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 British History 101
During this time period, English monarchs were at one of their high points of power – a scary thought indeed when a man such as King John was crowned in 1199.
British History 101 is listed at podcastalley.com, and I’d really appreciate it if you’d stop by and cast a vote for me if you have a few spare moments during your day.
Saving the lives of the men of the British Expeditionary Force became one of the biggest pieces of propaganda in military history, and the phrase “Dunkirk Spirit” even came to be known to describe solidarity in times of distress.
britishhistory101.blogspot.com   (11054 words)

  
 List of fictional British monarchs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of fictional British Monarchs- characters who appear in alternate histories and similar works of fiction as the monarch of England, Scotland, the United Kingdom and variants thereof.
They are listed according to the production or story in which they appeared.
King Richard IV of England, played by Brian Blessed, who took power after his uncle, Richard III, was killed during the Battle of Bosworth Field rather than being killed (as it is alleged) by Richard III as a boy in the tower.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_fictional_British_monarchs   (680 words)

  
 French Revolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Factions within the Assembly began to become What would become known as the right wing the opposition to revolution was led this time by the aristocrat Jacques Antoine Marie Cazalès and the Jean-Sifrein Maury.
Louis XVI opposed to the course of revolution but rejecting the potentially treacherous aid the other monarchs of Europe cast his with General Bouillé who condemned both the and the assembly and promised him refuge support in his camp at Montmedy.
French people were in no temper to dictated to by foreign monarchs and the of force merely resulted in the militarization the frontiers.
www.freeglossary.com /French_Revolution   (3877 words)

  
 Antique British Prints
In "Plate 1, Trepanning a Recruit," a young country fellow is enticed to join the army by two recruiters who use flattery and spirited drinks, while the country swain's wife and child look on with misgivings.
Henry Singleton (1766-1839) was a British artist of genre, historical, literary and biblical themed scenes.
In the early nineteenth century, Great Britain was one of the most powerful countries in the world, and the British people had a fascination with their country and its society.
www.philaprintshop.com /british.html   (2251 words)

  
 Degenerate - A New Generation of Madness - 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The British were gone now, and opposition groups had to be born.
Instead, it was the result of a fictional conversation between Gautama Buddha and Karl Marx, a gradual programme of national self-sufficiency coupled with collective ownership.
The Burmese Way to Socialism appeared to be a hopeless fiction, and the economic situation was worse than it had been in living memory.
www.diacritica.com /degenerate/1/burma3.html   (1496 words)

  
 boys clothing: British royalty -- chronological list
This list is a chronological list of maonarchs by dynasty which makes the sucession a little clearer than our alphabetical listing.
Walpole dominated British politics for a quarter century, but was finlly overwealmed as the merchant class began to replace the landed airistocracy.
Beginning with Edward the British soverign was increasingly a figure head in a country ruled by Parliament.
histclo.com /royal/eng/royal-ukchron.htm   (4273 words)

  
 The Maiden's Crown | Newsletter
The beauty of historical fiction is that we aren’t limited to enjoying just the way we live now, but the way we lived then.
Whether the long-dead characters are purely fictional or genuine historical figures, there is always something about their lives that can entertain, provoke, thrill and touch us—just as any good story should.
The first historical novelist I fell in love with was Jean Plaidy, the English godmother of historical fiction, with her tales of long-dead queens and princesses and duchesses in distress.
www.randomhouse.com /crown/maidenscrown/newsletter_home.html   (495 words)

  
 English Literature Reference Sources
Authors are listed in alphabetical order, followed by an excerpt from a critical review, the reviewer's name and a complete citation to the book or article.
For example, film adaptations can be located in the classified listings only by language, period and writer, whereas in the subject listings one can go directly to the term Film Adaptation and there, under a subheading by country (e.g.
A chronological listing of births, deaths, events, and works of British literature indicating '~the extent of literary activity and literary related events in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales during a specific year, decade, or century." (Introduction) Coverage is from 516 A.D. to 1979.
www.library.cornell.edu /olinuris/ref/engbib.htm   (5032 words)

  
 News | TimesDaily.com | TimesDaily | Florence, AL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
These are lists of fictional things created in literature or media that are available.
List of deities (note: most deities are, or were at some time, not considered fictional)
Unlike fictional people, i.e., people from works of fiction, fictitious people are those somebody has claimed actually exist, for the purpose of e.g., a hoax, a fraud, or a pseudonym.
www.timesdaily.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Archive_of_fictional_things   (608 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
List of Canadian senators who resigned and were elected to the House of Commons
List of Candidates for U.S. Representative from Ohio, A-G
List of Candidates for U.S. Representative from Ohio, N-Z
www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Category:Lists_of_people.html   (400 words)

