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	United Kingdom - MSN Encarta
		United Kingdom, officially the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, island nation and constitutional monarchy in north-western Europe, member of the European Union and Commonwealth of Nations.
		The United Kingdom is bordered to the south by the English Channel, which separates it from continental Europe, to the east by the North Sea, and to the west by the Irish Sea and the Atlantic Ocean; the only land border is between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
		The crowns of England and Scotland were united in 1603, but the two countries remained separate political entities until the 1707 Act of Union, which formed the Kingdom of Great Britain with a single legislature.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553483/United_Kingdom.html (1082 words)

	July 1922 in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See also: June 1922 in the United Kingdom, August 1922 in the United Kingdom, and the Timeline of British history.
		Whatever settlement was made care should be taken, both in the interests of debtor and creditor, that the mode of liquidation was consistent with the easiest possible development of industry and the interchange of wealth.
		The request recently made by the United States that the government should consider funding the amount of the debt, and placing it on a stable and equitable foundation, would be completely met.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/July_1922_in_the_United_Kingdom (7112 words)

	Elections in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United Kingdom has five distinct types of elections: general, local, regional, European and mayoral.
		In addition, whilst UK, Irish and Commonwealth citizens may register to vote in all elections, European Union nationals resident in the UK may register to vote in local, European, Scottish and Welsh elections.
		United Kingdom general elections are the elections held when the Members of Parliament (MPs) forming the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom are elected.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_the_United_Kingdom (4266 words)

	Ask Us A Question (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The United Kingdom is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean and its ancillary bodies of water, including the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea, and the Irish Sea.
		At the April 2001 UK Census, the United Kingdom's population was 58,789,194, the third-largest in the European Union (behind Germany and France) and the twenty-first largest in the world.
		The 36,320-member Royal Navy operates the United Kingdom's nuclear deterrent, which consists of four Trident missile-armed submarines, while the Royal Marines are the Royal Navy's Light Infantry units for amphibious operations and for specialist reinforcement forces in and beyond the NATO area.
	www.avoo.com /wiki/United_Kingdom (7862 words)

	United Kingdom - MSN Encarta
		After 1948 the United Kingdom took advantage of the Marshall Plan, a four-year economic recovery program designed by the United States to revitalize the economies of European countries by making low-cost loans available for reconstruction.
		(The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization of countries that was founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation.) As a member of the UN, Britain served as one of the countries that continued to occupy and rebuild Germany.
		Britain developed its own nuclear weapons and cooperated closely with the United States in a policy that relied on using the threat of nuclear attack to discourage aggression by potential enemies.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553483_27/United_Kingdom.html (2456 words)

	United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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).
		Also under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom though not of the United Kingdom itself are the Crown Dependencies of the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and a number of Overseas Territories.
		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.
	www.freeglossary.com /United_Kingdom (2404 words)

	World InfoZone - United Kingdom Facts
		The island of ST LUCIA was ceded to the United Kingdom in 1814.
		FIJI was annexed by the United Kingdom in 1874.
		The Kingdom of LIBYA was established in 1951 after five years under a British administration appointed by the United Nations.
	www.worldinfozone.com /facts.php?country=UnitedKingdom (3420 words)

	1993 Human Rights Report: UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It may insist that disciplinary charges be preferred against police officers and may comment on the quality of police investigations, but it has no control over the outcome of disciplinary cases.
		A court in Northern Ireland may draw whatever inference it deems proper, including an inference of guilt, if a subject remains silent during interrogation by police or at trial, though he cannot be convicted solely on the basis of such an inference.
		In May 1992, the High Court ruled that a local council's decision to deny funding to a Muslim-run school was "manifestly unfair" and that the Education Secretary should reconsider.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/democracy/1993_hrp_report/93hrp_report_eur/UnitedKingdomNorthernIreland.html (8492 words)

	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.
	flagspot.net /flags/gb-hist.html (4940 words)

	THE UNITED KINGDOM OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, WALES AND NORTHERN IRELAND
		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.
		The United Kingdom, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing Western ideas of property, liberty, capitalism and parliamentary democracy—to say nothing of its part in advancing world literature and science.
		At the April 2001 census, the United Kingdom's population was 58,789,194, the third-largest in the European Union (behind Germany and France) and the twenty-first largest in the world.
	www.solarnavigator.net /geography/united_kingdom_england_scotlad_wales_northern_ireland.htm (4134 words)

	United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		An Admiralty Memo in 1922 noted that the Red Jack was introduced in 1694 to prevent the use of the Union Jack.
		However that may be, such knowledge does in fact spread, and when the Home Office, in 1943, desired to establish flags for the National Fire Service and and the Civil Defence Service, they agreed that, following the ruling of 1938, they should be made of the dimensions of 5x3.
		It may be worth making clear that situation is no longer exactly the same as regards the Australian flag, as it has since then been explicitly defined as 1:2 in the Flags Act.
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/gb.html (3308 words)

