british isles in English

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a group of islands lying off the coast of northwestern Europe, from which they are separated by the North Sea and the English Channel. They include Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Isle of Wight, the Hebrides, the Orkney Islands, the Shetland Islands, the Scilly Isles, and the Channel Islands.

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1. Iceland and the British Isles are special cases.

2. The BMW “Beemer” was also successful on the British Isles

3. British Isles, group of islands off the northwestern coast of Europe

4. Armagh Planetarium is the longest running planetarium in the British Isles

5. Alehouse Alehouses have existed in the British Isles since before the Norman Conquest

6. Samantha Barks was born in Laxey, Isle of Man (British Isles) in 1990

7. The larvae feed on Clematis vitalba. ^ The flight season refers to the British Isles.

8. And that crescent there is the moon Enceladus, which is about as big as the British Isles.

9. The only open air live depleted uranium weapons test range in the British Isles is located near Dundrennan.

10. During this period the North Sea and almost all of the British Isles were covered by ice.

11. Hello Backgrounds is a product by Melior Enterprises Ltd (125901C registered in the Isle of Man, British Isles)

12. By this time the accumulated wealth of the feudal system within the British Isles is having its effect.

13. The Britons represent the celtic tribes of the British Isles around or before the times of Roman conquest

14. In Victorian times British finches were hugely popular as cage birds throughout the British Isles, often replacing canaries.

15. It was introduced to the British Isles in 1870, and the United States by the Arnold Arboretum in 1892.

16. Caesarian romans These are the men who came, saw and conquered the British Isles lead by Julius Caesar in 55-54 BC

17. Celtic refers to Irish culture and heritage, along with the historical people who migrated from the British Isles throughout much of Europe

18. Stonehenge is therefore interpreted as functioning as an enclosed cremation cemetery at this time, the earliest known cremation cemetery in the British Isles.

19. We offer a wide range of rare and unusual Banknotes from the British Isles, British Commonwealth and from the rest of the World

20. Purging Buckthorn is native to Europe, northwest Africa and western Asia, from the central British Isles south to Morocco, and east to Kyrgyzstan

21. Subscribe to my newsletter, Anglophile in America, to receive regular tips on connecting with the British Isles in the US, news about my books, and

22. Carrageenan is an extract from a red seaweed commonly known as Irish Moss. This edible seaweed is native to the British Isles, where it's been …

23. This is a list of Bays of the British Isles, geographically by island.They are listed by island, in clockwise order, from the stated starting point.

24. Continental definition is - of, relating to, or characteristic of a continent; specifically, often capitalized : of or relating to the continent of Europe excluding the British Isles

25. It is in full communion with the other Lutheran churches of the Nordic and Baltic states, and with the Anglican churches of the British Isles.

26. In 678 C.E., the Anglo-Saxon abbot Ceolfrith brought the codex with him to the British Isles on his return from a stay in Rome.

27.  · Anthropogenous areal extension of central European woody species on the British Isles and its significance for the judgement of the present potential natural vegetation

28. It was used by ancient Greek geographers from the 4th century bc and even earlier, who distinguished “Albion” from Ierne (Ireland) and from smaller members of the British Isles

29. In the family Corvidae (order Passeriformes) are the common Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax), of sea cliffs and rocky uplands from the British Isles to China, and the alpine Chough (P

30. Arbutus unedo, commonly called strawberry tree, is a broadleaf evergreen shrub or small tree that is native rocky slopes, hillsides, and shrublands of the Mediterranean and the British Isles

31. ( See also Cistercian SISTERS ; CistercianS IN THE BRITISH ISLES .) Religious of the Order of Cîteaux, a Benedictine reform, established at Cîteaux in 1098 by St

32. Treasures From The Heart And The Hand For Keeps - The Chuffed Store The Chuffed Store is an online store to discover exciting products made and produced in the British Isles

33. Find a brass The most comprehensive list of Brasses is Mill Stephenson, A List of Monumental Brasses in the British Isles (published in 1926 with an appendix in 1938 and reprinted in 1964)

34. Apothecaries’ weight, traditional system of weight in the British Isles used for the measuring and dispensing of pharmaceutical items and based on the grain, scruple (20 grains), dram (3 scruples), and pound (12 ounces)

35. The Exmoor pony is a horse breed native to the British Isles, where some still roam as semi-feral livestock on Exmoor, a large area of moorland in Devon and Somerset in southwest England.

