query: where great britain on the world map?

title: Great Britain

text: Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island, and the ninth-largest island in the world. In 2011, Great Britain had a population of about 61 million people, making it the world's third-most populous island after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan. The island of Ireland is situated to the west of Great Britain, and together these islands, along with over 1,000 smaller surrounding islands, form the British Isles archipelago. The island

title: Great Britain

text: to return in 1656. There were also Jewish migrations from Lithuania. The 2001 census recorded that Islam had around 1.5 million adherents. More than 1 million people practise either Hinduism, Sikhism, or Buddhism–religions introduced from the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island, and the ninth-largest island in the world. In 2011, Great Britain had a population of about 61 million people, making it the world's

title: Great Britain Fed Cup team

text: been called up in the last two years. (Most recent call-up in brackets) Qualifying rounds were introduced from 1992, "World Group II" and "World Group II Play-offs" were introduced from 1995 Great Britain Fed Cup team The Great Britain Fed Cup team represents the United Kingdom in Fed Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Lawn Tennis Association. They currently compete in the Europe/Africa Zone of Group I. Great Britain competed in the first Fed Cup in 1963. They have reached the finals on four occasions, 1967, 1971, 1972 and 1981. Great Britain is one of only four nations

title: Great Britain men's national pitch and putt team

text: World Cup Team Championship. "National team in the European Championship 2010" "National team in the World Cup 2008" "National team in the European Championship 2007" Great Britain men's national pitch and putt team The Great Britain men's national pitch and putt team represents Great Britain in the pitch and putt international competitions. It is managed by the British Pitch and Putt Association (BPPA), one of the founders of the European Pitch and Putt Association, the governing body that develops the pitch and putt in Europe and stages the European Team Championship, where Great Britain reached the second place in 1999.

title: Great Britain Fed Cup team

text: Great Britain Fed Cup team The Great Britain Fed Cup team represents the United Kingdom in Fed Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Lawn Tennis Association. They currently compete in the Europe/Africa Zone of Group I. Great Britain competed in the first Fed Cup in 1963. They have reached the finals on four occasions, 1967, 1971, 1972 and 1981. Great Britain is one of only four nations to have participated every year since the tournament's inception. Team representing Great Britain in 2018 Fed Cup World Group II Play-offs. "Rankings as of 9 April 2018" The following players have

title: Kingdom of Great Britain

text: highly favourable for Britain. Spain lost its empire in Europe and faded away as a great power, while working to better manage its colonies in the Americas. The First British Empire, based upon the English overseas possessions, was enlarged. From France, Great Britain gained Newfoundland and Acadia, and from Spain Gibraltar and Menorca. Gibraltar became a major naval base which allowed Great Britain to control the entrance from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. The war marks the weakening of French military, diplomatic and economic dominance, and the arrival on the world scene of Britain as a major imperial, military and

title: Great Britain at the 2017 World Games

text: kg Monika Markowska from Jersey, UK. Great Britain at the 2017 World Games Great Britain is scheduled to compete at the World Games 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland, from July 20, 2017 to July, 30 2017. Great Britain has qualified at the 2017 World Games: Great Britain has qualified at the 2017 World Games in the Korfball Mixed Team event. Great Britain has qualified at the 2017 World Games in the Lacrosse Women event. Kickboxing - Is on the World Games for the first time as an invitational sport. Only one GB Fighter has qualified during the European Championships in Slovenia

title: Great Britain at the 2017 World Games

text: Great Britain at the 2017 World Games Great Britain is scheduled to compete at the World Games 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland, from July 20, 2017 to July, 30 2017. Great Britain has qualified at the 2017 World Games: Great Britain has qualified at the 2017 World Games in the Korfball Mixed Team event. Great Britain has qualified at the 2017 World Games in the Lacrosse Women event. Kickboxing - Is on the World Games for the first time as an invitational sport. Only one GB Fighter has qualified during the European Championships in Slovenia 2016. Division = K1, Female -52

title: Great Britain at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships

text: Rio, the women's 4 x 100 freestyle being the exception, where they did not field a team in Kazan. Great Britain's total of five golds and nine medals in the swimming pool are the best returns in golds and medals for Great Britain in the history of the Championships. Great Britain has qualified two synchronized swimmers in the women's duet events. Great Britain at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships Great Britain competed at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia between 24 July to 9 August 2015. Tom Daley and Rebecca Gallantree became the first ever winners of the

title: Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics

text: Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed under the shortened name of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics. Heading into the championships, UK Athletics set a target of three medals and fourteen top eight-placed athletes. Six medals were won and there were thirteen top eight finishes. List of Britain's results, where athletes reached the final in that event (performances in heats, quarter-finals and semi-finals are not included.) SB: Season's Best, PB: Personal Best) NOTE: Where an athlete reached a

text: Great Britain at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships Great Britain competed at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia between 24 July to 9 August 2015. Tom Daley and Rebecca Gallantree became the first ever winners of the Mixed team event. In doing so, Daley became the first British diver to win multiple medals across World Championships, and the first British double world champion. Gallantree became the first female British diver to win a World Championship medal of any colour, and the first female British World Champion. With bronze in the Men's 10 m platform, Daley would go on

title: 2017 World RX of Great Britain

text: Team Austria. This was Jordan's third appearance at the World RX of Great Britain, having previously finished third in 2014 and seventh in 2015. 2017 World RX of Great Britain The 2017 World RX of Great Britain was the fifth round of the fourth season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The event was held at Lydden Hill Race Circuit in Wootton, Kent and also played host to the fourth round of the 2017 FIA European Rallycross Championship. It also hosted the second round of the 2017 RX2 International Series, the support category of the World Rallycross Championship. Timo Scheider

title: Great Britain at the 2014 Winter Olympics

text: snowboard, and figure skating also received funding, but all other winter sports where British athletes were competing did not receive any funding from the body. According to the quota allocation released on 27 January 2014, Great Britain qualified two athletes in alpine skiing. Based on their performance at the 2012 and 2013 Biathlon World Championships, Great Britain qualified 1 man and 1 woman. According to the quota allocation released on 30 December 2013, Great Britain had four athletes in qualification position. Based on results from 2012 and the 2013, Great Britain has qualified their men's and women's team (consisting of

