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	United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland - LoveToKnow 1911
		UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,1 the official title, since the ist of January 1801, of the political unity composed of England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
		"Great Britain" was employed as a formal designation from the time of the union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland in 1707.
		The United Kingdom is subdivided into 7 commands and 12 districts, the commands under a lieutenant-general or general as commander-in-chief and the districts under brigadier-generals.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /United_Kingdom_Of_Great_Britain_And_Ireland (5429 words)

	United Kingdom - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Great Britain is the largest island in the cluster of islands, or archipelago, known as the British Isles.
		The United Kingdom is bordered on the south by the English Channel, which separates it from the continent of Europe.
		Britain’s dependent territories are scattered throughout the world and are the remains of the former British Empire.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553483/United_Kingdom.html (2287 words)

	Great Britain at AllExperts
		Great Britain is an island lying off the northwestern coast of mainland Europe and to the east of Ireland, comprising the main territory of the United Kingdom.
		Great Britain is also used as a geopolitical term describing the combination of England, Scotland, and Wales, which together comprise the entire island and some outlying islands.
		The climate of Great Britain is milder than that of other regions of the Northern Hemisphere at the same latitude, because the warm waters of the Gulf Stream pass by the British Isles and exert a moderating influence on the weather.
	en.allexperts.com /e/g/gr/great_britain.htm (1572 words)

	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Encyclopedia Article @ BTUAC.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a state that was created on 1 January 1801 by 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.
		Under the terms of the merger, the Irish Parliament was abolished, and Ireland was to be represented in the united parliament, meeting in the Palace of Westminster.
		Daniel O'Connell, MP Thereafter, 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 by the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927.
	btuac.net /encyclopedia/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland (1236 words)

	Wikinfo \| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the 1707 Act of Union, the separate kingdoms of England and Scotland (though having shared the same monarch since 1603) agreed to permanent union as the Kingdom of Great Britain.
		With the formation of 32 Irish counties into the Irish Free State, with six northern Irish counties remaining part of the United Kingdom as Northern Ireland, in 1922, the country was renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1927.
		Britain (England) has been described as a land without music, but it supports a number of major orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and its several music colleges have helped to teach many well known musicians.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Northern_Ireland (1691 words)

	Great Britain Summary
		Great Britain (or simply Britain) is also widely used as a synonym for the sovereign state properly known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
		With an area of 218 595 km² (84,400 sq.mi) the island of Great Britain is the largest of the British Isles.
		Nevertheless, it is sometimes supposed that Great Britain is a translation of the French term Grande Bretagne, which is used in France to distinguish Britain from Brittany (in French: Bretagne), which had been settled in late Roman times by Romano-Celtic refugees from Roman Britain, then under attack by the Anglo-Saxons.
	www.bookrags.com /Great_Britain (1845 words)

	ipedia.com: United Kingdom Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Great Britain, now sometimes called simply Britain, is the geographical name for the mainland states of England, Wales and Scotland, sometimes including their islands.
		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.
	www.ipedia.com /united_kingdom.html (2281 words)

	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland - Wikiality, the Truthiness Encyclopedia
		Ireland is part of the United Kingdom and always has been, and always will be.
		The United Kingdom, or U.K., used to be called the British Empire until they decided to stop displaying their superiority over everybody else on the planet (except for America, which fought the British in a titanic clash that stretched from Nova Scotia to Florida.
		The six territories of the U.K. are: England, Britain, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the Falkland Islands.
	www.wikiality.com /Britian (443 words)

	Great Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Britain was still a peninsula of Europe until about 10,000 years ago when the North Sea joined the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.
		The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the political union of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
		The name Great Britain was officially adopted for this union; when Ireland was added to Great Britain by the Act of Union of 1801, the title United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was introduced.
	share.geocities.com /Heartland/Lake/2161/gtbritain.html (5263 words)

	Kingdom of Great Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was created by the merger of the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England, under the Acts of Union 1707, to create a single kingdom encompassing the whole of the island of Great Britain.
		The Kingdom of Great Britain was superseded by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801 when the Kingdom of Ireland was absorbed with the enactment of the Act of Union 1800 following the suppression of the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
		The Kingdom of Great Britain was ruled by a single monarch, as it had been between 1603 and 1707 (excepting the Interregnum).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain (694 words)

	United Kingdom - Wikitravel
		The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the United Kingdom or the UK) [1] is a constitutional monarchy in northern Europe.
		The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, with a queen (or king) as the head of state, and a prime minister as the democratically elected head of government.
		Most basic mapping in the United Kingdom is undertaken by the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain (in England, Scotland and Wales) and the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland.
	wikitravel.org /en/Great_Britain (14177 words)

	blog.henman.ca » England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Britain is the island, comprising the main territory of the United Kingdom, and consisting of England, Scotland, and Wales.
		One problem is that the terms Britain and British are often used to refer to the whole of the UK, and not just Great Britain.
		The Kingdom of Britain merged with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801.
	blog.henman.ca /england-great-britain-and-the-united-kingdom (793 words)

	AUE: Britain/Great Britain/United Kingdom &c: Some Common Confusions
		A geographical term referring to the islands off the north-west coast of continental Europe, including the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, groups such as the outer and inner Hebrides, Shetlands and Orkneys, and countless others.
		It also forms part of the official title of the United Kingdom, in which case it means the political entities of England, Scotland, Wales, including the offshore islands which belong to those countries.
		The north-east portion of the island of Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, and is officially called Northern Ireland.
	alt-usage-english.org /english_british_uk_et_al.shtml (1311 words)

