The European Union's Brexit negotiator says the British government must keep up the momentum in negotiations on leaving the bloc. |
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The Barbados slave code was established on the island of Barbados, a British colony, in 1661. It was the first official law regarding slave status. |
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The annual away day is becoming an important event in the calendar of the british workplace. |
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Between 1939 and 1940 the copy was displayed in the British Pavilion at the 1939 World Fair in New York City, and at the Library of Congress. |
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However, two major Jacobite Risings launched in 1715 and 1745 failed to remove the House of Hanover from the British throne. |
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Originating in China, it spread west along the trade routes across Europe and arrived on the British Isles from the English province of Gascony. |
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The pioneering work in the field was made by Josiah William Russell in his 1948 British Medieval Population. |
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In the struggle against the influence of such revelations, the counterattractive force of appeals to consider British interests was weakening. |
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The Highlands are generally mountainous and the highest elevations in the British Isles are found here. |
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The British Royal Family was represented by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the Countess of Wessex. |
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So the British Arean Company had been formed, with suitably orchestrated media fanfare. |
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Once again the British fleet effectively eliminated the French Navy from the war, leading France to abandon major operations. |
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In 1762 the resumption of hostilities with Spain led to the British capture of Manila and of Havana, along with a Spanish fleet sheltering there. |
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The British numerical advantage proved insurmountable, leading the High Seas Fleet to abandon any attempt to challenge British dominance. |
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During the early phases of the Second World War, the Royal Navy provided critical cover during British evacuations from Dunkirk. |
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When British Rail existed, many railway lines in Strathclyde were electrified. |
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The foundations of the British Empire were laid when England and Scotland were separate kingdoms. |
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Doggerland was submerged by the North Sea and, by 8,000 BP, the British Peninsula had become an island. |
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The Royal Navy is also a key element of the British contribution to NATO, with a number of assets allocated to NATO tasks at any time. |
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The British monarch has the constitutional title of Supreme Governor of the Church of England. |
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John Davies notes this as consistent with the British victory at Badon Hill, attributed to Arthur by Nennius. |
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With British colonial expansion from the 17th century onwards, Anglican churches were planted around the globe. |
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Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are the Arthur Daleys of British politics, according to the Conservative leader. |
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The British fleet formed by 195 ships, 32,000 soldiers and 3,000 artillery pieces was defeated by the Admiral Blas de Lezo. |
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The Welsh Government manages those parts of the British railway network within Wales. |
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Unzaga concerned about overtly antagonizing the British before the Spanish were prepared for war, and they agreed to assist the rebels covertly. |
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The British Union Flag incorporates the flags of Scotland, Ireland and England, but has no Welsh representation. |
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A report in 1916 gave preference to the leek, which has appeared on British pound coins. |
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The viceroy retreated hastily to the hills when defeated by a small British force. |
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However, the Criollos militias and colonial army eventually repulsed the British. |
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In 1923, Tangier was declared an international city under French, Spanish, British, and later Italian joint administration. |
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The British Parliament's efforts to levy new taxes following the French and Indian War were deeply unpopular in the colonies. |
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This species travels north to the waters off the British Isles every year following the swarms of jellyfish that form its prey. |
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The Cardigan Bay Basin forms a continuation into British waters of Ireland's North Celtic Sea Basin, which has two producing gas fields. |
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These are fully mature for oil generation in the west of the British sector, and are mature for gas generation nearby in the Irish sector. |
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The official government machinery of British India had assumed its governmental functions and absorbed its armies. |
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American males often used British terms such as Cousin John or Jake to refer to a privy or a chamber pot. |
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This victory estranged the British and the Mughals, since Siraj Ud Daulah was a Mughal feudatory ally. |
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Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan, the rulers of the Kingdom of Mysore, offered much resistance to the British forces. |
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They received no training in administration or leadership to make them independent of their British officers. |
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British judges and magistrates would also be sent to India to administer the legal system. |
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In the aftermath of the Rebellion, under the provisions of the Government of India Act 1858, the British Government nationalised the Company. |
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Although dissolved following the rebellion of 1857, it stimulated the growth of the British Empire. |
