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	Traditional counties of the British Isles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The British Isles may be divided into the following traditional counties (also ancient or geographic counties or historic counties).
		Etymological list of counties of the United Kingdom
		This page was last modified 14:42, 3 March 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Traditional_counties_of_the_British_Isles (74 words)

	Confederation of the (British) Isles
		The British Isles constitute an archipelago located on northeastern Atlantic Ocean off of continental Europe, from which it is separated by the North Sea, the Strait of Dover, and the English Channel.
		While the British colonies in the Southern Hemisphere and South America were popular destinations, a large number of Irish preferred to immigrate either to England or Scotland, as destinations that were both close and moderately attractive.
		The decolonization of the British Empire that began with the independence, in 1947, of India, Bengal, and Pakistan, and the close integration of the United Kingdom and Ireland (an independent republic since 1946) into the emerging European Confederation and the League of Nations, necessarily wrought tremendous changes throughout the British Isles.
	www.ahtg.net /TpA/confisle.html (5105 words)

	American English
		British usage is "meter" for a measuring device and "metre" for the unit of length.
		British houses simply do not have such things, the nearest equivalents are "patio" meaning an unroofed area adjacent to a building paved with slabs, "verandah" a covered and glassed walkway along the side of a building and "conservatory" a room-like extension entirely walled and roofed in glass.
		British houses are usually numbered serially starting from one end of a road or street with even numbers on one side and odd numbers on the other side, however it is not uncommon to find them numbered sequentially up one side of the road and down the other.
	www.scit.wlv.ac.uk /~jphb/american.html (12175 words)

	MSN Encarta - Northern Ireland
		As a result, of the original 32 counties of Ireland, the 6 northeasterly counties became a British province officially known as Northern Ireland.
		The remaining 26 counties became independent in 1922 as the Irish Free State (later Eire, and subsequently the Republic of Ireland).
		Lough Neagh, in the center of Northern Ireland, is the largest freshwater lake in the British Isles, with an area of 396 sq km (153 sq mi).
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761571415 (1077 words)

	GENUKI: United Kingdom and Ireland
		British Isles Genealogy on the Internet: Timeline - a guide to the main developments on the Internet which are important for UK and Irish genealogy.
		Country House Database is listing of country houses in the British Isles from the late medieval period to about 1850, and their occupants.
		The Association of British Counties (A.B.C.) "is a society dedicated to promoting awareness of the continuing existence of the 86 traditional Counties of Britain".
	www.genuki.org.uk /big (1864 words)

	British Isles
		And while the English-speaking peoples from the British Isles may not have been an ethnic group in the traditional sense, they certainly had an ethnicity, even if there were very few occasions when any explicit mention was made of it.
		By stressing the white, Christian and British nature of the dominant groups in the city, Vancouver politicians and community leaders played prominent roles in lobbying for restrictions on Asian immigration from China, Japan and India, and on pressuring Victoria and Ottawa to pass laws discriminating against Canadians of Asian descent.
		It wasn't that people of British ancestry were any more racist than others; the difference was that in the Vancouver region their control over government, police and the courts meant they could give their prejudices the force of law.
	www.discovervancouver.com /GVB/british-isles.asp (3177 words)

	Association of British Counties - Frequently asked questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nonetheless, the government has consistently made it quite clear that these "counties" are simply narrow administrative areas created for a specific purpose and are not intended to be replacements for the traditional Counties in a cultural or geographical sense.
		ABC believes that the historic (or traditional) Counties of Britain are an important part of the history, culture and geography of the nation and that their identities deserve to be preserved and enhanced on that basis.
		At the very least these areas should be re-labelled "administrative counties" (as were their pre 1974 forbears) to make it clear that these are not replacement for the traditional Counties but, simply, administrative areas, defined for a narrow administrative purpose and not intended to have any wider geographical or cultural significance.
	www.abcounties.co.uk /FAQ.htm (2685 words)

	W.A. Speck, British America 1607-1776 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is true that poll books recording votes cast at elections in counties, which were large enough geographically for the territorial interests of landed magnates to he plotted, reveal voters from particular parishes polling en bloc for the candidates preferred by the leading landowner in the vicinity.
		In 1691 the British government insisted that a property qualification should prevail, and fixed it in the English county franchise of a forty shilling freehold.
		On both sides of the Atlantic the breakdown of traditional hierarchies and the emergence of social classes, with the consequent replacement of vertical by horizontal loyalties, is increasingly discernible.
	www.baas.ac.uk /resources/pamphlets/pamphdets.asp?id=15 (17819 words)

	ipedia.com: United Kingdom Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The British Isles is a geographical name of an archipelago of islands including Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Orkney, the Hebrides, Shetland Isles, Channel Islands and others.
		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.
		The Isle of Man and Channel Islands are not legally part of the United Kingdom; they are British crown dependencies, though the United Kingdom is responsible for their external affairs.
	www.ipedia.com /united_kingdom.html (2281 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Subdivisions of the United Kingdom
		One of these is Greater London, which has a Greater London Authority and is further divided into 32 London boroughs and the City of London.
		The other regions are divided into unitary authorities (some of which are metropolitan districts grouped to form metropolitan counties), and shire counties.
		Wales consists of 10 county boroughs, 9 Counties, and 3 Cities.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Subdivisions_of_the_United_Kingdom (434 words)

