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England is the origin of the English language, the English legal system (which served as the basis for the common law systems of many other countries), association football, and the Anglican branch of Christianity; its parliamentary system of government has been widely adopted by other nations. [10]
In 2020, the Lonely Planet travel guide rated England as the second best country to visit that year, after Bhutan. [52] The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts and Heritage is the minister with responsibility over tourism in England, including museums, art galleries, public libraries and the National Archives. [53]
The UK was at the forefront of the illegal, free rave movement from the late 1980s, which led to pan-European culture of teknivals mirrored on the British free festival movement and associated travelling lifestyle. [85] The most prominent opera house in England is the Royal Opera House at Covent Gardens. [86]
Images of England was a stand-alone project funded jointly by English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund.The aim of the project was to photograph every listed building and object (some 370,000) in England and to make the images available online to create, what was at the time, one of the largest free-to-view picture libraries of buildings in the world.
Sterling was the 2nd best-performing G10 currency against the dollar in 2023 with a gain of about 5%, with only the Swiss franc performing better. [261] [262] London is the world capital for foreign exchange trading, with a market share of 38.1% in 2022 [263] of the daily $7.5 trillion global turnover. [264]
Census Bureau data cited by LLC.org found that more than 10.6 million seniors were employed nationwide as of 2022, the most recent data available. That was up from about 6.1 million in 2010. That ...
England, as part of the UK, joined the European Economic Community in 1973, which became the European Union in 1993. The UK left the EU in 2020. There is a movement in England to create a devolved English Parliament. This would give England a local Parliament like those already functioning for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
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