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  United Kingdom - Search View - ninemsn Encarta
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 climate of the United Kingdom is mild relative to its latitude.
The United Kingdom is one of the most urbanized of the world’s larger nations: about 89 per cent of the population lives in cities and towns.
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 Chapter VII. General View of the Remainder of My Life. Mill, John Stuart. 1909-14. Autobiography. The Harvard Classics
General society, as now carried on in England, is so insipid an affair, even to the persons who make it what it is, that it is kept up for any reason rather than the pleasure it affords.
The economic generalizations which depend, not on necessities of nature but on those combined with the existing arrangements of society, it deals with only as provisional, and as liable to be much altered by the progress of social improvement.
What was abstract and purely scientific was generally mine; the properly human element came from her: in all that concerned the application of philosophy to the exigencies of human society and progress, I was her pupil, alike in boldness of speculation and cautiousness of practical judgment.
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 United Kingdom general election, 2001 - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed "the quiet landslide" by the media.
The elections were also marked by apathy from the voting public, turnout being only 59%, the lowest since 1918.
Throughout the election the Labour party had maintained a significant lead in the opinion polls and the result was deemed to be so certain that some bookmakers paid out for a Labour majority before the election day.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2001   (481 words)

  
 United Kingdom - MSN Encarta
The second British Empire was the creation of bureaucrats and generals and was based on a political relationship known as imperialism.
Although the British made significant inroads against the extremes of poverty and disease that existed in India, they generally viewed Indian society as less cultured than their own and treated the indigenous population with contempt.
The Labour Party was created to gain representation in Parliament for workers; the result was the election in 1906 of 29 Labour members, who entered into a coalition with the Liberals.
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 sociology - Victoria of the United Kingdom
As well as being queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, she was also the first monarch to use the title Empress of India.
One of the most significant acts of the new ministry was to bring the United Kingdom into the Crimean War in 1854, on the side of the Ottoman Empire and against Russia.
As of 2004, the European monarchs and former monarchs descended from Victoria are: the Queen of the United Kingdom, the King of Norway, the King of Sweden, the Queen of Denmark, the King of Spain, the King of the Hellenes (deposed) and the King of Romania (deposed).
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 Instances of Use of United States Forces Abroad, 1798 - 1993- Empire? - Global Policy Forum
United States naval forces suppressing piracy landed on the northwest coast of Cuba and burned a pirate station.
Four United States vessels demonstrated and landed various parties (one of 200 marines and sailors) to discourage piracy and the slave trade along the Ivory coast, and to punish attacks by the natives on American seamen and shipping.
After the annexation of Texas in 1845, the United States and Mexico failed to resolve a boundary dispute and President Polk said that it was necessary to deploy forces in Mexico to meet a threatened invasion.
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 United Kingdom general election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005.
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).
The formal leadership election began in October, and was ultimately won by David Cameron.
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 Wikinfo | Edward VII of the United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Edward VII (Albert Edward Wettin) (9 November 1841 - 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Sea and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death on 6 May 1910.
In 1905, Edward officially recognized the office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
He ensured that his own heir, who would become George V of the United Kingdom, was better prepared to take the throne.
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 The winners make the laws.
On account of the biennial sessions, and also owing to fears that inconvenience would arise from General Elections going on in both countries at the same time, an eight years' limit was thought by the Ministry to be more convenient.
14 shows that the trade of the kingdom was carried on mainly by means of bankers' notes, and in order to secure payment of the same the Act gives a remedy against the real estate of hankers on their simple contracts, and requires all their conveyances to be registered.
Registration is voluntary; "at the election of the party or parties concerned." Every conveyance, a memorial of which has been registered, shall be effectual according to the priority of time of registration, according to the right, title, and interest of the party conveying, against every other deed affecting the lands comprised in the memorial (s.
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 Unit Did You Mean unit?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
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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 Smith History Vault: 1841 William Harris booklet
Let the ballot-box, at every election where they have voted, answer, and it will be found that they have voted, almost to a man, with Smith.
Such a community, thus united, hold the rights of the neighboring citizens in their own hands; and in every contest they must come off victors.
For a rational being to have looked at him, and heard him groan and grunt, and [saw] him sweat and struggle, would have supposed that his womb was as much swollen as was Rebecca's when the angel told her that there were two nations there.
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 Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798 - 2004
The second Barbary War was declared against the United States by the Dey of Algiers of the Barbary states, an act not reciprocated by the United States.
On February 17, 1994, President Clinton reported that the United States had expanded its participation in United Nations and NATO efforts to reach a peaceful solution to the conflict in former Yugoslavia and that 60 US aircraft were available for participation in the authorized NATO missions.
During the period from December 16-23, 1998, the United States, together with the United Kingdom, conducted a bombing campaign, termed Operation Desert Fox, against Iraqi industrial facilities deemed capable of producing weapons of mass destruction, and against other Iraqi military and security targets.
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 SBC Baptist Press - WORLDVIEW: As missionaries surge, will church support follow?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
He probably would have taken a puff on his cigar and added a few sardonic comments -- about religion in general and missionary work in particular.
But he would have been impressed by this committed, diverse group of international missionaries, the second-largest in Southern Baptist history.
"Southern Baptists have pulled us out of a slump with their generous giving to missions," IMB chairman Tom Hatley told fellow trustees during their May 19-21 meeting.
www.bpnews.net /bpcolumn.asp?ID=1841   (707 words)

