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	MSN Encarta - England
		The capital, largest city, and chief port of England is London, with a population in 2001 of 7,172,000.
		England is somewhat triangular in shape, with its apex at the mouth of the Tweed River.
		Of outstanding commercial importance are the harbor of Bristol, at the confluence of Bristol Channel and the Severn River; and Liverpool Harbor, at the mouth of the Mersey River.
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	Humber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Humber is a large tidal estuary forming part of the boundary between northern and southern England.
		In the Anglo-Saxon period, it was a major boundary, separating Northumbria from the southern kingdoms.
		Two fortifications were built in the mouth of the river in 1914, the Humber Forts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Humber (227 words)

	England -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		England has been inhabited for at least 500,000 years, although the repeated (Any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface) Ice Ages made much of Britain uninhabitable for extended periods until as recently as 20,000 years ago.
		England comprises the central and southern two-thirds of the island of (An island comprising England and Scotland and Wales) Great Britain, plus offshore islands of which the largest is the (An isle and county of southern England in the English Channel) Isle of Wight.
		England is both the most populous and the most ethnically diverse nation in the United Kingdom with around 49 million inhabitants, of which roughly a tenth are from non-White ethnic groups.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/E/En/England.htm (5026 words)

	England from Arthur to William of Normandy
		They are believed to have warred their way westward up the Thames River, looking for more land to cultivate, taking lowland and leaving less desirable lands in the hills to the Celtic Britons.
		Much of England was on its way to learning from the missionaries a sense of organization, and, within the Church, order was enhanced in 669 with the appointment of Theodore of Tarsus as archbishop over the whole of England.
		England was covered by as much farmland as it would have in the early years of the 20th century, and its population was as large - the result of good nutrition and a lot of exercise.
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	River Humber Estuary, River Humber Bridge, RiverHumber.com
		The Humber is a North Sea inlet on the East coast of England and it is one of the major deepwater estuaries in the U.K. The deepwater channel is 22 miles (35 kms.) long from the open sea at Spurn Point to Kingston Upon Hull.
		The Humber with its canals and tributaries, (which include the rivers Hull, Ancholme, Derwent, Ouse and Trent) run off an area of 9,550 square miles (24,750 square kms.), which is about 20% of the total land area in England.
		The inland port of Goole (which is approximately 45 miles (75 Kms) inland) on the River Ouse, owes it's growth to the formation of the canals, while the original growth of the major ports was mainly due to the railways.
	www.riverhumber.com (549 words)

	ENGLAND
		Expand England is somewhat triangular in shape, with its apex at the mouth of the Tweed River.
		APopulation Characteristics The population of England (1996) was 49,089,000.
		DReligion The Church of England, a Protestant Episcopal denomination, is the state church and the nominal church of nearly three-fifths of the population.
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	Humber - InformationBlast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Humber is a large tidal estuary in northern England.
		Humber is also the name of one of the ranges of cars manufactured by the Rootes Group.
		Humber was also the name of a make of British car, which disappeared after mergers in the 1960s.
	www.informationblast.com /Humber.html (130 words)

	Humber Genealogy
		JOHN HUMBER, (1) Emigrant, ancestor of the Humber Family in America, at the age of sixteen embarked in a sailing vessel from the shores of the Humber River, England, where his family lived and from whom it is said the river derived its name "Humber".
		Robert C. Humber was in the Jasper Co. Cavalry in the war of 1812, commanded by Capt. John W. Compton.
		Elizabeth Ingram Humber was born March 17, 1839, in Putnam Co., Ga., and died July 14, 1901, in Milledgeville, Ga., and is buried beside her husband in the Milledgeville cemetery.
	www.bradfordgenealogy.org /HumberGenealogy.html (621 words)

	Humber on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		river, c.75 mi (120 km) long, rising in the Long Mts., W N.F., Canada, and flowing SE then SW, through Deer Lake, to the Bay of Islands at Corner Brook.
		The reporter Neil Humber was convinced that Michael Shirley, serving time for murder, was innocent.
		Yorkshire and Humber: a growing force in chemicals excellence.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/HumberC1an.asp (343 words)

	sciforums.com - Name of England
		While the Celts had names for England based on 'Land of the Saxons', it was foreigners who gave England the name 'Land of the Angles' that stuck.
		England and Scotland were united as the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, because they had shared the same king for the past 100 years or so.
		Kent The Kingdom of Kent was a kingdom of Jutes in southeast England, one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the so-called Anglo-Saxon heptarchy.
	www.sciforums.com /showthread.php?t=38452 (1850 words)