title: Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

text: after factoring, Megan Giglia's time is recognised as a world record in her classification. Great Britain were one of three nations to qualify a team for dressage via their results at the 2014 FEI World Equestrian Games, where Lee Pearson CBE, Sophie Christiansen OBE, Sophie Wells MBE and Natasha Baker MBE won gold in the team event. On 8 March 2016, the FEI confirmed that Great Britain had achieved an additional quota in the individual dressage competition. The five riders selected by the British Paralympic Association to represent Great Britain in Rio were announced on 14 July. Although not competing

title: The Map that Changed the World

text: The Map that Changed the World The Map that Changed the World is a book by Simon Winchester about English geologist William Smith and his great achievement, the first geological map of England and Wales. Smith's was the first national-scale geological map, and by far the most accurate of its time. His pivotal insights were that each local sequence of rock strata was a subsequence of a single universal sequence of strata and that these rock strata could be distinguished and traced for great distances by means of embedded fossilized organisms. Winchester's book narrates the intellectual context of the time,

text: to become the first British diver to win three World Championship medals. Jack Laugher, with his bronze medal in both the Men's 3 m springboard event, and Men's 3 m synchronized springboard with Chris Mears, became the first British diver to win two World championship medals at one edition, later equalled by Daley. With a gold and three bronze medals, the 2015 edition was by some margin the most successful World Championships in diving for Great Britain since the championships began. With Great Britain's first gold medal in Men's high diving, Gary Hunt brought the Great Britain overall tally to

title: Great Britain at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships

text: Great Britain at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships Great Britain competed at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines at the Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines from 18–22 February 2015. A team of 20 cyclists (8 women, 12 men) was announced to represent the country in the event. Great Britain competed as the host nation at the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships at the Lee Valley VeloPark in London from 2-4 March 2016. A team of 21 cyclists (9 women, 12 men) was announced to represent the country in the event. Katie Archibald, the 21-year-old reigning European champion,

text: was named in the British squad but will miss the championships due to tearing a posterior cruciate ligament in December. "Ages as of 2 March 2016" "Ages as of 2 March 2016" Great Britain at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships Great Britain competed at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines at the Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines from 18–22 February 2015. A team of 20 cyclists (8 women, 12 men) was announced to represent the country in the event. Great Britain competed as the host nation at the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships at the Lee Valley

title: Great Britain national baseball team

text: group stage before eventually finishing 15th overall. Following the World Cup, in October 2009 the IBAF announced a new set of world rankings in which Britain rose to 21st., although they have since dropped to 32nd as of 2017. Great Britain was invited to compete in the qualifying round of the 2013 World Baseball Classic. Great Britain competed in the qualifying round of the 2017 World Baseball Classic, where it was defeated in the finals by Team Israel. Great Britain was invited to compete in the qualifying round of the 2013 World Baseball Classic. While the experience was not without

title: Ordnance Survey Great Britain County Series

text: included the area of most civil parishes and their detached parts, as well as extra-parochial areas and townships. Originally the area of these places was given in acres, roods and perches. After about 1879 this was changed to solely acres, with area given to three decimal places. As boundary changes occurred throughout the late 19th century, reprints of map sheets would be updated with annotations detailing these changes. London Index map 1 London Index map 2 London Index map Ordnance Survey Great Britain County Series The Ordnance Survey Great Britain County Series maps were produced from the 1840s to the

text: names of the four judokas selected to fill the quotas secured by Great Britain at Rio2016. A fifth was added on 24 August 2016 following the exclusion of Russian athletes for state-sponsored doping. Great Britain secured four quotas at the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships where paracanoeing formed part of the programme. Britain secured further quotas in the Men's KL1 and KL2 classes at the 2016 ICF Paracanoe Sprint World Championships giving them representation in all six events at the Games in Rio. The squad of six athletes was named in June 2016 and includes Jeanette Chippington who has

text: springboard) both won bronze medals, and they, along with finalists Rebecca Gallantree (3 metre springboard) and Tonia Couch (10 metre platform), won a single quota place for Great Britain in each of the four individual diving events in Rio. Great Britain has qualified two high divers at the World Championships. Great Britain fielded a full team of seven swimmers to compete in the open water marathon. British swimmers have achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the A-standard entry time, and 1 at the B-standard): All British swimmers must

title: Great Britain at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

text: World Judo Championships. Great Britain qualified one athlete based on its performance at the European YOG Qualifiers and another based on the 1 June 2014 Olympic Youth A Pentathlon World Rankings. Great Britain qualified two boats based on its performance at the 2013 World Rowing Junior Championships. Great Britain qualified one boat based on its performance at the Byte CII European Continental Qualifiers. Great Britain qualified eight swimmers. Great Britain qualified two athletes based on its performance at the Taekwondo Qualification Tournament. Great Britain qualified two athletes based on its performance at the 2014 European Youth Olympic Games Qualifier. Great

title: Great Britain Historical GIS

text: web site based on this extended system was launched in 2009. Great Britain Historical GIS The Great Britain Historical GIS (or GBHGIS), is a spatially enabled database that documents and visualises the changing human geography of the British Isles, although is primarily focussed on the subdivisions of the United Kingdom mainly over the 200 years since the first census in 1801. The project is currently based at the University of Portsmouth, and is the provider of the website A Vision of Britain through Time. NB: A "GIS" is a Geographic Information System, which combines map information with statistical data to

title: Great Britain Historical GIS

text: Great Britain Historical GIS The Great Britain Historical GIS (or GBHGIS), is a spatially enabled database that documents and visualises the changing human geography of the British Isles, although is primarily focussed on the subdivisions of the United Kingdom mainly over the 200 years since the first census in 1801. The project is currently based at the University of Portsmouth, and is the provider of the website A Vision of Britain through Time. NB: A "GIS" is a Geographic Information System, which combines map information with statistical data to produce a visual picture of the iterations or popularity of a

title: Great Britain at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

text: Great Britain at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Great Britain participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 6 October to 18 October 2018. Great Britain qualified one archer based on its performance at the 2017 World Archery Youth Championships. Later, Great Britain qualified a male archer based on its performance at the 2018 European Youth Championships. Great Britain qualified two players based on the Badminton Junior World Rankings. Great Britain qualified a boys' team based on their performance at 2017–18 European Youth Continental Cup Final. Great Britain qualified three boxers based on their performance at

