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- Great Britain is the largest island of the British Isles. It lies to the northwest of Continental Europe, with Ireland to the west, and makes ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 19:28, 24 May 2024
- center of Celtic Christianity in the British Isles. From Iona, missionary ... best-preserved Celtic crosses in the British Isles, and a replica of the ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 09:30, 30 November 2024
- Albert Venn Dicey (February 4, 1835 – April 7, 1922) was a British ... Dicey’s name became known beyond British Isles, and he was cited in ...10 KB (1,578 words) - 07:05, 13 June 2023
- Normandy, and not part of the British Isles or of the Channel Islands ... British Islands, not to be confused with the British Isles. ...23 KB (3,402 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- 26, 1841, – January 29, 1917, was a British statesman, diplomat and ... palace, of which the foundation was the British Isles, while the colonies were ...10 KB (1,464 words) - 04:54, 23 March 2024
- assaults on the coastlines of the British Isles were gradually followed ... 800 Waves of Danish assaults on the coastlines of the British Isles ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
- Loch Ness. The highest mountains in the British Isles are found there, including ... * The Marilyns are hills in the British Isles that have a relative ...12 KB (1,815 words) - 12:25, 28 January 2025
- share in common with other fairies of the British Isles. ... Like other British spirits, pixies commonly appear in popular culture ...8 KB (1,284 words) - 06:21, 24 November 2022
- *Joseph as the founder of British Christianity (even before it had ... The British Isles which are beyond the sea, and which lie in the ocean ...19 KB (3,085 words) - 05:03, 7 May 2024
- prospect of a Catholic dynasty in the British Isles was now likely. Some ... moves toward absolute monarchy in the British Isles ended by circumscribing ...16 KB (2,526 words) - 17:42, 23 May 2024
- *Burl, Aubrey. The Stone Circles of the British Isles. New Haven, ... *Piggott, Stuart. Neolithic Cultures of the British Isles. Cambridge: ...24 KB (3,569 words) - 22:43, 29 January 2023
- i=182536 Photographs of some Byways at Geograph British Isles] of some UK bridleways at Geograph British Isles] * [http://www.legislation ...14 KB (2,323 words) - 16:45, 2 May 2023
- pay off the crew, and pocket some 8,000 British pounds in profit. ... *The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles (1624) ...17 KB (2,650 words) - 03:40, 31 January 2025
- was one of the first major engagements on the British Isles where artillery would play a decisive role, and one of the last decisive uses of English ...7 KB (1,083 words) - 17:39, 28 March 2024
- maples now occur throughout the British Isles, having been introduced ... in northern Europe, notably in the British Isles and Scandinavia north ...16 KB (2,282 words) - 01:53, 27 February 2023
- in the European isles, such as the British Isles, Sardinia and Sicily—means ... part of a continent. In this sense the British Isles are part of Europe, and ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- are in the traditional musics of the British Isles (primarily English, Scottish ... While in the British Isles reels and jigs both remain popular, the ...26 KB (3,905 words) - 19:07, 31 July 2025
- of the more popular games brought to the British colonies in America, where ... rules for ten-pin bowling in the British Isles. The BTBA oversees the ...13 KB (2,040 words) - 20:02, 20 November 2023
- the birthplace of Christianity in the British Isles, and that the first British ... Tor is seen as the birthplace of British Christianity. As the center ...11 KB (1,740 words) - 17:35, 23 May 2024
- the most famous Britons who expanded the British Empire. With such names ... working as a clerk in London for the British East India Company, the ...33 KB (5,257 words) - 16:24, 8 February 2023
