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Which are the isles that comprise the archipielago?

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Great Britain, Ireland, Shetlands, Orkneys, Hebrides, Man, Wight

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Where is the archipielago located?

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Off the nothwest coast of Europe.

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What is a nation?

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A community of people sharing a territory, common past experiences, common cultural features, and some goal for the feature.

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What is a state?

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A political organization of a nation, with a system of goverment and international recognition.

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Goverment

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Group of people, usually a political coalition, in control of the state of a certain period of time. Goverments are temporary and the state is permanent.

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Which are the four nations in the British Isles?

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England, Scotland, Wales, and Nothern Ireland.

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What’s the full name of the UK?

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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nothern Ireland

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Which are the two nations in the Island of Ireland?

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Nothern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

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Celtic name of The Republic of Ireland

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Eire

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Celtic name of Nothern Ireland

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Ulster

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11
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How many counties or shires compose Britain?

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71

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Uk population

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60.6 million

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Why does Britain have a negative population rate?

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Because more people die or emigrate that are born or arrive.

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Main countries from which people immigrate to the UK

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India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Caribbean region.

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Britain’s natural resources

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Coal and iron

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How has Britain sustained her industrial activities?

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Importing raw materials from abroad

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17
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What is the Maritime commerce?

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Hence the dominion of the seas through the navy.

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18
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Britain’s most important product in the middle ages

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Wool ans its manufacture

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What important event was caused in the 19th century thanks to the abundance of coal and iron?

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Coal and ironthe industrial revolution

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Britain’s production nowadays

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Chemicals, electronics, plastics, vehicles, ships, aircrafts, clothing, printing, computers,cprossesed food and drinks,coil, dairy, and fishing products.

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Most active economic sector

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The invisible commerce.

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What is the invisible commerce?

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The profits made by investments on insurance, banking services, and stocks.

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The City

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An area of London where these institutions have their headquarters.

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Which foundation partly organizes the tourism industry?

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The National Trust (or Heritage) Foundation

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How is Britain defined in political terms?

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As a constitutional monarchy and a parlimentarian democracy.

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Which are the two types of law in legal matters?

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The common law and the statue law

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Common Law

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Law based on precedent or tradition

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Statue Law

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Law dictated by the parliment

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Magna Carta by King John, 1215

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First attempt of creating a Constitution

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Creation of the parliment

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1295

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Comstitution

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Basic or fundamental law

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32
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How is Britains Constitution?

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Largely unwritten and very flexible

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Executive power

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The one who truely and effectively exercises the goverment

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Who is the Prime Minister?

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The head of the Government in charge of setting the board lines of the policy of the nation

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Current Prime Minister

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Theresa May

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Parliment

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Where the legislative power is laid

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Who composes the parliment?

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The Queen, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons.

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Who is the Head of the State?

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The queen Elizabeth II, of the House of Windsor.

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39
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Which are the Queens duties?

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Mostly ceremonial, as a historical symbol of the continuity of the nation.

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40
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When was Elizabeth II crowned?

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In 1953

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41
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In whose hands does the real political power reside?

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In The House of Commons

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Who are the Commons

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Around 640 members elected by the people for a maximum of five years

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43
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What’s the House of Lords?

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A group of around 740 members who do not have much real power, they are basically a remanent of the old days of the kingdom

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Which are the two types of Lords?

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Lord temporal and Lord Spiritual

45
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Where does the Judicial power reside?

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In the Court of Justice

46
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Who are the supreme authority in matters of justice?

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A group of members of the House of Lords called Law Lords.

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Two main political parties

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Conservative and Labour Parties

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Shadow Cabinet

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A sort of fake parallel cabinet to the oficial one created by the opposition.

49
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Civil Service

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The ones who take charge of the daily administration of the country

50
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Western Bloc

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UK, Germany, France, Italy, USA, Canada, among others

51
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NATO

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Nothern Atlantic Treaty Organization

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NATOs purpose

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To face the military challange of the Eastern Bbloc led by the Sovietic Union

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European Union

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Economic coalition initiated by France, Italy, and West Germany in the 1950s. Now it is a political, cultural and economical association of more than 25 countries

54
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Since when has Britain been part of the EU?

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1973

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Britains currency

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Sterling pound

56
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Whcih religion deeply marked the historical development of Britain?