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		This analysis of the injury data from Great Britain and Ireland involved a review of 745 896 rides, 23 525 falls, and 4248 injuries.
		For Ireland, the equivalent of the Royal Kalendar for Great Britain, that is, the most comprehensive register available here for the Irish civil, military, and ecclesiastical establishment.
		Soroptimist International of South Africa (SISA) was founded in 1964 and is associated to the Federation of Great Britain and Ireland, one of the four Federations within the Soroptimist International Organisation.
	www.lycos.com /info/great-britain--northern-ireland.html (304 words)

	The Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
		The Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
		The eldest son of a monarch is from birth Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Great Steward of Scotland.
		The children of a sovereign, the children of his/her sons and the oldest son of the oldest son of a Prince of Wales are Royal Highness, Prince/Princess of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
	www.nettyroyal.nl /britain.html (900 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
		The term Great Britain seems to have first been used in the reign of King James I of England (James VI of Scotland) to refer to the separate kingdoms (England and Scotland) on the same landmass that were ruled over by the same monarch.
		The 'United Kingdom of Great Britain' was formed in 1707 by the Act of Union that created a single kingdom with a single Parliament (Westminster).
		The United Kingdom of Great Britain lasted until 1801 when Ireland was formally incorporated and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was formed.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A2027008 (1975 words)

	United Kingdom / Great Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Great Britain is the term used for the island containing the contiguous nations¹ of England, Scotland and Wales.
		The term "Great Britain" was officially used only after King James I (who was also James VI of Scotland) acceded to the throne of England and Wales in 1603, styling himself King of Great Britain, although legislative union between Scotland and England did not take place until 1707.
		The United Kingdom does not include the Isle of Man (which lies between Great Britain and the island of Ireland) and the Channel Islands (which lie off the North coast of France).
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /home/scotland/britain.html (432 words)

	THE UNITED KINGDOM OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, WALES AND NORTHERN IRELAND
		of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (usually shortened to the United Kingdom, U.K. or the UK) is a country situated in the British Isles off the north-western coast of continental Europe, and surrounded by the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea, the Irish Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean.
		The United Kingdom, often (inaccurately) referred to simply as 'Britain', is a constitutional monarchy and a unitary state, composed by the political union of four constituent parts: the three constituent countries of England, Scotland, and Wales on the island of Great Britain, and the province of Northern Ireland on the island of Ireland.
		Also sometimes associated with the United Kingdom, though not constitutionally part of the United Kingdom itself, are the Crown dependencies (the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey, and the Isle of Man) as self-governing possessions of the Crown, and a number of overseas territories under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom.
	www.solarnavigator.net /geography/united_kingdom_england_scotlad_wales_northern_ireland.htm (4148 words)

	The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Although there is no adjective for the "United Kingdom" the term "British" is acceptable, although has to be used with care and sensitivity in Northern Ireland, where one section of the community would be happy being so-described, whereas the other would most definitely regard themselves as "Irish".
		The kingdoms that formed the British nation, took for their emblems the crosses of three Christian Saints, George for England, Andrew for Scotland and Patrick for Ireland.
		Ireland became self-governing in 1922 with the establishment of the Irish Free State.
	www.lindabutler.net /uk.htm (321 words)

	University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
		It welcomes the presence of a high level delegation composed of representatives from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and from Hong Kong.
		The Committee, however, notes that notwithstanding the absence of such an information in the reports it is clear that certain economic and social difficulties continue to be faced by the most vulnerable segments of society, partly as a result of the imposed budgetary constraints.
		The Committee encourages the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to take into account the General Comment No. 1 of the Committee in the preparation of its next periodic report, in order to enhance the transparency of government policy-making with respect to economic, social and cultural sectors of the society.
	www.umn.edu /humanrts/esc/BRITAIN.htm (2764 words)

	GREAT BRITAIN THE BRITISH ISLES THE UNITED KINGDOM BRITISH ISLANDS
		The term "Great Britain" came into being when England and Scotland became a single kingdom under King James VI of Scotland who also became King James I of England, after the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603.
		Therefore, the United Kingdom of Great Britain, used to indicate the political union of England, Scotland and Wales, was expanded, in the 20th century, to include Northern Ireland: the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" as it now appears on passports.
		They are a group of islands off the northwest coast of Europe consisting of Great Britain, the whole of Ireland, the Orkney and Shetland Islands, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Isle of Wight, the Scilly Islands, Lundy Island, the Channel Islands and many other smaller islands.
	www.know-britain.com /general/great_britain.html (1237 words)

	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2002
		The Committee encourages the development of regular reports in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales and for the whole State party and the promotion of wide public and parliamentary debate on them in the United Kingdom and Scottish Parliaments and in the National Assemblies for Northern Ireland and Wales.
		The Committee is concerned at the continued use of plastic baton rounds as a means of riot control in Northern Ireland as it causes injuries to children and may jeopardize their lives.
		The Committee welcomes the development of integrated schools in Northern Ireland, but remains concerned that only about 4 per cent of the schools are integrated and that education continues to be largely segregated.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/crc/greatbritain2002.html (5514 words)

	Kingdom of Hawaii Treaty with Great Britain - 1846
		ARTICLE I. There shall be perpetual peace and amity between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the King of the Sandwich Islands, their heirs and successors.
		No British subject accused of any crime whatever shall be judged otherwise than by a jury composed of native or foreign residents, proposed the British Consul and accepted by the Government of the Sandwich Islands.
		The subjects of the King of the Sandwich Islands shall, in their commercial or other relations with Great Britain, be treated on the footing of the most favored nation.
	www.hawaiiankingdom.org /treaty_britain-1846.shtml (340 words)

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