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  United Kingdom - MSN Encarta
United Kingdom, officially the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, island nation and constitutional monarchy in north-western Europe, member of the European Union and Commonwealth of Nations.
The United Kingdom is bordered to the south by the English Channel, which separates it from continental Europe, to the east by the North Sea, and to the west by the Irish Sea and the Atlantic Ocean; the only land border is between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
The crowns of England and Scotland were united in 1603, but the two countries remained separate political entities until the 1707 Act of Union, which formed the Kingdom of Great Britain with a single legislature.
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 United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The UK was formed by a of Acts of Union which united the formerly self-governing nations of England Scotland and Wales together with the province of Northern Ireland a region on the island of Ireland (the rest of Ireland left the Kingdom in 1922).
In 1922 26 of the counties of Ireland formed into the Irish Free State (the other six Ulster counties remaining part of the United as Northern Ireland) and the state became United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern the name being officially changed in 1927.
In form the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy with legislative power invested in an government and executive power invested in a Cabinet led by the Prime Minister whose power though carried out in monarch's name is answerable to Parliament and through it the electorate.
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 United Kingdom - Gurupedia
The Act of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland, which had been gradually brought under English control between 1169 and 1603, to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Channel Islands are not legally part of the United Kingdom; they are British crown dependencies, though the United Kingdom is responsible for their external affairs.
The monarchy of the United Kingdom is symbolically shared with 15 other sovereign countries that are known as Commonwealth Realms, although Britain has no political or executive power over these independent nations, it retains influence, through long-standing close relations.
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 A short history of the United Kingdom
The Anglosaxon tribes are united in 871 in the Kingdom of England, a feudal state.
Ireland, with the exception of six northern counties, gains independence from the United Kingdom in 1921, the kingdom is renamed United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
During his premiership the United Kingdom joins the European Communities (renamed European Union in 1993) in 1973.
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 Wikinfo | History of the United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The United Kingdom is the realm or kingdom that covers England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and which for over one hundred years included Ireland.
In 1922, the constantly evolving state saw the Irish Free State leave, with just Northern Ireland remaining, hence since 1927 the United Kingdom's modern title, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The United Kingdom as a name is taken to refer to the kingdom that emerged when the Kingdom of Great Britain and King of Ireland merged on 1 January 1801.
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 July 1922 in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: June 1922 in the United Kingdom, August 1922 in the United Kingdom, and the Timeline of British history.
Whatever settlement was made care should be taken, both in the interests of debtor and creditor, that the mode of liquidation was consistent with the easiest possible development of industry and the interchange of wealth.
The request recently made by the United States that the government should consider funding the amount of the debt, and placing it on a stable and equitable foundation, would be completely met.
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 Discount Airfare to United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Republic of Ireland forms the United Kingdom's principal international land border, although there is a nominal frontier with France in the middle of the
The modern "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" is the result of the partition of Ireland in 1922.
The United Kingdom is sometimes referred to as "England", "Great Britain", or "Britain", although these terms do not mean the same thing.
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 History - United Kingdom - Europe
The creation of the United Kingdom brought England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales (the four cultural regions of Britain) under the rule of a central government headed by a common monarch and administered by a single parliament.
When Ireland (with the exception of its six northern counties) achieved independence in 1922, the kingdom was renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
In 1922 Ireland achieved its independence, although its six northern counties, where Protestants are in the majority, remained a part of the United Kingdom.
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 Top 20 United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (usually shortened to the United Kingdom or the UK) is a country (or more specifically a constitutional monarchy or unitary state) off the north-western coast of continental Europe, surrounded by the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea, the Irish Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean.
The United Kingdom, a leading trading power and financial centre, has an essentially capitalist economy, the fourth largest in the world in USD exchange-rate terms and the sixth largest by purchasing power parity (PPP).
At the April 2001 census, the United Kingdom's population was 58,789,194-- the third-largest in the European Union (behind Germany and metropolitan France) and the 21st-largest in the world.
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 ipedia.com: 1922 Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
February 27 - A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
United Kingdom - King George V of the United Kingdom (1910 - 1936).
United States - Warren Gamaliel Harding, President of the United States (1921 - 1923).
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 British :: World Literature
Additionally the prefix British was often applied to an area or territory governed by or a dependent territory of the United Kingdom, for example the British Virgin Islands, the British Indian Ocean Territory, or British Columbia.
In an ethnological context it refers to a person of British nationality and/or descent whether resident in the United Kingdom or abroad.
In a competition or sporting context it can refer to a competitor or a number of competitors representing the United Kingdom (or in the case of the Olympics Great Britain) in a sporting event, but who does not otherwise possess a strong affiliation with the United Kingdom.
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 Insurances 4 you political risk insurance, more information about political risk insurance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
See also: February 1922 in the United Kingdom, April 1922 in the United Kingdom, and the Timeline of British history.
