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  January 1922 in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On January 3 Dáil Éireann resumed the debate adjourned from December 22, 1921, which was to end in acceptance or rejection of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
On January 15, a meeting of elected members of the Southern Parliament was convened by President Griffith, and in less than an hour the treaty was unanimously approved by the members present.
On January 12 it was announced from Dublin Castle that the king would grant a general amnesty in respect of all offenses committed in Ireland from political motives prior to the operation of the truce on July 11, 1921.
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 united kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The UK was formed by a series 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 United Kingdom in 1922).
In 1922, 26 of the counties of Ireland were formed into the Irish Free State (the other six Ulster counties remaining part of the United Kingdom as Northern Ireland) and the state became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the name being officially changed in 1927.
In form, the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy with legislative power invested in an elected government, and executive power invested in a Cabinet led by the Prime Minister whose power, though carried out in the monarch's name, is answerable to Parliament and through it the electorate.
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 Learn more about United Kingdom in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In form, the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy with government, though carried out in the monarch's name, answerable to parliament and through it the electorate.
The United Kingdom is a very centralised state, with London's Westminster Parliament holding responsibility for most of the political affairs of the Kingdom.
The United Kingdom is one of three countries which have a profitable recorded music industry, based mostly on popular music, the others being the United States and Sweden.
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 United Kingdom : UK
The United Kingdom is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations (successor organization to the former Empire), the European Union and NATO.
The United Kingdom is a very centralized state, with London's Westminster Parliament holding responsibility for most of the political affairs of the Kingdom.
The United Kingdom is one of three countries which have a profitable recorded music industry, based mostly on popular music, the others being the USA and Sweden.
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 United Kingdom - History of the Flag
The flag became 'the ensign armorial of the United Kingdom of Great Britain' as one of the provisions of the Act of Union in 1707, when the kingdoms of England and Scotland were united.
During the reign of Queen Victoria, the Royal Standard was considered to be the Standard of the United Kingdom, and not the Standard of the Sovereign.
Perrin (1922), p.132, quoted the 1808 edition of the 'Regulations and Instructions relating to His Majesty's Service at Sea' which confirmed the continuing use of the St George's Cross as a jack by the merchant marine.
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 The United Nations and the question of Palestine - DPI publication (1 October 1994)
When the United Nations was founded in San Francisco on 26 June 1945, Palestine was a territory administered by the United Kingdom under a Mandate received in 1922 from the League of Nations.
During the 1980s, United Nations resolutions dealt with the Jerusalem issue in the wider context of the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force and the applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention to the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967.
United Nations Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali established a high-level Task Force for Economic and Social Development of Gaza and Jericho, and shortly thereafter presented an action plan called "Supporting the Transition: An Immediate Response of the United Nations to the Interim Period in the West Bank and Gaza Strip".
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February 1922 in the United Kingdom From Sterwiki See also: January 1922 in the United Kingdom, March 1922 in the United Kingdom, and the Timeline of British history.
As regards the Air Force, units allotted to Navy and Army should be reduced by 8½ squadrons.
In his speech he referred to the disarmament conference at Washington, saying that a treaty had been designed to maintain peace in the Pacific, signed by the representatives of the British Empire, the United States, France, and Japan, and was awaiting ratification.
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 United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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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 About Armenia: Armenian history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The revived kingdom was already called Armenia by its neighbours, but in some languages the older name, Urartu, was still in use.
Before the fall of the Bagratuni kingdom a number of Armenian princes managed to escape from Armenia and found refuge in Cilicia, a region at the north-eastern corner of the Mediterranean Sea, where Armenians were the majority of population.
The royal court of Cilicia and the kingdom itself were reformed on Western models, and many French terms entered the Armenian language.
www.un.int /armenia/arm/en_history.html   (2867 words)

  
 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland - Biocrawler definition:United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was formed on 1 January 1801 from the merger of the Kingdom of Great Britain (itself a merger of the former Kingdoms of Scotland and England in 1707) and the Kingdom of Ireland.
Whilst the Irish Free State became independent in 1922, after the Anglo-Irish War, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland continued in name until 1927 when it was renamed as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in accordance with the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927.
Though the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland effectively came to an end in 1922, the monarch continued to use the title of King or Queen of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until 1927.
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 George V of the United Kingdom - ArtPolitic Encyclopedia of Politics : Information Portal
He was born at Marlborough House in London, the second son of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, who at that time held the title of Prince of Wales.
He died on January 20, 1936, at Sandringham House and is buried at Windsor Castle.
George was a well-known stamp collector, and played a large role in building the Royal Philatelic Collection[?] into the most comprehensive assemblage of United Kingdom and Commonwealth stamps in the world, in some cases setting record purchase prices for items.
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 Pertussis -- United States, January 1992-June 1995
Since pertussis became a nationally reportable disease in 1922, the highest number of pertussis cases (approximately 260,000) was reported in 1934; the highest number of pertussis-related deaths (approximately 9000) occurred in 1923.
Following the licensure of whole-cell pertussis vaccine combined with diphtheria and tetanus toxoids (DTP) in 1949 and the widespread use of DTP among infants and children, the incidence of reported pertussis declined to a historical low of 1010 cases in 1976 Figure_1.
From January 7 through June 30, 1995, a total of 1386 pertussis cases were reported -- an 18% decrease from the number reported during the same period in 1994 (1690).
www.cdc.gov /MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/00038200.htm   (1592 words)

  
 U.S. Copyright Office - Circular 38a: International Copyright Relations of the United States
For purposes of paragraph (2), a work that is published in the United States or a treaty party within 30 days after publication in a foreign nation that is not a treaty party shall be considered to be first published in the United States or such treaty party, as the case may be.
