So we all know that England's eyebrows signify his John Bull spirit, right? Right???
Warnings: ...Um. The, um, eyebrows. A lot of cracks at, uh, eyebrows. It's all about the eyebrows.
Rating: G.
Magic Eyebrow Growth Cream ☆
panthael_angel: Script, except for the omake and sundry additions
starstray: Everything else
Wikipedia research : the
Industrial Revolution occurred primarily/began in Britain because everyone else was pretty much crippled by the
Napoleonic Wars. And I can't remember if it's in the same article, but there was something about the IR having its roots in the Middle Ages, too.
Also, random fun fact from
panthael_angel's macroeconomics textbook:
"The time required for a worker to spin a pound of cotton into thread fell from 500 hours to only 3. Therefore, the price of cotton textiles plummeted and the use of underwear became common for the first time."