Churchill said that both the great historic parties were united against the rapidly growing Socialist or semi-Socialist Party, whose doctrines were as harmful to the principles of Liberalism as they were pernicious to the interests of the Empire.
He declared that he was for unity and coalition, and he looked forward to the day when out of coalition there should arise a strong, united, permanent national party.
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 United Kingdom Divisions
It cancels all the FIPS codes for the divisions of the United Kingdom as they stood in 1995, and assigns new codes to the divisions as of 1998.
The official name was the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until 1927, when it was changed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, recognizing the separation of the Irish Free State in 1922.
The United Kingdom consists of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
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 January 1922 in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: December 1921 in the United Kingdom, February 1922 in the United Kingdom, and the Timeline of British history.
It was feared that a hotly contested election, which would be in the main a conflict between the Coalition and Labour, would be likely, under existing circumstances, to raise the issue of capital versus labour in an acute form, and to create feeling which would take many months to abate.
At length it became apparent that the Unionist disaffection was so profound and widespread that a united appeal to the country by the coalition would be impossible, and Prime Minister David Lloyd George accordingly decided to abandon the project.
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 United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Evolution of the Union Jack as the flag of the United Kingdom
But Scotland was the senior of the two kingdoms, so this was unsatisfactory.
An Admiralty Memo in 1922 noted that the Red Jack was introduced in 1694 to prevent the use of the Union Jack.
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 The Avalon Project : Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States 1922 Vol. I
Treaty Between the United of States of America, Belgium, the British Empire, China, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal.
The present Treaty shall be ratified by the Contracting Powers in accordance with their respective constitutional methods and shall take effect on the date of the deposit of all the ratifications, which shall take place at Washington as soon as possible.
Ratification advised by the Senate, Mar. 30, 1922; ratified by the President, June 9, 1923; instruments of ratification deposited at Washington, Bug.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/forrel/1922v1/tr22-01.htm   (1374 words)

  
 Eclampsia in the United Kingdom -- Douglas and Redman 309 (6966): 1395 -- BMJ
Eclampsia in the United Kingdom -- Douglas and Redman 309 (6966): 1395 -- BMJ
Eclampsia complicates nearly one in 2000 pregnancies in the United Kingdom; nearly one in 50 affected women die of the condition as do one in 14 of their offspring
Kingdom, and in all cases when formal approval was deemed to
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 1922   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
April 7 - Teapot Dome scandal : United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming.
Bolshevist Russia / Soviet Union - Mikhail Kalinin President of the Soviet Union (1919 /1922 - 1946).
Egypt - King Fuad I of Egypt (1917 /1922 - 1936).
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 2LO - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2LO was the second radio station to regularly broadcast in the United Kingdom (the first was 2MT).
It began broadcasting on 11 May 1922, for one hour a day from the seventh floor of Marconi House in London's Strand.
On November 14, 1922 the station was transferred to the new British Broadcasting Company, which was itself replaced in 1927 by the British Broadcasting Corporation or BBC.
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 Find in a Library: Economic fluctuations in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1918-1922.
Find in a Library: Economic fluctuations in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1918-1922.
Economic fluctuations in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1918-1922.
Subjects: United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.
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 IDL-103 Instructors, Stanford
Laura K. Donohue is Visiting Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and Acting Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department, where she teaches PS 113: Security, Civil Liberties, and Terrorism.
Donohue's research focuses on individual rights and counterterrorism in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Israel, and Turkey.
This work builds on research she conducted for her book, Counter-terrorist Law and Emergency Powers in the United Kingdom, 1922-2000, published in December 2000.
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 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The origin of the term prime minister and the question to whom it should originally be applied have long been issues of scholarly and political debate.
Jun 1541 Kingdom of Ireland in personal union with England.
470 Kingdom of Dál Riada (of the Scots) established.
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 Counter-Terrorist Law and Emergency Powers in the United Kingdom 1922 - 2000
Donohue Laura K. Counter-Terrorist Law and Emergency Powers in the United Kingdom 1922 - 2000
This book is crucial with regards to the effects of emergency measures on military, political and social discourses and practices.
Counter-Terrorist Law and Emergency Powers in the United Kingdom 1922 - 2000, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2001.
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 Laura Donohue - CISAC
counterterrorist law in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Turkey and Israel; national security and individual rights
project for the United States Departments of Justice and State and, later,
Anti-Terrorist Finance in the United Kingdom and the United States
cisac.stanford.edu /people/laurakdonohue   (274 words)

  
 GlobaLex - A Guide to the UK Legal System
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland consists of four countries forming three distinct jurisdictions each having its own court system and legal profession:
was created in 1922 from the six protestant-dominated counties of the Irish
After centuries of conflict with Britain, in which the 'Irish question' was a major political issue, demands for home rule for Ireland were met by establishing two separate parliaments subordinate to Westminster (the Government of Ireland Act 1920: text on BAILII).
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