Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/November 2007

• ...that visitors to the House of the Binns (pictured) in Scotland can see the table where General Tam Dayell is supposed to have played cards with Satan?
• ...that Lucas Horenbout was "King's Painter" to Henry VIII and the founder of the English tradition of the portrait miniature, painting Henry and several of his Queens?
• ...that when English composer Sir Edward Elgar died in 1934, he left more than 130 pages of sketches for a third symphony?