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=European Nation Profile=

=The United Kingdom =

The United Kingdom is a small nation in Western Europe with a history of it's own. It's shown great skill in soccer, especially for their triple crown winners, Manchester United. The U.K. hastoc shown astonishing work in it's arts, including known artists The Beatles. The U.K. is located in Western Europe and is separated from France by the English Channel. The nation's official name is the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland. London is it's capital and it's located in southwestern England. The United Kingdom is an interesting, artistic, and outstanding nation.

Recreation
The United Kingdom is known for it's arts, history, and especially it's soccer. Manchester United is one of the many soccer teams in the United Kingdom. Manchester United includes players such as Wayne Rooney, Rafael, Nani, Anders Lindegaard, Fabio, Joshua King, and many more. Manchester United are the third soccer team to win a triple crown. They've won cup titles, the Champion League final, and their leage championship. Wayne Rooney is one of their many players on the team. Rooney is number 10, age 25, and is a forward on Manchester United. He was born in Croxteth, which is located in Liverpool. At age 16, Rooney became the youngest player ever to score in the Premiership. Later on he joined Manchester United from his former team Everton, which he signed to at age 11. Rooney has been playing ever since. == Food==

The United Kingdom is known for it's traditional tea time during the day. So that means the British have four meals a day, breakfast, lunch, tea, and dinner. A traditionally breakfast would include eggs, sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes, and toasted bread. Orange Marmalade usually is put on the toast. Tea added with sugar and milk would be served as a beverage. This is a usual breakfast for a Brisitsh man, woman, or child. The British's ususally tea time would take place around 4 p.m. including sandwiches, cakes, chocoaltes, or fruit. But the biggest meal of the week is Sunday Lunch. Sunday Lunch is served around the afternoon and includes roast beef, lamb, or pork. Vegetables often in a casserole or with sauce, such as Cauliflower Cheese, potatoes, and other sides. That's a traditionally Sunday Lunch in the United Kingdom. All over the United Kingdom in Liverpool, Manchester, and many other cities, you can find the most delicious desserts. One of those desserts includes a trifle. A trifle is layers of sponge cake alternated with custard, jam or fruit. It include whipped cream and sometimes the sponge cake is soaked in alcohol for different occasions. There are many other desserts including spotted dick, steam suet pudding containing dried fruit surrounded by custard or butter, apple crumble ( also known as apple crisp) usually served with icecream, and other recipes like mincemeat pie. The British refer to any desser as puddingt, actual pudding or not. Including words as fish and chips, chips refer to french fries, also in apple crumble, crumble refers to crisp. These are some of the most delicious desserts served all around the United Kingdom.

Arts
The United Kingdom is known for it's amazing artistic abilities. Many musicians, artists, poets, and so on have came from the United Kingdom. David Bowie was a musician. David Bowie also worked on being an actor also, his genre was rock. The Beatles were a huge band in the mid-1960s. The Beatles included drummer Ringo Starr, bass player George Harrison, and vocalists/guitarists Paul McCartney and John Lennon. The Beatles had huge hits including All You Need is Love, Something, We Can Work it Out, Here Comes the Sun, Hello Goodbye, Yesterday, Hey Jude, and so many more. The Beatles made a huge artistic movement in the nation. It introduced a new rock n roll feel to music, their genre was rock but they tried to use every style of music possible. But sadly The Beatles later broke up after their amazing music career in the December of 1970. When Paul McCartney filed a law suit against John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr to dissolve The Beatles. By then the Beatles hadn't recorded any music together in more than a year. They all continued to go their separate ways. Theater or theatre, as they would write it, was big in the United Kingdom. The U.K. has millions of theater preformances of all different categories. Incuding Cinderella, Hamlet, Mama Mia, Jersey Boys, Legally Blonde, and so many other shows. Many artist have come from the U.K. as well as poets. Jonathan Meyer was one of the million poets form the United Kingdom. Actresses and actors from the U.K. have made their way into great movies produced in the U.K. and in the states. The more known actresses and actors are people as Kate Winslet, Kiera Knightly, Emma Watson, David Bowie, and so many more. The theater, movies, and television had some big preformers from the United Kingdom.

Resources

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