For example, although the words wee and little are interchangeable in some contexts, wee ( as an adjective ) is almost exclusively written by some people from some parts of northern Britain ( and especially Scotland ) or from Northern Ireland, whereas in Southern England and Wales, little is used predominantly.

The early colonial governors held an almost autocratic power due to the distance from and poor communications with Great Britain, until 1824 when the New South Wales Legislative Council, Australia's first legislative body, was appointed to advise the governor.

Increasing numbers of main roads were turnpiked from the 1750s to the extent that almost every main road in England and Wales was the responsibility of some turnpike trust.

Other common law legal jurisdictions use jury trials only in a very select class of cases that make up a tiny share of the overall civil docket ( e. g. defamation suits in England and Wales ), while true civil jury trials are almost entirely absent elsewhere in the world.

However he shocked the Assembly members and Welsh public when he called for the legalization of heroin: " I have never had heroin but since I moved to London from North Wales in ' 67 I have mixed with junkies on a casual and almost daily basis ," he said.

Folk memory in Wales had always held him in high regard and almost every parish has some landmark or story about Owain.

By 1196 Rhys ruled almost all of Deheubarth, as well as controlling much of the remainder of south Wales through client princes.

* February 19 – February 22 – WWII: Three Nights ' Blitz over Swansea, South Wales: Over these 3 nights of intensive bombing, which last a total of 13 hours and 48 minutes, Swansea's town centre is almost completely obliterated by the 896 high explosive bombs employed by the Luftwaffe.

Indeed, aside from the many Roman-related finds along the southern coast and the fully romanized area around Caerwent, Roman archaeological remains in Wales consist almost entirely of military roads and fortifications.

Originally king of Gwynedd, by 1055 he was ruler of almost all of Wales and had annexed parts of England around the border.

The Tlingit occupied almost all of the Alexander Archipelago, except the southernmost end of Prince of Wales Island and its surroundings, where the Kaigani Haida moved just before the first encounters with European explorers.

The Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company opened a dock at Port Talbot and the Llyfni Railway in 1897, followed by the Ogmore Valley Extension and the South Wales Mineral Junction Railway ( almost all these lines were closed as part of the Beeching Axe cuts in the mid 1960s, but some bridges and viaducts remain and many of these railway routes have re-emerged as recreational cycle tracks ).

He was created Earl of Chester on 18 May 1333, Duke of Cornwall on 17 March 1337 ( the first creation of an English duke ) and finally invested as Prince of Wales on 12 May 1343 when he was almost thirteen years old.

He named it for the beautiful winding River Wye, noted for its sinuosity, whose source is near that of the Severn, rising almost at the summit of Plinhimmon, a mountain in Wales, it forms the boundary between the shores of Brecon and Radnor in South Wales, ere it enters Herefordshire, England, and thence flowing through this county, Ross and Monmouth, falls into the Severn near Chepstow.

The Broads has the same status as the national parks in England and Wales ; the Broads Authority has powers and duties almost identical to the national parks, but is also the third-largest inland navigation authority.

The Sundowners was filmed almost entirely in South Australia and New South Wales, including in towns like Nimmitabel and Port Augusta.

Haredi families on average have 5. 9 children, almost 2. 5 times the average for England and Wales, and many families live in overcrowded flats.

In South Wales again, where in 1811 the railways were connected with canals, collieries, iron and copper works, and had a total length of nearly, the plateway was almost universal.

The largest religion in Wales is Christianity, with almost 72 % of the population declaring to be Christian in the 2001 census.

The main spine of the WCML is quadruple track almost all of the way from London to ( where the line diverges into sections to Manchester, North Wales, Liverpool, and Scotland ) except for a section of triple track between Brinklow Junction ( north of ), Attleborough South Junction ( south of ) on the Trent Valley Line and between Colwich Junction and where it is a mixture of triple and double track ( through the tunnel under the Shugborough estate ).

