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  Micronation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Another example is the Principality of Outer Baldonia, a 16-acre rocky island off the coast of Nova Scotia, founded by Russel Arundel, chairman of Pepsi, in 1945 and consisting of a population of 69 fishermen.
A mortgage foreclosure dispute led George and Stephanie Muirhead of Rockhampton, Queensland, to briefly and abortively secede as the Principality of Marlborough in 1993.
The use of grand-sounding titles, awards, honours, and heraldic symbols derived from European feudal traditions, the conduct of "wars" and "diplomacy" with other micronations, and claims of being located on fantasy continents or planets are common manifestations of their activities.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Micronation   (4803 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Charles II of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Due to the disruption caused by the English Civil War, he was never formally invested with the Honours of the Principality of Wales.
It is worth noting that Diana, Princess of Wales was descended from two of Charles' illegitimate sons, the Duke of Grafton and the Duke of Richmond (who is also a direct ancestor of Camilla Parker Bowles).
Thus her son HRH Prince William of Wales, currently second in line to the British Throne, will very likely be the first British monarch descended from Charles II, and the first descended from Charles I since the death of Queen Anne in 1714.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/United Kingdom
Wales, under the control of English monarchs from the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284, became part of the Kingdom of England by the Laws in Wales Act 1535.
The House of Lords is the highest court in the land for all criminal and civil cases in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and for all civil cases in Scots law.
In England and Wales, the court system is headed by the Supreme Court of Judicature of England and Wales, consisting of the Court of Appeal, the High Court of Justice (for civil cases) and the Crown Court (for criminal cases).
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/United_Kingdom   (7100 words)

  
 Micronation
In New South Wales, a political protest by a group of Sydney teenagers led to the 1981 creation of the Empire of Atlantium, and a mortgage foreclosure dispute led George and Stephanie Muirhead of Rockhampton, Queensland to secede as the Principality of Marlborough in 1993.
The use of grand-sounding titles, awards, honours and heraldic symbols derived from European feudal traditions and the conduct of "wars" with other micronations are common manifestations of their activites.
Sealand, a "sovereign Principality" located on a WWII-era anti-aircraft platform in the North Sea in what were international waters[?] at the time of its foundation.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mi/Micronationalism.html   (2193 words)

  
 Micronation - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Hutt River Province Principality was the first manifestation of the phenomenon; it was founded in 1970, when Prince Leonard (born Leonard George Casley) declared his farming property independent after a dispute over wheat quotas.
Also in the Oceanian region is the Republic of Talayan, declared independent by 'A', which claims that it has occupied more than 50 hectares of land, all of which are in the Philippines.
Another well-known micronation fraud, the Dominion of Melchizedek, was created in 1986 by a father and son team of confidence tricksters named Evan David Pedley and Ben David Pedley (the latter also known as David Korem) to sell fraudulent banking licenses.
www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Micronationalism   (2633 words)

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