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?