Structures and other evidence of Ancient Pueblo culture has been found extending east onto the American Great Plains, in areas near the Cimarron and Pecos rivers and in the Galisteo Basin.

The Columbia, Colorado, and Mississippi watersheds meet at Three Waters Mountain in the Wind River Range of To the south, in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, the Columbia watershed is divided from the Great Basin, whose several watersheds are endorheic, not emptying into any ocean but rather drying up or sinking into sumps.

Great Basin watersheds that share a border with the Columbia watershed include Harney Basin, Humboldt River, and Great Salt Lake.

* Sierra Nevada creating the Great Basin Desert and northern Mojave Desert

He was hired by John C. Fremont as a guide, and led ' the Pathfinder ' through much of California, Oregon and the Great Basin area.

They determined that all the land in the Great Basin ( centered on modern-day Nevada ) was land-locked, which contributed greatly to the understanding of North American geography at the time.

: Our adventures in the desert were eventually terminated by our arrival at " Las Vegas de Santa Clara ", and a pleasant thing it was to look once more upon green grass and sweet water, and to reflect that the dreariest part of our journey lay behind us, so that the sands and jornados of the Great Basin would weary our animals no more ...

As a result, band societies such as the Shoshone of the Great Basin came across as extraordinarily lazy to European colonialists.

* Great Lakes Basin desert steppe

To date, meteorites numbering possibly into the thousands have been recovered from the Mojave, Sonoran, Great Basin, and Chihuahuan Deserts, with many being recovered on dry lake beds.

Nevada is largely desert and semiarid, with much of it located within the Great Basin.

Areas south of the Great Basin are located within the Mojave Desert, while Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada mountains lie on the western edge.

Most of these ranges have endorheic valleys between them, which belies the image portrayed by the term Great Basin.

Much of the northern part of the state is within the Great Basin, a mild desert that experiences hot temperatures in the summer and cold temperatures in the winter.

Image: Great Basin National Park 102007 015. JPG | Pinyon / Juniper woodlands cover most of the mountain ranges in the northeastern and central portions of the state.

** Great Basin tribes: Uto-Aztecan

The creation of the seaway also led to the introduction of invasive species of aquatic animals, most notably the zebra mussel into the Great Lakes Basin.

The desert is underlain by the Great Artesian Basin, one of the largest inland drainage areas in the world.

Finally the mound springs of the Great Artesian Basin are important habitat for a number of plants, fish, snails and other invertebrates.

When the Mormons arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in 1847, the Great Basin was still a part of Mexico and had no secular government.

* 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

* 1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

* 1964 – Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers, escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.

The Act of Settlement was, in many ways, the major cause of the union of Scotland with England and Wales to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

* 1904 – The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.

When the office of Lord High Admiral was in commission, as it was for most of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries until it reverted to the Crown, it was exercised by a Board of Admiralty, officially known as the Commissioners for Exercising the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, & c. ( alternatively of England, Great Britain or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland depending on the period ).

* United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, a sovereign state in western Europe

** Kingdom of Great Britain, a sovereign state from 1707 to 1801

** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, a sovereign state from 1801 to 1922 ( and between 1922 and 1927 in its superseded form )

Combined rugby union sides from the then United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland toured in the Southern Hemisphere from 1888 onwards.

When the team first emerged in the nineteenth century it represented one nation-state, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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

This helped the new Kingdom of Great Britain – England and Scotland were formally united in 1707 – to become powerful.

In production of the countdown sequence, Clive Norman filmed images around the United Kingdom, Richard Jopson in the United States, while BBC News cameramen filmed images from Iraq, Beijing ( Great Wall of China ), Bund of Shanghai, Africa, as well as areas affected by the 2004 Asian Tsunami and others.

In Ireland – when it was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland – the Bank Holidays Act 1871 established the feast day of St. Stephen as a non-movable public holiday on 26 December.

This came to be known as the ' Great Turn ' as Russia turned away from the near-capitalist New Economic Policy.

* Economic boom ended by " Black Tuesday " ( October 29, 1929 ); the stock market crashes, leading to the Great Depression.

The Economic Consequences of Mr. Keynes: How the Second Industrial Revolution Passed Great Britain By.

Common use of the phrase " The Great Depression " for the 1930s crisis is most frequently attributed to British economist Lionel Robbins, whose 1934 book The Great Depression is credited with ' formalizing ' the phrase, though US president Herbert Hoover is widely credited with having ' popularized ' the term / phrase, informally referring to the downturn as a " depression ", with such uses as " Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement ", ( December 1930, Message to Congress ) and " I need not recount to you that the world is passing through a great depression " ( 1931 ).

* Feldman, Glenn, “ Southern Disillusionment with the Democratic Party: Cultural Conformity and the ‘ the Great Melding ’ of Racial and Economic Conservatism in Alabama during World War II ,” Journal of American Studies 43 ( Aug. 2009 ), 199 – 230.

Economic Geography: The Great Half-Century.

* 1933-London Economic Conference, to deal with Great Depression, collapses after U. S. withdraws.

* The Railway Mania: Not so Great Expectations – Economic article which argues that during the British Railway Mania of the 1840s, railway shares were not obviously overpriced, even at the market peak, but prices still fell dramatically.

At the London Economic Conference of 1933, the head of the German delegation, the Economics Minister Dr. Alfred Hugenberg of the German National People's Party, put forth a programme of German colonial expansion in both Africa and Eastern Europe as the best way of ending the Great Depression, which created a major storm at the conference.

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500-2000 ( 1987 ), stress on economic and military factors

* Myung Soo Cha, " Did Takahashi Korekiyo Rescue Japan from the Great Depression ?," The Journal of Economic History 63, No. 1 ( Mar 2003 ): 127-44.

* Nanto, Dick K. and Shinji Takagi, " Korekiyo Takahashi and Japan's Recovery from the Great Depression ," American Economic Review 75, No. 2 ( May 1985 ): 369-74.

The Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community, has adopted The Great Turning as a major focus.

: Musson, A. E. ( 1959 ) The Great Depression in Britain, 1873 – 1896: A Reappraisal ," Journal of Economic History, Vol.

* Paul Kennedy – The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000

* Rainer Fremdling, " Railways and German Economic Growth: A Leading Sector Analysis with a Comparison to the United States and Great Britain ," The Journal of Economic History, Vol.

Economic difficulties during the Great Depression necessitated that Jones ' family move to nearby Lynn, Indiana, in 1934.

* Alan S. Blinder, Economic Policy and the Great Stagflation ( New York: Academic Press, 1979 )

During the Nixon years, Brooke opposed repeated Administration attempts to close down the Job Corps and the Office of Economic Opportunity and to weaken the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission -- all foundational elements of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.

* Booth, A. and Pack, M. Employment, Capital and Economic Policy in Great Britain 1918-1939 ( Blackwell, 1985 )

Great Barrington also plays host to the American Institute for Economic Research.

* Beaudreau, Bernard C. The Economic Consequences of Mr. Keynes: How the Second Industrial Revolution Passed Great Britain ( 2006 )