As regards copyright relations with the United States, this Convention is considered to have been superseded by adherence of this country and the United States to the Buenos Aires Convention of 1910.
Bilateral copyright relations between Jordan and the United States were established pursuant to the Agreement between the United States of America and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on the Establishment of a Free Trade Area, signed Oct. 24, 2000, and effective Dec. 17, 2001.
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 Full text - Daylight Saving Time - United Kingdom Law - The Summer Time Order 1997
During those periods the time for general purposes in the United Kingdom and the Bailiwick of Guernsey (but not the Isle of Man or the Bailiwick of Jersey which have their own legislation on the subject) will be one hour in advance of Greenwich mean time.
It applies in the United Kingdom and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, but not in the Bailiwick of Jersey or the Isle of Man which the Explanatory Note to the order says have their own legislation on the subject.
Ireland and the United Kingdom, however, were permitted but not required to use October end dates; those dates were given by rule as the fourth Sunday in October, listed as 28 October for 1990, 27 October for 1991, and 25 October for 1992.
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 FULTON COUNTY INDIANA
September 5, 1891, she was united in marriage to John F. SMITH, who besides the brother, she is survived by a step-son, Russell SMITH, upon whom she lavished all of a mother's love and affection.
She moved with her parents to the United States in 1866 and was married in the same year to John F. FROMM at Rochester, where she has since made her home.
He was united with the Methodist Episcopal church at Kentland at the age of 16 years and came to Rochester in 1898.
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 Ship Descriptions - T-U
Used by German East Africa Line from 1922 to 1935, she was then acquired by Hamburg America Line and on 30/6/1936 transferred to Woermann Line of Hamburg.
The UNITED KINGDOM was a 1,305 gross ton ship, length 245ft x beam 32.1ft, clipper stem, one funnel, three masts(ship rigged for sail), iron construction, single screw and a speed of 10 knots.
The UNITED STATES was built by A.Stephen and Sons, Glasgow in 1903 for the Scandinavia-American Line of Denmark.
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 Baha'i History of the United Kingdom
As a "mother community," the United Kingdom's overseas work has raised up "daughter" communities in Central and East Africa in 1956; in Guyana in 1970; and in the Republic of Ireland and in Cyprus in 1972.
It is estimated that between 1951 and 1993, Bahá'ís from the United Kingdom settled in 138 countries.
The off-shore islands of the United Kingdom were opened in 1953 by the following Knights of Bahá'u'lláh: Channel Islands (Jersey): Miss Evelyn Baxter (1883-1969, BW 15:456-57), a retired school teacher, and Mr.
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 Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The thickness of the cross is 12 units.
A yellow flag with a red cross, bearing a white shield charged with the red hand of Ulster, is a banner of the arms of the traditional province of Ulster.
A year previously, as the unit faced extinction in the form it has known for 21 years, the Queen went to Northern Ireland to present the first ever colours to four of the nine UDR battalions.
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 United Kingdom
Evolution of the Union Jack as the flag of the United Kingdom
Because The St Andrew's Cross, representing Scotland, the older member of the United Kingdom, comes before Saint Patrick for Ireland, a younger addition.
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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 Egypt Country Analysis Brief   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The country also began exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its first terminal in January 2005, adding another hard currency revenue stream, which is set to expand in late 2005 with the completion of the second LNG export terminal.
A contract was awarded in January 2004, and construction is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2005.
The first 750-MW generating unit at Nuberiya is scheduled to begin operation by the end of 2005.
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 Chronology 1922
The pontiff held office from September 1914 to January 1922.
The United States gained equal access with Japan and other countries to the use of cable and radio stations on Yap and other Japanese mandates.
The governments of Czechoslovakia and the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes renewed their treaty of alliance, which was the basis of the Little Entente.
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 January 1922 Herald of Christ's Kingdom
We urge upon the readers of this journal, during the year 1922, more than ever before, that they shall seek to walk very close to the Lord--in meekness, in humility, in patience and love to the brethren, and in love and zeal for the Lord and for the Truth.
True enough, in the past years the brethren have met with severe disappointment as to the time of the fulfilment of their expectations regarding the deliverance of the Church and the establishing of the Kingdom, but our hopes and expectations have not utterly failed by any means.
It is altogether probable that this was merely a threat, intended to drive Elijah out of the kingdom; so that she might the better overthrow the reform movement which he had so recently begun.
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 Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Country Analysis: Egypt
Dover announced in January 2003 that its initial well had shown oil, though assessment of the well is still underway.
The first BOOT project was a gas-fired steam power plant with two 325-MW generating units, located at Sidi Kerir on the Gulf of Suez, which began commercial operation in late 2001.
A Netherlands-funded project is building 60 MW of wind power units in the Suez Canal area.
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 MAJOR GENERAL JAMES WRATHALL SPRY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
He later entered the U.S. Military Academy from which he graduated on June 13, 1922, and was commissioned a second lieutenant of Air Corps in the Regular Army.
He was designated chief of the Military Assistance Advisory Group to the United Kingdom, with station at London, England, on July 17, 1954.
Upon returning to the United States on Nov. 1, 1955, General Spry was appointed commander of the 3275th Military Training Wing, Air Training Command, with headquarters at Parks Air Force Base, Calif.
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 Wikinfo | 1922   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
November 14 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
November 21 - Rebecca Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first woman United States Senator.
November 24 - Popular author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
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 Amazon.com: Nosferatu, The Vampire (1929) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
We know how THE WIZARD OF OZ's flying monkeys and oversized talking heads can instill nightmares in a child of that age, and we can only imagine what this landmark of Expressionistic horror film would do to one so young.
Or for that matter, what it would do to an audience in 1922.
Even those of us who are not film historians (merely buffs or even casual fans) have a sense of how differently we perceive film in the 21st century than our forebears did 100 years ago (or a bit less).
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