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  Great Britain - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Great Britain is also used as a political term describing the combination of England, Scotland, and Wales, the three nations which together include all of the island's territory.
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 whch 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.
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 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The Prime Minister's main responsibilities include setting the direction of the government, appointing members of the Cabinet, coordinating the activities of the Cabinet and government departments, participating in ceremonial occasions, and being the 'face' of the government in the UK and abroad.
The Prime Minister and the government must resign upon the passage of a vote of no confidence[?] or the loss of a vote of confidence[?], unless the defeated Prime Minister seeks a dissolution of parliament[?] which in theory the monarch may refuse but in practice never does.
The Prime Minister must also retain the support of his or her party's parliamentary delegation, and in a number of cases including that of Neville Chamberlain and Margaret Thatcher, a party will oust a Prime Minister who appears to be unpopular.
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 MSN Encarta - William Pitt
Pitt, William (1759-1806), prime minister of Great Britain (1783-1801 and 1804-1806), who restored British confidence and prosperity after the American Revolution and was a resolute leader of the nation in war against revolutionary France.
Britain declared war on France in 1793, and Pitt became the leader of a nation determined to resist the spread of French power and ideas.
His long tenure of power and his determination to control all aspects of government were important contributions to the developing concept of a prime minister.
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 GI -- World War II Commemoration
He was minister of health (1923-1924, 1924-1929, 1931), chancellor of the exchequer (1923-1924, 1931-1937), and prime minister (1937-1940), succeeding Baldwin.
Although his policies were discredited, he held on as prime minister until May 1940, when he resigned and was succeeded by Winston CHURCHILL.
The more Britain rearmed, the less sincere her desire for peace might appear; the more she spoke of peace, the less credible the deterrence of rearmament might become.
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 To the Prime Minister of Great Britain, 4 October 1972   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
We are well aware that Great Britain shares this ideal: that peace may finally reign throughout the world, and that violence, wherever it may manifest itself and in whatever form, should be rejected and condemned.
Great Britain is about to forge closer links with her European neighbours, to whom she will be able to offer her special historical and political experience.
We note with satisfaction the part played by Great Britain on the international level, especially by her membership in worldwide organisations.
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 The Yes (Prime) Minister Files - Introduction
Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister is a British comedy series about the wheeling and dealing of political life.
Jim Hacker as Prime Minister is still obsessed with popularity among the voters, but he now also wants to have his name written in the history books as a great statesman.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was very impressed with the series and once stated: "Its closely observed portrayal of what goes on in the corridors of power has given me hours of pure joy".
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 From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: Lord North
Lord North was Prime Minister of Great Britain from January, 1770 to March, 1782.
By December, North realized that Great Britain was on the verge of war with her colonies.
On the 22nd, Henry Conway, a former minister in the Chatham administration, led an address to the throne to end the American war and cede the colonies their independence.
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 Harold Wilson
Despite the fact that he headed a minority government (and was therefore very vulnerable to defeat in Parliament), Wilson announced his intention of implementing the controversial policies of renegotiation of the terms of Britain's membership in the EC and nationalization.
The longest serving Labour prime minister, he retained his seat in Commons until he was created a life peer in 1983.
Prime Ministers of Great Britain (table) - Prime Ministers of Great Britain Prime Minister Party1 Dates in Office Sir Robert Walpole...
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 Prime Ministers of Great Britain on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Remarks by Bush and Prime Minister Blair of Great Britain and Northern Ireland In a Joint Press Availability.
Remarks by Bush and Prime Minister Blair of Great Britain and Northern Ireland In a Joint Press Availability (Part 4 of 4).
INSIDE BRITAIN'S SCHOOLS: Then and now: How a new diet changed this little boy's life; Schools are waking up to the link between processed food and disruptive behaviour.
