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This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, 
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, 
This other Eden, demi-paradise, 
This fortress built by Nature for herself 
Against infection and the hand of war, 
This happy breed of men, this little world, 
This precious stone set in the silver sea, 
Which serves it in the office of a wall 
Or as a moat defensive to a house, 
Against the envy of less happier lands,-- 
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

William Shakespeare, "King Richard II", Act 2 scene 1
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)  

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Berners-Lee in 2008
Born	Timothy John Berners-Lee 8 June 1955 (age 61)[1] London, England, UK
Institutions	World Wide Web Consortium University of Southampton Plessey MIT
Alma mater	The Queen's College, Oxford (BA)
Notable awards	OM (2007) KBE (2004) FRS (2001)[2] FREng (2001) FRSA (2001) DFBCS (1995) See full list of honours
Spouse	Nancy Carlson (m. 1990; div. 2011) Rosemary Leith (m. 2014)
Children	2

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS (born 8 June 1955),^[1] also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989,^[3] and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet sometime around mid-November of that same year.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the continued development of the Web. He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, and is a senior researcher and holder of the founders chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).^[9] He is a director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI),^[10] and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.^[11][12] In 2011, he was named as a member the board of trustees of the Ford Foundation.^[13]

In 2004, Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his pioneering work.^[14][15] In April 2009, he was elected a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences.^[16][17] Named in Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century, Berners-Lee has received a number of other accolades for his invention.^[18] He was honoured as the "Inventor of the World Wide Web" during the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, in which he appeared in person, working with a vintage NeXT Computer at the London Olympic Stadium.^[19] He tweeted "This is for everyone",^[20] which instantly was spelled out in LCD lights attached to the chairs of the 80,000 people in the audience.^[19]

BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Can pupils learn 'Britishness'?

Britishness forms part of the citizenship syllabus Is there such a thing as "Britishness" and is it something that can be taught to children in school? The government wants to place British values ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7040137.stm