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The word Britain is an informal term used to refer to; the island of Great Britain which consists of the nations of England, Scotland and Wales. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or UK, sometimes the Roman province called "Britain" or "Britannia" The word British generally means belonging to or associated with Britain in one of the first two senses above (i.e. the United Kingdom or the island of Great Britain). However, the term has a range of related usages, a ...

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At the location of the current Kaunas old town, at the confluence of two large rivers, there was a settlement as far back as the tenth century BC. According to legend, the town was founded in 1030, but it is first mentioned in written sources in 1361. In the thirteenth century, a stone wall was built for protection from constant raids by the Teutonic Knights. In 1362, the town was captured by the Teutonic Knights, who destroyed the cast ...

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Geographically, the label "Middle America" refers to the territory between the east and west coasts of the United States. The exact interface between "coastal" America and "Middle America" is debated. For example, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is considered coastal while Pittsburgh is not. Likewise, Las Vegas (within California's sphere of influence and quite wealthy) is considered part of the "west coast" while ge ...

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The Nordic countries are loosely united by historical and cultural ties. During the Viking era, the Scandinavian countries all shared a common culture, language and religion; Old Norse and Norse mythology, although Finland, due to its different cultural, mythological and lingustic Finno-Ugric heritage is considered to be separate from the Scandinavian grouping. After being Christianised around the year 1000, the process of unification established Denmark, Norway and Sweden as separate kingdoms. Finland became part of Sweden in the mid 1200s, whereas Iceland, the Faroe Islands, the Shetland Islands, Orkney and large parts ...

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The strategy for Risk 2210 is much more varied than in traditional Risk. It is quite possible to win on the first round or round and a half if a player strategically outmaneuvers his opponents. By taking the last turn in the first round, and keeping enough energy to buy the first turn in the second round, the player is safe to leave his territories completely unguarded after the first round, earning many reinforcing armies from ...

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The boundary between the forthcoming British and French mandates was defined in broad terms by the Franco-British Boundary Agreement of December 1920. This placed most of the Golan in the French sphere. However, the joint commission formed to demarcate the border precisely did not complete its work until 1923, so the actual transfer of the Golan to French control did not occur until the year after the British Mandate of Palestine came into being. In accordance with the same process, a nearby parcel of land that included the ancient site of D ...

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The etymology of the name Britain is thought to derive from a Celtic word, Pritani, "painted people/men", a reference to the inhabitants of the islands' use of body-paint and tattoos. If this is true, there is an interesting parallel with the name Pict, connected with a Latin word of the same meaning. The modern Welsh name for Britain is Prydain. The Q-Celtic form was Cruithin, showing that the Common Celtic singular form was qr[ui]tanos. The root is presumably that of the modern G ...

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The phrase "Middle American values" is a political cliche, which like "family values", is ill-defined. For example, said values usually involve conservative politics, yet a comparison of Madison, Wisconsin against Orange County, California refutes this stereotype. Many of the political battleground states are situated in "Middle America". ...

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The Kurt Vonnegut novel Breakfast of Champions is set in "Midland City" a satirical Middle American City. In The Simpsons, the titular family inhabits a town called Springfield, usually considered to be a parody of stereotypical "Middle America". This depiction is satirical, though not maliciously so in that it lampoons an idea, a "dinner at 6" suburban America that does not exist and never did. The comic strip Calvin and Hobbes portrays "Middle America" as a "magical world" of lazy summers, snowy winters, ...

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The original reference seems to have been to the territory in which the Brythonic languages were spoken, which more or less coincided with the Roman province of Britannia, an area equivalent to modern England, Wales and southern Scotland. In the Early Middle Ages speakers of a Brythonic language which later evolved into Breton migrated from Cornwall to Armorica, Western France, possibly because of pressure from Saxon invasions. This is why different forms of the same name apply to insular Britain and continental Brittany. In French the similarity is even more obvi ...

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"Middle America" is more of a cultural than a geographical label. Wealthy regions of Colorado and Texas, which culturally have more in common with the coasts than the Midwest, are normally not considered part of "Middle America". The term "Middle America" may suggest a somewhat idyllic small town or suburban America where most people are middle class. "Middle America" is often caricatured in the ...

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There were three expansions released for Risk 2210, all by the name Frontline. These were originally released by Avalon Hill to be used as Tournament awards, available only to retailers. They were not made available for resale by Wizards of the Coast. A related game, Risk Godstorm, took some of the innovations of 2210 and set them in a mythological setting. ...

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The kingdoms established on the island of Great Britain were perceived to be dominant over the whole archipelago, which thus came to be known as the British Isles. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, the queen's astrologer and alchemist, John Dee, wrote mystical volumes predicting a British Empire and using the terms Great Britain and Britannia. After Elizabeth's death in 1603 the kingdoms shared one King, James VI of Scotland and I of England. On 20 October 1604 he proclaimed himself "King of Great Brittai ...

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The area has been occupied by many civilizations. During the 3rd millennium BCE the Amorites dominated and inhabited the Golan until the 2nd millennium, when the Arameans took over. Later known as Bashan, the area was contested between Kingdom of Israel (the northern of the two Jewish kingdoms existent at that time) and the Aramean kingdom from the 800s BCE. King Ahab of Israel (reigned 874–852 ...

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Geographically, the Heights are bordered on the west by a rock escarpment that drops 1700 feet (500 m) to the Sea of Galilee and the Jordan River; on the south by the Yarmouk River; on the north by the international border with Lebanon, and on the east by a largely flat plain, called the Hauran. The Golan is usually divided into three regions: northern (between Nahals Sa'ar and Gilabon), central (between Nahals Gilabon and Dilayot), and southern (bet ...

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The city is situated on the main freeway "Via Baltica" (E 67) Warsaw-Riga-Helsinki. Geographically Kaunas is located by Kaunas lagoon (the largest body of water in Lithuania), at the junction of the two largest Lithuanian rivers, the Nemunas and the Neris. With almost 93 percent citizens being ethnic Lithuanians, Kaunas is one of the most Lithuanian cities of the country. By the number of people of local nationality, Kaunas is the largest city in Baltic States: it has larger number of Lithuanians than Vilnius, larger number of Lithuanians than Riga has Latvians or Tallinn has Estonians. ...

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The modern use of the term 'British' is as an adjective to describe someone or something from the United Kingdom. It is officially used as the term to describe the nationality of a citizen of the United Kingdom. Irish Nationalists may reject this term as offensive, as it is used to describe people from Northern Ireland. Many people from England, Scotland and Wales also dislike the term, preferring to d ...

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The Israeli army captured the Heights and put them under military administration from 1967 until 1981, when the Knesset passed The Golan Heights Law[4], similar to its 1967 measures concerning Jerusalem. It permitted the distribution of Israeli identity cards in January 1982 to the mainly Druze Syrians who remained there and allowed them to acquire Israeli citizenship, but most chose to retain their Syrian citizenship [5]. The Syrian government wants the Arab residents of the Golan Heights to retain their loyalty to Syria. To foster Syrian loyalty, Syria ...

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