	English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tradition holds that the Saxons advanced inland and Sussex was established next, swiftly followed by Essex.
		British Guiana - The British began colonies in the Guiana area in the early 17th century.
		These counties all still exist in, or near to their original form as the traditional counties.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.net /definition/english... (14524 words)

	Welcome to Linguaphone Malaysia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Known as Eire in Irish Gaelic, The Republic of Ireland lies to the West of the British Isles.
		It's 26 counties and 5 boroughs cover almost all of the island of Ireland, with the exception of Northern Ireland which is part of the United Kingdom.
		The traditional language of Ireland is Irish Gaelic which is spoken by 25 percent of the population and shares the role of national language with English.
	www.lotuslearning.com /lotus_synergy/country/ciireland.htm (325 words)

	Urban Dictionary: limey
		British always were the smart ones, which is why they AREN'T the 51st state and never will be, thank god.
		There are 86 "traditional" counties in Britain, of which 39 are in England itself.
		The British Isles refers to the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, and other smaller islands, most notably off the northern coast of Scotland.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=limey&r=f (663 words)

	Joy Wade Moulton British Isles Collection Added
		In the early period (1607–1775) of American history, the colonies along the eastern coast were English and most of its immigrants were from the British Isles.
		Until the early 19th century, parishes were the source of births, deaths, and marriages in the British Isles.
		Before starting one's British research in the U.S. or in the Isles, the researcher should first do their homework by using these handbooks.
	winslo.state.oh.us /newsletter/sept05genealogy.html (642 words)

	Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
		The continental empire ruled by Henry and his sons included the French counties of Brittany, Maine, Poitou, Touraine, Gascony, Anjou, Aquitane, and Normandy.
		Henry also extended his territory in the British Isles in two significant ways.
		Henry empowered a new social class of government clerks that stabilized procedure - the government could operate effectively in the king's absence and would subsequently prove sufficiently tenacious to survive the reign of incompetent kings.
	www.britannia.com /history/monarchs/mon26.html (924 words)

	Researching Ancestors from the United Kingdom
		County borders were redrawn in 1974, so if you find a location on a modern map, don't assume that that location has always been in the county indicated.
		It is now (June, 1996) completed for all counties and many of these counties are available from the Family History Center on microfiche.
		The 1841 census has some quirks in it such as it doesn't specify each individual in the household's relationship to the head of house hold and it rounds down to the nearest 5 years on the ages of individuals between 15 and 65 years old.
	www.oz.net /~markhow/uksearch.htm (3571 words)

	Regional Cooking: British Recipes by Helen Watson
		Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire form the northern part of the region known as "the Midlands", although Nottinghamshire sometimes gets grouped with Leicestershire and Lincolnshire to make up "the Shires" and north Derbyshire is sometimes linked with South Yorkshire as part of "the North" where the central spine of the Pennines runs down to the Peak District.
		Between them these counties offer a wide geographical variety from industry and coalfields (although not many left now) to rich agricultural land along river valleys and high sheep country in the Peak District.
		Linking traditional dishes of the north and south of England, these two counties, nevertheless, have their own individual traditions and specialities which have much to offer in variety and flavour.
	www.britannia.com /cooking/articles/derbyshire.html (916 words)

	:: Home :: Cooking :: World Cuisines :: European :: British Isles
		British Recipes at RecipeSource.com - About ninety recipes from Bubble and Squeak to Yorkshire Pudding.
		Cookbooks from The British Isles - Presentation of a series of regional cookbooks, each with a sample recipe.
		Traditional British Recipes - Old recipes for the counties of England, Scotland and Wales, including Christmas meals and Elizabethan recipes.
	www.localadsearch.com /Home/Cooking/World_Cuisines/European/British_Isles (256 words)

	Slugger O'Toole: Catholic Unionists - who needs them?
		The UUP is a British party and their aspirations are to remain British so I don't see any need to change the logo and I refute your argument that it doesn't attract catholics.
		The strength of Britishness is its flexibility, as Simon Schama pointed out in his TV series it is more than the sum of its parts and that makes it appeal to ethnic and religious minorities like himself, a secular jew.
		He could have said Ulster is as British as Aberystwyth or Uibhist but that would would have left a lot of Unionists either scratching their heads or feeling that he was undermining their Britishness.
	www.sluggerotoole.com /archives/2005/03/catholic_unioni.php (14214 words)