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When cattle replaced buffalo on the plains, cow chips in turn replaced buffalo chips as a ready source of British thermal units. |
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The North Sea receives freshwater from a number of European continental watersheds, as well as the British Isles. |
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Since then, a shallow sea has almost continuously existed between the uplands of the Fennoscandian Shield and the British Isles. |
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After the outbreak of hostilities between Britain and France again in 1803, the British retook the Cape Colony. |
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Under its terms, the Netherlands ceded Malacca and their bases in India to the British, and recognized the British claim to Singapore. |
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After the colony passed into British hands, the settlers spread into the hinterland, taking their language with them. |
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British explorer James Cook subsequently anglicized the name to New Zealand. |
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The British did not face a challenge to their dominance of the North Sea until the 20th century. |
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During this period the North Sea and almost all of the British Isles were covered by ice. |
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In the meanwhile, the newly resumed war with Britain by the French, resulted in the British capture of practically all remaining French colonies. |
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These were restored at the Treaty of Amiens in 1802, but when war resumed in 1803, the British soon recaptured them. |
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Another significant challenge to British domination of the seas came during the Napoleonic Wars. |
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After initial success, the Germans learned how to pass through the barrage, aided by the unreliability of British mines. |
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It cuts no ice with a British copper to tell him you're an American citizen. 'It's British law and order over here,' says he. |
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When the British and Spanish realized the French goals, they withdrew from the expedition, but the French marched on Mexico City. |
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Britannia was used by the Romans from the 1st century BC for the British Isles taken together. |
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In the Olympics, Team GB is used by the British Olympic Association to represent the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic team. |
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It established trading posts, which in later centuries evolved into British India, on the coasts of what is now India and Bangladesh. |
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Additionally, the Sir Francis Drake Channel in the British Virgin Islands bears his name. |
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The British Grand Prix of motor racing is another example of a use of Britain in place of the United Kingdom. |
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Various species of seal, whale and dolphin are found on or around British shores and coastlines. |
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In his reign, the Plantation of Ulster and British colonization of the Americas began. |
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By actively pursuing more than just a personal union of his realms, he helped lay the foundations for a unitary British state. |
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As First Lord of the Admiralty before the First World War, Winston Churchill twice suggested naming a British battleship HMS Oliver Cromwell. |
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Cromwell was appointed Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, effectively placing the British Isles under military rule. |
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The officers were enlisted within the British armies and so favoured that the established officer corps began to fear for its position. |
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The Williamite victory in Ireland is still commemorated by the Orange Order for preserving British and Protestant dominance in the country. |
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This arrangement facilitated an adversarial atmosphere that is representative of the British parliamentary approach. |
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British citizens living abroad are allowed to vote for 15 years after moving from the United Kingdom. |
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The State Opening is an elaborate ceremony showcasing British history, culture and contemporary politics to large crowds and television viewers. |
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In Sweden a similar ceremony as the British was held until 1974, when the constitution was changed. |
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He was earlier detained late Tuesday after deboarding a British Airways flight from London. |
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Historically, the term Tory has been applied in various ways to loyalists of the British monarchy. |
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The British picked up a decode in November 1942 indicating that guards at Auschwitz would need six hundred gas masks. |
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They are generally unified by their adherence to British traditions in Canada. |
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A favourable climate supports two vineyards, including one of the oldest in the British Isles at Adgestone. |
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British soldiers in Egypt used to have jerrymander fights, pitting one against another. |
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In the 19th Century they pioneered the use of screw top cans for export to British India. |
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It left the British state strengthened to deal with the more revolutionary movements that developed later in the 18th century. |
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Lord Durham was widely regarded as one of the most important thinkers in the history of the British Empire's constitutional evolution. |
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It had an immediate impact on British economic policy that continues into the 21st century. |
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This study, which had an immediate impact on British economic policy, still frames discussions on globalisation and tariffs. |
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The influence of the movement spread beyond Scotland across the British Empire, and onto the Continent. |