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		This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
		Britain is a signatory of the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol and continues to meet its obligations to refugees as a person who has a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religious, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.
		The maximum sum a candidate may spend on a general election campaign is 4,330 pounds plus 3.7 pence for each elector in a borough constituency or 4.9 pence for each elector in a county constituency.
	www.cmseducation.org /wconsts/uk.html (8756 words)

	AMERICA'S ROLE IN THE UNITED NATIONS
		The United Nations Treaty Collection confirms the appropriateness of this `constitutional interpretive' approach to the Charter of the United Nations with its statement that the charter may be traced `back to the Magna Carta (the Great Charter) of 1215,' a national constitutional document.
		According to Article 108 of the Charter of the United Nations, amendments may be proposed by a vote of two-thirds of the United Nations General Assembly and may become effective upon ratification by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the United Nations, including all the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
		The Constitution of the United States of America is a legitimate constitution, having been submitted directly to the people for ratification by their representatives elected and assembled solely for the purpose of passing on the terms of that document.
	www.house.gov /paul/congrec/congrec2000/cr091800.htm (2357 words)

	LLRX -- A Guide to the UK Legal System
		The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland consists of four countries forming three distinct jurisdictions each having its own court system and legal profession: England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
		The United Kingdom was established in 1801 with the union of Great Britain and Ireland, but only achieved its present form in 1922 with the partition of Ireland and the establishment of the independent Irish Free State (later the Republic of Ireland).
		Cases may be appealed from the County Court to the High Court.
	www.llrx.com /features/uk.htm (4152 words)

	1922 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		May 19 - Son Byong-Hi one of the leaders of the or March 1st Movement in Korea
		United Kingdom - King George V of the United Kingdom (1910 - 1936).
		United States - Warren Gamaliel Harding President of the United States (1921 - 1923).
	www.freeglossary.com /1922 (1905 words)

	The History Place - This Month in History
		May 20, 325 A.D. - The Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical council of Catholic Church was called by Constantine I, first Christian Emperor of the Roman Empire.
		The battle began on May 12 when an American force of 11,000 landed on Attu.
		Heavy rains throughout May caused the Connemaugh River Dam to burst sending a wall of water 75 feet high pouring down upon the city.
	www.historyplace.com /specials/calendar/may.htm (5722 words)

	Chronology 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.
		The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics united Russia, the Ukraine, Byelorussia, and Transcaucasia into one federation.
	www.indiana.edu /~league/1922.htm (2036 words)

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		(e) from 29 May 1953: by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.
		The origin of the term prime minister and the question to whom it should originally be applied have long been issues of debate.
		It may be noted in this context that there is no substance to the legend that David Rice Atchison was president 4-5 Mar 1849.
	www.rulers.org /rulu.html (8485 words)

	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
		(j) from 29 May 1953: "by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith."
		The origin of the term prime minister and the question to whom it should originally be applied have long been issues of scholarly and political debate.
		470 Kingdom of Dál Riada (of the Scots) established.
	www.worldstatesmen.org /United_Kingdom.html (5310 words)

	International Humanitarian Law - State Parties / Signatories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The time limits having elapsed, the Conventions and the Protocols are no longer open for signature.
		The States which have not signed them may at any time accede or, in the appropriate circumstances, succeed to them.
		instead of signing and then ratifying a treaty, a State may become party to it by the single act called accession.
	www.icrc.org /ihl.nsf/WebSign?ReadForm&id=270&ps=P (120 words)

	United Kingdom Parties
		Emily May Blatch was created Baroness Blatch, of Hinchingbrooke in 1987, 1992-94 Minister of State of Education and 1994-97 Minister of State of the Home Office.
		She is designated to take over as Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, when it meets in May 2006.
		She is the third ranking in the Shadow Cabinet, where she held various posts since 1997.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /united_kingdom_parties.htm (1329 words)

	GlobaLex - A Guide to the UK Legal System
		The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland consists of four countries forming three distinct jurisdictions each having its own court system and legal profession:
		Making a Difference: Taking Forward our Priorities published in May 2005 sets out the DCA’s achievements and vision.
		After centuries of conflict with Britain, in which the 'Irish question' was a major political issue, demands for home rule for Ireland were met by establishing two separate parliaments subordinate to Westminster (the Government of Ireland Act 1920: text on BAILII).
	www.nyulawglobal.org /globalex/United_Kingdom.htm (4744 words)

	Silent Era : PSFL : The Trap (1922)
		Silent Era : PSFL : The Trap (1922)
		A growing source of silent era film information.
		AKA The Heart of a Wolf in the United Kingdom
	www.silentera.com /PSFL/data/T/Trap1922.html (137 words)

	NBER Macrohistory: NBER Macrohistory Database Series from the United Kingdom
		NBER Macrohistory: NBER Macrohistory Database Series from the United Kingdom
		U.K. Great Britain-United Kingdom: Increases in Length of Railway Line Opened For Traffic, Board Of Trade 1826-1868, 1872-1912, 1920-1935.
		U.K. Great Britain-United Kingdom: Increases in Length of Railway Line Opened For Traffic, Board Of Trade 1826-68, 1872-1912, 1920-35.
	www.nber.org /databases/macrohistory/contents/uk.html (1029 words)

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