title: Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Olympics

text: On 18 January 2018, the British Olympic Association announced the selection of the athletes who will compete for Team GB in the luge in Pyeongchang. American-born Adam Rosen competed in the luge for Great Britain in his third Olympics. Great Britain qualified five short track speed skaters (two male and three female) based on results at the 2017–18 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup. Based on the world rankings, Great Britain qualified 4 sleds. Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Olympics Great Britain competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from 9 to 25 February 2018,

title: Great Britain national baseball team

text: Great Britain national baseball team The Great Britain national baseball team is the national men's baseball team of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It is governed by the British Baseball Federation, and is also a member nation of the Confederation of European Baseball. Great Britain competed in the qualifying round of the 2017 World Baseball Classic, where it was defeated in the finals by Team Israel. The United Kingdom is credited with winning the inaugural Baseball World Cup (BWC) in 1938, beating the United States by four games to one in an international series (the Amateur

title: 2017 World RX of Great Britain

text: 2017 World RX of Great Britain The 2017 World RX of Great Britain was the fifth round of the fourth season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The event was held at Lydden Hill Race Circuit in Wootton, Kent and also played host to the fourth round of the 2017 FIA European Rallycross Championship. It also hosted the second round of the 2017 RX2 International Series, the support category of the World Rallycross Championship. Timo Scheider was absent due to racing for BMW Motorsport in the 24 Hours Nürburgring. British touring car champion Andrew Jordan replaced Scheider at MJP Racing

text: Great Britain qualified two boats based on its performance at the 2017 World Junior Rowing Championships. Great Britain qualified two boats based on its performance at the 2017 World Techno 293+ Championships. Great Britain have received a wild card entry in the boy's air pistol event in the shooting competition. Great Britain have qualified two athletes for the taekwondo competition via the qualification tournament. Great Britain qualified two athletes based on its performance at the 2018 European Youth Olympic Games Qualifier. Great Britain at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Great Britain participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos

title: Great Polish Map of Scotland

text: in September 2012) that the Scottish Parliament should recognise "the historic significance of The Great Polish Map of Scotland" and support the project. "The Great Polish Map of Scotland" measures approximately . It exceeds the surface area of the solid terrain model of British Columbia in the Crystal Garden, Victoria——claimed to be the largest in the world (Mapa Scotland point out that the Scottish map is 2.8 times larger). The 'land' area alone of the Great Polish Map of Scotland is 780 square metres. Great Polish Map of Scotland The Great Polish Map of Scotland is a large (50 m

title: Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics

text: two British men and two British women were able to qualify for modern pentathlon events. In the event, Great Britain earned two quota places in each gender. Great Britain qualified boats in 13 of the 14 Olympic events at the 2011 World Championships; the only boat which Britain did not qualify for the Olympics was in the women's single sculls event where Frances Houghton was one place short. In the heats of the women's coxless pair, Helen Glover and Heather Stanning set a new Olympic record with a time of six minutes 57.29 seconds. As hosts, Great Britain received automatic

text: Great Britain qualified two boats based on its performance at the 2013 World Junior Canoe Sprint and Slalom Championships. Great Britain qualified a rider. Great Britain qualified one team of two athletes based on the 8 June 2014 IGF Combined World Amateur Golf Rankings. Great Britain qualified one athlete based on its performance at the 2014 European MAG Championships and another athlete based on its performance at the 2014 European WAG Championships. Great Britain qualified one athlete based on its performance at the 2014 European Trampoline Championships. Great Britain qualified two athletes based on its performance at the 2013 Cadet

title: The Map that Changed the World

text: principle that fossils change over time and can be reliably used to identify layers. Martin Rudwick's "Earth's Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters" is perhaps the most accessible account of the development of geology in this time interval. The Map that Changed the World The Map that Changed the World is a book by Simon Winchester about English geologist William Smith and his great achievement, the first geological map of England and Wales. Smith's was the first national-scale geological map, and by far the most accurate of its time. His pivotal insights were that each local

title: Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics

text: Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (often referred to as "Great Britain") competed at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics from 27 August - 4 September 2011. UK Athletics announced a team of 67 athletes on August 9 in preparation for the competition. Team GB will be represented by defending World Champions Phillips Idowu and Jessica Ennis in the triple jump and the heptathlon respectively, as well as Lisa Dobriskey and Jenny Meadows who won silver and bronze medals at the 2009 World Championships respectively.

title: Great Polish Map of Scotland

text: on the basis of evidence. The precise reasons why Tomasik created the map are unclear. It is known that Polish soldiers created an outline map of Poland on the ground at Douglas in Lanarkshire in 1940, in the very camp where Tomasik was stationed after arriving in Britain. It is also known that he was fascinated by a large scale-model map of Belgium, which he saw at the Brussels World's Fair of 1958 on his way to visit relations in Poland. This map appears to have been the direct inspiration for the map at Barony Castle, though it is also

title: Map of the Invisible World

text: great power and delicacy" but that the book was "a slightly perfunctory tale of diplomatic intrigue". Map of the Invisible World Map of the Invisible World is the second novel by Tash Aw and was released in 2009. It is about two brothers, Adam and Johan, who were abandoned by their mother as children, and later separated when they were adopted by different families in Indonesia and Malaysia. Critical reception for "Map of the Invisible World" has been mostly positive, with The Guardian writing that the book was "haunting and memorable". The LA Times praised Aw's "intriguing secondary characters", but

text: of the County Series maps and other War Department sheets for War Office purposes, in a variety of large scales that included details of military significance such as dockyards, naval installations, fortifications and military camps. Apart from a brief period during the disarmament talks of the 1930s, these areas were left blank or incomplete on standard maps. The de-classified sheets have now been deposited in some of the Copyright Libraries, helping to complete the map-picture of pre-Second World War Britain. Both the 6 inch and 25 inch scale Ordnance Survey maps of Great Britain showed the boundaries of: The maps

text: Games in Rio when she was chosen to represent Great Britain in the 2.4mR sailing class. On 1 March 2016, Paralympics GB announced the selection of the five sailors who will represent Great Britain in the SKUD and Sonar classes in Rio. Great Britain secured three quota places at the 2014 IPC Shooting World Championships. Britain secured three further quotas at the 2015 IPC Shooting World Cup in Croatia. Further quotas were achieved at the World Cup event held in the USA later in 2015. On 8 April 2016, the IPC announced that Issy Bailey was one of eleven shooters

text: at 25 July 2018. Great Britain qualified a mixed pair based on its performance at the 2018 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championship. Great Britain qualified two gymnasts based on its performance at the 2018 European Junior Championship. Great Britain qualified two gymnasts based on its performance at the 2018 European Junior Championship. Great Britain qualified one athlete based on the rankings in the Buenos Aires 2018 Olympic Standings. Later, they qualified a second athlete based on its performance at one of the Karate Qualification Tournaments. Great Britain qualified one athlete based on its performance at the 2018 Youth A World Championship.