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Note the intrusion into British demotic of the valley-girl quotative be, like. |
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Despite the final victory of Britain and its allies, the damage to British prestige helped to accelerate the decline of the empire. |
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The transfer of Hong Kong to China in 1997 marked for many the end of the British Empire. |
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The pattern of territorial aggression was repeated by other European empires, most notably the Dutch, Russian, French and British. |
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After independence, many former British colonies joined the Commonwealth of Nations, a free association of independent states. |
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By the late 18th century, the British Empire had facilitated the spread of English through its colonies and geopolitical dominance. |
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From the outset, slavery was the basis of the British Empire in the West Indies. |
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American listeners generally readily understand most British broadcasting, and British listeners readily understand most American broadcasting. |
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The majority of immigrants to the United States without British ancestry rapidly adopted English after arrival. |
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There are also systematic spelling differences between British and American English. |
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With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, goods produced by slavery became less important to the British economy. |
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As the place where English first evolved, the British Isles, and particularly England, are home to the most variegated pattern of dialects. |
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In 1808, Sierra Leone was designated an official British colony for freed slaves. |
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By 1902, the British Empire was linked together by a network of telegraph cables, called the All Red Line. |
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During the late 18th and early 19th centuries the British Crown began to assume an increasingly large role in the affairs of the Company. |
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Afara is the common Nigerian name and a British Standard name for the commercial timber. |
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The enormous expansion in the 18th and 19th centuries of the British Empire brought Anglicanism along with it. |
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Responsible government was first granted to Nova Scotia in 1848, and was soon extended to the other British North American colonies. |
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Common law systems originated during the Middle Ages in England, and from there propagated to the colonies of the British Empire. |
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The issue of the empire's security was a serious concern in Britain, as it was vital to the British economy. |
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The Irish Republican Army simultaneously began a guerrilla war against the British administration. |
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Immediately after the American Revolution, there was widespread distrust and hostility to anything British, and the common law was no exception. |
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In December 1941, Japan launched, in quick succession, attacks on British Malaya, the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, and Hong Kong. |
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The British Parliament passed the Government of India Act of 1858 to this effect, which set up the structure of British government in India. |
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Legislation first introduced by the British is still in effect in modified form today. |
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While the Suez Crisis caused British power in the Middle East to weaken, it did not collapse. |
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By that time over 50,000 British military personnel were still stationed in the Far East, including 30,000 in Singapore. |
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British withdrawal from the southern and eastern parts of Africa was not a peaceful process. |
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The 1982 Canada Act passed by the British parliament ended the need for British involvement in changes to the Canadian constitution. |
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The system was developed by the courts and spread with the expansion of British colonies in Southern Africa. |
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Sixteen Commonwealth realms voluntarily continue to share the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, as their head of state. |
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The supremacy of the British House of Commons was established in the early 20th century. |
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Since then, no British monarch has entered the House of Commons when it is in session. |
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The inanity of the British attack is obvious from some of the words the early Disgusteds of Tunbridge Wells complained about. |
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In 1924, Howard Carter, British egyptologist, found the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor. |
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The British choice of system of measurement, the imperial system, continues to be used in some countries in various ways. |
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The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain and most of the important technological innovations were British. |
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Up to that time, British iron manufacturers had used considerable amounts of imported iron to supplement native supplies. |
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There have been three talkers in Great British, either of whom would illustrate what I say about dogmatists. |
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British Waterways could also change the classification of an existing waterway. |
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The Republican army repulsed the Austrians, Prussians, British, and Spanish. |
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Britain's railways were nationalised on 1 January 1948 and the lines were placed under the control of British Railways. |
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The Luddites rapidly gained popularity, and the British government took drastic measures, using the militia or army to protect industry. |