  
 Articles index started with un
United Nations 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
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 This Day In Military History... - Page 86 - Armchair General Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Kennedy argued that the United States was "not in accordance with international law" in the case, and should have expressed its regrets to the Soviet Union in an attempt to keep the summit on track.
Tho, believing that the Americans were eager for peace in Vietnam before the elections, proposed that the United States and North Vietnam arrange a cease-fire, governing all military matters between themselves.
Confederate commander General Robert E. Lee expressed his disappointment with Magruder for his slow reaction to attacking the retreating Yankees, even though General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson exhibited a similar sluggishness during the same engagements and Lee said nothing about him.
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 Amazon.com: The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black Dynasty: Books: Lawrence Otis Graham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Buried within this account of a fl family that includes "a United States senator; a bank president; [and] a Washington socialite" is a rags to riches to welfare tale that ought to intrigue, but merely bores.
In 1878, the Times ran its first wedding announcement for a fl couple: Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce, a former slave who entered the Senate in the fading days of Reconstruction (many newspapers ignored his election, assuming that he would never be seated), and Josephine Willson, a daughter of the light-skinned fl élite.
The Bruces established what the author calls America's first fl dynasty, although its members "lived much of their lives outside of fl circles." Graham, whose "Our Kind of People" profiled the fl upper class, recovers the history of a family that broke barriers in Washington and at Exeter and Harvard.
www.amazon.com /Senator-Socialite-Story-Americas-Dynasty/dp/0060184124   (2752 words)

  
 US Hong Kong Policy Report
the basis of open and fair elections, and that its mandate be limited until such elections are held.
Hong Kong's first post-colonial legislative elections are expected to be fairly and cleanly run.
Elections to the Legislature are a key indicator of Hong Kong's progress towards democratic and
www.gwu.edu /~jaysmith/HK_USRep.html   (7866 words)

  
 Europe - Great Britain
British General Election Study: Ethnic Minority Survey, 1997
British General Election Study: Scottish Election Survey, 1997
Poverty in the United Kingdom: A Survey of Household Resources and Standards of Living, 1969
www.sscnet.ucla.edu /issr/da/index/europe-great_britain.htm   (261 words)

  
 United Kingdom General Election results since 1832
UK General Elections since 1832 UK General Elections since 1832
Otherwise, links are to summary results on the Spartacus site and Adam Carr's Election Archive
1832: December 1835: January 1837: July 1841: June/July 1847: July 1852: July 1857: March 1859: April/May 1865: July 1868: November 1874: February 1880: April 1885: November 1886: July 1892: July
www.psr.keele.ac.uk /area/uk/edates.htm   (100 words)

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