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- proper noun The
official name of theUnited Kingdom 1707-1801.
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Examples
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Set against the political problem of the 1800 Act of Union, which abolished the Irish Parliament and sought to invent an unproblematic unit called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, The Wild Irish Girl focuses on the romance between Glorvina O'Melville, a Gaelic princess, who teaches one Horatio Mortimer, the son of an English absentee landlord, the error of his ignorant, colonising ways, and the value of Irish culture and epistemology.
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Can I point out, England hasn't been a country since 1707. our country is called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Monday Open Thread 2007
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain was a state in Europe from the Act of Union between the parliaments of the Kingdom of Scotland in 1707.
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They have already spent an eight-year courtship under the harsh scrutiny that comes with the possibility of one day being the King and Queen consort of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland — not to mention fifteen other Commonwealth realms.
To Do: Propose to Girlfriend (Check), Marry, Become King Jeanne Whalen 2010
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The only question I believe the 2010 UK general election will really decide is on whose watch does the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland achieve national insolvency.
Sheldon Filger: Will the British General Election Save UK Economy From Collapse? 2010
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The only question I believe the 2010 UK general election will really decide is on whose watch does the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland achieve national insolvency.
Will the British General Election Save UK Economy From Collapse? 2010
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The number really should be 12 -- as the UK has so many aliases -- "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", England, Great Britain, Henry's Place (been watching The Tudors again) ... are there more?
Steve Clemons: UK-US Relations Deep if Not Frequent: Special Relationship Still "Special" 2010
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In case you're unaware, the Merry Old United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is holding it's general election tomorrow.
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Crossing the Atlantic for an official visit costs a lot of mullah, and mullah is something of which Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, sovereign of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, wearer of spangly crowns, is disagreeably short at present.
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Crossing the Atlantic for an official visit costs a lot of mullah, and mullah is something of which Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, sovereign of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, wearer of spangly crowns, is disagreeably short at present.
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