With the expansion of the British Empire, and hence the growth of Anglicanism outside Great Britain and Ireland, the Communion sought to establish new vehicles of unity.

There is some doubt as to the origin of the name ; but most probably it is derived from a collection of Alexandrine romances, collected in the 12th century, of which Alexander the Great was the hero, and in which he was represented, somewhat like the British Arthur, as the pride and crown of chivalry.

In 1796, during the French Revolution and three years after the declaration of war between France and Great Britain, Étienne-Gaspard Robert met with the French government and proposed the use of mirrors to burn the invading ships of the British Royal Navy.

* Great Britain, the largest island in the British Isles and the largest island in Europe

* British Isles, a group of islands that includes Great Britain, Ireland, and other islands

The word British is an adjective referring in various ways to the United Kingdom, or the island of Great Britain, and its people.

On the Great British canal system, the term ' barge ' is used to describe a boat wider than a narrowboat, and the people who move barges are often known as lightermen.

The Oxford English Dictionary applies the term to English " as spoken or written in the British Isles ; esp the forms of English usual in Great Britain ", reserving " Hiberno-English " for the " English language as spoken and written in Ireland ".

* British language, or Brythonic, the Celtic language anciently spoken in Great Britain

In 2010, there were 1. 33 billion journeys on the National Rail network, making the British network the fifth most used in the world ( Great Britain ranks 23rd in world population ).

In the same year, changes to the British Transport Commission, including the privatisation of road haulage, ended the coordination of transport in Great Britain.

British Railways ( BR ), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

Additional awards were presented to the British fleet: Nelson was awarded £ 2, 000 (£ as of ) a year for life by the Parliament of Great Britain and £ 1, 000 per annum by the Parliament of Ireland, although the latter was inadvertently discontinued after the Act of Union dissolved the Irish Parliament.

Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages.

The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2001 to become the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court | Great Court, surrounding the original British Museum Reading Room | Reading Room.

The British Museum, Great Court

The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court is a covered square at the centre of the British Museum designed by the engineers Buro Happold and the architects Foster and Partners.

At the centre of the Great Court is the Reading Room vacated by the British Library, its functions now moved to St Pancras.

File: British Museum 2010-06-04 B. jpg | Ceiling of the Great Court and the black siltstone obelisks of Nectanebo II, c. 350 BC

The Balfour Declaration ( dated 2 November 1917 ) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild ( Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

The British Army came into being with the merger of the Scottish Army and the English Army, following the unification of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, as the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707.

Following the 1707 union of England and Scotland, and the 1801 creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, British foreign policy, on the continent, was to contain expansion by its competitor powers such as France and Spain.

The Voortrekkers were those Boers ( mainly from the eastern Cape ) who left the Cape en masse in a series of large scale migrations later called the Great Trek beginning in 1835 as a result of British colonialism and constant border wars.

Bus service is available at Pittsield as well as in Great Barrington, provided by Peter Pan bus lines.

Nassau Inter-County Express connects the villages to the train station and offers service to several destinations in Nassau County and Queens from the station, while the southern part of the Great Neck area can also directly access the Q46 New York City Bus on Union Turnpike at the border with Glen Oaks and the Q12 bus on Northern Boulevard at the border with Little Neck.

Theatre, Bus Stop the play, Bus Stop the television series, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, The Eleventh Hour, The Great Adventure, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Combat !, The Virginian.

He oversaw Bus deregulation in Great Britain with the Transport Act 1985 which led to a period of intense competition between rival bus companies, known at the time as the ' Bus wars ' and the dramatic subsequent growth of Stagecoach Group, First Group and the other major bus operators.

Peter Pan Bus Lines and Greyhound Bus Lines have stops in Great Barrington for long-range bus transportation.

Bus services, run by Arriva Shires & Essex, run to High Wycombe in one direction, and Great Missenden and Chesham in the other.

Dream Girl and Jean Anouilh's The Waltz of the Toreadors, but returned to Hollywood regularly, appearing in Flesh and Fantasy ( 1943 ), The Southerner ( 1945 ), The Great Gatsby ( 1949 ), Picnic ( 1955 ), Bus Stop ( 1956 ), Peyton Place ( 1957 ), Butterfield 8 ( 1960 ) and Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 ).

Great British Bus Journeys was shortlisted for a Dolman Best Travel Book Award in 2007.