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 Markup: Expressing Support for Cyprus Settlement; Expressing Appreciation for the Longstanding Support and Friendship ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Subsequently we learned with great disappointment that the Secretary General was told by the Turkish Cypriot leader that he could not accept the settlement plan and could not agree to a referenda despite the fact that the informal polling indicated that a majority of the Turkish Cypriots were prepared to support the plan.
I commend the Prime Minister for this decision.
Prime Minister Blair has shown courageous leadership in cooperating with the United States against Iraq despite the views of many in the Parliament and the views of a large part of its public.
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 Winston S. Churchill -- Statement on the Armenian Genocide
The Great War had carried them through hideous slaughters to the fairest and broadest hope they had ever known; and then abruptly laid them — it may well be for ever — in the dust.
And after the rise of Russia to power the struggle for possession of the Armenian regions, as containing the natural frontiers of their own domains, was continued by Russia, Persia and the Ottoman Empire.
The Armenian people emerged from the Great War scattered, extirpated in many districts, and reduced through massacre, losses of war and enforce deportations adopted as an easy system of killing, by at least a third.
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Former Prime Minister of Great Britain and a leading authority on the changing global landscape, John Major offers a unique perspective.
John Major was elected to the British Parliament in 1979, joined the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to The Treasury in 1987 and went on to serve as Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
During his seven years as Prime Minister, he instituted public sector reforms that became international models and left behind the strongest economy Britain has seen in decades.
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 Prelude to War - Great Britain
Great Britain after World War I was marked by the death of a million of her young men, more than she was to lose in World War II.
Half American, he was nevertheless British to the core and believed absolutely in the greatness and majesty of Great Britain.
History would prove that Churchill was meant to be a wartime Prime Minister, not a peacetime one.
www.worldwar2database.com /html/preludeuk.htm   (415 words)

  
 President Bush and Prime Minister Blair Meet in Prague
If he chooses not to disarm, we will work with our close friends, the closest of which is Great Britain, and we will disarm him.
Prime Minister Blair: We will do what's necessary, both to secure ourselves at home, and to make sure that the will of the United Nations is enforced abroad.
And I think what you will find here at this NATO summit is a totally united determination on behalf of the international community, reflected in the unanimous United Nations resolution, that Saddam Hussein has to disarm himself of all weapons of mass destruction.
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 MacDonald, Ramsay --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The first Labour party prime minister of Great Britain was Ramsay MacDonald.
On the eve of World War I the people of Great Britain were concerned with militant suffragettes, workingmen's strikes, and an Irish crisis (see Ireland).
Britain declared war three days later, and the British dominions and colonies were automatically drawn in.
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 Millions Now Living Will Never Die
A few ministers here and there joined with him in the proclamation, but the majority of them scoffed at him and said all manner of evil against him because of his faithful proclamation of the message.
Concerning this same subject, the great Master further said: "The sun [shall] be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken".
In other words, they are ignoring the great fundamental truths of Christianity foreshadowed by the typical sacrifices and made certain by the one great sacrifice of Jesus, the selection of the church and through the church the restoration of the world during the reign of Christ -clearly in fulfillment of the Master's words.
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 BBC - h2g2 - W E Gladstone (1809-1898) Prime Minister of Great Britain and Ireland - A596577
John Gladstone was a friend of Sir Robert Peel the Prime Minister from 1834-5 and 1841-1846, who in later life conferred a baronetcy upon John Gladstone, sat in Parliament from 1818 to 1827 and was master of many slaves upon his various oversees properties and plantations.
On Aberdeen's death Palmerstone succeeded as Prime Minister and offered Gladstone the chance to continue as Chancellor, although not able to eradicate Income Tax Gladstone did what he could to alleviate the tax burden in other ways.
So what did lead to this schism between the monarch and the man who served as her Prime Minister during 4 terms, for a total of eleven and a half years.
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 NewsCurrents Extra! WHO AM I?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I am the head of Great Britain's Labor Party and became Britain's leader in 1997.
Elections in Britain were supposed to be held on May 3, but I delayed them until June 7 because of a contagious disease outbreak affecting livestock in parts of Europe.