title: Great Britain Historical GIS

text: inherited from the original GBHGIS. A GIS consisting entirely of administrative boundaries can create maps but these are hard to relate to the real world. The project has therefore constructed a second GIS consisting entirely of scanned images of historical maps, supporting an on-line map library. Three complete sets of one inch to one mile maps of Great Britain have been scanned and geo-referenced, each accompanied by less detailed maps from the same period: This collection of historical maps is not held in the main Oracle system. They are instead managed using open source MapServer software. However, they are mainly

text: Bushell, 400m T53 (wheelchair) men, and Rochelle Woods, 800m T54 (wheelchair) women. The following athletes appeared on the preliminary Entry List, but not on the Official Start List of the specific event, resulting in total number of 59 competitors: The following British competitors won medals at the Championships Heptathlon Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (often referred to as "Great Britain") competed at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics from 27 August - 4 September 2011. UK Athletics announced a team of 67 athletes on

title: Great Britain national rugby sevens team

text: Northern Irish and Ulster contracted players could legally challenge that determination, particularly if Ireland failed to qualify. A silver medal for Great Britain in the 2016 Olympics is a considerable achievement for a team that was only formed ten weeks prior the tournament. Where other teams on the sevens circuit had been preparing two years or longer, Team Great Britain coach Amor only got his players together for the first time on May 30. England, Wales and Scotland all compete as separate nations in the World Sevens Series. Great Britain national rugby sevens team The Great Britain national rugby sevens

title: Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics

text: tournament, Great Britain were treated as having qualified as European champions, and relinquished their Hockey World League qualification place to the highest ranking non qualified team, India. ---- Great Britain entered four golfers (two per gender) into the Olympic tournament. Justin Rose (world no. 11), Danny Willett (world no. 9), Charley Hull (world no. 27) and Catriona Matthew (world no. 63) qualified directly among the top 60 eligible players for their respective individual events based on the IGF World Rankings as of 11 July 2016. Great Britain qualified a full squad of five gymnasts in both the men's and women's

title: Great Britain Bandy Federation

text: year, the National Bandy Association was started in England. England national bandy team won the 1913 European Bandy Championships in Davos, Switzerland, where national teams from eight countries played. Following the outbreak of the First World War, the interest for bandy vanished in England and the National Bandy Association was discontinued. There is now a renewed interest in the sport steered by the new Great Britain Bandy Federation. The president of the Football Association, the Prince William, enthusiastically took part in a bandy event in Stockholm in January 2018. Great Britain Bandy Federation The Great Britain Bandy Federation is the

text: qualify by finishing in the top two of the national championships, having gained the GB qualifying A standard set by British Swimming in the relevant final. Great Britain consists of 30 swimmers (16 men and 14 women). Among the official roster featured European and Commonwealth Games champions Jazmin Carlin, Chris Walker-Hebborn, and Adam Peaty, who overhauled the 58-second barrier to set a new world record in the 100 m breaststroke at the national trials. The championships were a qualification event for the relay races at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and Great Britain qualified for five of the six relays in

text: metres freestyle, and then anchored the Great Britain Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay team to its first ever victory in the event. The bronze medal won by Jaz Carlin in the Women's 800 m freestyle brought the tally of swimming medals to five golds, a silver and three bronzes, at nine medals, the best return for Great Britain in the swimming portion of a World Aquatics Championships, having already achieved the best results in their history in diving and high diving. The full tally of seven golds, one silver and six bronze was also an historic high for

title: Miss Great Britain

text: Miss Great Britain Miss Great Britain is a female beauty pageant. It is the oldest pageant in the UK, established in 1945. Following World War Two, a number of seaside resorts around the country introduced beauty contests as attractions. The contest began in the Summer of 1945 under the name “Bathing Beauty Queen”, organised by the Morecambe Local Council in partnership with the ‘Sunday Dispatch’ newspaper. Morecambe went on to become the home of Miss Great Britain between 1956 and 1989. The first ever Miss Great Britain final was watched by 4,300 people in a continuous downpour. The winner received

text: Great Britain national rugby sevens team The Great Britain national rugby sevens team is the men's Olympic representative team of Great Britain at the rugby sevens tournament at the Summer Olympic Games. After having played at the World Games in 2001 and 2005, they made their Olympic debut at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where they won the silver medal, losing the final to Fiji. When rugby sevens was admitted to the Summer Olympics in 2009, it was not initially known how Great Britain could qualify. As England, Wales and Scotland; three of the nations that make up Great Britain all

text: in Rio. Great Britain's national wheelchair rugby team secured qualification for Rio at the 2015 International Wheelchair Rugby Federation European Championship. On 12 May 2016, Paralympics GB announced the squad of twelve wheelchair rugby players who will represent Great Britain in Rio. Great Britain was scheduled to open play in Rio against Australia on September 14. Their second game was scheduled to be against Canada on September 15. Their final game of group play was against Brazil on September 16. Great Britain entered the tournament ranked number five in the world. Great Britain qualified for ten out of a possible

title: Comedy Map of Britain

text: Steve Coogan, Syd Little and Eddie Large, Terry Jones, Leigh Francis and many others. Comedy Map of Britain Comedy Map of Britain is a BBC documentary series which visits the places that have inspired many of Britain's leading comedians. It first aired on BBC Two in 2007 and 2008. Narrated by veteran broadcaster Alan Whicker, comedians included in the two series include Angus Deayton, Anton Rodgers, Arthur Smith and Hale and Pace, Bill Bailey, Chris Moyles, the Chuckle Brothers, Dudley Moore, Eric Idle, Graham Fellows, Hugh Grant, Ian Hislop, Ian Lavender, Jim Davidson, Jon Culshaw, Mark Thomas, Maureen Lipman, Michael