	England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Governor of New York 1674-1681, 1688, of New England 1686-1691, of Virginia 1692-1698, and of Maryland 1693-1694.
		Hereafter the title was always associated with the direct heir to the throne of England and then Great Britain, and merges with the Dukedom of Cornwall, the Earldom of Carrick, the Hereditary Great Stewardship of Scotland, and the Lordship of the Isles as a subsidiary title of the Prince of Wales.
		England emerges throughout the 9th century CE, as the Kingdom of Wessex became the pre-eminent Anglo-Saxon nation and, with the containment of the Scandinavian Kingdom of York by the end of the century, the only surviving English nation.
	www.hostkingdom.net /engl.html (4093 words)

	Open Directory - Science: Environment: Water Resources: Rivers and Streams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		American Rivers - American Rivers is a national non-profit conservation organization dedicated to protecting and restoring America's rivers and to fostering a river stewardship ethic.
		River Revival - Directory of some grassroots activists and non-governmental organizations engaged in dam decommissioning and river restoration activities, with notes on their particular interests.
		Rivers of the Earth - Rivers of the Earth ranked by river length, river system length, drainage basin area, and average discharge rate.
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	History of English Place-Names
		There are many factors involved, not the least of which is the waves of conquest England suffered during the period in which most of her placenames were formed.
		The earliest placenames in England are a small number that may be preCeltic in origin, including the river names Colne, Humber, Itchen, Ouse and Wey.
		These are unevenly distributed across England being quite rare in the east and growing more frequent in the west, until one approaches Cornwall and the area near Wales where the Britons were able to maintain a hold on the land the longest.
	www.sca.org /heraldry/laurel/names/engplnam.html (4626 words)

	AllRefer.com - Kent, kingdom of (British And Irish History) - Encyclopedia
		Kent, kingdom of, one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England.
		Conquered by Egbert of Wessex in 825, Kent was forced to acknowledge the overlordship of Wessex and became part of that kingdom.
		Although it suffered heavily from Danish raids, it remained one of the most advanced areas in pre-Norman England because of the archbishopric of Canterbury and because of its steady intercourse with the Continent.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Kent-kin.html (335 words)

	HESS - Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Humber River is a major provider of and nutrient fluxes to the North Sea from the UK.
		These catchments are distributed across the Humber, encompassing the different conditions across the basin, thus allowing relationships between water quality and catchment characteristics to be used to estimate the nitrogen concentrations and flux throughout the basin river network.
		The Environment Agency of England and Wales water quality datasets were used to infill areas of sparse LOIS monitoring network density within the Humber.
	www.copernicus.org /EGU/hess/8/4/823.htm (314 words)

	Historic Nantucket
		Sanderson is said to have bought it in England where he procured what is probably the best collection of British Arctic harpoons on this side of the pond.
		The city of Kingston-upon-Hull, situated near the mouth of the Humber River in northeastern England, was the center of Arctic whaling from England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
		She was captured by a British cruiser, brought to England as a prize of war, converted to a whaler, and entered into the Hull fishery in 1784.
	www.nha.org /history/hn/HNWhalingtools.htm (2709 words)

	Humber Bridge -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		North Sea inlet on the east coast of England, one of the major deepwater estuaries of the United Kingdom.
		The River Humber originates at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Trent and forms the historic boundary between the counties of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
		The Humber is about 40 miles (64 km) long, extends west to east, and, with associated rivers and canals,...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9041483 (789 words)

	Spurn Head Heritage Coast
		Sand, shingle, and birds galore at the mouth of the Humber River, Yorkshire.
		The heritage coast consists of a long, curving hook of shingle and sand arcing into the mouth of the Humber River.
		The coast is a stopover point for thousands of migrating birds in the spring and autumn, and a special observatory has been set up to allow bird-lovers to monitor their feathered friends.
	www.britainexpress.com /countryside/coast/spurn.htm (244 words)

	USGS Astro: Planetary Nomenclature - Mars Nomenclature Vallis (Planetocentric East) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Doanus Vallis 63.0S 334.4E 131.0 AS BU I2365 MC26 5 1985 56 VA Classical river shown in Ptolemy's map; may be modern Mekong River of Burma.
		Grjot\'a Valles 15.5N 165.4E 370.0 EU IC I2486 MC15 3 0 74 VA River in Iceland.
		Rubicon Valles 44.7N 243.0E 240.0 EU IT I2573 MC3 5 1976 56 VA Ancient river in Italy.
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	Search Results for "Lincolnshire"
		573,900), 2,662 sq mi (6,895 sq km), E England, on the Humber estuary, the North Sea, and The Wash. The county...
		He emigrated to New England in 1630 and was assistant in the Massachusetts...
		33,238), North East Lincolnshire, E central England, on the Humber River estuary.
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	ETYMOLOGY
		Egbert, the son of the West Saxon king Offa, was the first king of England, and it is he who established the political dominance of the West Saxons.
		By the middle of the ninth century, the Vikings were coming in such numbers that their presence was a serious problem for the West‑Saxon kings of England who succeeded Egbert.
		By the end of the tenth century, the Benedictine movement had taken root in England under the aegis of Æthelwold and Dunstan, both English bishops, who wanted to promote education and learning in England.
	hss.fullerton.edu /comparative/ETYMOLOGY_history_lect.htm (1219 words)