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Manchester experiences a temperate Oceanic climate, like much of the British Isles, with mild summers and cool winters. |
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Often the technology was purchased from Britain or British engineers and entrepreneurs moved abroad in search of new opportunities. |
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The Manchester Velodrome was built as a part of the bid for the 2000 games and has become a catalyst for British success in cycling. |
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In addition, the British Council maintains a metropolitan centre in Manchester. |
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Perhaps the most important invention in British history, the industrial steam engine, was invented in Birmingham. |
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But as the perennial bad penny of British political life, he keeps turning up at embarrassing moments. |
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Bagpipes are traditionally played in most Celtic regions and many former parts of the British Empire. |
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However, the British blockade virtually ended overseas and colonial trade, hurting the port cities and their supply chains. |
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Folisols occur commonly in wet mountainous areas of coastal British Columbia. |
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Losing the war and the thirteen colonies was a shock to the British system. |
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The peace in 1783 left France financially prostrate, while the British economy boomed due to the return of American business. |
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Domingue into the British Empire and ensuring the slaves in the British West Indies would not be inspired to likewise revolt. |
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The system of smuggling finished products into the continent undermined French efforts to ruin the British economy by cutting off markets. |
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The important point here is not so much that the British treated him forbearingly as that he was always able to command publicity, Orwell wrote. |
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In 1765, Grenville introduced the Stamp Act, which levied a stamp duty on every document in the British colonies in North America. |
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Below the tree line are wooded areas, including British and European native oak woodlands and introduced softwood plantations. |
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The British people admired him for his piety, and for remaining faithful to his wife. |
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The French Revolution of 1789, in which the French monarchy had been overthrown, worried many British landowners. |
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Faced with opposition to his religious reform policies from both the King and the British public, Pitt threatened to resign. |
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Under George III, the British Agricultural Revolution reached its peak and great advances were made in fields such as science and industry. |
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The British frequently financed the European coalitions intended to thwart French ambitions. |
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Skripov was caught trying to establish a secure courier system by an attractive agente provocateuse lent to ASIO by British security. |
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The British quickly enforced a naval blockade of France to starve it of resources. |
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Dowling says that most performances of Chekhov plays have been filtered through translations into a British highborn sensibility. |
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Heavy British involvement in the Iberian Peninsula soon followed, while a British effort to capture Antwerp failed. |
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Napoleon oversaw the situation in Iberia, defeating the Spanish, and expelling the British from the Peninsula. |
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The British spirits industry was convinced that commercials were persuading otherwise innocent Britons to drink bingefully and with intent. |
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Bonaparte berated the British ambassador in front of 200 spectators over the military preparations. |
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Across London, Black and Asian children outnumber White British children by about six to four in state schools. |
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Several music festivals, including the Wireless Festival, South West Four, Lovebox, and Hyde Park's British Summer Time are all held in London. |
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The British government paid out large sums of money to other European states, so that they could pay armies in the field against France. |
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By 1815, the British Army played the central role in the final defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. |
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A key element in British success was its ability to mobilise the nation's industrial and financial resources and apply them to defeating France. |
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Napoleon never again had the opportunity to challenge the British at sea, nor to threaten an invasion. |
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Caterham Cars manufacturers of British sports cars including the Caterham 7 have their manufacturing facilities in Dartford. |
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British society is divided into nobility, gentry, and yeomanry, and families are either noble, gentle, or simple. |
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Oulton Park, in central Cheshire, is the home of the British Touring Car Championship in June. |
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He intended to attack the coalition armies before they combined, in hope of driving the British into the sea and the Prussians out of the war. |
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Lacking support Napoleon abdicated again on 22 June 1815 and on 15 July, surrendered to the British squadron at Rochefort. |
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He adopted a plan to capture a hill where republican guns could dominate the city's harbour and force the British to evacuate. |
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He also took part in an expedition to take back Corsica from the British, but the French were repulsed by the British Royal Navy. |
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After two months of planning, Bonaparte decided that France's naval power was not yet strong enough to confront the British Royal Navy. |