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Christianity

57
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Most serious crisis of the Christian church in England

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16th century, when Henry VIII decided that the church in England should be independant from the Catholic Pope in Rome

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Two official churches in Britain

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The Church of England/ Anglican Communion, and the Church of Scotland or Presbyterian Church (Kirk)

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Archbishop of Canterbury, from the Anglican Church

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Rev. Justin Welby

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Followers of the Church of England around the world

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70 million followers

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How is the Church of England known in the USA?

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Episcopal Church

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Lambeth Conference

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Religious meeting that gathers every ten years in the city of Lambeth, near London. It is the supreme religious meeting of their church

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Free churches

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Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostalists, Salvation Army.

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Number of Roman Catholics in England, Scotland and Wales

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Six million

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Secularization in Britain

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Separation from religious or spiritual connections.

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Sport most connected with Britain

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Cricket

67
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Where were criket’s rules created?

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In Britain

68
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Most popular sport in Britain

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Football

69
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What is cricket associated with?

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It is associated with a kind of sentimental vision of Old England

70
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Most relevant thing when playing Cricket

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To play by the rules of fair play

71
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That’s not cricket

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That’s not fair

72
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Other important sports

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Football, rugby, boxing, climbing, skiing, tennis, rowing, golf, etc

73
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Importance of sports in the 19th century

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Develops personal discipline in the formation of the British character

74
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Which ideas were considered as fundamental in the education of a gentleman?

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Fair play, team work, and amateurism.

75
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Why did sports influence the idea of education?

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Because they internalized some values such as self discipline, courage, team work, honesty, and endurance.

76
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Activities which traditionally have been a symbol of the English way of life

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Horse riding, greyhound racing and fox haunting

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British character

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Traditionalist and conservative. They are prone to compromise, practical, determined and have a strong-will.

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Provincialism

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British tend to understand the workd and other cultures comparing them to their culture, and seeing themselves as superior.

79
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What did the Puritan Experience teach them?

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Habits of strict responsibility, self control and personal reserve in social behaviour

80
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Some of the British worst defects

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Feeling of snobbishness and suoerciliousness. A tendency to look down upon. A trait of hypocrisy and selfish pursuitof their own interest

81
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British in social treatment

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Formal and reserved. Polite but distant and even shy. Class minded society

82
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Main concern in the British idea of education since the 16 th century

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The formation of character

83
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Aim of education in the 19th century

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To shape man as empire builders

84
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Who created the educational project of the Scout Movement?

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Robert Baden Powell

85
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Education in the 20th century

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Academic achievements became more important than physical and moral ones. Recognizes the role of woman in society

86
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Human capital of a nation

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Complex set of values and attitudes which people bring into the interplay of social life

87
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British human capital values

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Practical and realistic approach to problems, inventiveness, a deep sense of individual and community awareness, and educational and managerial skills

88
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What’s the name of the narrow passage that separates Britain from French?

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The English Channel

89
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What’s the width of the English Channel?

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35 kilometers

90
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Surface of the Island of Britain

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240.000 square km

91
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Length from north to south of the British Island

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1000 km

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Widest point

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No more than 500 km

93
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Attitude towards the sea the first ten centuries

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Passive and receptive

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Attitude towards the sea the last 500 years

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Active and acquisitive

95
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Where are the highlands located?

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In the north and west part of the terrain

96
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Why is Britains climate milder than in the continent?

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Because of the influence of the ocean

97
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Celtic fringe

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Western and nothern boundaries of the Island where people there are mostly descendants of the earliest inhabitants of the archipelago

98
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What percentage of the UK population lives in the southeastern partnof England?

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80%

99
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Westminster Abbey

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One of the UKs most notable religious buildings. Place of the coronation and burial for British monarchs.

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Trafalgar square

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Public square in the city of Westminster, London. Statue of Almirant Nelson

101
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Piccadilly circus

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Road conjunction and public soace of London.

102
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London Eye

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Giant Ferris wheel by the river Thames in London. Millennium wheel

103
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Buckingham palace

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London residence and administrative headquarter of the monarch of the UK

104
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Westminster palace

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Meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords

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Tower of London

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Historical palace, now it is a museum

106
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Queens guards

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Contingent infantery responsible for guarding Buckingham palace

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