	AllRefer.com - Trent, river, England (British And Irish Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		It flows generally NE through central England before joining with the Ouse River to form the Humber estuary.
		The Trent, the third longest river of England, passes through the Potteries district, Burton upon Trent, and Nottingham.
		It is navigable for barges to Nottingham; canals connect it with other river systems.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/TrentR.html (221 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| The 'invisible' river
		The river flows into the Humber Estuary near the village of Alkborough, not far outside Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire.
		Seeing so many interesting things along the waterway, it is hard to believe the river could be ignored by the people of the East Midlands.
		But it seems the River Trent is not noticed by many people who live near it.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/3609427.stm (402 words)

	HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Free term papers for college, book reports and research papers. Welcome to Essay Express
		England eventually commanded an empire, thus, spreading the language around the world.
		The four dialects during the Old English period were Kentish in the southeast, West Saxon in the south and southwest, Mercian in the Midlands, and North Umbrian above the Humber River.
		I had hypothesized that the English language was derivative from the Germanic tribes that invaded England during the fourth and fifth centuries.
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	USGS Astro: Planetary Nomenclature - Mars Nomenclature Vallis (Planetographic West) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Doanus Vallis 63.3S 25.6W 131.0 AS BU I2365 MC26 5 1985 56 VA Classical river shown in Ptolemy's map; may be modern Mekong River of Burma.
		Grjot\'a Valles 15.6N 194.6W 370.0 EU IC I2486 MC15 3 0 74 VA River in Iceland.
		Ituxi Vallis 25.4N 207.0W 62.0 SA BR I2486 MC15 5 1985 36 VA River in Brazil.
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	Biography: Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr (5 August 642) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		They established seven principal kingdoms (the Heptarchy) in England: The Saxon kingdoms of Essex, Wessex and Sussex (East Saxons, West Saxons, and South Saxons), the Angle kingdoms of East Anglia, Mercia, and Northumbria, and the Jute kingdom of Kent (in southeast England, the London area).
		To this day, there are seven principal dialects of English spoken in England, and the seven areas in which they are spoken are substantially the same as the areas of the seven ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
		In 597, Augustine, a missionary from Rome, established a mission in Kent, where he was favorably received, and became the first Archbishop of Canterbury (51:17 N 1:05 E).
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	Bank of England
		The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom, sometimes known as "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street" or "The Old Lady".
		The first Bank of England £5 note was issued in 1793 in response to the need for smaller denomination banknotes to replace gold coin during the French Revolutionary Wars (previously the smallest note issued had been £10).
		The series E £50 saw the first use on Bank of England notes of a hologram on the note, a practice which has been extended to all the Bank's notes with the second issue of Series E notes.
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	Biography: Paulinus, missionary, first Archbishop of York (10 Oct 644) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 597 a band of monks headed by Augustine of Canterbury (feast 26 May--not to be confused with Augustine of Hippo) arrived in southeastern England, in the kingdom of Kent, and began to evangelize the people there, with considerable success.
		Sometime after 616, Edwin, the pagan king of Northumbria (the region north of the Humber river--roughly the northern quarter of England), asked for the hand in marriage of Ethelburga, the sister of the king of Kent.
		He was told that a Christian princess could not marry a pagan, but he promised that she would be free to practice her religion, and that he would listen to Christian preachers, and seriously consider becoming a Christian himself.
	elvis.rowan.edu /~kilroy/JEK/10/10.html (597 words)

	Clock v2.0: Comment on The River Humber - Stevie Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		And I found a lot of pictures of the river upstream, even close to source where it is a clear mountain stream.
		The estuary is about all there is to the Humber in England, so I stand corrected.
		In fact she was writing about the Humber Estuary, which is the estuary of the rivers Hull, Ouse and Trent; there is no River Humber, and nor are there any mountains in that particular part of England.
	www.erzsebel.com /cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=2774 (230 words)

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