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  United Kingdom - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
The United Kingdom and World War II Memories of World War I left Britons with an overwhelming desire to avoid another conflict, and the country played a leading role in the League of Nations and at inter-war disarmament conferences, such as those in Washington (1921-1922) and London (1930) which limited naval size.
Post-war Germany was divided into occupation zones among the USSR, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, but efforts to reach agreement on a peace treaty with Germany broke down as it became clear that the USSR was converting all of eastern Europe into a Soviet sphere of influence.
In the general election of 1964, however, the latter was narrowly defeated by the Labour Party, headed by Harold Wilson.
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 United Kingdom - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
The creation of the United Kingdom brought England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales (the four cultural regions of Britain) under the rule of a central government headed by a common monarch and administered by a single parliament.
The general elections of 1997 gave the Labour Party the greatest landslide victory of the century and its largest-ever majority of 179 seats in the Parliament.
As the United Kingdom’s youngest prime minister since the 19th century, Blair seemed to speak for a new generation and a new Britain.
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 Martin Van Buren
The state elections of 1837 and 1838 were disastrous for the Democrats, and the partial recovery in 1839 was offset by a second commercial crisis in that year.
In the election of 1860 he voted for the fusion ticket in New York which was opposed to Abraham Lincoln, but he could not approve of President James Buchanan's course in dealing with secession, and later supported Lincoln.
In 1837 he resigned from the army to become his father's private secretary, but in 1846, at the outbreak of the war with Mexico, he was reappointed with the rank of major and paymaster.
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 MapUp.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The United Kingdom's population in 2004 surpassed 60 million--the third-largest in the European Union and the 21st-largest in the world.
The United Kingdom maintains an embassy in the United States at 3100 Massachusetts Ave.
The United Kingdom has the fourth-largest economy in the world, is the second-largest economy in the European Union, and is a major international trading power.
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 United Kingdom
The United Kingdom's high literacy rate (99%) is attributable to universal public education introduced for the primary level in 1870 and secondary level in 1900.
The United Kingdom is a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and is one of NATO's major European maritime, air, and land powers; it ranks third among NATO countries in total defense expenditure.
The United States has had a trade deficit with the United Kingdom since 1998, although the deficit was relatively small prior to last year.
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 United Kingdom general election, 1945 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The United Kingdom General Election of 1945 was one of the most significant general elections of the 20th century.
It resulted in the shock election defeat of the Conservatives led by Winston Churchill and the landslide victory of the Labour Party led by Clement Attlee, who won a majority of 145 seats.
Churchill and the Conservatives are also generally considered to have run a poor campaign in comparison to Labour; Churchill's statement that Attlee's program would require a Gestapo-esque body to implement is considered to have been particularly poorly-judged.
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 United Kingdom (05/06)
The United Kingdom stood shoulder to shoulder with the United States following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S., and its military forces participated in the war in Afghanistan.
The United Kingdom is one of the United States' closest allies, and British foreign policy emphasizes close coordination with the United States.
Relations were strengthened by the United Kingdom's alliance with the United States during both World Wars, and its role as a founding member of NATO, in the Korean conflict, in the Persian Gulf War, and in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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 United Kingdom. Background Notes, September 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The United States remains firmly committed to the peace process in Northern Ireland and continues to support normalization of institutions as the best means to ensure that all parties' commitment to relying solely on peaceful and democratic means to resolve issues.
The United Kingdom has the fourth-largest economy in the world, has one of the largest economies in the European Union, and is a major international trading power.
The United Kingdom is an energy-rich nation with significant reserves of oil and gas in the North Sea and the Irish Sea and large coal resources.
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 History of the United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
By the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the United Kingdom was the foremost European power, and its navy ruled the seas.
By the time of Queen Victoria's death in 1901, other nations, including the United States and Germany, had developed their own industries; the United Kingdom's comparative economic advantage had lessened, and the ambitions of its rivals had grown.
The separate identities of each of the United Kingdom's constituent parts also is reflected in their respective governmental structures.
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 William IV of the United Kingdom Summary
William, the third son of King George III and younger brother and successor of King George IV, was the penultimate monarch of the House of Hanover.
When the United Kingdom declared war on France in 1793, he was anxious to serve his country, but was not put in command of a ship.
During the general election of 1830 (the death of the monarch then required fresh elections), however, Wellington's Tories lost to the Whig Party under Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey.
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 The United Kingdom from A-Z
The GOVERNMENT of the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy.
