Noun1.British Empire- a former empire consisting of Great Britain and all the territories under its control; reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I; it included the British Isles, British West Indies, Canada, British Guiana; British West Africa, British East Africa, India, Aus...
A COLOURED map of the British Isles, designed to illustrate several aspects of their geography, has been published as a reprint from a Polish volume compiled under the editorship of Dr. Z. Holub-Pacewicz (Glasgow: Ksinica Polska). A brief commentary and the legend, both in English, ...
IN the University of Gottingen there is apparently the only copy of a map of the British Isles published in 1603 by John Woutneel and engraved by William Kip. It is a large sheet cut into four and came into the possession of the University in 1735. A photostat of the map is now in...
[2] Ireland: Article on the New World Encyclopedia website, last accessed October 2022. [3] Oxford English Dictionary: "British Isles: a geographical term for the islands comprising Great Britain and Ireland with all their offshore islands including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands."...
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TheBritish Isles refer to the main islands and several thousand smallones as well, which you can see on the map. Great Britain, orBritain, refers to the larger of the two main islands. But the word“Britain” is often used as a short form for the United Kingdom oryou call it the ...
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Douglas, municipal borough and capital, since 1869, of the Isle of Man, one of the British Isles. It lies on the island’s east coast, 80 miles (130 km) northwest of Liverpool (across the Irish Sea). Low hills encircle the town, penetrated by the valley of the combined Dhoo (Manx...
in unabashed emotional excess, this is the absolute peak of Powell’s visionary tendencies as a director, a flawless blend of cinema and dance, animation and music, narrative rigour and experimental freedom, without doubt the most breathtakingly beautiful film ever to come out of these isles. ...
fields and destroying the feed for their diminutive cattle, fell an easy prey to their light-armed and stealthily moving foes ; until at last Jon Greenlander, in about 1500 or a little later, reports: ' There ' , upon an island, ' they found a dead man lying face downwards on the ...