Jones Bros Bus Company run buses along the Great Western Highway from Lithgow to Bathurst, some of which stop near Lithgow Correctional Centre.

Bus deregulation in Great Britain came into force on 26 October 1986, as part of the Transport Act 1985.

For example, in Great Britain Eurolines services are operated by the National Express Group, in Northern Ireland by Ulsterbus, and in the Republic of Ireland by the semi-state bus company, Bus Éireann.

Bus services first came to the village in the 1920s first offered by the local government's Wrexham & District Transport Co. Ltd bus service from Wrexham, and followed by Great Western Railway's own bus services.

* Pooh's Great School Bus Adventure-a ten-minute 16mm educational film produced in 1986, where the characters explain the importance of school bus safety.

2 ( Pooh's Great School Bus Adventure & Too Smart for Strangers )

* The Great Bourgeois Bus Company, poetry ( Madison: Quixote Press, 1969 )

Palin's first travel documentary was part of the 1980 BBC Television series Great Railway Journeys of the World, in which, humorously reminiscing about his childhood hobby of train spotting, he travelled throughout the UK by train, from London to the Kyle of Lochalsh, via Manchester, York, Newcastle upon Tyne, Edinburgh and Inverness.

* Gerald of Wales was 4th in the series of 8 by Nicholas Crane in Great British Journeys

It then passed between the White Mountains and the Mountains of Shadow through the ancient capital of Gondor, Osgiliath, before swinging past the harbour of Harlond close to the Rammas Echor south of Minas Tirith ( Barbara Strachey, in Journeys of Frodo, places the harbour just outside the wall ), and the Emyn Arnen and down past the port of Pelargir, entering the Great Sea in the Bay of Belfalas in a broad delta known as the Mouths of Anduin.

In 1999 he also appeared in Great Railway Journeys of the World, travelling from Guantanamo to Pinar del Rio.

Portillo has featured in a number of television documentaries, including one on Richard Wagner, of whose music he is a notable fan, and two on Spain: Great Railway Journeys: From Granada to Salamanca for BBC Two ( 2002 ), and a programme on Spanish wildlife for BBC Two's The Natural World series ( 2006 )-Portillo is a fluent Spanish speaker.

Filmed in 2009 but first broadcast 4 January 2010, Portillo presented Great British Railway Journeys in which he explored, with the aid of George Bradshaw's 1840 railway guidebook, how the railways had a profound influence on the social, economic and political history of Britain.

A similar claim is made that the tune came to the blind itinerant harpist Rory Dall O ' Cahan in a dream, and a documentary detailing this version was broadcast on the Maryland Public Television in USA in March 2000 .; reference to this was also made by historian John Hamilton in Michael Portillo's TV programme " Great British Railway Journeys Goes to Ireland " in February 2012.

* From St. Louis to Dogon Country ( 1999 ) part of the BBC series Great Railway Journeys.

* Great British Railway Journeys

He presented an episode, " Three Miles High ", in the first series of the BBC's Great Railway Journeys travelling through parts of Peru and Bolivia.

Pennant's exploration of Western Isles of Scotland was revisited by Nicholas Crane in a television documentary programme first broadcast on BBC Two on 16 August 2007, as part of the " Great British Journeys " series.

Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus.

Shortly before the closure of the narrow gauge line in 1980, the BBC filmed an episode of the television series " Great Railway Journeys of the World " featuring the original route of the Ghan ( and the infamously slow speed of the train ).

Christchurch School, in the tidewater area of Virginia, has an experiential program called Great Journeys Begin at the River.

Among his many publications were the nine-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short story A Message to Garcia.

* Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great ( 1895-1910 )

* Great Railway Journeys ( 1996 )

* Great Railway Journeys of Australia: explored the development of Australia's rail network and featured some of the most famous railway journeys in the country such as the old and new Ghan, the Queenslander and the Indian Pacific ( April-August 2007 )

* Elbert Hubbard, 1909, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol.

* In 1980, the BBC did a series of documentaries, entitled " Great Railway Journeys Of The World ".

* Mathrani, Vandana ( 2002 ) Epic Journeys: The Great Migrations ( accessed: Thursday, March 15, 2007 )

Gilpin is one of eight travellers included in Nicholas Crane's Great British Journeys.

* Great British Railway Journeys for BBC Two.