --- Países Baixos --- Holland --- Spanish Netherlands --- Pays-Bas espagnols --- Austrian Netherlands --- Pays-Bas autrichiens --- Oostenrijkse Nederlanden --- Southern Netherlands --- Pays-Bas méridionaux --- Zuidelijke Nederlanden --- Niderlandy --- Belanda --- Nederland --- Koninkrijk der Nederlanden --- Reino dos Países Baixos --- Royaume des Pays-Bas --- Kingdom of the Netherlands --- Países Bajos --- Holanda --- Nederlân --- Hulanda --- Beulanda --- Niderland --- Niderlande --- هولندا --- مملكة هولندا --- Mamlakat Hūlandā --- Olanda --- Payis-Bâs --- Países Baxos --- Aynacha Jach'a Markanaka --- Nirlan --- Niderland Krallığı --- Kē-tē-kok --- Landa --- Kerajaan Landa --- Нидерландтар --- Niderlandtar --- Нидерландтар Короллеге --- Niderlandtar Korollege --- Нідэрланды --- Каралеўства Нідэрланды --- Karaleŭstva Nidėrlandy --- Nederlands --- Niadaland --- Holandija --- Kraljevina Holandija --- Izelvroioù --- Нидерландия --- Niderlandii︠a︡ --- Кралство Нидерландия --- Kralstvo Niderlandii︠a︡ --- Països Baixos --- Нидерландсем --- Niderlandsem --- Нидерландсен Патшалăхĕ --- Niderlandsen Patshalăkhĕ --- Nizozemsko --- Paesi Bassi --- Regnu di i Paesi Bassi --- Iseldiroedd --- Nederlandene --- Niederlande --- Kéyah Wóyahgo Siʼánígíí --- Nižozemska --- Kralojstwo Nederlandow --- Madalmaad --- Ολλανδία --- Ollandia --- Hollandia --- Κάτω Χώρες --- Katō Chōres --- Βασίλειο των Κάτω Χωρών --- Vasileio tōn Katō Chōrōn --- Nederlando --- Reĝlando Nederlando --- Paisis Bajus --- Herbehereak --- Herbehereetako Erresumaren --- هلند --- Huland --- Niðurlond --- Háland --- Paîs Bas --- Neerlande --- Ísiltír --- Ríocht na hÍsiltíre --- Çheer Injil --- Çheer y Vagheragh --- Reeriaght ny Çheer Injil --- Tìrean Ìsle --- Hò-làn --- Недерлендин Нутг --- Nederlendin Nutg --- 네덜란드 --- Nedŏllandŭ --- Hōlani --- Nederlandia --- Pais Basse --- Regno del Paises Basse --- Нидерландтæ --- Niderlandtæ --- Нидерландты Къаролад --- Niderlandty Kʺarolad --- Konungsríkið Holland --- הולנד --- Holand --- ממלכת ארצות השפלה --- Mamlekhet Artsot ha-Shefelah --- Walanda --- Hollandi --- Нидерландла --- Niderlandla --- Нидерландланы Королевствосу --- Niderlandlany Korolevstvosu --- Néderlandzkô --- Нидерланд --- Iseldiryow --- Ubuholandi --- Ubuhorandi --- Nederilande --- Нидерланддар --- Niderlanddar --- Uholanzi --- Ufalme wa Nchi za Chini --- Нидерландъяс --- Niderlandʺi︠a︡s --- Нидерландъяс Корольув --- Niderlandʺi︠a︡s Korolʹuv --- Peyiba --- Holenda --- Keyatiya Nederlandan --- Payises Bashos --- פאייסיס באשוס --- Nīderlandeja --- Batavia --- Regni Nederlandiarum --- Nīderlandes Karaliste --- Nyderlandai --- Nyderlandų Karalystė --- Paixi Basci --- Paes Bass --- Ulanda --- Holland Királyság --- Keninkryk fan 'e Nederlannen --- Reino di Hulanda --- Холандија --- Кралство Холандија --- Kralstvo Holandija --- Pajjiżi l-Baxxi --- Hōrana --- Недерлатт --- Nederlatt --- Оцязорксши Недерлатт --- Ot︠s︡i︠a︡zorksshi Nederlatt --- Нидерландын Вант Улс --- Niderlandyn Vant Uls --- Tlanitlālpan --- Huēyitlahtohcāyōtl in Tlanitlālpan --- Eben Eyong --- Nederlaand --- オランダ --- Oranda --- オランダ王国 --- Oranda Ōkoku --- Ulanna --- Nethiland --- Nederlande --- Holandska --- Holland (Kingdom) --- Batavian Republic --- United Provinces of the Netherlands --- Reynolds, Joshua, Sir --- Painting [Flemish ] --- Painting [Dutch ] --- Flanders (County) --- Facsimiles --- Reynolds, Joshua, - Sir, - 1723-1792 - Journeys - Flanders. --- Reynolds, Joshua, - Sir, - 1723-1792 - Journeys - Netherlands. --- Painting, Flemish - Early works to 1800. --- Painting, Dutch - Early works to 1800. --- Flanders - Description and travel - Early works to 1800. --- Netherlands - Description and travel - Early works to 1800. --- travelog [performed works genre] --- Hollandse school --- kunstliteratuur --- Vlaamse school --- Reynolds, Joshua
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dagelijks leven --- Wilkie, David --- Teniers, David (II) --- Painting, Scottish --- CDL --- 75.071 WILKIE --- Scottish painting --- Scottish Colourists (Group of artists) --- Wilkie, David, --- Wilkie, David. --- Teniers, David II. --- Teniers, David II
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