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| Themes |
Famous
People |
National
Parks |
| Actors/Actresses
and Directors |
Nobel
Prize Winners |
| Genealogy |
| Anglo-Saxons
and Danes |
Heritage
and Nature |
Places
of Interest |
| Areas
of Outstanding Natural Beauty |
Historic
Events |
Prime
Ministers |
| Artists
and Architects |
Inventors
and Scientists |
Royal
Consorts and Heirs |
| Composers |
Maps
and Documents |
World
Heritage Sites |
| Explorers
and Adventurers |
Monarchs |
Writers
and Poets |
| Channel
Islands |
The
islands lie in the English Channel off the western coast of France
and include Guernsey, Jersey, Sark, Alderney, Herm and the smaller
islets of Brechou, Jethou and Lihou.
After
the Norman
Conquest in 1066 the then French controlled
islands became part of England when their ruler, the Duke of Normandy,
became William
I. Whilst all other Norman possessions in France were lost over
the following centuries, the Channel Islands are the only part to
have stayed as British territory.
Norman Conquest |
| Writers
and Poets |
The
naturalist and writer Gerald
Durrell died on the island of Jersey in 1995. He combined
his interests of zoology and writing to pubish many autobiographical
books on his experiences with wildlife and nature including My
Family and Other Animals about his childhood on Corfu. He founded
a series of institutions on Jersey, including the island's zoo, to
encourage the protection and preservation of wildlife and the conservation
of nature.
Gerald
Durrell
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