title: Comedy Map of Britain

text: Comedy Map of Britain Comedy Map of Britain is a BBC documentary series which visits the places that have inspired many of Britain's leading comedians. It first aired on BBC Two in 2007 and 2008. Narrated by veteran broadcaster Alan Whicker, comedians included in the two series include Angus Deayton, Anton Rodgers, Arthur Smith and Hale and Pace, Bill Bailey, Chris Moyles, the Chuckle Brothers, Dudley Moore, Eric Idle, Graham Fellows, Hugh Grant, Ian Hislop, Ian Lavender, Jim Davidson, Jon Culshaw, Mark Thomas, Maureen Lipman, Michael Palin, Paul Merton, Richard Whiteley, Ricky Gervais, Ronni Ancona, Rowan Atkinson, Roy Chubby Brown,

title: Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics

text: final of the Olympic qualifying event. Great Britain was drawn in Group B of the Olympic tournament based on world rankings on 18 April 2008. Having finished 3rd in the pool the team went on to finish 5th overall, beating South Korea in the 5th vs. 6th place playoff. Matt Daly was the top scorer for the team with three goals. The Great Britain Women's team qualified for the women's Olympic field hockey tournament during the 2007 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship. Great Britain was drawn in Group B of the Olympic tournament based on world rankings on 5 May 2008.

text: the 2018 Youth European Confederation Boxing Championship. Great Britain qualified a boys' and girls' combined team based on its ranking in the Youth Olympic Games Junior Nation Rankings. They also qualified a mixed BMX racing team based on its ranking in the Youth Olympic Games BMX Junior Nation Rankings. Great Britain qualified three divers at the 2018 World Junior Diving Championships. Great Britain qualified a rider based on its performance at the FEI European Junior Jumping Championships. Great Britain have qualified a mixed team of one boy and one girl as a result of the World Amateur Golf Rankings as

text: top four places in the 2014–15 Sevens World Series. ---- The England women's team secured a qualifying berth for Great Britain at the Olympics by having achieved one of the top four places in the 2014–15 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series. ---- Great Britain qualified one boat for each of the following classes at the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships, bringing the maximum quota of 15 sailors, in ten boats. The sailors who secured the quotas for Great Britain were not necessarily the athletes who would be selected to represent their country in these events. On 9 September 2015, Team

title: Contactless smartcards on the railways of Great Britain

text: train operating companies installations. , the position is: Contactless smartcards on the railways of Great Britain Contactless smart cards are being progressively introduced to replace paper ticketing on the National Rail system of Great Britain. The first large scale adoption for transport in Great Britain is the Transport for London Oyster card. This uses a proprietary encoding developed by Cubic Transportation Systems. Initially it was only available on the London Underground, but it has been progressively rolled out to National Rail services in and around Greater London. The ITSO standard has been developed as a national standard to cover all

text: Contactless smartcards on the railways of Great Britain Contactless smart cards are being progressively introduced to replace paper ticketing on the National Rail system of Great Britain. The first large scale adoption for transport in Great Britain is the Transport for London Oyster card. This uses a proprietary encoding developed by Cubic Transportation Systems. Initially it was only available on the London Underground, but it has been progressively rolled out to National Rail services in and around Greater London. The ITSO standard has been developed as a national standard to cover all types of public transport. It has been included

text: Britain sent to Osaka. Some of the athletes were added as reserves, or other reasons. See below for the original list. The athletes below were the original list of competitors, however due to other circumstances, injury etc., some were replaced or more added. The revised list is above this list. Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed under the shortened name of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics. Heading into the championships, UK Athletics set a target of three

text: in the team event, Lee Pearson CBE rode as an individual in the Grade Ib Team Test, finishing first with a score of 75.280. Great Britain secured qualification for Rio by finishing fifth at the 2015 Cerebral Palsy Football World Championships. The draw for the tournament was held on May 6 at the 2016 Pre Paralympic Tournament in Salou, Spain. Great Britain was put into Group A with Ukraine, Brazil and Ireland. The tournament where the draw took place featured 7 of the 8 teams participating in Rio. It was the last major preparation event ahead of the Rio Games

text: Great Britain at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Great Britain competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014. On 9 July 2014, the British Olympic Association named a team of 33 athletes to compete at the Games. Medals awarded to participants of mixed-NOC (Combined) teams are represented in "italics". These medals are not counted towards the individual NOC medal tally. Great Britain qualified two archers from its performance at the 2013 World Archery Youth Championships. Great Britain qualified three boxers based on its performance at the 2014 AIBA Youth World Championships

title: Great Britain national cerebral palsy football team

text: Britain met Brazil in the finals after defeating Ireland 7-3 in the semi-final. Great Britain finished third at the 2016 Pre-Paralympic Tournament in Salou, Spain after losing to the Netherlands 3 - 2 in the bronze medal game. Great Britain has participated in 7-a-side football at the Paralympic Games. Great Britain secured qualification for Rio by finishing fifth at the 2015 Cerebral Palsy Football World Championships. The draw for the tournament was held on May 6 at the 2016 Pre Paralympic Tournament in Salou, Spain. Great Britain was put into Group A with Ukraine, Brazil and Ireland. The tournament where

title: Great Britain (play)

text: Great Britain (play) Great Britain is a satirical play written by Richard Bean. It received its world premiere at the Royal National Theatre, London on 30 June 2014, before transferring to the West End's Theatre Royal Haymarket. Great Britain is written by English playwright Richard Bean. In May 2013, it was revealed Bean was working on a new play based on the phone hacking scandal, having been commissioned by National Theatre artistic director Sir Nicholas Hytner, whilst still working on his play One Man, Two Guvnors. Speaking about the play he revealed that it would be set in a tabloid

title: Great Britain women's national goalball team

text: Great Britain women's national goalball team Great Britain women's national goalball team is the women's national team of Great Britain. It takes part in international goalball competitions. At the 1988 Summer Paralympics, the team finished eighth. The team competed at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, where they finished fifth. The 1986 World Championships were held in Roermond, the Netherlands. The team was one of ten teams participating, and they finished seventh overall. The 1998 World Championships were held in Madrid, Spain. The team was one of eleven teams participating, and they finished fourth overall. In 2005, the European Championships