	GENUKI: Wales
		The British Presence in Southern Patagonia (Argentina and Chile).
		The British Library Newspaper Library It holds the national archive collections in the United Kingdom of British and overseas newspapers.
		Davies, B L. British Schools in South Wales, The Rev William Roberts (Nefydd), South Wales, Representative of the British and Foreign School Society, 1853-1863, National Library of Wales journal.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/wal (6474 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Museums around the UK
		Based in a "French museum on British soil" with a collection of European fine art, decorative art and ceramics, English furniture, and textiles, as well as archaeological material and archives from County Durham and social history from Teeside.
		Manx National Heritage, Isle of Man. A multi-international award winning heritage service unique in Europe, combining the management and promotion of museums, monuments, natural sites and historic landscape.
		Tate - Houses the national collection of British art from the sixteenth century to the present day, including the Turner Bequest, and the national collection of international modern art.
	icom.museum /vlmp/uk.html (8310 words)

	Traditional counties of the British Isles - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Traditional counties of the British Isles - Voyager, the free encyclopedia
		The British Isles are divided into the following traditional counties (also ancient or geographic counties or historic counties).
		This page was last modified 08:24, 29 July 2005.
	www.voyager.in /Traditional_county (89 words)

	Destinations - Make the journey
		This cultural gem showcases the longstanding Bluegrass traditions of the southern Appalachians.
		The Roanoke Fiddle and Banjo club was founded in 1969 to "foster and preserve old-time and bluegrass music." The club comprises 24 bands and three clogging groups, and the music spans genres and generations.
		Along with Old-Time music (the traditional music that developed in isolated Appalachian communities through the 1930s) and Bluegrass (pioneered by Bill Monroe in the 1940s from his own Old-Time roots), some Gospel music is also thrown into the mix.
	members.cox.net /dnason/Resume/banjoclub.html (1010 words)

	Information Britain
		Information Britain holds all you could ever need to plan a trip to or within the British Isles.
		Hotels: We have picked the highest rated, the most beautiful, world renowned truly great British Hotels to rest your weary heads and completely relax.
		What could be more British than the quintessential Village Inn, walls reverberating with the tales of locals and travellers alike.
	www.information-britain.co.uk (476 words)

	Catholic Worker Movement - PeterMaurin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		So people find themselves in all kinds of financial difficulties because the State has legalized money-lending at interest in spite of the teachings of the Prophets of Israel and the Fathers of the Church.
		To protect the isle of Reunion the French took Madagascar.
		To protect the British Isles the English took the sea.
	www.catholicworker.org /roundtable/easyessays.cfm (6996 words)

	A British Accent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Come browse and experience The Quality and Olde Worlde Grace of The British Isles is now available online.
		We carry only the finest woollens, ladies tartan kilted skirts, gent’s hand-stitched Kilts, Irish County Tartans and Breachon Feiles in authentic tartans of Scottish Clans and the Thirty-two Counties of Ireland.
		Highland accessories, Lambswool Tartan Wraps from Lochcarron of Scotland, Irish Aran sweaters, and Irish Donegal Tweed caps and hats from Hanna Hats of Donegal Town, Tartan woollen blankets woven in the Highlands of Scotland and silken Mohair throws hand-loomed by Reekies of Grasmere in the Lake District of England.
	www.abritishaccent.com (250 words)

	NetRhythms: Book reviews
		So it's still very much the insider's account of the British folk-rock boom that you'd expect, but the additional perspectives make the account doubly valuable to the folk and folk-rock aficionado alike — both of whom are likely to be already pretty familiar with all or some of the various Fairport biographies.
		In this regard, perhaps it's useful for the British reader (already well versed in folk-rock on this side of the pond) that the book's focus is primarily on the US folk-rock phenomenon and its offshoots.
		It brings together 50 songs from Sharp's manuscripts, all of which were collected in southern counties of England; the main criterion for selection was that they be "good to sing", although the ancillary criterion of relative significance within the Sharp collection is arguably more arbitrary.
	www.netrhythms.co.uk /books.html (11063 words)

	Amazon.com: Kerry Fiddles: Music: Various Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kerry is one of the great fiddle counties in Ireland, and these three musicians are among the greatest of their generation.
		You can leave behind the supergroups - you won't find more impressive talent or tasteful playing than this in the world of Irish traditional music.
		Styles > International > Europe > British Isles > Ireland
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000005909?v=glance (436 words)

	Your Guide to English Life, Culture and Customs
		But they're all interesting and are all part of the British way of life.
		We have received many e-mails from our visitors who want information on England and Britain.
		What do British People do during their leisure time?
	www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk /customs/questions (785 words)

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