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 westminster parliament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland consists of the Queen, an upper house of Parliament called the House of Lords and a lower house called the House of Commons and is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and its overseas territories.
For a list of MPs in the current Parliament, see: MPs elected in the UK general election, 2001, for a list of all the parliaments, see List of Parliaments of the United Kingdom.
That dominance continued in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (formed in 1801 when the crowns of Great Britain and Ireland were merged) and the modern United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (formed in December 1922 when twenty-six of Ireland's thirty-two counties left to form the Irish Free State.
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 Great_Britain
Before the end of the last ice age, Great Britain was a peninsula of Europe; the rising sea levels caused by glacial melting at the end of the ice age caused the formation of the English Channel, the body of water which now divides Great Britain from the European mainland.
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.
The term Great Britain was first widely used during the reign of King James VI of Scotland, I of England to describe the island, on which co-existed two separate kingdoms, both at that time ruled by the same monarch.
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 List of Parliaments of England - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This is a list of Parliaments of England from the reign of Henry VII to 1707.
For later parliaments, see the List of Parliaments of Great Britain.
On the 29-04-1707, the Parliament of Great Britain was constituted.
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 List of Parliaments of Great Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This is a listing of sessions of the Parliament of Great Britain, tabulated with the elections to the House of Commons for each session, and the list of members of the House.
The sessions are numbered from the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
For later Westminster parliaments, see List of Parliaments of the United Kingdom, and for earlier ones, see List of Parliaments of England.
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 SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Great Britain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Great Britain is an island lying off the northwestern coast of Europe, comprising the main territory of the United Kingdom (UK).
Great Britain is also used as a political term describing the combination of England, Scotland, and Wales, the three countries which together comprise the entire island.
Great Britain is also widely, but incorrectly, used as a synonym for the sovereign state properly known as the United Kingdom.
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 GREAT BRITAIN FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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.
There is similar situation with the terms ''Britain'' and ''British'', which are used to relate to the whole of the UK and not just the island of Great Britain.
In Geoffrey_of_Monmouth's ''Historia_Regum_Britanniae'' (''circa'' 1136), the island of Great Britain was referred to as ''Britannia maior'' ("Greater Britain"), to distinguish it from ''Britannia minor'' ("Lesser Britain"), the Gaulish region which approximates to modern Brittany.
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 Articles - Great Britain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
With an area of 219,000 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.
Great Britain is also widely, but incorrectly, used as a synonym for the political state properly known as the United Kingdom (see below).
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 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   (1236 words)

