• The Description of Britain, also known by its Latin name De Situ Britanniae ("On the Situation of Britain"), was a literary forgery perpetrated by Charles...
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    The Battle of Britain (German: Luftschlacht um England, lit. 'air battle for England') was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal...
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    of "Βρεττανικήσ". According to Barry Cunliffe: It is quite probable that the description of Britain given by the Greek writer Diodorus Siculus in the...
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  • also, for example, in the type of literary criticism known as New Historicism. Thick description was first introduced by the British philosopher Gilbert...
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    while the style, "King of Great Britain" first arose at that time, legislatively the title came into force in 1707. On 1 January 1801, the Kingdom of Great...
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    Kingdom by the Name of Great Britain". The term "United Kingdom" has occasionally been used as a description for the former Kingdom of Great Britain, although...
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    The Kingdom of Great Britain, officially known as Great Britain, was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 to the end of 1800. The state was created...
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    A royal consort is the spouse of a reigning monarch. Consorts of British monarchs have no constitutional status or power but many have had significant...
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    Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries...
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    Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe (in German Kosmos – Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung) is an influential treatise on...
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    Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island...
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    The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the principal minister of the crown of His Majesty's Government, and the head of the British Cabinet. There...
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    Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Sophia Charlotte; 19 May 1744 – 17 November 1818) was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland as the wife of King George III...
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    The Description de l'Égypte (French pronunciation: [dɛskʁipsjɔ̃ də leʒipt], "Description of Egypt") was a series of publications, appearing first in 1809...
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    List of A roads in zone 2 in Great Britain starting south of the River Thames and east of the A3 (roads beginning with 2). Wikimedia Commons has media...
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    The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, better known as The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by the English writer Margaret...
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    highly-influential 1740s forgery The Description of Britain, which placed the province between the two walls and even named the area north of the Antonine Wall as a...
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    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the union of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into one sovereign state, established...
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  • at Westminster. He was highly famed in the 18th and 19th century as the author of The Description of Britain before it was proved to have been a later...
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  • Charles Bertram (category Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London)
    English expatriate in Denmark who "discovered"—and presumably wrote—The Description of Britain (Latin: De Situ Britanniae), an 18th-century literary forgery...
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    series of wars in the 17th and 18th centuries with the Netherlands and France left Britain the dominant colonial power in North America. Britain became...
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    The end of Roman rule in Britain occurred as the military forces of Roman Britain withdrew to defend or seize the Western Roman Empire's continental core...
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    The Matter of Britain (French: matière de Bretagne) is the body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain and Brittany...
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  • A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication. Its purpose...
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  • Thumbnail for Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market
    Street: A Description of the Money Market (1873) is a book by Walter Bagehot. Bagehot was one of the first writers to describe and explain the world of international...
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    The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in May 1707 following the ratification of the Acts of Union by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament...
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  • Monument Class Description provides a synthesis and summary of the archaeological evidence for a particular type of British ancient monument. The Monument Class...
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    list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain, which was in existence from 1707 to 1800 (inclusive). List of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain from...
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    West Brit (redirect from West Britain)
    Britain is a description of Ireland emphasising it as subject to British influence. "West Britain" was used with reference to the Acts of Union 1800 which...
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    List of A roads in zone 3 in Great Britain starting west of the A3 and south of the A4 (roads beginning with 3). Wikimedia Commons has media related to...
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