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British Swimming have one of its three Intensive Training Centres at the Grand Central Pools in Stockport. |
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Bonnie MacQueen has looked critically into the Girl Guide movement in British Columbia and feels that Guiding was a double-edged sword for women. |
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One of his major objectives became enforcing the Continental System against the British. |
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The title of Duke of York is given to the second son of the British monarch. |
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Thankfully, due to the power of BBC iPlayer, I was able to binge-watch the whole series of The Great British Sewing Bee last Sunday. |
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Several months after Corunna, the British sent another army to the peninsula under the future Duke of Wellington. |
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My grandfather mentioned the problem to Lord Fermoy, whom he knew through the British Legion. and Lord Fermoy said he would put in a good word. |
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The British army only landed at Walcheren on 30 July, by which point the Austrians had already been defeated. |
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Emperor Francis wanted to wait and see how the British performed in their theater before entering into negotiations with Napoleon. |
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Once it became apparent that the British were going nowhere, the Austrians agreed to peace talks. |
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The British victory over France in the Seven Years' War therefore left Great Britain as the world's dominant colonial power. |
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In 1840, Louis Philippe I obtained permission from the British to return Napoleon's remains to France. |
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During the Napoleonic Wars he was taken seriously by the British press as a dangerous tyrant, poised to invade. |
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The British Tory press has depicted Napoleon as much smaller than average height before, and that image persisted. |
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Confusion about his height results from the difference between the French pouce and British inch. |
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Napoleon learnt of that affair and a letter he wrote about it was intercepted by the British and published widely, to embarrass Napoleon. |
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The government took its share through duties and taxes, with the remainder going to merchants in London and other British ports. |
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The colonies were captive markets for British industry, and the goal was to enrich the mother country. |
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They advanced after grenading the next traverse, much like the British did. |
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Greylags used to concentrate on British estuaries, eating roots of rushes and sedges, as they do in other parts of their range. |
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In the American Revolutionary War, starting in 1775, the British made Halifax, Nova Scotia, their major base for naval action. |
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The masts of British frigates and U.S. warships blackwashed the piers at the Embarcadero. |
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Therefore, in 1784 the British split off New Brunswick as a separate colony. |
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In 1770, British explorer James Cook had discovered the eastern coast of Australia whilst on a scientific voyage to the South Pacific. |
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In 1798, Irish nationalists launched the Irish Rebellion of 1798, believing that the French would help them to overthrow the British. |
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This half-embrace of failure, as Coward suggests, is something the British like to think of as distinctly British. |
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When American and British special forces freed four aid workers on June 2nd in Afghanistan, it was celebrated as an act of heroism. |
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The British Empire thereby became the foremost world power for the next century. |
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And according to reports in British tabloids, the Goop hatefest even extends to Martin, who thinks his wife reveals too much on the site. |
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The Napoleonic Wars were therefore ones in which the British invested large amounts of capital and resources. |
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The British government's fear of an independent Ireland siding against them with the French resulted in the decision to unite the two countries. |
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The Napoleonic Wars fostered a concept of Britishness and a united national British people, shared with the Scots and Welsh. |
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Lockheed 1011 Tristar, in markings of British European Airways, was a major attraction at the Farnborough air display. |
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British merchants and financiers, and later railway builders, played major roles in the economies of most Latin American nations. |
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Thus Britain had both a formal Empire based on British rule as well as an informal one based on the British pound. |
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No nation had the World by the tail this week, but the rear end of the British lion was within measurable distance of Adolf Hitler's grasp. |
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Thanks in large part to the British Empire, the English language is the world's unofficial lingua franca. |
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On other fronts, the British, French, Australians, and Japanese occupied Germany's colonies. |
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The Free State was established as a Dominion of the British Commonwealth of Nations. |
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Especially since the 1950s, religions from the former British colonies have grown in numbers, due to immigration. |
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The office replaced the previous Lord Lieutenant, who had headed English and British administrations in Ireland since the Middle Ages. |
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There are many museums in England, but perhaps the most notable is London's British Museum. |
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Wimbledon is a tournament that has a major place in the British cultural calendar. |
