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Britain and Ireland
* A book about flora and / or fauna of an area or region ( see for example Atlases of the flora and fauna of Britain and Ireland )
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.
The oldest-surviving Anglican church outside of the British Isles ( Britain and Ireland ) is St Peter's Church in St. George's, Bermuda, established in 1612 ( though the actual building had to be rebuilt several times over the following century ).
* 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.
The Australian-born children in the new colony were exposed to a wide range of different dialects from all over Britain and Ireland, in particular from Ireland and South East England.
Many of these were arrested in Ireland, and some in Great Britain.
* 1904 – The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
The most troublesome enemies of Roman Britain were the Picts of central and northern Scotland, and the Gaels known as Scoti, who were raiders from Ireland.
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
** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, a sovereign state from 1801 to 1922 ( and between 1922 and 1927 in its superseded form )
* British Isles, a group of islands that includes Great Britain, Ireland, and other islands
Consensus once held that today's baseball is a North American development from the older game rounders, popular in Great Britain and Ireland.
Immediately, Peel hoped that the repeal of the tariff on wheat ( the Corn Laws ) and the resultant influx of cheaper wheat into Britain would remedy the suffering caused by the Great Famine in Ireland due to the successive failure of potato crops.
Combined rugby union sides from the then United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland toured in the Southern Hemisphere from 1888 onwards.

Britain and moth
This type of industrial melanism has only affected such moths as obtain protection from insect-eating birds by resting on trees where they are concealed by an accurate resemblance to their background ( over 100 species of moth in Britain with melanic forms were known by 1980 ).
In September 2004 the moth species Catocala conjuncta, which was previously unrecorded in Britain was found on the reserve.
The moth was described from Macedonia where the species was discovered in 1984 but took 18 years to reach Britain.
However, despite having quite a wide geographical spread, the moth is afforded a status of Nationally Scarce ( found in between 16 and 100 of Britain ’ s 10 km squares ).
In Britain, the moth has a single generation per year – adults are on the wing from late May through to early July.

Britain and is
Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.
Britain in the nineteenth century is a textbook designed `` to give the sense of continuous growth, to show how economic led to social, and social to political change, how the political events reacted on the economic and social, and how new thoughts and new ideals accompanied or directed the whole complicated process ''.
On the other hand, the consensus of opinion is that, used with caution and in conjunction with other types of evidence, the native sources still provide a valid rough outline for the English settlement of southern Britain.
That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.
Had Churchill been returned to office in 1945, it is just possible that Britain, instead of standing fearfully aloof, would have led Europe toward union.
But the guilt is shared by the United States, Britain and France, the other members of the atomic club.
He is a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, a registered professional engineer in Connecticut and Ohio, and a chartered electrical engineer in Great Britain.
Britain announced that it is asking the Soviet Union to agree tomorrow to an immediate cease-fire.
* 1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
* 1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.
The best-known and longest-running of these events is the rugby league rivalry between Great Britain and Australia ( see rugby league " Ashes ").
In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.
Nevertheless, it still contains information that is considered reasonably sound – for instance, it is the only source that mentions the erection of the Antonine Wall in Britain.
It has been associated with more than 20 melodies, but in 1835 it was joined to a tune named " New Britain " to which it is most frequently sung today.
* 1783 – A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.
This genus is considered invasive in North America and Britain.
That the emperor sincerely sympathized with Alexei, and suspected Peter of harbouring murderous designs against his son, is plain from his confidential letter to George I of Great Britain, whom he consulted on this delicate affair.
In Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon, Aurelianus is depicted as the aging High King of Britain, a " too-ambitious " son of a Western Roman Emperor.
In Alfred Duggan's Conscience of the King, a historical novel about Cerdic, founder of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, Ambrosius Aurelianus is a Romano-British general who rose independently to military power, forming alliances with various British kings and setting out to drive the invading Saxons from Britain.
He is poisoned soon after becoming High King of Britain, and Uther succeeds him.
In this story, Romulus Augustus marries Igraine, and King Arthur is their son, and the sword of Julius Caesar becomes the legendary Excalibur in Britain.

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