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  United Kingdom - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (usually shortened to the United Kingdom or the UK) is a country located off the north-western coast of continental Europe, surrounded by the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea, the Irish Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean.
It is the ultimate legislative authority in the United Kingdom, according to the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty.
Also sometimes associated with the United Kingdom, though not constitutionally part of the United Kingdom itself, are the Crown dependencies (the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey, and the Isle of Man) as self-governing possessions of the Crown, and a number of overseas territories under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom.
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The United Kingdom is bordered on the south by the English Channel, which separates it from the continent of Europe.
The United Kingdom is generally a prosperous, well-educated, and tolerant society, and ethnic differences have sparked relatively little violence and hostility.
The population density of the United Kingdom is one of the highest in Europe, exceeded by Netherlands and Belgium.
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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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 United Kingdom - Wikivisual
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.
The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, with executive power exercised on behalf of the monarch by the prime minister and other cabinet ministers who head departments.
The United Kingdom is one of the few countries in the world today that does not have a codified constitution, relying instead on traditional customs and separate pieces of constitutional law "A Guide To the UK Legal System" Carter, Sarah (University of Kent at Canterbury), retrieved May 16 2006.
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 United Kingdom general election, 1832
The Tory Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons, was Sir Robert Peel, Bt.
Following the passage of the Reform Act 1832 and related legislation to reform the electoral system and redistribute constituencies, the tenth United Kingdom Parliament was dissolved on 3 December 1832.
After receiving a writ (a royal command) for the election to be held, the local returning officer fixed the election timetable for the particular constituency or constituencies he was concerned with.
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 United Kingdom general election, 1922 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The UK general election of 1922 was held on 15th November 1922.
It was the first election held after Southern Ireland left the United Kingdom, and was won by Andrew Bonar Law's Conservatives, who gained an overall majority over Labour, led by John Robert Clynes and a divided Liberal Party.
In any case, it was the first election where Labour surpassed the combined strength of both Liberal parties, in votes as well as seats.
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 United Kingdom
The United Kingdom is the union of the Kingdom of England (which already included Wales as a principality) with the Kingdom of Scotland and later the Kingdom of Ireland to form a single state under the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The United Kingdom is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations (successor organisation to the former British Empire) and NATO.
The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, with executive power exercised by the government (formally Her Majesty's Government) drawn from Parliament, headed by the Prime Minister.
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 United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The United Kingdom is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and its ancillary bodies of water- the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea, and the Irish Sea.
The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, with executive power exercised on behalf of the monarch by the prime minister and other cabinet ministers who head departments.
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.
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 United Kingdom - Article
The United Kingdom is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and its ancillary bodies of water- the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea, and the Irish Sea.
The United Kingdom has one of the lowest levels of worship in the world, with less than 8% of people actually attending any form of worship on a regular basis (of whom the majority are of middle-aged and older generations).
The United Kingdom is one of the countries in the world with a comprehensive nuclear arsenal, utilising the submarine-based Trident II ballistic missile system.
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 United Kingdom - History Of United Kingdom | Encyclopedia.com: Dictionary Of World History
United Kingdom (UK) A country in NW Europe consisting of ENGLAND, WALES, and SCOTLAND, and the province of NORTHERN IRELAND.
Physical The United Kingdom consists of Great Britain, a large island off Europe's north-west coast containing England, Scotland, and Wales, and the north-east corner of the neighbouring island of Ireland.
IRELAND was incorporated into the United Kingdom in 1800 but became independent (except for Northern Ireland) in 1921.
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 United Kingdom - Conservapedia
The United Kingdom has the fifth largest economy in the world, and is a member of the European Union, NATO and the United Nations.
The United Kingdom's population in 2004 surpassed 60 million--the third-largest in the European Union.
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.
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 United Kingdom – FREE United Kingdom Information | Encyclopedia.com: Find United Kingdom Research
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a union of four countries in the British Isles.
The Agricultural Revolution was both a cause and effect of the doubling of the population between 1801 and 1861.
The Irish Free State emerged in 1922, and the UK officially became known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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 Election Resources on the Internet: Parliamentary Elections in Ireland - Elections to Dáil Éireann (House ...
The 1997, 2002 and 2007 election statistics presented in this space come from Dáil General Election May 2002 Results and Transfer of Votes and Dáil General Election May 2007 Results and Transfer of Votes, as well as reports and data files issued by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.
For more information on the 2007 general election in Ireland and the March 7, 2007 Assembly election in Northern Ireland (which remains part of the United Kingdom), visit Election Resources on the Internet's blog, Electoral Panorama.
The Progressive Democrats scored a major success in the 1987 general election, but were unable to sustain their momentum and match their initial result in subsequent elections, although they have continued to be represented in Dáil Éireann.
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 United Kingdom general election, 1997
The election was fought under new boundaries, with a net increase of eight seats compared to the 1992 election.
Although not a wipeout, the election was a heavy defeat for the Conservative Party, with the party having its lowest percentage share of the popular vote since 1832 under the Duke of Wellington's leadership, being left with no seats outside England.