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During the Crimean War, a joint British and French fleet attacked the Russian fortresses in the Baltic. |
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About half of those are located on the European continent, rather than on the British Isles. |
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Seven of the nine surviving manuscripts and fragments now reside in the British Library. |
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The 1950 British Grand Prix at Silverstone was the first race in the newly created Formula One World Championship. |
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The British Cambridge University Press is a major supplier of Latin textbooks for all levels, such as the Cambridge Latin Course series. |
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If one man could be said to be responsible for the creation of the Russian bogy, it was a much-decorated British general named Sir Robert Wilson. |
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The British government, however, still retained the right to nominate the government of Ireland without the consent of the Irish parliament. |
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Despite assistance from France the rebellion was put down by British and Irish government and yeomanry forces. |
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This completed a process of gradual separation from the British Empire that governments had pursued since independence. |
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Short of high treason, the gravest form of breach of the peace known to British law is riot. |
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The Northern Ireland government requested the British Army to aid the police, who were exhausted after several nights of serious rioting. |
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Owing to the civil unrest during the Troubles, the British government suspended home rule in 1972 and imposed direct rule. |
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Ireland and Great Britain, together with many nearby smaller islands, are known collectively as the British Isles. |
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The buchiids were certainly the most abundant bivalve group in the oceans of British Columbia during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous. |
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British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies. |
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The British constitution would develop on the basis of constitutional monarchy and the parliamentary system. |
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The name Devensian glaciation is used by British geologists and archaeologists and refers to what is often popularly meant by the latest Ice Age. |
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The British Prime Minister isn't a monarch by any stretch of the imagination. |
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One of the most famous landmarks in the UK, Stonehenge is regarded as a British cultural icon. |
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The British Empire was expanded to include India, large parts of Africa and many other territories throughout the world. |
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During the Late Neolithic, British society underwent another series of major changes. |
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In Europe, a major source of tin was the British deposits of ore in Cornwall, which were traded as far as Phoenicia in the Eastern Mediterranean. |
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This table shows the curious fact that little Prince Carol of Roumania has a better hereditary right to the British Throne than Her Majesty. |
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The Romanised culture is termed Roman Britain and is considered to supplant the British Iron Age. |
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This migrationist view long informed later views of the origins of the British Iron Age and the making of the modern nations. |
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This view has been challenged by the hypothesis that the Celtic languages of the British Isles form a phylogenetic Insular Celtic dialect group. |
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It is also variously known as Old Brittonic, British, and Common or Old Brythonic. |
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British toponyms are another type of evidence, recorded in Latinised forms by Ptolemy's Geography. |
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As references to foreign hydronymies have shown, this semantic structure and development is not confined to Scotland or to the British Isles. |
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Prima Europe tabula One of the earliest surviving copies of Ptolemy's 2nd century map of the British Isles. |
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The British Empire reached its greatest extent, covering a fifth of the world's land surface and a quarter of its population. |
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By then, ambassadors from some of the British states, warned by merchants of the impending invasion, had arrived promising their submission. |
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Having been tracked all the way along the coast by the British cavalry and chariots, the landing was opposed. |
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Labienus was left at Portus Itius to oversee regular food transports from there to the British beachhead. |
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Cassivellaunus, a warlord from north of the Thames, had previously been at war with most of the British tribes. |
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British resistance was led by Togodumnus and Caratacus, sons of the late king of the Catuvellauni, Cunobeline. |
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A substantial British force met the Romans at a river crossing thought to be near Rochester on the River Medway. |
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Cassius Dio presents this as Plautius needing the emperor's assistance to defeat the resurgent British, who were determined to avenge Togodumnus. |
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Over the next three decades, most colonies of the British Empire gained their independence. |
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The Britons had been overrun or culturally assimilated by other Celtic tribes during the British Iron Age and had been aiding Caesar's enemies. |
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In the late 1940s, helicopters were used in the casevac role by the British in Malaya. |
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When Claudius successfully invaded in 43 AD, it was in aid of another fugitive British ruler, Verica of the Atrebates. |
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The British leader sought refuge among the Brigantes, but their queen, Cartimandua, proved her loyalty by surrendering him to the Romans. |