The canal system grew rapidly at first, and became an almost completely connected network covering the South, Midlands, and parts of the North of England and Wales.

* G. tibicen tibicen, the nominate form, is a large subspecies found in southeastern Queensland, from the vicinity of Moreton Bay through eastern New South Wales to Moruya, New South Wales almost to the Victorian border.

By 1776 some 1, 912 parish and corporation workhouses had been established in England and Wales, housing almost 100, 000 paupers.

An otherwise identical, but smaller replica was also made by Fattorini, the North Wales Coast FA Cup trophy, and is contested annually by members of that regional Association.

Mother Goose is generally depicted in literature and book illustration as an elderly country woman in a tall hat and shawl, a costume identical to the peasant costume worn in Wales in the early 20th century, but is sometimes depicted as a goose ( usually wearing a bonnet ).

They were accompanied by a beloved nanny, whom young Gloria had named " Dodo ", who would play a tumultuous part in the child's life, and her mother's identical twin sister, Thelma, who was the mistress of The Prince of Wales during this time.

Court dress in many jurisdictions with legal systems derived from England's, including Caribbean and African countries have court dress identical to that in England and Wales.

A visual clue to Cinderford's origins can be seen in the style and layout of the town ; with long rows of identical terraced housing ; similar to many found in towns of the South Wales Valleys, that also developed around the coal mining industry.

The South Wales FA area is more complicated however, as this region has two senior leagues of identical status covering the same area, each with two divisions-the South Wales Senior League and the South Wales Amateur League-often the champions of these leagues have to play off for the single promotion place to the Welsh Football League.

Fossils of lungfish almost identical to this species have been uncovered in northern New South Wales, indicating that Neoceratodus has remained virtually unchanged for well over 100 million years, making it a living fossil and one of the oldest living vertebrate genera on the planet.

June and Jennifer Gibbons ( born 11 April 1963 ; Jennifer died in 1993 ), were identical twins who grew up in Wales.

The United Kingdom Census 1911 notes that 8, 322 ( 58 %) of parishes in England and Wales were not identical for civil and ecclesiastical purposes.

The brisures used in the arms granted by the Chief Herald of the Republic of Ireland are identical to the brisures used by the system used in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but unlike the English system, which only uses these brisures for the sons of an armiger in order of birth, the Irish system applies them to all the children of the armiger, irrespective of gender, and, as illegitimacy has no place in Irish heraldry, these marks are assigned to ( recognised ) children born outside of marriage as well as inside.

New South Wales then adopted a second flag in 1870 and it was almost identical to that of Victoria.

Forms of longhouses identical to those on Dartmoor are found in Cornwall, particularly on Bodmin Moor and in Wales where they are commonly called tyddyn meaning ' homestead ', or specifically Ty Hir meaning ' long-house ' in the Welsh language.

Special Constables have identical powers to their regular ( full-time ) colleagues and work alongside regular police officers, but most Special Constabularies in England and Wales have their own organisational structure and grading system, which varies from force to force.

Community councils in Wales are identical to English parish councils in terms of their powers and the way they operate.

The term ENTER was only used in Victoria, although the actual rank was identical and equivalent to the Universities Admission Index ( UAI ) used in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, and to the Tertiary Entrance Rank ( TER ) used in South Australia, the Northern Territory, Tasmania and Western Australia.

Community councils in Wales are identical to English parish councils in terms of their powers and the way they operate.

The new system covers alcohol sales only, but otherwise is, in most particulars, identical to the system created in England and Wales by the Licensing Act 2003.

" Also, as illustrated in figure 81 of a 1964 book, the Italian debunker Biagio Catalano argues that the " vase " is actually almost identical, as in both shape and decorations, to an Indian pipe-holder stored at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya ( ex Prince of Wales Museum ) of Mumbai.

These zones are identical with those found in the rocks of the same age in North Wales, the Bala series, and the terms Bala or Caradoc series are used indifferently by geologists when referring to the uppermost substage of the Ordovician System.