  
 GENUKI: Earls of Great Britain (N-Z)
He was returned to parliament as member for Yorkshire in 1614, and the next year was named custus rotulorum for the West Riding.
As he was the earliest of the hateful list, so was he also by far the greatest; eloquent sagacious, adventurous, intrepid, ready of invention, immutable of purpose, in every talent which exalts or destroys nations pre-eminent, the lost archangel, the Satan of the apostasy.' The attainder of the Earl of Strafford was reversed in 1662.
His personal character and great abilities, his enormous wealth and lavish expenditure, and his extended and important family connections, made him at once the mightiest English noble of his time, and the favourite of the people.
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 ASU Libraries: Primary Sources in History- Great Britain
Lists of members of the Commons are sometimes included in the main text and 18th century volumes may provide some details of divisions.
This is a chronological listing of debates as well as an alphabetical index to speakers and a subject index to topics.
Volumes deal with the proceedings of Parliament, royal financial problems, the difficulties of administration and the affairs of Ireland and Scotland, all of which chronicle the developing crisis of the early Stuarts.
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 Comparative Criminology | Europe - Great Britain
As Rome's strength declined, the country again was exposed to invasion--including the pivotal incursions of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes in the fifth and sixth centuries AD--up to the Norman conquest in 1066.
While maintaining separate parliaments, England and Scotland were ruled under one crown beginning in 1603, when James VI of Scotland succeeded his cousin Elizabeth I as James I of England.
The legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland was completed on January 1, 1801, under the name of the United Kingdom.
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 Kingdom of Great Britain - Biocrawler definition:Kingdom of Great Britain - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Kingdom of Great Britain - Biocrawler definition:Kingdom of Great Britain - Biocrawler
The Kingdom of Great Britain, also sometimes known as the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain', was created by the merging of the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England under the 1707 Act of Union to create a single kingdom encompassing the whole 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 1801.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This is a list of topics related to the United Kingdom.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland the modern state nominally known as the United Kingdom
List of television stations in the United Kingdom
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 Poets Laureate of Great Britain.
Alphabetic List of the Poets Laureate of Great Britain.
Chronological List of the Poets Laureate of Great Britain.
Ben Jonson (1573-1637), a playwright and poet, a volatile satirist of explosive temperament and "a great lover and praiser of himself", was not formally appointed as Poet Laureate.
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 List Of Parliaments Of Great Britain Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Great Britain and Her Queen, by Anne E. Keeling
The new plague affected Great Britain also; but its suffering was completely overshadowed by the enormous bulk of Irish woe, which the utmost lavishness of charity seemed scarcely to lessen.
Here was a great king, respected for wisdom and daring, and supposed to understand at every point the character of the land he ruled, his power appearing unshaken, while it was known to be backed with an army one hundred thousand strong.
She stood, the most justly popular and beloved of living monarchy, amid thousands of her rejoicing subjects, encompassed with loving friends and happy children, at the side of the beloved husband whose plan was now triumphantly realised; and she spoke the words which inaugurated that triumph and invited the world to gaze on it.
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 Great Britain - Biocrawler definition:Great Britain - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Great Britain - Biocrawler definition:Great Britain - Biocrawler
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You can find it there under the keyword Great_Britain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Great_Britainandaction=history).
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 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2002
The Committee considered the second periodic report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (CRC/C/83/Add.3), submitted on 14 September 1999, at its 811th and 812th meetings (see CRC/C/SR.811 and 812), held on 19 September 2002, and adopted at its 833rd meeting, (CRC/C/SR.833) held on 4 October 2002, the following concluding observations.
The Committee welcomes the statistical data provided in the written replies to the list of issues, the recently published statistics on children and young people, and the intention of the Children and Young People's Unit to publish an annual State of the Children report.
The Committee recommends that, in light of article 44, paragraph 6, of the Convention, the second periodic report and the written replies submitted by the State party be made widely available to the public at large and that the publication of the relevant summary records and the concluding observations adopted by the Committee be considered.
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 > Great Britain abcworld.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
For an explanation of often confusing terms like England, (Great) Britain and United Kingdom see British Isles (terminology).
The name Great Britain was originally a translation of the French term Grande Bretagne, which was 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.
Michael's Mount, the Isle of Wight, Lindisfarne, Lundy the Isle of Portland, and Steepholm in England; Flatholm and Anglesey in Wales; and the Isle of Arran, Bute and the inner and outer Hebrides of Scotland.
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 Concluding Observations - CRC - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - Concluding observations adopted ...
The Committee would like to suggest that these documents be brought to the attention of Parliament and that the suggestions and recommendations for action contained therein be followed up.
Equally, the launching of the new Student Health Service, a programme designed to cater for the health needs of schoolchildren aged between 6 and 18, is warmly welcomed, as is the establishment of the Health Care and Promotion Fund, which is designed to step up efforts for health promotion and disease prevention.
The Committee is encouraged by the constructive, open and frank dialogue it had with the State party and welcomes the positive reactions to the suggestions and recommendations made during the discussion.
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 Powell's Books - Great Britain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A stunningly original account, revolutionary in technique, examines the character of the great Romantic poet Lord Byron through the lives and deadly rivalry of the two women he left behind.
In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and 52 of his comrades were captured at sea by the Barbary corsairs.
Thousands of Europeans had been snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of Algiers, Tunis...
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 PUL History Resources + Great Britain, 1700-1900
Issued under the direction of the American Historical Association and the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain.
The lists and indexes of British documents published by the Public Record Office begin at Firestone 1421.39.98q.
Please note that these lists are somewhat out of date, and are in the process of being revised.
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 Parliaments, Nations and Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1660-1860 - Word Power
The abolition of the Scottish and Irish Parliaments in 1707 and 1800 created a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland centred upon the Westminster legislature.
Parliament may have been conceived as a repository of 'the' national interest, but in practice it was the site of four national and multiple cross-national identities.
This fascinating book is a major contribution to the history of the forging of the United Kingdom and national identity and will be essential reading for all undergraduates of history and politics.
www.word-power.co.uk /catalogue/0719062470   (651 words)

  
 Research Collections in Microform: Parliamentary Register 1774-1796 (Great Britain) - Bowling Green State University
Title: Parliamentary Register, or History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons and Lords 1774-1796 (Great Britain)
Content Description: A reproduction of the 45 volumes of proceedings and debates of the House of Commons and House of Lords of Great Britain.
See the record for Parliamentary Debates 1066-1918 (Great Britain) for a more complete list of BGSU's holdings of Parliamentary Debates.
www.bgsu.edu /colleges/library/infosrv/MicroCollections/parliament1.htm   (150 words)

  
 List of United Kingdom-related topics bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
List of United Kingdom-related topics bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon
You can access this list quickly by typing "UK topics"
Irish Football League (not to be confused with the Football League of Ireland)
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 UK_topics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Kingdom of Great Britain (when England and Scotland merged in 1707);
Main article: History of Britain and history of articles in other sections on this page.
List of music festivals in the United Kingdom
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 Embassy of Serbia and Montenegro in London, Great Britain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
BELGRADE - Serbian parliament speaker Predrag Markovic said on Thursday he would convene a parliament session on the Kosovo-Metohija issue as soon as possible, which would be held in the next few days, should the Serbian government require that.
One official from the Serbian List for Kosovo, Goran Bogdanovic, said yesterday that local Serbs will be part of the Belgrade delegation for the coming talks, but the party's leader, Oliver Ivanovic, says that the List has not yet made a decision about this.
In a debate with members of the European Parliament and deputies of the EU countries' parliaments, Solana explained that UNMIK, which has authority over the police there, will not stay in the province forever, and called on the governments of the EU countries to think about taking over the police mission there.
www.yugoslavembassy.org.uk /srpski/kosovoNews.php   (12910 words)

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