The outbreak cost farming and tourism businesses millions of dollars in Great Britain, and resulted in tight restrictions on activities from fox hunting to horseracing.
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 Handwriting-L - Handwriting Analysis Archive (Margaret Thatcher - Biography)
Margaret Thatcher became the first woman Prime Minister of Great Britain when she was elevated to that office in 1979.
She was the longest continually serving British Prime Minister of this century.
Her retirement in 1990 has not kept her from being a "voice" in Great Britain and the world, but, did allow her time to write two memoirs and to become a Baroness.
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Churchill was already a man of sixty-five when he became the Prime Minister of Great Britain.
The King of Great Britain gave him the position of Board of Trade in his cabinet in 1908.
Britain was in the middle of a terrible war with the Germans, Germans who wished for their power and land.
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 Britannia Government: Prime Ministers - Margaret Thatcher
A graduate of Somerville College, Oxford, with a master of arts degree from the University of Oxford she worked as a research chemist and a barrister, concentrating on tax law, before being elected to the House of Commons in 1953.
Elected leader of her Party (the Opposition) in 1975, she became prime minister in 1979.
She took a strong stand against the trade unions during the miner's strike (1984-85), and moved Britain toward privatization, selling minor interests in public utilities to the business interests.
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 Pravda.RU British Premier Suggests Cardinal Changes In Russia-NATO Relations
Prime Minister of Great Britain Tony Blair suggested that relations between NATO and Russia should be fundamentally altered towards intensifying cooperation.
On Saturday Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov informed journalists that a vanguard group of representatives of the Foreign Ministry, Defense Ministry and Ministry of Emergencies which had flown to Afghanistan was sent there according to the agreement reached by Presidents Vladimir Putin and George Bush in Washington.
RIA Novosti obtained information that on Friday prime-minister of Great Britain sent a letter to George Robertson, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, to Russian President Vladimir Putin and to leaders of all Alliance countries with the proposal to start discussion of the issue related to deepening of relations between NATO and Russia.
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 Tony Blair, Prime Minister of Great Britain's Address To the Nigerian Parliament, February 7, 2002
Text of a speech by the British Prime Minister to the National Assembly yesterday in Abuja.
Prime Minister Chretien of Canada - who will chair the next G8 Meeting - set out his hopes for the G8 action plan at the world Economic Forum in New York last weekend.
This is causing great human suffering and holding back the development of the continent.
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 Announcement of the " Atlantic Charter"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
All of the nations of the world, for realistic as well as spiritual reasons, must come to the abandonment of the use of force." Joint statement of the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, August 14, 1941 AUGUST 14, 1941.
The following statement signed by the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Great Britain is released for the information of the press: "The President of the United States and the Prime Minister, Mr.
They have considered the dangers to world civilization arising from the policies of military domination by conquest upon which the Hitlerite Government of Germany and other governments associated therewith have embarked, and have made clear the steps which their countries are respectively taking for their safety in the face of these dangers.
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 Devonshire, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of, Marquess Of Hartington, Earl Of Devonshire, Baron Cavendish Of Hardwick ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Eldest son of William Cavendish, the 3rd Duke (1698–1755), he was elected to the House of Commons in 1741 and 1747, and in 1751 he moved to the House of Lords, as Lord Cavendish of Hardwick, in his father's barony.
The Conservative English political leader the marquess of Salisbury served three times as prime minister of Great Britain (1885–86, 1886–92, 1895–1902) and four times as foreign secretary (1878, 1885–86, 1886–92, 1895–1900).
(1784–1860), British statesman, born in Edinburgh, Scotland; prime minister (1852–55); his government involved Great Britain in the Crimean War against Russia (1853–56); although he was ill-informed by British generals in the war, Aberdeen was constitutionally responsible for their mistakes, and resigned Jan. 29, 1855; as foreign secretary in Sir Robert Peel's second...
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