A Crown dependency sitting between Great Britain and Ireland in the Irish Sea (not part of 'Great Britain' but part of the British Isles), the Isle of Man has been inhabited since roughly 6500 B.C. Its relative isolation gave birth to a Gaelic culture and language known as Manx, which has been prevalent on the island even into the 20th Century. Today the Isle of Man is a … [Read more...] about Top Ten Britain: Top 10 Things to See and Do on the Isle of Man
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Celebrating the world’s oldest parliament in the Isle of Man
Tynwald Day, 5 July, is the national day of the Isle of Man, and is marked by an open-air meeting of its legislature – claimed to be the oldest continuous parliament in the world. The Tynwald, which celebrated 1,000 years of existence in 1979, consists of two chambers, the Legislative Council and the House of Keys. They normally sit in the island’s capital, Douglas. But once a … [Read more...] about Celebrating the world’s oldest parliament in the Isle of Man
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