title: Field hockey in Great Britain

text: Field hockey in Great Britain Field hockey in Great Britain is governed by Great Britain Hockey. The organisation focuses on international competition only. GB Hockey reports on the Great Britain and National Men's and Women's teams, the Olympic Games, Hockey World Cup and other international events. Domestic competition is organised by England Hockey, Scottish Hockey, Welsh Hockey and Irish Hockey that features all National competition. The Great Britain Super League was established by Great Britain Hockey in 2007 as a showcase for British hockey talent. The event was shortlived running from 2007 until 2012 and is now defunct. The inaugural

title: Great Britain and the Iraqi oil industry

text: Great Britain and the Iraqi oil industry Iraq's large oil reserves have attracted attention from Great Britain, a country with a high demand for (and a low supply of) oil. British involvement in the Iraqi oil industry dates to World War I. Political influence in the region has given Great Britain the power to establish a number of oil companies in Iraq. In the early twentieth century, use of oil rapidly increased. This was first demonstrated during World War I, when the major powers relied on oil to power newly-built naval ships and vehicles. Oil was needed not only for

title: Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics

text: Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics Great Britain and Northern Ireland (often referred to as "Great Britain") is competing at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics from 15–23 August. UK Athletics announced a team of 60 athletes in July in preparation for the competition, although it was known that some athletes might not compete due to injury. Christine Ohuruogu entered the competition as the defending 400 metres champion. Selected athletes had achieved one of the competition's qualifying standards. Ohuruogu, Jessica Ennis, and Phillips Idowu were identified as the athletes with the greatest chance of

title: Great Britain Historical GIS

text: GIS at all? It is certainly not a conventional GIS, but one answer is that any system that can create an image like the one shown below is some kind of GIS. This image from "A Vision of Britain through Time" combines the boundaries of local government districts, data on unemployment from the 1931 census, and a scanned image of an Ordnance Survey ten mile-to-one inch map from the early 20th century. A new system is being developed, partly with funding from the European Union under the QVIZ project, which will no longer be limited to Great Britain: An enhanced

title: Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics

text: from the 2016 Summer Olympics Athletics events. The GB squad met this target on 13 August and finished with a total of 6 medals. <nowiki>*</nowiki> – Indicates the athlete competed in preliminaries but not the final <nowiki>*</nowiki> – Indicates the athlete competed in preliminaries but not the final Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics "Great Britain and Northern Ireland" competed at the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London, from 4–13 August 2017. It was the first time that the United Kingdom had hosted the World Championships. Mo Farah won the first medal for the

title: Field hockey in Great Britain

text: teams were from England (Wessex Leopards, Saxon Tigers and Pennine Pumas), Scotland (Caledonian Cougars and Highland Jaguars) and Wales (Celtic Panthers) competing. Players from the national leagues represented their relevant region. Field hockey in Great Britain Field hockey in Great Britain is governed by Great Britain Hockey. The organisation focuses on international competition only. GB Hockey reports on the Great Britain and National Men's and Women's teams, the Olympic Games, Hockey World Cup and other international events. Domestic competition is organised by England Hockey, Scottish Hockey, Welsh Hockey and Irish Hockey that features all National competition. The Great Britain Super

title: Great Britain national rugby league team

text: Great Britain did not compete in the 1975 World Cup as the UK was represented by teams from England and Wales for the first time in a World Cup. On 6 July 1975, at Boroko, Papua New Guinea played their first ever international. They were beaten 40–12 by Great Britain. There was a reappearance for the Great Britain team at the 1977 World Cup in Australasia under coach David Watkins. Australia topped the table and Great Britain were the underdogs going to the Final, held at the Sydney Cricket Ground. They managed to dominate the possession, and it took a

title: Babylonian Map of the World

text: circle (water perimeter) represent named "regions" ("nagu"). The description of five of them has survived. Carlo Zaccagnini has argued that the design of the Babylonian map of the world may have lived on in the T and O map of the European Middle Ages. Babylonian Map of the World The Babylonian Map of the World (or "Imago Mundi") is a Babylonian clay tablet containing a labeled depiction of the known world, with a short and partially lost description, dated to roughly the 6th century BC (Neo-Babylonian or early Achaemenid period). The map is centered on the Euphrates, flowing from the

title: SS Great Britain

text: SS Great Britain SS "Great Britain" is a museum ship and former passenger steamship, which was advanced for her time. She was the longest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1854. She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York. While other ships had been built of iron or equipped with a screw propeller, the "Great Britain" was the first to combine these features in a large ocean-going ship. She was the first iron steamer to cross the Atlantic, which she did in 1845, in the

text: 15 July 2016, the British Paralympic Association announced the selection of eleven athletes to compete in the inaugural Olympic paratriathlon competition in Rio. Lauren Steadman participated in the Rio test event, winning the PT4 class in a time of 1:08:46. Great Britain secured four quotas for Rio 2016. On 18 April 2016, the British Paralympic Association announced the four powerlifters who have been selected to represent Great Britain in Rio. Great Britain secured qualification in all four paralympic classes at the 2015 World Rowing Championships. On 30 June 2016, the British Paralympic Association announced the British rowing squad selected for

text: World Cup event in London, and the dive-off on the final day of the 2012 event, Great Britain achieved the maximum allowable number of quota places; two in each individual event. Great Britain automatically received a team and the maximum number of individual competitors in each of the 3 disciplines; dressage, eventing and show jumping. <nowiki>*</nowiki> As hosts, Great Britain received eight quota places which could be allocated to any of the fencing events. Additional places could be won in specific disciplines in a series of qualification events. On 24 March 2012, Richard Kruse won a qualifying event in Copenhagen,

text: support the tourists and was rewarded with a crowd of 17,445, many of them supporting Australia. Australia won 17–11, and then went on to clinch the series with an 11–3 victory in a blizzard at Swinton. The fourth Rugby League World Cup, held in Australia and New Zealand, in 1968. The match between Great Britain and Australia attracted an attendance of 62,256, the highest for a rugby league World Cup match. However, Great Britain failed to make the final. The 1968 Great Britain World Cup squad made a visit to Queensland on their way back to Britain. They played three

text: Paralympics qualifying event. Maria Tzalla was ninth in the competition in scoring with 12 points. The table below contains individual game results for the team in international matches and competitions. Great Britain women's national goalball team Great Britain women's national goalball team is the women's national team of Great Britain. It takes part in international goalball competitions. At the 1988 Summer Paralympics, the team finished eighth. The team competed at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, where they finished fifth. The 1986 World Championships were held in Roermond, the Netherlands. The team was one of ten teams participating, and they

