Great Britain
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"Great Britain",Names in native languages:

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* also known as "Britain" , is an island in the North Atlantic off the north-west coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the List of islands of the British Isles/largest island of the British Isles, the List of European islands by area/largest island in Europe and the List of islands by area/ninth-largest in the world. In 2011 the island had a population of about 61 million people, making it the List of islands by population/third-most populous island in the world, after Java (Indonesia) and Honsh? (Japan). It is surrounded by over 1,000 smaller islands. The island of Ireland lies to its west.

The island is part of the United Kingdom/United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constituting most of its territory: most of England, Scotland, and Wales are on the island, with their respective capital cities, London, Edinburgh, and Cardiff. Politically, the term Great Britain usually extends to include surrounding islands that form part of England, Scotland, and Wales. whereas the Cambridge Guide to English Usage gives Britain as "familiar shorthand for Great Britain, the island which geographically contains England, Wales and Scotland"}}

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The organisers have done a fantastic job all week given the volume of traffic we have in this country but the UCI (International Cycling Union) have certain standards and at the moment they aren't meeting them.

Although Edgeworth in the preface justifies much of the work, he must admit that a sizable portion of it is already obsolete. There is scarcely any value in the essays on money, and also in the part about the work on catallactics.

We demonstrated that one in five elite athletes suffer from exercise-induced asthma.

One country, two systems.

We realized, rather than go to the next level of garage rock, there was a whole other world out there.

[To call it red would be doing a disservice to the brightest scarlet, and to call the air blue in his team meeting room would be doing likewise to the deepest turquoise.] Let's just say the door was closed and there were no women present, ... How can you give a bollocking positively? We'll see if I've managed it tomorrow. There's things that were going on that will remain between ourselves.

I could have done without a long road trip to Basingstoke on the Saturday and then an overnight bus trip back to Murrayfield to face Sheffield who are one of the strongest clubs on the circuit.

Vigilant in all parts of the country, and especially in the vicinity of potential terrorist targets.