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  1. 1 day ago · England, which had subsumed Wales in the 16th century under Henry VIII, united with Scotland in 1707 to form a new sovereign state called Great Britain. [ 8 ][ 9 ][ 10 ] Following the Industrial Revolution, which started in England, Great Britain ruled a colonial Empire, the largest in recorded history.

  2. 1 day ago · There is a low ridge from Messines, 260 ft (80 m) at its highest point, running north-east past Clapham Junction at the west end of Gheluvelt plateau (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles from Ypres at 213 ft (65 m) and Gheluvelt, above 160 ft (50 m) to Passchendaele, (5 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles from Ypres at 160 ft (50 m) declining from there to a plain further north.

  3. en.wikipedia.org · wiki · KentKent - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe. It borders Essex across the entire estuary of the River Thames to the north; the French department of Pas-de-Calais across the Strait of Dover to the south-east; East Sussex to the south-west; Surrey to the west and Greater London to the north-west.

  4. 1 day ago · Calvinist churches spread in Germany, [e] Hungary, the Netherlands, Scotland, Switzerland, France, and even to Eastern Europe along the shipping and trade routes of the Baltic Sea to Poland, and coastal kingdoms of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by both Evangelical Lutheran and Reformed church missionaries.

  5. en.wikipedia.org · wiki · PerthPerth - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · Perth's metropolitan area extends along the coast to Two Rocks in the north and Singleton to the south, [67] a distance of approximately 125 kilometres (80 mi). [68] From the coast in the west to Mundaring in the east is a distance of approximately 50 kilometres (30 mi). The Perth metropolitan area covers 6,418 square kilometres (2,478 sq mi). [2]

  6. en.wikipedia.org · wiki · GermanyGermany - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · Germany, [e] officially the Federal Republic of Germany, [f] is a country in Central Europe.It lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen constituent states have a total population of over 82 million in an area of 357,569 km 2 (138,058 sq mi), making it the most populous member state of the European Union.

  7. 1 day ago · Quote Growing up in Aberdeen, Scotland, the shadow of the Piper Alpha disaster loomed large over our community. The tragic explosion of the oil rig platform in 1988 claimed the lives of 167 people. Back then, I was blissfully unaware of the ecological ramifications of that disaster. But the spill...

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