The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.

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

Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes have been played for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, the Caucasus, around the Persian Gulf and in Northern Africa.

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

Following Napoleon Bonaparte's victories over the Austrian Empire in Northern Italy – helping to secure France victory in the War of the First Coalition in 1797 – Great Britain remained the only major European power still at war with the French Republic.

Great North Western Telegraph, facing bankruptcy, was taken over in 1915 by Canadian Northern.

* A memorial to the Great Northern Migration by Alison Saar

* 1906 – The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.

* 1936 – Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII's abdication as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India becomes effective.

Hence England and, by extension its modern successor state, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is in fact an Empire ruled by a King endowed with the imperial dignity.

He intervened briefly in the Great Northern War but gained little territory.

Their purpose was defense from attacks from water and their construction was urged by the Great Northern War of 1700 – 1721.

* Gopher ( train ), a passenger train operated by the Great Northern Railway, USA

Unfortunately, the Great Northern War put an end to Telemann's career at Sorau.

* 1315 – 1317: The Great Famine of 1315 – 1317 in Northern Europe

The official name of the UK thus became " The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ".

The Great Northern War, a period seen by the contemporaries as a passing eclipse, may have been the fatal blow destined to bring down the Noble Republic.

Hertfordshire (, or ; abbreviated Herts ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Peter's ambitions for a " window to the sea " led him in 1699 to make a secret alliance with the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth and Denmark against Sweden resulting in the Great Northern War.

Public transport services in Northern Ireland are sparse in comparison with those of the rest of Ireland or Great Britain.

Roads are named using a numbering scheme similar to those used in the numbering of roads in Great Britain and Northern Ireland ; each road is assigned a letter, which represents the road's category, and a subsequent 1 – 2 digit number.

Greenwich Mean Time was adopted across the island of Great Britain by the Railway Clearing House in 1847, and by almost all railway companies by the following year, from which the term " railway time " is derived.

The Great Eastern Hotel was closed in 1923 by the newly formed LNER, the hotel having suffered a decline resulting from the opening of the new passenger port up-river at Parkeston Quay where a new hotel with the same name had been opened by the Great Eastern Railway.

* GWR Iron Duke Class, the name of a famous class of locomotive built by the Great Western Railway in England

* Iron Duke was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915.

* 1803 – The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London, England, Great Britain.

* 1910 – The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.

This was followed by a second series, Blackadder II ( 1986 ) set during the reign of Elizabeth I, a third series Blackadder the Third ( 1987 ) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of George III, and finally Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ) in 1917, set in the trenches of the Great War.

The controversy would surface in the Thomas Becket affair under Henry II of England, the Great Charter of 1217, the Statutes of Mortmain and the battles over Cestui que use of Henry VII of England, and finally come to a head under Henry VIII of England.

After a hard struggle from the combined efforts of Hamilcar Barca, Hanno the Great and others, the Punic forces were finally able to annihilate the mercenaries and the insurgents.

Ivan III ( the Great ) finally threw off the control of the Golden Horde, consolidated the whole of Central and Northern Rus ' under Moscow's dominion, and was the first to take the title " Grand Duke of all the Russias ".

The Appeasement policy of Great Britain and France towards Adolf Hitler's annexations of Ruhr, Austria and finally of Czechoslovakia enlarged the might of Nazi Germany and put a threat of war to the Soviet Union.

In theosophy, it is believed the Seven Stars of the Pleiades focus the spiritual energy of the Seven Rays from the Galactic Logos to the Seven Stars of the Great Bear, then to Sirius, then to the Sun, then to the god of Earth ( Sanat Kumara ), and finally through the seven Masters of the Seven Rays to the human race.

However, on smaller length-scales, matter is observed to form " clumps ", i. e., to cluster hierarchically ; many atoms are condensed into stars, most stars into galaxies, most galaxies into clusters, superclusters and, finally, the largest-scale structures such as the Great Wall of galaxies.

When hostilities finally broke out, the Austrians had hoped for aid from the maritime powers, Great Britain and the Dutch Republic.

Aethelwulf was succeeded by each of his four surviving sons ruling one after another: the rebellious Aethelbald, then Ethelbert, who had previously inherited the eastern territories from his father and who reunited the kingdom on Aethelbald's death, then Aethelred, and finally Alfred the Great.

The actors were not told the end result of the Willow – Oz – Tara storyline, not sure what the eventual trajectory of the relationship would be, until Hannigan said, " Then finally it was, ' Great!

The increase of the traffic volume is partly caused by the general growth of traffic, partly diversion of traffic volume from other ferry services and air services, and finally the so-called traffic leap, that is, new traffic generated by the improved ease, facility and lower price of crossing the Great Belt.

The government offices that remained in Turku were finally moved to the new capital after the Great Fire of Turku, which almost completely destroyed the city in 1827.

When Sweden finally was at peace with Hanover, Great Britain, Brandenburg-Prussia and Denmark – Norway, she hoped that the anti-Russian sentiments of the Vienna parties and France would culminate in an alliance which would restore to her her Russian-occupied eastern provinces.

The reinforced US Army defeated the Lakota bands in a series of battles, finally ending the Great Sioux War in 1877.

The city was heavily depopulated with the coming of the Great Plague and was finally abandoned after an attack of Uruks in T. A.

He finally took refuge in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

After 1172 the election of the doge was finally entrusted to a committee of forty, who were chosen by four men selected from the Great Council of Venice, which was itself nominated annually by twelve persons.

The Boyar Duma expanded from around 30 people to around 100 in the 17th century and was finally abolished by Tsar Peter the Great in 1711 in his extensive reforms of government and administration.

Russia finally seemed to have gotten what the Russian Empire had been wanting in its quest to become a global power since the reign of Peter the Great.

The track finally saw the light of day on an official CD, as of 2003, with the release of the 3-CD compilation, The Great Cyndi Lauper.

Finally they planned, When-Few-Seeds-Ripen,, Great Seed Ripening,, Little Ripening, and finally September,, Harvest Time, when foods are stored for the winter.

The boll weevil infestations of the 1920s and the Great Depression of the 1930s finally ended the one-crop farming system.

Next, development was stalled by the bust of the Florida land boom in the 1920s and Henry Flagler's death, and was finally devastated by the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Hugh finally relented and made peace with Louis IV, the church and his brother-in-law Otto the Great.

Typical passage to La Petite Chute included crossing the Atlantic from Rotterdam to New York City, a train trip from there to Albany, a train or Erie Canal-barge trip across New York state to Buffalo, steamship travel through the Great Lakes and Green Bay to the head of the Fox River at Green Bay and finally a 30-mile, ox-cart trip to the mission at La Petite Chute.