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Although Albinus came close to victory, Severus's reinforcements won the day, and the British governor committed suicide. |
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Soon afterwards, an unnamed governor of one of the British provinces also attempted an uprising. |
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This remarkable passion of the British nobility for editiones principes and Caxtons seems to have lasted but a couple of decades. |
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The fully allegiant group accepted the ultimate sovereignty of the British government. |
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Little is known of Cunobelinus's life, but his name survived into British legend, culminating in William Shakespeare's play Cymbeline. |
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The legendary Welsh character Caradog ap Bran and the legendary British king Arvirargus may be based upon Caratacus. |
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Although the Severn is visible from British Camp, it is nowhere near it, so this battle must have taken place elsewhere. |
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Another is Claudia Rufina, a historical British woman known to the poet Martial. |
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These include the British pound, US dollar, New Zealand dollar, euro or their own currencies, which may be pegged to either. |
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This came after a number of other job losses in the city at Aviva, British Sugar and Terry's chocolate factory. |
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Chay Blyth was the first when he circumnavigated in British Steel in 292 days in 1970 in a voyage that some predicted would end in certain death. |
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Additionally, in northern Gaul, a British army led by one Riothamus, operated in imperial interests. |
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Thompson however proposed that based on the evidence it is more likely that Coroticus was a British Roman living in Ireland. |
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Since the end of the British Empire, the UK has nonetheless remained a major military power. |
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Ideas about the development of British Iron Age culture changed greatly in the 20th century, and remain in development. |
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Americans have been antimercenary since the British sent 30,000 German Hessians after George Washington in the Revolutionary War. |
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Gildas called them Saxons, which was probably the common British term for the settlers. |
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Names of British origin may or may not indicate survival of a British population. |
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The British name Caedbaed is found in the pedigree of the kings of Lindsey, which argues for the survival of British elites in this area also. |
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Instead they upheld a local vernacular British building tradition dating back to the late first century. |
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Mozambique joined the Commonwealth in 1995, although it had not been a part of the British Empire. |
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When Augustine failed to rise from his seat on the entrance of the British bishops, they refused to recognise him as their archbishop. |
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Scientific journals produced in the UK include Nature, the British Medical Journal and The Lancet. |
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In 2009, half of British gas was supplied from imports as domestic reserves are depleted. |
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The British Army has made use of several regional identities in naming larger, amalgamated formations. |
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Since 1948 substantial immigration from Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia has been a legacy of ties forged by the British Empire. |
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It retains a representation in the UK Parliament and the British monarch is its Supreme Governor. |
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Emigration was an important feature of British society in the 19th century. |
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During this period Wessex continued its gradual advance to the west, overwhelming the British kingdom of Dumnonia. |
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Eliot, Ezra Pound and more recently British authors born abroad such as Kazuo Ishiguro and Sir Salman Rushdie. |
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The French directed a cannonade at the British for three hours. |
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From around 800, there had been waves of Danish raids on the coastlines of the British Isles. |
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In 1945, overseen by Alfred Hitchcock, a crack team of British film-makers went to Germany to document the horror of the concentration camps. |
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Constantine II ruled Scotland, apart from the southwest, which was the British Kingdom of Strathclyde. |
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Spain contributed to the independence of the British Thirteen Colonies together with France. |
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But he remained a resented outsider, and the northern British kingdoms preferred to ally with the pagan Norse of Dublin. |
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The Vikings from Norway were most active in the northern and western British Isles and eastern North America isles. |
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For the British market, apples are classed as early, mid-season, or late, and subdivided into eaters or cookers. |
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Each December Norway gives a Christmas tree to the United Kingdom as thanks for the British assistance during the Second World War. |
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The annual British Academy Film Awards are hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. |
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On his accession, Edward I sought to organise his realm, enforcing his claims to primacy in the British Isles. |
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If any of the British teams or the Irish team beat the other three in a tournament, then it is awarded the Triple Crown. |
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The UK hosted the first F1 Grand Prix in 1950 at Silverstone, the current location of the British Grand Prix held each year in July. |
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