The Magna Carta is considered the cornerstone of liberty and was the basis for the Constitution of the United States.
English is the official LANGUAGE of the United Kingdom and the 2nd most used language in the world.
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 Unit Did You Mean unit?
Unit of measurement or physical unit, a fundamental quantity of measurement in science or engineering.
Unit of action, a discrete piece of action (or beat) in a theatrical presentation.
Unit (ring theory), an element that is invertible with respect to ring multiplication.
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 United Kingdom general election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The general election took place in 646 constituencies across the United Kingdom, for seats in the House of Commons.
In Northern Ireland, the election was dominated in the unionist community by a battle between the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
Other elections in the province have shown both a shift in votes towards the DUP but also a collapse of support for the cross-community Alliance Party which is likely to be more marked in a first past the post election and thus which may work in the UUP's favour.
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 WILLIAM III @ Archontology.org: presidents, kings, prime ministers, biography, database
In 1830 William acceded to the throne as William IV and almost immediately faced the defeat of Tories at the General Election (July 1830).
Another General Election (April 1831) resulted in a landslide victory for those in favor of reform.
The attempt of William IV, whose sympathies lied with the Tories, to remove Lord Melbourne from office (December 1834) failed as the Whigs retained majority after the General Election (January 1835).
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 Founders' Quotes
It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions; and experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
An opinion is huddled up in conclave, perhaps by a majority of one, delivered as if unanimous, and with the silent acquiescence of lazy or timid associates, by a crafty chief judge, who sophisticates the law to his mind, by the turn of his own reasoning.
A judiciary law was once reported by the Attorney General to Congress, requiring each judge to deliver his opinion seriatim and openly, and then to give it in writing to the clerk to be entered in the record.
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 Louis-Joseph Papineau Summary
On Oct. 23, 1837, a meeting of patriotes was held at St. Charles, during the course of which armed rebellion was advocated.
He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the United Province of Canada in 1848 and remained a member until 1854, when he retired to private life.
In 1848, he was elected member of the new united Parliament of Canada in the riding of Saint-Maurice.
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 Franklin D. Roosevelt: State of the Union Address.
Of continuing importance in the year 1942 were the unending and bitterly contested battles of the convoy routes, and the gradual passing of air superiority from the Axis to the United Nations.
Turning now to the European theater of war, during this past year it was clear that our first task was to lessen the concentrated pressure on the Russian front by compelling Germany to divert part of her manpower and equipment to another theater of war.
As spokesmen for the United States Government, you and I take off our hats to those responsible for our American production—to the owners, managers, and supervisors, to the draftsmen and the engineers, and to the workers- men and women—in factories and arsenals and shipyards and mines and mills and forests—and railroads and on highways.
www.presidency.ucsb.edu /ws/index.php?pid=16386   (4340 words)

  
 MODiNS [ Myanmar Online Information ]
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General Council of Buddhist Association (G.C.B.A) is founded.
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 Articles index started with un
United Nations 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
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 Disjectamembra » General
To say it midrashically: R. Moses of Kobryn said, “In each generation at least one man is given the means to understand the Zohar; but not even one man in a generation is capable of understanding Midrash, it being closed up and sealed … until the coming of Messiah.”
He also quotes Goodwin a lot, especially on this topic which is so central to Goodwin’s thought, marking Gill as a fellow student of Goodwin, but a few grades ahead of me. So I copy out here some key passages from Gill’s argument on this subject, and promise to have another try at Goodwin later.
We are in Book II: Of the Acts and Works of God, and have gone through discussions “Of the Internal Acts of God, and of his Decrees in general,” and then a discussion of election and rejection.
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 United Kingdom Maps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Map 1: Administrative Divisions Map of the United Kingdom (1988)
Map 2: Political Map of the United Kingdom (1987)
Map 4: Small Map of the United Kingdom (2005)
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 The Avalon Project : Chronology of American History 1492 - Present
George Crook, a Brigadier-General of the Army of the United States.
1903 - Lease to the United States by the Government of Cuba of Certain Areas of Land and Water for Naval or Coaling Stations in Guantanamo and Bahia Honda; July 2
1922 - Treaty between the United of States of America, Belgium, the British Empire, China, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/chrono.htm   (5440 words)

  
 WWW-VL History Index
London's Lost Map, from the Museum of London
Political Divisions of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
BUBL Subject Archive: Internet Resources: British archaeology - general
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