Buckinghamshire
It is no coincidence that the primary trade or business language of the world is English. The sun never sets on the British Empire, or at least the remnants thereof, and thusly, the sun never sets on where English is used. Through colonization, expansion, and trade and, of course, the perfect set of conditions for the United States - colonized by England, primarily - to rise to the global superpower and thereby further galvanize the English language as the global business language, British culture is suffused throughout the world and incorporated into many traditions, depictions of historical life, and irrevocably incorporated into global sub-cultures. Most everyone, even people in rural areas of developing nations, recognizes Elizabeth Tower (where the bell, “Big Ben” is housed) next to Parliament in London or is familiar with the prestige of the oldest university in the world, the inimitable Oxford. However, very few know or have even heard of the majority of small towns and villages throughout the English countryside, even though it is from these areas that many of the global cultural traditions hail. One such place in Buckinghamshire, the ceremonial county northwest of London, and it contains smaller, lesser known British towns like Buckingham, Chesham and Wendover - places the world knows, even though they don’t know that they know them. It is from small British villages like these that the amalgamation of both culture and countryside living proceeded and influenced the modern world as we know it. It is from places like this that small beginnings had massive ripple effects downstream. It is from this very place, in the small town of Ludgershall that John Wycliffe called home - the man that translated the Word of God to the vernacular of the common man in England and was pivotal in helping the world subsequently to have the Bible translated into other languages of common use. “Who dares despise the day of small things, since the seven eyes of the LORD that range throughout the earth will rejoice when they see the chosen capstone in the hand of Zerubbabel?” (Zech 4:10)