title: Great Britain at the 1924 Summer Olympics

text: metres, matching the Olympic record in three of the four rounds. Lowe took the third championship for Great Britain, in the 800 metres. The 4 × 100 metre relay team, including Abrahams, briefly took the world record, though relinquished it to the American team which beat the British squad in the final. Sixteen boxers represented Great Britain at the 1924 Games; Great Britain was one of four nations to have two wrestlers in each weight class (along with France, Italy, and the United States). It was the nation's third appearance in the sport. Great Britain matched the United States for

text: ten medals, the highest ever for the nation at a FINA World Aquatics Championships. Simultaneously, with his silver medal from 2013, Hunt became the most successful male high diver since the event was brought into the World Aquatics Championships. Adam Peaty became the first British swimmer to ever win three gold medals at a global championships, Worlds or Olympic, with victories in the 50 metre and 100 metre breaststroke events and the 4 x 100 metre mixed medley relay. James Guy won the first ever gold medal in male freestyle for Great Britain at a World Championships in the 200

text: and six women) were officially named to Team GB on 17 June 2016, featuring London 2012 bronze medalist Tom Daley in both men's individual and synchronized platform. Great Britain became one of the first three nations to earn places at the Games, qualifying a complete team in dressage by winning the silver medal in the team event at the 2014 FEI World Equestrian Games. The Great Britain eventing team also qualified by winning a silver medal at the same event. Great Britain secured a full equestrian team for Rio when the British riders achieved one of three qualification places from

title: Great Britain at the 2015 European Games

text: and Commonwealth Games super-heavyweight champion Joe Joyce, and a first senior medal for Sandy Ryan. Top seed Anthony Fowler lost in his first round bout, as did former world champion and Olympian Savannah Marshall. Great Britain finished fourth in the boxing medal table, arrowly behind Ireland, but well behind superpowers Russia and hosts Azerbaijan. Great Britain secured places in the following events based on performances at the 2014 Canoe Sprint European Championships. At the canoeing lake, Great Britain were competitive, reaching a number of finals. Their only medal in an Olympic event, however, came from London 2012 champion Ed McKeever,

text: in the men's individual, where he lost narrowly to the French archer Plihon, was the strongest British performance. Great Britain qualified four quota places in the women's boxing events, and ten in the men's events, at the Games. The female members of the British boxing squad were confirmed on 23 April 2015. On 6 May 2015, the names of nine boxers were added to the British squad. Great Britain had a relatively successful Games in the boxing ring, with four medals from 14 classes, highlighted by the victories of Olympic and Commonwealth Games champion, and Great Britain flagbearer, Nicola Adams,

title: Miss Great Britain

text: of Fame/ Previous winners as of 11 January 2010. Archives of Miss Great Britain are held at The Women's Library at the Library of the London School of Economics, ref 5MGB Most surviving material is held at Lancashire Archives, ref as part of the Morecambe and Heysham Borough Council collection, MBMO-HE www.missgreatbritain.co.uk Miss Great Britain Miss Great Britain is a female beauty pageant. It is the oldest pageant in the UK, established in 1945. Following World War Two, a number of seaside resorts around the country introduced beauty contests as attractions. The contest began in the Summer of 1945 under

title: Great Britain national wheelchair rugby team

text: Great Britain national wheelchair rugby team The Great Britain national wheelchair rugby team represents Great Britain in international wheelchair rugby. Great Britain is the most successful team in European competition, winning six gold medals at the European Championship. Great Britain has competed in every wheelchair rugby tournament at the Paralympic Games, first when it was a demonstration sport in 1996, then since it entered the official program in 2000. Since Great Britain was the host of the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, they qualified automatically for the wheelchair rugby event, as they were ranked on the IWRF Wheelchair Rugby World

title: Miss Great Britain

text: The Miss Great Pageant is owned by The Singhs and organised/ran by Kreative Group Ltd. Miss Great Britain winner will go on to represent Great Britain as its Tourism Ambassador in Miss Tourism World. The 2006 title holder was Preeti Desai who hailed from Cleveland. Desai made history when she became the first ever winner of Indian ethnicity when she replaced the dethroned Danielle Lloyd. Lloyd had lost the crown after stirring up scandals for posing nude for Playboy magazine and dating one of the judges during her participation in the pageant. Danielle Lloyd has been re-instated into the Wall

title: Great Britain II

text: the crew for the race. Known throughout the world for her outstanding achievements, "Great Britain II" was the ultimate dream-come-true for Chay Blyth, the adventurous pioneer who sailed east-to-west around the globe. This 77 ft sloop is of British design and craftsmanship and is constructed of fibreglass and foam sandwich to give the lightest possible displacement. Designed to be the fastest yacht in the world and finished in second place after the Mexican Swan 65 named "Sayula II" – the first Whitbread Round the World Race winner in 1973. "Great Britain II" has taken part in all six Whitbread Round

text: Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics "Great Britain and Northern Ireland" competed at the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London, from 4–13 August 2017. It was the first time that the United Kingdom had hosted the World Championships. Mo Farah won the first medal for the host nation, also winning the first gold medal of the Championships (in the 10,000 metres). <nowiki>*</nowiki> – Indicates the athlete competed in preliminaries but not the final UK Sport targeted a minimum of 6 medals for London 2017, just slightly fewer than the set target of seven medals

text: of Olympic qualification. Based on results from the 2016 and 2017 World Championships obtained by Scotland, Great Britain qualified a men's team, consisting of five athletes, as one of the seven highest ranked nations. Great Britain had a bye in draws 4, 7 and 11 "Wednesday 14 February, 09:05" "Wednesday 14 February, 20:05" "Thursday 15 February, 14:05" "Friday 16 February, 20:05" "Saturday 17 February, 14:05" "Sunday 18 February, 20:05" "Monday 19 February, 14:05" "Tuesday 20 February, 09:05" "Wednesday 21 February, 14:05" Having finished tied for fourth with the same record in the round robin stage the Great Britain men's team

title: Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics

text: Australasia, earning the silver medal. The British representative was the Cornwall county team, which had won the 1907 county championships. Great Britain took all four of the sailing gold medals, without contest in the cases of the 7 metre class (where only one boat entered) and the 12 metre class (where both boats were British). Great Britain took all 6 gold medals in the lawn tennis competitions in 1908. Great Britain sent three police teams to compete in tug of war in 1908. They took the three medals, with the Liverpool police eliminating both foreign entrants (the United States in