Catalogue of 1997 general election ephemera at the Archives Division of the London School of Economics.
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 Top 20 United Kingdom
The United Kingdom is the union of the Kingdom of England (which includes the principality of Wales) with the Kingdom of Scotland and later the Kingdom of Ireland to form a single state.
Also sometimes associated with the United Kingdom, though not constitutionally part of the United Kingdom itself, are the Crown dependencies (the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey, and the Isle of Man) as self-governing possessions of the Crown, and a number of overseas territories under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom.
At the April 2001 census, the United Kingdom's population was 58,789,194-- the third-largest in the European Union (behind Germany and metropolitan France) and the 21st-largest in the world.
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Under the Treaty of Washington of 1871, the United States and the United Kingdom agree to submit to arbitration claims by the former for alleged breaches of neutrality by the latter during the American Civil War.
In 1942 the United States Secretary of State and the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom declared themselves in favour of the establishment or re-establishment of an international court after the war, and the Inter-American Juridical Committee recommended the extension of the PCIJ's jurisdiction.
Early in 1943, the United Kingdom Government took the initiative of inviting a number of experts to London to constitute an informal Inter-Allied Committee to examine the matter.
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 THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS PARTY UK POLITICS
The Lib Dems are the third-largest party in the UK Parliament, behind Labour and the Conservatives, with 63 Members of Parliament - 62 elected at the general election of 2005, and one from the Dunfermline and West Fife by-election.
Following Tony Blair's election as leader of the Labour Party in 1994, Ashdown controversially pursued a policy of cooperation between the two parties (with the two leaders even allegedly agreeing to form a coalition government).
They are in favour of proportional representation for elections to both the House of Commons and a second chamber to replace the House of Lords, preferably by the STV system.
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In contrast with most other countries the United Kingdom has no written constitution, nor is there any doctrine of the supremacy of the constitution over other legislation, nor any constitutional court, nor any doctrine of the separation of powers.
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.
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 Reference for John Reith, 1st Baron Reith - Search.com
In 1922 he was employed by the commercial monopoly registered as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd. as its General Manager; in 1923 he became its Managing Director and in 1927 he was employed as the Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation created under a Royal Charter.
He spent the next two years in the United States, supervising armament contracts, and became attracted to the country, fantasising of moving there with Bowser after the war.
Perhaps prophetically, this election's results were the first to be broadcast on the radio.
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United States foreign policy is influenced by the efforts of the U.S. government to halt imports of illicit drugs, including cocaine, heroin, and marijuana.
The United States is persuaded that regimes that violate the human rights of their own citizens are more likely to disrupt peace and security in their region and to create a reservoir of ill will that can accrue to the detriment of the United States.
For the United States, APEC is the key institution for pursuing trade and investment liberalization and addressing issues that demand multi-lateral cooperation, such as confronting the threat of an avian influenza pandemic and regional security.
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 Reference for Bertrand Russell - Search.com
Russell is generally recognised as one of the founders of analytic philosophy, even of its several branches.
He believed that the main task of the philosopher was to illuminate the most general propositions about the world and to eliminate confusion.
In the United Kingdom general election, 1922 and UK General Election, 1923 Russell stood as a Labour Party candidate in the Chelsea constituency, but only on the basis that he knew he was extremely unlikely to be elected in such a safe Conservative seat, and he wasn't on either occasion.
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 Chronology 1922
Election of Pope Pius XI Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) was elected pope by the College of Cardinals.
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 representatives signed a general treaty of neutrality which called for the establishment of a Central American Court of Justice, supported economic development, and limited armaments in the region.
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 United Kingdom
The United Kingdom is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, and its ancillary bodies of water, including the North Sea, the English Channel, the
The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, with
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.
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 General Election Results 1885-1979
The figures given here for elections from 1885 to 1945 differ from those in F.W.S. Craig’s “British Electoral Facts” because they are adjusted for votes cast in the two-member seats.
Change % No figures for vote change can be given for the 1922 general election because of the secession of the Irish Free State, and the existence of the Coalition in 1918.
Constitutionalists This label was used by a number of right-wing Liberals in the 1924 general election who wanted to distance themselves from the party’s temporary support for the Labour Government.
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 Data Pathfinders: Election Statistics (GIMSS)
This vast trove of data is generally regarded as the authoritative Internet-based source for British election statistics, even though it is compiled by a private citizen rather than a government agency.
After presenting detailed county-level returns for the election being examined, these books offer concise summary tables of results for the past 50 years of elections, for every major office in the country.
United States presidential elections, 1788-1860 : the official results by county and state.
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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.
The Conservative Party was seeking to regain seats lost to both Labour and the Liberal Democrats since the 1992 General Election, and move from being the Official Opposition into government.
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).
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General Elections in the Republic of Northern Cyprus, December 2003
Elections New Zealand is the website for the Electoral Enrolment Centre, Chief Electoral Office and the Electoral Commission, and has election results
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