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Also, in the 14th Century, Lithuania was the largest country in Europe, extending all the way from the Baltic to the Black Sea.
Lithuanian language is considered to be the closest living language to the proto-Indo-European, from which nearly all European and South Asian languages have descended
Think the UK is best for Cycling. Countless medals in the track cycling circuit and Olympics over the past decade+ and 3 of the last 4 Tour de France races. Music is a speciality too. Architecture, this century, the UK has won more Pritzker Prizes and Royal Gold Medals for architecture than any other country. Inventions in technology and scientific discoveries over the last 200 years has probably shaped the world we live in, UK is without doubt the biggest contributor too this especially before America became the dominant power. Acting seems to be one of our strengths also. Queuing Binge drinking, Brits down more in one sitting than anyone else, the European Commission found. Safest roads, our snarled-up roads are the safest in the EU, with 5.9 deaths for every 100,000 of population compared to 21 in Portugal. The UK is the world’s largest offshore wind producer, with almost half of Europe’s total capacity. Stats show the UK has far outstripped its European rivals with giant wind farms overtaking Denmark and Holland.
British things! = Discovery Of Gravity, Evolution, Cosmology, Electric motor, DNA, Quantum Mechanics, Nuclear Physics, Telephone, Astronomy, World Wide Web, Biology, Electromagnetism, Chemistry, Higgs Bosum, Penicillin, Television, First Mechanical Computer, Light Bulb, Blood Transfusion, IVF, Nursing, Hydrogen Discovery, Turbojet Engine, Laptop, MP3 Player, Pencil, First game 3D graphics, Fingerprinting, Anaesthesia, Antisepsis in surgery, Smallpox vaccine, Periodic Table, Newton's laws of motion, typhoid vaccine, It is commonly thought that British and Irish folk music heavily influenced the development of old time music in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, where the earliest European settlers hailed principally from Northern England, the Scottish Lowlands and Northern Ireland, so basically the early origins of all the great American music genres. So yeah alot of stuff.
The British Empire was the largest Empire the world has ever seen. It was the last Empire of its kind (before the modern world made Empires a thing of the past) and therefore was spread across the globe, the Mongol Empire was just across Asia and parts of Eastern Europe.
British things! = Discovery Of Gravity, Evolution, Cosmology, Electric motor, DNA, Quantum Mechanics, Nuclear Physics, Telephone, Astronomy, World Wide Web, Biology, Electromagnetism, Chemistry, Higgs Bosum, Penicillin, Television, First Mechanical Computer, Light Bulb, Blood Transfusion, IVF, Nursing, Hydrogen Discovery, Turbojet Engine, Laptop, MP3 Player, Pencil, First game 3D graphics, Fingerprinting, Anaesthesia, Antisepsis in surgery, Smallpox vaccine, Periodic Table, Newton's laws of motion, typhoid vaccine, It is commonly thought that British and Irish folk music heavily influenced the development of old time music in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, where the earliest European settlers hailed principally from Northern England, the Scottish Lowlands and Northern Ireland, so basically the early origins of all the great American music genres. So yeah alot of stuff.
Since I'm studying programming languages, I thought you were saying that these things are NOT British, because != means 'not equals' in many programming languages. But anyway, many of these discoveries and inventions are arguably British:
Gravity - was discovered by Galileo Galilei, who was Italian.
Quantum Mechanics - was originated by Max Planck, who was German.
Astronomy - really? It existed even in Ancient Egypt. And first telescope was made again by Galilei.
Chemistry - modern-day chemistry was originated by Antoine Lavoisier, a French.
Periodic Table - may be its predecessor was created by British, by in its modern-day view (minus the elements unknown back then, of course) it was created by Dmitri Mendeleev, a Russian.
Newton's laws - the principle of at least first law (law of inertia, that the body in lack of outside force will permanently continue motion) was discovered again by Galilei.
I'm not arguing that Britain did much to the science and technology, but again, not everything in your list was discovered or invented by the British.
Galileo was considered the father of observational astronomy, Isaac Newton developed further ties between physics and astronomy through his law of universal gravitation. Newton was able to explain – in one theoretical framework – all known gravitational phenomena. In his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, he derived Kepler's laws from first principles. Newton's theoretical developments lay many of the foundations of modern physics.
Chemistry as a science was from a group of chemists at Oxford. Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke and John Mayow began to reshape the old alchemical traditions into a scientific discipline.
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Binge drinking, Brits down more in one sitting than anyone else, the European Commission found. Safest roads, our snarled-up roads are the safest in the EU, with 5.9 deaths for every 100,000 of population compared to 21 in Portugal. The UK is the world’s largest offshore wind producer, with almost half of Europe’s total capacity. Stats show the UK has far outstripped its European rivals with giant wind farms overtaking Denmark and Holland.