  
 Stereotypes and Ideal In Distinguishing Us From Them
The British are portrayed by Barzini, Wiener, and Barnett as being a society in which class solidarity is a dominant characteristic.
After two World Wars, the British are a people bereft of empire, but not of the ideals that led to the empire in the first place.
The exploits of Horatio, Lord Nelson were inspiring enough told straight to mold British character, but they inspired a host of fictional characters: Horatio Hornblower, Nicholas Ramage, Richard Bolitho, and a variety of naval officers in modern situations invented by Douglas Reeman.
www.gwu.edu /~edpol/manuscript/Chap1-1.htm   (3245 words)

  
 Republic
For instance in Webster's republic is defined as "a state where the head of state is not a monarch, and in modern times is usually a president".
This office being hereditary, and being possessed of such ample and splendid prerogatives, is no objection to the government’s being a republic, as long as it is bound by fixed laws, which the people have a voice in making, and a right to defend.” -March 6, 1775).
For instance Mobutu Sese Seko is generally considered such "autocrat" that tried to give an appearance of "republican democracy" to his style of government, for instance by allowing something that was generally regarded a sockpuppet opposition.
articles.gourt.com /en/republic   (5264 words)

  
 List of fictional United States presidential candidates information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This is a list of fictional candidates who ran for the office of President of the United States.
Presidential candidates are listed in alphabetical order by the first letter in their last name.
Winchell is a historical character in real life and a fictional candidate in 1942 for the 1944 Democratic nomination.
c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/List_of_fictional_United_States_presidential_candidates   (918 words)

  
 The Watchman Expositor: Index of Cults and Religions
Armstrong taught British Israelism and believed that worthy humans could eventually “become God as God is God.” Teaches salvation by works predicated on Sabbatarianism, tithing (20-30%), and keeping the Old Testament feast days and dietary laws.
British Israelism: (Anglo-Israelism/Israelitism) The doctrine that the true identity of modern Israel (or the “ten lost tribes”) is Britian and (sometimes) the British colonies (America).
Headed the British branch of Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), founded the Abbey of Thelema at Cefalu in Sicily.
www.watchman.org /cat95.htm   (14256 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Most states base their legal system on British Common law, with the notable exception of Louisiana which is based partially on the French Civil law.
Southeastern states on the Atlantic coast originated as British colonies named after British monarchs: Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland.
Point Roberts, Washington, is the tip of a peninsula from British Columbia, Canada, that extends south of the 49th parallel north to fall within U.S. territory.
www.genealogy-uk.net /index.php?article=U.S._state   (3745 words)

  
 British Royal Navy - 17th Century
Disabilities and losses were rarely paid to the sailors and their families - making the choice of a life at sea one of the least desirable one could image.
Just as I have stated in my Musketeer-orientated pages, Richelieu was played the most important role in the of power in France, and not necessarily a villain as he has been portrayed in many Musketeer movies.
Any list of offenses and punishments which feature the word 'death' so prominently doesn't exactly leave one feeling relaxed.
www.sirclisto.com /cavalier/royal_navy.htm   (2602 words)

  
 McFarland - Publisher of Reference and Scholarly Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
While countless films have been based on fictional characters, a surprising number have also been based on the lives of real people.
It lists 569 real people arranged alphabetically (from George Adamson to Emile Zola), provides a brief biography of each, and lists each film in which he or she has been portrayed.
The appendices list 71 additional real people who have been portrayed in feature films, including American presidents, British, French, German and Russian monarchs, and Billy the Kid and Wild Bill Hickock.
www.mcfarlandpub.com /book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-1461-8   (185 words)

  
 List of fictional media religious fi...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_List_of_fictional_media_religious_fi...   (135 words)

  
 Fall Courses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
While many of these narratives were written as factual accounts, many others were significantly fictionalized, incorporated novelistic elements, or were completely fictional, serving as social and political commentary about the status of gender and race relations.
This course aims to introduce first year students to several of the foundational texts in the British liberal democratic political tradition and to relate these classic works of political philosophy and social criticism to outstanding literary representations of free societies written in the United Kingdom during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
In the second, and longest, section of the course (“War, Systems, and Networks in the 1790s”), we consider what “system” meant in Britain in the 1790s, a period during which the term was often used to connote a “French” philosophical method that led to violent social upheaval.
www.duke.edu /web/english/undergraduate/courses-fall/courselist.htm   (9721 words)