36. Particular areas of Newfoundland were also settled at different times, and with settlers from different parts of the British Isles and Ireland, so there is a measure of ethnic homogeneity within individual Bays

37. Epic - Epic - Arthurian romance: The Arthurian romance seems to have developed first in the British Isles, before being taken to the Continent by Bretons, who migrated to Brittany in the 6th and 7th centuries

38. In keeping with the elements of British Isles folklore that seems to have been a design goal for the Bretons, in some ways, there are some elements that differ or diverge from the usual man-mer

39. Ayrshire, breed of hardy dairy cattle originating in the county of Ayr, Scotland, in the latter part of the 18th century and considered to be the only special dairy breed to have originated in the British Isles

40. Anderson is a surname deriving from a patronymic meaning "son of Andrew" (itself derived from the Greek name "Andreas", meaning "man" or "manly").It originated in parallel in the British Isles and the Nordic countries.

41. Cairngorm Mountains, highest mountain massif in the British Isles, named after one of its peaks—Cairn Gorm, with an elevation of 4,084 feet (1,245 metres)—part of the Grampian Mountains in the Highlands of Scotland between the Spey and Dee river valleys

42. The Brythonic languages are a language family of the Celtic languages.They are spoken in Brittany, Wales and Cornwall.While going extinct in the rest of the British Isles, the (recognised) regions include: Cumbria and Scotland, while still debated, Common Brittonic was widely spoken across England

43. On 12 December 1943, she assisted the Bowater-Lloyd Paper Co. barge Spruce Lake and, on 27 December, departed Halifax for the British Isles, carrying the surviving crew members from the torpedoed British destroyer HMS Hurricane which had been sunk by U-415 on 24 December.

44. Sentimental Ballads have their roots from medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally "danced songs".Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of the British Isles from the later medieval period until the 19th century

45. If you know little or nothing about Bell ringing, this is the place for you! Find out more about the peculiarly English style of Bell ringing known as “change–ringing”, which has spread beyond the British Isles to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, USA, and Canada.

46. Gene Wilhelm’s theory of Appalachian culture is that it is a way of life and thinking that developed in the 1700s when the Scotch Irish and other British Isles and German people came into the valley and ridge country of Virginia and North Carolina and lived with the Indians.

47. Basileia (Ancient Greece) - in Pandemos, this goddess was mainly a goddess for prostitutes or Courtesans; Bebhinn (Celts of the British Isles) - the goddess of pleasure; Belili (Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, Philistines, & Canaanites) - her worship required sacred prostitution; Gomer, a prostitute whom God commanded Hosea to marry in the biblical

48. The Scottish-born Montréal schoolteacher Andrew Spedon lamented Canada's self-representation as that of "an affrighted child ... crouching behind the forest shadows of the savage age," when he described his country's exhibit at the 1867 Paris exposition in Sketches of a Tour from Canada to Paris, by Way of the British Isles, During the Summer of 1867 (1868).

49. 1200, "a Celtic native of the British Isles," from Anglo-French Bretun, from Latin Brittonem (nominative Britto, misspelled Brito in MSS) "a member of the tribe of the Britons," from *Britt-os, the Celtic name of the Celtic inhabitants of Britain and southern Scotland before the 5c.Anglo-Saxon invasion drove them into Wales, Cornwall, and a few other corners.

50. Hyacinthoides non-scripta (formerly Endymion non-scriptus or Scilla non-scripta) is a bulbous perennial plant, found in Atlantic areas from north-western Spain to the British Isles, and also frequently used as a garden plant.It is known in English as the common Bluebell or simply Bluebell, a name which is used in Scotland to refer to the harebell, Campanula rotundifolia.