title: World map

text: World map A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of the Earth. World maps form a distinctive category of maps due to the problem of projection. Maps by necessity distort the presentation of the earth's surface. These distortions reach extremes in a world map. The many ways of projecting the earth reflect diverse technical and aesthetic goals for world maps. World maps are also distinct for the global knowledge required to construct them. A meaningful map of the world could not be constructed before the European Renaissance because less than half of the earth's

text: 1960, the World Cup was played on home soil. The tournament is decided on a league system but with both Great Britain and Australia undefeated, the last match became a virtual World Cup Final. Eric Ashton lifted the trophy after a 10–3 victory at Odsal in front of a crowd of 32,733 and Britain played in an exhibition game in lieu of a decider. In December 1960, Great Britain beat France 21–10 at Stade André Moga, Bordeaux, and in January 1961, they won again 27–8 at Knowsley Road, St Helens. New Zealand toured Great Britain in 1961. They won the

title: International Map of the World

text: International Map of the World The International Map of the World (also called the Millionth Map, after its scale of 1:1000000) was a project begun in 1913 to create a complete map of the world according to internationally agreed standards. Roads were depicted in red, towns and railways were depicted in black, and the labels were written in the Roman alphabet. The map was the brainchild of Albrecht Penck, a German geographer who first proposed it in 1891. The Central Bureau of the Map of the World was established at the Ordnance Survey in London. After the Second World War,

title: Special Olympics Great Britain

text: Special Olympics Great Britain Special Olympics Great Britain is a sporting organisation for children and adults with intellectual disabilities that operates in England, Scotland and Wales. It is part of the global Special Olympics movement. Initially known as Special Olympics UK, it was founded in 1978 by Chris Maloney MBE and at the time, was one of the first European programmes of the international Special Olympics movement. Special Olympics GB was established on August 8, 1979, the year Great Britain made its début at the Special Olympics World Games in Brockport, United States. Special Olympics GB creates opportunities for children

title: Great Britain at the Olympics

text: contest and the only Olympic gold medalists in cricket. Great Britain made its Olympic diving debut in 1908. Great Britain first competed in the 1912 competition having not competed in the first event held in 1900. Great Britain won its first fencing medal, a silver, in 1908 at the London Games. Great Britain hosted the first Olympic figure skating contests in 1908. Great Britain and Ireland – now represented separately by Team Ireland and Team Great Britain – was one of three nations to play in the inaugural football tournament, winning their only match to take the first Olympic gold

title: Great Britain national speedway team

text: Great Britain national speedway team The Great Britain national speedway team (also known as Team GB) are one of the major teams in international speedway. The team is managed by former rider and Swindon Robins manager Alun Rossiter and the captain is the 2017 British Champion Craig Cook. The England national speedway team has won the Speedway World Team Cup on five occasions with the Great Britain side winning four times. They were a major force in the 1970s, winning five consecutive tournaments, two as England and three as Great Britain. Key riding members of the title wins include Peter

title: Babylonian Map of the World

text: Babylonian Map of the World The Babylonian Map of the World (or "Imago Mundi") is a Babylonian clay tablet containing a labeled depiction of the known world, with a short and partially lost description, dated to roughly the 6th century BC (Neo-Babylonian or early Achaemenid period). The map is centered on the Euphrates, flowing from the north (top) to the south (bottom). The city of Babylon is shown on the Euphrates, in the northern half of the map. The mouth of the Euphrates is labelled "swamp" and "outflow". Susa, the capital of Elam, is shown to the south, Urartu to

text: Australia vs France vs New Zealand vs Papua New Guinea vs Fiji Great Britain national rugby league team The Great Britain national rugby league team represents Great Britain in rugby league. Administered by the Rugby Football League (RFL), the team is nicknamed The Lions. For most of the 20th century, the Great Britain team toured overseas, played against foreign touring teams and competed in the Rugby League World Cup, which they won three times, in 1954, 1960 and 1972. Since 1995, the RFL has sent separate home nations teams to the World Cup. Great Britain continued to compete as a

text: Great Britain national rugby league team The Great Britain national rugby league team represents Great Britain in rugby league. Administered by the Rugby Football League (RFL), the team is nicknamed The Lions. For most of the 20th century, the Great Britain team toured overseas, played against foreign touring teams and competed in the Rugby League World Cup, which they won three times, in 1954, 1960 and 1972. Since 1995, the RFL has sent separate home nations teams to the World Cup. Great Britain continued to compete as a Test playing nation both home and away. They competed against Australia for

title: Great Britain

text: is dominated by a maritime climate with quite narrow temperature differences between seasons. Politically, Great Britain is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and constitutes most of its territory. Most of England, Scotland, and Wales are on the island. The term "Great Britain" is often used to include the whole of England, Scotland and Wales including their component adjoining islands; and is also occasionally but contentiously applied to the UK as a whole in some contexts. A single Kingdom of Great Britain resulted from the union of the Kingdom of England (which had already comprised

title: Assemblies of God in Great Britain

text: Assemblies of God in Great Britain Assemblies of God in Great Britain (AOG) is a Pentecostal denomination with 600 congregations throughout the United Kingdom except Northern Ireland, where the Assemblies of God Ireland operates. As the British branch of the 52.5-million-member World Assemblies of God Fellowship, the British Assemblies of God forms part of the largest Pentecostal denomination in the world. The Assemblies of God believes that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, the infallible, all sufficient rule for faith and practice. It also believes in: The British Assemblies of God came into being in Birmingham in 1924.

title: Assemblies of God in Great Britain

text: Morley, Stuart Keir, Tim Rowlands, and Mark Wiltshire. The previous board of directors all resigned their positions as directors whilst retaining their leadership roles until a new National Leader is appointed. Assemblies of God in Great Britain Assemblies of God in Great Britain (AOG) is a Pentecostal denomination with 600 congregations throughout the United Kingdom except Northern Ireland, where the Assemblies of God Ireland operates. As the British branch of the 52.5-million-member World Assemblies of God Fellowship, the British Assemblies of God forms part of the largest Pentecostal denomination in the world. The Assemblies of God believes that the Bible