  
 The Russian Revolution--World History lesson plan (grades 9-12)--DiscoverySchool.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In addition to a main character (one of the individuals previously listed), the act needs at least one other character—a friend or foe of the main character.
In this case, the other character may also be from the preceding list or may be another character, even an imaginary character.
Have students research the genealogy of the major monarchs of Europe during the second half of the 19th century.
school.discovery.com /lessonplans/programs/revolution   (2100 words)

  
 [R-G] FW: Mullahs and Heretics (Tariq Ali)
He was tried in secret and executed by the British in the Central Jail in Lahore, a 15--minute walk from where Nizam Din was telling me the story.
The fictional mullah of the storytellers and puppet--shows who travelled from village to village was a greedy and lustful arch--villain; he used religion to pursue his desires and ambitions.
The main reason that the Ottomans staggered on till the First World War is that the three vultures eyeing the prey -- the British Empire, tsarist Russia and the Habsburgs -- could not agree on a division of the spoils.
lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/rad-green/2002-February/002613.html   (8620 words)

  
 Gloria Ward: Artwork and Commissions
Gloria specialises in watercolours of the British rural and urban landscape, flora and fauna, but also works in acrylics.
Her pictures can be any size up to about A3 (British Paper Size 11.7 inches x 16.5 inches).
Why not e-mail Gloria for a list of her current portfolio of artwork or to talk about a possible commission.
www.britannia.com /arts/gloriaward   (346 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Victoria And Albert: DVD: John Erman,Nigel Hawthorne,Kate Maberly,Patrick Malahide,Diana Rigg,Penelope ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
She is introduced by the family adviser to a young German prince called Albert, and in spite of their initial indifference to one another and a great deal of political opposition, they fall in love.
The relationship between Victoria and Albert was a remarkable one and this film, while occasionally erring on the side of sentiment, brings that relationship to life.
The film raises a number of intriguing issues--the politics of royal marriage, the relationship between the royal house and the citizenry, etc. This is a classy, well-made film--a must for those interested in British royal history.
www.amazon.ca /Victoria-Albert-John-Erman/dp/B00005O7N8   (2177 words)

  
 Renaissance Links
A map of the British Isles, from Mercator's 'Atlas or Meditations of a Cosmographer on the Creation of the World and on the Form of Created Matter' printed in 1595.
A list of all the most popular names in Shakespeare's England.
Has a list of the dying speeches of Anne Boleyn (1536), John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland (1553), Mary, Queen of Scotts (1587), Lady Jane Grey and Lord Guildford Dudley (1554), and others, in addition to many pictures and articles on public execution in Shakespeare's London.
www.shakespeare-online.com /links/ren.html   (854 words)

  
 List_of_themed_timelines - Thagodz Wiki
This page is a partial list of the timelines and chronologies, other lists can be found at Lists of topics.
List of timelines from across the web of things that never were
Fictional encyclopedia wiki with a section for fictional history
www.thagodz.com /search/wiki/?title=List_of_themed_timelines   (465 words)

  
 Illegally Financing the WMD Hoax (by Ahmed Amr) - Media Monitors Network (MMN)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
That proposition was blown out of the water with the recent publication of a pre-invasion British memo that clearly establishes that ‘the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.’
As for Afghanistan, the initial casualty list was 13 American casualties – mostly special forces and CIA agents.
Yet, in the chaos that followed the fall of Baghdad, there was a curious lack of concern in Washington and London about Saddam’s fictional lethal arsenal.
usa.mediamonitors.net /content/view/full/15207   (2953 words)

  
 paella ladle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Gigan is a fictional monster from the Godzilla series, and was introduced in the film Godzilla vs Gigan (1972).
However a compromise was reached at the 1917 Árd Fheis (party conference), where it was agreed that the party would pursue the establishment of an independent republic in the short-term, until the Irish people could be given the opportunity to decide on the form of goverment they preferred.
In particular the anti-Treaty faction objected to the continued role in the Irish constitution that would be granted to the British monarch under the Irish Free State.
paellaweir.blogspot.com   (11280 words)

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